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Death company just because that's the most most iconic to blood angels to me. Althought the furioso is more wise, but I mean, it's not a raving hero of the imperium with a genetically induced PTSD ongoing that's inside.

Don't Worry! I'm not dead! I've just been focused on painting the tactical squad one-by one, and some life-stuff has prolonged some painting. But I promise I'll post some pics of a 5 man squad when I finish it. I have a Furi Dread, Sanguinary Guard, 5 terminators, a lieutenant, a captain, 3 death company marines, and a terminator assault squad I need to paint. That's a lot. I'm on a pilgrimage to Holy Eire with the family for six weeks, and I've magnetized a box and some bases with greenstuff so I can update you guys. I also finally got some isopropyl and two marines are stripped, as well as a sanguinary guard. (I ruined two SG and a terminator banner with bad army painter primer. But i have the banner primed in grey now, so nothing to worry about). I hope to paint some models while I'm in Ireland, so stay tuned if you're into that kind of thing. Again, I'm sorry for the long break! I'll rectify that with some finished models soon, okay?

Ho hey, you back!

In Ireland right now. We went through france to get to cork, got to see some second world war memorials and a load of sheep as well as some cows, you guess which country respectively. I haven't gotten the chance (or motivation, which I find is quickly fleeting when away from a hobbydesk or your game-store buddies for too long) but I am planning on finishing up the tactical sergeant, and devastator marine and then focusing on a terminator squad or maybe my lieutenant. Ooh, maybe even the Furioso dreadnought. I'll cross the that bridge when I come to it. Finishing Hotline Miami for the fourth time as well as replaying Hotline Miami 2 levels and finally booting up my copy of Dawn of War has not helped in the 'time to paint' department. Alas, I will probably paint some more tomorrow. Forcing myself to paint helps no one.

‘Devastator marine’ I meant missile launcher marine, either way I think it’s clear what I mean

Hey, as far as I'm aware, Avitus, the pinnacle of devastator marine, could have a missile launcher equip. So I, for one, will call a missile launcher marine a devastator in memory of Avitus.

Ooooh, Blood Angels, And FirstBorn, and soon Terminators? Following. Very nice red on the tactical, looking forward to the Furioso

Bought a Chaplain with Jump Pack today, and I have some more Death Company on the backburner, I also bought the horus heresy MKIV tactical squad box too, I figure 20 marines is enough to make 5 Devastator boltgun marines and 10 assault marines, with some spare bodies for characters left over. I'll probably buy the MKVII tactical squad too mix with the MKIV bodies so they fit in with the other marines, and mixed armour marks always look good.


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The_Retromancer wrote:
Ooooh, Blood Angels, And FirstBorn, and soon Terminators? Following. Very nice red on the tactical, looking forward to the Furioso

Why thank you, Retromancer!

Working on the Lieutenant, and all I have to do is finish the combat squad's bases. I'll never take this long for this blog again...

where photos at? We wanna see those manly firstborns!!!

Anhyways, have fun making progress and remember: do not let the pile of shame get the best of you.

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
where photos at? We wanna see those manly firstborns!!!

Anhyways, have fun making progress and remember: do not let the pile of shame get the best of you.

Just have to finish the base on the Sergeant and the squad's done! I am so so sorry for taking this long, but I'm getting back into the swing of things. I've decided to submit my army into the 'Armies on Parade' event in my not-so-local GW. Although I don't intend on winning, I just want motivation to paint my dudes and also, the idea of displaying them is a wet-dream in of itself.

Anyway, I won't submit everything into it because there's no way I can finish all of it for October, I haven't quite figured out what to bring, but Here's what I have so far.

-1 Lieutenant (WIP)
-5 Tactical Marines (Finished, but base rims need painting and the SGT needs to have his base painted)
-Furioso Dreadnought (Primed)
-5 Sanguinary Guard (Mostly primed, but one is WIP)
-1 Chaplain w/ Jump Pack (unbuilt)
-5 Assault Terminators
-Maybe the Captain, but I'm not sure if I'd be able to finish him.


I will update within a couple days, when the bases will be done.

Thanks for sticking with this blog, even if I have the pace of a sloth when it comes to painting.


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Also, I love my custom Captain, but I feel he should have a jump pack. It's too late to give him one now, but if I can obtain the now OOP Firstborn upgrade pack and get the same helmet, I feel that I could make an alternate version of him. The same ol' Captain Aurelio, just with a jump pack to lead the eventual assault squad, and an on-foot one to lead the tactical marines. His helmet is on his base, with an unhelmeted head on the current model, so maybe I could have it look like he donned the same helmet, jumping into battle. Also his sword is VERY short.

Man, captain with a jump pack just screams DOW2 to me and i'd love it.

