Slaanesh theme Blood Angels

[Harwammer]

Well, my leader is close enough to done now. I can always tweak him a little before I paint him as I don't have any gold to hand.

Next up will be some death company followed by a few regular marines so I can fill the mandatory FoC slots. The advantage on getting the leader and death company done first is they will depart from the main colour scheme of the army (mainly gold for the leader, mainly black for the DC) which will afford me a little more time on deciding on my colour scheme (I can't believe I still haven't made a decision on this yet!).

Here's three Death Company berserkers as three is the minimum squad size. Haven't decided what jump packs to give them yet.


One more core unit to go! Not sure whether to do a tactical squad or a jump squad.

I'm not sure if I'll bother pursuing updates as I get to the painting stages... the culmination of my poor camera skills / camera would likely render the exercise pointless.


(EDIT)

Just realised I made a bit of a faux pas with the warband leader... I've put a blood angels chapter shoulder pad on the wrong side. It looks good but I may swap it out for the sake of pedantry.

In the mean time I've made one more Death Company (even though I only needed 3 :P) and an assault marine/raptor with melta gun (jump pack pending).

[Harwammer]

Did a really quick and dirty spray white, wash yellow, wash brown, dust white job on my leader just to get an idea if gold armour works.



Seems okay in principle. Does anyone have a guide to painting gold armor? I'd like to get it done properly once the rest of my troops are assembled.

[Harwammer]

Just realised I've made a mistake! If my leader is meant to represent a fallen Tycho, his left shoulder pad shouldn't be a generic blood angels one but third company captain one!

I think I'll struggle to get the three blood drops hanging from a torn wing, but a single blood drop on a single wing should be easy enough to make.

[Harwammer]

Seems people aren't interested in (my) modelling. I've started splashing paint on the Death Company berserkers. Give the people what they want or whatever .





Nothing complete yet, but chromatic progress!

[Brother Nidus]

Hey Harwammer,

Just a quick note to say I love the idea of your Slaanesh Angels. been lurking a while but I think it's time for a confidence boost.

I don't think you need worry about getting Tycho's armour just right, just explain it away that the apothecaries found Tycho's broken body and reclaimed his armour for the chapter. they were all set to return Tycho's 'remains' to Baal when he disappeared. Your fallen Tycho then scavenged some armour from the dead yet to be reclaimed, and made off with some of his more deranged brethren.

you could perhaps do a 'Daemon Prince' version of him using maybe the Sanguinor and possibly parts from Sigvald? showing his obsession with appearance taking more predominance as he falls further into Slaanesh's sway?

Keep at it. it's an interesting concept. In my opinion, if any modern chapter where to fall to Slaanesh, it would be the arty-farty Blood Angels...


Nidus

[Harwammer]

Thanks Brother Nidus Your words of encouragment are appreciated.

I'm moving to hobby-mecca (aka Nottigham) at the moment, so updates may be a little more sporadic. BUT if any one is local there is a good chance I'll be working on my guys in Warhammer World. Should anyone like to meet me, see my marines or help me learn how to play 40k. PM me if interested, readers. It will be nice to make some new friends at my new home

[Harwammer]

PAINT!

I ended up using a 2nd ed BA colour scheme, but with lillac purple for the edge highlights. Here's the testmodel.

Here's the tester:


Apologies for the lighting; It was rather sunny!