Colour Scheme

Good evening! I've been a bit busy lately, so I haven't had a ton of time to work on my army. I have, however, completed ONE model. I wanted to figure out my colour scheme, so I did one of my Dire Avengers from start to finish. The Exarches will look a bit different. For example, there will be a small strip of shining gold on the crest as well as the silver and black strips.







I know it looks mostly like the already existing scheme for the Dire Avengers. I didn't pick any specific Craftworld for my army because I didn't like any of their colours. I also don't plan to paint any of my other aspects their proper colour, just variations of this scheme.

Any constructive criticism on my painting is welcome. This is my first time painting, so any advice for improving would be great. :)

First Game

I had my first game yesterday, and won! One of my friends, Brian, who also just started playing had brought his Tyranids, and Matt brought his Space Marines. Brian and I don't have enough models yet for 2000 points, so we joined forces and each fielded 1000, while Matt fielded 2000.


Dire Avengers


Rangers


Swooping Hawks and Wraithlord




Some dirty Space Marines






"Oh noes! It's coming for us!"

As you can see, I've primed my Wraithlord, and one of his capey things fell off. Again. I haven't made a ton of progress; I got the bases finished (minus grass) on my Dire Avengers, and my Swooping Hawks and Rangers built. I also suffered my first hobby-related injury. I drove the hobby drill into my thumb while pinning my Swooping Hawks' wings. According to Matt that means I've been officially initiated into Warhammer. Good to know.

Update

No photos today. I will post some photos on Saturday or Sunday likely. Dragon Age 2 comes out today, so I probably won't make any progress on my models until the weekend ;)

I ended up breaking Baharroth, but a trip to GW, a terminator base, and a quick pinning tutorial fixed him right up!

I picked up a squad of Rangers on Sunday, so now I think I have a good sized army to start playing with. So far I have:

2 10-man Dire Avengers squads
5-man Rangers squad
6-man Swooping Hawks squad
1 Wraithlord
1 Fire Prism
Phoenix Lord Baharroth
Farseer with Warlock Bodyguard

The plan is to get a squad of Fire Dragons and a Wave Serpent for my next purchase. After that I think I want to get Striking Scorpions. Then I'm not sure of what else to get. I don't want Harlequins because I don't want to paint them >:[

Customizing

My Baharroth, Swooping Hawks, and wings came today! There are no photos of Baharroth yet because he was being very disagreeable. (I almost detached him from the metal part that sticks into the base and had to repair with Green Stuff. Now he's drying.) I managed to put the wings onto my Wraithlord with some Green Stuff and am trying to make them look a bit like the ones on the Swooping Hawks.




Swooping Hawks!




One wing on.




Both wings on.










Ew, dirty Space Marine.


I've put more Green Stuff on the wings to make them look more attached. I'm just waiting for it to dry to add some gem-like bits like the ones that are on the Swooping Hawks to make it look more like it belongs. I'll take some more pictures once that's done.

The Beginning!

Back in 2005 my then boyfriend started playing Warhammer 40k. I thought it was ridiculous to pay money for little dudes that came unpainted and unassembled. "I will never pay out that kind of money for something I have to put together myself!" I thought.


So now, six years later, more of my friends are playing and having a good time building and painting together. Last week I bought the first few pieces of my army.





Here is one squad of Dire Avengers. I bought two, but haven't started putting together the second squad yet.





Exarch






The Exarch from another angle. Sorry for the blurriness.






Not very exciting, since they're metal models, but here are my Farseer and Warlock Bodyguard.





My unfinished, blurry Wraithlord. I know he's not very dynamic; he was the first model I put together. He is unfinished because I am waiting for pegasus wings to come in. I'm going with a Swooping Hawk look for my army theme, and it was suggested to me to put the wings on his back to go along with it.





My partially assembled Fire Prism, waiting for a base coat.


With the pegasus wings for my Wraithlord, I am currently waiting for my Swooping Hawks and Baharroth to come in, which should be this week.


I haven't completely planned out my colour scheme yet, but I'm thinking of a blue-grey theme with dark red highlights. I have a lowly Space Marine I'm practicing on ;)