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Nice work Paradigm, I like the gold armour of the Sanguinary Guard. Plus your Chaplain has no need for anyone to drive him closer to anything in order to smite it with his Big Stick O' Doom! Suitably grimdark and hitty.

What paint are you using on your Sanguinary Guard? Is it a vallejo brass? I like it.

Cheers guys!

The Chaplain is on foot, I just trimmed down his backpack vents for reasons I'm sure my 3-years-ago self understood, but I'm dammed if I remember now! As and when I acquire a spare backpack or JP I might replace it.

The Crozius is one of the tops of the BA Chapter Banner, attached to the haft of a GK or DA weapon, I think.

The gold is a 1:1 mix of GW Chainmail and Vallejo Dark Earth, then given a heavy wash of Agrax Earthshade. Simple, but effective, which is all I really go for in painting!

Fancy! Banner especially!

Blood Angels are great. I think I really like the red you have. Not too flashy, not dirty, just kinda dark. Im almost regreting my Space Wolf army I have started. Maybe should have waited on new Blood Angels. But I guess they arent going anywhere right?

Update!

Quite a bizarre bazaar of pics today. First off, some more Blood Angels (hope you're not bored of red! )


Because Tacticals with Heavy Flamers are awesome, I jumped the gun somewhat and built this guy from spares.

More Assault Marines


A Sanguinary Priest (need to get some better shots of this guy)


And a Death Co Marine. First attempt at a new method of painting black, and it's come out quite nicely I think:




That's all for 40k, now for some Malifaux stuff I've been neatening up recently, namely the The Lady Justice crew.

The Judge: this guy has two forms of attack- he either shoots you then stabs you or stabs you then shoots you, and can do both at once thanks to the fact his sword and gun are the same thing!



Three Death Marshals, because Flaming Skeletons in Cowboy Hats are just epic, frankly (although the poses make them fiendish to photograph, so forgive the shadows):



The Scales of Justice, because death is too good to for some sinnerssinners (I can see the 40k Inquisition using this mini if he weren't so tall)


And Lady J herself, Undead Hunter, Blind Samurai and has a penchant for severing heads. And yes, that sword was a separate component, and yes, it has come off at least twice!




And a shot of the lot. These really are amazing sculpts if you're into the Steampunk aesthetic, thoroughly recommended.


And that's your lot for today! Any thoughts welcome, and I'll be back soon with more Merry Malifaux and Bloody Blood Angels!

Nice Angels man. Can never get tired of red

Good time to be collecting BA as well.

Ur gritty style really suits the malifaux stuff as well. Love the Scales. How are the minis? I've been eyeing them a while heh.

Digging your stuff dude!

Thanks guys!

@ckig: the Malifaux minis really are stellar. Imagine the quality of Infinity but in plastic (so the poses can be much more dynamic without falling over) and you're in the right lines. They can be VERY fiddly to assemble, but as far as painting goes they're a dream to work with. The game itself is great too!

Good work as usual I'm really liking the BA tacticals and foot-assault-marines.

That may be one of my favorite Malifaux crews, though I'm still not sure I could buy/paint one for myself.

Loving these Malifaux minis- and the Tac Marine with the Heavy Flamer

Ohh yeah I forgot to comment. Heavy flamers look awesome on space marines

Honestly, I think HF on Tacticals might just be the high point of the new book (tied with old school Furious Charge and Dante being a legend!). Not only do they look amazing, but they are very cool in game and should terrify my Necron and Tau opponent with that AP4!

Yeah I really like flamers, and heavies are even better. Almost enough to use the TLHF dreadnought option

Great work Para
Keep those updates comming
Grtz
Mark

Even more stuff!

Firstly, the remaining 4 Death Company. I've really warmed to the idea of using blues as glazes/highlights on black, it's far more forgiving than using grey, I find.





And the last Sanguinary Guard:


Some group shots of each with relevant characters:





And lastly a Captain, built to be used as one with various Relics (AP2 Power Sword, Relic Plasma, relic JP) for when I want something a little more effective them Aphael's cool-but-not-so-useful Fist and Bolter setup.



And lastly, thoughts on is to come. Barring a Land Raider which will be waiting until I get good with an airbrush, this army is nearly done. I have a pair of Tactical kits on order (one new, one old) to build the remaining Tactical and Assault squad that I need, and then they brings me to a good 2k+ points and plenty of variety, which is enough, I think.

So after that will be the conclusion of my Mordor army (mid way through organising a deal on the last bits I need for that) and then I'm not sure what will come in the new year. I may retouch and complete the Ultramarine Battle Company I'm was building slowly towards, and I'm also thinking I want a small Raven Guard force now I've found a good black method, but it's more likely it'll be something non-GW? I'm hoping to pick up DZ Contagion and Malifaux Lucius Crew over Christmas, so that will give me something else to work on, and I also want to start airbrushing more in new year. I have a good brush I never learned to use beyond basecoating, so I intend to do more with that.

Anyway, enough rambling! Thanks for looking, and as ever, any comments are welcome!

I quite like that Iron Halo on your captain, What's that from?

Also, if I may offer a bit of advice on eye lenses- try using Ulthuan Grey or Ceramite White followed by a dab of Bloodletter glaze in the corner. Makes the eyes really pop.

Honestly, no idea! I built him years ago, but at a guess and going on what I owned at the time, I'm thinking it was off the Venerable Dreadnought.

Oh yeah I see it now. Also see my previous post for eye lenses tip

Nice Blood Angels mate! The captain looks spiffy!

Para: Also I see what you're saying with the blues for the highlighting. I've been doing some of that on my Dark Eldar Talos' carapace and it really makes it pop more than using the grey highlights does.

Liking those death company. Might have to try blue on black myself.

Good to hear about the malifaux stuff. Though, I foresee a lot of glued fingers ><. Damn stubby fingers.

Cheers all!

Since it's been mentioned, here's the tutorial I followed for the black:

Simple and easy to follow.

@ckig: oh yes, if you don't glue yourself at least once to each Malifaux model then your either doing it wrong or some kind of assembling god! The sets I've done (Lady J and Sonnia) haven't had anything too bad, but this little blighter:

Has something like 32 pieces! I think I'll be staying away from that one...

Man those death company look straight up fantastic. Marvelous. And the SG are great too

Gonna have to look into your blue/black video, thanks for sharing

Oh hey, that pose for pic #3 looks familiar

Hah, you're right! Editions go by, metals become glorious plastics, and Death Company still look angrily awesome!

In other news, some Raven Guard may have sort of happened... Pics tomorrow.

Also Para- when did DC have double edged chainswords? Older model?

I nicked those Chainswords from Space Wolf spares, as the metal DC set I bought second hand had 5 of the same arms, so I swapped them out for more variety. The double edge really fits the brutality of the DC, I feel.

I suppose DC aren't really about finesse in the long run.

That's actually why I prefer these much less blingy older minis for DC. The plastic set makes great HQs and Command Squads, but I don't so much like the idea that these guys get ornate armour just to go an die. My understanding of the fluff is they just dump a bucket of black paint over whatever they're wearing anyway, daub some red crosses on and get to work.