Deathwing Squad 2, Finshed

Finally getting around to posting up pics of this squad. They have been finished for the better part of 2 weeks now, I just get distracted working on other stuff. Oh well...

With the completion of these 5 mini's, that brings me to 935 points of fully painted and table ready Deathwing.

Up next for this army will be finishing up the Chaplain. Unfortunately, the brush I use for doing the edge highlights on the army has pretty much died on me. With that being said, I need to find a replacement brush to continue work on the army, so who knows when that will be.

Deathwing Apothecary Finished

Finished up the Deathwing apothecary for the Command Squad last night. With the completion of this little fellow, the only remaining terminator to paint is the chaplain. Once that is finished, I've got a Land Raider Crusader and 2 Land Speeder Typhoons to paint up, and that will have me sitting pretty at 1500 points!

Deathwing Progress

I just realized, I still haven't posted up pics of the 2nd Deathwing Squad that I finished last week. My bad on that one. That post will come soon. Anyways, onto the meat and potatoes of this particular post. I received in the apothecary parts from the Grey Knights sprue that I ordered from The Warstore, and so work has begun earnestly on the last terminator from the Command Squad.

I've also began working on the 2nd HQ choice for the army, an Interrogator Chaplain. The Terminator Chaplain model has to be one of my all time favorite sculpts from Games Workshop, and I'm really excited to finally get around to painting him up.

I still need to do another layer of Badab Black over the current layer, to darken it up a bit, then I'm planning a Devlan Mud wash over the entire model, hoping that will bring the color of the model in line with the rest of the Deathwing force.

Deathwing Squad 2, built and primed

Squad 2 is well on its way to completion. Just need to pic out the non bone colored parts with Codex Grey, then wash them liberally with Devlan Mud. After that, its just highlighting and picking out the details. Simple as pie.



Deathwing Squad 2, All cleaned up

Began work on the second Deathwing squad tonight. I had to strip an earlier attempt at painting Deathwing, which was an all together way too long process and one that could only result in the army never getting painted. Which, as you can see by browsing my blog, is exactly what happened.

Now I just need to file down 4 more shoulder pads, and clean off the paint that the toothbrush couldn't get off, and they will be ready for primer and painting. This will also be my last squad for a while, as I don't have the required pieces left to make a full 3rd squad. I'm going to need to Ebay some more shoulder pads for that. 



Deathwing Command Squad, Finished

Finished up the Deathwing Command Squad tonight. This is the first of 3 squads planned for the army, along with another Land Raider and a terminator Chaplain. I'm still waiting for the apothecary bits to arrive, so thats why the squad is missing its 5th member. His body has been built, and is ready for the arms and head though, so it won't take long to get him finished and on the table.

I'm not terribly happy with the way the banner turned out. All I did was the broken sword over a bone background. While that is the symbol of the Deathwing, I will probably end up stripping the banner and starting over once the army is complete and I have more time to spend on a single model.

These guys will be rolling around with Belial and the Chaplain, once I get him painted that is. The next squad of Deathwing is already in the works. Tomorrow they should be done with their simple green bath, and after that, ready to be repainted in the current Deathwing scheme. 

Deathwing Command Squad, Part 3

The Command squad continues to inch closer to completion. The Sergeant on the left is actually completed, along with the banner bearer, minus the banner obviously. The main work left on the squad just comprises of the Thunderhammer and Storm Shield terminator, and the Apothecary when the bits get here.

Speaking of the Thunderhammer terminator, I swapped out the storm sheild for a Chaos Warrior shield from the fantasy kit. I really do love that kit, so many useful bits for Chaosifying my Dark Angels.

I'm also at a loss for what to put on the banner. I've looked at the Deathwing company banner, and there is no way I can paint that. So with that ruled out, I'm unsure of what I should paint on to it. I don't want to end up with just a plain green banner, so I want to add some sort of iconography on there. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Deathwing Command Squad, Part 2

Got some work done on the Command Squad. The Devlan Mud wash has been laid down on all the mini's and now they eagerly await the Bleached Bone highlights. After that, I'll highlight all the darker gray areas, fill in some Mechrite Red on the lenses, and that should about do it for these guys. 

The banner bearer will take the longest however. First off, I'm not sure what symbol or design I even want to put on it. Second, I'm using mostly washes to paint just about everything in this army, so it takes a long time inbetween coats. Still, I've got high hopes for the model and I am pretty excited about how it will all turn out.

As a side note, the Sergeant (far left) will be entered in a local painting competion! My first ever, so we will see how it all works out.

As a second side note, this is The Unforgiven's 50th post! All of you who follow my random ramblings, I appreciate it. Its nice to know somebody is listening.

Deathwing Command Squad, Built and Primed

I put these fellows together Saturday afternoon, while my wife was at work. There are only 3 at this point since one is already finished, and I'm going to order some of the Grey Knight Apothecary bitz from The Warstore so I can make an apothecary, obviously.



I'm really pleased with how the Standard Bearer turned out. Just a simple hand swap is all it took. The banner itself and the pole are from the Chaos Warrior box set. I use bitz from that box a lot, as I  like my Deathwing to look a little Chaosy.

I'm looking forward to getting some paint on these guys, and I'm really pleased with how fast work is progressing on this army.

Belial Finished

I actually finished Belial two days ago, but this is the first chance I've gotten to snap some pics and get him on the site. Not a whole lot to say about painting the model, other than the fact that drilling out Lysanders head almost made a 23 year old father of 2 children cry....

