Sanguinius, The Great Angel

The main part of my hobby these past two weeks was spent painting up Sanguinius, the Great Angel, Primarch of the Blood Angels. However, I also found the time to quickly whip up some Mordor Orc command miniatures as well.

Pict 1277: Sanguinius, the Great Angel

Pict 1278: Sanguinius, the Great Angel

Pict 1279: Sanguinius, the Great Angel

Pict 1280: Sanguinius, the Great Angel

Pict 1281: Sanguinius, the Great Angel (Base)

There he is, the big, winged golden boy to lead my Blood Angels. Really an amazing model, these characters are what Forge World exels at.

For the gold armour I used two different shades of Vallejo Liquid Gold (these paints are really amazing!) shaded with Seraphim Sepia. Following this, the details were rather simple – pretty much only a basecoat, wash and some highlights. And even the leopard's fur was not to bad after I had finally convinced myself to start at it. Really a great project to push myself and learn new techniques!

The base is made using the rider from a metal Bloodcrusher. I found that the deamon needed very little adjustment to the pose. Just a few cuts, a left hand from a Crypt Ghoul and some Green Stuff. I also like that the metal gives it a bit more weight to pull down the center of gravity. I the future, I might want to try my hand at a scenic base to insert this one into with the remaining Khorne Juggernaught and of course more demons to mimic the ones on the painting.

Pict 1282: Mordor Orc Banners and Shaman

Pict 1283: Mordor Orc Banners and Shaman

I painted these Mordor Orcs on a whim – I really would like to have some more Orc warriors as they open up so many variants of Mordor and Angmar armies, but I dread the prospect of batch painting them.
These three however were great fun! Of course these miniatures stand out more than the common Orc, but a way forward might be to paint the Orcs I have in smaller batches.
The freehands on the banners were great fun! I looked at the old Mordor supplement from 2008 to get inspired for banners from different regions of Mordor. The one with the red face is more of a general banner but is inspired by the designs on the Minas Morgul banners. The other one I painted with my Black Gate army (including the Troll Chieftains) in mind.

Pict 1284: Radukar the Beast (WIP)

Finally, after the great success of last year's Dreadtober, I want to take part in the #MonsterMarch challenge, as organised by Swordmaster. I want to take this opportunity to get some paint onto Radukar the Beast. The miniature is very cool and it is used in both Cursed City expansions. It's one of my new year's resolutions to paint and play at least the first expansion of these, so painting Radukar will hopefully be a good start to that!

Blood Angels Assault Marines and Celebrating 200 Posts

These past two weeks, I finished the Blood Angels Assault Marines and got to work on the next few things for the Legion. Also this post marks the 200th one on this blog! (At least if the numbers on the back end are to be believed, I did not bother to count them all...) This calls for celebrations and so I allowed myself to start on the big boy for the Blood Angels, Sanguinius himself.

Pict 1267: Blood Angels Assault Marines

Pict 1268: Blood Angels Assault Marines

Pict 1269: Blood Angels Assault Marines

These Assault Marines were quite fast to get finished. I really like the way they look as a group! Slowly I seem to be getting the hang of using the weathering powders on the base. Might have to get some more experience, but I felt a lot more confident with this batch.

Pict 1270: High Host Destroyers (WIP)

The next few miniatures for the Blood Angels will be a small squad of five Destroyers. Dominion Zephon has the option to take them as a command squad and I liked the idea of that. They still would be legal as a normal Destroyer Squad, but usually I might not include a vexilla on jump troops (does not seem right to me). These ones got the hand held vexilla, however, to make them look more like a command squad with a Legion banner.
For now they have the oilwash applied and I wating for it to fully dry before getting to the highlights.

Pict 1271: Sanguinius (WIP)

Lastly, I started to work on Sanguinius himself. A bit of converting going on: Magnetizing the spear / sword was quite easy. But I also wanted him off the pillar he comes with and use his flamboyant pose to emulate the amazing Fall of the Rebel Angels by Luca Giordano. I ordered a Herald of Khorne to use as the demon being steped on and turning his head. Ideally I'd like to use some more demons to build up a scenic base for him since I did not order him fighting the big Ruinstrom demon when he was availiable like that.

Luca Giordano, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 666.M2, on view at Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien