Death Wing
1: The Idea:
A friend has been asking me to paint up some Death Wing for him for ages and I’ve always resisted. Mainly because whilst I consider myself an ok painter everything I do is because I want to paint it and not because I have to. So I don’t want to end up in position where I have to get something finished because someone else is depending on it. Plus I always paint things how I feel they should look as opposed to how someone else wants them to look. Anyway the long and short of it is that I’ve finally cracked, and the promise of a bottle of spiced rum had nothing to do with it, and agreed to paint up a command squad.
So the plan is quite simple, a five man Terminator command squad with an Apothecary, Heavy Weapon guy and Standard Bearer. For the heavy weapon guy I wanted to have the option swap out the weapons so these will be magnetised, and if I’m doing that for him then I’ll also do it for the other guys. Although there are limited number of shoulder pads so I won’t paint up all the different options for the other guys.
As this is something of special piece I’ve decided to do a combination display base / movement tray. Not looking at anything to fancy here so I’m going to go with a stone floor to represent some part of the Rock. Then have the gaming bases recessed into this and held in place by magnets. Or at least that’s the plan.
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