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Nice work! Great conversions, love the Isac Hayes reference

//Edge

Seriously nice poses on all of these miniatures! I like them a lot. The bases really set them off nicely too. Its made me want to put some serious work into the bases of the Khorne army I have planned.
I like the paint scheme a lot too.
James

Thor, Banner, and all the rest are good, really good.

Ok Im jealous of what youve done.

OnTheEdge, burglarboycie, 1-i - Thanks for the comments!


Brother Heavy now ordained:



Brother Heavy was brought into 5th Company to provide some much needed fire-power against my cousin's Tyranid force - We battled yesterday, but even with Brother Heavy the Blood Ravens were slain to a man!!!

And yes, that is a mould line across his helmet and yes, I am planning on getting back to the eyes, and doh! - I also just noticed I have left the edge of the base unfinished as well!

How are you using these in game terms, cos they're oddly armed for a tactical squad....

Imperial Monkey - great question!
When I started the Blood Ravens I knew nothing about gaming except that tactical squads were 5-10 troops and a Captain was better than a Marine.
So as I was building I was applying "Cool before Rules" i.e. just building what I liked!

We've since played these once as a single 10-man squad + Captain and Dreadnought using anyone strangely armed as 'counts as' standard Marines.

After discussion with GW staff and then a few hours fiddling with the Blood Angels codex, we are now playing them as a 130 pt Captain, 160 pt 5 x Sternguards, 190 pt 5x Vanguards and a 120 pt Dreadnought, which with the addition of Brother Heavy leaves us one Marine spare.
I'm working towards having 2 x 10 man tactical squads sooner or later, but at at the moment if we play at the store the staff let us just play with what we have, and if we play against my cousins murderous Tyranids he lends us 20 Imperial Fists.

Sorry Lamby. Didn't mean to pick at the eyes after a small horde of people did the same. Wasn't sure if you had noticed 'cause some people don't. As much as it pains me to say, I forget stuff all the time. >_< Don't worry, I won't nag you about mould lines.

Ending on a positive note, your work is great! I like the tone of red you have going on.

bunnygurl - no worries + thanks!
My red recipe: watered down mechrite red basecoat x 2, devlan mud wash, blazing orange drybrush, baal red wash, some scorched brown in the deep recesses and done!

Have you thought of the Squad Leader as a Libby since they are supposedly descended from the 1k sons?

They look great, particularly in the army shot. Good work.

I lol'd for ages at "He's not heavy, he's my brother!".

How is the red done? I'm guessing there's some sort of wash involved?

Miss Dee - not thought about a Librarian... have to check the dex for the points and do some recalcs... Thanks

Popsicle - Thanks - My red recipe: 1:1 water/ mechrite red basecoat x 2, devlan mud wash, blazing orange drybrush, baal red wash, some scorched brown in the deep recesses and done!

mmm... must get around to the eye lenses on these boys... 'cept the call of Chaos beckons... (check out my CSMs: The Legion of Thorns http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/352980.page

New Blood Ravens WIP:




Squad of hard-hittin' Blood Raven Terminators on the way... with ultra-cool (10 yr old cool!) names!

Great looking Ravens. How do you do the shoulder pads?

Space Marine - Thanks!
- Shoulder pads are: 1 coat of Gryphon Sepia, 3 coats of diluted Bleached Bone (still streaky!!!), 1 coat of purity seal gloss varnish, 1 coat of heavy devlan mud/badab black wash, spray satin varnish, paint the rims with chaos black and use a black 1mm Sakura pen to line in the edge , finally some minor battle wear using delicate drybrushing with chainmail
- At a later date (i.e. when I get them from Forge World!) I will add BR decals and squad markings... and do the eyes green too!

Lamby wrote:Space Marine - Thanks!
- Shoulder pads are: 1 coat of Gryphon Sepia, 3 coats of diluted Bleached Bone (still streaky!!!), 1 coat of purity seal gloss varnish, 1 coat of heavy devlan mud/badab black wash, spray satin varnish, paint the rims with chaos black and use a black 1mm Sakura pen to line in the edge , finally some minor battle wear using delicate drybrushing with chainmail
- At a later date (i.e. when I get them from Forge World!) I will add BR decals and squad markings... and do the eyes green too!

Thanks for that.

All of them have fantastic action poses. Very intimidating blood raven force.

I have been thinking of doing a squad or two all lead with a Libby.

Enslaviour, Miss Dee - Thanks!

WIP of display base for Blood Raven Terminators:




(In the background can be seen those sneaky CSMs The Legion of Thorns...)

Here comes the hard-hittin' mofos of the Blood Raven's Terminator Squad!

PIP of display base and bases:


T1:


T2:


T3:


T4:


Sergeant:

Glad to see you're making progress! T2 looks awesome.

Moltar - Thanks!
More (un-photographed) progress - they're now pink!!!

PIPs:

Some more PIPs:

i really like the colors your using! i also really like the models! keep up the good work

Those are coming out nice. And a very nice use of the AoBR marines.

I may have to tweak my own a little like that!

Minor PIP... I paint soooo s l o w ...

Finally done with the Blood Ravens Terminators:

Here's the first of them, Brother Clawz:

FW have Blood Raven transfers

Miss Dee - Thanks! - I was going to go through the whole make-my-own decals, but only just found them on FW - hence the blank areas of the shoulder pads and shields - but I did do the eyes this time!

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Brother Skullclaws:

Just like everyone else, I love the poses you've got going on here! I smell a Blood Ravens vs. Legion of Thorns battle looming

Are you going for ultra-glossy with your marines? I looks like they could use a matte-finish coat, imho.

What head did you use for your termie captain? I can't place it.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Rawson