Mind Worm

Heres a bit more Ezekiel progress.  Shaded the green in the shoulder pads, put some script on purity seals, almost finished up gems on the sword, more work on banner pole (after the picture I added a cluster of purity seals to cover the finecast gap near the bottom), got the base almost finished, picture is not great, but got a lot done on the face as well...lots of just little things left to pull it all together.

Ezekiel Progress

Not sure if this miniature has enough 'glitz' to draw any attention as far as the painting competition goes...but making a lot of progress anyway.  Worked on the robes and power armor for a few hours last night and they're starting to look pretty clean & crisp.  Theres a bit of modeling work that I need to do on the banner...the finecast mold was pretty terrible and it has several cavities where the paper-thin areas tore out.  If its not salvageable I will ditch it.

Painting Contest

As a little bit of fun and motivation I decided to pledge painting Ezekiel, Grand Master of Librarians for a Painting Contest in The Warmaster's forums.  I've had Ezekiel for about 20 years now unpainted and in just a box of old minis.  I bought him when I was probably 13 or 14 because I thought he looked awesome and I didnt really have a concept of space marine "chapters."  Since I played Ultramarines, (you can see that at some point I scraped off the DA symbol from his book) hes stood in for Tigerius on many occasions but now since I'm all-in on Dark Angels, the figure gets the treatment he deserves!  

No illusions of grandeur, but I want to do a really nice job on it...while I'd love to give him some major weathering and battle-damage I just dont think hed fit in to the rest of the army, so I'm planning to make it nice a clean from the start.  I'm converting the banner pole from the Terminator Librarian to give Ezekiel the drama he deserves! HERE is the link to my contest post if you're interested in following!

Note the scraped off book front :(

Just after blocking in some basecoats.

Tactical Marines - More Work

Last week had a nice afternoon of painting and enjoying a couple local brews!  I think next time I need to pay more attention to HOW I'm putting the new tactical squads together...a couple bolter arms went in weird.  Oh well, my primer got all speckled and fuzzy on all the boltguns so it was a slight letdown anyway.  The marines themselves are shaping up pretty good!

Turrets Syndrome

Not the most exciting of posts, sure...I'll buy that.  Progress is progress so I figured I'd post it up here.  Its a couple nearly finished turrets for two Razorback vehicles I'm finally getting around to painting.  I didn't go through the work of magnetizing the weapons or anything.  It usually seems to work fine to model the things with the more expensive weapons and the opponent is less likely to to have any issues if you're 'downgrading.'  ex: "These lascannons are actually just Heavy Bolters for this game"... as opposed to "These HBs are really LCs"  Well, thats my justification for being lazy anyway! haha

++ Squad Complete ++

Epistolary Librarius Sodiel "The Enlightened Seer" leads Brother-Dekel's Deathwing Terminator Squad in to battle amongst the forests of the latest Death World to reportedly hide Fallen space marines.

Still planning on picking up a Deathwing Knights box to make my own sergeants and get a TH/SS marine here and there.  I also need to get some more bases from Secret Weapon Miniatures to totally finish it off.  I used a tablet to take this pic...its ok, but theres like 2 lights blasting down on the minis so its a bit too blown out for my tastes...still pretty cool to get progress done.

More Terminator painting

Getting closer to finishing off this group of Deathwing.  Its going a bit slower now that Im working on 3 of them at the same time.  The eye lenses and chest symbols are the only parts that are completely finished.  Otherwise these are just after the point of inking and cleanup.  Up next is lots of highlight buildup and edging.  I think Im going to pickup a box of Deathwing knights to use for the Sgt. torsos.  I don't really like the one from Dark Vengeance, so I've re-purposed the arms to change up a bit of their poses.  (the one on the right is the assault cannon guy with the Sgt arm)