Full Blood Angels 2nd Company by ilikebmxbikes

[ilikebmxbikes]

While your BAs are amazing as always I really like those jungle terrain pieces you got there. More pics ? Are these Pegasus' palm trees?

They are some cheap chinese jungle trees I bought on ebay. They took like 3 weeks to get to the states but they were really cheap. I think after shipping I spent less than $50 and have enough trees to full jungle out my board if I want. I have six times more trees than what you see in the photos. These are much cheaper than the GW, Pegasus and other trees I was looking at. I am really happy with them and after I get them all painted, I may place another order if I feel I need more.

Woah...that captain is really cool...i had no idea you could do that to the model....very nice job...the dread is coming along nicely too.. I like the damage you painted on there...
and i know its fun to fight orks with those big guys...in general orks are fun....specially when you get to kill them by masses..

i love the jungle stuff...you dont see that so often...really nice....and im curious to see how the games day mini will come out...

And about work related stuff still...puma is also a big client indeed...thats very impressive...
well if you were ever in need of a hand on the other side of the ocean im always up for it....

Ill let you know if I ever need someone out there.

You've been busy! Your jungle looks like it'll be fun to play games with.

I will hopefully be getting the rest of the terrain painted this week and will post photos. I have a lot more buildings, rubble, and jungle to get done.

The jungle terrain looks amazing, makes me really want to play on your board.

Great to see your 'raven up as I'm just starting to put mine together. Biggest kit I think I've ever made, and first time I've worked with resin as well (other than a FW Dread arm, but that's very basic). Looking at yours for some ideas on how it goes together ;-). Did you magnetize any of yours? I was planning to put some on the wings for storage, and probably on the doors and nose so I can swap the weapons.

I havent magnetized anything on my army. It is all glued on.. I may magnetize my thunderhawk transporter though. I bet the turret would be easy to magnetize the other options but the nose weapon may only allow you two options, the MM or HB, and the rocket launcher.

You mean making to my subscription folder?



Woah !

Other thing I forgot to mention, you'll be responsible for me buying Masters of the Chapter when I finally pick up a brush again. The poor paintjob had always had me consider they were ugly minis, but you just proved otherwise.

Thanks man. Masters of the Chapter is seriously one of the best kits GW ever put out.

Looking good! Wish we had those trees yesterday. Nice timing on the new captain, Dante may need to rest a few games.

yeah man. he may need to rest forever.

lovely work fella. as always the fruits of your labours are splendid.

appreciate it. still doing red scorpions?

[kublai]

I will hopefully be getting the rest of the terrain painted this week and will post photos. I have a lot more buildings, rubble, and jungle to get done.

Good news !!!

[ChaplainOrion]

Sir you models are still amazing looking, but is your captain wearing a toupee?

[ilikebmxbikes]

Sir you models are still amazing looking, but is your captain wearing a toupee?

haha. yeah, the FW captain head looks a little toupeish. I did actually paint some hair on the side so it looks buzzed but it is ahrd to see from the photo. maybe i will have to greenstuff it.

[Atia]

love your army(s) ilikebmxbikes keep it up! for the emperor

[Breazer]

Ill let you know if I ever need someone out there.

BTW dont you just hate those GW videos?...specialy that games day coverage they did....with the live interviews...most interviews actually...bad sound and all...far too long...or is that just me

[ilikebmxbikes]

BTW dont you just hate those GW videos?...specialy that games day coverage they did....with the live interviews...most interviews actually...bad sound and all...far too long...or is that just me

YESSSSS!!!!! GW is way behind on the video front but at least it is good to see them catching up. Beasts of War's videos are way better than GW.

[Beppo1234]

YESSSSS!!!!! GW is way behind on the video front but at least it is good to see them catching up. Beasts of War's videos are way better than GW.

I too despise GW 'videos promos'... hey! look at our awesome powerpoint skills! muuuuh

[Inquisitor Engel]

I too despise GW 'videos promos'... hey! look at our awesome powerpoint skills! muuuuh

Come man, give them some credit. That's at least Windows Movie Maker.

[ilikebmxbikes]

7150 and I teamed up against Pete's Tyranids for a 4k point game. It was a really good game. Pete's tyranid army is one of the most challenging army I have ever faced. We played the mission with the random point value objectives. The random dice rolled in the nids favor, giving them one point above us in their deployment so we had to bring the fight to them. We killed a two hive tyrants, a canifex, the swarmlord, and a ton of other bugs, but in the end, we couldnt hold them back and were overrun pretty bad. It was a good game though and im looking forward to the next one. I might have to paint more sternguard and bump my squad up to ten.


If anyone has advice on how to combat an army with tons of big tyranids, any ideas are welcome.

The board and terrain are getting there, but I still need a table to put it on. Hopefully this week. A lot more went down than what is shown in the photos.

[ilikebmxbikes]

[Astraeos]

Does everyone in your area paint to such a good standard!? I wanna see those 'Nid and Dark Angels players logs now!

Tyranids, well sniper rifles are good, my own Wolf Scouts killed a Hive Tyrant using theirs. Maybe some Vindicators and Whirlwinds for large templates. I run my Long Fangs loaded for 'Nid, 2 Heavy Bolters, 2 Plasma cannons and a missile launcher.

