The Primarch Reborn

Well, you all know who this is! The Primarch of the Ultramarines, Roboute Guilliman. No conversions here, although I did remove a few bits that were too fragile or kept breaking. I really had to up my painting game here, because there's no way you can paint Guilliman badly and not regret it!

The fact that I finished him and he looks pretty good gives me confidence to finish a few other centrepiece models I have laying around, so thanks Robby!

Divine Exorcists Librarian Araqiel

Hey all! I hope you enjoyed my array of images of my Dark Angels army last week! Boy, were there a lot! Not quite as many this week, but then there are only two models! Hehe.

The first model is Librarian Araqiel of the Divine Exorcists. You may recall that my homegrown chapter is led exclusively by librarians, and so it behoves me to make a few librarians. I like most of the librarian miniatures that have been released by GW over the years - I think it's the ornate armour, robes and the fact that they're often in poses that are a little different from most other miniatures, often striding across the battlefield or casting a power, rather than hacking and slashing or shooting.

This mini is a conversion of the Dark Angels librarian from the Dark Vengeance boxset. I already have an unconverted version in my Dark Angels army, so, when I acquired another version, I decided to convert so that (a) it was different and (b) it didn't have too much DA iconography on it, and I think it worked out well! Araqiel has a different right hand, and complete left arm, with a force sword from the Grey Knights kit. The power plant is diferent too.

The second model is an Ork Nob. I didn't really expect to be painting Ork infantry right now, but it was sitting there, primed and ready, and I thought.. why not? I'm making a very small Ork force (at least initially) - most like a kill team, with a big converted trukk to ride on. The colour scheme will be lots of metal and rust and so on, so the only bright colour will be their skin and a little purple, as you can see here.

Finally, I'd like to a little showcase of another of Martin's amazing creations. Well... three creations, actually. Martin loves heldrakes so much he decided to make three of them. One is standing on the ground, one on some rocks, and the third flying. These models are just... EPIC! I love the amazing conversions that Martin comes up with! Martin has been working on these for a while and is very proud to finally be able to share them with the world. I hope you like them!

Complete Dark Angels Army

A big one today! I have declared my Dark Angels army complete! Well, okay, everyone knows that any army is only complete until you decide to add something to it, but I have built and painted every Dark Angels model in my house and don't plan to buy any more, so this is as done as an army can be, I think! It looks pretty nice as it is, so why change it!

My final addition was an 8-person tactical squad with a power fist and melta gun, mostly made from Dark Vengance models. Most of these models have been featured on the blog, so you can scan through for closeups of all the squads, but I've tried to get some decent closeups of parts of the army in this post so that you can see the variety. My photography has improved a bit, and I'm pleased with the closeups.

Enjoy the images!

 

Chaos Hell Blade fighter craft

Today's model is another that fits into the category of 'things I have stared at in catalogues but never bought'... the Chaos Hell Blade.

I finally went for one and am glad I did. I decided to paint it up in Black Legion colours, with some cheeky flames up the wings. This ties the model in with the rest of my army, that features some actual flames and flashes of red and yellow. The canopy involves some custom work, since the one I bought didn't come with the glass for the canopy. Therefore I cut up some transparent plasticard and glued it to the resin canopy frame. It's not perfect, but fairly good. I'm happy with it.