The Army Painter and their brilliant colour primers.

So I took the plunge and decided to try some non-gw products. As we all know painting yellow to a smooth finish can be very very time consuming and difficult. However I have been toying with building an Eldar army and more to the point a ghost army using mostly wraith guardians as troops and wraith lords as their support. As a stickler for fluff I really wanted to to go with Iyanden with the blue and yellow theme but have so far been put off by all that.....yellow. So after stumbling across The Army Painter online store I decided to try some of their sprays out. On this test model (as you can see its not a wraith) I sprayed the  base black and the body white separately. I then used the Demonic Yellow colour primer and following their spray instructions to the letter I got an magnificent smooth coat of paint. I think all in this model took me 2 hours of painting maximum after I had finished with the sprays. The regal blue I did with a couple of thin coats and then I added a couple of transfers which I then painted over to give them a free hand look. I was so pleased with the results of The Army Painters products that I have just placed another order for their  shading products, some more sprays and some brushes. Besides having a problem getting payment though (their payment system does not seem to like uk debit cards) which was easily resolved with a pleasant phone call with Bo and using paypal I was able to solve this problem easily. Bo also informed me that they are looking to add paypal to their online payment options. Delivery took 2 days which was quick, very quick.

I have also used so far their silver and bone colour sprays for my Blood Knights and Tomb Kings, Both of which were awesome.

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New Blog, Old Wargammer.

So this is the 1st post to my new wargaming blog. I will be using this blog to showcase my models, share my painting techniques and my views on our hobby. As the title suggests the blog will be based around my Knights of Blood space marine army. As you may or may not know this is a chapter based upon the Blood Angels and that is the codex I use when playing this army. Its a new army for me and so far I have had 2 games both of which were a draw. Both times I was playing my good friend Antony George who was using his Ultramarines 1st time and his Deathguard (Nurgle) based army the second time around.

However I will not limit this blog to just Knights of Blood. Here you will find my other armies and projects too, I also play Necrons, an Eldar ghost army, Deathguard and recently embarked on a second WFB project, Tomb Kings. You can expect to find these armies found here too along with painting, modelling and converting and anything else I can think of that you may find of interest.

A little about myself, I am 35 years old, married with 2 young children and a Manager of an Amusement Arcade here in Devon, UK but none of thats important. This blog is all about our hobby and everything that goes with it.