Painting the Deathwing

I'll be there first to admit I love my dark angels a tad to much, it didn't matter what army I go to collect (and I've had a go at most of them at some point) I always come back to my dark green marines. This time is no different, sheet working on my Taghmata Omnissiah list for a while, I'm now preparing for the Apocalypse Tournament in November, 10,000 points. To start off this ordeal, Im back to painting my deathwing terminators, so far I've finished the first 25, so im just about a quarter of the way through them :) I figuired I'd posted a quick guide to how i do it. I apologise for the picture quality, its the best i can do with my current camera

Starting with the base colours, i spray the whole model bleached bone army painter spray, and then put the base colours on the rest of the model, so they look very flat

Next up is chipping, lightly dabbing the colour you want, in this case rhinox hide (actually i found a 50/50 mix of rhinox/abbaddon black is preferable, as it gives two tones in the chipping), then fold the sponge back slightly, to spread the material out, giving less blobs of paints, and more chipping effect

This is then followed by washing the whole model with Oils, i really like the burnt umber oil, with AK White Spirit, theres cheaper options for white spirits out there, but this is what im comfortable with, i actually just pour some of the oil paints straight into the small container, and then mix it through, so it becomes a pot full of the wash, instead of having to mix it each time individually. That definately stemmed from efficiency, not laziness ;)

This is then followed by a spray of mat varnish, to seal it. The bases for all 100 terminators will be done together, this is to minimize variations in the basing styles.  

Ultramarines Pt.3 - Painting Blue!

SO,

After a couple of days of procrastination and uncertainty, I've managed to knock out the five tacticals and the MK.IV command guys I have (almost...one guy still needs finishing touches).
Now admittedly, I haven't started weathering my guys yet, largely because I lack the right tools to weather them the way I want to, so naturally, once they're weathered expect them to feature again.

Post Inferno

Well I ran my first event since I left GW on the weekend just past, a 2500 point Heresy tournament. The quality of the armies there was generally fairly high, with only a few needing to see more paint, but even these you could tell had a huge amount of work done on them, be it in conversions throughout the army, or the painting so far. It was a shame that in the last week we saw a few people have to drop out for one reason or another, but we still finished up with 10 people taking part. Next time we'd like to double that though

Congratulations to Nath and his Iron hands who took out Best General, Aaron whose Death Guard won Players Choice and to Andrew who picked up Best Sports.

The event was great fun to run, with the guys not having many rules questions, and those that did, sorted it out with what would be cool. I'd definitely like to run another event down the track.

If you'd like to check out more pictures of the event here's some places you can (thanks to everyone who had their camera out on the day, especially Tim whose been doing match reports up for his Ordo Reductor)

Match Report 1

match Report 2

The Facebook Event Page

Pictures of the armies taking part

Ultramarines Pt.2 - The Arrival

So after an incredibly long wait, the first portion of my Ultramarines army has arrived!
5 Mk.IV tactical marines, a Mk.IV Command Kit and a mighty Spartan!

This is just the first of several deliveries I am anticipating and whilst I'm waiting impatiently for the rest, I'm still SUPER excited to have some blue to paint!

So here's what the first members of my legion look like;