Punkfish's BA 5th Company

[punkfish]

Hello all,

after much bullying by Meganutz, I've decided to start a plog detailing my efforts at expanding my Blood Angels 5th Company.

I've been collecting this army since '92 and although there are some original figures still there, I've continually been upgrading my army.

I generally paint to tabletop standard but will sometimes experiment with the more elite units in my army.

Fluff
This is the background for the army up to and including the Medusa IV campaign a couple of years back. Since this was written, I've added new units and squads but the core of the army is still there.

HQ
Captain Adeon

Epistolary Furion

Chaplain Ionius

Sanguinary Priest Bellephron

5th Company Squads

Tactical Squad Cleon (Company Honour Guard)
Tactical Squad Palemon
Tactical Squad Tranio
Tactical Squad Braccio
Tactical Squad Cloten
Tactical Squad Lysander
Assault Squad Menelius
Assault Squad Micah
Devastator Squad Corbo
Devastator Squad Erastus

Attached elements

Terminator Assault Squad Lucion
Terminator Squad Bellion
Veteran Squad Enosh

Scout Squad Proteus
Sniper Scout Squad Rafen

Dreadnought Tranio
Dreadnought Gideon
Dreadnought Alactus (Furioso Variant)

Armoury
Three Techmarines - 9 Servitors
Whirlwind - Sanguine Vengeance
Vindicator - Wrath of Sanguinus
Baal Predator - Sanguine Fury
Predator Destructor - Tycho's Revenge
Predator Annihilator - Sanguine Lance
Landraider - Deliverance

Whirlwind Suppression Force - Baal's Fury
Vindicator Linebreaker Squadron - Hammer of Blood

Background
The Blood Angels 5th Company has recently finished a period of resupply and replenishment after participating in fierce fighting in the Sabbat Worlds Cluster. Brother Captain Adeon has only recently been elevated to his position after his predecessor was slain by an Iron Warriors Warsmith during the Company's defence of a strategically vital Hive.

The 5th Company has received reports that the same Warsmith has been sighted around the Medusa Sector. On hearing this news, Captain Adeon has mustered his company and set course for Medusa.

Pictures
Anyhow, without further ado, here's my army in it's glory (pic taken in Jan 09),


Some assault terminators


Some normal Terminators


Here's my WIP of Dante


And some finished pics




Any comments very welcome, thanks for your time

Punkfish

[Mega Nutz]

Well I could say it's about time, but after seeing Dante I'll add that it's been well worth the wait... that's a very nice rendition and quite an imposing army!

[superdupermatt]

That Dante looks amazing - kudo's to you. As a fellow BA player I can't wait to start on my model, but I am dreading the gold armour a bit too.

[tcraigen]

yeah your dante looks really nice. Great work I love to see fello BA broters

[eltanko]

I love the non-metallic take on Dante's armour, looks very good.

ElTanko

[punkfish]

Thanks for the input guys,

@superdupermatt - the armour wasn't that hard to do in the end. Base coat of vomit brown, then followed by washes of Ogryn flesh, Devlan mud and Badab black in the recesses. I then highlighted with various mixes of vomit brown and skull white before using pure skull white as a final highlight. Then to blend it all together, use a gryphonne sepia wash. My only gripe is that I didn't graduate the highlighting enough but i'll know better for last time.

@ElTanko, I notice you're from Bristol, which GW store do you go to there?

While I'm at it, here are some other pics of my WIP Furioso Dread

[eltanko]

Hey Punkfish. I usually go the the store in Broadmead, as its closest. But I dont go very often, I havnt managed to get into the while gaming side yet!

Nice start on the Furioso aswell

ElTanko

[Magos Explorator]

Your Dante looks great, reminds me of the paintjob from the 2nd edition Codex: Angels of Death.

[miked23]

Nice these guys are looking good.

[punkfish]

@Eltanko - I rarely get to game too. Broadmead is my local GW although I've not been there on games night.

I'm thinking that with the Furioso, I might try adding painted battle damage to it. I'll let you know how it all goes

[punkfish]

Hi guys, here's some more pics of the Furioso. I'll be adding the battle damage next week as I've got four days off to really hit the painting.

A pic of the Furioso and two of his friends....


Here's some pictures of my recently finished Devastator Squad too. This squad rounded my army up to a full battle companies worth.





Any comments welcome. Thanks for looking guys

[nagash66]

Awesome work there punkfish, wish my BA looked half as good. ;ets get some more infa close ups plz!

[Mega Nutz]

Nice looking heavy support mate! Be interested to see how the battle damage turns out... !

[eltanko]

The Devastators look great, the blue helmets are really well done. The black arm of the sergeant is something I have not seen before, is there a story behind that?

ElTanko

[punkfish]

@Eltanko - it's a bit of homemade background inspired by the GW Terminator schemes a few years ago, those with the black left arm/gauntlet. I see it as marking out my veterans and it's a reminder that anyone can fall to the black rage and that they as veterans run the greatest risk of falling.

It also looks good from a scheme point of view as they are more recognisable on the tabletop/battlefield.

@Nagash66 -here's a close up of the Devastator Sergeant, I'll get some more close-ups when I'm back in Bristol.



Thanks guys

[punkfish]

Ok, here's the Furioso with some battle damaged added. I'm going to add the Chapter and company markings tomorrow when the light is better.

The red has been washed out slightly by my camera flash but hopefully you get the idea

[Mega Nutz]

Looks really good pal. Love the damage...gives it a real sense of heavy usage, befitting a company relic!!

[eltanko]

Really excellent Furioso there Punkfish! the battle damage is very nice.

ElTanko

[punkfish]

Thanks for the comments guys.

After a weekend disrupted by lots of MW2 action, I've managed to sit down and paint a few bits and pieces.

Here's my Whirlwind. I've mostly finished the weathering although I've ordered some FW weathering thingys to try out.





As always, any comments welcomed.

As for my next project, well, I'm torn between painting up a Vanguard Vet squad, the four Masters of the Chapter or a Land Raider Crusader. What would people like to see?

[titan136]

Great to see more blood angels out there

awesome battle damage on the furioso, I too am a fan of the triple furioso combo.

Really nice work on Dante! Can we get some pics of the other HQ models?