The heroes Blog is up! And the countdown begins.

The drawing is set. This Sunday, at 6pm EST. (Sorry brothers across the pond.)



The drawing will be held live on Jawaballs Live. Come join the fun!  Expect special guests, and of course John Dickerman will be connected to read off the winners as I draw them.

Here are some last few pics of the finished Blood Angels models by Tim Williamson.

 Check out all the rest of the Blood Angels models at the Heroes blog. They look great! Don't forget to look at all the other armies while you are there.

There is still time to donate. I believe we are accepting donations until Friday night.  Git er done!

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Ok Folks impromptu heroes update

Here are some better pictures of the Heroes of Armageddon Blood Angels.  

Mike Cho's RAS

Jawaballs Corbulo

Mike Cho's Furioso Dread

John Dickerman's Death Company Dread

Black Matt's Death Company Dread

Ron Saikowski's Terminator Standard Bearer

Jawaballs Lemartes

Jawaballs Sanguinary Priest

Joe Johnson Death Co. Tycho

Mike Cho's Storm Raven

Detail of Cho's wings

Jawaballs Land Raider hand painting side

Jawaballs Land Raider Relief side. 

(Yes, I know I chewed up the armor. I'm not perfect!)

Jawaballs Terminators

Joe Johnson's Death Company

Mike's Death Company Storm Raven

And of course, Tom Schadle's Dante

That is all I have for today.  I am waiting for John's Baal Predator and all of Tim's stuff to arrive.  We have a scout squad, sanguinary guard, 3rd storm raven, and Captain Tycho.  Also Tim threw in a Death Company Rhino.  

Great stuff!  Make sure you get your donations in.  Also, this week over at Santa Cruz, they are having another weekly drawing. This time the prize is a professionally painted Dante conversion donated by a fellow who won one of the previous prizes!  What kindness!  This project really brings out the best in people for support of Doctors Without Borders.  

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Light on the Heroes pics...

I did manage to get a pic of my termy squad before my camera started being a dork.  

Well I can show you these two shots of John Dickerman's pieces.  

And here is a bad pic of my land raider.  The cameras tarted getting stupid here.

I did get Dante in today, and I can tell you, it was like holding a little nugget of gold.  Non-metallic gold that is.  The model is without a doubt the most beautiful model I have ever held.  Thomas Schadle is awesome.

Some day I hope to be so good.

What else do I have in the pipes? Well in addition to finishing up 3 lingering commissions, I am doing Ron Saikowski's Armageddon banner!  

You can just make out the lines, I drew his image on a full sized 3x8 foot banner.  I start painting this weekend.

Ok, lots more coming up.  Exciting week for the Heroes of Armageddon!

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Lord Dante

Hi guys, I just posted this up on the Heroes blog, but I figured mine gets a bit more exposure and wanted to get these pics out to you right away.  Words do little for this model. I will have more pics for you on Friday of the rest of the army. Dante painted by Thomas Schadle.

All I can say is get your donations in. If you already did, donate more. You want this.

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Heroes of Armageddon Swag!

Hey guys,

As Goatboy said, the light at the end of the tunnel is glowing VERY bright.

Gale Force 9 sent us this years customized measuring tools and templates!

I would like to thank them for their continued support in making our project awesome!  Each army got a customized set of templates. Can you tell which one is the Blood Angels?

I don't have any updates for you at the moment on my goodies.  I have 3 of the 5 terminators done and will finish another today. They take me about 5 hours to do, each.  The sad part is no photograph will ever catch the love that I put into them.  I will try though!  

I will have more pics on Friday of the finished squad, and hopefully much more. 

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Heroes of Armageddon crunch time!

Well the team is kicking it into full gear.  Here is a quicky update from my terminators!

3 mostly done. And it is only Tuesday!  

What else is there?  Well Joe Johnson finished his Death Company.  Here is a sneak peak to what I am going to show you on Friday's update post. 

