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I got heartily sick of painting Orks, having painted about 120 in the last year, and decided I need a new project, and just in time, along comes the new 40K boxed set! However, deciding that painting straight up Space Marines wasn't hard enough, I decided to do split colour power armour as a bit of a challenge.

These have been painted up as Angels of Retribution, a Second Founding Dark Angels successor chapter. these are stunning models, just brilliantly sculpted and full of character. Hopefully you feel like my painting has done the sculpts some justice!

*EDIT* It's always horrible when you see the pictures at 4 times actual size, and you see little mistakes you've made that aren't really noticeable at life-size!

Looks great.

Very nice looking. How did you get such a clean skin tone for the sarge?

Looks good what are you using for the snow?

Looks good. I've always liked the half and half colored Marines. I also like how crisp these are.

 goblinzz wrote:
I got heartily sick of painting Orks, having painted about 120 in the last year

After a mere 120?

That isn't the Angels of Redemption symbol. This is where the problem with having the Dark Angels symbol as part of the sculpt comes in and it was why I was so skeptical that the Dark Vengeance tactical marines would be modeled to be Dark Angels. On the other hand, doing the skull and wings freehand might be tough. Good job on the halved scheme.

 Snrub wrote:
Very nice looking. How did you get such a clean skin tone for the sarge?

Honestly, it's just patience and lots of carefully applied thinned down coats of paint. I followed the Dark Vengeance painting guide for the iPad of what paints to use, but it literally comes down to the final skin tone, especially across the top of the head, being applied as two-three thinned coats, applied with a lot of patience.


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 razieltemplar wrote:
Looks good what are you using for the snow?

Some big tub of model snow from the local paint model train store. It looks quite similiar to the GW stuff, and is about half the price! For application, mix up a blob of it with about 50/50 PVA glue and water, until you get a reasonable paste, and then paint on. I found that this gave volume, rather than just looking like white flock had been painted on. The only trick then was to smooth the top of the snow slightly, just pat it gently with a brush to level the top off.


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 CuddlySquig wrote:

 goblinzz wrote:
I got heartily sick of painting Orks, having painted about 120 in the last year

After a mere 120?

That isn't the Angels of Redemption symbol. This is where the problem with having the Dark Angels symbol as part of the sculpt comes in and it was why I was so skeptical that the Dark Vengeance tactical marines would be modeled to be Dark Angels. On the other hand, doing the skull and wings freehand might be tough. Good job on the halved scheme.

Totally agree on the comments RE the boxed set, I think it is a bit dumb of them to make non-generic marines, but I still love the sculpts. As for the chapter symbol, yeah, it isn't the actual AoR winged skull, but I've decided to run with the AoR colour scheme, using the DA shoulder pads, painting the wings white, and the sword crimson (because I can't freehand!!!). If anyone asks, I've decided to just call them The Brethren of the Sword Chapter.

You've done exactly what I was going to do with mine, down to the basing scheme. Great work though, very nicely realised scheme.

Very nice Love the colours, bright, neat, and don't burn the eyes Keep it up

Well done. Two-tone schemes aren't easy to do.

Really good job.

I've finished off a dreadnought, as a bit of a test piece. This is a paint stripped LEAD model that i inherited from a friend as part of his massive dump of random old warhammer crap that he gave to me! It is FAR from perfect, but it gave me a chance to feel out how the colour scheme would go on a larger model, and give me a chance to practice painting it, before I move onto the venerable dread I got at Games Day. Photos as good as I could do given the light, its been raining a lot here recently, o natural light wasn't possible.

Thoughts:

I feel the painting on this is pretty meh, not really up to scratch

I like the addition of the shields and little figurine (all from a set of old warhammer knights, inherited from the same friend), as they do serve to make the model feel a little different.

There's something out with the base, it just doesn't feel...right to me.

lastly, painting lead is an absolute of a job. Really hard.

i think the sergeants face could use a clean up because the wash is a little too heavy imo. also the red on the weapons isnt highlighted.

other then that im loving the halved color scheme... the bone looks really nice and the shading is pretty good

Really nice work, however I do have some critique for the Dreadnought:

The mechanical parts of the legs and arm need painting silver. Having them the same colour as the armour looks odd.

That weird figurehead thing...I don't know if it's just the way you have painted it, but it looks...Odd.

That aside, great!