okay, this is the entry for the band of brothers competition/army log.

i'll be using an army i have already started (my blood angels) for this, many of you will have seen the start of my army (what is and what isn't painted) but just for clarification here is a picture of all i have completed thus far:

HQ


and here is my proposed army list (items i have painted are bold underlined)

HQ

Chaplain
jump pack
TOTAL 120pts

Company captain
power weapon
combi-plasma gun
TOTAL 125pts

Honour Guard
5 Honour guard
power fist
1 power weapon
tech adept
-power weapon
2 plasma pistols
TOTAL 225pts

Librarian
terminator armour
TOTAL 145pts
this is also partially done, before the BoB became i had undercoated and basecoated red, and am deducting 45 points for goal purposes

ELITE

Terminator squad
4 lightning claws
1 thunder hammer/storm shield
TOTAL 200pts

Terminator squad
4 lightning claws
1 thunder hammer/storm shield
TOTAL 200pts

Furioso dreadnought
venerable
death company
heavy flamer
TOTAL 150pts

Death company

0-10 death company
jump packs (0-10)
TOTAL 0-50pts
i have marked this as done, but still have 5 to paint, i'm unsure how to work points out for this squad, as actual points cost is only 50 (for the jetpacks) so do i have 25 points worth left to paint or shall i count each DC as 30 points (which is how much it costs to buy one form the codex (meaning 35 points per model, or 175 points for the 5 left to paint) i'll let you lot decide :)

TROOPS

Tactical squadron (5)
Razorback
twin linked heavy bolters
TOTAL 165pts

Tactical squadron (5)
Razorback
twin linked heavy bolters
TOTAL 165pts

Tactical squadron (5)
Razorback
twin linked las cannon
TOTAL 195pts

Tactical squadron (5)
Razorback
twin linked las cannon
TOTAL 195pts

Assault squadron (5)
TOTAL 140pts

Assault squadron (5)
TOTAL140pts

FAST ATTACK

Attack Bike squadron
2 bikes
2 multi meltas
TOTAL 100pts
Land speeder

Land speeder
assault cannon
TOTAL 110pts

Land speeder
assault cannon
TOTAL 110pts

HEAVY SUPPORT

Land raider crusader
TOTAL 250pts

Whirlwind
TOTAL 85pts

Baal predator
storm bolter
heavy bolter sponsons
TOTAL 135pts

SUBTOTAL = 3005


hopefull this will be achieved by the end of the BoB project.

as of this date i have apprx 2540 points to buy and paint, so i'll need all the luck i can get :D

Edit: progress (to make life easier for AD :)):

JANUARY

librarian (alreday basecoated so counted as:) 100 pts
5 cc terimnators: 200 pts
whirlwind: 80 pts
razorback(heavy bolter): 50 pts
razorback(lascannon): 80pts

total for month: 515 pts
overall total: 515 pts



FEBRUARY

dreadnought: 145 pts
2x5 man tac squads: 230 pts (115x2)

total for month: 375 pts
overall total: 890



MARCH

Chaplain: 145 pts
devestators (4xplasma cannon): 215 pts

total for month: 360 pts
overall total: 1250



APRIL

MAY

JUNE

BATTLE REPORTS:

BAs vs merceus' fandex daemons (1500 pts)

and to kick it off here is an update for the librarian:

Are librarians not meant to have some blue?

only stinky stilton librarians

mephiston has no blue ;)

and if it's good enough for the chapter librarian it's good enough for mine :lol:

edit: and oh, i just realised i can move him as if he was wearing a jet pack, as wings of sanguinius can be used by models in terminator armour :D

I've always thought, at the end of the day, you are buying and painting them. If you want your models to look like mr blobby on acid its up to you.

i didn't think it looked that bad :P

Ah, i just realised how that sounded. Oops . . .

haha, i knew (or hoped i knew) that you didn't mean mine, it's not pink enough, but i do agree with you, i mean, they cost us so damn much we should be able to do what ever the hell we like to em ^^

anyways, an update on the libby:



the shades on the cloak look really noticable when it's shown big like this, but in real they are actually very un noticable

Very nice red. Vibrant and bold. Are you planning on putting any varnish on it once it's completed?

The blue's a nice contrast and it work well keep at it.

Coming along well! I can't be bothered to do that many layers on something :)

I would do the band of brothers thing but i paint so slowly . . .

i think it's eight layers for the cloak and similarly coloured bits :blink: i think i went a bit mad, the blue will probably be four layers+

yes, i will be varishing it, but i will be painting it on so i can be selective (ie not hit the face(which isn't likely to get chipped or anything anyway)


hope to have it finished by tomorrow, as friday i go nuts and get paid (not in that order :P). and will be inundated with more bits (i've kinda ran out of stuff i can actually paint for this log at the moment, my librarian and 4 more death company are all the blood angels models i have atm :P)

i like the way your red has turned out on your libby

Blimey, and i thought 4 was overkill . . .

aaannd thats 100 points down:





not pleased with the face, but i never am (i hate painting faces, its a major fall down :() which is why the rest of my BA will be helmeted

anyway, the rest of it i'm fairly pleased with :)

edit: he will be properly based eventually, hoping to pick up 2 WH40K basing kits on friday, so i'll update it as and when i've done it

Nitpick: You missed a skull!

