Some of my painting

It occured to me that I haven't put up many pictures of completed work (or perhaps I should say 'none at all').  Part of the problem is a lack of quality photos, part is due to the fact that I seldom think of a model as 'done'. 

So apologies for the poor photo quality, and bear in mind these are not quite finished - heres a selection of some of my painted works.

Terrain and build work continues, but now - the airbrush!

This week sees a lot of terrain ready for paint, with more in production:

I've also got a lot of build work underway or complete - three land speeders, two furioso dreads (one upgraded to a librarian), five more Snguinary guard, five honour guard, five more death company, two drop pods, a razorback, five meganobz, a wierd boy, three more kommandos, nine Nobs, twenty assault marines, three killa kanz and a deff dread (old metal ones), five scouts, and maybe a few other items I'm forgetting.

I'm also assembling a Stormraven, but I have paused assembly to paint the interior cabin.  The plan is to airbrush and weather the interior.  I have undercoated in black, and done an initial coat of Kommando Khaki:

A close up for a bit of detail:

Next I'll airbrush over a light layer of skull white, to highlight.

Blood Angels vs. Daemon Horde of Khorne

I played a 2000pt game vs. Jordan last night, me running Blood Angels, him running Chaos Daemons.  My list looks like this:

Mephiston
5 Sternguard with 1x Combi-melta and 1x power fist
5 Assault terminators, 2x lightning claws, 3x T-hammers and Storm shields, mounted in a LS Redeemer with multi melta upgrade.
1 Furioso Dreadnought with blood talons, meltagun and storm bolter.
2x 10 Assault Marines, with 1x flamer and 1x melta in each squad, both with power fisted sergeants.
5 Scouts with sniper rifles
2 Baal Predators, one with Assault Cannon and heavy bolter sponsons, the other with flamestorm and heavy flamer sponsons, both with storm bolters.
1 Vindicator

Jordan ran:
1 Bloodthirster*
Skulltaker
6 Bloodcrushers*
3x 10 Bloodletters*
2x 3 Flamers of Tzeench*
1x Demon Prince*
6 Fleshhounds, including Karnack*
Herald of Khorne riding Juggernaught*

*There were a number of Gift upgrades that I can't be bothered listing

We played a capture and control game with  three objectives, spearhead deployment.  I won the roll off and chose to go second.  I then deployed my dread and landraider on the table, and held everything else in reserve. 

What went well?
Well, for starters, I won, with two objectives contested, and one held.  Mephiston was the game winner, spending several rounds duking it out with the Bloodthirster (which had a 2+ inv. save againt Mephs force sword - gotta love initiative seven) then in the last two turns, killing the BT, and hoofing it 22 inches across the table in one turn to assault the bloodletter squad holding the rearmost objective.  He killed a swath of them, and despite him being down to one wound, and not getting a save against their power swords, still survived (gotta love toughness six) to contest the objective.
I also used a lot of template weapons (possibly too much) which worked a treat.  The flamestorm Baal was just vicious, torching the fleshhounds and karnak, then incinerating a good quantity of bloodletters.  The landraider reliably claimed kills every turn, and the other Baal, in spite of being assaulted early on by the Bloodthirster and getting immobilised, did a great job of thinning out the third Bloodletter squad - with a lot of help from the vindicator.

What didn't go well?
The scout achieve little other than giving the bloodletters on the rear objective something to practice their butchering skills on while they sat in a quiet corner of the board.
I should have started the vindicator and the Baals on the table, albeit near the edge, as I lost two turns worth of shooting waiting for them.

Overall it was a close and very fun game.  Jordan is still learning the best use of his Daemons, and I'm still adapting to my new Blood Angel codex - but I feel I've come a long way in dealing with Daemons since facing them at Fields of Blood 2009.

Stormravens incoming

Just a quick update today.  Work continues on my terrain, with an Ork watchtower and a rubble pile in progress.  I'll get some pics up soon.

Assembly work is also moving along at a brisk pace, with two drop pods, three land speeders, ten assault marines, five Ork Meganobz, four Ork Kommandoes with special weapons and a marine attack bike underway.

This weekend I'll be playing Jordans Khorne demon army - I'm going to run my Blood Angels again, and if I have time to assemble it, perhaps he will feel the wrath of the Stormraven!