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Stubborn Dark Angels Veteran Sergeant






So, I've took the plunge, bought models, paint and tools and I am officially fully back into the hobby.

And what better way to start than with a new home-brew chapter that will eventually be joined by inquisition, sisters, custodes and become a crusade force.

I'm mainly doing it for the modelling and narrative play, building models I like.

Anyway, the background and scheme of the chapter using the B&C space marine painter. The whole army will be primaris but this is the scheme. Some building of models is planned this week and hopefully my paint order will be shipped this weekend, but this is a slow burn project anyway, I hope you enjoy the background.

EDIT: First Squad is now complete. Individual pics are in a later post




The Shroud of Vigilance Chapter



The colour scheme of the shroud of vigilance dark angel successor chapter. Tasked with keeping close ties to the inquisition by the unforgivens Grand Master Azrael to intel for any infiltration of the Fallen into the holy ordos. To maintain a level of secrecy the chapter does not maintain an official badge, that which suits the chapter and also the inquisition to perform clandestine operations, sometimes against the inquisition itself where no survivors are permitted. Each of the chapters 8 companies typically are assigned to a specific ordo within the inquisition, with one each for the major ordos and the other five covering multiple minor ordos between them.

Each company is presided over by a Grand Master, with an inner council of a Chief librarian, Master of Interrogations, The Master of the Dreadbringers and the Master of the Corvus Venators. This council is then supported by the full inner circle of the company, comprised of the librarians, Interrogator chaplains and Judicier and the Barons of Maledictum and Barons of Trepidation. The chapter is lead by a further circle of Grand Masters, each on an even parity of power and influence, with the deciding power in the case of a stalled vote going to a supreme grand master of another of the unforgiven chapters. The nature of this organisation is to aid the chapters autonomy when investigating the inquisition. In light of this, it is very rare for the grand master to meet in a formal meeting of the circle of grand masters, and typically only when a fellow grand master wants to council his peers on a certain sensitive matter, either within or outside of the chapter. Each company is comprised of roughly 80 Battle line Marines of the regular company formation, 40 corvus venators, 30 Dreadbringers, then a small formation, usually comprising of 10-20 Barons for each of the Barons of Maledictum and Barons of Trepidation.

The Corvus Venators



The Corvus Venators. The chapters vanguard, reconnaissance, scout and guerrilla operatives. The formation is a twist on the more traditional ravenwing formation of the unforgiven, with the inclusion of infantry exclusively in phobos pattern or omnis pattern armour, allowing the formation to deploy assets on long recon and surveillance missions as well as the chapters outrider, ATV and storm speeder squadrons for hard, swift strike and hit and run missions. Finally, in fitting with it’s phobos base, this is also where the chapters invictor war suits are also maintained, though rare due to the potential to be spotted during infiltration missions, they are piloted by a member of the small elite force within the corvus venators, the ‘Barons of Maledictum’.


The Dreadbringers



The elite shock troops of the chapter. Maintained in a small number within each company rather than a distinct formation. The company makes extensive use of gravis armour to achieve it’s needs as well as some specially modified terminator plate to accomodate the primaris frame. In addition this is where the chapters bladeguard veterans are maintained. The true modus operandi of the formation is to act as a search and destroy, sweeping up any breaches of secrecy outside of the chapter and within, performing purge operations to ensure secrecy at all costs, to the extent that burnt earth tactics have been used to ensure no evidence is found, with unfavourable rumours of sanctioned exterminates that falls far below the codex astartes thresholds for such an actions. Whilst many different configurations of squads make up the Dreadbringers, only the bladeguard and Terminator squads are members of the chapters inner circle and take up the additional mantle of ‘The Barons of Trepidation’.


The Barons of Maledictum



The Barons of Maledictum are the Corvus Venators elite warriors. Inducted into the inner circle of the chapter, they form a council within the Corvus Venators to aid and guide the master of the formation as well as being the chapters most specialised clandestine operatives and assassins, deploying often and providing crucial intel for the Dreadbringers search and destroy, and burnt earth operations. Sometimes working closely with the ‘The Barons of Trepidation’ within the Dreadbringers on their in-house purges. Whilst aware of the role the ‘Barons of Trepidation’ fulfil within the chapter, and providing support, they keep their fellow Barons at arms length, understanding how volatile they can be and also being aware that the Barons of Trepidation may bring their captious modus operandi upon the corvus venators themselves. In itself these lends clues to how the chapter command is organised. New grand masters of a company are promoted from either the corvus venators master or the dreadbringers master, with a vote taking place by the 7 other grand masters of the chapters companies. Naturally, the appointment of either lends to the direction the company will take, ruthlessly zealous in it’s pursuit of maintained secrecy, or a more pragmatic approach, choosing to operate in a manor of innocent till proven guilty in regards to investigations within the chapter. This can come into direct conflict with the Barons of Trepidations allowed autonomy, with an ex corvus venator master often utilising his own barons of maledictum surveillance mastery to keep an unrelenting watchful eye on their fellow barons, aware that speed and swiftness is of the essence if they want to curtail an internal purge.