Looks fantastic though.

AMAZING,the face is good quality mate dont worry about it

How on earth did you do that red?

I think you could do a much better job on the robes though - it shows you understand the technique but a bit of a smoother transition would take it a long way - aside from that youve done a great job on him mate :)

I the great Carnak have the answer here in this envelope...

It is....

Blood red, highlighted with Apocalypse red (or whatever they are calling dark orange these days) and then a red (or Chestnut or purple) ink glaze over the top.

not quite my friend ;) but theres not much difference

blood red
blazing orange highlights
firey orange on some of the blazing orange

wash of around 4-6 parts flesh ink and 1 part varnish

and thanks for all the compliments (and nit picks guys)

thanks for the comments on the cloak but it really is only noticable when its at 400% the size i swear :lol:

Libby looks really good, i really like the piping, and the face looks good too, keep it up :)

Nice looking librarian there dude I still love how you do the blue on your models its really striking, thinking about it i need to set up a band of brother thread to :D

Looking good Bod, how long did it take you and how will you base it?

took a while, if i add up the time i was actually sat down and concentraiting on it (rather then watching stargate) it was probably 5-6 hours.

the base will be something from the WH40K basing kit (i'm buying 2 tomorrow...hopefully)

i took part in a 1,500pt game down the local tonight, i have to say i was very impressed with my death co. and my one squad of tac marines (+razorback)

played against necrons, wiped a 5 base strong scarab squad on turn 1 (just with the death co.)

knocked a wound of the deciever with the lascannon on the razorback

turn 2 and i wiped a unit of destroyers and consolidated into the c'tan with my death co. (i lost one model to around 40 shots from the necrons in their shoting phase, my team mates were suitably impressed :P)

necron turn 2 saw me knock another wound off the c'tan (whilst he destroyed most of the rest of my squad)

lost most of the tac squad necron turn 2 aswell

got slaughtered by the c'tan, in turn 3 but took another wound off it in turn 4

by which time i only had the razorback left, but had done enough damage/held of the c'tan long enough to let my two death wing team mates get their termis into CC.

the rest of the game was spent in a massive termi/deciever/necron brawl with me taking potshots with my razor back at the necrons trying to stay out the fighting.

game ended with us phasing the necrons out.

it was hard fought, and we lost a quarter of the death wing (25 termis :P azrael will not be happy). but we won :D

when playing necrons its best just to wipe out the wariors just ignore monliths and c'tan and go for a phase out

i couldn't reach the warriors, and not wanting to risk another 40 shots i made the tactical descision to hold up the c'tan, and stop him from destroying terminators, that action probably won us the game as the termis had 4 turns in which they didnt have to worry about the c'tan

how can 40 shots kill any space marine 3+ plus faith in the emperor those necrons have no chance :P

heres what i got today:



got a 40k basing set and 2 razorback squads coming tomorrow (why can i never get half of what i want in store :rolleyes:

ooh... terminators!

ooh... ogres!

lol, wait... you're telling me that all those millions of basing kits are gone?

With necrons, monoliths and c'tan are a huge pointsink that means you have to kill a lot less models to make them phase out.
Try and avoid C'tan if you can, it can only move 6 inches a turn remember.
Another things to remember with fighting necrons is if he has units waiting to come through the monolith, if you kill the monolith before they do, they count as destroyed ( although you do of course have to actually kill the damn thing first . . . )

yeah, terrible huh :P

wait... i thought there werent any monoliths in that battle? Or is this a different battle?

no, no monoliths...but no one will listen to meh :(

Ace librarian mate !
and thats one hefty spend at GW today :)
fulgrim is a awesome book aswell one of the best of the series.

payday was today, hence the spend :P, it's got to last me for a month :lol:

Good luck with this, your librarian looks ace! Better than my "good for table top" gaming standard (I don't actually have any other standard!).

Oops, sorry. I was talking generally . . . :unsure:

i'm sure some of you might have been wondering what the bloody hell i've been doing the last couple of days? (ok, maybe not, but what ever :lol:)

well here, assembling this lot (plus 6 ogre bulls :P):

that was fast!
and you have used the basing kit make sure you put some sand round those cus they dont fit on a 25mm base :angry:

need more super glue for the slate and stuff, so can't do anymore for the moment, i had to cut open the tube to use the last little blobs :lol: