Eye candy time! I got a good number of pictures taken today and I want to do an article on each of my armies. Basically this will just be a bunch of eye candy for you. As I add units, I may come back and add pictures, giving me a place readers can view my stuff.
The Crimson Fists
This is my current painted Crimson Fist Army. This project started in 2004 at the Minneapolis GT. I was not happy with my armies at the time and wanted to paint something to a higher standard. I knew at that time, I could not paint shoulders and vehicle emblems freehand.
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| Yeah, I'm a dork and still have my passes for the 2003-2004 GT. |
I decided on CF since they were some of the first metal shoulder pads and Forge World doors made. I could paint raised surfaces pretty good and the colors were different from my Salamanders and Sister's of Battle. I collected all the shoulders I could and a bunch of the tactical metal shoulders too.
Fast forward to 2010. After coming back to 40k after a 4th edition "break", I wanted a project to paint. I found podcasts relaxing to paint to and blogs were cool too. 2 projects was born from that moment in time, my Crimson Fists and 2 Cents on 40k. My blog was started to post pictures of stuff I was working on and to motivate me to paint up a new army.
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| 5th edition drew me back in. Love it! |
My Fists were to be my tournament army. The one that would score well enough to give me a chance to win a GT or a RTT. An army, I would be proud of to display and get some ogling over.
So in June I finished my first 1850 points worth of Fists. Now I can easily field 2500-3000 points with more still being planned and painted. So here they are in one place for all to see.........
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| Chapter librarian and my Capt Cortez of the 4th company. |
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| My fast attack section. |
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| My drivers have tech marine shoulder pads. |
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| Yeah, 3 predators! |
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| Plans are in the works to get the 3 vindicators running. |
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| My Ironclad with drop pod. I love this guy! He has done so well for me. |
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| Land Raider Invictus. |
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| Just back from seeing action at Ard Boyz 2011. |
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| My 5 man Assault Terminators. Loved them so much, I have 5 more in the shoot. |
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| Pedro's Sternguard. I can run them in one 10 man or 2 smaller squads. |
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| Pedro's Honor Guard. These guys put out a ton of power weapon attacks. Fast becoming a favorite of mine. |
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| I have 2 full tactical squads. My computer fu lost the pictures of the second. |
Thanks for looking. Still to come......Sister's of Battle, Order of the Ebon Chalice....and my first Salamander's army.
Looking good! I look forward to killing them all (or at least trying my hardest to kill them) at the next bugeater :-p
ReplyDeleteThanks. I got full painting points at Bugeater and that is what I was going for. Now I need to work on the playing part, as my day 1 was not so good.
ReplyDeleteYour army is fantastic looking, good job :) I was curious what color(s) you used for the blue, I'm looking to paint my Fists a similar blue and would like to borrow your color.
ReplyDeleteI have some of the old GW storm blue. I don't think they make it anymore. I also have a supply of blue GW ink that I add a little to the paint.
ReplyDeleteDrybrush enchanted blue then washed with azure wash. Highlight with regal and enchanted again.
Storm blue is a real purplish color when put on black primer. When I run out I'll look at regal blue or a darker one.
Red is just Red gore over black primer, then badab black washed. Rehighlight red gore then blood red.