Basecoat and wash on some BAs (and a 1750 game)

A few of us Kona gamers have decided to start working towards a pretty ambitious campaign. In that spirit i've decided to start seriously working on my Blood Angels and to try to do some documenting of it.

I spent the morning putting the base red on a 5 man BA tac squad (part of what will be a 10 man squad) It is so much easier to paint red on red rather than trying to start from a black or white primer. The Army Painter spray primers are truly a gift.

Looks like my final color scheme for my BAs is going to be; 

(V=Vallejo, SM=Secret Weapon Miniatures, GW= Games Workshop, AP=Army Painter)

Krylon Plastics White > AP Blood Red > V Blood Red> SM Ruby Wash> V Blood red touch up> V Blazing Orange highlight> V Fiery Orange extreme highlight> SM red wash

Wow, that actually seems like a lot of steps when I write it out...probably never want to paint red again after these 5 guys. It looks nice and solid on the test model I did though so hopefully I can keep it going. 

Here are the 5 guys after being washed but before being cleaned up. Sorry about the shitty quality, I'll use my camera and figure out the lighting in the future.

After looking at some of the examples in the dex I decided to paint some squad markings on the right knee pads. Just the initial coat of yellow, it'll be brighter with a marking on it later.

And here is a slightly closer shot just to show how well the Ruby shades the recesses.










I tried GW's Carroburg Crimson as well, and while it looks similar in the bottle I wasn't impressed with it's darkness after drying. Had to use two coats to get the same kind of shading in the recesses. Though, to be fair, it is much easier to touch up afterwords since it is not as dark.

On an unrelated note, make sure to clean your models properly kids. Got well into painting when I realized that I have a wiiicked mold line on the inner leg of a few of the models. There were others that I had gotten rid of as well, but I missed those. Got this sprue of marines from a buddy but it must have been a bad batch cause they are covered with this crap. Argh.

On the gaming side of things I got in a game against my buddy Matt. Orks vs. Space Wolves. Every time I fight against them I am re-astounded by just how awesome the Thunder Wolves models are. Just pure awesome. Matt puts lots of time into the models poses and has sculpted resin bases so everything gets tied in together nicely. Excellent looking army all around. the game went pretty smoothly without too many rules issues (we still haven't gotten that many 6th ed. games in) It came down to a few important rolls but the Orks pulled it off (sheerly by number of troops squads) A few highlights were Long Fangs hitting 21 orks with a missile volley and then wounding 19, a unit of shoota boyz overwatch blasting the last wound off of a Wolf Lord (dakka dakka dakka), Rune Priest sniping a Nob with Jaws and a boyz squad Denying the Witch twice in a row. Good times.