Off the Top of My Head: 40k Dark Angels Librarian Turmiel

On December 11, 2013December 10, 2013 By James CastroIn Art, Games, Random FunLeave a comment

This guy I painted the same day as I painted the standard bearer. In fact I may have painted him first but who can remember such details now?

He’s the Dark Vengeance Dark Angels Librarian and GW really showed off what they could do with plastic minis in that set. So much so that I’ve heard that finecast has met its demise going forward. I had a previous librarian, but since this guy was so utterly Dark-Angel’d up, yo, I moved my other one to my little Blood Angels army.

I didn’t follow the exact color scheme used in the Dark Vengeance literature, but it’s more fun to riff a bit right? He, like my standard bearer, needs some serious touch-ups as I can spot all kinds of places I didn’t blend well, but I do like his force sword! Other areas are just things I can look forward to correcting soon.

I actually had two of these guys, but the crew in the sadly closed Woodfield Mall GW store gave me a GREAT idea what to do with my other one. He’s been primered and painting has only just started on him but this is what I did with my other Turmiel:

I altered the command bike to carry an extra Tome of the Long Hunt from the Ravenwing upgrade sprue on the wings of the angels on the rear fender.

I’ve included several other little additions, such as the second volume on the side of the fender, A scroll from Skaven plague monks on the front fender, and a cherub I got with an Empire General Standard bit.

I heard of a few ways to convert a regular Ravenwing sergeant into a librarian-on-a-bike (including using Grey Knights bits), but with Turmiel’s dynamic posing (love that outstretched hand) and iconography it was hard to think of another one that would look nearly as Dark Angels-y.

Once I have him completed I’ll post pics of him, hopefully showing, hopefully, more advancement in painting ability.

Check out my previous ork painting posts for more!

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Dark Angels Dreadnought

Dark Angels Standard Bearer

Off the Top of My Head: Painting 40k Dark Angels Standard Bearer

On December 4, 2013December 3, 2013 By James CastroIn Art, Games, Random Fun1 Comment

My dreadnought got me in the mood to paint more Dark Angels, and I decided to jump into robed characters rather than the standard green-armored tac-marines.

The new finecast standard bearer is a nice-looking model with a great bas-relief standard. It’s what appealed to me about it. The chance to paint the raised relief edges and also try my hand at the robes for the first time. I had mixed results but I was happy with my first effort:

I like the standard, though my edging could use some touch ups... — I like the standard, though my edging could use some touch ups…

This kind of shows how I tried to do the robes. Not bad but it could use some honing it.

I'm actually most happy with the back of the figure and the banner. I like the red and gold. — I’m actually most happy with the back of the figure and the banner. I like the red and gold. Again I need to touch up those highlights…

The base of the banner was fun to try, and I used ANOTHER piece from the defiler to accent the base.

Check out my previous ork painting posts for more!

Black Reach

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Dark Angels Dreadnought

Off the Top of My Head: Painting 40k Dark Angels Dreadnought

On November 21, 2013November 20, 2013 By James CastroIn Art, Games, Random Fun2 Comments

It’s true I love painting orks but, like a lot of 40K folks, I have dedicated myself to a space marine chapter as well. I went with the Dark Angels over a more codex astartes chapter because of their somewhat mysterious past, duel agenda, and their chapter structure. Gotta love the Ravenwing…

Since I still consider myself a painting neophyte, I started painting my Dark Angels with something a little easier than even a tactical marine figure: a dreadnought.

With the big, flat surfaces and edges, and larger areas it was a simpler place for me to try out some of the layering techniques I’ve seen more expert painters use. It also has lots of weapons and mixed colors (though still on larger surfaces) so it wasn’t just a single, drab item but required a bit of creativity.

I used the Assault on Black Reach dreaddy-nought since he’s relatively static and he’d be easier to clean off if I had any painting disasters:

I went with the Dark Angels color scheme recommended by GW: Chaos Black, Caliban base, Biel-Tan shade, Warpstone Glow layer, Moot Green layer 2, Underhive Ash dry brush, with Waywatcher glaze. Pretty vanilla but I don’t feel ultra-confident enough yet to experiment!

I added the red sarcophagus front-plate and weapon details to give him a bit of character, but still retaining the Dark Angels general scheme.

I’ve decided I’ll have a lot of my DAs in 4^th Company, so I used the munitorium “4” and “IV” from the transfer sheet to detail him, along with some extra bits from the Dark Angels upgrade sprue (pretty good deal, btw folks. It’s basically the DA veteran’s kit $14 cheaper!) to make him more Dark Angel-y. I named him “Puriel” an angel described (by Wikipedia at least!) as “fiery and pitiless”

Again, I love basing models and tried my hand at using some of the Forge World weathering powders on his feet and leg armor. The rest of the base is pretty much just stuff from the GW basing kit again.

That’s his big brother, Camael, the venerable dreadnought behind him. He’s just primed (and yes, that’s part of an Icon of Old Caliban on his back…) I haven’t had the guts to finish completely gluing or painting him yet since, as a member of the Deathwing, he’ll be bone white and I want to practice that a bit more before I potentially mess him up!

Check out my previous ork painting posts for more!

Black Reach

Dredtrukk

Warboss with Attack Squig

Boss Zagstruk

Stormboy Nob on Flying Base

Bad Moons Nazdreg