How do folks, hope you’re all staying safe out there – as we hunker down for the second COVID wave, let me brighten your lockdown with some bold primary colours from the grim darkness of the far future… yes, that’s right, despite my diversion into 20mm fantasy, I’ve not forgotten my 90’s Blood Angels and I’ve actually got a squad completed.
I’ve already described the painting process in my first post, so I won’t belabour it here, the main additions were the free hand blood drop on the shoulder pad…
There was a slight logistical issue with this, as I discovered I dodn’t have any white model or craft paint. However, I spent the first few months of lockdown repainting my house so.. yes, the drops were done with Dulux Jasmine White house paint (albeit thinned with acrylic medium). Heresy? Almost certainly.
You might also notice the decal – I’d been wondering about where to get hold of these until Whittlesey40k (the same chap who very kindly allowed us to link the original photos from White Dwarf on his blog) got in touch with Jim and very kindly sent a set over entirely free of charge! So many thanks Whittlesey, we really appreciate that and if we’re ever in the same postcode I owe you a beer. Check out his blog here, there’s some fantastic stuff.
The last part was the banner – now, you can’t do 90’s 40k without back banners, can you? Back in the late Rogue Trader/ 2nd ed days, anyone who was anyone in the 41st millenium carried around a flag proclaiming them as such. I’d managed to download a PDF of White Dwarf 139 from Scribd, which had the painting guide for the GW studio Blood Angels army in it complete with back banner designs you can print out, “colour in” and cut out, so that’s exactly what I did, trying to match the colour choice and keep to the lines as close. I’m not as deft at it as those chaps were, but they look pretty good from two feet away and they absolutely scream 90s at you.
The banners are mounted on a paperclip that I straightened out and clipped using wire cutters, and then superglued the banners to. The ends got wedged down the back of the power packs and a dab of superglue to keep in place… I suppose I could have drilled something, thinking about it, but I am trying to keep bloodshed to a minimum. That said, I did drill out the missile launcher barrel – check me out!
So there we go, another baby step forward in my vanity project! Second tactical squad up next, then I think the Devastators… I’ll use them to get my eye in a little more before getting to the Terminators and characters. Plus of course getting my Paperhammer on building them some Rhinos (Jim can help with that) – so plenty to be getting on with.
Stay safe, stay thrifty and The Emperor Protect us all!
Skinflint Games 
Nicely done! 🙂 Dulux white? Love it!
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Jasmine white, specifically 😂 I mean they’re all acrylics now… Bit of Windsor and Newton medium to thin it, worked out alright! 😂 Might treat myself to a proper Vallejo one though 👍
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Superb- can’t beat a back banner.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Essential, I don’t know why today’s armies don’t use them 😂
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Glad my decals have finally got some use. I remember buying them new from GW in Middlesbrough. Must have been about 1992 or something. A few were used straight away, but the rest have just been sat in a bag since. Finally their time has come!
Amusingly, when I first opened this blog, I thought the first picture was one of mine. Your painting is significantly better than mine (and especially 12 year old mine!), but it’s so rare to see models painted in that old style now, and I knew you’d used some of my pics before, so that was just my first thought. I quickly realised they were actually painted properly (and not with Humbrol enamels!). You’ve done a great job of capturing the style of the 90s. Great work!
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Thank you my friend! 😀 Yeah, my first attempts were made with enamels, took me a while to understand the difference… Old school, no Duncan to guide us 🤣
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Nicely done!. I always wondered how the chaps with back banners got through doorways, until I realised that a plasma weapon just makes a big circular tunnel in the building/ space hulk 😀
Regards, Chris.
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🤣🤣🤣 you know, I never thought of that- I’m going to assume they’re on some sort of telescopic mechanism that just pings into place when they debus 🤣
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