While wrapping up a highlight session on Squad Barakiel yesterday evening, I wanted to check a points value. I fired up BattleScribe, which updated…and showed me a bunch of errors for my army roster. No biggie, I thought. Probably just wargear checkboxes. Which was the case for every change but one: Scouts, the bedrock of […]
Record scratch: No longer one squad away from a finished army Read More »
Having set my next painting goal — finish another thousand points of Blood Angels — I started thinking about what might comprise that thousand points. Here’s what I currently have assembled as of October 27 (and in some cases, further along than that: 1x Redemptor Dreadnought, Feo — 181 points (2x Storm Bolters, Onslaught Gatling
The next 1,000 points of Blood Angels Read More »
Lots of ground to cover in this omnibus post! Post-army painting goal I’ve been mulling over what painting goal to set for myself after finishing my initial 2,000-point army, and this morning it hit me: a new point total is the perfect goal for me. So that’s my next miniatures goal: paint another 1,000 points
Five units of WIP, Terminator color guide, and a new painting goal Read More »
One of the things that works for me about maintaining my miniature-painting streak (as I write this post on October 17, I’m on day 238) is that “dormant” periods — the days I don’t really feel like working on minis — still involve forward progress, even if it’s minimal. And then when I do feel
WIP it good: Zahariel and a dash of Barakiel Read More »
When I started painting my Blood Angels army, my goal was to have 2,000 points done by the end of summer so that I could start playing at my local shop. Over the summer it became clear that the pandemic was going to make that impossible, and by August I was pretty sure that “sometime
I haven’t taken a full-army photo since August — sounds like it’s time for another one! I really need to get a terrain “slab” or something to serve as a platform for these shots — something a little sexier than the top of one of my Kaiser Multicases. But hey, it works. Based on the
Six and a half months of painting: my Blood Angels army now at 42 models Read More »
Even though most of the pics in this WIP post are of Squad Adamo, my Death Company gang, Squad Zahariel, gets most of the words. Death Company color guide For the figures, I liked the tweaks the GW studio guide puts on the usual red and gold used on most of my Marines. I’ve stuck
WIP it good: Squads Adamo and Zahariel Read More »
As of September 1, I now have paint on every unfinished model in my Blood Angels army. Squad Adamo is mostly base-coated; Squad Zahariel, my Death Company unit, is primed and fully based; and Squad Barakiel, my Terminator Assault Squad, is primed and partially based. I’ve painted 15 Space Marines in a month before, so
WIP it good: the once-far horizon is now visible Read More »
I wrote about getting a bunch of Princeton Velvetouch brushes back in April of this year, and have been painting with those brushes (and my hodgepodge of others) for the past four months, or about 1,400 points of Blood Angels.[1] I just ordered a second batch of them from BLICK, which is itself an endorsement.
Princeton Velvetouch brushes for painting miniatures: an update Read More »
I finished my second tank, the mighty Land Raider Crusader Judgment, on August 22. This beast swallowed primer, paint, and varnish alike, and it took me quite some time to get through. The Land Raider is an iconic model, but what sold me on the Crusader — and on painting one for my first army
My largest painted model to date: the Land Raider Crusader Judgment Read More »
