Ravenwing taking shape..

So far so good... I've managed to get two bikes fully painted, the other 4 are base coated.. and will likely be finished off soon.. I've also got two landspeeders set aside for a support squadron and I'll likely put them together as typhoons..

Between that and Sammael it's all starting to take shape.. I've had my lesson in extreme highlighting and to be honest.. I'll probably not bother.. but then again I may.. I just need to see how much more time it will add..

Whirlwind complete..

Finally... it's done.. whirlwind #2 is complete.. and the immortals are also polished off.. so I have space on my tray.. which I've filled with the 6 ravenwing biker units.. They are all base coated.. and they are looking quite neat.. these are basically just adding 2-3 colours and they are done.. I'm hoping to finish a test model tonight and then can get on to the rest later..

I also have the deceiver and 1 landspeeder to paint.. but I think for the moment I'll be concentrating on the ravenwing.. that includes putting together Sammael..

New photos..

are up! Thanks Andy!

Toughing it out..

Finally managed to make a little more progress on the whirlwind that is sat on my tray.. I've essentially got the tank done.. just needs the searchlight, headlights and the icons painted.. then I just need to sort out the missile launcher on the top and then it'll be done.. that'll just be a couple coats of red and all the metallics on the launcher tubes themselves.. that'd then leave the speeder, the deceiver and 5 immortals.. assuming I get time this evening I can knock the immortals on the head as they are quite simple and quick to do..

Next question is, what to pull out of the case to paint next? I'm thinking the veteran assault squad, but I'm also a little wary of it as it'll require painting yellow which I'm not happy with.. I could do a tactical squad as I need the footsloggers so that's a good candidate.. I also have Ravenwing waiting but those should be relatively quick to paint.. seeing as they are mostly black..

Further progress..

Attack bike is now done! Finally.. it's been sat in pieces on my painting tray for ages.. so just the whirlwind, landspeeder, 5 immortals and deceiver remain.. I've also put together 6 Ravenwing bikers and finished one of my 2 partial veteran assault squads.. just need to shuffle cases around so the case of constructed and unpainted figures is downstairs..

Ravenwing

Hmmm.. after consultation with the community on Bolter & Chainsword an alternative load out for the project (which makes a lot of sense) has been recommended.. I naturally have over-thought the whole thing and have asked several questions re: weapons load out and the like.. I'm thinking that building the models out might need to hold off for a little..

Dreadnaught complete

Hurrah! Finally managed to get the last dreadnaught sorted out.. just need to finish off the base.. didn't make too much progress on the whirlwind.. but did manage to undercoat the attack bike..

The Ravenwing project is calling me.. I think I shall put together a couple of the models tonight and see how I get on with them..

More Blood Angels work..

Another few coats of paint on the dreadnaught and on the whirlwind.. might just be able to get them both done tonight.. just depends on how much time I have and all that.. that'd just leave the 5 immortals and the attack bike.. I hope to get the attack bike undercoated at the very least..

Look for an upcoming project.. Dark Angels 2nd Company : Ravenwing

List as follows.. even at £40 a box for the Attack Squadrons this is going to be a long term project.. especially since the landspeeders are circa £18 a piece and I'm going to need 10 of them for the Support Squadrons.. but hey.. this is what projects are for.. it also gives me something other than red to paint.. and I'll be experimenting with highlighting on these.. so we'll see how that goes..

Attack Bike Ravenwing Attack Squadron 1
Bike Squadron Ravenwing Attack Squadron 1
Landspeeder Ravenwing Attack Squadron 1
Attack Bike Ravenwing Attack Squadron 2
Bike Squadron Ravenwing Attack Squadron 2
Landspeeder Ravenwing Attack Squadron 2
Attack Bike Ravenwing Attack Squadron 3
Bike Squadron Ravenwing Attack Squadron 3
Landspeeder Ravenwing Attack Squadron 3
Attack Bike Ravenwing Attack Squadron 4
Bike Squadron Ravenwing Attack Squadron 4
Landspeeder Ravenwing Attack Squadron 4
Attack Bike Ravenwing Attack Squadron 5
Bike Squadron Ravenwing Attack Squadron 5
Landspeeder Ravenwing Attack Squadron 5
Attack Bike Ravenwing Attack Squadron 6
Bike Squadron Ravenwing Attack Squadron 6
Landspeeder Ravenwing Attack Squadron 6
Attack Bike Ravenwing Attack Squadron 7
Bike Squadron Ravenwing Attack Squadron 7
Landspeeder Ravenwing Attack Squadron 7
Attack Bike Ravenwing Attack Squadron 8
Bike Squadron Ravenwing Attack Squadron 8
Landspeeder Ravenwing Attack Squadron 8
5 x Landspeeder Ravenwing Support Squadron 1
5 x Landspeeder Ravenwing Support Squadron 2
Sammael, Master of the Ravenwing Sammael

Monolith rising..

