The Doom Angels

Here's my Doom Angels, using the Blood Angels Codex, this is a very fun army to play with and play against. This army consists of 42 men, no vehicles of any sort, 37 of them have Jump Packs, and only 5 of them are on foot.

Well, I haven't finished painting the whole army yet, as you can see, most of them are done and I'm still thinking of ways to make them more dynamic in their pose. Here are some pictures on the army.

Here's the full shot of the army.

Some of the Veterans along with Commander Hades.

This is Commander Hades, he's using the same point system and stats as Commander Dante.
This is Chaplain Charon with the Death Company. Chaplain Charon is using the same point system and stats as Chaplain Lemartes.
A combat squad with a single melta.
This is Squad Deimos, led by Honored Veteran Sergeant Lucifer. Note, they're all beaky heads!
Squad Diablos that is led by Honored Veteran Sergeant Calisto is still in the making.
Here's a closer shot of the characters in the army with names. First up, Commander Hades! It took me weeks to think of how I should paint this guy, and I must say, this is the first time I've painted a face using pure mixing, blending and highlighting.


Chaplain Charon is the first model I've painted in my Doom Angels army.
My favourite Honored Veteran Sergeant, Perseus. I enjoyed modeling and painting this guy.

This here is Taranis.
Lucifer
Kronos
And of course, Calisto.
Phobos here is still under process.

The Doom Angels, Codex Blood Angels

HQ

Commander Hades
Chaplain Charon
5 Death Company Members

Elites

5 men Veteran Assault Squad
Power Fist+Melta Bomb
Power Weapon
2 Melta + 2 Melta Bomb

5 men Veteran Assault Squad
Power Fist+Melta Bomb
Power Weapon
2 Melta + 2 Melta Bomb

Troops

10 Men Assault Squad
Power Fist+Melta Bomb+Plasma Pistol
2 Plasma Pistol

10 Men Assault Squad

5 Men Combat Squad
Melta

Total Points: 1500

Scoring Units: 3, when broken into Combat Squads 5
Kill Points: 8, when broken into Combat Squads 10

Weakness: Tanks, monstrous creatures, AP 1 or AP 2 blasts.
Strength: Counter charging, once you get charged from them, it's time to say good bye...

Weak against:

1. Swarmy Tyranids, as this list does not have a flamer and long range fire support. Genestealers can mow down this army.
   
2. Mechanized armies, the anti-tank weapons are limited, but can deal with light vehicles and walkers.
3. Any other things that are pretty much against MEQ's (Marine equivalents).

Strong against:

1. Necrons, just charge them and they're dead.
2. Infantry based armies.
3. Tau, they'll definitely cry shooting at these fly boys...
4. Daemons? I've only fought the Khorne and Nurgle Combo.
   

This army is really fast to play, a movement phase barely lasts 5 minutes, they run in most shooting phases but when it comes to the assault phase, they will take some time. The number of attacks they can churn out on an assault phase is amazing, not to mention when Commander Hades is around, they all re-roll to hit.

Drop a comment to let me know what you think.

"I'm just too fixed into the idea of playing an assault oriented army..."

Doom Angels - Honored Veteran Sergeant Calisto

Here's a few shots of my most recently painted model for my Doom Angels army... Note that the decals on his shoulder pads are painted on, meaning, I've used the Blood Angels decals on him, then layered Space Wolves Grey then Skull White on it, with a coat of Matt Varnish on it... I'm still working on my marines, though I find that I have many more minis to paint!


The space to write his name is quite tight!


"I shall take an army photo of my Doom Angels because it's still a new army for me."

Random Painting 2 - Skaven Gutter Runner

Hi all, I've actually painted this little guy here, a Skaven Gutter Runner, right before I return to my hometown for Chinese New Year. Total time it took was about 2 hours, and this does not include the basing part, which I have no idea why I could forget.

Besides, the model ain't complete without the base painted, but I'm gonna run through what was done for this model.



Basecoat: Black

This is a breakdown of all the colours used on the model, remember, the essence here is speed:

1. Cloak was painted with Space Wolves Grey, washed with Badab Black
2. The skin was painted with Scorched Brown, then layered with Vermin Brown
3. The weapons were painted with Boltgun Metal
4. Whichever parts that look like leather was painted with Snakebite Leather
5. The claws and teeth were painted with Bleached Bone
6. The tail was painted with Elf Flesh
   
7. The whole model was given a wash of Devlan Mud

Presto! One model in 2 hours! I have to work on my timing to finish it up faster. I might prime them with white next time to see if that makes painting faster. There you go, enjoy!

"After I finish painting a majority of my miniatures, I might start Skaven as my Fantasy army. I hope the Skaven will get a new Army Book before I start."

Random Painting 1 - Bloodletter of Khorne

Well, I think it would be fun for me to start a random painting series of what I paint. Since I've been painting frequently, I end up painting models that are not intended to be in my army...

First off, this is a Bloodletter of Khorne, the model belongs to my roommate, and it was painted by me just to give him a benchmark for him to paint his Bloodletters...

Here's the breakdown on what paint was used:

Basecoat:

White Spray

Body:

1. Vermin Brown on the white base coat.
2. Scab Red, leave the horns, claws and tongue Vermin Brown
   
3. Blood Red dry brush all over model, leave some Scab Red just to add some shadowing.
4. Baal Red wash on the red parts of the model.
5. Blood Red dry brush again just to deepen the shadowing.
6. Finally Golden Yellow dry brush to make the model have an orange feel...

Horns, claws, teeth and eyes:

1. Give them a wash of Devlan Mud to darken the claw contact point to the skin
2. Komando Khaki
3. Bleached Bone is used to enhance and brighten up the claws.

Tongue:

1. Leviathan Purple wash
2. Followed with watered down Lich Purple
3. Asurmen Blue wash was given to make the tongue more... How do you say this... More like a Bloodletter tongue, yeah, that should be it. :)

The sword was just a progressive highlighting of reds and yellows, you should experiment with the colours as I'm not that good at blending yet...

The terrain on the base is just simple, glue some GW sand all over the base and paint it all black (please do this after the glue dries), then dry brush with Fortress Grey.

I have a habit of painting the rim of the base, so I gave this model a Tin Bitz rim.

Any questions, feel free to ask, I'll be glad to answer them...

"I've got lots more randomly painted miniatures, I'll make more tutorials on them too..."

OrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrksOrks!!

Ah yes... Since I've been painting my marines, I painted the free Ork Nob from the White Dwarf issue just for fun... This makes me want to start Orks as I've been wanting to play a huge horde army... The Tyranids are too dependent on one another, needing the Synapse, and back-ups and what not... So I've ordered my first box of Ork Boyz, and I'm gonna slowly paint em up to prepare fer da Waaaagh an' go stomp sum' humies!!


"This would be my 4th army already... What next?"

Tyranid Army Shot

Finally had the urge to update the blog, I had too, since I already have the camera and I've been painting so much already...
Well, my Tyranids had a major colour change throughout the year, so here are the updates...

"I've decided to make this blog to not only show my Tyranids, but my other painted stuff and also to focus on other stuff about WarHammer 40,000 and WarHammer Fantasy..."

Needs an update

I think it is time for me to update my blog with the new colour scheme of my nids that I have been painting for the past few months... I will need to get hold of a camera from my friend...