Raptor's Sternguard Sergeant Laufrey with weathering powders

I did do the extra work on his base and some powders to tie the model into the base alot and I'm very happy with it... now I may have to go back and do this to all my blood angels.. NOOOO!

Thats him finished as my entry to the Badab Painting/modding competition (http://thefallenprinces.blogspot.com/p/competition.html). Good luck to anyone else whose entered!

Praetorian Ogryn Thursdays Round Up

Just a quick group shot of these chaps as I've not done one yet and to make it a months worth of thursdays:

I can't see myself likely to extend the squad past this or else they won't fit in the chimera that they so desperately need. I've used them in one game so far and they got fear of the darknessed straight off the board the second I got them out of their box. Lesson Learned!

Raptor's Sternguard Sergeant Laufrey

I noticed a Badab Painting/modding competition (http://thefallenprinces.blogspot.com/p/competition.html) late yesterday and thought rushing an entry in one day was a great plan. I'll try and take some better pics for actual entry tomorrow morning when theres some light. Here he is:

I'm considering popping some weathering powders on him and flocking the base more but hes already quite a busy model. What do you think?

Belated Praetorian Ogryn Thursday: Standard Bearer

Meant to get this up on thursday, no surprises there! My bad! Still without further ado:

Hope you like him!

Blood Angels Forgeworld Heresy Armour Test marine

Heres another guy I painted using an army painter red spray as a base colour. Once again I'm very pleased with the results. Once again he's a bit on the gold side compared to my normal guys but having lined a few up I'm happy enough this will just help them stand out.

I've seen a few pre heresy pics of assault squads from the FW stand at adepticon so it looks like I might have to make a DOA army up sometime in the future. My latest tank (the predator from a few posts back) however looks quite different to my older transports because of the much heavier weathering so I might go back over some of my older tanks and bring them in line as this shouldn't take too long!

Counts as Sentinals Forgeworld Mukaali Riders, thoughts please!

So I picked up three off these of Ebay for diddley as part of an army bundle (yeah i know... stop buying guard and paint up your praetorians and BA Rosser). Still the deal also had 5 rough riders and I've already got my praetorian roughs which are both a completely different scale to these. It would also upset me to run something so huge and cool as 1 wound bolter/lasgun fodder. Thus I thought counts as sentinals could be a laugh and wanted some input. Heres pics with blu-tacked autocannons:

I want to sculpt up a mount for the autocannons (like the heavy stubber mount on a leman russ turrent gun)which would be attached the the existing leather strap on the mukaali's neck. This however would still leave the model quite fleshy so to use it as a vehicle might not go down so well even of the walking variety. Still the Grey knights Deadknight hardly looks very monstrous critter-like so I recon I could push it a bit. The idea then would be the add a bit of armour to the model, perhaps just plates on the front legs. I'm not sure I'd want to obscure the pretty heads. I'd love some thoughts and ideas to give me some confidence before I embark on hacking up these guys :P. Thanks!

Blood Angels Iron Armour Colour Test With Army Painter Dragon Red

Here's a chap in forgeworld's Iron armour. I love it. However it has rather more gold on it than the rest of my army which has close to none really. Hmmz. Anyway I just wanted to get some feedback and thoughts on other ways I could paint it that avoided the metal. I didn't want to do black trim, and all red looked wrong.

I actually tried tested out using a red spray (cos I'm getting lazy with basecoating a couple of hundred marines and guard all in red!) this one was army painter's dragon red as it seemed to match the GW blood red quite closely and as a model spray was unlikely to go wrong in the way a spray paint from a DIY shop might have, i.e. thick paint ruining my models.

I first undercoated in black spray, then when this was dry I went in with the red trying to hit only the armour (not that I didn't get everything else too really, but i tried!). I laid down a couple of layers from above trying to hit it slightly less each time to leave a bit of shading. Then I went through my normal stages (wash all over with leviathan purple, highlight with blood red, then a blood red and solar mach orange mix then line highlight with vermin brown/solar mach) and frankly I think it looks very similar, which was the intention!