BoLS: Descent of Angels Army List building

Here's a Descent of Angels Army List building article from Bell of Lost Souls.   I personally love having Dante to make your Sanguinary Guard a Troop Choice (and therefore objective takers) plus they dont scatter when they deep strike.... at all!     Just plop them down next to a key objective without worry.

Here's the link:

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2011/03/40k-designing-jump-troop-only-doa-army.html

Build a Stormraven Part 01: Painting the inside

Ok, so I'm FINALLY posting my walk through of the building and painting of my Blood Angels Stormraven.   So,  obviously I unsprued things and filed down all the mold lines etc.   I decided to actually paint the inside of this thing (for some reason).   First I black primered the interior (not the outside).   Then I used Boltgun Metal to pretty much coat the entire interior (Space Marines are into interior design so much).   I used the Black Ink (Badab black?)  with a half water half ink mix and washed the hole interior.   Then i did a dry brush of Boltgun Metal again to get rid of the "watermarks".  For the walkway ramps, I also did a wash of Devlan Mud to show where the Marines would trudge dirt and grime everwhere when they embark and disembark.

Next step, I used Scorched Brown on the leather seats and highlighted with Bestial Brown.   Gold parts were based with Shining Gold, highlighted with Burnished Gold and then a little bit of Mithril Silver on the points.  

For the tv monitors, on a base of Black, I blended up Regal Blue, then Ultramarine Blue and then Ice Blue going Black in the upper left of the monitor to the lightest blue in the lower right.   I put a few dabs of White to give a shiney look.   I didnt have the Glossy Varnish when I painted these but I would use that in the future after the monitor is done.

For the Red buttons/monitors, I blended up from black with the Mechrite Red Foundation paint and Blood Red adding White dots for the shiny specular reflection.

Scythes of the Emperor painted Assault Marine

Here's a Scythes of the Emperor chapter Assault Marine I painted for my friend Isaac.  I really liked the work of Sebastian Stuart over at http://www.the-scythes.com and http://eastern-empire.com/ so you'll definately see some similarities.   Apparently the Scythes and Tau (my main 40k army) had some serious battles during the Damocles Crusade so I put a little fluff tribute into the model and paint job.

For the yellow, I used the Golden Sun Yellow after basing the light parts with White.  I put A LOT of layers to get rid of streaks.   After that i washed the yellow areas with Ogryn Flesh wash, a heavy dry brush of Golden Sun again and then a lighter dry brush of the Sunburst yellow.

Jawaballs: How to play Mephiston

Jawaballs has some interesting tactics when playing Mephiston:

http://warhammer40kbloodangels.blogspot.com/2011/03/emergence-of-mephiston-how-i-play-him.html