Sisters of Silence / Down with warlocks!

This unit was an absolute joy to build, the models have barely any mould lines on them, and fitted together almost perfectly. However… painting them. Oh painting them. The only downside to them is I would have found it quite hard to build them in sub-assemblies, due to the way the sprue is designed. After some umming  and ahhhing on it, decide just to go for it and build them in total. This (I so foolishly hoped) would mean I could spray them much quicker, and get down the fun bit. 

To be fair spraying them was really easy, but the fun bit was a lot trickier than i’d anticipated. I ended up having to resort to all sorts of ridiculous angles to ensure coverage on the capes. 

Oh well, lesson learned! - Although actually I still don’t know how i’d do it, possibly paint every piece of the model separately, but then the shoulder pads would just be a nightmare… hmmm. If anyone actually has any ideas or suggestions on this let me know! 

I'm really pleased with the way the yellow on the capes turned out - I may have to translate that onto bigger models. Then again it might be one of those things that only works in miniature. 

I also like the fur on the cape although that was straight out of the Duncan Rhodes painting videos!

Excuse the fact that I obviously don't have a big enough piece of backing for five (wo)man units with big swords. 

Blood Angels Ironclad and a slight plan adjustment...

So in a relatively shocking turn of events I actually kept to what I said I would do, and bought and painted a dreadnought over the bank holiday weekend! For one brief shining moment I was mere models away from finishing all my tournament prep painting. - More on that later. 

I’m actually pretty pleased with how he has turned out. I’ve kept the red nice and bright, and think i’ve got just the right amount of scuffing on the edges. Also, I normally only wash the metallic parts with Agrax earthshade, but for this model, given the amount of silver on there and the contrast i wanted to create to the red, I went for an initial wash of nuln oil before layering with agrax. I’m pleased with the effect! It’s probably news to absolutely no one else that this looks good though, given that it’s what Duncan ‘the messiah’ Rhodes tells you to do on every single model he paints. 

This little photo session actually drew my attention to some spots I missed (like the cog wheel on his back right shoulder) - these have now been fixed and he is now packed for LGT!

The base was easier to make than usual as well, as in the interests of speed I ditched the sculpted step and just applied a Vallejo paste directly onto some cork. This has made it much easier to build some quick bases for the sisters of silence. 

WHAT!? sisters of silence? Yeah so about them…

I realised in a complete and utter noob moment that I am actually allowed to take the gladius alongside an allied detachment. Which I did not know. After briefly toying with taking Coteaz (in my opinion the best hundred points in 40k) I decided that actually my army mostly wants to go second, so the increased odds of securing first turn mean little to me. Although it would be hilarious to force an opponent to re roll his sieze so that they DO actually seize.. but i’m struggling to see how that is in anyway a good idea. 

So anyway, that leads me to the sisters of silence. More specifically two units of sisters and a rhino for one of them, - which I can just about squeeze into my list. Oh and potentially an extra drop pod. It’s going to be a busy few weeks… (at least I had weeks remaining when I actually wrote the above, but being away from home made photographing the dreadnought tricky, and I was lax in uploading it! - But this does mean that the next updates will be thick and fast!)

Annnnd a final dreadnought angle...