Paints used: Vallejo, Reaper Master Series, Games Workshop Washes, Com Art Medea Airbrush Airbrush: Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH Airbrush Paint Brushes: Rosemary & Co. Raphael 8040, Broken Toad Brushes, Windsor and Newton Series 7
Horus Lupercal Warmaster
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Sigismund The Black Templar, Dorn's Herald, The Emperor's Champion
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Infamy Bust Uncle John
I wanted a darker vibe with this miniature so I used the notes written by Grant Morrison in the back of Arkham Asylum concerning the Mad Hatter. I painted the irises in different colours with a purple undertone to the flesh, as if the blood weren't quite a healthy red. The more I painted it the more it resembled Arsene Wenger! But with a parrot and a capuchin!
Roboute Guilliman
They shall be pure of heart and strong of body, untainted by doubt and unsullied by self-aggrandisement. They will be bright stars on the firmament of battle, Angels of Death whose shining wings bring swift annihilation to the enemies of Man. So it shall be for a thousand times for a thousand years, unto the very end of eternity and the extinction of mortal flesh.
Friday 26 February 2016
Paints used: Vallejo, Reaper Master Series, Games Workshop Washes, Com Art Medea Airbrush Airbrush: Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH Airbrush Paint Brushes: Rosemary & Co. Raphael 8040, Broken Toad Brushes, Windsor and Newton Series 7
Thursday 25 February 2016
Paints used: Vallejo, Reaper Master Series, Games Workshop Washes, Com Art Medea Airbrush Airbrush: Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH Airbrush Paint Brushes: Rosemary & Co. Raphael 8040, Broken Toad Brushes, Windsor and Newton Series 7
Wednesday 24 February 2016
Paints used: Vallejo, Reaper Master Series, Games Workshop Washes, Com Art Medea Airbrush Airbrush: Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH Airbrush Paint Brushes: Rosemary & Co. Raphael 8040, Broken Toad Brushes, Windsor and Newton Series 7
Tuesday 23 February 2016
Paints used: Vallejo, Reaper Master Series, Games Workshop Washes, Com Art Medea Airbrush Airbrush: Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH Airbrush Paint Brushes: Rosemary & Co. Raphael 8040, Broken Toad Brushes, Windsor and Newton Series 7
Sunday 21 February 2016
Paints used: Vallejo, Reaper Master Series, Games Workshop Washes, Com Art Medea Airbrush Airbrush: Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH Airbrush Paint Brushes: Rosemary & Co. Raphael 8040, Broken Toad Brushes, Windsor and Newton Series 7
Friday 19 February 2016
Has it really been two weeks since the weekender? That event felt like a hurricane that I'm only now recovered from. It's great to meet old friends and new but we need longer than two days to see everyone.
I just wanted to write up a quick note of my initial impressions of the Blood Angels entry from Forgeworld's latest offering; Retribution. I'm working my way through the bulk of the book but I have flipped forward to read the colour text and rules of my legion. I am a very happy boy, here's why:
The colour text that introduces the Blood Angels hit all the right notes. They have the feel of Old Testament Angels - figures of wrath and revelation, descending on a culture and slaughtering it wholesale if they reject the entreaties of the Imperium. A storm hit the UK recently and I found myself in Cardiff next to the millennium stadium. There has been a demolition of a building near by with struts of metalwork sticking out of the ground like broken fingers. When the wind whipped around these it made a strange music, like a long atonal sigh that was more than a little unsettling. I could imagine the atmospheric chaos a mass orbital insertion of a battle fleet would cause to a planet. Imagine yourself citizen, pensive at the decision your world has made to reject subjugation to the Imperium, to these 'Angels', trying to get with your day to day life. Then, the skies darken, there is a storm, a deluge of rain and hurricanes - it would be hard not to feel like some God has cast his judgement upon you.
Then the Angels descend.
The colour text also brings up some interesting questions , for example why was the process of creating warriors of the ninth so arcane? Did it have something to do with the creation of Sanguinius?
I don't feel qualified to offer any kind of tactical analysis of the rules. What I can say is that they feel right. If I read these rules without any context I would still think these were Blood Angels. The Day of Revelations is very evocative of the assaults launched by the IXth, whereas the Day of Sorrows was a little harder to crack. Why would Blood Angels have a rite of war that seems to be defensive in nature. Then it struck - Siege of Terra! High five Alan Bligh.
The artwork is sublime - infuriatingly so as I have no idea how to transfer these ideas onto the miniatures themselves. I hope Forgeworld kick out an amazing decal sheet and spares me hours of work free handing all of this.
This book has all the elements I wanted from the Blood Angels but this isn't our story, this isn't our book. Our defining event of the Heresy is the Siege and I'm more than happy to wait for rules, models and a book. Because when that story is told, the IXth will be centre stage ripping the traitors to bits!
Myles
P.S. - I'm aware that we haven't seen an update from the space angel/ vamps in a while so I've settled on getting a post out every Friday to catch up. So look out for the Shadow of Mighty Wings article every week.
Paints used: Vallejo, Reaper Master Series, Games Workshop Washes, Com Art Medea Airbrush Airbrush: Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH Airbrush Paint Brushes: Rosemary & Co. Raphael 8040, Broken Toad Brushes, Windsor and Newton Series 7
Monday 15 February 2016
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- "Because the Wolves kill cleanly, and we do not. They also kill quickly, and we have never done that, either. They fight, they win, and they stalk back to their ships with their tails held high. If they were ever ordered to destroy another Legion, they would do it by hurling warrior against warrior, seeking to grind their enemies down with the admirable delusions of the 'noble savage'. If we were ever ordered to assault another Legion, we would virus bomb their recruitment worlds; slaughter their serfs and slaves; poison their gene-seed repositories and spend the next dozen decades watching them die slow, humiliating deaths. Night after night, raid after raid, we'd overwhelm stragglers from their fleets and bleach their skulls to hang from our armour, until none remained. But that isn't the quick execution the Emperor needs, is it? The Wolves go for the throat. We go for the eyes. Then the tongue. Then the hands. Then the feet. Then we skin the crippled remains, and offer it up as an example to any still bearing witness. The Wolves were warriors before they became soldiers. We were murderers first, last, and always!"
- —Jago Sevatarion, speaking about his VIIIth Legion
- "Because the Wolves kill cleanly, and we do not. They also kill quickly, and we have never done that, either. They fight, they win, and they stalk back to their ships with their tails held high. If they were ever ordered to destroy another Legion, they would do it by hurling warrior against warrior, seeking to grind their enemies down with the admirable delusions of the 'noble savage'. If we were ever ordered to assault another Legion, we would virus bomb their recruitment worlds; slaughter their serfs and slaves; poison their gene-seed repositories and spend the next dozen decades watching them die slow, humiliating deaths. Night after night, raid after raid, we'd overwhelm stragglers from their fleets and bleach their skulls to hang from our armour, until none remained. But that isn't the quick execution the Emperor needs, is it? The Wolves go for the throat. We go for the eyes. Then the tongue. Then the hands. Then the feet. Then we skin the crippled remains, and offer it up as an example to any still bearing witness. The Wolves were warriors before they became soldiers. We were murderers first, last, and always!"