Blood angels Scouts with shotguns

First guys off the production line, markedly not up to snuff when compared to the first two painted, but still okay for the table. for me I think the true goal for these models is somewhere between the two jobs, for a balance of time and outcome.

The thing is though, these plastic scouts are pretty fugly – I’m sure with similar effort the metal ones will come up nicer..

The reason for building a few shotgunners is to help the squad have a wee bit more versatility, without compromising their CC too much.

The decals are a bugger to get on the extreme curve of the scout pads, and there is no decal for the 10th company badge so I’m having to freehand the other pad.

 

I do like this chap. his visor is very old school :) should have given him a chainsword.

Maybe one day I’ll convert up a marine to look like that old RT era metal guy :)

Here are the squad members assembled together – the four CC scouts will also add to this and with a converted sang preist could even fit in a drop pod if I so choose..

Gettingoff to a good start with the half term content.. lets keep rolling..

Half Term – Daily Posts?

So, It’s become something of a thing to try for a week of posts in half term, and this Half term will be no exception.

I’m going to try and work in a daily post with what I've been up to. now if I include the regularly scheduled Friday post (yesterday) and the Monday, that will make eleven posts in a row. Hmm, let’s see about that then shall we.

There’s plenty on the (re-organised) workbench as you can see, so this is likely the content you will see in the coming week.

I’m experimenting with airbrush work on minis to try and get these blood angels to a reasonable timeframe to paint with a decent outcome for looks; my current space wolf method being a bit onerous, and when combined with the sheer volume of unpainted puppies, it’s a tad overwhelming.

The guard are nearly all painted, so I might put some time in on them, although I do have a new unit sat here awaiting build convert and paint. hmm, not sure that was wise :)

Anyway, lets see if I can manage a week of content for you all. The trick will be making sure I have that, and enough to get me through the coming weeks as well :)

Sanguinary Priest – Stock Model and a Conversion

Really lovely model, and looks like it would be easy enough to convert and switch out weapons/ use a different head. for me however it wouldn't look different enough, so I had a dig through the bitsbox to see if I could manage to make a model that would do for another priest.

   

And this is him, he’ll actually accompany a scout squad in hopes of making them a real pain in the backfield ;)

Furioso? Furioso

Not a very inspiring post as there isnt much variation in how these go together, svae that I opted to use the frag cannon..

It is however a satisfying kit to build and goes together very well. I may need another now to build as a DC dread with talons.

The base got a little work to avoid the STC dread base look and I’ll be moving forward with paint on this chap asap. – I’m using an army painter brown primer for these red models and it seems to be helping with the warmth and coverage, – it may be all in my mind, but hey ho.

Blood Angel Scouts – Returned to ready status

So after a swim in the dettol these guys were returned to metal, then cleaned up, rebased and primed brown.

the crispness is back and I’m quite looking forward to painting these chaps

They were based on top of the ballast this time, and pinned so they have the extra height they were lacking

You can see here they compare very well now to thier plastic bretheren, even in some cases appearing taller.

Those shotgunners will round out the squad adding a little extra shooty to the mob, without compromising the assault too much.

Into the paint queue they go!