It Came from the Forums: Vonkessler and his mind blowing conversions, Titans and Much More!

TJ here with another edition of It Came from the Forums and this one is for the hobbyists that love HUGE, intense conversions and sick paint jobs. This is Vonkessler's expertise and I am about to make your dork endorphins go into overdrive with his incredible work. Let's take a look!

It Came From the Forums Update: Xenobiotics Successors!

Old School here with an It Came From the Forums Update. More than a year ago, we featured the work of Heresy Online's Xenobiotic. Well, Xenobiotic is at it again with more of the Brethren of the Phoenix ... and the start of some new projects! Links will be at the end of the article. Let's take a look:

Dark Angels in 6th Edition Part 4: Brothers in Arms

Old School here, if you plan to take the Dark Angels as your main detachment or as an ally, there are some great options now and we are Brothers in Arms with some that offer us a good boost. I will be covering Brothers in Arms in this post and will follow this up with a very brief post later concerning other allied options, but that post may not come for some time. As always with these early 6th edition posts, I am not an expert and I think there is much to be learned from discussion as this is a new game for all of us at this point. I don't want to waste your time building it up any more, so here we go ...

Fear to Tread: The Next Horus Heresy Novel

Old School here with a quick peice from the upcoming Horus Heresy novel, Fear to Tread, featuring the Blood Angels.

Hobby Tip Video: Pre-Shading with an Airbrush

Hello Everyone,

General Chaos here with a hobby tip video. A friend of mine who plays Blood Angels gave me a bunch of his vehicles to base coat for him. Since they wasn't mine I decided to experiment with them. I seen a couple guides on pre-shading and thought I'd try it out. What's pre-shading? Well, If you ever look at a well worn airplane you'll notice there's weathering around the sheet metal panels that make up the shell. Like this

Well I was toying around with it and thought I'd create a video, after seeing how the Stormraven came out, on a bunch of razorback/rhinos. Hope you enjoy it and thanks for watching.

Video Battle Report: Ultramarines vs. Blood Angels

General Chaos here with another Video Battle report. I got a game in this weekend at Titan's Entertainment Cafe in Battle Creek, MI. We played a 1850 game with my Ultramarines vs. Jeremy's Blood Angels. It was pitched battle and we used all the book missions at the same time with who ever winning the most missions declared the winner. It was a real power armor slap fight. Hope you enjoy and thanks for watching.

The Heresy Relived: SeerK Brings You Classic Battles Of The Heresy

I found 2 campaign packs when I was looking for old 40K source material on the web. It was a campaign weekend done at Warhammer world and Bugmans pub in the U.K. By the gaming group the Tempus Fugitives. It was called the Age of the Emperor and it detailed the major battles of the Horus Heresy. These packs include the stats for many of the personalities in the Horus Heresy novels as well as the Custodus, Sisters of Silence and the Cults of Davine. They also include Stat blocks and rules for the Primarchs. They have another Campaign weekend planned in March in England for those of you across the pond. Check out The Tempus Fugitives website for details.

So OST, Vogrin, CVinton and I will be doing some of these battles at the FLGS over the next few weeks and bring you the blow by blow highlights. Vogrin and local Daemon player Papa Nurgle squared off for our first classic battle. Sanguinius the Primarch of the Blood Angels versus the Ka'Bandha the lord of the Blood Thirsters.

Now to give a little bit of information on the Combatants.

The Beginning of the end of the beginning.... A new army on the horizon

As every hobbiest knows, at some point during their time playing the game, they become unhappy with how things currently are happening, on how their army performs, or how their color scheme is coming together.

Personally… I have none of these problems, I love my Imperial Guard. I love the models I use (mmmm D.K.K.), I love the multiple ways my army can be played, and almost every game I play I perform well, and win a good chunk, far far more than I lose, and I absolutely LOVE my dirty, grimy mud filled look my army has, no matter what others think or say about it (and thank you to those who appreciate it, and ask questions about it).

DFG Painting Challenge: Hornblower's Storm Raven!

The Blood Angels strike again! Hey everyone, Hornblower here once more. I'm keeping Blood Angel train rolling with a Heavy Support choice, the Storm Raven.