Finished.. hurrah! Only 5 more immortals.. but have a 3500 point apocalypse session at the weekend.. so not sure if I should chop and change back to Blood Angels again.. seeing as I have a few things of theirs still to do..

Painting Tray : Deceiver, 5 x Immortals, 1 x Whirlwind, 1 x Dreadnaught, 1 x Attack Bike

Necron Lord complete..

Finally managed to finish off the other Necron Lord I have.. only the monolith and 5 more immortals to go.. and the monolith will require a tin of black spray paint before I go any further with it.. just because I can't quite get into all the nooks and crannies..

More photos..

after last night's battle I'm hoping to have some more photos of my blood angels including an overall army picture.. as it currently stands before I start painting more of it of course..

And a photo of my necron army.. woo!

Tuesday night battle..

585 points.. Necrons vs Marines

A lot of shooting resulted in 1 immobilised Dreadnaught and a killed squad of terminators.. Woo!

Warscythes are interesting for combat.. especially since you loose the shooting attack.. but the plus side is the total inability to save against the wounds.. 4 attacks on the charge.. bonus!

Nightbringer

Just finished the nightbringer and I'm actually happy with it.. it's layered.. and although I'll likely end up stripping the model at a later date to re-paint it.. I like it..

2000 points ish vs Smurfs & Sisters of Battle

Right.. found a little gaming venue that's dirt cheap and close enough to work so I'm not taking the piss with my transport requirements..

I fielded 2100 ish points of Necrons:

1 Nightbringer
1 Destroyer Lord w/ Res Orb, Phase Shifter

3 Wraiths
8 Flayed Ones
10 Immortals

3 Destroyers
1 Heavy Destroyer

20 Necron Warriors
20 Necron Warriors

JonJon had roughly 1000 points of Smurfs and Tim brought about the same for Sisters of Battle. Tim joined late and brough his forces in from reserves except for the ones that chose to deepstrike.

Highlights:
Wraith unit assaulting into a squad of Sisters and wiping them out completely.

Lowlights:
Flayed Ones coming in from deepstrike on turn 3 and scattering into a squad of marines, I roll a 1 on the deepstrike mishap table and there goes the unit of flayed ones..

Ultimate Lowlight: Gemma's Mum's house was broken into so we called the game early, Tim packed up all the stuff whilst Jon & I hauled backside to the house..

Immediate thoughts on my army.. More Destroyers are needed.. 1 unit of 3 are way too fragile. More Heavy Destroyers are needed.. the Nightbringer is a beast in combat, but my dice rolling is well iffy.. I might be better off fielding a second lord either on a Destroyer body or on foot and some Monoliths to work against armour.. also, the Nightbringer's Etheric Tempest ability is very badly worded and took a good 10 minutes of re-reading to get it to work right..

1 unit of Immortals complete

and only 5 others left.. and I've got a deceiver and a nightbringer to sort out.. I know how I want them to look.. now it's just making my hands make it happen..

Gaming tomorrow with JonJon after work.. apparently he's not played Necrons before.. so it'll be interesting to see how he copes with it..

Painting Tray : 1 x Deceiver, 1 x Nightbringer, 1 x Dreadnaught, 5 x Immortals, 1 x Attack Bike, 1 x Whirlwind

C'tan..

cometh.. I have one deceiver and one nightbringer all base coated and ready for some paint.. I'm thinking of starting with the deceiver as it's all metallic.. then having a go at shading for the nightbringer.. it'll be fun..

No further progress

Strangely.. no painting got done last night.. as I ran out of black paint.. d'oh!

5 down.. 10 to go..

5 Immortals completed and based.. and the wraith is complete as well.. 5 more Immortals to be completed and 5 more need basing.. then the Lord..

Why am I thinking that a monolith would be a good addition.. sigh..

Painting Tray : 10 Immortals, 1 Lord, 1 Whirlwind, 1 Dreadnaught, 1 Attack Bike, 1 Landspeeder

2 done..

Finished one more Immortal last night.. and finished the base coating on a few more.. so 5 left to base coat... I think I should be able to have these completed by the weekend..

Painting Tray : 1 Necron Lord, 1 Necron Wraith, 13 Necron Immortals, 1 Whirlwind, 1 Attack Bike, 1 Dreadnaught, 1 Landspeeder

99 Immortals on the wall, 99 Immortals on the wall....

1 down.. almost.. just need to snow flock the base and it's done.. 14 left and the wraith.. and the lord.. and I'd like to get it done for the weekend.. fingers crossed.. took me ages to just undercoat 5 models last night.. will see how it goes.. don't know why, but for some reason the paint is a little on the thin side and won't adhere properly to the metal.. maybe they just need a wash with some warm soapy water to remove any mould freeing residue..

