I recently painted 5 Blood Angels scouts – this time the classic 1998 models by Jes Goodwin.
Unfortunately the photos aren’t the best (I am considering buying a new-second-hand camera), in this case they do actually look better in hand, but overall they turned out fairly well, I think. They were actually quite annoying to paint, with endless fiddly little details and every time I looked at them there seemed to be some frustrating detail I had missed. even whilst photographing them I noticed things I had meant to come back and finish. In the end I just had to call them done, they look fine for gaming purposes.
The heavy bolter guy is a conversion, you can see the unconverted figure next to him, above. This was reasonably simple to do. the belt of bullets is one I bought maybe 15 years ago from Dragon Forge Designs. I don’t think they still sell them though.
The Blood Angels symbols are transfers and the company logos are hand painted.
More to come – stay tuned!
These look great! These sculpts have soooo much detail!
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Thanks Watchmeister – perhaps too much detail 🙂 but they are great sculpts and I’m glad to have got them finished.
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I have at least 15 of them waiting paint since I bought them in the 90s. I tried to paint five of them back in the day, but they proved to have too much detail for me!
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I know the feeling!
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These are really nice! 🙂 I like the red/orange colouring!
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Thanks John, for me Blood Angels just have to have that bright orangey red – none of this grimdark stuff!
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Had a clean up out in the shed and have a bunch of these guys out there from way back too. Always liked the sculpts and you’ve done a great job with them !
Brent
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Thanks Brent – very cool models. Maybe you’ll get a chance to paint yours up soon too?!
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I fully acknowledge that these are classics whilst at the same time I have a hard time with that fact!
Well done on the painting
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I know right – these are still the new models for me too! Thanks Doctor!
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