Dark Angels Venerable Dreadnought - WiP 1

Let's have a break, one more time, and have a little talk about the Venerable Dreadnought, in this 3k Apocalypse army.

The initial project was to create a greenstuff banner and to place it on the white metal handle.

Then I letted the project rest and putted myself in the terminators painting work.

While having a break with the Angel's Wrath, I resumed my work on the banner, and the base.

Time missing to work properly, I decided to use the banner provided with the Deathwing Knights.

Magnet, plastic bitz, a piece of paper clip et voila !

The greenstuff banner will be used for another dreadnought.

To be continued ...

I needed a break...

After all these month working, scrathching and pating terminators, I needed a break. I took some Dark Angels and went to our local warhammer club.

As the game progressed, I realized that I took me a great pleasure to play. Table's only a green carpet, the ruins are simple and unsophisticated. Armies' painting's classic, some weapons have no holes and other minis are not yet painted ... 

However, the spirit of the game is there. And this is a point which is often forgotten.

Design templates for your 40k army.

As a 40k player, I need templates when my vehicules are destroyed. And as a laz* creative player, I looked on the internet for solutions. Greenman Design gave me a good solution : laser cuted templates.

As a Space Marine player, I choosed a Space Marine templates kit and a Dreadnought template. Costed about 25$, transport included.

I paid to have my name added on all the templates, but it's totally worth it !

As you can see, these templates fit like a shadow under the vehicules. You have a large color panel to choose, quality is impressive and I'm really happy with these.

Cherry on the cake, you have a holidays promotion !

Angel's Wrath squad - WiP 1

More terminators for 2014...

Angel's Wrath squad, WiP

I'm working on the third terminators squad. These are equipped with 5 thunderhammers, three vanilla marines and 2 heavy plasma canons.

Preparing an apocalypse army (WiP)

Let's make an assessment of my Apocalypse Dark Angels army project.

I had the idea to assemble this army while I came back from the Med Tour 2013. After such a 40k Apocalyspe orgy, the motivation is high and it my head's full of army projects. Reality comes soon enough to breack your dreams... And you'll feel like  jackass one year after, because you don't have new minis to show at your buddies.

This is why after two Med Tour editions, I decided it was time for me to come back with an all new army, created for this event. The success of such a project requires a preparation without fault. Although time appears very broad, Murphy's law will be able to add you his batch of unforeseen. This is why you have to be realistic and establish a planning with your mind, and not your heart.

As you can see above, the army is almost half done. Two of  three squads are finished and the third one is quite advanced. Planning's good, but I had some bad surprises. Like November when I did not paint. At all.

Preparing all the minis took a month, Hellhammer not included. It was already prepared.

Even if some terminators were already painted, count one month by squad. I'm taking again all the minis to standardize the colors.
The Dreadnought will take one complete month. The banner is not ready yet and that will add to the painting time.
The Hellhammer will take two good months. It's a big vehicule and I want to take my time.

I everything goes, I'll be done with the armie's painting in June.

Xenos slayers squad

Finally ! I'm done with the second terminator squad, for my 3k Dark Angels army.

Xenos, come get some...

I'm proud of this squad. Clearly, they are made for the close combat. Five lightning claws terminators, two heavy flammers and three baseic termis.

The sergeant is equipped with lightning claws issued from the terminator Chaos HQ. And the ork head on its base is here to remind us how they got their name. Five terminators from this squad killed more than 40 orks during a game.

Xenos slayers squad - WiP 3

This week-end was familly only. I conld'n paint, but my moto is "Familly first, Hobby second". My son and daughter are only 10 and 10, and I know they'll go away son enough...

Xenos Slayers squad WiP

Unfortunatly, I couldn't finish the sergeant...