Hi folks,
I finally finished my 3rd Company Command Squad
tonight, which is my first completed Dark Angel squad in a very long time. I
think the last thing I finished was my Deathwing Dreadnought with lightning
claws (which you can find on my Deathwing page), close to three years ago. The
finishing touches were three Dark Angel decals on the Standard Bearer,
Apothecary and boltgun marine. I have a love/hate relationship with decals.
They are great because they are so sharp, but goodness I hate trying to get
them on shoulder pads. I really need to invest in some more solvents and setting
media.
The Apothecary got a freehand symbol with some stylised
wings. This was actually a happy mistake, as I managed to put on the wrong
shoulder pad when I was constructing him. I have a proper shoulder pad with the
symbol included in my bits box, which I will now use on a Ravenwing Apothecary.
I also added some detail to the narthecium. You can see some awesome narthecium
jobs around the place; this probably isn’t one of them! It is good enough for
me, though, at least for now.
See you across the table,
M4cr0
Like the vials on the back of the Apothecary, very cool. It's also interesting to see so many cloaked figures that are not wearing hoods. It's not something I've thought of doing but it's quite effective.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Some people seem to be able to make those vials look transparent, but I need some more practice.
DeleteI can’t claim all the credit for the Dark Angels without hoods, they are all one piece metal figures from the dawn of 3rd Ed. Out of the three sculpts available, two have no hood (like Azrael and, more recently, Sammael I guess). I got these ones in a swap when I bought the Dark Vengeance box. It takes bit of creativity to make those three sculpts look like a bunch of different marines, especially in these days of ultra-pose-ability. But they are SO old school, I just couldn't say no to them :-)