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The past few years have been a slow and long hell for my Blood Angels. I painted them up only to find them horrible when I viewed the works of others on the internet. So I stripped them, and painted them again this time using different techniques. I have collected almost everything I need for my army, I just need some basing material, a few extra bits and some more paint. Here's a list of my army that I wish to paint up:

2 librarians with jump packs
10 honour guard
10 vanguard veterans
30 assault marines
2 sanguinary priests

Hopefully, by setting up this blog, I will be less lazier (I hope!) and be more active in the painting of my army. Here are some pics:

A librarian


One of the assault marines I haven't come round to stripping yet.


Assault marine sergeant with thunderhammer. He's meant to have an infernus pistol, does anyone have any ideas on how I could model one on?




Yep, that's a mould line. Not a brain tumour, I better clean it off soon.
That's everything I have to show so far, tell me what you think and also check out my blog:http://greenfarseer.blogspot.com/

Your off to a far better start than i am. The sheen on the libby's sword looks great, and your reds look good but the highlight is a little harsh. Your off to great start. Subbed

Thanks for subscribing! Maybe I should put a little ogryn flesh wash on the reds to dull it down a bit.

This is a miniguide in preparation for a tutorial I'm doing for my BA, taken from my blog:


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Ok, so grab your base coat, preferably a dark one like this brown here.


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Mix a little bit of a lighter colour into the paint you used for the base coat. In this case, a rusty brown. Now mix a little bit of water into the mixture and apply, making sure that the transition from rusty brown to dark brown is smooth (i know it's not in this picture!). In this example, the left hand side is receiving the 'light' whilst the right hand side is receiving shadows. So from the left hand side, apply your paint. You then wipe, or take off some of that paint onto a towel or something and continue into the right hand side. As you reach the right hand side, gradually take off more paint and apply light brushstrokes. Slow and steady wins the race.


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Similarly, take a lighter shade of paint and mix it into your mixture. You then use the above technique, making sure that this time you leave some of the previous shade behind in a smooth transition.


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Again do the same but with a lighter shade

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At this point, you can clean up any problems you may have encountered. Here, I made the shadows a little lighter and blended some ugly lines in.

I know this wasn't the best tutorial but I hope it was helpful anyway. This technique does take some practise so don't panic if it doesn't turn out the way you wanted it to. Just make sure you allow a nice transition from light to dark.

Edit:why can't i get my pics to show up?

It's been a long time since I last posted but here they are, more incomplete Blood Angels!

Looking good

Another update: