My Progress So Far

Considering that on the 1st December 2013 I had only 1 single Tactical Squad completed, I am very happy with the number of units I can now present which are fully painted. Next up is my 2nd Dreadnought, Assault Marines, Drop Pod and then on to Centurions, Sternguard, 3rd Tactical Squad... and the list goes on!

If I can continue at this rate I could be looking at having my entire army fully painted by March/April time! Just in time for moving on to something different. Orks maybe?

WTF is... Space Marine

I know this Space Marine was released back in 2011 but I was surfing YouTube the other day and came across this first impression video published by the wonderful TotalBiscuit. I remember watching this upon its release and being very impressed by the game... and I did later pick it up. Anyway, I do love this video and so I figured I would post about it in case anyone who reads this blog has missed out on such a great vid.

Its very unusual for TB to be so 'fanboyish' and I think you can really visualize the glee on his face as he plays through the demo.

Enjoy

Elite: Dreadnought

I absolutely love the Venerable Dreadnought model. I picked this unit up in May last year but only managed to get around to painting it over the last couple of weeks. Thanks to the advice of Jai, from Games Workshop Bath, I picked this model up instead of the traditional variant. I have used it as both a standard and also a Venerable Dreadnought but this model is far superior [to the bog standard model] in my opinions and so when I realised that there was nothing stopping me from picking up the Venerable model it was a done deal!

After reading some forums for effective layouts for Dreadnoughts I picked up a couple of the Forgeworld Autocannon weapons and these are the weapons which can be seen on the photo above. I have to admit that I wasn't very impressed with the quality of the weapons- the barrels were warped and the level of detail was very quickly lost under the payers of paint... however for £8 per weapon they werent particularly expensive so its not the end of the world.

 I'm yet to be convinced that the 'rifleman' load out (2 x twin linked Auto-cannons) is viable in 6th... and especially against Chaos (who I battle most regularly) however for fluff centred lists which I tend to go for, it certainly has a place so I will continue to experiment while I paint up the further weapon options.

Troop Transport: Rhino

The good old Rhino!

Back in March '13 my chum Bob (who has his own 40K blog - linked to on the right hand panel) very kindly donated a load of his old Marines and this Rhino model was the first which I re-painted in my chapter colour scheme. 

As mentioned in my previous post; I do enjoy marking up my unit authentically and so this is the 1st Rhino of the Light Knights 2nd Company. The unit is curre

As I painted this model fairly early on in the development of the colour scheme it is actually painted in Fenrisian Grey as opposed to Russ Grey (with Fenrisian Grey being the first highlight layer). Thankfully it doesn't look out of place among my painted units so I'm planning on leaving it as is.. with the hope that no-one will notice!

Troops: 1st Tactical Squad

The first unit which I completed. This is the Tactical Squad unit which is part of the Dark Vengeance boxed set. It is Plasma heavy- with the heavy/special weapons being Plasma Cannon and Plasma Gun respectively.

As this is was my first completed unit I am very happy with how they turned out- especially the sergeants robes! I also had to remove the Dark Angels chapter symbol from the models as it is molded into the cast for these guys. After a few cuts I managed to remove the symbols and cover up any messy knife work with my Raptor chapter symbol which I am using for my home-brew chapter.