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First game of 40k 7th edition was played today. We played an orks versus tyranids battle. We used the new objective stuff that changes every turn. That really brought a neat element to the game. It was funny watching my overall strategy change from turn to turn as the objectives dictated what I should do to score points. We played a 1500 point game. Thoughts so far, I'm REALLY glad they brought back the psychic phase. I love the fact that both sides are involved during the psychic phase. With that in mind, I should mention that I forgot to bring a weird boy so the psychic phase was weight HEAVILY in my opponents favor. He also had a total of 5 bonus dice during the psychic phase.

Fun moments in the game. My entire unit of nobz getting run down by his genestealers. His raveners scattering 10 inches during their deep strike and dying from the mishap table. One ork boy making three 6+ saves in close combat versus a brood lord. The boys mob then finished what the nobs failed to do, they killed every genestealer and the brood lord.

We ended up playing 4 turns before we had to stop and he had to leave but my first impression of 7th is good. Having played every edition of 40k, I can comfortable say that the rules are written in a very clear fashion unlike many of the previous editions. It seems they actually thought a bit more about what they were doing before they released the set. BTW, have you guys looked up night fighting? OMG! So much simpler.

On another note, playing 40k again has reinvigorated my urge to paint and model. Maybe someday I'll post a picture of a WIP.

Nice observations

Great news!

Thanks for the comments Ice! Maybe there's hope after all.

After reading several articles online, I have noticed several people complain about blaring issues with demon summoning and of course the unbound stuff. I think with some realistic house rules they can easily be curbed. 7th edition for tournament play may be a nightmare for the immediate time being until we all master the new rules but that should be expected. I love reading these articles and seeing all the people mention, "their just trying to sell more models," of course they are! Last I checked they were a business! lol.

Any ways, I'm home sick for the day so I think I may attempt to get some modeling or some writing done. Not until after my first nap though.

Feel better soon...

Lol I understand your feeling : all those whining just make me sick too !

7th is by far some of my favorite rulings. I like what they are doing with the general rules. The missions/armies are the only thing getting out of hand.

I HAVE RETURNED!

I'm not sure what happened but I had the sudden urge to break out the paints and slap some models with it. Of all the things I needed to paint I went for the one that I had almost forgotten about. The Sanguinary Guard. I don't have any Ice Angel sanguinary guard nor have I ever written about them. This is new territory for me. I thought about the current schemes, the ridiculous gold and what not. I don't think that would work well for my army. I currently have a lovely collection of black armored guys along with a white armored death company. How can I make the Sanguinary Guard stand out?

I decided to go with a nice frosty Ice Blue. Pictures will arrive shortly, but in the mean time I still have a pair of primed wings ready to get some love. What color should I make them? Black or white perhaps? More blue? Hmmmmmmmm, I think I'll finish up the body and see what you guys think. In the mean time, I'd love to hear some of your suggestions.

Excellent. I can't wait to see your take on the SG.

I quite like that idea. Especially with the librarians in your story focusing on icy powers, I think a frosty color would really suit the SG. Sort of like their armor is covered with a near permanent haze of frost, or something of that sort.

As to the wings, Perhaps white with a light wash of blue in the recesses? That would make it stand out but at the same time look cohesive with the rest of the mini.

Black wings.

 moonpie wrote:
Black wings.

Seconded.

As the rest of the Army is black-clad, and the SG in light blue, it would help tying them to the other Marines, while making a sharp contrast with their light armour

Ice Blue (Yes I'm calling it that ) with black wings with a white spot color is a direct invert of your terminators, I think it would look pretty good. Make it so.

A lot of folk, myself included, have been on a bit of a hobby break. Don't sweat it, and great to see you again.

Fair enough. Ice Blue armor with black wings it is.

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I'll get some pictures up here on Wednesday.

Ok, now get to it !

Okay, here is my WIP sanguinary guard. Looks terrible so far, but there is still much to do.


Wings and jump pack are only primed black, no photo of those yet.

About a week ago I had to do some furniture rearranging which meant I had to move some of my 40k display stuff. While I was at it I took a picture of the entire Ice Angel 10th Company.


That is the entire company minus the vehicles and a tech marine. While I was organizing all of that I noticed that I only have two techmarines, and three chaplains, yet I have seven priests. That may have to be corrected sometime down the road, at least the chaplain ratio.

Blue looks good, I'd go one shade lighter to highlight, but great start.

As for the wings .. I would go white transitioning into black as it gets to the tips.

I think it's nice for a start too... If you push the highlight to pure white, I'm sure you can get a surface that looks like it's made of pure ice !

Yeah, the blue looks good so far, and you have the skills to do great work with it. The wings are going to be where the real fun is (for me). I had a ton of fun painting those.

Thanks guys. Solar, I think that is an excellent idea, but I'm not sure I'd do that after already priming them black. We shall see. I think the plan is to complete the body fully before tackling the wings. Here are some more WIP pics. Sorry for the crappy lighting, but you may still at least get hte idea.


I've done some highlighting. What do you think? Should I highlight even more?

Yeah !

Yep that does it for me. Makes the contrast more apparent.. Nice job!.

Thanks Solar!

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Yeah !

Is that a Yeah that it needs more highlights or a Yeah that it looks fantastic as is?

 IceAngel wrote:
Thanks Solar!

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Yeah !

Is that a Yeah that it needs more highlights or a Yeah that it looks fantastic as is?

Well, now that you mention it... Both

MORE WIP. I added in more white. I started on the scroll work. Hit the model with some silvers and some reds. Still much more to do. Still undecided on the wings too. I've been checking out images of various bird wings. I'm thinking about doing some sort of pattern or two toned look on the wings. I've seen lots of birds with black wings and white edges or vice versa. There are so many to look at! It's kind of neat actually. The more I look though the more I think I don't want any prevalent color on the wings though.

Thoughts?


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Oh one more thing. Gun color? Keep it dark or bring it to white? OR make it blue like the rest of him? As I stare at my pictures I think I'd almost rather keep it black or make it blue like his armor. I like the only points of other color being the blood drop lets. More thoughts?

That looks great for now !

As for the gun, I'd say keep it black for a quick contrating point, and being black it won't add another "colour" to the wheel...

Or how about matching the highlights on the gun with the ones you'll come up with on the wings ?

Stay frosty

Thats looking really nice, Ice. Very frosty scheme. Black gun'd be my vote, too, though Yggs does bring up an interesting idea with matching it to the wings.

Shading is coming along nicely Ice. Those are really going to look great mixed in with the rest of the Ice Angels.