Warhammer 40K: Venerable Dreadnought Rakaziel

A documentation on Venerable Dreadnought Rakaziel's progress over x days. Got this since I was getting a little depressed and need some focus. The work is done over several nights with an estimate amount of 1-3 hours spent.

Forgot to take pictures for night 1 since the idea for the current post only came about on night 2. Basically by night 1, only assembly, priming and basecoating the model with Zandri Dust and Leadbelcher. with the base covered in Dark Reaper. Assembly took about 2 hours, including pinning the torso. Priming and basecoating took about another 2 hours.

Night 2 - 2 hours

Night 3 - 1 hour

Night 4 - 3 hours. Completed model

 

 

Venerable Dreadnought Rakaziel from Codex Dark Angels - copyright Games Workshop

Check one off the to do list! Just a small mistake on the left arm weapon loadout, but it is sort of hidden from the original anyway.

Also as an added extra.

Only using 2 colours, Balthasar->Gehenna->Auric Armour Gold and Kantor Blue.
And no, I don't intend to start on AOS, not at least until I have my chapter complete (or at least 50%) and I will probably be getting Death faction instead.

Warhammer 40K: Space Hulk - Genestealers

Been going full steam over the evenings lately with my tyranids.

Completed the Space Hulk genestealers recently. All 22 genestealers and broodlord.

The swarm ready

The broodlord

The broodlord was actually completed a few days ago right after Raya. Added some additional touch up on the termie helmets on his hand and in the pile, which shows below as the helmets are a little darker.

Added extra base to match with the terminators for the Death Angels Card game.

Spawn of Cryptus

Added the Spawn of Cryptus model to my Tyranid army as per previous post with Old One Eye. Decided the broodlord will have a simple sand base with some splotches of purple goo. Later models may have more elaborated bases as I get used to using Spackle for sculpting bases.

Termagants done!

Close up on 1

Also completed were the 4 spare termagants which I set aside for some time for a test to see how the rest of the hive would look like. Carapace and chitin is good so far. The only ones looking odd is the weapons. I will be using the left over parts from the carnifex as a test to see how the current scheme of fleshtone (as per Invasion Swarms: Tyranid Painting Guide) suggested for the Nephilim King Hive.

Warhammer 40K: June Status

June comes and go. With the month almost ending, time to check what's new so far

Hive Fleet Tiamat
More work done on the genestealers. Mostly highlights on the carapace, limbs and the face. Additional bonus was a cheap broodlord from Shield of Baal:Deathstorm boxset which I pick up while looking for X-Wing minis for my collection.

 

"Spawn of Cryptus" close up

Also, I picked up a carnifex which I made into Old One Eye. Probably need more blue highlights instead of the existing grey which I used.

Lost Patrol aka 10th Company Scouts
Preordered a box of Lost Patrol when I heard it coming out. Probably the cheapest box set game that is released by GW although this is a second edition reprint of the 2000 edition. At least this time, my genestealers should be model correct, compared to my earlier works (4 scything talons, etc). Also on the plus side, more genestealers for my Death Angel Card game (which the purchase of the minis for the game was waaay overdue, no thanks to other projects) XD

 

 

Decided to start work primarily on the scouts which I have assigned to the 10th Company of my DA chapter. Probably need to tone down the green to match my existing models.

* Just "finished" the scouts over the weekend