Dark Angels Chaplain

I've also assembled a Chaplain

Right now it is just the standard powermaul. Should I chop the end off and add something more Crozius?

Dark Angels Command Squad

I began work on my Dark Angels Army. I decided to start with the command squad to give me a jumping off point and to act as a guide for the rest of the project. I am breaking this down into managable units and wont start the next until one is done. This is just the build phase, I should have some primer down by the weekend and start painting sometime afterwards.

So, without further ado, I present Captain Tenniel, his command squad and transport.

Group Shot

Captain Tenniel

Close up

Backside

Standard Bearer

Close up

Apothecary

Veteran w/Meltagun 1

Veteran with Powersword and Stormshield

Veteran w/Meltagun 2

A new Direction, a new Plan

Well, 40k 6e is upon us. New edtion means new a starter set and new codex releases. This time around the starter set will feature Dark Angels vrs Chaos Marines and Cultists. New host of miniatures to play with! Luckily both codexes will be be out by the end of the year or so. A perfect oportunity to get back into 40k with a new start.

A new start on two fronts for me. I definitely plan to get  one new starter set, maybe two depending on how things look at release. This will be a lot of new miniatures and I am not going to let them go to waste this time.

What does this mean? It means that I'll be starting a Chaos army for one, and it means that I have finally made a decision on a chapter and color scheme. I'm rolling Dark Angels!

Why Dark Angels? Well, mainly because it is going to be a super simple paint scheme for me. My plan is to start painting the currently assembled army I have and have it done (or mostly done) before the next School Quarter starts in September. That gives me 10 weeks. Assembly is already done. All I need to do is start painting... Not an easy proposition, ut, I will be cutting down on the labor quite a bit for I have found a solution.. Army Painter.

Army Painter has had a line of colored primers for quite some time. Which is a really cool idea by the way. They took it a step further with their recently released Warpaints line of paints. These paints match 100% with their Color Primers. This means all I need to buy is a couple of cans of Angel Green Color Primer, a few bottles of Angel Green paint to touch up, a bottle of Greenskin paint for drybrush highlights and I'm done! I've got really good cream and bone colors with the P3 paints I own so I'll be able to do robes and terminators just fine without any new purchases.

Now, since my current army is based off the Vanilla Codex, I am planning to continue to use it thus until the new Dark Angels codex is released. This way I can continue to use my Redeemer and Storm Talon. Since I am not doing strictly Deathwing or Ravenwing armies, the current DA codex really doesnt do anything for me anyay.

So, this is my plan... This is my goal... I just need to stick with it! This means I could use any and all encouragement and motivation you all are willing to provide!

Help!

Preparing for 6th!

As someone who has been playing Warhammer 40k since the Rogue Trader days I'm always having to redo my army every edition or so. Luckily I pretty much skipped 3rd, only got to play two games of 4e, and I played my first and only game of 5e last year... Kind of sucks that I really havent played much of one of the minis games I really enjoy since 2e...

With 6e released this weekend, I want to make a concerted effort to change this trend. I'll need to reevaluate my current army and then see what needs changing and what I might need to add to it in the future. I also need to paint the damn thing so I'll need to FINALLY decide on a chapter and color scheme. I'm probably just going to continue with standard Vanilla Marines, since going with a dedicated chapter would mean changes I cant afford. Plus with Vanillas, I can use my spiffy new Stormtalon!

Current Army is thus:

Terminator Assault Squad          
-Sergeant
--Thunder hammer/Storm Shield
-x4 Lightning Claws
-Land Raider Redeemer
--Multi-Melta

Tactical Squad x10         
-Sergeant
--Power Fist and Combi-Flamer
-Meltagun
-Multi-Melta
-Rhino

Tactical Squad x10           
-Sergeant
--Power Fist and Combi-Melta
-Flamer
-Multi-Melta
-Rhino

Tactical Squad x10           
-Sergeant
--Power Fist and Combi-Melta
-Plasma Gun     
-Plasma Cannon

Land Speeder   

-Heavy Flamer
-Multi-Melta

 Land Speeder   

-Heavy Flamer
-Multi-Melta

 Land Raider       

-Multi-Melta


Originally this was supposed to be a Salamanders army. I dont know if that is the route I want to go now or not.

I definitely want to keep the Assault Termies in the Redeemer, I love those. I like the Land Speeders as well. I know there are a lot of points in having 2 Land Raiders... but I really like Land Raiders. So I need to figure out what to do with the three Tactical squads and decide on an HQ choice.

Oh, and I want to add a Stormtalon to the list.

Slow, Work in Progress

This is something I am working on. A fully magnatized Predator.

Space Marines

I've played Warhammer 40k longer than any other miniatures game. Since about 1990 or so. I've always played Space Marines. I've never had a fully playable army (let alone painted) during that whole time. I few years ago, I decided to change that. I wrote up a decent all-comers list for 1750 points and bought everything I needed. I got it all assembled and it has sat on my shelf since... This weekend will be my first 40k game since 3rd edition and my first game of 5e. This is my army (the two dreads bring total to 2000pts):

Group Closeups

Dreadnoughts

 My 3 Sargeants (all named Dick)

Closeups (notice the scratch Combi-Flamer)

Veteran Troopers

Specialists (Flamer, Meltagun, Plasma Gun)

Heavy Weapons (2 Multimeltas, Plasma Cannon)

Tactical Squad Group Shot

Scratch Librarian (proxy for Vulkan)