Speed Painting

Several weeks ago, whilst hunting on eBay for cheap lots to add to my Astral Claws force for the Badab War, I bought a bundle of vehicles, including a Dreadnought, some Bikes and a Land Speeder.

The Dreadnought has already been decked out in silver and blue, and the Bikers are destined to become Iron Hunters, a specific unit from the Tyrant's Legion list.

However, that same list does not allow for the Tyrant's Legion to take Land Speeders, and so it was immediately adopted into the Blood Angels.

I've always liked the Land Speeder as a model, and my Blood Angels do lack a bit of pace, being the ad hoc force that they are.

However, I quickly discovered that not only are these things an absolute bugger to strip the paint from, they are also really awkward to paint and apply transfers to when fully assembled.

In terms of painting, I approached this in the way I do all of my Blood Angels, based on the approach I used during lockdown to rescue my old army.

Base coat of red spray, was in black and then lay up the red again before picking out the gold, silver and other colours and giving them a was as well. It's a surprisingly laborious approach.

However, it has the benefit of keeping my collection consistent (I'd probably approach things differently if I was starting now), which is particularly useful given that this model is a little rough around the edges to a bit of a botched adventure with Biostrip 20, having it match some of my older and less glamorous work (my Baal Predator has so much paint in it that it should gain a benefit from ablative armour).

This is by no means my best work, but it's more than good enough to serve.

I did harbour thoughts of converting the crew to fit with the Horus Heresy, but decided against it because I didn't have any alternative bodies handy, and basic speeders are a bit rubbish in 30k.

Instead, this will probably see service first in our Christmas Apocalypse game, where it will almost certainly be shot out of the sky on the first turn.

I've been making pretty good headway recently, but was tempted into picking up a copy of Wargames Illustrated today because it had a free sprue of 4 Werewolves from Wargames Atlantic. I have a couple of ideas for how I will use these models and I can see them getting painted relatively quickly.

Acquired: -57

Painted: 381

Lead Mountain: 635