Today I finished up the conversion process of my AoBR terminators.

I now have, 2 TH/SS (custom built), 2 LC (ordered from bits&kits), 1 chainfist (so so easily done) and my HQ Belial or aka Klaxxon.

With Klaxxon, I decided to use a normal aobr terminator, I cut his waist (a practice I did on a few random squad members to adjust the poses) then turned him, oh so slightly.
I got the feathered helm from bits and kits and simply stuck it on the side.
I really didnt know if I liked the outcome and toyed with the idea of putting them in various positions, I finally settled with the good old, timless decision making phrase... Fuck it.

I greenstuffed his lioncloth and a cloak in the motion of blowing backwards, as if standing against the wind. Unforntunatly in the camera shots you cannot actually see the cloak.
I also greenstuffed a pair of feathers which sit on his shoulderpad.

I grabbed a random chainsword and cut the very tip off and stuck it under his stormbolter to give his bolter a bit more character. I then gave him the deathwing sword.

Also used some slate from the beach, for more free basing ideas check out Ron's post here.

Once I have painted him I will give you angles so you can see the details, but for now a simple close up....

A quick update:

Today I finished off my Angels of Absolution.. almost :P
I need to make my plasma cannon, plasma gun and the sarge. These guys are the aobr marines, and I did an earlier post on the construction and painting here. I dont feel strongly about these guys, as I do my Dark Angels... I've found them a challenge to paint, as I cant hide mistakes as easily. I'm almost happy with them at least.

Also, my Tyranids Codex arrived today from waylandgames.co.uk!

Today I finished my dreadnought.

After much faffing about cutting him, turning him, adding a new custom sarcophagus and lil icon. I am really really happy with his outcome.

He may not be the best painted sex machine on the planet, and his CCW may have a crappy claw that has a bad joint, bit of greenstuff in the future will sort that. ^.^

My next challenge will be touching up a few details, learning better techniques and adding his name on his banner!

What do you think?

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Today I slapped some back on the tank and painted a little bit of detail on the controls inside. I've done it very sloppy however.. whos gonna see it up close? :D

Hiya,

I decided a while back I wanted to do my army as kind of a story. A progression as time goes on. In this aspect I will be recording great victories and heroic acts from a single unit or squad. I will then reward my models with such, add weapons, decals, greenstuff, a notch on a bolter. Simple things to make them feel unique.
On this theme I wanted to design my chapter in such a way that whilst it is overall Dark Angels. It consists of a thrown together bunch....

Ill have two Dark Angel Tactical Squads, the core of the army, squad 1 and 2. Each squad will have a unique captain and whilst they will start identical I will reward such squads with trophy's as I progress.

Ill also have my Angels of Absolution, the support squad, all holding bolters. The successor chapter that happened to be in the same area in the far away corners of the imperium. I planned to give them loincloths and when I get them, books of salvation and scrolls of prayer.
Ultimately I plan to get a veteran squad and/or create full robes and make a guardians of covenant squad.

Anyway, I decided I'd make my angels of absolution. It gives me two purposes:
1) I get to practice before I do my terminators
2) I start my tactical squad *shrug*

So first I picked out my lucky few:

After painting the chest eagle silver, the tactical icons red, the loincloths green and touching up nearly everything. I finally felt I had done enough for tonight.

Whilst I am not impressed by my own models I do at least feel proud for my first deathwing/angels of absolution colour scheme tryout.

I added the backpacks and weapons unpainted for now, just to give them a contrast.