Thankfully Joe's painting is far better than his photography.  I will shoot some pics when they arrive. They are enroute as we speak!  

Here are the jump packs for the assault squad Mike Cho is painting.  Triple thrusters!  Too cool. FIND MORE HERE.

And here is the chapter banner again.  I have a picture of the entire finished Chapter Bearer model, but I promised I would let Ron post it up first.  Follow FROM THE WARP for that this week. 

Much more to come as the Blood Angels build team finishes up their projects and puts a wrap on the army.  

Now you have to ask yourself. Have you donated enough?  I can let you in on a secret. The project has made a lot of money for Doctors Without Borders.  But can we make more?  Go without soda this week and send in another 5 bucks.  One less beer at happy hour will get you 5 more chances to win one of these fabulous armies.  I wish I could enter!  You know you have been wanting to do it for three months now... hit that button at the top right!  

You have to be IN IT TO WIN IT!

I would love to see this army go to one of my readers.  Go get it!

Jawaballs

Weekend Heroes Painting!

Hey Folks!  So here is a shot of the finished Corbulo for the Heroes of Armageddon project!  Tomorrow I will add a shot of the first one I painted so we can compare and contrast to see if I improved over the last couple years.  I will bust out the light tent for that though. 

The Heroes Project is rounding the bend!  You will see many finished models soon.  Get your self into the drawing so you don't miss out!

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Heroes of Armageddon update

So much to do. Lets get going.

I will start with the first finished models:

Mike from Santa Cruz Warhammer did the Death Company Storm Raven.

This is one of the best black vehicles I have ever seen.  I love how Mike completely magnetized it to be broken down for ease of transport.  This imposing Raven full of Death will be the centerpoint of this Blood Angels army.

Tim Williamson's Sanguinary Guard:

Tim's work just oozes win. His squad came out fantastic and will definitely rival Tom's Dante.  I love how he handled the winged jump packs, and the power weapons.  

Mike Cho sent me a couple pics of his Furioso that he is working on:

Any thing stomping on a dirty green skin is awesome in my book.  You can also see the assault squad strewn about that he is building. He converted some jump packs with three thrusters for the squad. I cannot wait to see how they look! Oh and I added a teaser of Cho's storm raven wing.  Juicy!

Here is more pics of my land raider and priest.

Of course this is not complete. The gun armor still needs more work as does the gunner.  I need to do another round or two of highlighting on every thing and drill out the guns.  I'm very happy though with the hand painting and overall look. I have been trying to push a more gritty and dark look and think I achieved it well.  About two more hours will see this tank finished, with a few transfers and more blending and highlights. But for now it is time to move on to finish the rest of the models.

You asked for close ups of the priest, well here you go!

He is perhaps an hour from completion. I need to really push his lights and darks. I am considering entering him into the Golden Demon at Gamesday. I have no delusions of winning, but I think he can make finalist after I clean him up and finish strong.  In case you are wondering, this is the Assault Squad Sergeant model that was released with the new blood angels codex. I gave him an apothecary arm and the little tank thingy on his belt, and a Death Co. head.  This priest will be riding with Mike Cho's assault squad in their Storm Raven.



Matt McClannahan:
You can follow his blog and see a lot of pics of his Death Company Dread.  Here is one:

Awesome. Visit Black Matt's Blog HERE.

Ron Saikowski:

I have two words for you. Oh My God.  This brought tears to my eyes.

I am saving the rest of the images he sent me for him to put up on From The warp. He will be putting up pics on Monday.  He painted a terminator standard bearer with a customized Armageddon banner.  Here is a WIP.  Amazing.  He is a talent.

If these pictures were not motivation enough to get you off the fence and donate, do so now.  Next Friday? I will have my terminators done. Mike Cho should have most of his stuff done. Joe Johnson is nearing completion on the Death Company. Black Matt should have this dread complete, and I will have Ron's standard bearer in hand.  Hopefully I will get a nice packge from Tom with Dante inside!  Hint hint Tom...

Awesome.

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