Blood Angels 2nd Edition update

It has taken me a little time, but I have finally finished s bunch of Blood Angels. I have mainly painted these at night during the work week, which is rare as I normally have no energy to do anything other than just crash, so it was nice to be productive.

 

This was a very generous gift from a friend in exchange for basing his army. Unfortunately it was one metal marine short, but since their was a battle standard model, thought it would fit one nicely.

I also got to finish my librarian in terminator armour.

He can now join me in 2nd ed, and also in Space Hulk.

 

Finally, I also finished this model. Compulsory in 2nd ed for the vehicle access, I now need some vehicles to add to the force.

This does now give me about 1000 points of painted models for the Blood Angels. Very pleased with that!

Thanks for looking!
 

Squad Lazarus joins the 3rd Company

I have finished the first 5 models of Squad Lazarus. This is an old 2nd edition metal squad that was a gift from a friend, which is very much appreciated!

It was great going back to these old poses. I tried to model them off the old Rogue Trader Blood Angels army that was featured in White Dwarf so long ago. It has been a lot of fun going back to the old 2nd edition sculpts. I hope to get more painted and try and get some in the gaming group to give it a go.

 I have the next five lined up now so I am hoping to add to them. I do need some adversaries for them to face, so I have something in the pipeline for them.

 Thanks for looking! 

More 2nd Edition Blood Angels

I got round to painting my very old Blood Angels commander, the original Captain Tycho. 

 I played Blood Angels a lot in 4th edition, and I remember hunting down the old metal models even then as I preferred them over the new ones. A lot of that old collection I have dug out and now repurposed it for a pile of 2nd edition Blood Angels.

 The first of these repaints, to add to the terminators had to be my old commander. I have been watching a lot of Minisodes, the YouTube channel, which has a lot of great 2nd edition narrative battle reports, particularly with the Blood Angels and their missions on Armageddon's 2nd war. 

I got into contact with Ed, and he kindly told me how he did his Tycho, as I tracked down the original recipe in the old White Dwarf, but couldn't find or convert the paints. 

 I undercoated white and then coated all the armour in Iyanden Yellow contrast. The it was Snakebite and Cygor contrasts for the recesses. Finally Screaming Skull for the highlights.

 I am very happy with the result, though not as good as Ed's, it still looks pretty cool. I am hoping to get him on the battle field in another test game for my gaming friends, when I have enough painting models!

 Anyways, thanks for looking.