Stormraven………

Well I've been working on and off the stormraven this week doing bits and pieces here and their. I wanted to paint the inside of it so I've made the model up in sections. To save me some painting time I sprayed the engines, thrusters, landing gear and guns in silver. Inside the cabin cream and the rest of the model red. Once all these bits were done the model was stuck together. This has saved me loads of time which I can now spend on weathering the model.
My only problem with the model was the rear ramp which when opened would fall off. After some head scratching I came up with a solution………
Taking a piece of plastic tube I cut of the two outer clips that hold the ramp in place and replaced them with two pieces of tube, they needed to be filed down slightly for a perfect fit. But now the ramp can be opened and closed with out it falling off.

A dark city..............................

I've resisted the temptation to start a new army for sometime now, but last week i decided it was time to start a small project. Since December last year GW have released two new army books Dark eldar and the Grey knights. Now i've done both of these before, i still have the grey knights boxed up somewhere but the dark eldar are long gone. So with both army books in hand i had to make a decision Dark eldar or Grey knights hmmmmm.

after much soul searching the Dark eldar won (it also had something to do with my partner sarah, she liked the look of them). And that was good enough for me.

so at the weekend i went to salute 2011 and picked up most of the now OOP metal Dark eldar models at 20% off the RRP. i was going to pick up some plastic models but i needed to stock up on red sprays and a few books  7TV from Crooked Dice and Cutlass from Black Scorpion Miniatures and some of their tombstone models.
Their was plenty of over bits that i would like to have got but they will have to wait.

Hopefully by the end off the month i will be able to pick up some plastics from the proceeds of some stuff i sold of last month.
I will be painting the Dark eldar in between finishing of the blood angels...............

Tanks, tanks a stormraven and a dreadnougt or three…….…

Well it's now April and I been hard at work on my blood angels. I've got most of what o started last month finished with the exception of the vanguard as the keep falling over (they need some weighing down)

I've added to my growing horde of blood angels some much needed armoured support in the form of some tanks. I've finished of the land raider that I started some time ago along with 2 predators. The razor backs are on hold at the moment untill I make up my mind as to weather the are going to be used for an assault squad on foot oa deverstator squad.
I've also added
2 rhinos
1 whirlwind
3 land speeders
3 dreadnoughts
Oh and a storm raven

I've also got a forgeworld land raider that needs TLC that I'm working on.
The 3 dreadnoughts are 1 standard dread with assault cannon and power fist, 1libarian with force weapon and power fist and 1 venerable dread with power fist and plasma cannon.

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...............................................