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Look at you playing Dark Angels before they were cool! Do you ride fixie bike and play synth?

The chibihawk is looking good, the blue windows look great, as do the lenses.

FairPlay on painting all of that black, but a whole Ravenwing Army would look amazingly cool. Good luck getting them all done up

 gobert wrote:
Look at you playing Dark Angels before they were cool! Do you ride fixie bike and play synth?

The chibihawk is looking good, the blue windows look great, as do the lenses.

FairPlay on painting all of that black, but a whole Ravenwing Army would look amazingly cool. Good luck getting them all done up

Lol - Im twirling my Victorian style facial hair as we speak! I've got a phobos Captain on my desk thats getting done first (I actually already did the LT with this last batch and forgot to post it), after him going big for the speediebois in black!

Plasmalicious is a term that needs wider use.

Stormraven looks cool. And we will always remember that you were DA original.

Hi all - My codex and cards are in the post and I'm eagerly awaiting them. In the interim, some things have been painted and I've built 2x Dark Talon/Nephilims.

Firstly, got a Dark Shroud done. Obviously magnetized for guns and to be a Vengeance if it wants to be.





Overall, pretty happy with how the statue/stained glass look came out. Looks distinct without being distracting imo.

Some Knights done. These look super good in the new book, so hopefully can get them on a table at some point







And some phobos bros. I got a complement from my camera, which recognized the captains face as an actual face!






Saving my favorite til last - Obviously I have a love for Chaplains and I wanted a jump one. I was going through all my models and realized I had loads of stuff left over from an early Flesh Tearer project, including an Astorath. I hacked his jump back off and paired it with the Reclusiam Command Squad Chappy and I think it came out quite well. Astorath was glued together a bit too effectively, so I broke it pretty hard getting his pack off. This included snapping bits off the wings that went flying across the room somewhere so I had to GS some of the wings. Came together pretty well in the end. Although all the scrolls probably arent terrifically practical in combat, at least he looks suitably cool!

Wow. That's an awesome batch of minis. Really digging the statuary color. The Knights are rad. And the Chaplain is killer. "Up, up, and AWAY!"

Chappy and the Dark Shroud are looking great! Neat work on the GS wings, if you had t have said there’s no way it would be spotted!

Gday! Got a bunch more ravenwing & some extra bits done -

3rd bike squad - 6 members strong (+an attack bike that I seemingly forgot to take a photo of)




Got all the magnet options again -

Plasma/Melta/Nothing






Bashed a Champion together out of my last spare DV bike as well -




Did some non-RW stuff too - jumpy libbys seem good, so I made one from the 2nd DV libby -



and I gave up hope on new sculplts for the named characters and got an Azzy and Zeke:



Problem with Azzy though is that he just looks so tiny compared to the new big bois, so I got on the Primaris conversion train. Definitely looks a lot more like the guy who could be in charge of the rest of them now!



With all these extra guys, I got an extra detolf + more shelving and lights kits so here's the whole team in their full glory - Up to around 8,500 points now.




I'll paint the Asriel conversion next and then I think I'll convert some unpainted DW for claws and a squad for dakka (I had all the non pure Thunderhammer ones made up for 5th ed wound alloc shenanigans). After that some more greenwing to keep Asriel company - I got a couple of gladiator kits, so maybe those? At this point despite all the progress there's still far too much grey plastic lurking about!

More great progress Eeps, the double detolf looks awesome! I love the biker champion, the black, white and gold all work great together. Your Azrael looks suitably imposing and remains in character nice work!

Gday!

Not a super productive period, but I got some stuff done that I'm happy with:

Primazzy and chum got some paint on -


Did some grav devs


And I finally overcame my hatred of white to do this guy



Next up is a few more plasmaceptors and then ???? Probably got to do a tank or 2 really.

I also bought a few bits for a SoB army. I'm going to see if I can retain some semblance of discipline and try and paint them before i buy any more for that army and do it a box at a time - I give myself about a 10% chance of actually achieving this goal though.

Nice update on Azrael. I also gave the metal model the flick. It's just too small compared to current marines. I didn't go Primaris, just a bigger old marine. Painted pics in my P&M blog if anyone's interested..

 Zillian wrote:
Nice update on Azrael. I also gave the metal model the flick. It's just too small compared to current marines. I didn't go Primaris, just a bigger old marine. Painted pics in my P&M blog if anyone's interested..

Nice man - Yeah I just couldn't deal with how weedy he looked. They are green, so surely the biggest one should be in charge?

Gday!

Update time - Got a few varied things done these past few weeks - I even got a proper camera for my bday (thanks dear wife) so the pictures are a lot better. I'm taking these at night, so they are still a bit dark, but it looks a lot better. Once I get to grips with it a bit more + take some shots in daylight I think my photos should be a lot better from now on. Even this as a first go in a dark room look pretty decent to me!

