Wasteland Station

 After being donated this cool scratch build terrain piece it was time to wasteland it up.

I grabbed as many shades of brown and grey paint I could find and a silver spray can.

The goal was for a muted dull look so the building walls were painted a sandy yellow mixed with brown. The “steel” was sprayed silver with rust spots of brown.

After these base paints I used a dirty brown wash over the whole structure. The wash was used a little less in the grey concrete sections.

The base was sprayed brown with dry brushed lighter browns to yellow for the ground cover.

This should fit in nicely with the other 40K terrain I have painted recently.

Dark Angels Ancient

In my few games of 10th edition I have valued the contribution of the Ancient to both combat and OC.

I decided my greenwing needed a morale boost so I picked up this bro from the indomitus box set.

Painting followed my usual black, white grey drybrush followed by Vallejo speed paints.

I wanted the skeleton on the banner to look aged so went with the more dull bone than the traditional white.  

Again I used a lot of transfers from the Dark Angel upgrade kit across various parts of the mini. I really like the one on his left shoulder pad which is a slightly different style to the traditional chapter icon.

Am happy with the outcome and look forward to running him in a few games.

Dark Angels Captain

After a few months of painting Deathwing and Ravenwing, it was time for me to swing back into the greenwing with this captain from the indomitus box set.

No conversions were necessary and he came with a cool base with a dead necron.

I am a fan of the skeleton on the shield so I spent some extra time making the bone a little darker in the recesses than I normally do. This gives it a more aged look than the bone of my Deathwing.

I added a fair bit of gold on his armour befitting his Captain status. I added a heap of the decals from the upgrade kit with some extras on the purity seals.

With this bro finished think I have most captains covered for each of the wings of my Dark Angels.

Next up will be Reivers and then it’s time for some special characters.

Ravenwing Jump pack Assault Intercessors

 The Ravenwing continues to grow with these jump pack assault intercessors.

The minis are from the easy to build collection with pre primaris jump packs that fit on perfectly. 

The hooded heads and the sarge’s power sword come from the most recent primaris upgrade sprue.

Most of the transfers are from the same upgrade kit.

These dudes will either go with the jump pack Captain  or Chaplain.  Paint schemes also follows the approach of those dudes.

Ravenwing Invictor Tactical Warsuit

The next addition to my growing Ravenwing force is an Invictor Warsuit.

I purchased this in a bundle and it was assembled and helpfully was painted in the base colours of the Iron Hands which worked as my base colours.

Painting followed my other Ravenwing bros using a lot of Vallejo speed paints over the existing colours. 

The weapon barrels had a mix of purple, red and brown washes for some weathering.

I used a lot of the new Dark Angel transfer sheet which has great variations including the cool silver skull on his left chest.

The warsuit base came with some skulls and a cool metal container dug into the ground. I kept these and added the tactical rock and used astrogranite to finish the base off.

The Ravenwing will continue to grow over the coming months with assault intercessors with jump packs, more bikes and reivers.

Firstborn Techmarine

 In the lead up to my first 10th edition Tournament I needed a techmarine so it was time to check out the pile of shame.

Luckily for me I had the old school techmarine with thunder cannon. Although he has been sent to Legendsville and is a little short next to his primaris bros, I knew mounting him on a strategic rock that dominate the 40K universe would help any size inadequacies he may feel.

This mini is metal too so with all his ammo, weapons etc he is a monster. 

He did pretty good in the tournament so I am sure he will take the field again but this time he will avoid Angry Ron who did about 40 would when he charged him.

I followed my painting approach to my also red Apothecary Biologis that turned out great. Here they are together.

Deathwing Primaris Centurions

 With my recent conversion to create Primaris Centurions it was time to get some paint on these bad boys.

I wanted these dudes to have a more bone rather than a clean white colour for their armour similar to my Sternguard Veterans.

Painting the armour started with Vallejo bone and normal white and then a GW bone contrast paint. This came out a bit too dark so I used the GW white air paint followed by Vallejo white for highlights.

Gold speed paint and Vallejo gold was used for the armour trim. Gunmetal speed paint and metal was then used for highlights.

The cables used blue and red speed paints with various lighter colours to highlight.

Basing used astogranite with a heap of old small GW slate pieces with some bark for rocks.  The astrogranite was painted with Vallejo earth, then bestial brown and leather with a few light dry brushing of bone white. The rocks were black speed paints with bone highlights.

I am a big fan of the transfer sheet in the new primaris upgrade kit so went a bit nuts with as many as I could fit on without them looking like a nascar driver.

I am very happy with the finished result as these dudes are now the size befitting of their stat line and weapons.