Dark Angels Indomitus Deathwing Veteran Bladeguard - TO DONE

 

Greetings.  It's time to put these Indomitus Bladeguard in the DONE pile.  I could keep picking away at them with additional highlights and what-not, but it's time to move one to the remaining five characters from the set.  Here's four units from the box done and to a good standard, which feels great.

I'll close with additional closeups from the photo shoot.   I could not keep the iPhone from yellowing the shots so I did some editing to get them back to what they look like in person.  I normally don't see this problem, but I assume the white/bone armor is tripping out the light sensor. If some aspects of the photos seem a bit too bluish, it's my ham-handed photo editing. 😂

Next up, I'll be completing these five characters.  Then it'll be time for a break from 40K Dark Angels.

Stay safe out there.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!

First up is the squad Sergeant, looking like he's ready to take a charge.

Then the next Veteran Bladeguard. The ornamental tilting shields are great fun to put some creativity into.

And the third and final dude; Sir Dude, that is...

Dark Angels Indomitus Deathwing Elite and Characters WIP - Part 2

 

Greetings.  More Bladeguard progress this week; now with transfers! I started the week cleanup up the armor and highlighting it.  With that done, I was able to lay down the Deathwing company badges and the crux terminatus honors.  While I was at it, I also put an Indomitus campaign badge on one tilting shield, and a rank skull on the sergeant's shield.

Then I put some time in on the power swords, using the technique from Duncan's old GW YouTube video for painting Adeptus Custodes (fast forward to about 10:06).  It is simple and I've slowly adopted this approach (with my own tweaks) as my go-to for power weapons. Here they can be seen in their glory.

I have to complete the hilts now that the blades are done. The Indomitus transfers for Crux Terminatus symbols are also clear in the photo above.  Perhaps not as cool as the embossed shoulder pads of the terminators, but it gets the point across. So far, these chaps are too cool for a squad number.

The Deathwing company badges from the Indomitus sheet are looking sharp, but nothing new here. I got the bases painted up using the standard scheme from the paint recipe on the Dark Angels tab above.  Nothing fancy, just a basic background to set the models in their scene.  I brought some of the dry brushing and shading up onto the feet and lower legs to tie the models to the bases as well.  With bone colored armor, I wanted it to be clear these warriors have been foot slogging it, kicking up dirt and dust as they pass.

I'm closing the the finish line with these three models now.  While I didn't post pictures this time, I have continued to poke at the other characters as I painted various areas on these Bladeguard.  So they are also moving along slowly. Hopefully I can display more next week.  

I also remembered why I didn't have the Chaplain from the Indomitus set on my painting table.  He's going to be painted up to join the Blades of Vengeance while the older Primaris Chaplain model joins the Dark Angels.  The older model's long flowing robes really fit the whole Interrogator Chaplain vibe that I wanted to have for the Dark Angels. So that model will feed into this Indomitus project after the Deathwing models are complete.  It's pretty clear that I'm going into January at this point. C'est la vie.

Stay safe out there.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!

Dark Angels Indomitus Deathwing Elite and Characters WIP - Part 1

 

Greetings.  The Dark Angels Deathwing characters and elites from Indomitus are coming along well.  I'm focused on the Bladeguard currently, but as I do certain batch painting, I've been skipping over to the Lieutenant, Ancient and to a lesser degree the Master. This helps use paint already on the wet palette to limit waste and in some cases saves time as well.  Let's look at the Bladeguard models more closely.

I started with the shields off, since they cover portions of the models and make things hard to paint.  I love the push-fit models for this. I'm trying out a new recipe for the bone color of Deathwing Armor.  Here I sprayed Pro Acryl Bright Ivory, from Monument Hobbies, and shaded that with GW Seraphim Sepia.  The model on the left was brush painted as a test model.  I quickly realized that wasn't going to work if I wanted these done this month, so the rest were all airbrushed.

I used standard GW Caliban Green on the tabards and chest eagles, shaded with Agrax Earthshade.  Then I had to have some fun with the tilting shields on front armor.  These Bladeguard are seasoned veterans with a long service record who have earned the right to display personal heraldry (In chapter colors, of course).  So a little fun with free hand here.  Decals may be applied as well once things get cleaned up.  

Next I painted all the leather work, eye lenses, the halos, base coated the power swords, and then spent some time on the storm shields.  These were great fun to paint and I like how they have turned out. Here's a close up of a shield.

The camera washes out the fact the the sun burst surrounding the skull in the middle is actually more gold than silver, but it's subtle in any case.  With much of the armor details and shading done, I could glue the arms on. Here they are, standing proud.

As I worked on various areas on the Blade Guard, I would occasionally skip over to the other characters as described above.  Here's where the Bladeguard Ancient stands currently.

The standard will be a special project, so I've mostly left that unpainted, focusing just on the marine (and some purity seals).  Here is the state of the Deathwing Lieutenant.

When I move on from the Bladeguard, I'll be well along in completing these other Deathwing characters.

I did not take an updated picture of the Master/Captain, but you can see that he is also coming along in the title picture above. With so many details, these models are taking some time to paint, but I like how they look in Deathwing colors.  Progress is being made and we'll see if I can complete them before the end of the year.  I have a suspicion that I'll need all that time to finish these six and likely won't get to the new Judiciar or Chaplain.  In fact, I misplaced the Chaplain somewhere, because I noticed while putting the article together that there is one in the box, but not on my painting table. 😂

He'll turn up in a future post, no worries.  So that's where the first week of December got me.  It's been interesting to pivot from the black Ravenwing to the bone colored Deathwing.  Dark Angels are a fun force to collect and paint for that reason.  There are many details that pull them all together, but the different armor worn by various companies really mixes thing up and makes for an interesting force on the table.  I look forward to finished family shots of the whole set of Indomitus marines painted up.

I hope your own projects are coming along this season and that your families are safe and healthy.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!