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Loving the work on that Vet. Those golds are so shiny, in a good way though.

Finally, time for an update. After an eventful 48 hours involving a hospital stay with my Wife, I'm finally back home and have her recuperating in bed earlier today. I caught a nap and am painting some tonight now that I've got some down time. Managed to finish off the left arm and left shoulder pad tonight. All that remains are the right arm, and right shoulder pad, and the Jump Pack. Once those bits are finished up, I'll have this squad finished and can move on to the next project: My Librarian.

All that said, here's the updated progress I've accomplished tonight:







Very happy with this figure as well, despite being somewhat 'basic' by comparison to the powerfist Veteran, Novitiate, and Company Champ, he and the other chainsword wielding Veteran both have character and I am enjoying their poses being defensive, blocking the incoming fire for their Captain (Or, Librarian) as they vault forward into the fray.

More to come soon. I'm going to try and get this right shoulder pad and arm started in earnest. The decal is already on the pad, just have to add paint to make it look painted on like I've done on the other two squad Veterans.

Thanks for looking, and take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-

Looks very decent, love the skull on the shield. More importantly though I hope the wife and yourself are okay.

Thank you for that, Adamski. The wife is fighting a combination of what the doctor's best guess is a kidney stone coupled with a nasty cold or the Flu. She's slowly on the mend, just have to get her through this weekend and see if she needs to go to a clinic for a follow up on Monday if she isn't showing improvement.

More to come soon, I'm off my primary job this weekend but working at my part time job Friday through Sunday. Hopefully will find a little time to paint. Fingers crossed, I'll have this Veteran finished up in short order and can muddle forward. After I finish up this squad, I'll begin work on the Librarian, as well as a small five man Scout Squad I'll be starting once it arrives.

Take it easy for now, and thanks once again for following along.

-Red__Thirst-

Hope your wife gets better. (and that you can find time to paint). I'm working on another squad of vets this weekend

 War Kitten wrote:
Hope your wife gets better. (and that you can find time to paint). I'm working on another squad of vets this weekend

Swanky! What are you running them with, armament wise?

I run my Chimera veterans in the following configuration:
1x Laspistol/Close Combat Weapon sergeant
6x Lasguns
1x Grenade Launcher or Flamer (depending on my mood really)
2x Plasma Guns or Grenade Launcher.
Squad Wide Krak Grenades as well as Grenadiers. (Fits the Vostroyans quite well)

If I'm dropping the squad out of a Valkyrie, I generally field them with the following:
1x Veteran w/ Plasma Pistol & Close Combat Weapon
6x lasguns
2x Flamers (or 1x Flamer, 1x Heavy Flamer)
1x Plasma Gun

These squads usually do very well for me. Just curious how you run yours.

More work on this last veteran will commence tonight once I'm home from my part time job. Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-

I prefer to run mine either with melta guns or plasma guns (proxy usually, as plasma and meltas are hard to come by, outside of buying the metal ones). If I'm feeling particulary daring I go with flamers, as it works wonders to discourage my BA friend from charging me. 3D3 automatic hits can do some work

Yea, that's why I run flamers when I do versus grenade launchers on the Chimera mounted squads. I also don't run triple plasma/melta as only two models can shoot out of the back hatch and I don't want to pay for an expensive gun that may not fire every turn because of the restrictions on the transport they are in. Also helps keep the squad anywhere from 5 to 10 points cheaper. Not a huge discount on the overall point cost, but if you do that for 3 to 4 squads, that adds up to 15 to 30 points I can put other places in the army.

That's how I look at it anyway.

Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-


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Alrighty!

Just about finished up with this Veteran. All that's left to paint is the jump pack, which I will try to wrap up tomorrow.

Here's the progress:











As with the second veteran, very happy with the way this model has turned out. Once I get the jump pack attached, I should be able to take a picture of all of the models together with some natural light, as well as some updated pictures of Aedus as well.

More to come soon. I'm off to bed here, have another shift at my part time job starting bright and early.

Catch y'all soon. Be good and take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

Yeah having 2 special weapons is the sweet spot for guard vets
Vet is also coming along nicely

Incoming picture carpet bombing!