The Barons of Trepidation



Meet the elite of the Dreadbringers, ‘The Barons of Trepidation’. Permanent allocations to the Barons of trepidation within the formations are the companies senior librarian, the apprentice of the reclusiarch and the companies Judicier, to aid this role, with the companies master of the Dreadbringers being in overall charge, and only he and the companies grand master can order a baron of trepidation to stand down, that is if they hear of the impending sanctions in time. In this role they act as gatekeepers to the chapters dark motives, ruthlessly watching members below their rank of the Dreadbringers for any lapses of secrecy and given prior autonomy to handle any threats to the chapters true motives within the chapter without the requirement of an official trial of the accused, with the Judicier performing the final judgement once the threats have been isolated. Rumours within the inner circle at present suggests that the the barons of trepidation of the 8th company summarily executed the rest of the companies dreadbringers recently. Grand Master Ophaniel Ezekane has displayed discontent for their actions when the matter was investigated, unsure of the true motives. In consequence to this, the company is still to return the Dreadbringers to full strength, Grand Master Ezekane choosing to let it operate at understrength, recognising and limiting the scope and reach of the barons of trepidation under his charge.

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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought






Cool ideas, looking forward to seeing you bring them to life

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Stubborn Dark Angels Veteran Sergeant






So, I bought a cheap airbrush compressor combo... Whilst I know many of you would say not to do that, I have never, ever used an air brush, and for what I am using it for at the moment (base coat, zenithal and varnish) it will do okay.

So, first attempt ever at zenithals and I'm fairly happy with the result at the moment. Obviously technique etc needs to be improved, as does equipment and paint to thinner ratios (the first zenithal coat was awful, far too much thinner) it will work for me and once I outgrow this airbrush and compressor, I will re-invest in better quality equipment.

My big paint order is also arriving tommorow! So actual progress on the paint scheme will start to happen fairly quickly, as well as some conversion parts for my characters and barons of the inner circle.

Group shot of the test bed 5x assault intercessors.




Close up of the sergeant






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EDIT, ignore the weird build/neck I've attached the heads with white tack as I want to paint them separately.

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I’ve been meaning to try zenithal priming for a while. It looks to give a good view of where to place highlights as well as giving a subtle shade once basecoats are applied. Good luck getting a handle on airbrushing

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UPDATE.

I have drilled the weapons now

In addition, I have all my paints, and have done my main base coats other than some bits like the leather and soft armour as I haven't fully committed to the method or colour yet.

I've also included a fair bit of pre-weathering on the base coat, as I plan to paint for the most part in thinned down layer paint, it should still come through.







However, it wasn't sitting with me that the armour was weathered but the red sections were not, so I applied the same method as I did for the rest of the armour but not quite as heavy as I didn't want to lose too much of the deep red.







In regards to painting over the weathering, am I going down the right route with thinned citadel layers and ink based paint from now on, I don't want to apply any heavy base layers to any more of the armour bar the eyes and specific details.

C&C welcomed, just trying to improve here.

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Some highlighting, shading and detail work added, and also, need some advice on what direction to go with the red.









Then, left or right for the red tone and weathering, if I went left, I would tidy it up so ignore the brush marks and sloppyness as I was testing colour combos and blending as much as anything, I am learning towards the right with a much bolder and darker red and more extreme weathering (process to be refined also) but I also want advice... So tell me what you think?

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First squad is now done, and the paint(s) and process can now be refined to start churning out more!

Room for improvement, such as the blending on a shoulder pad here and there for example but I am happy and they have the battle damaged aesthetic I want.

Please comment and critique, honesty is very welcome!











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Working on Some Krieg, I have 60 more still to paint, happy with the scheme I've devised here. Including a resin and plastic kit bashed commander, and some tweaking of the kit to have specialists in different poses than the standard. I plan to convert all the squads to have a medic, comms, spotter, sniper (will count as a lasgun in game) and demo expert/engineer to show off the more competent and highly trainer/ready for anything Krieg and I want plenty of different poses whilst doing it. This will probably be the only flamer squad, and I built it because I love the model so much, but game wise... Be mainly plasma and melta.

Group Shot


Commander




Sniper and Flamer


Demo/Engineer and Spotter (Not a combat engineer)



Medic and Spotter


Troopers



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Built a trench for the Krieg lads to feel at home in.

Quite happy with it considering I have built and painted it on the fly, maybe a whole table will be on the cards at some point...


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Been making some terrain recently and picked up a really rough chimera off eBay that I always intended to mainly do a terrain bit with...

So, removed all the weapons, and the tracks and it is now just a shell. I then picked up an O Gauge train wagon bed, removed the wheels and mounted the chimera onto that, to act as stantions that someone may put a car they're restoring on for example. Paint job wise, I just went pure rust, as if this has been sitting in the elements for centuries.








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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine






Ooo... that is a very good looking wreck...
How did you do the rust?

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 Guardling wrote:
Ooo... that is a very good looking wreck...
How did you do the rust?


High risk, but high reward strategy.

I built up the layers of colours of rust in full coats, with some layers of washes laced in between. So brown metallic, working all the way up to orange.

Then varnished it (twice) for some added protection and to slow down the next part, as I dipped a cloth in mineral spirit, gave it a complete wipe all over, then kept dipping a toothbrush in the mineral spirits and scrubbing away at it, concentrating more in certain areas. Finally, used a combination of a tooth pick and knife to scrape away specific layers of paint in certain parts like the edges after the mineral spirits made it easy to lift off the paint almost coat by coat.

I wouldn't do this on new models, it was just a scrap chimera I picked up super cheap from eBay.

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Ultramarine Land Raider Pilot on Cruise Control





Macragge

Looks pretty cool. A great way to recycle the unloved models of ebay.

   
 
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