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Hey there,thanks for visiting my blog.This blog will be about a small squad of Dark Angels veterans that specialize in recon missions as well as VIP escort-acting as Honor Guard-,sabotage etc.There will be at least 10 men in the squad that will include:
-A veteran Sergeant,
-About 5 Veteran Marines with Bolters,
-A veteran with a rocket launcher,
-A veteran with a heavy bolter,
-A Dark Angels Techmarine,
-A Dark Angels Field Medic(Apothecary),
-Maybe 1 Land Speeder,or a Scout and Space Marine Landspeeders,
-Either a Land Rider Crusader or a Rhino
The main purpose of the squad is to mainly infiltrate the enemy lines and cause havoc within them while the main forces attack from the frontlines.

The first figure that I would like to share with you is my favorite one,Battle Brother/Veteran Sergeant Wolfius of the Dark Angels' Recon Squad:



Well,that's it for now.Any comments are welcome! I will try to finish at least one figure by Friday so keep tight!

TheEpicWolf

Sounds like a good idea. I don't know about Dark Angels much, but Dark Angel Green camo with patches of kommando khaki and chaos black could be interesting for ya infiltrating type group. Unless your definition of infiltration is walking in like a Terminator.

Look forward to ya update friday.

I like the idea of doing a little theme army, maybe for use in apoc games?

cool head on that marine - where is it from?

Indeed, what is that head from, it's fine.

Thanks for your comments!Im glad people like it ^^ so,

The head is from Dark Angels Ravenwing Bike Squadron,it is originally meant to be a head for your custom Techmarine as on the visor on the side of his head it looks like bound with a cog, but i simply cut them off and smoothed it.

About the Apoc. games-this squad, while meant for regular WH40k rather than Apoc., could work there too I guess, so thanks for the idea!


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Ok,so here is an update:Moar figures!!
DA Recon Veterans

Battle Brothers 'Chronus' and 'Aster'

DA Recon group pic 1


DA Recon Veterans 2

Battle Brothers 'Nihilius' and 'Bear'

DA Recon group pic 2

Names from left-Charon 'Chronus',Annihilus 'Nihilius',Sergeant 'Sarge' Wolfius,Boreas 'Bear',Asteroth 'Aster'.


DA Recon field medic,Apothecary Nestor-check my gallery for a pic that shows the conversion better


DA Recon custom Techmarine Hephaestus


And a little treat-a bonus project that Im working on as well-a Pre-Heresy Dark Angels Recon Squad!Here is the first figure: DA Recon Veteran Sergeant! enjoy



And a group pic and some more info on the squad:

Dude, that's freaking amazing, it's like the cover of the book!

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Dude, that's freaking amazing, it's like the cover of the book!

Thank you,some of the pictures might be of different quality but i will try to improve that ASAP

Lookin awesome so far , the only thing where a latex glove or pic up a clay shaper to avoid finger print markings on the green stuff . I get lazy all the time and sometimes don't catch a finger print or two til I prime it than i have to go back and sand it down , super pain in the grion .

Some really good looking conversions you've got there. Can't wait to see them painted!

Thanks for comments! About Green Stuff,its was my fisrt time using it so obviously there will be mistakes,but I learn more everyday hmm..latex gloves might be a good idea thanks I will paint some figures tonight so Ill make sure to upload them ASAP.

You have to be careful with latex gloves and fingerprints; in my experience they won't do much to protect you from them if you're applying a lot of pressure. I also recommend a thin layer of Vaseline on your gloves/fingers and on the sculpting tool to prevent the Green Stuff from sticking or becoming ragged.

That said, your sculpting is good. I especially like the shoulders on that pre-Heresy Marine.

Nice suppressors on the bolters. I used the same technique when I built my Raptor army a few years ago. Good stuff!

Owain wrote:You have to be careful with latex gloves and fingerprints; in my experience they won't do much to protect you from them if you're applying a lot of pressure. I also recommend a thin layer of Vaseline on your gloves/fingers and on the sculpting tool to prevent the Green Stuff from sticking or becoming ragged.

That said, your sculpting is good. I especially like the shoulders on that pre-Heresy Marine.

Thanks for the advice ! About the shoulder pads- I used the Dreadnought legs protectors since they looked close enough to shoulder protection, heh.
And thanks for the comments!! I have a Friday off college so i think I'll manage to finish one figure till Friday night

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Ok,I have made a lot of changes to the squad and for now here's how its going to look:

Dark Angels Tactical Recon Squad

Combat Squad:
Veteran Sargeant-Raptor(Renamed) 'Sarge'
Veteran Apothecary-Nestor 'Medic'
Veteran Marine-Charon 'Grunt'
Veteran Marine-Leartes 'Leo'
Veteran Marine Sniper-Lionus 'Watcher'

Support Squad:
Veteran Heavy Gunner-Arcanus 'Arc'
Veteran Techmarine-Hephaestus 'Black Smith'
Veteran Rocket Launcher Operator-Dominus 'Dom'
Veteran Flamer-Boreas 'Boar'
Veteran Sapper (Expolsives expert)-Malloc 'Rain'

(Pictures to follow)

Man,it's been like a year or so since the last time I've been here! Was afraid the thread, images etc got deleted but seems the Emperor kept this safe! Time to dig out my soldiers and finish them ^^

DAYUM, after two years of neglecting my Dark Angels, and stuff going on in my life, I've finally came back to WH40k and with a bang. I got my hands on a Dark Vengeance set to boost my chapter, which I called Angels of Purification. And, without further ado, I present you the current images of the updated Angels of Purification Recon Squad (although I might change that name too):

(The pictures came out big, due to the black paint not giving the detail out correctly, I'll be getting a new set of paints soon to put some life into the models!)

A Librarian with he Sergeant



The Medic with one of the veterans



Two veterans



A combi-flamer veteran with a missile launcher one



And finally, a veteran with an assault cannon and veteran with a sniper rifle




I'm currently re-writing their background and origin stories and plan how they'll expand. I noticed I missed out my custom Techmarine and another veteran, I believe, and will add their pictures tomorrow, so stay tuned! The entire chapter is supposed to be a small group of elites, but I might go further with adding another squad and so on. We'll see, for now, enjoy! Any feedback is welcome!