gone soon and got nothing to do

yesterday i was hanging out in my room and i started to count how many points of blood angels I got from memory because i have them in Florida atm(there waiting for me there cause i will be there after i come back from Italy) anyway i have over 6k points of blood angels but only have one assault marine Sqd. is it me or does something not seam right here...

3RD Co. HQ

 i did these on my days off from work.. one thing that i don't do anymore because of them is NOT clean my brush... if you look at the white you can see a redness to them.. that's cause i 1. didn't clean my brush and 2. didn't change the water out. so keep this in mind for all that want to paint there army and for them to look nice.
rule number 1. take your time, trust me it is better to only have one or to figure's done and able to see how nice they are then have a lot out that look like crap. which brings us too

number 2. dot have to much out at i time.. I've had about 98% of my army out for this past year.. and i only have maybe %35 of the whole thing painted now, trust me when i say this... painting parts at a time is much better. not only does it go by faster, you can see your work you don't feel so rushed to do anything, they will look nicer and you'll be happier. I have found that having about 10 models out at a time is just about right and im only painting 2 or 3 at a time from that, so when i look over i can see that there's just a few more to go... not 78 more models :(. now i leave them out AFTER i have painted them. This might not make my girl friend to happy but I've been rolling high on my armors saves as of late so I'm good there, that and cooking for her helps reduce her wrath onto me and this hobby that we all love.(love is a trademarked emotion from Hallmark Card company)
and finely
number 3. keep your gear clean and change out your waters, also on that keep two cups of water, one needs to be to for metallic washing only REMEMBER that.. don't do what i did.. or you'll end up with red paint with a nice amount of gold metallic color in it...

anyway this is longer enough for now.. so hope you find what i have in here helpful to you

and.... more pics for you

these are some of my assault terminators that i was able to take my time with no joke, as you can see im still new to not only the painting ive only really been painting for about a year on and off, but also the basing of the models, during the painting of these guys is when i started to think to my self that there has got to be a faster way to paint them.

i did all of them at the same time with what ever paint i was working with at the time be it blood red or shining gold, but still i felt that it just took far to long, and then there was the sand... i mean just look at it.... I've got to go back and some grass.

i also learnt from doing these guys just how much a base really can make or brake a model.

I also have added a model to them from the space hulk box, the one with the lighting claws, with him not only was i able to take my very sweet time painting but also was able to do the same with him when it came time to base him, so if you look at all your models as if each one was high in cost then not only will you end up taking the time to paint them better but you'll also force you're self to make your army look amazing both on the table top and on display.

here's a link to the lighting claw terminator with battle damage from the space hulk box.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod210009a

its the 12 pic in the line, very cool model

pics pics and a few more pics

i got back from Kuwait back in December and then moved up to NJ to be with my GF.

I bought parts for my blood angels army wile i was over there but never got around to painting them so after getting to NJ i said to my self "jeez dude get off your butt and start painting your army!" sadly i would soon find out that i would not really have the time to do that due to the fact that my job has odd hrs, and that i do not have a 2+ save from my Girl friend.

anyway the first part i started painting was the baddass know as Astorath.

Now as im sure that you can see from these pics is that the painting job i have done is left wanting but i still feel that its not that bad a job do to the fact that it took me about 3 weeks to paint him with only 2 or 3 mins a day(and not able to get to him everyday) to do that :(.

i wanted to paint the blade to look as though it was sheaved in energy and not just another copy job. so i painted a few lines of ice blue and then coted it very lovingly with asurmen blue.

i did not want to paint the wings black because i thought that was a bit to easy also i thought they would look to much like crows wings, so i painted them to look more like an Eagle Owl (owls are messengers of death).

anyway there you go thats my first posting with pics, just need to go back and tuchup so areas and do his hair over again... in fact ill just do his head all over again

there is only WARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

starting over with this blog, maybe not the best time since im going to be going to Italy in a few weeks and i will not really be able to post anything new until august, so ill say this to all of my followers... oh yeah i dont have any so they can piss off!

also i got to remember how to run this damn thing anyway... need to post pics of what ive been doing too... until then(most likely sometime today) see youz soon