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For this blog something very different.

Normally I paint a full army in 2-3 weeks, whilst on holidays, ready for the tournament season the next year.

SO far I've done:
SOB without sisters.
WHFB Daemons (Tzeentch)
Dwarf Slayers
Vampire Counts
Lizardmen

But at the moment I'm starting 2 armies, High Elves and my beloved Blood Angels and in Feb with the rerelease of Lizardmen I'll be going back to them to fill out my army even more. And I've even been looking at an Imperial assassins training team as a stand in for a spyrer team for =][=munda... bought my first model a few days ago.

So rather than doing a blog for each, and trying to kill myself by painting 14-16 hours per day I thought I'd just do a blog that runs a calender year, or maybe even longer if the fancy takes me.

Painting will be sporadic, some weeks I'l get a heap done, other none, but will do prep work.

Hopefully when I'm on holidays I'll get at least a unit done per week, and will aim for one per month when I'm working.
Lets see if it all works out.

So to start off my new Blood Angels.

A bit of background.

When I first got into 40k back in 1990 in my first year of high school a friend in my boarding house and another guy in another boarding house played.
My friend crimson fists, the other guy eldar.
I too wanted to do crimson fists as they were on the cover of the rulebook.
After being told that would not be appropriate I read the book and picked blood angels.
Of course back then they were just Red Marines 'HURR!'.

I remade the army over and over again, made other armies but always came ack to them. My last army was none in 1999/2000 and I haven't even pulled them from their box since 2002.

So now I start for the 6th, and hopefully last time.

Resin bases from back-2-baseix, metal shoulderpads from mail order.

Angry, red, marines.... just how I like them.

So to start us off it will be the most excellent Masters Of The Chapter models Apocalypse release and Dante.

All my independent characters will be on 40mm bases.



Dante perched on a ruined column. LOS I care not for I want him to look cool.



I'm taking them out the back now to be sprayed black.
I'll start painting them tonight and will prep all their attatchments.

Blogoramarama 6 is shapping up to be most excellent. Each of the armies (and factions) should be very interesting, particularly with the different paint jobs.

How are you going to do the elves? Classic white/blue?

How many stegadons are you going to get?

Ah, very good. Another gonads blog.
Your Lizardman blog was fairly impressive, both in quality and quantity of models painted.

So Im looking forward to this, and so far I like what Im seeing. The bases are great. Will you use elaborate bases like this for every marine or just main characters?

Also, on the bottom pic (Dante from the side), Dante looks like hes leaning back quite far, and it looks a bit "one-sided" since all the action is on one side of the base. Wouldnt it make more sense to turn him the other way, making it look like hes pushing off of the column?

He's in that position so that when he has his jump pack on it looks like he has just come in to land.

Took 3 goes to pin him to the correct position.

As to the high elves it will be purple and white, with DE bits mixed in for a Nagarythe theme.... and if all goes well a conversion is going to be commissioned for my dragon in a couple of weeks to look something like this...

Whoomph

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:He's in that position so that when he has his jump pack on it looks like he has just come in to land.

Took 3 goes to pin him to the correct position.

Okay, I figured it had to be either him coming in, or kicking off.
Ill reserve final feedback till its done

A Dragon like that would be Ace.

I'm looking forward to seeing you do up High Elves, especially after seeing your Lizardmen blog.

I recall seeing that Flame-breathing dragon in a blog on the ulthuan.net forums - can't wait to see you get paint on something similar.

That dragon is freaking awesome looking. As a fellow BA player I anxiously await more on them.

I'm in. Gonads Blogs are always a great read ^_^.

Bee-Ayy-You-Ti-Full.

The Masters of the Chapter I share in thinking that they are awesome. In fact, one of the best sculpts of recent times, I think. They exude a unique power.

Oh, and that dragon needs wind-relief. Just hope that doesn't come out of his back end.

Stay safe,

~sA

I'm pretty sure that Gonads linked to someone else's dragon mini and is trying to go for a similar model.

HFJor wrote:I'm pretty sure that Gonads linked to someone else's dragon mini and is trying to go for a similar model.

Correct.

I'm getting an ex multiple slayer sword winner to do it but he hasn't sculpted flame on this scale.
You need a centrepiece model that just drops jaws to win best painted at Australian tourneys now and this should do nicely...

Is that dragon from RonSaikowski of the ++From the Warp++ blog?

grey_death wrote:Is that dragon from RonSaikowski of the ++From the Warp++ blog?

