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Post by mike on Jan 10, 2017 22:54:47 GMT -6
I'm about ninety-five percent of the way through painting this deathwing strike force so it's time to fill you all in on the details. The odds of me slogging through the remaining five percent are also slim... Anyway, I hadn't been painting in awhile because I'm fairly done with my dark eldar and I'm burnt out on my ravenwing (ugh black is so boring to paint). Picking up a command squad box got me inspired to finish this part of my dark angels triple wing big nasty project. After lugging around my eldar with all their spikes and transports etc, it's nice to have an army that'd fit into a shoebox in a pinch. The force is two squads of terminators, a command squad, and a venerable dreadnought all lead by a company master. If I ever expand the force it'd be with two land raiders to get some long range weaponry and some mobility on the table. Until then the strategy will be too deep strike onto the table and pray that someone lives through the opponent's ensuing shooting phase. It will likely be used for really casual and introductory games unless Eighth edition buffs terminators in a significant way. If anyone wants to go up against it, I'd be happy to get in some practice. The paint scheme evolved over the course of the project, but I'm most happy with the process used by tale of painters with some minor substitutions. I also used the Martian iron earth technical paint for the bases. Here's a picture of the whole 1000 points: Here's the company master: A dude with a big flag: A dreadnought: And an apothecary: More posts to come including green wing updates and a thing on why I collected dark angels. xoxo
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Post by Russell on Jan 10, 2017 23:32:17 GMT -6
A few thoughts:
- don't use anti perspirant - you're an incredibly talented painter - nice chair / coat rack
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Post by Russell on Jan 10, 2017 23:32:47 GMT -6
also, i feel like deathwing would be a fun matchup for thousand sons.
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Post by T1m on Jan 11, 2017 8:35:31 GMT -6
These look great! Do you put the models on the base after you put on the crackle paint? Because I cannot keep that crap off the models' feet when I use it.
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Post by mike on Jan 11, 2017 9:14:01 GMT -6
These look great! Do you put the models on the base after you put on the crackle paint? Because I cannot keep that crap off the models' feet when I use it. Yeah I put the models on the base after the crackle paint. Keeping it off the models seems like it would be impossible. I had that problem when I was making snow bases for the DE.
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Post by cj on Jan 11, 2017 9:48:29 GMT -6
Very well done, they look fantastic.
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Post by Nick P on Jan 11, 2017 10:23:18 GMT -6
Only two things stick out: 1, if you learned how to do lenses you'd be unstoppable and 2, I know the dreadnought bases are wonky because of the weird asphalt texture but maybe that could use some cleaning up. Otherwise these are awesome, not enough terminator armies around these days!
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Post by Asyrean on Jan 11, 2017 10:41:29 GMT -6
Good job with the Deathwing Bone color! I understand that to be a tricky scheme to paint well and get the right tone out of it. Awesome job on it.
Cant wait to see a land raider also painted in that color if you get around to it. If you're interested, I remember watching a cool painting tutorial on Youtube by Ork Painter Nerd where he did a land raider in Deathwing, using an airbrush.
Again, very cool stuff. I love the Deathwing stuff. Here's to hoping 8th gives some kind of love to terminators. Would be great to see them on the table top more frequently.
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Post by mike on Jan 11, 2017 16:48:52 GMT -6
also, i feel like deathwing would be a fun matchup for thousand sons. Let's do it.
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Post by mike on Jan 11, 2017 16:53:06 GMT -6
Only two things stick out: 1, if you learned how to do lenses you'd be unstoppable and 2, I know the dreadnought bases are wonky because of the weird asphalt texture but maybe that could use some cleaning up. Otherwise these are awesome, not enough terminator armies around these days! Yeah I agree on both of these points. It was a rush job at the end with the bases and the eyes. Someday I'll clean them up though.
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Post by Joelercoaster on Jan 29, 2017 20:59:29 GMT -6
That green tho. Looks great.
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Post by mike on Jan 30, 2017 0:47:53 GMT -6
Update: Greenwing Probable Tournament List Pics I'm almost finished with the Greenwing side of my Dark Angels. The big thing left is basing which I'm waiting on some base extenders to arrive to complete. With these 1000 points knocked out, I'll have a couple of predators left and then I can get back to finishing the Ravenwing. The tournament list pictured below is: HQ - Celestine & the Gals Troops: (Tactical Squad, Combi-Plasma, Plasma, Heavy Bolter, Rhino) x 2 Elite: Mortis Dread Mk 5 Fast Attack: Assault Squad, Vet Sgt, Power Axe, Flamer x 2 HS: Devastator Squad, Missile Launcher x4, Cherub Part One: Part Two: Tactical Squad One: Tactical Squad Two: St. Celestine One: St. Celestine Two: The army I'm building towards: HQ - Celestine & the Gals Troops Tactical Squad (5), Combi-Plasma, Plasma, Heavy Bolter, Rhino x 2 Tactical Squad (10), Combi-Flamer, Flamer, Razorback w/ AssCans x 2 Elite Mortis Dread Mk 5 x 2 Fast Attack Assault Squad, Vet Sgt, Power Axe, Flamer x 2 HS Devastator Squad, Missile Launcher x4, Cherub Las-Cannon Predator x 2
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Post by Asyrean on Jan 30, 2017 5:56:03 GMT -6
I love the DA wings on the rhinos. How'd you do that?
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Post by T1m on Jan 30, 2017 8:45:07 GMT -6
Goddamn Mike....
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Post by Nick P on Jan 30, 2017 8:49:00 GMT -6
Nice work Mike! You're really cooking along on these. I can't wait to Gauss your face off on Saturday!
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