After doing some serious noodling yesterday, I decided today to start a second 40k army to paint alongside my beloved Blood Angels — and after much decidedly un-Orky consideration, I chose Deathskulls Orks. Why Deathskulls? Lots of reasons! Some are purely practical, like not wanting to paint a second red army (ruling out Evil Sunz) […]
The Waaagh! is in the mail Read More »
I got started on my first bike squad, Squad Ariete (“battering ram” in Italian), and despite having the limited options and mold lines of an older kit these guys are fun to build — in part because I enjoy finding ways to give them more personality than they come with. The actual sprues are super
WIP it good: Squad Ariete, Assault Bikes and an Attack Bike Read More »
Ever since I decided on Blood Angels for my 40k army, back in February/March of this year, I’ve had the vague notion that it might be fun to have a second army on a back burner of my brain. I’ve kept the flame on that back burner quite low, if you will; I know how
Pondering a second 40k army…Orks, maybe? Read More »
On November 5th I finished what I’d previously thought would be the final squad in my first 40k army, but which is now the penultimate squad. I saved my favorite unit in the WH universe, close-combat Terminators, for the end, both because they’re my favorite and so that — theoretically — they could benefit from
Squad Barakiel is all wrapped up Read More »
After fixing the overdone highlights on Squad Adamo, which I did first so I could practice on a smaller canvas, I turned to Judgment. It proved to be a bit different because of the nature of a tank vs. a single figure, so I wound up doing a first pass, comparing Judgment to my Rhino
Judging Judgment and finding it orange Read More »
One of my resolutions when I started my 40k Blood Angels army was to resist any temptation to repaint earlier minis as my skills improved. But, like all good resolutions, this one met two fuzzy situations and needed to be bent a bit. The situations were Squad Adamo and my Land Raider, both of which
Pressing rewind on the orange fury of Squad Adamo Read More »
Time to clear out the picture roll in my phone, which covers late October and early November! November is kicking off with some good momentum, and I have plenty more Blood Angels in the works for December and beyond.
WIP it good: Barakiel, Feo, Caedes, Remiel Read More »
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 »
Feo was fun to build, but I was equally excited to work on his base — because at a staggering 90mm wide, it presented a huge canvas (relatively speaking) to tell a little story. So I decided to tell a two-part story. Part one is the back, where I added the remnants of an overrun
WIP it good: Feo’s base, poop Chiclets, and a big hill Read More »