Great that you are going to attend a display! That might be a fun event to be part of, although I personnaly never did by a combination of shop too far, to solitary for that many people at once, and not being able to cope with my poor painting

Waiting for the news pal, full support to you!

By the way, on a fully unrelated note, can't remember whether you told me earlier, but from what part of germany are you from? I used to go to a family of friends in NRW, Hagen Haspe, when I was a teen!

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
Man, captain with a jump pack just screams DOW2 to me and i'd love it.

Thanks, DOW 1 has proved to be a big inspiration for this army, I just can't get past mission 3, I believe. The one with the looted tanks and orks sieging the city, very hard.


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 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:


Great that you are going to attend a display! That might be a fun event to be part of, although I personnaly never did by a combination of shop too far, to solitary for that many people at once, and not being able to cope with my poor painting

Waiting for the news pal, full support to you!

Thanks! I've never done something like this before, and the reason I take so much time is this army is my pride and joy. My iron warriors are mostly unpainted, too different to each other, differing paint schemes etc. My old orks, look pretty bad and aren't uniform at all, no highlighting or anything, but my Blood Angels, they're nearest to my heart, even if I only started it recently! I also think submitting them kind of a gesture, showing old models can be just as cool and characterful as whatever new releases they make. (the blood angels refresh has shown me they are WAYY more characterful and unique than the new, just black armoured assault marine death company they are making.)

But also, it's just a nice idea! It's been nice to finally get to talk to people who I have things in common with in the shop, as it's big enough to have a painting and game table each. Two guys that work there are pretty cool too, not the 'buy this, buy that, you can't say that in this shop' workers you hear about on the net. If it wasn't for all the fun games played and nice conversations had there, my sons of Sanguinius would not be displayed there. This army is kind of a reflection of those interactions, I think.

Thanks for saying that! It's great to know you're still reading, despite how I have taken too long to paint all these guys...


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 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:


By the way, on a fully unrelated note, can't remember whether you told me earlier, but from what part of germany are you from? I used to go to a family of friends in NRW, Hagen Haspe, when I was a teen!

I'm from Ireland, but I moved here to Frankfurt with my family when I was very young. Been here for most of my life for now, I'm not going to reveal my age on the internet (I am not a child or anything, I just feel it's wiser not to) but I am still technically an adolescent, so I don't get a lot of time to paint, for obvious reasons I think, but I will definitely spend more of my free time on this army when I can.

Guess who just bought himself another Furioso Dread on a whim!

oooh see MDG truly inspired you lol

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
oooh see MDG truly inspired you lol

Oi! No dissing my boy Grotsnik ‘ere!

In reality, I was going to ask if they had it in my FLGS, as I went in to buy plastic glue last friday (one b4 yesterday) to buy plastic glue, and ended up walking out with a winged chaplain instead! Apparently person at the till was also a classic blood angels enjoyer, on a similar yet probably not as obsessive crusade. Asked if I was interested in the furi dread, I said no cuz I was in a rush. Went back to ask today, and saw TWO ones there. slightly discounted from the current gw price. Probably going to make it a DC dread. As I’ve basically assembled the contents of the old DC strike force box seperately.

I ain't never diss this absolute icon of this forum.

Darn, I haven't bought anything hobby related in months. Lastly mostly spending on firearms and stuff to work on them, or tools.

Is that dreadgoing to be death company?

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:


Is that dreadgoing to be death company?

well, you must be a librarian interred in a dreadnought because you can read my mind!


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Building him right now. Is there anything cozier than listening to Blues Brothers, building an old pattern Dreadnought and occasionally sipping Paulaner Spezi? Probably, but not right now.

Finished building him, tried to customise him.

I pimped him out with purity seals on the big X mark, that chalice crown back ornament thing from the upgrade sprue, a long purity seal on the left arm, as well as using the skull icon with the cross on it on that arm as well.

For the right arm, I used a blood angels tilting plate from… death company, I think? Or the Sanguinary Guard box (RIP) I filed down the back and glued it on. I then rather simply stick the parchment piece from the tactical squad set on the shoulder (you know, the blank one with the imperial eagle on top).

I’m rather pleased with this model, I’d say it turned out very well. Can’t wait to get some paint on this big fether


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Oh yeah, it's sideways, I'm still trying to figure out how the images work, so bear with me.

Nothing like quick spare bitz upgrades

Currently working on some Assault termies. Going to do them in the old, bone coloured Crux and Aquila style. I’m basecoating, really but these guys are actually easier than I thought. Will base coat sanguinary guard next, who look to be quite easy too. Hey, not splurging on extra bits on already detailed minis helps sometimes!

You might want to pin the wings on those Sanguinary Guard. I found that they break off quite easily.