Next up - Korvydae...

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Another resin mini, and this is the reason for all the Raven Guard action. I love this damn model. After wresting with the finecast resin a couple of nights ago, it was nice to be back with some Forgeworld resin, not brittle and easy to clean. I have blue tacked the arms on so thats why there is a gap on the wrist!

Chhaaarrge!

I have another resin awesomeness I'm building tonight!

I present Corvane Valar - Shadow Captain of 5th Company, Raven Guard

I have been busy with this guy. Basically i saw The Lord Executioner model and thought he would make an awesome lightening claw captain. My list uses Korvydae, but once I had the idea I had to build it! He is a counts as Shrike for my 5th company. There is no way I would use The Gw model, it's horrible! 

The torso is The Lord executioner, had a worry when it arrived as shoulders and arms are part of the model, but they come away easily and don't damage the model to much. That's a good thing about fine cast, if it was metal, I'm not sure I would have done it. The downside to fine cast it need a lot of tidying! It's my first experience if the stuff and am left unsure if I like it or not!

The base is still rough, the head is pinned not glued yet, and the jump pack is blu traced. Oh, yeah, the shoulder pads are the FW ravenguard ones, the lightening claws are from the new vets, the head is from the FW ravenguard upgrade and the jump pack is a Korvydae one. Pic...

    

Oh I'm still working on the tacticals, but I have some shiny resin stuff still to build!

Some more posts soon... 

More pics on the way!

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I have been busy,

Pretty pleased with this guy, still got some improvents on the whites. I need to be braver with a darker shade of grey to give some it more ummph. I have actually got more to show - a whole a squad no less! I'm pleased with the flesh, it's exactly how I picture raven guard would be. My first post off an iPad, should make things easier to post! Will update tomorrow, really enjoying painting at the mo!

Im working on the Raven Guard!..... At last

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Not sure if any of my gaming friends use blogger or not anymore, some seem to have switched to Facecock. I cant bring myself to make an account so will continue with blogger. :)

I couldn't resist buying the new SM dex, yeah its a bloody rip off, has a hard cover, contains the same amount of info as the last dex, but meh, its sexy leafing through it! I just wont buy other new dexs!

The new dex is allowing me to make the list I always wanted, RG traits should work great with the Vanguard and I can give Korvydae Artificer armour!! woooooo dont need the BA book.

Also I have plenty of FW models, so I think I only need to buy a tac squad (in the hope the legs and such are better sculpts than the old ones), Vanguards, Scouts and the Vehicles.

I think I will be around the hobby more now, got a nice steady rhythm with my cycling (although I just had a horrible month with hayfever issues etc - but I did 28 miles in a 20 mph av today so I think I'm back on it!) also a few work colleges have got into the plastic crack also!!

My list:

1.5K Raven Guard List

SM captain (Korvydae) 
Artificer Armour
Thunder Hammer
Jump Pack
                                                                   155

Tactical Squad (10)  
Lightening claw
Melta gun
Missile launcher
Drop Pod
                                                                   215

Tactical Squad (10)
Lightening claw
Melta gun
Heavy Bolter
Drop Pod
                                                                    210

Scouts (8) 
snipers x8
                                                                     96

Vanguard (7)
Jump packs
Lightening claws x4
Power weapons x 2
Powerfist x1
melta bomb
                                                                    274

Sternguard (8) 
Lightening Claw
4 combis
Drop Pod
                                                                    276

Storm Talon 
Typhoon launcher
                                                                    145

Storm Talon 
Skyhammer Missile launcher
                                                                    125



                                                                                 Total: 1496


Absolutely no idea if that's an effective list for 6th, but from my previous 40k experience, it shouldn't be to bad, may not be the best list RG can field either because of Korvydae, but I think the new dex allows you to move away from character models abit imo. Crit welcome, but  this is a fluff list as Im cack at gaming! Things to consider are Land Speeders, more Scouts and possible dropping the Sternguard for more Vens...

Thanks for looking! Painting starts tomorrow!