Painting Tray : 14 Immortals, 1 Wraith, 1 Lord, 1 Whirlwind, 1 Landspeeder, 1 Attack Bike..

Immortals, Lords and Wraiths

So.. a pleasant Saturday of modelling has now got 15 immortals, 1 lord and 1 surprise present wraith ready for painting.. I'm thinking that will happen tonight.. just need to dig out a couple of the older ones so that I match up the paint scheme.. it's been a little while since I've painted them..

Necron Immortals..

argh.. ok.. I like to paint necrons as they give you a good sense of accomplishment.. you get a lot done quickly.. but.. these immortals take me approximately 30 minutes to clean up and put together .. each.. so 15 immortals at 30 minutes a piece.. yeah.. you do the math.. oh well..

Whirlwind.. but no box..

D'oh! In dropping off a load of boxes to Games Workshop I forgot to leave one behind for my newly finished Whirlwind.. whoops! Oh well.. I'll pick up a few more in the office.. now.. what else to paint.. I'm suffering from boredom of painting marines.. and lacking space to put anything else on the painting tray.. argh.. oh well.. will just have to push on with the blood angels to clear a little more space.. I think finishing off the second whirlwind will clear some space.. so two-three coats of red needed.. then metallics and the usual gubbins..

Oh.. almost finished the teleport homer.. so some progress is made.. I think a squad of necron immortals will be next up.. as they are simple and I enjoy the models they will make a nice change..

Whirlwind..

is nearing completion.. just need to paint the missiles and then sort out what's happening with the missile rack on the side.. can't remember if I was going to green stuff it or what.. so remaining to paint on the whirlwind are the yellow sections for the searchlights and headlamps.. then the double eagle.. then the scroll work and the windows and such that need green.. then it's complete..

So remaining on the painting tray : 1 x Whirlwind, 1 x Dreadnaught, 1 x Attack Bike, 1 x Teleport Homer, 1 x Landspeeder, 5 x Eldar Warp Spiders... argh... need to cut down on new purchases.. or cut down on the new purchases making it on to the tray so quickly..

Spray gun..

Finally the Citadel Air Brush/Spray Gun has been released.. and naturally I bought it.. good news.. the two coats of foundation paint on my whirlwinds went on really well and I've got a really really smooth base coat.. bad news.. I think a tin of propellant will only work for about 2 coats on 2 tanks.. then I developed some kind of air bubble in the tubing that meant I was getting no paint and all air..

Ah well.. I shall experiment with it a little more..

I've managed to get two coats of red and a lot of the undercoating for the metallics on one whirlwind done.. we'll see how it comes out.. I figure I should be able to get that completed in one evening..

To change things up just a touch, I've bought a pack of Eldar Warp Spiders.. because I like the models.. a lot.. just need to try and paint them up to do them justice.. and need to figure out how to do the base in something different from all my existing ones.. maybe something involving some cut up wood.. and if those bore me I have 11 Necron Immortals that need trimming and then painting.. those can probably all be done in one evening as my painting Necrons involves nothing but 4 colours.. a black undercoat, boltgun metal, shining gold and scorpion green.. it's why I have the shiny-est Necrons around.. heh..

Correction

Drop pod #1 is now finished.. :) found some areas where the outside shell red had leaked on to the yellow hazard stripes..

I've also found a little time to go through my Necron models.. if everything were together and painted I'd have approximately 1800 points worth.. not bad.. but not enough.. I may make a quick change up and switch back to Necrons for a little while.. just to make a change of course.. :)

and once again the Eldar Warp Spider models are calling me... sigh..

Progress..

I can honestly say that I'm on a roll.. I haven't been this productive with models and painting in a long time...

Drop Pod #1 is complete.. stripped, metallics done, another coat of red and some interior detailing.. (reminder to self.. paint the damn stormbolter inside the pod before you assemble it)..

Painting Tray : 1 x Whirlwind, 1 x Attack Bike, 1 x Teleport Homer, 1 x Dreadnaught

Drop-podding..

With the aid of some masking tape.. the hazard stripes on the drop pod are almost done.. just needs one highlight coat of bright yellow and then they are done.. three coats of red on the panels are done.. so then it's touch ups and the metallics.. then the drop pod is done.. I'm figuring a few more hours worth of work tops.. should be accomplished soon.. :)

I've realised since winter is setting in that most of the heating in my room seems to escape up my curtains and out the window.. so I usually push the curtains up on to the windowsill and the room stays warm.. slight problem.. I have a whirlwind, a landspeeder, an attack bike and a teleport homer on the windowsill.. they have now been moved and will be the first items to see the painting tray as space clears.. starting with the teleport homer (which will be used as a random objective marker.. since Blood Angels can't have teleport homers..) and the attack bike..

