Ezekiel - Dark Angels Master Librarian - Completed

So say we all,

Here we are with my finished Ezekiel from HiTech miniatures. I am considering some freehand for the large open areas on his back and possibly atop his psychic hood cathedral head, but I need to do a lot of practice on some spare bits of plastic before I so much as touch those bits with a brush. Otherwise I'd just ruin the damn model with some ugly squiggly lines!

Overall I'm happy with how he turned out and I'm particularly pleased with the OSL on the ground and bushed which feels like it gives it a lot more depth. Now that Ezekiel is complete, I can actually field my Librarius Conclave should I wish!! But I only have the Bike Mounted Librarian to complete and then all 5 of them are done and they can really rock out as both a power house in a Dark Angels Army but also as an allied formation to my blood angels. 

Thoughts are, as always, welcome :)

Peace out,

Rob

Ezekiel painting begins

Hi peoples of the tubes,

I've begun painting work on my counts as Ezekiel an its been a very pleasant model to paint, a good mix of detail to paint and nice open surfaces as well, nothing too fiddly at all. Though I did find a few small bubble holes in some cables whilst painting but they aren't noticeable really. I previously showed him with both a thunder hammer and then a bolt pistol in his left hand. After all that I thought he needed more Dark Angel flavour to really make him be OK for an Ezekiel, so I used the terminator sword arm from the Dark Angel Veteran Sprue to get that across which I think has worked out nicely.

And after washes:

Comments always welcome :)

Peace out

Rob

Ezekiel - stand in model from HiTech miniatures

Hi Readers,

Still in good old Bognor, so today I'm just giving you a quick look at a model I bought from HiTech miniatures. I can't remember his name as it came of ebay as a generic space warrior, but it was still in its original packaging and what not so it was a bit of a steal for the price. I think full price he would retail around £13-15 and I picked him up for £9 so not too shabby.

Here's some pictures of him straight off the sprues. I've done zero clean up on these models except cutting them off the sprue and as you can see the detail is very nice and crisp, felt like very little weeping from the resin and virtually not a single piece of flash. After the pictures I found a tiny bit under one of his arms but really exceptional with no mould lines to speak of either.

I didn't like the staff it came with but my efforts to give him a sword as the original plan didn't look right due to the positioning of his arm, it just looked off. So I gave him a thunder hammer as it looks cool but to keep it WYSIWYG with Ezekiel having a sword, I took a cool black templar sheathed sword and cut off the Templar icons and added it to his side. I magnetised these for ease of painting.

However after undercoating I thought that he should have more Dark Angel bits and he probably shouldn't have a thunder hammer as he is a special character so I modelled a bolt pistol on him instead as he actually has one on his profile.

If it wasn't clear by the way he is on a 32mm base.

I will definitely consider ordering from HiTech miniatures again, not only was the quality of the miniatures superb in terms of detail, sculpting and casting; the model also wasn't as huge as I thought it would be from the pictures online which make them seem quite the bulky clunky affair. I thoroughly recommend trying them if you have been considering them, or have a look if you haven't!

Peace out,

Rob