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Hello all this my First real blog and I will try to update as regularly as I can but if I dont stick to my regular updates please dont lose interest I will also tell you if I may not be able to post and how much I have done with a list of coloured items (you will see what I mean in a minute....)

I am planning to have this army with all slots taken up and when i do it in my mind the list adds up to roughly 5k so I will try to get this on the Blog at some point and that will be over a period of time which may be very long and then I will expand that into the whole 5th company. So heres the list of things for my 2k list:
(Blue= Dont have, Orange= Built+Undercoated, Green=Painted, Red= Finished)
Astorath the Grim
Commander Dante
SanguinaryGuard (5 man)
Assault Terminators (5 man)
Land Raider Transport
Tactical squad 4 (10 man)
Tactical squad 5 (10 man)
Death Company (5 man)
Baal Predator

I will add pictures as soon as I take them of what I own and the scout sergeant I am making for the 10th company C&C's would be appreciated many thanks...

Devil


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As promised here are the pics......

Tactical Squad 4 of the 5th company
Sarge/weapons

Front 5

Back 5


Commander dante


Sanguinary guard
All

Banner


Death company
Mr fist and Mr hammer

Hand flamer, power weapon and normal guy


Astorath wip
Him

Scratch built weapon as the other one broke...


Baal predator wip
Hull

Weapons

Interior

very good on the whole
you need to water down your paints a bit as it look quite thick

Vulkan_He'stan wrote:very good on the whole
you need to water down your paints a bit as it look quite thick

Im dreadful at watering paints down they always come out to watery and look horrible so i try to water them down but it doesnt always work.... I should be adding pictures of the baal and astorath finished today as im recovering from a sprained foot so I get lots of painting time

devilboy202 wrote:
Im dreadful at watering paints down they always come out to watery and look horrible so i try to water them down but it doesnt always work.... I should be adding pictures of the baal and astorath finished today as im recovering from a sprained foot so I get lots of painting time

When watering down paints, you want the consistency of milk, but also know that you'll need to do more than one coat if you're painting red over a black undercoat. In fact you might need to do three or four. Takes time, but you don't lose any detail.

You've got a good size army going here. Well done.

I agree with the others, thinning the paint will help. However, I think if that doesn't work for you, you could stop it from being too big a problem by using washes. Because while I see highlights on most of the models, there is very little shading, if there is any at all.

Tim the Biovore wrote:I agree with the others, thinning the paint will help. However, I think if that doesn't work for you, you could stop it from being too big a problem by using washes. Because while I see highlights on most of the models, there is very little shading, if there is any at all.

There is a wash but it doesnt really show i may put a line of badab black in them again to make it stand out some more...

I have a couple of suggestions for the wings. I understand you may not wish to re-do them, but just for you to consider...

- strip them of existing paint
- prime white
- use Valejo's "pale wash" to give them depth, prop the wings upside-down to dry so the wash gathers in the right places along the feathers' edges. Make sure you are very thorough in your washing so there are no missed spots, they'll stick out like a sore thumb later.
- allow to dry thoroughly
- give a very gentle drybrush (very dry) of skull white over the edges of the feathers. The pale was is quite pale (gray), so you won't need to glob on the white, you're just trying to bring out the bright edges of the feathers with it. Even for drybrushing, I'd dilute the white a bit first, then give the brush a quick pass or two on a paper towel to take off most of the excess liquid.
- finish by painting the top part of the wings gold like the rest of the model, that will make the white feathers really stand out... so the wings will look like the wings on the top of your banner pole.

Just some ideas... keep up the good work.

Gitsplitta wrote:I have a couple of suggestions for the wings. I understand you may not wish to re-do them, but just for you to consider...

- strip them of existing paint
- prime white
- use Valejo's "pale wash" to give them depth, prop the wings upside-down to dry so the wash gathers in the right places along the feathers' edges. Make sure you are very thorough in your washing so there are no missed spots, they'll stick out like a sore thumb later.
- allow to dry thoroughly
- give a very gentle drybrush (very dry) of skull white over the edges of the feathers. The pale was is quite pale (gray), so you won't need to glob on the white, you're just trying to bring out the bright edges of the feathers with it. Even for drybrushing, I'd dilute the white a bit first, then give the brush a quick pass or two on a paper towel to take off most of the excess liquid.
- finish by painting the top part of the wings gold like the rest of the model, that will make the white feathers really stand out... so the wings will look like the wings on the top of your banner pole.

Just some ideas... keep up the good work.

I dont have the Valejo set so maybe gryphone sepia...? Thanks for the suggestion anyway

Sepia would give them a brownish tint, rather than the pale gray of the Vallejo. I don't have the Vallejo set either, was able to pick up the single bottle at my FLGS, realize that might not be an option for you. There's always the internet though. You could also make your own very light, very dilute gray wash if you'd like. Alternately if you were going to use the sepia you need to thin it out quite a bit. You don't want to stain the feather's brown really, just add a bit of color to the recesses. I'd thin it by half 1:1 (wash:water) to start with. If it's too light you can always add more.

Looking like a decent sized BA army you've got there! But I agree whole heartedly with the others, thinning down your paints would be a really, really good idea.

Also, one thing I noticed was, you might want to make your highlights a little more gradual. For instance, on the assault marines, you have just a line of codex grey, try blending in a mid tone to make it gradual rather than just a line. ^^