Painting tray : 1 drop pod, 1 whirlwind, 1 dreadnaught, 1 teleport homer and 1 attack bike.. oh dear..

Devastators done..

Hurrah! Devastator squad is done.. wasn't too tough to finish them off.. am now debating a 5 man squad of devastators with plasma cannons.. although saying that I also need to buy a box of assault squad troopers to finish off my veteran assault squad.. and more troop choices are needed.. just realised.. out of the 4300 points of painted Blood Angels I only have 4 troop choices, 2 tactical squads, 1 5 man assault squad, 1 10 man assault squad.. more troops would be a good idea.. at least 1 or 2 more ten man squads outfitted with power fists..

Of course the whole thing relies on me having Rhinos as well.. so I'm going to have to get some more transports..

Finally put two coats of red on the drop pod.. I think the hazard stripes aren't going to be too hard to do.. might just need a little more time.. the vermin brown to yellow transition works better and smoother and with less coats.. so that's a total result!

Painting table : 1 x Drop Pod, 1 x Whirlwind, 1 x Dreadnaught

Will need to make a move on the Whirlwind as I have the other one upstairs already painted and another landspeeder, both are on my windowsill and I'm going to need to move them so my room isn't so cold in the morning.. once I've done the drop pod or the dreadnaught I'll move them to the painting table..

Devastators taking shape..

Devastator squad is looking good.. or at least so far.. just need to finish off anything that needs to be yellow.. the eye lenses and the sergeants helmet.. another coat of blue on the helmets wouldn't go amiss.. then it's just bases and they are done.. hurrah..

Somehow I'm lacking the desire to finish off the drop pod.. it's mostly based up.. just need to paint it red.. I'm probably thinking of the the hazard stripes and how much effort they are going to take..

Scouts done..

Finished up the last 5 man sniper scout unit, 4 sniper rifles and 1 missile launcher in this unit.. also finished 1 of the 2 dreadnaughts I had out on the painting tray.

Added to painting tray : 5 man devastator squad - 2 heavy bolters, 2 missile launchers, 1 sergeant

Left to paint : 1 Whirlwind, 1 Drop Pod, 1 Dreadnaught

Overall fully painted Blood Angels : 4155 points..

I need to paint up more troop choices and purchase a few more boxes of assault squads..

Dreadnaught nearing completion

I started on scouts and somehow moved to almost completing a dreadnaught.. and the scouts are still relatively early stages.. I shall push on and complete the dreadnaught this evening.. base and arms remain to be finished..

Footslogging Death Company

Footslogging Death Company
Originally uploaded by bombers_71

So.. just your basic footsloggers.. but I'm enjoying painting the jump pack variants.. photos up at some point.. :)

Thanks Andy!

New photos are up and include vehicles.. thanks to the skills of Andy the paint jobs are being showcased much more effectively!

More tanks..

Hurrah! Thanks to Andy, better quality photos of the army should be appearing soon.. :)

Painting table contents : 1 x Whirlwind, 1 x Drop Pod, 1 x Missile Launcher Scout, 2 x Dreadnaught, 4 x Sniper Scouts..

Success!

Hurrah! Thank you oh goddess of Flickr/Blogging wisdom.. look left... schweet! :) thank you!

Flickr

Ok.. I've posted up some photos I've taken of my finished models on flickr over here :http://www.flickr.com/photos/14903982@N05/

And I even tried to get the slideshow thing to work, but to no avail.. I shall play with this later..

Decals

Stayed up until 5 am putting decals on the rest of the army.. and as a result I have a lot of very shiny shoulder pads.. I will need some advice on whether to leave them shiny and as such generate a "style" of army where all the shoulder pads are shiny or do I buy some matt varnish and swab over it and hope it doesn't screw up the rest of the paint job..

Drop Pods

Right.. new plastic drop pod models are out.. along with the new Landraider box.. and I've scooped up three.. the first is constructed and part base coated.. and they weren't kidding when they said in the shop that it's a little fiddly to put together.. I've got it cracked.. and if you want a tip.. don't glue in the centre console pillar thingy in the middle until you've got the harness pieces in place.. it's just awkward otherwise..

So.. 3 drop pods.. 1 will be for dreadnaught delivery and will be converted, 1 will be for terminator usage and the last will be a regular one to deliver troops..

Work in progress photos will be put up.. once I can get the sync cable issues sorted out on my camera phone.. army photos will also be put up as well.. once I get them taken and flickr'd or whatever to get them on to the interweb..

On painting board to paint : 4 x sniper scouts, 1 x missile launcher scout, 2 x dreadnaughts, 1 x drop pod

Assault on Black Reach marines left to convert : 10 tactical marines (woo!)