I just about managed to finish the Blood Angels Contemptor for my DreadTober project. And while waiting for the oil paint to dry, I also got in some more progress on my Breacher squad.
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Pict 1231: Blood Angels Contemptor
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Pict 1232: Blood Angels Contemptor |
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Pict 1233: Blood Angels Contemptor
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The oils took longer to dry than I expected and so I could not immediatly continue painting. Since I was in a bit of a hurry to finish him up for the end of the month, I sadly forgot to take a picture of the Contemptor before adding the weathering. (I'll have to do this with next bigger model – it's really quite the transformation!)
Anyways, I just about managed to finish him in time for the end of DreadTober. And I even snuck in a little reference to the event on the scroll. He's now got the following number: X·MMXXII
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Pict 1234: Blood Angels Breachers (WIP)
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With my waiting for the oils on the Contemptor to dry, I managed quite a bit of progress on my MK IV Breachers. They are now at the stage right befor highlighting with the oilwash applied and still drying.
It took me some time to decide what I wanted to do with the flat space of the Breacher Shields. Of course this is prime real estate for decals / heraldry. The problem was the laurel wreath I kept in the center of the shield. In the end it's somewhat simple: just the small Legion icon inside the wreath with an additional blood drop in the bottom left corner as a unit marker. This leaves me with plenty of space for weathering and scratches!
Lovely stuff.
ReplyDeleteThe Contemptor looks brilliant mate, as do the Breachers.
I do love the pose of the Contemptor running forward like that.
Thank you! Yes I'm very happy with the momentum. Especially since he was another Ebay rescue originally with a somewhat uninspired pose...
DeleteYeah, I get the whole "uninspired posing" phenomenon.
DeleteA lot of people just build stuff "at the ready" and have done, not sure why tbh.
Beautiful work Xarfai, I love your Blood Angels so much it ALMOST makes me want to collect them myself.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I mean, you do the Dark Angels so nicely yourself – teamin up that's the beautiful Angels of Death Codex! Can't go wrong with that!
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