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.

Doom Angels : the tutorial

Oftlenly, readers and players ask me to explain how I painted my Doom Angels. This tutorial will show the colors used to create the Doom Angels chapter, and the order they're applied.

Step #1

After applying a black undercoat, I paint the armor parts with Orkhide Shade, and highlights the armor's edges with Nurgling Green. Unfortunately, the Orkhide Shade doesn't exist anymore. But it seems that the new Caliban Green can replace it.

I don't add shades, Orkhide Shade is dark enough already.

Step #2

The second step's here to illuminate the mini by applying a warm color and forcing the highlights. To begin, I applied Mephiston Red on all weapons, lenses and purity seals. This Base issued from the new paint range is a good product, it allows you to have a red color without too much effort.

Then I'll enhance the light and shadows, using different reds shades. Upside surfaces are painted in a bright red like Blood Red. Downside surfaces are painted in a dark red, like Red Gore. Use real light and shadow to decide if you apply a bright, a dark, or no shade at all.
In order to make them stand out, all the edges are painted in Blood Red. The edges of the surfaces painted in Blood Red are painted in Fiery Orange, always in the idea of enhancing red parts' brightness.

I'm aware that the colors used here are from the old colors range. But the new colors range have the advantage of being more covering and brighter than the old one. Replace the triptych Red Gore, Blood Red and Fiery Orange by the following paints  from the Layers range : Wazzdakka Red, Wild Rider Red and Troll Slayer Orange.


Step #3

Now the basic colors are applied, let's pass to the metal. I started painting all the future metallic parts in Adeptus Battlegrey. Covering with a grey base allows you to erase all the small errors made during step # 1 & 2 and slightly reduces the number of metallic layers needed to have a good result.

Then I paint the edges with Mithril Silver, in order to add light on the metal parts.


Step #4

Final round : face painting. No secret, you'll need to try, work, fail and retry. It took me ten years and painting lessons to have something else than an alien hangover make-up.

Cherry on the cake, almost all the colors I'm using here are no longer avaible !


Step #5

Last, but not least, step ! Which will give a bad ass look to your Space Marine. I use diluted Dryad Bark to enhance all the shadows, creating an effect similar to the old lining technic.

The paint, diluted for less than a half, is applied in the hollows and on the metal parts. This breaks the shiny effect, enhances the model's colors contrast and makes it "alive".

PS : sorry for being late. It was my daughter birtday this week end. had two birthday parties in two days. And she's only 8...

Deathwing Knights, they're back !

After I had five Deathwing Knights in my Dark Angels army, I finally understood that I needed five more Knights to play this unit in an apocalyspe game.

Repent your seens !

With  a deadline like the Med Tour 2013, I was on a rush to paint five more knights.

Sinners, prepare your souls...

Playing such a squad is a pleasure. But they lack mobility and fire power. Well... This justifies the acquisition a shiny Caestus Ram, isn't it ?

Belial and it's command squad

Two years ago, I tried to add a command squad to Belial. I painted the banner bearer and... stopped. But now I am on an -almost- all new 3k Dark Angels army project for the Med Tour 2014, I'm motivated ! 

Belial and it's command squad

Using bitz from the Deathwing Knights box, I mounted an apothicary, a slayer and two guards to escort Belial. All the shoulder pads are from Scibor. They need some work but are totally worth it !

Belial is equiped with a Space Wolf lightning claws. I founded them better than the Dark Angels ones. (And I  love the idea of having wome SW bitz on a DA mini).

And to apologise for being late, here is a WiP of the all new Dreadnought.

Dark Vengeance part. 1 : terminators - WiP 3

  I'm late. Real life problems don't allow enough time to paint, and I'm in a hurry to get my 3k Dark Angels army for the Med Tour Apocalypse (10 & 11 august 2013).

Two Deathwing Knights are almost ready, three more to go. Metallics aren't done, neither their faces.

Two tacticals terminators are done, third one's waiting.

  Being in a hurry, I decided to change my painting technics. Before, I painted all the bases and metalics, then all the highligths and finally the shades. Too long.

  Now, I start with the darkest color, paint bases, shades & highlights. I repeat this operation till I finishes with the brightest one. Then comes the metallic.This method allows me to reduce the painting zones ans helps to "read" the mini while painting.

Terminators ready to go!

Wooot! I succeeded in founding the camera's USB cable. It's snapshot time!

 

  These are 10 terminators ready to fight at the winter French Waaagh Day. The Challenge of the End of The World's pressing me, I can only protest against the "old" and "new" color diagram mix. But, for those who saw the last terminators IRL, progress are notable.

Challenge of the End of the world: back 2 work

  You believed that the Challenge was over, for lack of combatants? No way! I continue to prepare the 3000 pts necessary for January 1st and the Apocalypse game envisaged with WaterGun.

   All I have to paint to be ready is 2 terminators, a Crusader and the command squad.

[Elite] Assault Terminators

   Assault Terminators... They are beautiful and soooo violent in close combat.

   I chosed to have two lightning claws and two thunder hammer to face any situation. The sergent was prepared to get lightning claws but finally, I gave him a thunder hammer and a realistic combat position.

   I'm pretty proud  about the painting work I made on these minis: freehands on all the shoulder pladrons!

[Elite] Terminators

   Preparing your army for a tournament can bring a mini back to paint. For exemple, I finally painted a banner for my terminator sergent. And I prepared a terminator equiped with a chainfist and a storm bolter.

   For memory, Doom Angels are descendants of Dark Angels. However, for dark reasons related to their foundation, the armours all are painted in Orkhide Shade. Even for the sections of terminators (from DeathWing) or of motor bike (from RavenWing). That also enables me to play them in count-have  vanilla space marines.

    I started these terminators... two years ago! And one of them is my "Precious". When I saw the Space Wolves Terminator's assault canon, I really wanted to have one.

   But how could I include a Space Wolves gun in a Dark Angel army? With a DeathWatch Terminator! ^^

   This allowed me to include this amazing plastic piece of a gun. An I have to say that I'm pretty proud with the painting work I done on this one.

[HQ] Archivists

    In 2009, my first HQ choice was a librarian in terminator armor. He was wainting in the darkness since I started to play 40k and I really wanted to paint him.

   The armor was painted in Orkhide Shade because I don't want to have an army with as many colors as functions. The Doom Angels are one and stay like this. The blue color was limited to the left paldron and the psychic protection.

   After some games, this mini was replaced by a chaplain, then by the captain Tavern my favorite.

   In 2011, Archibald is back on the battle field! He has losed some weight and his terminator armor.

   Like the first time I didn't paint his armor in blue. But this time, I modified the mini. The left arm was changed for a plastic one, with a DeathWing paldron.

   I added a flying skull because Archibals is an HQ choice.