[Wappellious] Bringing the Angels Solarus to life!

For those of you who have been following the blog, you have already seen the introduction of the Angels Solarus, a Blood Angels splinter chapter.

In addition to the horde of infantry created for this army, I also painted numerous vehicles and dreadnoughts.  I believe there were three Forgeworld speeders, two Baal Predators, six dreadnoughts, and five dreadnought drop pods.  Oh yeah, and a Stormraven!  Those will all be finding their way to the blog. :-)
This is a bit of a taste of things to come on the blog...

Completed 5 Man Heirs of Horus Sternguard Squad

With all the business trips ive had recently for work, ive managed to get a bit of painting done here and there and really, all around the US with my wonderful mini modeling kit made from an old shaving kit bag. So over the next few weeks ill be posting regular updates of completed, newly named, Heirs of Horus. Including some absoultly amazing fluff writin by a very talanted writer.

Enough rambling! First up with this new series, the first 5 men of Sternguard Squad Alpha: (excuse the pics, I didnt have a light box)

Completed Heirs of Horus Land Raider

Nope, im not dead. Work has just been sucking the life out of me. I have a bit of time this morning to post some work on the newly named Heirs of Horus (tons of fluff to follow). First up, a land Raider for the Sternguard or Capt with honor guard.

MWC is also having a monthly conversion contest. This month its for 40k characters, named ones or independent ones that can be fielded on their own. There are prizes in the form of GW gift cards for the top 3 as well as a runner up prize chosen by the MWC staff. Started yesterday and ends at midnight on the 20th.

Ready, set, CONVERT!

[Lo's Lowdown] Paint Comparison- GW vs Vallejo vs Reaper (Metallics)

After the great response to my paint comparison post, I decided to do another. This time, I am comparing metallic paints, which present a tougher challenge to painters all over.

I used many of the same methods as last time- I used bummy “test models” and as much readily available paint as possible. It turned out that I own very little gold OR silver paint, and had to order at least two colors. I ordered gold and silver Reaper colors, but Gold was out of stock. I wound up borrowing the Gold from a generous friend.

Sons of Horus Completed Bike Squad

Pics of the first Sons of Horus Bike Squad. It will be expanded to a 6 man squad in the future.

Painted Demon Prince of Slaanesh

Dug this guy out last week. Its actually one of the first conversions I ever did as well as one of my first completed paint jobs. Finished roughly 15-18 years ago.

Sons of Horus Macrh Group Shot - Painted, Based and Sealed

So far everything thats painted, based and sealed.

Completed Sons of Horus Priest

Finished the first of 3 priests. You may have seen him pictured before but now his power weapon is finished as I settled on a style and hes also based. Comments are more then welcome.

Completed Chaplain and Honor Guard

Finished the Honor Guard for the Chaplain. As with all units each has a different head and mix of armor style. For this squad I did go with the same style power plants and right skull shoulder pads. As with all elite units in the army, they have gold helmets as well. The small creature/familiar thing with the priest is a "token" for me to show the unit having furious charge. When the priest dies, the ability goes away and as such so will the little guy. I like how he looks up at the skull chalice thats spilling blood. The drill counts as a power fist and the rest of the unit is armed with 2 Inferno pistols and 4 power weapons. In game they will ride around in the Stormraven along with the CC Dread.

Sons of Horus Chaplain Completed and Based

I decided to change his Crozius to something more Chaos'y and not so Power Maul like. I also based him in a style to match the Stormraven as thats his personal transport.

Ive decided to include a 5 man honor guard with him. Should have pics of them in the next day or so.

Completed Undivided Demon Prince of Chaos

Another thing sadly sold awhile back to pay for bills. I have the bitz to remake it and plan to soon. I dont know what ill use it for and most likely only ever field it in Apocalypse., but still, I liked him.

Completed Sons of Horus Stormraven

All done. Though After seeing the pics I do need to paint the inside of the engines black lol.. Seems the primer didnt get in there..

And yup, the dread is magged on.

More Stormraven Pics

Ill get better pics as soon as I can as well as pics of the completed base. Its hard to make out bt the GS is slime coming out of a pipe and bubbling and flowing.. Also plan to have scattered bricks around the emtpy side of the base.

Sons of Horus Painted Stormraven Teaser Shots

Sons of Horus Stormraven Canpoy Finished

Master of the Forge painted + only 2 1/2 days left for the FREE give away

He has since been repainted just a tad and rebased to Match the Sons of Horus.

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Sons of Horus Assault Sgt Painted

Good? bad? anything I should change?

Sons of Horus Combat Devastaor Squad Painted

Been meaning to post pics of these guys. Ill get better shots of them all when i can including the Sgts Signum.

Sons of Horus Terminator Sgt Finished

So, I ran out of Metallic Green and had to make more. Took a bit of trial and error to get it exact to my first batch as for some reason this batch of Chainmail wasn't very silvery so to speak. I didn't want to mess up any models so I dug this guy up, popped a few bitz on to finish him, mocked up a base to match the completed ones and blamo, done! And his metallic Green is spot on! Yay!


So with that, Ill go ahead and use him as a Sgt for a shooty termie squad. Ill take more pics of him when my camera (i.e. my phone lol) charges more.

Sons of Horus Sanguinary Priests ready for basing

Finished the lamp and the vials on the 1st Priest and finished the 2nd with jump pack though he needs writing on his impurity seals.

They will indeed be based like the Land Speeder and Dreadnought.