Eagle Warriors Terminator Squad

With the 1-year anniversary of this blog fast-approaching (!), I figured the least I could do was finally get the rest of the Black Reach minis finished, and this weekend's change in weather from the recent sunshine into a more familiar delightful grey drizzle, gave me the perfect opportunity to buckle down.

So here we go with the mighty terminator sergeant Xanthus:

...bless him, he has his name written across his chest in case he forgets who he is...

Just noticed I haven't done the stud on his forehead yet - oops.

I've been working on feedback (from here and on Dakka) and drilled out the gun barrels. Also I'm changing my basing colour to a more muddy brown so that my marines don't look like they've landed on a planet of cornflakes. There will be a little static grass applied to these in the near future too.

In this side view you can see a bit of the blending work on his sword - I think it looks a little nicer than just plain metallics (it is supposed to be a funky powersword after all) - feedback and suggestions on how this looks / how it can be improved welcome as ever:

Here's the gang all together looking suitably threatening (new basing colour yet to be applied to the older minis):

Deffkopta

Last of the orky stuff from the AoBR set:

Just the other 2 of these to finish and I'll have no orks left to work on. Stormboyz or bikes have been suggested for the next additions. In the mean time I'm working on a land raider for the marines - pics to follow soon. Have a good week folks.

Marine commander

...now available in Eagle Warriors colours!...

Apols for the distinct lack of posts of late folks - Christmas, holidays, and playing fetch with a puppy all play havoc with the painting time. Anyway, back now and here we go with the next addition to the Eagle Warriors - the mighty Captain Castus (no idea where the name came from, it just fit nicely on his banner - I'm trying to avoid googling it in case it turns out that it means "dried poop" in latin or something...)

I'm continuing with a clean-ish look for this army (no battle-damage or mud anywhere on these polishy polishy shiny shiny Astartes, oh no sir, they'll kick ass and look good doing it, thankyouverymuch). However... taking on feedback about basing my models from learned denizens of the internet, I did invest in a bit of rubble for Castus to stand on. I think it's an improvement, and probably worth going back to the previous models at some point to add a few bits to homogenise the look of the whole force. As ever, comments and suggestions gratefully accepted.

New Dark Eldar

I guess these guys are going to be flavour of the month for a while - good job they look rather fantastic...

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=13000003a

Scroll down to see pics of the new line of Dark Eldar - all sleek and evil looking. Oh dear, add this to the Orks, Marines and Craftworld Eldar that I'm already working on, along with the Chaos Space Marines and Demons that I'm jealously ogling and this is a recipe for bank-account-collapse... help!

Eagle warriors terminator

I've been eager to get around to these guys because I've always thought that space marine terminators were the coolest models ever. I've still got the original metal terminator squad and a couple with cyclone missile launchers that I've stripped of my old Blood Angels paintjob, might give them a new look some day, for old times' sake. So here he is, the first Eagle Warriors termie from the Black Reach set:

I've noticed that a lot of colour schemes for these guys use contrasting colours for the helmets, so I thought I'd pick out the helmet in the same red that I use for the marines' bolters. Ooh! and I almost forgot - here's the moulded shoulder pad, done from an impression of a standard marine shoulder icon:

Sergeant

Phew! - glad I finally got this one finished, he's been languishing on the painting table for ages. So the Tac squad now finally has a sergeant - just the missile launcher to finish and then we're done, yay!

I tried taking the pic outdoors this time - dodgy background I know, but the colours end up looking a lot closer to reality - shame we only get 3 sunny days a year here...

Waaaaaaagh!

...ahem.

Right then - some proper progress now with our greenskinned friends - I've finally finished all the orks from the Black Reach set, just the Deffkoptas to do now.


Realm of Battle board is also continuing apace, although a word to the wise: I thought it might be a good idea to get the scenery painting set, and then intended to use the brown basecoat with my spray gun (generic bottom fed external mix gun), but I found that the paint, even when very dilute, quickly clogged the nozzle - much worse than standard paints. In the end I just went with the big "wall painting" brush that they give you in the set and that worked just fine. Going to have to spend a while cleaning that spray gun now - grrrr.


Anyway, without further ado - here are the Black Reach orks in all their glory - as usual, comments / suggestions very welcome:


Warboss:

The whole gang (click to embiggen):

Nobz:

Nearly finished the Eagle Warriors tactical squad too, so I'll post these hopefully next week, but painting time will be limited this weekend as we'll be in the Lake District walking about with the doggies. Have a good week folks.

A couple of orks from AoBR, and yeah, I know, photography lacking somewhat... still working on that



A bit of gun-barrel-drilling might be a good idea too - just noticed that while posting this. Better think about making it so that somebody actually reads this at some point too, so I think I'll head on over to the good folk at From The Warp to see if they'll add this blog to their list.