Blood Angels

 Well after displaying my Necrons, it's only fitting that I put up my blood angels too. This is where it started for me, back in the late 80's. When I first started playing I only knew of the Blood Angels chapter, how things have changed! Some of these are old but I like to think my painting quality has progressed lol For full disclosure I was in and out of the hobby over the years and back full time on it in the last 12 months

My Aggressors, probably the first unit I considered I had painted "neat" and without having the codex at the time, I did them all as Sergeants lol I know better now, like how I have also done the actual Sergeant as a flamer rather bolter. This doesn't work in 9th (not sure it was strictly valid in 8th lol) as they all need to have the same weapon type. At some point I will get another unit so I can have a unit of each weapon type, at which point I'll probably paint over the shoulders of two of them lol

My first tank. This Baal Predator came with the starter box for Blood Angels and when I painted it I wanted the "fresh out of the factory" look lol This is another of my 'go back to' models which at some point I will do more work on to make it look battle scarred.

The Sanguinary Guard, enjoyed painting these, simple because they wasn't overly difficult to paint after a base coat of gold. Enjoy playing them as well, they are a nice break from the normal BAs.

My Terminators are a mix of Space Marine Heroes and those (I think) I got from the Battle of Macragge box set back in the day.

Quick Blood Angels Painting Guide

So after yesterdays WIP Wednesday I though I would expand on what I was working on to give a bit more detail on how I paint my Blood Angels.

I'm loving the new push fit system for the models. Finding it really useful to be able to take a piece off and paint it and put it back on again.

I started with the eyes and teeth, personally I prefer to start there, with Corax White (horrible grainy paint but it has it's uses). I've seen a number of videos where the eyes are done last, this to me (and from experience) can cause more problems when doing such a tiny detail. Doing it first, if any paint goes over the intended area, I can easily touch it up when I do the skin. Then it's the rest with a simple base coat of Bugmans Glow for the skin, Averland Sunset for the hair and good old Leadbelcher for the armour.

Next steps were Agrax Earthshade in the recesses of the skin and over the hair and eyebrows. Nuln Oil for the armour parts. 

Finally I touched up the hair with Averland Sunset again, highlighted the skin with Cadian Fleshtone and a bit Warlock Purple on the tongue.

So last night, the above picture was where I was currently at but decided to get the rest of him finished off.

Each part followed the same steps:

• Black primer (I use Vallejo Model Color 200 ml Polyurethane Primer - Black)
• Base coat with Mephiston Red
• Shade the recesses with Agrax Earthshade
• Highlight with Evil Sunz Scarlet

For the wax seals I use:

• Black primer
• Liche purple basecoat
• Leviathan Purple wash
• Highlight with warlock purple

Anything metal is good old Leadbelcher with Nuln Oil

The purity seals/scrolls I use:

• Black primer
• Bleached bone
• Agrax Earthshade
• Highlight with Bleached bone and for extra highlight a touch of Skull white

The main reason for these combinations is simply because it's what I have in paint collection which isn't extensive and the majority of these colours come from the standard paint sets you can buy.

I'm happy with how they are coming out, they are not studio perfect but certainly tabletop ready

 

#WIPW - Work In Progress Wednesday

 

Still working on my Assault Intercessors for my Blood Angels army and got to say, I'm loving the new push fit system for the models. Finding it really useful to be able to take a piece off and paint it and put it back on again.

In the past I always glued everything together and then painted. This new system really helps to get to those hard to reach places.

This particular one is a sergeant, I started with his head:

I started with the eyes and teeth, personally I prefer to start there, with Corax White (horrible grainy paint but it has it's uses). I've seen a number of videos where the eyes are done last, this to me (and from experience) can cause more problems when doing such a tiny detail. Doing it first, if any paint goes over the intended area, I can easily touch it up when I do the skin. Then it's the rest with a simple base coat of Bugmans Glow for the skin, Averland Sunset for the hair and good old Leadbelcher for the armour.

Next steps were Agrax Earthshade in the recesses of the skin and over the hair and eyebrows. Nuln Oil for the armour parts. 

Finally I touched up the hair with Averland Sunset again, highlighted the skin with Cadian Fleshtone and a bit Warlock Purple on the tongue. Quite pleased with how the head has turned out, just hope I can finish the rest to the same standard.