Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Forgeworld Heresy Era Blood Angels Squad






I have been painting a load of miniatures for the Armies on Parade contest, and decided to take a break and paint an all forgeworld squad as a reward for painting so much. first off, I am not happy with my work here. I am not sure where things started going wrong, but I struggled with every phase of the build. The resin on some of them was really molded poorly. Some of them were so badly aligned that I had to toss them aside and cherry pick from the units I bought. Some of the shoulder pads were not even fully cast. In terms of painting, I think I need to go back to pre-shading with grey before I put any red on the miniatures. Since blood red is semi-translucent, it works really well, and may help me avoid putting on too many layers of paint.

So the things I like:
  • The squad is split between running guys for the close combat squad, and standing for the missile squad.
  • I love the older mark armors.
  • Some of the red gradients turned out really good.
Things I plan to do to improve these models:
  • Line the armor plates with black/darkflesh wash in order to increase contrast
  • use weathering powders on their legs to blend them into their bases.
Lastly, I am not sure I want to sponge on a grey color to simulate scratches and battle damage. I am just not sure it would look good on these minis. I suppose that means a throw away test miniature is in order!



3 comments:

  1. You should really contact forgeworld if what you received was that poor in quality. I'm sure they will make it up to you.

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  2. I should, but I buy long in advance of my painting, so I feel bad about sending back casting problems now. Generally I love the FW stuff I get. I might be a bit more whinny than usual because the paint job is not where it should be. If I hadn't been saving these to paint for so long the anticipation would not have built up my expectations so much. On the other hand, I have a boat load of Krieg, which are all spot on perfect.

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  3. Very good minis, I love the one with the rogue trader era missile launcher and the one with the huge powerfist.

    Nice work.

    You are going to my blogroll.

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