Dark Vengeance Complete

After much distraction and delay, I have completed all of the miniatures that are included in the Dark Vengeance starter set.  I have made tutorials for everything except the second set of cultists (coming when I get time).  This was a fun set to paint since there are so many different things and not too many troops to get bored with.  You should be able to see all the posts by using the "Dark Vengeance" label.

Ravenwing Bikers finished

Here's the Ravenwing bikers I've been working on.  I did the black with some mixing of grey and black for the base, grey highlight, then black wash to finish and blend.  Everything else has pretty much been covered with my other Dark Vengeance tutorials.

Full list of paints and a guide at bottom of the post.  I'll be posting the Sammael tutorial soon.

Ravenwing WIP 2 (Sammael + Bikes)

Here's a second batch of pictures from my Ravenwing detachment.  I'm doing all the base coats first, then will give a quick grey highlight and black wash.   When I did the base coat I added some grey in, so hopefully the black wash gets the recesses a deep black and the flat surfaces stand out slightly.  I'm also using secret weapon mini's soft body grey for the grey panels.  I'm not sure if I would rather that they were a blue grey, but we'll see.

Ravenwing WIP (Sammael + bikes)

I've decided to add Sammael in with the bikes from Dark Vengeance since they'll be the same paint scheme... plus with the new Dark Angels book on advance order it seems like a good time to do him.

Hellbrute Finished

Here's te finished Hellbrute from the Dark Vengeance starter set.  I followed the citadel how to paint Dark Vengeance ipad app for all the colours, but took some liberties with the techniques.

Hellbrute WIP

Yeah, I know, I'm working on the Hobbit stuff now, but in between steps I've been painting this guy up.  Its a fun model and I find dreadnoughts to paint up fairly quickly (better than the bikes I still have to do).  Anyway, here's what he looks like so far.  Basically I sprayed him dark brown, did a quick gold base coat, added red base on the red areas and gave it an agrax earthshade wash.

Deathwing Terminators Finished

Here's the Deathwing Terminators from Dark Vengeance all finished.  I've done up a better version of the painting guide and included the images below.  Hopefully this makes it better for people trying to follow my tutorials.  Check out the images below.  The full painting guide is below the finished images, and are the same as what's in the video.

In other news, I set up a new photo booth in my painting room, so I should be able to improve the quality of my images going forward (of finished models anyway).

Deathwing Termintaors WIP 2

I've had a hard time getting to my painting table on a regular basis, so these guys are taking longer than expected.  The layer of redoing the white armour was quite slow, almost an hour each guy.  Now that its done things should pick up an one more sitting should finish these guys off.  I really like the warm colour of the armour, so I think its worth it.

Deathwing Terminators WIP

Here's the latest in the Dark Vengeance series... the Deathwing Terminators.  I've got to finish this stuff up soon because I have a lot of stuff to get done before Christmas and have also ordered the Hobbit game.

Chaos Cultists Finished

Here's the finished first batch of Chaos Cultists from the Dark Vengeance set.  I did these guys pretty quickly as they are going to be a fodder unit not lasting very long on the table.  Pretty simple paint scheme using a base, wash and then highlighting with the base colour.  Paint list shown at the bottom of the post.

Oh, and someone over on youtube pointed out I painted the Sergent's mask skin colour.  I didn't realize it was a mask, so I'll have to go back and fix that.

Chaos Cultists WIP

Here are some work in progress pics of the Chaos Cultists from Dark Vengeance.  I'm doing these guys up quick with a base, wash and highlight method.  The highlight on the cloaks will be the same as the base to make it a bit more muted.

Dark Angels Tactical Squad Finished

Here's the finished Tactical Squad from Dark Vengeance.  I've bee pretty busy lately, so have had a hard time keeping up with my usual pace of painting.  I'm working on the squad of cultists with ranged weapons now.

Dark Angels Tactical Squad WIP 2

Here's the second set of pics of my Tactical squad.  I had a question about the greens from last post, and the basic answer is to water down paints a little and use glazes or washes to tone down the start highlights.  Or you can mix the darker green with the highlight to tone it down from the start.  It all depends on how you like them to look, and how much time you want to spend on a particular guy.

Dark Angels Tactical Squad WIP

Here's some pics of the Dark Vengeance tactical marines.  They are a slight improvement from the Assault on Black Reach box set, but will be pretty poor compared to the rumoured tactical squad re-cut thats supposed to come out next year.  I started these guys out with a green spray paint to make the green base coat go faster.  Paints listed at the bottom of this post.

Chaos Lord Kranon Tutorial

Here's the Lord Kranon Tutorial as well as the paints I used to paint him up (at the bottom).  I missed a couple of the paints in the tutorial but they are shown at the end of this post.

Dark Vengeance Lord Kranon WIP 2

Here's the second batch of Work in Progress shots for Lord Kranon.  The next thing on my painting table is the tactical squad from Dark Vengeance, then probably on to the cultists.

Dark Vengeance Lord Kranon WIP

A couple pictures of the latest guy from the Dark Vengeance set, Chaos Lord Kranon the Relentless.  Cool model and nice to spend a bit more time on him than the Chosen marines.  I used all the same colours as the chosen but didn't give the brown wash to the red areas.  This should help make him stand out a little more on the table top.

Dark Vengeance Librarian Finished Tutorial

Here's the final pics and video tutorial for the Dark Angels Librarian Turmiel from the Dark Vengeance box.

Dark Vengeance Librarian WIP 2

Here's another batch of WIP photos of Librarian Turmiel from the Dark Vengeance box.  The force sword is going to be a little different as I'll be using a non metallic gold type colour for the inset design.  The XV-88 base colour is what I'll be using and the other Tau colours for highlights.

Librarian Turmiel (Dark Vengeance) WIP 1

Here's the first batch of work in progress shots of the Librarian from Dark Vengeance.  I'm using mostly the same colours as the other Dark Angels, with the main difference being the blue armour.  Another great model  that will paint up fairly quickly due to the pretty straight forward colour scheme.