Shhhhh!

Today's blog post is actually something I painted before new year and have been keeping quiet about.

It's a Librarian Furioso Dreadnought for my Blood Angels army. Specifically it's for the big 5th edition Apocalypse game of 40k we had planned but had to cancel a couple of weeks ago.

It's been rearranged for today.

Once we'd arranged the big game, Matt and Pete started feverishly painting and printing larger and larger units of tanks in an arms race that the Cold War would be proud of.

As I'm splitting my attention across several hundred different projects I wasn't keen to focus all my time and resources onto one game, but I did want to use the opportunity to add to my army and contribute to the rampant escalation.

I settled on adding a Librarian Dreadnought for a few reasons:

1. My experience of 5th edition suggests Dreadnoughts are effective;
2. The Librarian Dreadnought is a unit unique to the Blood Angels and so helps to theme my army;
3. With the right powers the Librarian Dreadnought is a mobile and deadly threat to enemy armour;
4. Some specific tactical options would be opened up by the addition of this unit which might mean we can get the jump on our opponents.

All this led me to jump onto ebay to pick up a built and basecoated model that only needed a little tlc to draft it into my force.

I won't bore you with the same old painting approaches, but I am quite pleased with the outcome of this model as I've achieved a very clean and striking look.

And so my army of somewhere in the region of 3300 points of Blood Angels is ready to join Matt's 4400 points of Imperial Guard to confront Pete's (who will be accompanied by Wes) Alpha Legion and Traitor Guard armoured column.

I've used almost my entire collection of Blood Angels for both 40k and Heresy.

As we are going to be facing off against the Alpha Legion, I've decided the write up will be placed into my Pale Stars narrative campaign, and I'll just ignore some of the armour marks on display.

Unfortunately, the Librarian Dreadnought does not count towards my painting tally as it was technically completed last year. I'm hoping that the delay to the game might spare it the indignity of new model syndrome.