Back and with models painted!

I've done some painting and playing recently. I got sidetracked from the Wolves by painting more Salamanders. I really like the red bolters like they had in the old Space Marines codex, so I used it on my new Assault Squad. Here's an example:

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I also painted Ahriman for my friend. I've had his model for months and months and months and months...and months. I wanted to paint Ahriman cuz I really like the Thousand Sons. Here's how he came out. This was a pretty quick job. It only took me about 3 hours from black primer to what you see her. That included pinning his very delicate wrist. Check it!

From Misc 40k

Now that I've gotten everything else done that I wanted, I am on to Russ' Wolves! Here is my first model. I've got an Apocalypse game coming up in a couple of months, so I'm doing a squad of Wolves led by Ragnar to team up with the Salamanders. It's going to be Ragnar and 15 Blood Claws in a Land Raider Crusader. I even got some Forgeworld Space Wolves doors for the Land Raider. I'll get pics of that when I start it. Here's my 1st official Space Wolf model. I think he came out awesome! I'm really pleased.

From 40k Space Wolves

From 40k Space Wolves

From 40k Space Wolves

1st Airbrush Use!

I did 3 Assault Marines. I messed with the paint for a while to get a good consistency and then I sprayed. I didn't lose any detail. The paint looks nice and smooth. I think I've got a winner. Here's the Vet Sargent with Thunder Hammer:

Check it!

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A new airbrush!

So, I put the Wolves aside for a moment to do another unit for the Salamanders army that I have. I built an 8 man Assault Squad with Thunder Hammer Sargent and Flamer marine. The reason I did 8 was because I only had 8 jump packs. :)

So, I primed and basecoated them. Now I need to paint them up to my rigorous Salamander Standard (see a couple posts ago for an example). So, while I was thinking about painting yesterday I decided to look into airbrushes. I originally was going to buy the GW spray gun but I kept reading how crappy it was. I continued my airbrush search and before clicking 'buy it now' on Ebay, I checked Craigs List. Lo and behold I found a great deal. So, I drove to Worcester today and met Bruce in a parking lot. Now I've got 4 airbrushes and a compressor and it wasn't a big payout to get em.

Back to my point: The Assault Squad is going to be my test subject for the new airbrush. I've gotta figure out thinning ratios and how to spray and all that, but that's what saturdays are for, right? I'll post pics of my progress!

The beginning.

I've decided that I want to be a high level 40k painter. I really enjoy the game. I used to play Heroclix. The sculpts were ok, but the paint usually sucked. Now, I get to decide how good or bad they look. I've been playin for about a year and started with Tau. I painted the army and magnetized some crisis suits. I moved onto Necrons and we all know how easy they are to paint.
I was looking for the next army to mess with after Necrons and bought the Space Marine codex and the Eldar codex. I was leaning towards Eldar but someone else in my playgroup beat me to em, so I chose Space Marines. I began a Crimson Fists army cuz I liked Pedro Kantor and the CF story so much. I was gettin bored with Pedro and the gang so I moved to Salamanders. I'm having a lot of fun with Vulkan He'stan and the gang but I like new armies and painting challenges.

I thought about starting Chaos Marines until the Space Wolf info started coming out. So, what does a good Space Marine fanboy do? I bought the 2 Space Wolf omnibusses (omnibi?) and started reading.

So now I've got a pile of Wolf sprues and an army list to fill out. I suppose I should get to work.
I have also taken a commission to build and paint a Chaos Daemon army.

The real point of this rambling is to intro myself as an aspiring painter/modeler. I plan to show the Daemons and the Wolves as I work on them.