Obsidians Blood Angels

[The_Dark_Lord_Obsidian]

Another Year, Another log.

After my parents asked me what I wanted for Christmas I had to give things a little thought...

What would I like to do?

On one hand, I could add more units to my Word Bearers army and continue worshipping the gods of chaos....

On the other hand, I could start up a new army and maybe consider getting back into gaming....

Well, as you are reading THIS project log and not my Word Bearers log, I'm sure that you can guess what I decided on!

A trip into my local GW (Bath) helped me decide on what to collect and I walked out with a box of Sanguinary Guard, then I waited for Christmas and the bounty my parents would bring forth.

I have been painting these since the week before Christmas, so this is what I have to show for 2 weeks work.

It's a lot more than my usual output, however, my PS3 broke and therefore I could not indulge in Skyrim which I also received at the time, so I've pretty much been painting over the holiday season.

Everythings still WIP, the captain is the only fully finished model.













I also have left to paint:

5 death company
5 Assault Marines
10 Tactical Marines
1 Stormraven

Enjoy

[New Cult King]

Woah, the reds on that Chaplain are perfect

[Student]

Good work. I especially like the freehand grail on the terminator and the purpleness of the Saguinary Guards wings.

[The_Dark_Lord_Obsidian]

Thanks for the comments guys, I thought I'd update with a little more stuff for you.



The start of a tactical squad, it's pretty much sorted, just need to highlight blacks and sort out the gold.

I also made a start on the stormraven



So far I'm only dealing with the reds, but it's going ok so far.

[The_Dark_Lord_Obsidian]

My Sanguinor arrived today, I could have swore that GW made it in finecast, however, it's good old white metal, which meant that I had to spend about 1 hour cleaning it up.

Then I had a nightmare with the spray undercoat, I made a schoolboy error on the jump pack and wings and forgot to give the can a good shake first meaning that the undercoat was all thick and grainy, so I now have to put that section in dettol before I can do anything on it

I couldn't resist making a start on the body though, and pulling in as many references that I could, I have settled on a cross between three styles of NMM.

I'm going for similar technique to the GW NMM Sanguinary Guard however, I couldn't help but take a bit out of this tutorial for inspiration and most definately B&Cs Brassangel and his Sanguinor, which is probably my favourite example so far.

So without further ado, heres the WIP so far, about 2 and a half hours in.



This is my first attempt at a completely NMM model, so please be kind!

[zis]

No need to worry this looks wonderful! Now go paint and give us some more pictures

[The_Dark_Lord_Obsidian]

Thanks zis,
as you wish...



Thats what I did last night, about 5 hours in now

[Jedi152]

Wow, that's looking great.

Do you have a tutorial for your Sanguinor and the chaplain armour?

[The_Dark_Lord_Obsidian]

Hi Jedi, I'm sure I could knock something up for the sanguinor, heres the red tutorial

[Breazer]

obsidian that looks like a great start of a model...the nmm is looking excellent...
i am very curious to see it all wrapped up and done...keep em coming!

[zis]

Will be a fantastic model when done!

[The_Dark_Lord_Obsidian]

obsidian that looks like a great start of a model...the nmm is looking excellent...
i am very curious to see it all wrapped up and done...keep em coming!

Thanks very much Breazer, I agree with you wholeheartedly, I really am curious to see how this turns out, all I can say is that this is really testing my skills as a painter, and that I'm really enjoying painting it!

Will be a fantastic model when done!

thanks very much zis, comments like that are really inspiring, though hopefully I can live up to expectations!

Update time:

Congratulations to me, I am now working full time at the University of Bath, ending the briefest period of unemployment I have ever had!
This also means that I have less free time, not that I'm complaining, but painting progress has slowed as I don't have hours and hours like before, so updates are less frequent...

but progress has been made!





and I made a start on the rest, thanks to the wonders of dettol!





Thanks for viewing!

[The_Dark_Lord_Obsidian]

Sorry everyone for being gone so long...
I've been finding it hard to find time for the hobby recently due to many factors, however, I thought I'd show my face again on these lovely forums with a minor update for you all.
It's taken me ages to get this Assault Squad looking how I want them, however, I'm relatively happy with the finished result.



second photo...





Also, I've made a lot of progress on the back section of my sanguinor, and would say that this section is about 95% finished

[The_Dark_Lord_Obsidian]

I'm so close I can almost taste it...

finally, I've done enough work on the Sanguinor that I can glue him together!!
Just gemstones and incidental detail left to do, hopefully I can finish him this week!



toodles!

[The_Dark_Lord_Obsidian]

Welcome to what seems to be my occasional monthly update on this log.

I got this done quite speedily compared to many of my other models in this army, only taking about 2 days to paint. I decided to use some of the techniques I learned doing the sanguinor, only this time using real metallic paints, and I believe that it's worked quite well.

So I give you Commander Dante







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