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Beautiful Blood Angels!! Any way you could tell me your technique for the wing and skull pieces for the Death Company (And the rest of the army)? That portion looks beautiful and I have always struggled with it.

Thanks! To paint the wings I used a basecoat of the fang, a wash of nuln oil then repaint each feather with the fang again leaving the wash in the reccesses. Then I mix in russ grey and apply this nearer the tip, build up to neat russ grey then add white towards the tip.

The same technique is used on the skulls, only using balor brown, agrax earthshade and bleached bone.

Who knew it could be that simple. Thanks!

Still chugging along with my blood angels. Just finished off a sniper rifle scout squad. A lot of fun to paint

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Well I've got enough painted BA's now to fill a whole shelf

I wish I could paint this neat. Excellent stuff!

Brilliant. Good motivation to keep me going with mine

Wow, great job really liking the command squad great example of kit bashing being done just right.

Thanks guys! Im glad my work is inspiring others. Now its time to paint a few tanks!

Just looking at your stuff makes me want to pick up my brush and sling some paint. Great work. Cant wait to see more

Floyd,

Where did you get the little clear plastic shelves?

Those clear plastic shelves look like standard retail display risers - imagine some ceramic mugs or something on them in a gift shop, you know?

Usually you can buy them piecemeal from companies which specialise in display items - a quick google led me to this company and their page of acrylic risers:

http://www.collectingwarehouse.com/Product-Home-Page/Acrylic-Risers/

Edit: Also, these Blood Angels look great and take me right back to when I was first encountering the hobby in the early Nineties.

Scouts out!! Man they look great too! How about some Terminators, and a lovely Landraider?

Never mind about the Terminators... See them now. Then lets see, I'll bet you'll like the new Tactical Squad kits!! How about doing up a Baal Predator?

Thanks everyone! Yeah the plastic shelves were just an ebay find, they are indeed retail stands. Came in a pack of 9 in various sizes

Kelly im actually working on a landraider right now haha, will post photos as soon as its done

Your painting is wonderful. I'm pretty new to the hobby and painting (I've done 1 tac squad, 1 dreadnought and almost finished 5 snipers) so I have a few questions if you have the time:
1. What brushes do you use? I noticed that you use spray after the primer and then touch up so I'm assuming it's not airbrushed beyond the spray can?
2. How did you do your white on the apothecary? The white I have been doing ends up chalky...

Thank you! And great stuff!

dancingdocdj wrote:
Your painting is wonderful. I'm pretty new to the hobby and painting (I've done 1 tac squad, 1 dreadnought and almost finished 5 snipers) so I have a few questions if you have the time:
1. What brushes do you use? I noticed that you use spray after the primer and then touch up so I'm assuming it's not airbrushed beyond the spray can?
2. How did you do your white on the apothecary? The white I have been doing ends up chalky...

Thank you! And great stuff!

Thanks for the kind words!

1) I use windsor and newton brushes mainly, a 0, 00 and 000 size. Ive never used an airbrush, I prime grey (spray), spray red, base coat, wash, basecoat tidy, highlight, varnish.

2) The white was a basecoat of skull white spray, then wash with a mix of nun oil and a tiny bit of "the fang". I then tidied everything with skull white with a brush then left it as you can't highlight white

hope that helps!

Me again! Got a land raider finished up this month! Nothing too fancy, just the bog standard kit with a few added bits of bling Hope you like!

Great stuff ... You really excel with the black colored marines, but the red is very good as well.

Very crisp! I like them a lot!

Love the very subtle paint chips on the LR!

Got a Karlaen of my very own now Finished him up last night in a marathon paint session. Enjoy...

That's excellent, Floyd. I hope mine comes out that good when I finally get around to him

Thanks! Good luck with yours, he's a lot of fun to paint.

Nice work! I am also painting him for someone else as a birthday present and the first thing i mentioned was the missing calice over his head!

Let me bet: you destroyed it when you tried to cut it from the sprue?

When I tried to get it out one of the connections broke but i was able to fix it.

And youre right, its fun to paint him.

Super slick painting. You going to play any games with them?

Thanks guys! I think these are going to be a strictly display case army, I'm scared to death to handle them. But I will be working on a rapters chapter army soon for gaming with.

Masterofgrunts I didn't break the halo accidentally, i just really wasn't a fan of the design and much preferred just the arch

Another army update! Got a chaplain painted up to lead my Death company

I'm loving the nice paint job on all the models! Whats next on your list? got to have a Bhaal pred soon ^^

Thanks! Next up is another 5 assault marines with jump packs, a razorback and an imperial knight

Awesome looking BA here! Eagerly awaiting the forthcoming Knight!