honer guards........

So i`ve got captain tycho to lead my force, So its about time i started some honer guards to go with him.
Going through my box of space marine stuff i`ve pulled out the Plastic commander, command squad, Sanguinary guard and commander dante.


Now i know that dante and tycho are old models (15 year old?) but tycho still fits in well, dante on the over hand is looking a bit dated now that the sanguinary guard are a plastic kit. armed with a saw i`ve cut dante`s hand off that holds the power axe and replaced it with a plastic power axe from the sanguinary guard. i`ve also replaced the infunus pistol and jump pack from the same box.


Now i need 2 honer guard squads using the 3 plastic boxed sets i`ve created 5 with jump packs and 5 with out. i could have used the death company boxed set to add even more blood angels parts but i`m saving them for another project..........................

Touchdown.................

Well after finishing a job a day early (woohoo) i had chance to dig out my Thunderhawk gunship from storage. now i know i`ve had this beast for sometime but i did not realise how long 04/04/2003. 8 years and its not finshed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I started it for the black templers that I was doing at the time but the are long gone now so I will have to turn it in to a blood angles one.

It has spent most of its life in a display case that i got from work many moons ago................. which will need some tlc to get it back up to scratch. 

All in all its stood up to the test of time well the only thing damaged is a one of the landing legs and the pait is flaking off inside but that's no problem. Once the bulk of my blood angels are done then i shall move on to this.

on a side note i only have the sanguinary guard left to finish off. I've sprayed up 2 Razorbacks and 2 predators which i hope to get finished by next week with any luck. Also nearly done is a drop pod for my death company now all i need is a drop pod for my dreadnought.

next on my list sternguard and vanguard and some rhinos...........................................

And so it begins....................

well February has come and gone time flies by so quick. I spent 3 days at homed last month (1 of which was when i started this blog)

sorting through my stuff i found some of the blood angles that i started last year, and i`ve finished them off.
most of them were finished but just needed a few touch ups done to them..

So my starting force consists of.........
Captain Tycho.
Mephiston.
5 Terminators with lightning claws.
5 Scouts.
10 Tactical marines.
5 Death company marines.
these guys are finished just the bases need doing

Fast approaching the finishing line are..........
5 Assault marines.
1 Dreadnought.
5 Sanguinary guard.
1 Captain.
10 Tactical marines.


Just starting are..........
1 land raider.
5 devastators.
In the time i`ve been away i have had plenty of time to read, I had chance to read the blood angles omnibus and the two follow on books Red fury and black tide all of which are good reads.

March is looking to be a bit quieter them last month so hopefully i`m going to have some time to finish of some more blood angles. I`ve got a heap of models to get through as well as a storm-raven and two dreadnoughts  that have not been opened yet. Then theirs the forge world thunder-hawk gunship that's been in storage for years.............................................

A fresh start...................................

I`ve been a wargamer for some years now. And over the years i`ve collected many different ranges form loads of company's, but have always come back to games workshops range of models. It all started many moons ago with issue 143 of white dwarf which had a picture of some blood angels on the front cover and any epic battle report with the blood angels vs the eldar in side. i was hooked from that moment on. my first GW product was the 1st edition of space hulk which i still have to this day. over time i got space marine from the epic range and then when it was released Warhammer 40k 2nd edition boxed set.  From that moment on i was hooked my first few games were played with the terminators from space hulk and the marines from 2nd edition.  over the years i changed armies orks, imperial guard, space wolves, chaos. Then years later rumours of a new limited edition of space hulk rears its head on the net, closely followed by rumours of a new blood angels codex.

It had been some time since the sons of sanguinius had a new codex but the spark in my mind had flared in to life

I would go back to my roots and start where it all Begin nearly 20 years before i would collect a blood angels army. That was this time last year.........................

How things change. my life took a big change, I got divorced, and moved all my stuff into storage the blood angels were boxed up and that was it. Until November last year when i moved away from my old town to pastures new.
Sorting through all my stuff i came across the old GW board game Battle for Armageddon which was set during the 2nd battle for Armageddon inside was the booklet that came with the 2nd ed of 40k, Once again the spark fired back up and i was set to start the blood angels again.

My force was going to be based around the Captain tycho and the 2nd company. I looked in my back issues of WD and read up on some battle reports that were based on the 2nd Armageddon campaign.

So now i`m set on a path of destruction with the blood angels hopefully i will complete them before the black rage sets in but who knows...............................................