One of my resolutions when I started my 40k Blood Angels army was to resist any temptation to repaint earlier minis as my skills improved. But, like all good resolutions, this one met two fuzzy situations and needed to be bent a bit. The situations were Squad Adamo and my Land Raider, both of which […]
Pressing rewind on the orange fury of Squad Adamo Read More »
Time to clear out the picture roll in my phone, which covers late October and early November! November is kicking off with some good momentum, and I have plenty more Blood Angels in the works for December and beyond.
WIP it good: Barakiel, Feo, Caedes, Remiel Read More »
While wrapping up a highlight session on Squad Barakiel yesterday evening, I wanted to check a points value. I fired up BattleScribe, which updated…and showed me a bunch of errors for my army roster. No biggie, I thought. Probably just wargear checkboxes. Which was the case for every change but one: Scouts, the bedrock of
Record scratch: No longer one squad away from a finished army Read More »
Having set my next painting goal — finish another thousand points of Blood Angels — I started thinking about what might comprise that thousand points. Here’s what I currently have assembled as of October 27 (and in some cases, further along than that: 1x Redemptor Dreadnought, Feo — 181 points (2x Storm Bolters, Onslaught Gatling
The next 1,000 points of Blood Angels Read More »
Feo was fun to build, but I was equally excited to work on his base — because at a staggering 90mm wide, it presented a huge canvas (relatively speaking) to tell a little story. So I decided to tell a two-part story. Part one is the back, where I added the remnants of an overrun
WIP it good: Feo’s base, poop Chiclets, and a big hill Read More »
Lots of ground to cover in this omnibus post! Post-army painting goal I’ve been mulling over what painting goal to set for myself after finishing my initial 2,000-point army, and this morning it hit me: a new point total is the perfect goal for me. So that’s my next miniatures goal: paint another 1,000 points
Five units of WIP, Terminator color guide, and a new painting goal Read More »
I’ve begun to notice that after the base is done (which I always enjoy), the next two steps — base-coating and touch-ups — often bog me down. I drag my heels with them, and then when they’re done, and I shade the minis, I’ve gotten my momentum back. After that tipping point, it’s a steady,
The lightbox welcomes Squad Zahariel Read More »
One of the things that works for me about maintaining my miniature-painting streak (as I write this post on October 17, I’m on day 238) is that “dormant” periods — the days I don’t really feel like working on minis — still involve forward progress, even if it’s minimal. And then when I do feel
WIP it good: Zahariel and a dash of Barakiel Read More »
When I started painting my Blood Angels army, my goal was to have 2,000 points done by the end of summer so that I could start playing at my local shop. Over the summer it became clear that the pandemic was going to make that impossible, and by August I was pretty sure that “sometime
Reflecting on the time I spent painting Squad Adamo — which I think stretched all the way from August to the beginning of October! — I quite enjoyed doing their hazard stripes. I love hazard stripes on Chain Swords, so how could I not go wild with these dudes? I also had a blast working
All hazard stripes, all the time: Squad Adamo in the lightbox Read More »