Anyways, here are some pics:

I'm really pleased with how the cape turned out. It almost has me convinced to try some more serious blending, perhaps venturing into the world of wet blending. Maybe I'll try that on my Khorne Daemon army, whenever I get around to doing that. 

Land Raider Finished

2 weeks in the making, this post marks the finishing of the first of two Land Raiders I've got que'd up for my 1500 point Deathwing list. I've still got alot to finish for the army (pretty much everything but this and Belial), so its going to be a while before they can all take the table painted and looking glorious. Anyways, without further delay, here are the pics.

I'm very happy with the way the vehicle turned out. I actually learned a few very valuable lessons while working on the Land Raider.

• When working with washes on large flat surfaces, use the biggest brush available. This will prevent visible brush strokes.
• Never let the edge of the wash dry. This will prevent lines showing up after the washes dry. It will also save you from ruining a spot by leaving brush spots on a partially dried wash.
• Wash everything at the same time, so all the parts turn out the same color. Most of you will probably have noticed that one of the door panels and the sponsons are a slightly differant color. Washing everything at the same time would have prevented that.

Well thats all for now, thanks for stopping by. In the very near future, I'm going to have some posted pics of finished Belial. Whats after that, who knows.

Land Raider Part 3

I made some major progress on the Land Raider tonight. I managed to get the Assault Cannon shield and the Hurricane Bolter shield all highlighted, along with half of the remaining Hurricane Bolter itself. All the other bitz of the vehicle, the actual assault cannons, the camera's and the other half of the Hurricane Bolter, have all been base coated and washed, and only need the highlight to finish them off.



I also worked on Belial in between washes drying on the Land Raider, but I forgot to snap a picture of him. For what its worth, I laid down the green on his cloak, and almost finished highlighting his armor too.

Last night was also a awesome trading night for me. More on that to come tomorrow, once I finish taking pictures of everything that swapped hands..

Land Raider Progress

Just a quick update on the Deathwing Land Raider thats been kicking around my desk. Today I managed to get half a sponson  and the assault cannon mount done.

I still need to do the gun site and camera for the sponson, and the actual assault cannons. After that, I've got the other sponson and the multi-melta. Once that is all done, this bad boy should be about finished!

Beginnings of Belial

Started to paint up my version of Belial tonight. Seeing as how he is what makes Deathwing a legal army, I figured I should get him painted up and ready for the tabletop.

So far, I managed to get the armor washed with Devlan Mud to give it the appropriate color, and that's about it. It takes a good 45 mins for the wash to completely dry, so I didn't have much of a choice but to let him sit and dry for most of my painting time tonight.

Tomorrow I should be able to get the cloak painted green, and all the bells and whistles on the armor painted the appropriate colors. I'm hoping on Friday to do the highlighting on the edges of the armor and cloak, and that should finish up the mini. Lets see if it happens though...

Deathwing Progress

I've been busy for the past week or so working on my Deathwing army, even though in the last post I said I would work on Tyranids. I've got plastic ADHD, I can't help it. Anyways, I've always wanted to make a Terminator with a cyclone and thunderhammer with stormshield, so I did it. And I must say, the end result is a pretty spectacular looking Terminator.

Work has also began on the 1st Land Raider for the company. I have yet to get to doing the sponsons or assault cannon , but the hull and 1 door is 99% complete. 

Hopefully in the next couple days, I'll be able to post up some pics of a finished Land Raider, and then maybe I'll get around to actually working on the Zoanthrope.

Deathwing Test Model

I actually finished this mini last week, just haven't gotten around to posting up the pics yet. Its not my own method that I came up with, just a simple following of a tutorial posted by Ron over at From The Warp. Its a simple and quick process that produces good looking miniatures, which is what I'm after. Actually, when I was done painting the mini, I felt that this was easily the best painted mini I've ever produced. Quite a nice feeling.

I've also adapted the technique for producing green and black, for regular Company Marines and Ravenwing, respectively. I'm very happy with the speed and results of this process. It actually takes longer for the washes to dry than you spend puting the brush on the mini. Thats a good thing to me!

More Terminator Progress

Terribly sorry about the double post. Please forgive me!



Just wanted to share some more progress I made on the first squad of Deathwing, and their assigned Land Raider. Not much done other than just basecoating. I've decided to give The Vanus Temple way of things a try and see how that works out. Without keeping you in suspense any longer, here's the pics!







Tomorrow I need to finish basecoating the Land Raider and wash all the models. After that, they will start to get some color other than tan!

Terminator WIP

Just a quick update on some work I did on some terminators tonight. These guys will be painted up as Deathwing once they get to that point. All the arms have been magnetized, but I'm still cleaning them up so I didnt have them attatched. Here are a couple close up's.




In other news, my marines finally came in the mail, so now all I'm waiting for is the Guard to show up, and I will have all my stuff.

Been a slow week

Well over the past 5 days I have gotten absolutly no hobby time in. Guess waking up everday at 3am to go to work will do that to you. Anyways, tonight I've started working on the 3 squads of terminators I need for my 1500 points Deathwing list. Nothing worth taking pictures of, its just a bunch of peices laying around right now. As soon as I get somewhere with it though i'll post up some pics. I've also got a Belial conversion I've got planned that should turn out pretty neat too. Thats about it right now. Oh yea, I also just won a copy of the old Epic Space Marine game on ebay for 15 bucks. Not to shabby.