So after a few stressful weeks of school, I am back to painting as usual. Here are some Work In Progress shots of what is on my paint table and work bench.
Blood Angels: Dante, Brother Corbulo, Lemartes, The Sanguinor, Priests, Death Company.
I sanded everything down and base primed all of these models. I am still not sure how I want to outfit these Death Company models but I magnetized the Jump Packs and I am thinking: Powerfist, Power Weapon, Infernus Pistol and maybe 2 regular guys. Unfortunately I put the standard pack magnets on backwards so I will have to either fix this or buy another full set of DC and just use the other polarity. Who doesn’t want more Death Company for Apocalypse right?
I am basing all of the standard troops in Army Painter: Red, all of the HQ’s, IC’s etc GW White, and of course the Death Company GW Black (although Gray Primer and building up with washes would prob be smarter).
Blood Angels: Tactical Marines
23 Tactical Marines sanded and primed. I realized after taking the pictures that I rested them on my Space Hulk box, too funny. I may run at least one squad of regular Tac Marines in my 2k list. We shall see.
Blood Angels: Baal Predator
Magnetizing the Baal Predator from Rhino to all Baal options was inspired by Ron at FTW. I really liked his conversion and it just seems silly to not take the extra time with this. My problem however, is with the side sponsons. It is not impossible by any means to hack apart the sponsons and make some conversion piece that will allow Flamers or Heavy Bolters. It may look a little awkward, but I am sure it is possible by doing something with the joint they fit in. I just cannot imagine when I would ever want to use Flamers over Heavy Bolters, and if I did, it might be better just to buy another junction piece and have the entire side parts modular instead of magnetizing 3 tiny pieces that have to be containerized when not in use. I did not glue together the chassis just yet, as I want to paint the inside as well. This will be my Fast Attack piece for the Freebootaz monthly challenge.
Eldar: Fire Dragons
Here I have 10 Fire Dragons (inc 2 Exarchs). I love the firepike, but I always use the Dragons Breath Flamer. While having the extra range on the Pike is nice, I never risk jumping out and taking that single shot if the rest of the squad is out of range. I can see it having great potential for just making more stuff in range once they blew up their primary target on subsequent turns, but having that heavy flamer just makes jumping out at troops more worth while.
I noticed while building my Baal Pred that a lot of the peices fit firmly enough that magnets actually aren't needed. The Flamestorm cannon and Assault Cannon both swap out easily enough with the diamond bit holding them firmly in place. The fuel cannisters for the flamestorm also attaches nicely to the back of the turret mount.
The door mounts for side sponsoons also fits in perfectly with the door slots, and swapping between weapon layouts is easy as cake. I went ahead and glued in the sponsoon doors and added magnets so that I can pop on rhino doors if I decide to take it as a Razerback or Rhino.
Also managed to jerry rig some Heavy Bolters out of the sponsoons to transform my two other rhinos into razerbacks.
Great kit.
Well your absolutely right, I could easily just leave those side sponsons alone and just pop them on and off. I think I tend to go a little magnet happy when I put new kits together. I have been thinking about picking up extra bits on ebay to give even more options and see how far this transformer can go.