1) A Dark Talon (Naturally magnetized to be a Jetfighter if its feeling that way inclined)




2) The Trio of Bladeguard Characters from Indomitus





3) Another Land Raider Crusader




4) Some LC Termis (including my favorite - The "Terminator" Terminator




I've got another FW Ven Dread that I've just primed today - Once thats painted Ill be at something like 9,990 points of total painted. After him, I'm not sure what I'll do to take myself over the magic 10k, but either way I'll be very proud of myself. I'll celebrate by attempting some glamour shots of the whole army together.

I think I'll give the loyalest bois a bit of a break for a bit - I've already bought the start of a sisters army (Cannoness, 2 x 5 sisters, 9 repentia + a superior) and I've promised myself I wont buy anything else until I've painted them. I've planned out a 1k list, so I'm going to paint towards that.

Great update eeps, the Indomitus guys look great in bone. My Indomitus chaps will be DAs, so I’ll be borrow ideas at some point. The Dark Talon looks really cool, the off white on the wings is fantastic. Good luck pushin past the 10k points, can’t wait for the whole Army shots

Here is Mr Dread!



You'll notice that the photo looks a bit more crowded than usual. Thats because I re-calced my points and this chap actually pushed me over the magic 10k mark.

Here's the whole gang together!



The Deathwing contingent:



The command staff:



The command staff we arent quite sure we trust yet:



The company heroes:



Knights:



First 2 squads of termis and their whip:



2nd 2 squads of termis and theirs:



The Ravenwing:



Sammy and the Talonmasters:



The rest of the command contingent (Boo to GW for making chappies/libbys legends!)



The black knights who say ni:



The bike chaps:



and the fire support:



Finally the greenwing:



Azzy and chums:



The (excessive?) command detachment:



The commanders of the sneakybois:



Their charges:




The intercessors:



some tinymarines and the motorpool:



The dakka:



and the air supports:




Was actually fun hauling this all out and setting up! The cheerleader effect definitely kicks in and makes it look amazing when its all together.

I still have about 5k worth thats not painted (+ I just pre-ordered some heavy ints ) but I think I might have a break from the loyalest of boys for a while as I've just picked up a few boxes of sisters and promised myself I wont build any more until I'm done with them

Congrats on 10K and an awesome army. Magnificent shots of sweet models!

So how many marines is that? Looks like at least a Company of Green Marines, plus a 1/3 company each of Ravenwing and Deathwing just from gut feeling and eyeballing.

Now that is a sight to behold! Really impressive Eeps! The latest addition looks suitably at home. One question though; how does the Army compare size wise to the Pile of Shame?

youwashock wrote:Congrats on 10K and an awesome army. Magnificent shots of sweet models!

Thanks brother - Really appreciate your support throughout the blog!

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:So how many marines is that? Looks like at least a Company of Green Marines, plus a 1/3 company each of Ravenwing and Deathwing just from gut feeling and eyeballing.

I think thats probably pretty close - Albeit its a very uneven company (all of the chiefs and not enough of the Indians!) - I've got all of it loaded into battlescribe. Do you know if there's a way to show the model count or anything? Otherwise Ill go stare at my Detolfs and start counting on my fingers.

gobert wrote:Now that is a sight to behold! Really impressive Eeps! The latest addition looks suitably at home. One question though; how does the Army compare size wise to the Pile of Shame?

Thanks brother! I think I'm comfortably beating the pile of shame at this point, but there's still a looooooad in it - I've got another Thunderhawk + Dark Talon, 3 more Rhinos/Razorbacks, 2 full tac squads, Devs (x4 of each weapon option other than the Gravs Ive done) + a Drop-pod, 2 x Gladiators magnetized up, 20 odd more termis, more blacknights and a speeder, 2 boxes of Heavy ints I just bought + sundry other random stuff from boxed sets and enough of a bits box to choke a bear. And that's ignoring the stuff I assembled/ half painted for a failed fleshtearers army thats still sat about and can be stripped and Dark Angeled if I need to. I think this blog has still got some legs in it still!

Love the army shots! I need to do some with my own painted stuff; I might wait until I get just a bit more done. You've done a really good job on the army overall! The Lion would be proud.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Love the army shots! I need to do some with my own painted stuff; I might wait until I get just a bit more done. You've done a really good job on the army overall! The Lion would be proud.

Thanks mate, really appreciate it! I was a bit of work to lug it all out, set up, photo and put away, but Im glad I did it. Im now boring non wargaming friends with these photos as if Im showing them my kid! Thoroughly encourage you to do the same.

I've done another rhino/razorback and Im halfway through the RW ancient. Will put some shots up when done. One day (when Im about 68 at this rate) I will finally have conquered the pile of shame.

Did you say Thunderhawk?!? I do hope so! I think you can change your sign now to say +10k

 gobert wrote:
Did you say Thunderhawk?!? I do hope so! I think you can change your sign now to say +10k

Lol - misspoke. I meant Stormraven. Can’t say I’m not tempted tho... maybe this years bonus might get itself invested!