bloodseeker36

I have many unassembled marines and for the past three weekends i have been working on them. I finally started painting my Blood Angels in squads. I painted my sergeant and his squad members. I began with a white base coat, next a very thinned down coat of Mechrite Red, then i painted the bolters and lined the joints with Chaos black...but then... stopped. I wasn't liking the really dark color of the mechrite red first coat. So my question to all of you experienced painters...shall i proceed to repaint the models (obviously stripping paint first) or continue with a subtle transition to Red Gore...then Blood Red...and finally the Blazing orange highlight? Keep in mind i would prefer that these models be kept somewhat dark, but i guess a light wash of ogryn flesh at the end would fix that issue. please help me out...i want to paint these as best as possible. thanks... Bloodseeker P.S. i have a fairly easy method for my yellow helmetted Assault marines. it goes like this...Sunburst yellow (thinned), Gryphonne Sepia wash, 1:1 mix of skull white and sunburst yellow for highlights.

Does anyone play 40k who is from Elgin, or any one play that is from Chicago, maybe the northside by lincon park??

I play blood angels because when I first started I was determined to field a space marine army with fast attack specialization. When I read that the blood angels actually had fast attck troops cound as troop choices I was in with the BA. Then I downloaded the PDF of the blood angels and I was so intrigued by their independant characters that I quickly got commander Dante before any squads. I have Dante, a veteran jump pack squad, a 10 man tactical squad, a dreadnought, and a terminator chaplain. So far I have come up with an army list that consists of shall I say 4000+ points but it is a WIP that will take a long while. But I like their unit specific rules. I also like that GW has a BA command squad with jump packs. And finally I think DC is by far my favorite BA unit.