Ben's Blood Drinkers - OWAC IX - Wrap-up post

Phew and done!  I've tried to put all the minis I've painted this OWAC into a battle scene somewhat like the 40K 2nd Ed cover that has been an inspiration:

Needing a bit of a break from painting red armour, for a change this month I painted a handful of Orks and Gretchin to be the antagonists in the battle pic:

Plus I 3d-printed some more Dr. Spork Cathedral ruins - after some digital flipping and chopping - to provide a backdrop.

Overall this season I've painted 3,171 points of Space Marines:

Intro
Rank and File Month 1: 431 pts
Rank and File Month 2: 751 pts
Rank and File Month 3: 849 pts
Rank and File Month 4: 487 pts
HQ Month: 176 pts
Wildcard Month: 477 pts

It doesn't half add up when you keep chipping away!

And, of course, I still have more to paint - vehicles, bikes, Scouts, Assault Marines, Tactical Marines, Chaplains - probably enough (assuming I switch to an Epic project next time) for OWAC XI...

Ben's Blood Drinkers - Wildcard Month

For the last official month of the challenge, I decided to make the army a bit less generic with a couple of special characters, another Medic (I decided the Blood Drinkers would need a lot of apothecaries to, ahem, administer 'necessary supplies'), and finally a Librarian.

First, to accompany the1st Company veterans I painted earlier, chapter heroes Sergeant Clovis and Apothecary Corbulax:

Secondly, here accompanying the 5th Company Devastators and Captain I painted earlier, an additional Apothecary and Librarian:

Clovis bears a fragment of the Shroud of Sanguinius contained within a stasis field generator - when it is deactivated, it sends the nearby sons of Sanguinius into a battle frenzy.  In background he's based on Veteran Sergeant Cleutin, who never recieved an official model.  The model is a converted Dark Angels Standard Bearer with a backpack from a Techmarine and a Servitor:

Corbulax is unconverted from Apothecary Corbulo (apart from drilling out the goblet and filling it with a PVA/paint mixture which is not visible from the pics:

The librarian is also unconverted, apart from a little greenstuff to open the pistol arm out:

The medic received an extra saw arm on the backpack, donated from a Chaos miniature:

Army list wise, this comes to 477 pts

Cleutin: 102 pts

Corbulo: 163 pts

Apothecary: 40 pts

Epistolary, Force Staff: 172 pts

Ben's Blood Drinkers - HQ Month

A quick post this month as we're on holiday at the end of it.  In May, I painted two key members of the of the Blood Drinkers 5th Company HQ: the Battle Standard Bearer and Captain.

The Standard Bearer is a 2nd Ed model with a banner modified from the 5th Company design in the Ultramarines codex.  This was to continue with the idea that the Blood Drinkers stick more closely to the Guilleman's Codex Astartes than other Blood Angels successors.  I now see there are a couple of bits I missed or need to tidy up but I couldn't have a post without a banner...

The Captain is a later model, but one that so perfectly fits the art on the 2nd Ed box cover that's inspiring my project this year I felt I had to use it.

These two add 176 points to the army total: