Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Modeling and Painting/@comment-25041995-20141222020712/@comment-25041995-20141227212744

I hear you loud and clear with reguard to the low quality of some of the writing in the HH books I have read- ladybird meats 40K huh!! :D

I wasn't at all interested in 40K to begin with but after tuning into other customers and the manager at my local GW I was like wait a minute this all sounds bloody good stuff- the seed was sown. The first chapter of Space Marines I heard of was The Dark Angels and I was really taken by their background story- especially everything around the time of the heresy and Cypher. My WFB Warriors of Chaos army quickly finished off and shelved and I quickly moved onto painting my DA's.

I bought a bunch of minis from an online auction site- unknown to me-due to my lack of experience I had got the Assult on Black Reach space marines- which are Ultra Marines so they needed to have a little work done on them to make them Dark Angels- nothing much just sanding of the tactical shoulder arrows as DA's point left to right and not up as the Ultra's did. I also got a Landspeeder that was advertised on ebay as a Dark Angels Landspeeder- you should have seen the state of this when it arrived- it looked like it had been stripped of paint using the xenomorph blood from the Alien movies and the protruding parts were snapped off and the pilots head was lost in the warp! It was a huge mess and I suddenly understood why the one and only photograph of it was so badly out of focus! Anyhoo I had waited weeks on it's arrival so I just looked at it as a challenge and painted it up as Ravenwing and sculpted a new pilot head from GS- turned out not to bad! Next was a generic SM bike painted up as Ravenwing and finally the last model I worked on -my Dreadnought. It was painting the slighly larger pannels on this model that made me realise just how handy an airbrush would be. I finished that last night. I must admit I enjoy making the bases up almost as much as the model itself. Here is a link to my Flickr page but many of the pics are work in progress and not the finished model-i.e. the several SM DA pics. I am no Golden Deamon quality painter! lol :)

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