Dark Angels Librarian Terminator

As many of you know, my favorite marine army is the Ultramarines. I love the look of the sharp blue on the battlefield and that is what really drew me to the army (you can now take your Smurf jokes and take a hike, lol!).  Anyway, it alway amused me that the color for Librarians was Ultramarine Blue. So when my teammates needed a Librarian painted, I was a happy painter.
Being Dark Angels, the model needed some green which was easy to add to the knee pain and the back of the cloak. One way to make your models stand out is to color the back side of a robe, cloak, or whatever different than the front side. Its a simple note that I see many people opt not to do on their models.
Again, the model was presented to me with the base pre-assembled, but I loved the skulls and light sprinkle of rock. Unlike the Chaplain, the Terminator just has a lot of stuff going on. This time, a simple base does the trick.

Dark Angels Chaplain Terminator

Greetings gang. I hope that by now everyone is knee deep into sixth edition Warhammer 40K and is loving it as much as I do. With the rumors starting to get more and more firm on Dark Angels as the next codex after Chaos Space Marines, I figured it was time to show off some models done earlier this year.

As you may remember, our Adepticon team tournament this year featured Dark Angels in all of their special forms. I was tasked with painting up several of the terminators for the army.

This particular model showed up assemebled and the base already done with the owners bits attached. Since the armor was going to be fairly bland with the typical black scheme, I wanted the large pieces on the base to attract the eye, and tie into the casing on the combi-melta. 

The greens were mostly done with glazes after painting a very light and bright green as the base coat. This is once of the first models I used this technique to good effect, and on such a large portion of the finished product. 

Adepticon Team Tournament

In the last of my Adepticon 2012 in review posts centers around our Team Tournament Army.  If you are not familiar with this particular format, its 4x1,000 armies and you are pared with one of your three teammates randomly each round. The last round is a captains choice. The tournament uses a modified force organization which makes things even more challenging in army creation. You can read more here. I'll skip the complaint about how many Grey Knight armies were in attendance and focus on our army!

An old friend (as in friend for a long time, not just because he is old!) has wanted to do Dark Angels for some time now. The unusual format provided a great opportunity to use both the Ravenwing and Deathwing squads.  In addition, we were able to get a Cestus Assault Ram for the army as well. 

At the end of the day, we are a non-competitive team and ended up our usual bottom middle-third of the final standings. Our painting earned high scores, but it was theme were we did well, nearly maxing out the points. 

We had the to big boys, Sammael and Belial, to make Terminators and Bikes scoring for all four players. It was a nice luxury to have.