[bugsculptor]

@ilikebmxbikes - I really enjoyed this game, it's the first time I've laid 4000 points of my Tyranids down together. The scenery and all the armies looked amazing, and I'm now slightly guilty for bringing along my work in progress flyrant and gargoyles. I just wanted to show off my greenstuffing skills, but I'm definitely going to have to get my paints out before our next game ;-)

I've had lots of local tournament practice, so my nids are no pushover. The marines brought all the tools to take down my MCs, but I also had some nasty tricks to get into their lines and start harvesting biomass before it did too much damage. We had night fighting on turn one, which let my hordes of gargoyles, hormagaunts and genestealers move forward in relative safety, and flying hive tyrant with invisibility absorbed a lot of enemy fire in turns one and two. There were a lot of sternguard that needed to die so I could get across the table... fortunately my Doom of Malantai was in the mood to swallow a whole squad of them when he dropped in and the flyrant's shooting accounted for most of another once their Rhino was wrecked.

The combat between the Death Company and their Dread versus the already heavily wounded Swarmlord showed just how much of a badass the biggest bug can be with access to the new powers. With seven attacks from warp time he rolled two sixes and could direct hits onto the hammer and power fist, knocking them out before they could hurt him and the rest of the DC struggled to wound against his Iron Arm... fortunately I made some lucky FNP saves at that point. The dread piled in to try and finish him off, but ran straight into 7 more S9 attacks and exploded before it could hurt him.

If anyone wants to see more of my nids, I post as bugsculptor on warpshadow.com and have a WIP photo blog here: http://bugsculpting.tumblr.com/

[superdupermatt]

Did the death company kill the swamlord??

[Fle]

When you see pictures of fully painted armies duking it out on a nice table it really motivates oneself to get their own army finished. I have admired your Blood Angels for a long time and have spent many hours looking over the same pictures again and again. You really do have a stunning Blood Angels collection here and it is not just the painting. The way you pose your models and the subtle conversions you have executed are just awe inspiring - keep them comming please

[ilikebmxbikes]

Did the death company kill the swamlord??

The swarmlord killed the DC and DC dread in a drawn out combat. Knowing we hadn't a chance to take enough objectives to secure a victory the death company went for glory. The storm raven zoomed onto the table, inflicted a few wounds on the swordlord and dropped the DC and DC dread out right in front of the swarm lord the following turn. The death company assaulted the swarmlord and the dread assaulted and killed a unit of Tyrant guard. The swarmlord challenged the DC chaplain who refused. The swarmlord unleashed his attacks and rolled a few sixes, which he allocated to the thunder hammer and power fist marines, killing them instantly. The rest of the death company struck with their liturgies of blood and killed the swarmlord... Or so they thought. The swarmlord made one of its 'feel no pain' rolls and then combat continued another few rounds. The death company dreadnought joined the combat and was smashed by the swarmlord before he could strike. Then the last DC marine was killed. The storm raven had to fly accross the board in a later turn to inflict the final wound to kill the Tyranid beast. The swarmlord is one nasty creature with his buffs.

When you see pictures of fully painted armies duking it out on a nice table it really motivates oneself to get their own army finished. I have admired your Blood Angels for a long time and have spent many hours looking over the same pictures again and again. You really do have a stunning Blood Angels collection here and it is not just the painting. The way you pose your models and the subtle conversions you have executed are just awe inspiring - keep them comming please

Really appreciate it. Your sons of orar are amazing. I actually made a note on the marine you modeled with the power sword, the one who looks like he is delivering a killing blow. My next sang guard unit might have to borrow his pose.

[ss_cherubael]

Bloody hell that looked like an awesome match up, and I agree with those who posted before; glorious painting!

[Atia]

Nice to see painted Armys on an Table (if you go to my GW Base ... you just see grey armys and young players the most time ....). Your Angels looks very nice in action =). That motivates to play again (at the moment, i'm more a painter and conversior as a gamer ...) What chapter have your partner?

[7150]

Nice to see painted Armys on an Table (if you go to my GW Base ... you just see grey armys and young players the most time ....). Your Angels looks very nice in action =). That motivates to play again (at the moment, i'm more a painter and conversior as a gamer ...) What chapter have your partner?

Just a custom Vanilla chapter.

[ilikebmxbikes]

@ilikebmxbikes - I really enjoyed this game, it's the first time I've laid 4000 points of my Tyranids down together. The scenery and all the armies looked amazing, and I'm now slightly guilty for bringing along my work in progress flyrant and gargoyles. I just wanted to show off my greenstuffing skills, but I'm definitely going to have to get my paints out before our next game ;-)

I've had lots of local tournament practice, so my nids are no pushover. The marines brought all the tools to take down my MCs, but I also had some nasty tricks to get into their lines and start harvesting biomass before it did too much damage. We had night fighting on turn one, which let my hordes of gargoyles, hormagaunts and genestealers move forward in relative safety, and flying hive tyrant with invisibility absorbed a lot of enemy fire in turns one and two. There were a lot of sternguard that needed to die so I could get across the table... fortunately my Doom of Malantai was in the mood to swallow a whole squad of them when he dropped in and the flyrant's shooting accounted for most of another once their Rhino was wrecked.

The combat between the Death Company and their Dread versus the already heavily wounded Swarmlord showed just how much of a badass the biggest bug can be with access to the new powers. With seven attacks from warp time he rolled two sixes and could direct hits onto the hammer and power fist, knocking them out before they could hurt him and the rest of the DC struggled to wound against his Iron Arm... fortunately I made some lucky FNP saves at that point. The dread piled in to try and finish him off, but ran straight into 7 more S9 attacks and exploded before it could hurt him.

If anyone wants to see more of my nids, I post as bugsculptor on warpshadow.com and have a WIP photo blog here: http://bugsculpting.tumblr.com/

It was a good game. The winged tyrant deserves a paint job. We have to do another 4k game sometime in the next few weeks but Im down to do a 1500-2k sometime in between. I have some more first company blood angels in the pipeline. I was also thinking since you have the space hulk rules, a ton of painted stealers, and I have a bunch of BA terminators, we could try space hulk sometime.