Some German guy named Asterion on Ulthuan.net Link to said blog with pics of the dragon painted up: http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25811

Aha, I see ^_^. Here's the one I was thinking of btw. I guess I could have checked that blog post before asking that ^_-.

Time for a quick update...

Some rough and ready pics to show my progress. No painting yesterday thans to having to clean the house and visitors.

But got a couple hours in this afternoon.

Dante:
Black undercoat (will be standard for all models).
Shining gold
Burnished gold
Gryphonne sepia
Burnished gold



Will finish the metal tonight.

The captains.

Just at the shining gold stage...


Have skipped ahead on 4th captain. Still very WIP but tried the cloth technique (with a couple of mods) for the cape from the sicarus eavy metal article in the latest WD, which is a great article. Very happy with the results.

Damned mithril silver highlights are too striking with the flash on...



Busy tomorrow morning but hope to get to my local GW tomorrow afternoon for some good painting time...

Have essentially finished the Lord of Angelic Hosts (4th Coy fleet captain) just need to do the backpack, varnish the model then glue on the static grass (What a tale of wonder I have in store for you when that happens, having just purchased the most brilliant static grass in the history of wargaming)

Problem is I want standards for my captains so I will have to go to my local GW and see if they have any (or 4) in their bitz box... that will be a job for tomorrow after I drop off my regiment entry for last round of Oz Golden Daemon.


So I'll post pics of him when he is done.

Am loving the characters but gee they are taking alot of time.

So in the meantime I have moved onto my fist tac squad.

there seems to be excessive mould lines on them. Many more than I remember in the past...

Here are pics of the first 5 models ready for painting.


I've since undercoated them.

Plan is...
Mechrite red base coat.
Have half blood redded the panels
Will then progress onto baal red wash whole model.
Another blood red half highlight (leaving some baal red coated blood red visible)
Blazing orange highlight
Then the metal and odds and ends.

Will need to keep it to that to keep the army paintable or it will be hours and hours per model.

I expect this first model will take a couple of days as its the test model.
But when full 10 man squad production line work should be 1-1.5 hours per model excluding washes drying time.

It's funny how everyone has been taking wash dry time into account now ^_^.

I really think the new plastic kits are great, but they are definitely miserable with mold lines these days. AoBR comes to mind...

Your plans seems sound enough, now to see it in practice!

The baal red dried in about 5 minutes, but devlan mud on bases takes ages....

I was not too sure about the gold on your captains, as they seemed to be way OTT gold, but once you got the white wings painted and the red cape, suddenly the eye has something else to look at, and wow!

The bases for the tac marines are a bit tall though... they distract from the whole "base is just a bit of ground I happen to be standing on" rule by being so darn large. Your opinion is probably different though.

Okay. The gold looks pretty good, though I agree with the Mithril Silver producing some serious contrasts there. If you say its due to flash though, I belive ya.

I thought the same as lasgunpacker about the Captains. The green shoulderpad rim really breaks it up nicely and the white looks great. So does the cloak by the way.

I really like the elaborate bases for this army and Im looking forward to some standard marines.

A devlan mud wash over the gold and silver should take the heavy contrast out if you're that concerned about it!

I've since added some gold to it to blend it out.
The actual transition to mithril silver isn't visible, except in flash photos.

I've just about finished the first tactical marine (eyes, company symbol and backpach to go), and now my camera won't take anything close to a decent approximation of the red effect I did.

So I'll paint up the whole unit before posting to see if multiple models help.

Currently I'm running at 1 character and 5 troops per week.
Horrendously slow but am only painting 2-3 hours per day. Normally I'm cranking out 14-16 hours per day and the models are already assembled, ready for painting.

Next week I'm buying the LOTR great eagle to go with my ridiculously large WHFB giant eagle. So I may start on them, and do another character.
Not sure yet, but I'd like to have a small gameable force for my BAs (say 600 points) by Christmas.

Also need to make a decision as to what company to make these guys.

Most people seem to go the second company with yellow company symbol and one of the staffers at my store has a considerable force of 2nd coy BAs.
3rd is probably my favorite ATM.

Also Badab Black is so far the only wash I don't like.
Doesn't seem to have enough pigment.
I much rather a watered down chaos black used as a wash.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Also Badab Black is so far the only wash I don't like.
Doesn't seem to have enough pigment.
I much rather a watered down chaos black used as a wash.

I like it because it is more subtle. It's got the right qualities I'm looking for when I'm trying to shade recesses. Watered down chaos black is definitely better for lining and harsh shading though.

As to company, I have no input, not exactly sure what each ones colors are.