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Gitsplitta wrote:I think they look beautiful Yggs. Wonderful red you've got going on there.

Ruberu wrote:I really like the Soul Drinker, I love the armor and that red helmet. I must say you paint red really well. I am looking forward to seeing the Blood Angels.

Solar_lion wrote:Did you apply a wash to the red on the BA?

Thanks Guys ! TBH that's Duncan "GW" Rhodes's "How to paint a Blood Angel" technique - available from their YouTube channel !

Mainly that's Mephiston Red (praise to the GW spray can !), a wash of Gryphonne Sepia, then some edge highlighting of Evil Sunz Scarlet, then Wild Rider Red, and voilà !

Sadly I have to "ruin" it all with some sponge weathering

Hey mates !

Quick stop after a quite hectic month (or did 2 months just pass like that ?!?) !

Nothing much to report except I moved to a new house (with a dedicated "workshop" and I took my major competitive exam for the Army (results in August)...
Modeling-wise, here are the new additions :

- I finished my first BA squad (fits in a Razorback) :



- And for some reason, I started to work on my Traitor Sentinel !







Only a few details left and I'll call it done !



Now it's time for bed, cheers !



Yggs.

Nice! Gorgeous looking BA's. I like the sentinel too.

Good luck with the Army exam.

Marines look great, as one would expect. I'd call the sentinel done... but if you have more to add than by all means please do so!

Those BA look really nice.

Nice Blood Angels. Glad to see them making a showing again!

Grey Knights! Grey Knights! Grey Knights! (Pics?!)

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Grey Knights! Grey Knights! Grey Knights! (Pics?!)

Great .. you got him all excited again!!!

Great work on the BAs, and the Sentinel looks very nice indeed.

IceAngel wrote:Nice! Gorgeous looking BA's. I like the sentinel too.

Good luck with the Army exam.

Thx Ice ! I'm glad you got back to the Tiger Claws !

First results in about 2 weeks... Fingers crossed !

Gitsplitta wrote:Marines look great, as one would expect. I'd call the sentinel done... but if you have more to add than by all means please do so!

Well there were a few details missing, mostly on the base and I wanted to airbrush a yellow halo on the front searchlight... But when I look at what I've done, I probably should have refrained

GiraffeX wrote:Those BA look really nice.

Hey thanks ! More to come "soon" (well, if you count in weeks )

Solar_lion wrote:Nice Blood Angels. Glad to see them making a showing again!

Yup, I wasn't going to give them up... Yet !

inmygravenimage wrote:Grey Knights! Grey Knights! Grey Knights! (Pics?!)

Solar_lion wrote:

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Grey Knights! Grey Knights! Grey Knights! (Pics?!)

Great .. you got him all excited again!!!

Well, TBH.... Yeah indeed !!! Lol

Azazelx wrote:Great work on the BAs, and the Sentinel looks very nice indeed.

Thank you Azazelx ! Sentinel's still a bit lonely for now, that's sad...

Solar_Lion : something that really got me excited lately is the new iPad "Deathwatch" game... Far from perfect, but I'm having a lot of fun with my Kill Team ! So of course, what I can't get off from my mind is the insidious idea of building "just a small DW squad" !!

Anyone has a great idea rule wise to represent a Deathwatch Kill-Team ? As for now I've only thought of Sternguard, Command Squad or even a Reclusiam Command Squad ?

Anyone has hints on the "Tyrannic War Veterans" Dataslate ? If the rules are worth it, I could afford the 6.50$, but I'm afraid they're not far from "regular" Sternguards... Any experience with them?

So.... Work has begun again on the Blood Angels, with a... Dreadnought !!



He'll be equipped with Frag Cannon and Power Fist, but I intend to model it with the larger "claws" rather than the shorter "digits" of the usual PF... Do you think that's a problem ?

Also, I didn't get any reply about the Tyrannic War Veterans : anyone know whether they'd make good Deathwatch Kill Teams, rule wise ?

Thanks in advance

Yggs.

Big claws all the way! Can't help you on the death watch really but can't see why not.

As long as you don't have a different dread with talons that look the same as fists, I doubt you'd have issue.

No help on the vets, don't have the dataslate.

inmygravenimage wrote:Big claws all the way! Can't help you on the death watch really but can't see why not.

whalemusic360 wrote:As long as you don't have a different dread with talons that look the same as fists, I doubt you'd have issue.

No help on the vets, don't have the dataslate.

Well, big claws it is, then, as I don't intend to get more Dreads than a singleton !


There you go

As for those who said I got excited over GKs again... Well, maybe



Still looking for hints on the Tyrannic War Veterans Dataslate... I'm already pretty sure the rules can be used for DW, just wondering whether they are actually WORTH the pricetag

Cheers, Yggs.

