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@nerdfest09: Nah, don't be. I am jealous of your awesomely painted Salamanders + Blood Angels.

One thing that I need to start doing: line highlighting. It does pops the armour pieces out even more.

After getting the Sternguards and 5-man tactical squads in place, I think it is time for me to re-do more of my marines. After a couple of recent games, I have found out the hard truths:

1- I should be playing Space Wolves or Blood Angels if I want more troops on the table. Long Fangs and Grey Hunters are so good.
2- Scouts are not that awesome :|. I think in all my games, the sniper scouts managed to kill 2 guardmen. -_-

So, without further ado, here is the current WIP of rebuilding my tactical squads. 22 models to do. I am aiming for about three 10-man tactical squads.

Also, I have an idea, I will do the helmet for all heavy weapon guys in white. I think it will looks pretty awesome. Or maybe I should go for black, a dark colour that would pop. Or maybe stripe. Hmm.

Just more of the same. One thing I like about taking pictures this close is the blemishes are greatly exaggerated. For example, you can see a smear of black in his mouth/breather piece. Once I see these, I go back the miniature and fix it. ;-)

i like the black robes...Did you just paint them chaos black or layer different colors to get your black?

I just paint Chaos Black and line highlight to get back the details.

I am working on my second librarian. He will be in terminator armour + a stormshield. Yeah I know it is a bit of points but hey, I want him to live as long as he can.

The two biker sergents are in nice black robes, I finished the cleaning up of bonewhite. Will start with the other details soon enough.

I like your work, I have seen some armies with the "white" scheme that you are using before that is just trashy. Too bright an non-battle worn at all. good job

@Lucazi: Thank you for taking a look and the kind words. Looking forward to more of your comments.

I spent some time today trying the 8-step tutorial of 'eavy Metal stone style for the Crux Terminatus, the result is indeed striking. However, I don't think I got the lighting location down correctly yet.

Do you use the DA codex for this army? if so how good is it, as i am considering starting a new army soon and i'd like to play DA. Other than that i love colour you have used and the detail is brilliant, i always look forward to seeing new things from this army

Young Logan

Hi Young_Logan. Thank you for passing by and checking out my blog.

I do not use the DA codex with this army. I opt to use the standard space marine codex. There is only one way to use the DA codex and that is to use an all Deathwing Terminator army. With the standard codex, I can try different builds depending on the day. It can be bike, psychic, gunline, mech, drop pod, vulkan melta/flamer, ...

You can definitely start a DA army now. Rumour is that their codex will be updated within a year.

You are gonna have to post an army pic soon.

Those are some Sexy DA successors.

great looking crux dude! I really like how it looks against the bone, makes the crux look very cold and hard which is a nice juxtaposition to the slightly warmer tones of your armour, all in all a great job!

and yes, as someone stated, you need an army shot again soon!


NF09

Finally caught up with your thread, you been a busy man since I last checked in. Your progress and your army is looking great, very clean army. Can we get a group shot!!

I recently saw an amazing dark angels army in a local tourney and that along with your blog have made me decide to start up a new angel army. I can't decide if I will model them after the Disciples of Caliban or Guardians of the Covenant though...any suggestions for me?

Lucazi wrote:I recently saw an amazing dark angels army in a local tourney and that along with your blog have made me decide to start up a new angel army. I can't decide if I will model them after the Disciples of Caliban or Guardians of the Covenant though...any suggestions for me?

Go Consecrators! They're badass! Was never too impressed by the colour scheme for Disciples of Caliban. Guardians look pretty cool though, but.... CONSECRATORS!!!

I looked at the 3 choices:
* Disciples of Caliban
* Guardians of the Covenant
* Consecrators

I think that they are all very nicely designed schemes. All three are of a darker tone with the Guardian relying on red stripe pattern to bring out the miniature.

I suggest you give each a try and go from there. If I were to choose, I would most likely go with the Guardian because it is significantly different from my current scheme. That and the Consecrator scheme is very similar to my upcoming GK.

Thank you all for checking. Your revisiting is the sole reason I keep posting. Please feel free to post your mind.

I have had some more progress with the two sergents on bike but my camera is out of battery so I will post them later on today.

Consecrators!

As promised, here are a couple WIP shots of the Dreadnoughts and the biker sergents. Hopefully I will be able to get a can of primer today. I guess it is a good thing that I can't prime new stuff since I am finishing up the stuff I got started.

Wow, those Dreads look magnificent! You've really given them a smooth finish and I love the look of the cowl on the side of the assault cannon arm - your bikers once again are also very very cool. I like the fist pump and the "yeah, you ladies" finger point

Everything is still looking amazing on your part, and my decision has been made and I am going to work up a Covenant army, just couldn't get away from the monastic unwaveringness of the group.

I like the choice of FW arms, and the biker libby looks good!

Still working hard i see! damn nice stuff as I usually see from you, those dreds are gonna be epic when finished and the bikers are very, very nicely done! I'm a huge fan of the black robes you do, it is a really nice focal point on them!

@nf09: Thank you for checking in. I do love the black robes for veterans as well.
@capitansolstice: Check out what I got extra in term of arms
@Lucazi: Good luck, please keep us updated.
@nightside: LOL, yeah I can see the "Yeah, you ladies" finger pointing.

More FW arms?

AUTOCANNON MORTIS!!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Those autocannons are done. I have tried them out in a couple of games and they perform fantastic against AV11. Against AV12, not so much but oh well.

I have been spending my time re-painting a lot of my infantry. Infantry is such a drag because all the work you spend on each guy will net you about 20 pts :|. Oh well, gotta keep on chucking I guess.

I have also started doing plasma in red. I notice that the white dwarf spine of Azrael has his plasma in red. So I want to try that out. Overally I kindda like it. Do you guys like red plasma or blue plasma?

I am saving all the special shoulder pads to be done at the same time since it takes 6 steps to get the cold grey color correctly.

I like the red! I was thinking of doing that for mine. Or orange. Nice difference to the blue everyone seems to do.

And I feel you on infantry. I have... about 40 more guys to paint up just for one of my IG armies. It really sucks to have to paint so many nobodies, but it does increase painting skills.

These guys are looking great. Love the dreads and all those autocannons.

The Angles are looking good man!!!:( Keep it up!

Sweet work as usual dude! any chance of an army shot?