I've finished up the last veteran! Finally. I set up a very poor light-box and snapped a few pictures. First, here's the last veteran, with his jump pack finally attached.







Thought there was going to be an issue with the right arm shoulder pad but I managed to make it work thank goodness.

Now, with that out of the way, here's the whole squad together.







And, with Captain Aedus Sendini himself.





Thanks for looking, and all the continued support here. I'll continue updating with the Librarian I'm about to begin work on next. Look forward to more updates soon. Till then, take it easy for now everyone.

-Red__Thirst-

Great squad!

The lighting makes it look a bit pink, though.

I agree with Zambro, the squad came out great, but the lighting does make them look a bit pink

I'll work on getting better pictures later. They aren't pink in person, rest assured.

It's still raining outside so no idea what the ETA will be on the updated photos, but I'll get some up at some point soon. At least the individual photos look ok.

More to come later. Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

Wow that group shot looks awesome, even more so when you add in Aedus. Will a Librarian be joining those to make it a Blood Angels Magnificent Seven?

I think so, Yes. I hope to have the Librarian finished up soon, and begin work on a small five man scout squad after that.

I can't lay down any base coats on the Librarian as yet since it's *still* raining outside and I don't want to risk the paint fuzzing on me. The only issue I'm having at present is what helmet to use for my Librarian. I don't know if I want to use the more knight-esque helm depicted previously, or if I want to go with a more traditional space marine helmet. I'll look around in my bits box and see what I can come up with I suppose.

Look for updates in short order. I'll be starting with the Helmet, and then moving on to legs and torso after that.

Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-

Boo rain though as a Brit I'm used to having my spraying opportunities limited in this country of miserable weather. We are infamous for even our summers being wet and miserable.

As for the helmet I do like the more knight-esque personally, though I like most Space Marine helmets other than beakies. Have you tried to see what maybe a deathmask would look like with your Librarian?

Yea I have, sadly the high crests on top of the helmets interfere with the psychic hood, so major surgery would be required to make a death mask work with the hooded torso I'll be using. Also, I don't want to give a model a death mask unless they have the wargear on them to avoid confusion. Aedus will be wearing the Crown Angelic if they're ever fielded together as my two HQ choices, so I think I'm going to go with a 'standard' marine helmet on this character.

He'll be the traditional blue shade, with a blood red shoulder pad on his left shoulder. I'll also be incorporating a lot of gold onto him, specifically on his shoulder pad rims and probably on the abdominal/torso and chest of his power armor, plus any decorative bits and bobs. I may try and do some limited OSL on the psychic hood, but haven't made up my mind yet on that end. My first forray into OSL went pretty well, but I don't know if I want to dabble again and make a mistake. We'll see what happens once I start getting paint on the model I suppose.

More to come soon. Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-

I would also like to see the more knight-esque helmet just for a change of pace from the helmets on most librarians.

I'll paint up the 'traditional' helmet first, as I'm already going to have him in faux-artificer armor any way (He can't wear true artificer armor, not an option sadly) but his armor will still be suitably blinged out as befits his status. That said, the more I look at the knight helmet the more I don't think it suits the character. I'll play around with dry fits over the course of this week and post up pictures for folks to see which option looks better.

Look for further updates soon. Take it easy for now folks.

-Red__Thirst-

Go with your gut dude, it always seems to work for Gibbs. If you don't think the knight helmet fits your view of the character then definitely go with a more traditional one. It is your model after all and you don't want to get a few months down the line and start thinking his head looks wrong and you wished you'd gone a different way.

 Adamski Alders wrote:
Go with your gut dude, it always seems to work for Gibbs. If you don't think the knight helmet fits your view of the character then definitely go with a more traditional one. It is your model after all and you don't want to get a few months down the line and start thinking his head looks wrong and you wished you'd gone a different way.

Agreed, I'm hoping this Librarian looks as good as my previous example, which was my Terminator Librarian for my small Deathwatch force (Pictures in my galley, if you're interested in seeing them).

This Librarian will be a bit more dynamic in his posing, much like the Death Company marine I painted up. I want him to be charging forward, possibly with his bolt pistol held up and forward as though putting rounds onto a target, his Force Staff held at the ready to commence beating a target into submission.

