Raptors

I’m working on a few units for the Raptors at the moment. First to be finished are these Hellblasters. Credit goes to my buddy William for the idea to paint the helmets yellow, which I think works really well 🙂

After a prolonged battle with this model over his white armour, we called a truce, and he is done.

I loved this model when I first saw it, but I felt Legofingerz improved it even further with his excellent conversion, so I did what all good artists do when they see a great idea. I stole it.

Inceptors – plasma flavour 👌

A little while ago I was approached by the Warhammer Community to write a short feature on my rapidly growing Raptors army. I’ve added more units since then and have yet more planned – watch this space for more updates and check out the article here!

This was a funny project. It went from nothing to almost finished in four hours, and then I spent probably three times that long detailing and weathering it – but at the same time trying to keep the weathering subtle. I figured it would be good practice for the relic vehicles I will be painting…

These were a lot of fun to paint. As a result the process went very quickly, up until the detailing which I spent a lot longer than expected and intended because I was having so much fun! So my hat’s off to the miniature designers for that! I do think they’re better without those little…

Some quick n’ dirty shotgun scouts for the Raptors!

My army finally has a Captain!

Finished the second Predator tank for the armoury, making two of each vehicle so far.

You guys are probably bored of seeing these but I’ve finished another five Intercessors! I actually enjoy painting them quite a lot but this brings my total up to 20 marines so it will soon be time for something different – and arguably more interesting 😉 Anyway, I hope you like them!

Hi guys, I’m back after a forced hiatus due to (another) arm injury. I was a bit worried about further loss of movement and feeling but all seems to be well after about a month of recovery 🙂 I thought I’d test out my painting hand and ease myself in with a single model, so…

Got another batch of Intercessors finished today. This takes me up to 15, so I can field 3x squads in a Battalion detachment but ultimately I will have 30 so I can max out those squads.

It’s been a while since my last post but I’ve not been idle. In fact I’ve been quite busy and have a number of things nearing completion. These Redemptor Dreads have been sitting on my desk 90% complete for a couple of weeks now and I finally got around to finishing them today. There is…

I finished these at the same time as the Razoracks, but at the last minute I decided to repaint the big lenses on the missile launchers blue (they were green), and the missiles themselves grey (they were yellow) – so there was a bit of a delay while I got around to making those changes….

The Raptors have air support! Never the quickest or easiest job to paint three vehicles at once but having such a great kit to play with does help – well done GW!

Managed to find some time after the Christmas festivities to work on the armour for my Raptors strike force. Next up are a brace of assault cannon-toting Razorbacks. I hope you like them – all feedback welcome!

The first completed vehicle in my Raptors force – a dirty old Predator!

Five more Intercessors finished today. Four of these guys will be bulking out the Squad II to 10 men, and this sergeant will then become leader of Squad III. A few people asked how I paint these guys, so here is my tutorial on how I paint Raptors Space Marines.

Here is the first completed unit for my Raptors Space Marines army. The painting process keeps closely to that of the test model I finished recently with a few minor alterations – mainly to streamline and speed things up where possible. On that note, quite a few people asked how long the test model took…

Here’s the test model (and as I deem the test to be a success, the first completed model) in my Raptors force, and the first Primaris marine I’ve painted. There were a few unsuccessful tests which are being / have been stripped, so a whole squad of models painted like this will follow. Hope you…