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I had the desire for a long time to create a dark angels army. When I took a break from the game about 6-10 months ago to finish grad school I was leading myself to believe I would jump back in when daemonhunters came out, but as my desire to play started to kick backup and grad school had ended, the change to the space marine chapters ala everything is normalized, made my excitement for the DA even greater. I am going for an almost pure deathwing army. Possibly in the future, aka for some apoc games, I might work on the 2nd company ravenwings. My force will primarily be terminators, with a couple of units of dreadnoughts and such.


This is a shot of them just post priming + spraying on my base color with the air brush. I am going for a bit of a darker white because I personally find that it looks better, or at least I think so.


This is a shot of what will end up being my sergeant. He has had some of his details picked out and had just had his first coat of sephia wash applied. Additionally the shot is at some distance so it is hard to make out all of the parts that I have gotten painted. All of my "metal" parts had badab black applied to them for a deeper color disparity, to contrast some of the armor.


These shots are of a couple of the members of the first squad. They show a few more details that had been picked out. In dark angels fashion, I wanted to make most of the decoration green with highlights if possible. These also show a good shot of the FW shoulder pads. At this point all they are missing are their corresponding shields and 1 cyclone missile launcher. Each of these items are coming in the mail.




This is the apothecary for the squad. I am not sure how I feel about the extra sensor that I put up on the top of the termy armor. I my look at changing that in the next week or so. I kit bashed a bit with the pieces from the command squad apothecary kit to get the hand/servo repair kit, and some of the other medical instruments equipped on him. I did not want to do the pure white apothecary because I felt that it would not fit the unit/army motif, but I may revisit that in a little while can repaint him pure white.


This is the only model that I have had time to apply decals to. At some point I will do this to all of them, or something similar, but this was my first test case to see how it turned out and ensure that I like the color scheme.


This show shows the banner and several more details on my squad sergeant. As you can see it is also following the green iconography that I started earlier.

A couple of things to note, I am still waiting on my custom shields so that I can equip them with their storm shields. I chose to use a lightning claw hand, minus the claws to have a larger more sturdy army for a shield arm. These guys are suppose to be hulking on the battle field so I felt it was needed to make them look just right. Additionally, I have a standard that I am putting together for one of them to carry at some point as well, but I will address that at a later date once I have had time to hit them with a hobby drill and put them in place.

The only question that I have had since starting this is scroll writing. I have looked and not found any articles on ways to make it look more "authentic" but alas I have not found any. Does anyone have any suggestions to make it look better. I thought possibly getting an ultra fine point pen and doing it in that fashion, but I fear scraping the paint so any suggestions there are welcomed, and for that matter any others as well.

Thanks for looking

Enslaviour~

Below are some shots of the unit together. I think that besides the base they look rather well at this point.


Below are individual shots of the models in the members of the unit.
I think that I need to add some type of detail to the backs of the shields just so that they look a bit better. If anyone has any thoughts on that it would be appreciated, if not I guess I will figure something out. At this point I applied some transfers just to fill some space on the back of them.















Below are some shots of my sergeant. All in all I think he has turned out well so far.














This is going to be my apothecary. All that it is missing as or right now besides a painted base is the need for his shield, which is coming in the mail still, so until then it will have to stay as is. I took the narcinthe converter from the command squad kit as well as a few other bits and pieces to flush them out properly.







All that is left on my first test unit is to finish painting the bases on the unit. I am planning on going for a sudo-desert city world theme, so at this point, it will be the next part that I will need to paint.
For those interested, the shields are from hitechminatures, as well as some banners that I have yet to paint, but will be applied to future squads.

Those are some fantastic termies! How did you do the seals?

Wulfe Luer wrote:Those are some fantastic termies! How did you do the seals?

Beyond the green stuff for the ribbon, I rolled some balls of green stuff, then use a spru-end with a terminator honors symbol glued to the end to stamp them.

Did some work on the DW tonight. I got my CML put together, and banners put onto my terminators.

Looking really good! Good to see more DA in this forum. Hope to see more of your DW.

These look great. The green really makes it pop. Love it.

Awesome work!!! Plus, you have the best username on Dakka.

GreyDeathOne wrote:Looking really good! Good to see more DA in this forum. Hope to see more of your DW.

Thank you there is a lot more to build and paint at this point, and I am considering expanding into ravenwing once I finish up with the deathwing project.

bunnygurl wrote:These look great. The green really makes it pop. Love it.

Thank you, I was looking to get away from the gloomy dark green that gw cast for the dark angels, and I think it turned out well.

warpcrafter wrote:Awesome work!!! Plus, you have the best username on Dakka.

So I was home sick today so I thought I would make some headway on my deathwing project. So this is what came out of it. This is 1/2 versions of Beliel I am considering running so 1/2 built, the other is a TH/SS version. This was made using the bode of the terminator chaplin, and you can see where the rest is from with "some" green stuff work. After what I have done so far has hardened. Without further adue, Beliel. Any criticism welcome and ideas of things to change.

So most of tonight I spent with magnets. The first thing I started was the landraider crusader project. I was able to get it partially assembled and primed the insides so that I can paint them tomorrow, or this weekend.





Below is my magnetized landspeeder. I know it is not deathwing, but I wanted to have the option for something fast attack and it was a low point option, although the more I think about it a small bike squad with built in teleport homers does sound much better. So, this unit may be replaced in the near future, or at lest reserved for the expansion into the second wing.





I appologize for the two sideways shots, but I did not have a ton of time to fix them. Below are my 2 magnetized AOBR dreads. Nothing special, other than a suicide unit for my army.




So my next plan is to pick back up the spray can and prime this weekend. I will follow that up with the airbrush form at least the bleached bone base coat and follow up with what I did on my test paint units. Lots of work to do, but it will get done.