 Yggdrasil wrote:

Well, big claws it is, then, as I don't intend to get more Dreads than a singleton !

One doesn't plan to get Dreads, they just show up in various box sets.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
One doesn't plan to get Dreads, they just show up in various box sets.

True enough. *sigh*

I wouldn't bother with the Tyrannic War Veterans Dataslate if you don't plan on using the St-Tylus Formation.

The vets are sub-par Sternguards (i.e.: only have access to Hellfire rounds, no specials/heavies, Sergeant can only take Meltabombs) with PE (Tyrannid). Unless you regurlarly play against Nidzilla kind of lists, there is no point in taking those, sadly.

jpwyrm wrote:I wouldn't bother with the Tyrannic War Veterans Dataslate if you don't plan on using the St-Tylus Formation.

The vets are sub-par Sternguards (i.e.: only have access to Hellfire rounds, no specials/heavies, Sergeant can only take Meltabombs) with PE (Tyrannid). Unless you regurlarly play against Nidzilla kind of lists, there is no point in taking those, sadly.

Oh

What's special with the St-Tylus formation ? Can add Stormtalons, is that it ?

If some people are interested in a discussion about Deathwatch rules, please follow the link (if you're up to it uh).

And thanks a lot jpwyrm, you made me save a few bucks !!!

Hey,

Unexpectedly, I got some paint on my long-forsaken Possessed Inquisitor, aka My first attempt at sculpting !!

He's coming around slowly, but I can show you something already :



I hope I'll finish him by Friday !!

I like that dread build!

He is seriously creepy! Great freehand btw.

Gitsplitta wrote:I like that dread build!

Thanks Gits ! Did you notice your Badab team from 2012 was under the spotlights a few days ago on FB ? It was on BoLS or Spikey Bits, IIRC

inmygravenimage wrote:He is seriously creepy! Great freehand btw.

Thanks mate !!! Here are the final pics :




The first freehand I've been satisfied with, considering my lacking skills in that specific field

For those who remember, he dates back from 2009 (yeah that's quite a long time ago) : he was my first real attempt at sculpting with GS ! And I had always postponed painting him for fear of not doing the sculpt justice (value's relative uh) !

Oh, and during my short, two-week holiday, I also got to work on some more Blood Angels !



Of those 6 "Death Company" Marines, there were at first only five...

But I liked that one so much :



That I thought he looked more like a Captain ! So here I am with new, insane ideas : making him the Captain of 8th Coy, and with that he should get a JP Command Squad, as well as an Assault Squad in DP !!

I now have to buy another Blood Angels Tac squad for those 10 additional Marines

Hope you're all doing fine !!!

(On a side note, I passed the first, written part of my competitive exam... So I now have to prepare of the oral part at the end of September ! That's both a blessing and a curse, for I'll have to leave my models asked for a while... )

Until next time !

Cheers, Yggs.

Found it:

http://www.spikeybits.com/2012/10/badab-war-crusaders-adepticon-2012.html

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Thanks Gits ! Did you notice your Badab team from 2012 was under the spotlights a few days ago on FB ? It was on BoLS or Spikey Bits, IIRC

Unfortunately no. Wonder if anyone else on the team saw it.


(looks at Brian's post)


Duh....

Congrats on passing the test.

BA look great...

Hey guys !

I know I haven't been there for quite some time, but RL really got in the way lately, so I didn't have much time nor inspiration to settle down & focus on my beloved models...

Anyway, thanks to Gitsplitta, I was spurred to make a quick collage of what I had painted in 2015...



As you can see, it's not so much, and most of it has already been posted here, but I'm quite proud of them so, hey

I also didn't get all the latest fun stuff from GW (Deathwatch, plastic 30k, etc...) so I don't really know where to start again...

Finish my 6 TDA Grey Knights ? My Blood Angels ? My Dark Angels Assault Marines & Bikers ?

So much to do, and so little time to spare....

I sincerely hope you're all doing fine in your respective lives !

Cheers,

Yggs

Still a big fan of that soul drinker. Always found the loyal to emperor but not the imperium thing interesting.

Glad to see you back again Yggs... you have been missed.

HYmmm... never been a big fan of DA, but I do like bikers. BA are always so striking when done correctly (as you do) that they're hard to argue with. However... TDA is well... TDA.

Looks like you haven't been completely idle to me Yggs, great stuff!

Though i have to say, for me, your iconic work has always been your chaos stuff, so if there is a vote to be had I would love to see you take a crack at the Silver Tower minis

Ygg! As always mate, LOVE the figures. No way I could master that vibrant a palette.

If your taking votes I cast mine for blood Angels. Or more soul drinkers!