DFG Painting Challenge: Hornblowers Death Company!

Let me tell you, I've seen these in real life and they are great looking. Also, Hornblower is doing a great job blowing OST and I out of the water on this challenge. I wonder if he has a full time nanny or just doesn't sleep. I know he's not a vampire because I've seen him during the day so many he has just transcended the mortal coils and does not need sleep. Here's his work, looks great:

Hey everyone, Hornblower back again!

DFG Painting Challenge:BA Assault Squad

Hello everyone. Hornblower here back with my next entry for the DFG Painting Challenge.

Quick Blood Angel Librarian Furioso Commission for FLGS!

 Old School here with a quick commission job I did Pro Bono (if you laughed, look up the definiton, lol) for the FLGS. The job was supposed to be simple and to the theme of the codex art, so that's where I stayed.
Let's take a look at some pics.

DFG Painting Challenge: BA decend!

Today we have another hat thrown in the ring for the Challenge. I will admit that this whole idea grew from the seed that he mentioned when we played a while back.

Greetings everyone. I've known CVinton for years now as an acquaintance and had the fortune last month to get my first game in with him at a LFGS. He mentioned that he was a contributor to this blog during our game so I thought I'd check it out. Needless to say, I like what I see so I thought I'd offer some contributions of my own through DFG's painting project.

It Came From the Forums: Yggdrasil's Chaos, BA, Skaven and More!

 Old School here with another addition of It Came From the Forums! This time we will take a look at the work of Dakka's Yggdrasil. This artist (a deserving title here!), makes use of vibrant colors and a wide variety of conversions to make his miniatures come to life. Let's take a look at some of his work ...

Opening the Blackbox Video: Stormraven and Blood Angels Dreadnought

Old School here with a video of a Blackbox containing the Storm Raven and Blood Angels Dreadnought being opened by GirlPainting of Youtube and Warmonger Gameday. Check it out by clicking the read more link  ...

Blood Angels Pre-Order + Pics of complete models and unblurred Sprues!

Old School here with a VERY pic-heavy Blood Angels Post. First off, the Storm Raven, Blood Angels Dreadnought and the Blood Angels Battle Force are up for Pre-Order at GW, check it out, second, courtesy of Anything But Ones, we also have pics of the complete models and we are going to compare those to photos from GW and also take a look at the Sprues. There are tons of photos to look at and I would love to hear your thoughts (authors who can snowmobile, feel free) ...

CVinton here about the box set,



And this is a cool surprise for you BA players; a box set! I hadn't heard anything about this rumor. The upped the price but included a pretty decent amount of stuff. The total retail of the contents are 133.00 so your pretty much getting a Death Company or a rhino or a tac squad for free. I'm sort of "meh" about the contents, mainly the tac squad, but its fine. In the end it just means you'll start seeing Death Company bits on ebay for cheaper finally.

Complete Storm Raven and Furioso Pics! Feb 22 Release announced!

 Old School here with some great pics of a complete Storm Raven from Multiple angles as well as the Furioso Dread. These are pics of the kit and not conversions, let's have a look ...

Ok, so I know its been talked about.... but

Ok, so I know its been talked about a bit. Especially by our local Samsquanch Monster, but also by other Space Wolf players who were disappointed in the fact that they can not use the Leman Russ any longer with their new codex. After looking at a list on mi40k.com's forums in which had some Vindicators I thought...

It Came From the Forums: XenoBiotic's Blood Angel's Successors

 Old School here with (somewhat) Thanksgiving themed It Came From the Forums. This edition We look at Heresy Online's Xenobiotic and his Phoenix based Blood Angels successor chapter. Let's start the feast (tons of photos this time!) with the Death Company rhino above. The white and the weathering are amazing and on par with some of the best work i've seen on this forum, but on closer inspection ...

Storm Raven Model: The Good and the Bad

Alright, so now that the whole internet has seen the Storm Raven let's take a look at this model from two perspectives. First the model as something you'd have to look at everyday and then the model's potential on the table.
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First, I am writing this article under the assumption that this IS the Storm Raven, so let's leave that arguement for another post. So, Moving on ...