Dark Angels Reivers

 One of my favourite Primaris unit is the Reivers. 

As always the rule of cool wins for my mini selection and these bros with their punisher helmets and dynamic posing get the tick from me.

I could not decide whether to go full or half helmet so I did a 50/50 split that meant I could also run them in two five man units.

For painting I prefer to undercoat everything whilst on sprue. For these dudes it’s a black undercoat and then I hit them with a grey followed by a light white dry brush. 

In my mind this gives me a head start with my painting after I have assembled the bros. Might just be me but this works as my personal hobby hack as with most gamers we all have a pile of shame.

After assembly this approach does require a bit of touch up of paint but is manageable.

After the tidy up of the base coat I used Vallejo steel, gold  and leather brown sped paints on the metal and pouches. The left should pads used green speed paint and a touch up of dark green. 

The power armour also used thinned down black speed paint and a light black wash in some parts.

The white sections relied on various thin coats of GW white air paint with higher sections picked out by Vallejo white.

Although these guys are to be part of my Ravenwing that includes some non mounted units, the black power armour and Dark Angels logos means they can also sub into my Greenwing.

Heavy Intercessors

After a recent Tournament I decided my Inner circle taskforce for my Deathwing needed their own battleline intercessors. These intercessors will take the battlefield with the appropriate bone white colour scheme.

I picked up some alternate intercessor sculpts compared to those in my Greenwing Dark Angels so decided these bros would be heavy intercessors. I added the larger should pads where possible to differentiate them from normal intercessors. The larger bolt rifles also complements the “counts as” approach.

I picked them up second hand and they needed to have the house paint that was used to undercoat them stripped off.

Unfortunately this paint left a little “battle damage” on a few of the minis. On a couple of them this was remedied with some additional bits from the upgrade kit and transfers to hide the worst of it. 

Using a heavy bolter from the centurion kit I converted one of the bolt rifles into a heavy bolter. A little bit of green stuff and he was ready. I added a cool deathwing bit for a blast screen that also hid the left hand that I was not happy with.

As I will also be using my Sternguard Veterans as heavy intercessors from time to time, the painting generally followed their approach for a more bone rather than pure white colour for power armour.

With these dudes finished I am pleased to report I have finished all my Deathwing minis from the pile of shame.

Next up is my push to finish my Ravenwing including my heretical approach that includes infantry.

Sammael Grand Master of the Ravenwing

 After finishing Azrael it was time for Ravenwing to get their Grand Master Sammael ready for the table top.

I used mainly Vallejo paints follwing the same techniques as my Ravenwing Outriders.I purposely kept the highlights on his black power armour to a minimum.

Some of the sculpt had a few imperfections that were fixed with parts and transfers from the Dark Angel upgrade kit.

The base was built up using bark with a astrogranite finish. Some grass tufts, shrubs and barbed wire finished off the large base.

I even tried some source lighting effect from the plamsa cannon underneath the jet bike and what looked like exhausts at the rear of the bike. 

I still have the Ravenwing command squad, black knights converted from outriders, an ATV and some sneaky reivers to do.

Supreme Grand Master Azrael

 I finally got my hands on an Azrael miniature for my Dark Angels.

As a member of the Deathwing I decided to invert the usual painting approach of Azrael of his dark green armour and white/bone cloak. 

The deathwing paint job of the armour went with more of a bone colour rather than pure white similar to my Sternguard Veterans.

The banner was pretty tricky to paint and I also inverted the usual colour approach with this and made it primarily a bone white colour with gold trim.

I kept the colour selection limited and really liked how the red came out on the lower cloak using a base of white, red speed paint and then mephiston red to highlight.

The sword of secrets had a gun metal speed paint with a white highlight followed by light blue speed paint in some of the areas. I left some of the white highlights to give off a pretty cool combined look for a plasma sword.

The base had a mix of rocks, grass tuffs and some barbed wire for something different.

Despite the mini being from a less reputable source I am happy with the finish.

Deathwing Centurion Devastator Squad

After making my Primaris Assault Centurion squad I wanted to also have a squad of the Devastator Centurions.

I chose the lascannon fit out as after all these years it’s still my favourite heavy weapon.

I used the same approach to build as detailed in my how to post that was a pretty easy way to increase the size of the bros up to primaris size. I made the sarge a little taller than the other bros and used the Mohawk bit from the original kit.

All the heads are from the primaris lieutenant kit.

Painting followed my Sternguard Veterans approach which had more of a bone white colour. Finishing off was a heap of transfers and the bases using old bark as rocks and astrogranite textured paint.

Here is a size comparison next to a primaris marine.

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.