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It is incredible how different apothecaries and sanguinary priests look. It is as if they are from two different companies. Even considering the huge time gap between them, it is extreme.

How many Chapter Masters to the Blood Angels have?!

Gitsplitta wrote:How many Chapter Masters to the Blood Angels have?!

Easy...all of them!

Fifty wrote:It is incredible how different apothecaries and sanguinary priests look. It is as if they are from two different companies. Even considering the huge time gap between them, it is extreme.

Yeah GW has changed them quite a bit (for the better IMO) and given them a distinct look. As long as they have the Narthecium to tie it all together it works well regardless.

Beautiful work as always

Some day you'll have to get a complete army pic. .. when you have a week to set up and teardowm.

insperational.

neil101 wrote:Beautiful work as always

Thanks Neil!

Solar_lion wrote:Some day you'll have to get a complete army pic. .. when you have a week to set up and teardowm.

insperational.

Ah that will happen soon than you think. I’ve been moving to a new place these past few days and once I’m settled in I plan on getting everything out (on the floor) for another big photo shoot!

Fantastic work. I have always thought those chapter master sculpts have held up. Great to see them painted up so nicely!

Looking forward to the big army shot - they are always a highlight!

So good to see you back again - Your stuff has always been a big inspiration to me.

Please keep on posting and dont disappear into the wilderness again!

IGtR= wrote:Fantastic work. I have always thought those chapter master sculpts have held up. Great to see them painted up so nicely!

Looking forward to the big army shot - they are always a highlight!

Thanks IGtR! Still trying to get things sorted from my move but once I'm all settled in I'll be getting it all out for the shoot. Last time I did this a few years back, I needed a whole day to setup, shoot and tear down again so I suspect it will take just as long if not more now.

Eeps wrote:So good to see you back again - Your stuff has always been a big inspiration to me.

Please keep on posting and dont disappear into the wilderness again!

Thanks Eeps! Don't worry, I've found after dabbling in a variety of different hobbies these past 10+ years that with Warhammer 40k I always come back so expect me to keep posting for many more years to come...it'll be all Blood Angels till I run out of models to paint (unlikely) or GW stops making marines (even more unlikely!)

New update:

Had these two squads kicking around for a loooong time and though it was finally time I got around to painting them. These are the old (metal as usual) Mk1 and Mk2 Space Marine veteran squads...




Had a blast painting these guys and the move to 32mm bases makes them look all the more balanced.

Other than the chonky ax for the 2nd squad those have aged super well. Some of those older metal models were super nice.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Other than the chonky ax for the 2nd squad those have aged super well. Some of those older metal models were super nice.

Haha yeah funny you should mention that chunky axe as the head broke off completely when I was assembling the models and had to pin the bastard back on!

These are awesome! How do you get such a nice gradient in the red?

Quality work as usual. It seems like you crank these out so quickly, and always at such a high standard. How did you do the gold on the helmets?

 Eggroll wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Other than the chonky ax for the 2nd squad those have aged super well. Some of those older metal models were super nice.

Haha yeah funny you should mention that chunky axe as the head broke off completely when I was assembling the models and had to pin the bastard back on!

is it a separate piece, or did it break? It's so thick, like breaking a metal dreadnought.

JulietTango343 wrote:These are awesome! How do you get such a nice gradient in the red?

Thanks! I airbrush all my minis which gives it the nice gradient.

kavika0311 wrote:Quality work as usual. It seems like you crank these out so quickly, and always at such a high standard. How did you do the gold on the helmets?

Thanks! I got a good wind with these guys with the work from home status these days which reduces my transit times which lets me swap for hobby time!

whalemusic360 wrote:

 Eggroll wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Other than the chonky ax for the 2nd squad those have aged super well. Some of those older metal models were super nice.

Haha yeah funny you should mention that chunky axe as the head broke off completely when I was assembling the models and had to pin the bastard back on!

is it a separate piece, or did it break? It's so thick, like breaking a metal dreadnought.

It was casted as a single piece but broke just after the hand. Wasn’t hard to fix so I just assume it was a bad cast.

Did I mention before how inspiring your work is Egg? Thanks for being you man... you make the internet a better place.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Did I mention before how inspiring your work is Egg? Thanks for being you man... you make the internet a better place.

Ha appreciate it Gits! It's also the long time Dakka supports like yourself that make people like myself welcome to post on places like this!

Quick update with another metal model done and dusted. This time it's the special edition Space Marine sergeant with power fist and bolter that first came out in 2008 to celebrate the GW webstore.

Another classic mini that stands up with the rest!

Thanks for sharing

All inspiring. I have so much to learn.

IGtR= wrote:Another classic mini that stands up with the rest!

Thanks for sharing

Thanks IGtR!

Solar_lion wrote:All inspiring. I have so much to learn.

Thanks Solar_lion!

Another quick update. Been moving the past month to an apartment and first time in years since I've been able to get my own dedicated hobby room/office so I'll be setting up a new display case and getting everything back out of storage boxes/cases. Have the detolfs from years ago but been eyeing the Milsbo from Ikea or thinking about going the commercial display case route as well.

Until then, here are two more bikers that were finished recently:

Those bikers are amazing

those bikers look amazing, I absolutely love the effect on the power pick.

JustALittleOrkish wrote:Those bikers are amazing

Thanks JustALittleOrkish!

Viterbi wrote: those bikers look amazing, I absolutely love the effect on the power pick.

Thanks Viterbi!

Two more HQs to add to my collection from the Dark Vengeance boxset with the Dark Angel iconography scraped off and painted up as Blood Angels:

Those are still some really neat figures, the robes look excellent done like this!

 amazingturtles wrote:
Those are still some really neat figures, the robes look excellent done like this!

Thanks! Yeah I've been painting lots of models lately with robes so I've got a pretty good system down which balances speed with results.

Lovely sculpts and great paintjob. Love the little accents on the librarian armour, very crisp!

terrific work as always eggroll. Another +1 on the robes.

Not surprising, but you've done an excellent job on making them look like natural blood angels.

Really nice work on the robes.

Viterbi wrote:Lovely sculpts and great paintjob. Love the little accents on the librarian armour, very crisp!

416_SpaceWolves wrote:terrific work as always eggroll. Another +1 on the robes.

Not surprising, but you've done an excellent job on making them look like natural blood angels.

insaniak wrote:Really nice work on the robes.

Thanks guys!

In other news, I've finally started settling into my new place and getting my workspace setup again. Unfortunately my new office doesn't have a window that opens so I'm not able to get my airbrush booth setup. I've been thinking about getting a good air purifier and hoping that will be enough to cut down on the overspray.

Also need to get a new display case as I sold the two old detolfs I had from before. Been eyeing the Milsbo from Ikea...not sure if anyone has any experience with it?