What's on my Painting Table - Blood Angels Sanguinary Priest

Here's my latest finished minature, a converted Blood Angels Sanguinary Priest.  It took me two days to paint and i'm happy with the finish on it.  Although I donlt ahve many Blood Angels in my colelction I really liked this minature so thought I'd get one just to paint up. 

I'm also currnelty workign pon some Dire Avemgers and some Chaos Cultisits. 

As well as working on my Sanguinairy Priest I've also started painting another five Dire Avengers and some Chaos Cultisits (Out of shot). 

Early stages of the painting.  I decided to paint the helmet Red as I felt it gave a more dramatic feel to the minature. 

Most of the bascoating and washes done.

Rear view. 

The finished minature. 

What's on my painting table?

Wow it's been a long time since I've posted anything.  I'd like to say that it was due to some really awesome reason like being asked to direct one of the new Star Wars movies or that I've won the lottery and bought myself a private island somewhere but the truth is that i just haven't been doing much hobby stuff lately.

That's not to say I haven't done ANY hobby related stuff over the past few month, becasue I have.  I competed in the Exe-Wing tournament back in September and placed 14th! (My highest placement so far in a compeative X-Wing tournament, but then I have only competed in two of them) and I did find time to play one game of 40K with my Ork army (My first time I've used them since 7th edition came out) but I've found that a combination of work, being ill (Stupid winter colds) and working on other projects have all been taking up more of my time latley (For example I'm currently building a BB-8 for my local Picturehouse cinema ready for when The Force Awakens comes out).

The BB-8 I'm currently building. 

I've also found that since GW released Age of Sigma, and decide to focus on only promoting and releaseing stuff for it, whilst 40K took a  backseat that I haven't really had any reason or motivation to pop into my local GW store or buy anything (I'd be really interested to see how their sales did over that time).  However I have found some time to finish one painting project and habe now in fact  started on another two.

I've managed to finish my unit of Chaos Space Marine Terminators which act as my bodyguard unit for Typhus

As you can see I've painted them in typical Death Guard colours.  I'll post some better pictures of them asap.

Now that I've finished these Terminators I can say that all of my Chaos Space Marine minatures are painted. Yay! I have a fully painted army! (Not that it will stay that way for long as I still need to finish converting most of them over to Death Guard).  With these minatures done I decided to go back to my Eldar army and try and get some more of those units finished.  So I've started painting the remaining 5 Dire Avengers of my unit of 10.  I also decided to paint my last remaining unpainted Escher minature as I figure that once she's done I can finally start work on painting my Goliath or Orlock gangs.

My Dire Avengers

My Escher is coming along nicely.  Her colour scheme is inspired by Harley Quinn

 Hopefully my next post won't be so long away.

Star Wars inspired posters

With the release of The The Force Awakens fast approaching I thought I'd make some Star Wars themed posters.  Here are the ones's I've done.

Good way to curve gun control in your local cantina

Not as happy with this one.

Stay on Target - Tournament list

It's just over a month until I compete in my second competitive X-Wing tournament and this time around I've decided to play as Rebels and field my squad of A-Wings.  (In the first tournament I entered I played as Imperials and fielded a squad of 4 TIE Interceptors.  As it was my very first tournament i wasn't really sure what I was doing but I did manage to win at least 1 of my games.)

I've come up with a squad list (more on that in a minute) and unlike last time I have given it a few play tests and have been doing a few subtle modifications to it after each game to really try and maximize my force.  Here's the current list I'm playing with:

Tycho Celchu (26)
Stealth Device (3)
Push the Limit (3)
ION Pulse Missle (3)

Jake Farrell (24)
Determination (1)
Chardaan Refit (-2)
Stealth Device (3)

Gemmer Sojan (22)
Stealth Device (3)
Chardaan Refit (-2)

Prototype Pilot (17)
Chardaan Refit (-2)

Total 99 points

My aim with this list is to give my A-Wing as much protection as I can, hence that's why they've got Stealth Devices, especially with Gemmer Jojan who rolls 5 Defense Dice at range one and three and 4 at range two thanks to her special rules. 

I'm hoping the pulse missile can knock out an enemy chips and give Tycho and Jake space to out maneuver them with their speed. 

I've yet to test this list but I'm hoping to give it a go soon to see how it goes. 


What do people think?  Feel free to comment below.

Stay on Target - Custom paint jobs for my A-Wings

Recently I've been working on my A-Wing fleet which I plan to use in an up coming X-wing tournament (being held in Exeter). As my current list contains two Green Squadron Pilots I decided to do a custom paint job on two of my A-Wing miniatures to help make them stand out and to make them fit with my list.  Here are the end results.

My finished A-Wings after a minor repaint.

Green Squadron reporting in

You Rebel scum!

Now to do some more play testing with my list!