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Hi,

These are some pictures of the BA army I took to my first touney 2 weeks ago, I did ok, 38/86, but I did win "Best Painted Army" I was really supprised, I felt there were alot better painted stuff there.

This is my own DIY BA chapter, I call them "Sanguine Templars" on occasion I will run them using the BT codex as well. I really enjoy the BT style and wanted to incormperate that with the BA models. For the 1500 tourney I will be taking IG, but I will be back with more BA for 1750, and 2k.

Enjoy the pics!!









Lots more can be found here

http://picasaweb.google.com/RedModeling/40k#

and here

http://picasaweb.google.com/RedModeling/1250ArmyPics#

Thanks for looking!

Ashton

That's a great looking army Ashton and congrats on the prize. Really like the darker reds you got going on and the templar feel.

They're horrible and you should feel bad for posting them.



Honestly, though, I like them alot. Very well painted and I love the meshing of Blood Angel and Black Templar iconography. The face on the guy in the last pic is painted very well.

Nice models and everything.

But maybe you should move this to the Painting and Modeling SHOWCASE section instead.

If yours didn't deserve to win, I want to see the other stuff! Seriously, this is a great looking army - thoroughly red without being boring or cartoonish, weathered without being overdone... you've struck a good balance between clean and bright and grimdarked to hell.

Army looks fantastic no wonder you won the competition for best painted.

Very nice indeed! and btw a BA compliment from Eggroll is a big deal, I actually find you guys have similar styles and really like the tone of red and the depth you achieved with it.

I like the darker reds compared to the bright almost orange appearance of some armies nicely done


Dan

A deserved win, they look very crisp and nicely painted.

Those blood angels look spectacular- and I must say your work in progress land raider conversion is very awesome as well.

Those are some very nice blondes (hair i mean) Does that take much time to do/learn?

winnertakesall wrote:Those are some very nice blondes (hair i mean) Does that take much time to do/learn?

Not so much, I acutually base coat my skin tones and faces with Vallejo US ARMY TANK GREEN, then start building up the highlights, this also happens to work well with the hair too, just takes a little patience.

To everyone else, thanks for the compliments.

Ashton

well done.

some good work. congrats on the prize.