I realized that I had never gotten around to doing an unboxing for the Assault on Black Reach set so here I go!
This set is great in the value for money front.
I got this box at a 50% discount during the closing down sale of a local store for only SGD$65 (approx £32.50).
Even at full retail price, it is a steal.
Contents:
46 Miniatures
Dice, Dases, Templates, Range Finders
Rulebook & "How to Play" Booklet
Standard stuff here, range-finders, templates, bases and dice.
The box contains 4 sprues and this is the 1st. Very easy to assemble snap together parts that still have a high level of detail.
This particular frame contains only Space Orks.
On to the 2nd frame, which has a mixture of Space Marines and Space Orks.
This 3rd frame is a duplicate of the one above.
And the 4th frame, with mostly Space Marines, 2 Orcs and a Dreadnought.
Last but not least, we have the "How to Play" Booklet and a mini Rulebook
The mini rulebook is really nice, portable and adds superb value to this set considering that the retail price of the full-fledged rulebook is £45.
All things considered, this set is a great buy. Now that Dark Vengeance is out, Black Reach sets may possibly be discounted at some hobby stores. If u play Space Marines or Orks, grab a box before they vanish from the shelves!
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After many nights of ogling at pictures of the Dark Vengeance miniatures on the Games Workshop site, I finally got my hands on the Limited Ed. boxed set!
The box itself has a nice finishing and looks really good.
Here's the back where you can see all the models nicely painted up and this is what makes you really wanna buy it.
The contents include:
48 miniatures + 1 Limited mini
Dice, Bases, Templates and Range Finders
Quick Reference Sheet, Rulebook and a 'How to Play' Booklet
And.... the unboxing begins!
Surprisingly, there are only 4 main sprues and 1 additional sprue for the limited ed. miniature.
For a moment, I thought that my box may have sprues missing until I saw the number of figures that are jam packed into each of those sprues.
As with the other starter sets, this comes with the run-of-the-mill range finder and assorted templates.
The dice and bases are neatly packed but I'm sure you aren't really reading this to find out about the bases and dice so....... next please....
Now we get to the items of interest!
Here is the 1st sprue, with a mix of chaos and dark angel figures.
The miniatures are extremely detailed expecially when you consider the fact that they are mostly composed of only 2 parts.
If you own Assault on Black Reach and thought the minis there were good, these are way better!
The 2nd sprue is a duplicate of the one above.
I will have to vary my paintjob here and there for the sake of variation.
Now this 3rd sprue looks very impressive with the organic-like internal sprue frame.
Here you can really appreciate how tightly packed the figures are and every one of them is perfectly casted.
Kudos to GW for achieving this impressive feat.
And the 4th frame, with the highlight of the set.... the Helbrute.
The sculpt is absolutely awesome and I can totally imagine how badass this guy is gonna look once I paint him up.
And finally, the limited Interrogator Chaplain Seraphicus that comes with a nice textured base.
The head of my Chaplain has come off the frame but FYI, it is supposed to be attached to the bottom left of the sprue.
For some reason, this limited ed. figure seems to totally justify the purchase of this boxed set!
XD
Lastly, there are the Quick Reference Sheet, Rulebook and a 'How to Play' booklet.
One thing to note is that the Rulebook here is full-colored with updated rules, weapons and such. It's like the rulebook from the Assault on Black Reach Set but this one is on steroids!
Very high quality stuff here. IMO, this is the best GW starter set ever made. Highly recommended, so get yours while the limited edition is still available.
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My second Daemon Prince is finally completed!
I used the same basic techniques to paint the skin but slapped on a couple more layers to further lighten the skin tone
I used the same blending effect for the wings where it starts from dark red at the top to blood red/orange at the bottom
Check out the ripped muscles on the back!
The overall lighter shade of the skin color really makes the muscle paint-job pop as compared to the previous DP that I painted
However the shading effect isn't obvious in all the photos as my phone camera isn't exactly top of the line
Stop staring at his butt!
The other side...
A bird's eye view..
And here's a picture of the 2 daemon princes side by side.
The new one, is in reality, visually much brighter even though they look pretty much the same in the picture.
I like how the one on the left looks like he is taunting his opponent while the one on the right seems to be rallying his minions! ^.^
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Fully painted, varnished and based!
There are some imperfections in the model as the entire figure, including the base, is created out of epoxy putty.
Took me about 20 hours to paint this guy.
Most of that time was spent on adding thin layers of paint to shade the muscles and wings.
It was alot of fun painting this model, and painting muscles is a first for me.
Huge wings! I compared it to the standard pose on the original model and the wings on this is more extended in comparison.
I am glad wings do not count for Line of Sight purposes.
I really need to make a lightbox.
The wings are blocking the light and makes it pretty hard to appreciate the shading on the muscles.
Did a blend of dark red, blood red and orange fire to achieve the gradient effect on the wings.
The underside of the wings are shaded in the same way.
Decided to make the blade black so as to contrast with the lava effect etched into the blade.
Did a similar lava effect with blood red and orange for the chaos sigil on the shoulder pads.
Used shining gold to colour the markings on the legs.
A closer look at the head and body
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Started painting my casted daemon prince.
This will be my practice piece before I move on to paint the original model.
Thus far, the model has been primed black and base-coated with black and dark red.
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Done painting another 15 spearmen to bring the total to 20
Varied the hair colour so the unit now has bleached blondes, sandy blondes, brunettes and redheads!
Back view
Top down view
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Added wings to my casted daemon prince
There are patches of grey on the wings because I used modelling putty to fill gaps caused by imperfections in the mould
Here's the casted daemon prince standing next to the original one
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Made a near perfect copy of my recently bought Daemon Prince!
This was done using Oyumaru (similar to Instant Mold) to create the moulds from the original parts, and then using Epoxy Putty (the kind used to plug leakages in your bathroom pipes) to make the parts themselves.
Did a little bit of sculpting to repose the figure and had to sculpt the fingers on the left hand as the fingers on the original part was difficult to duplicate using my casting technique.
Deciding if I should mould and cast the wings for it....
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