The only other thing I'm currently working on is if I do some OSL on the interior of the Psychic Hood and his eyes, what color do I use. I'm leaning toward purple, but may opt to try a Red energy effect. Not sure yet. Will play with it as I begin the painting process.

More to come soon. Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-

The Deathwatch Libby with the big axe? I remember checking out your Deathwatch recently and he was very noticeable.

 Adamski Alders wrote:
The Deathwatch Libby with the big axe? I remember checking out your Deathwatch recently and he was very noticeable.

Aye, that's the one.





I don't know if I'll be able to get the same effect on my Blood Angels Librarian but I'm going to try for the similar OSL effects on the interior of the psychic hood, the tops of the shoulder pads, and jump pack intakes, as well as the back of the helmet area too.

The only thing I've got to sort out is what colors to use for the glow effect. Purple is the current front runner, with green or red being the odds on second after that. We'll see what I can come up with once I get some painting under way. I've got to get the pieces painted before I even worry with OSL effects.

One step at a time. Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-

I think purple would look good as an OSL color the Librarian's psychic powers, adds that "otherworldly" vibe to it. Also, have you considered moving this to the P and M blog section? Just curious

I have, actually, but haven't asked as yet. Would probably be a smart move to get it shuffled over there for purpose. I'll see about contacting a Mod later this week and see about getting the shuffle to happen.

Going to prep for work now, hopefully will get a little painting done tomorrow and Thursday if I'm lucky. More to come soon.

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

Got the helmet finished up. I like to start here on my minis, it's a small part of the mini but I like to make sure the eyes are done correctly, and really take my time to get the detail where I want it.

I'm very happy with the blue I've achieved as well. I'm hoping to carry this over to the rest of the mini in short order.







Next up, the base, and legs. More updates to come. Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-

That is a very beautiful blue my friend, would you kindly let us know how you achieved it?

 Adamski Alders wrote:
That is a very beautiful blue my friend, would you kindly let us know how you achieved it?

It's actually a little more simple than I expected it would be.

It's a black base-coat, then two to three thinned layers of Macragge Blue. After that dried, I went in and did edge highlights with The Fang (Old Shadow Grey), and then used a combination of Drakenhof Nightshade in the recesses then a smaller line of Nuln Oil in the recesses once that dried.

After that I worked on the metallic paints and did the eye gems to complete the bit. I'm currently working on the legs now. I've gotten them about 65% finished, and I have also finished up the base at this point. Hopefully I'll be able to get the sub assembly started tonight once I finish up the legs. After that I'll knock out the torso.

Smooth progress, though I'm working this weekend so I won't have a ton of time to paint sadly. We'll see where I can get by the end of the week.

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

Stealing that Blue recipe. I might have to try it out on my Ultramarines, as it looks pretty dang good.

Update on progress. I'm about to begin work on the torso armor, legs are finished and attached to the base. I'll be dry-fitting the arms and what-not to the torso once it's finished to get the pose finalized then sub-assemble the torso and helmet to the legs and base. After that, I'll be down to arms, shoulder pads, and then jump pack. Progress is going faster than I expected it would, though I'm not as far along as I want. I want to have this mini finished up by next week if I can so I can begin work on another Death Company marine or two, or possibly begin work on the Tactical squad.

Here's the legs and base. Very happy with this base also I'll add.









More to come soon. Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-


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Final update for the night. Got the torso finished, and may I say this torso was an test of my patience. I'm still not 100% happy with it even now, but I've messed with it so much, any more and I feel like it'll start to look worse. Specifically, the right chest portion of the torso gave me absolute fits. Between the paint gumming up on me (not enough water mixed in, stupid mistake on my part) to the white paint being too thin later and causing it to run, I wound up having to carefully scrape the paint off the right chest twice and start over painting it. Thankfully I didn't ruin the bit, and for the quality I'm going for it shouldn't be noticeable I don't think, but was still terribly frustrating.

Still, all told, the results are looking promising. Here's the progress for the night.







The tiny Blood Angel logo on his center chest was also a straight up to get looking correct. I've still got a little work left to do on it to make it perfect but I'm setting it down for the night before I go cross eyed.

Thanks for looking, next up will be the arms, and shoulder pads, then I'll finish it out with the jump pack last.

Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-