Warhammer 40k Blood Angels

First patch of the Blood Angels is now ready to ship for the battle zone. Total of 10 tactical marines and 9 jump pack assault marines.

Painting these was a combination of something I came up a while ago when painting the terms for the Space Hulk 2015 game and other part was experimenting and trying to come up with efficient method for painting large amounts of marines (I'm under the impression theres around 150 of these guys with tanks, planes and shit coming to the painting table).

I summarise what I did here:

1. Vallejo Panzer Grey Primer
2. White Zenithal highlighting
3. Gloss Varnish Coat
4. Nun Oil Gloss wash (trying to stay away from the lighted areas)
5. Matt Varnish Coat
6. Gentle white Zenithal to tidy up lighted areas of the wash
7. Very thin Vallejo Ferrari red Glaze painted with an airbrush
8. Black areas like armour rims, weapons and skulls painted with Panzer Grey
9. Metal areas painted with generic metal and gold (gold only to special weapon nozzles and bazooka ammo)
10. Army Painter Strong Tone (similar to devlan mud) to metal areas
11. Edge highlighting and highlighting the imperial eagle crest with a water color pen
12. Base with Astrogranite and Strong Tone wash with some tufts
13. Matt Varnish to seal the highlights (they don't stick at all so a varnish is mandatory)
14. Green spots like lights and eyes with green (sorry don't remember the color, but its bright!)
15. Oh and for the heavy weapon dudes I painted blue helmets, because apparently they look better in parades with occasional splash of color in a see of read

For the assault marines I:

1. Painted the helmets with white + Strong Tone + GW Yellow Glaze
2. Painted gentle OSL effects to the turbines on their backs and to lower legs

I am content with these, and I'm sure they'll look fine on the battlefield, but I hope to get better. I especially think that the yellow helmets could be better. It seems I'm gonna get a lot of practise so lets see.

Images:

Doom the Boardgames - Painted the Miniatures

My friend with the Descent miniatures, got himself into the new Doom Boardgame from Fantasy Flight Games and asked me to paint the miniatures for that as well. I'm guessing, being a good chap, he wanted to give me a chance to redeem myself after messing up the fantasy guys.

I must say I didn't much look forwards to this, because the Descent miniatures were mostly crap from a miniature painters viewpoint (The game is great though). I wouldn't call them miniatures, but game pieces which look like miniatures. Well maybe that's a bit of exaggeration... I guess I'm just used to better stuff and really actual miniatures do not fit boardgames very well. You have to show them some love before you get to play and also after they are ready, if you don't want them to break in use.

However... The figures, when they came, were a huge surprise towards the positive!

The material was not that rubbery stuff. I mean it was still a little rubbery, but tougher kind of rubbery :) The sculpts were mostly ok, here and there AMAZING good (looking at you Cyber Demon).

The miniatures are clearly more than inspired by the Doom 2016 PC game and that was a good choice, since the models in that game are awesome. It also helped the painting, because there's loads of very nice pictures from the game, which allowed me to basically copy the paint job from online pictures.

Here're the images:

Cyber Demon

Macubus

Cacodemon

Baron of Hell

Revenant

Pinky

Possessed Soldier

Imp

The PC's (I'd choose the Chainsaw every time)

Family portrait

Age of Sigmar - Finnish Stat Cards

Ok so I got a problem coming from a marginal language area, Finland. Since there's only about 5 million people speaking Finnish and because we tend to speak English and other languages quite well, no-one bothers translating stuff for us anymore.

Normally this would not be a problem, but wanting to play games with my son, who's learned to read,  I needed Finnish stat cards for our Age of Sigmar Games. I considered commissioning a graphic designer to make templates for the cards for me, but ended up using a great online tool.

The tool doesn't translate the names for the stats (like "move", "bravery", "wounds") because I assume it's meant for making up your own units, but it made it possible for me to make up Finnish names for the critters and translating the ability descriptions and so on.

I know Finnish Translations are not interesting to many people, but everyone interested in AoS should check out the web page with the app. It is great :D

Here're the results: