6250 points of Painted Blood Angels: 'Knights of Baal'

Greetings once again InterWebs!!!! So as promised in my last post I gathered up all of my painted Blood Angels 4th Company 'Knights of Baal' and took some photos. I had to set everything up in the kitchen on the glass table due to the size of the army so I apologize for the lesser quality photos.

Here are some overview shots of the army:

 Top-down view:

Head-on view:

Here are some closer views of the some of the sections of the army:

The Motor Pool:

Land Raiders and Terminator Squads:

The Sanguinary Priests:

The Lord of Death and his brother Librarians:

Vanguard Veterans:

Last but not least, the Lord of Angels himself, Sanguinius:

Wow, what a nice feeling to have all of that done and behind me!!!!! I am really ready to move beyond the Sons of Sanguinius for a while and all of their red! I still have some Death Company models that I will add to the collection sometime in the future, but for now I am going to work on finally finishing some small projects that I have had laying around for years. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look! Comments are always welcome! Take care!

Painted: Blood Angel Jump Chaplain

Greetings once again InterWebs!!! It has been a bit snowy here lately which means that I had a little more time than normal to spend in the hobby room. While the weather is not suitable for sealing miniatures at the moment I managed to finish off the Blood Angel Jump Chaplain named Corbalin.

Here you go with a selection of pictures:

Close-up of his 'glowy' red eyes and skull mask:

I attempted to sculpt a bit of a blood drop on his shoulder pad (he is a Blood Angel after all):

All of Corbalin's tabards are inscribed front and back with his Litanies of Hate:

I think he turned fairly well and I do enjoy using him to lead my Blood Angel jump troops. I find I use him and a Librarian for my HQ choices but then again I am not a tournament player at all. In between the various colors used on Corbalin here I also managed to knock out some of the same colors on the remaining 4 Blood Angel characters (Dante, Mephiston, Corbulo, and Tycho). Take a look at some very early PiP shots:

Dante's victim (a Nightlords Traitor Marine):

 'Midnight Clad' 

Brother Corbulo:

Mephiston, Lord of Death:

That is all for now although while I was digging through my 'closet of holding' looking for some miniatures for a friend I ran across a Blood Angels Furioso Dreadnought that I had put together way back when Assault on Black Reach had just come out. I have since pulled the Furioso Dreadnought out and started to bring the botched start of a paint job in-line with my current rendition of Blood Angel Red; more on that whole process tomorrow. It is looking like the snow has let up for the moment but the cold still lingers which means more hobby time is possible tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my little corner of the Web! Take care!

PiP: Blood Angel Jump Chaplain Corbalin

Greetings once again InterWebs!!! I had a little bit of time this weekend to work on the Blood Angel Headquarter choices, this time it was my jump Chaplain named Corbalin. I am a huge fan of the Chaplains in 40k both fluff-wise and in the actual games. I do struggle with painting and highlighting Black armor so here are my attempts:

First attempt at highlighting black:

I was not happy with this attempt, it was to subtle for my taste. I personally am not a huge fan of hard edge highlighting (especially on black) but I thought this attempt needed a little something more.


Black highlighting attempt 2 (before black glaze step):

At this point I was fairly happy with the highlighting now to knock the blue down a bit, time to make up a nice black ink glaze. Here is Chaplain Corbalin all 'blacked out':

I was happy with the black armor at this point but you can never really tell until you put some other colors around to help set off the large areas of base armor color. I really wanted to see what he would look like with some additional colors on him:

Not much left to do on this guy and I am happy with how he is turning out so far. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look! Comments are always welcome! Take care!