The Doctor's Dark Angels Pt 1

I stopped by the Doctor's house again to spend an evening with his lovely family and some friends. During the visit he showed me some of this work in progress on his Dark Angels army. In the process he pulled out some models I painted for him back around 1999. An RT era Space Marine Commander, SM Librarian, and Dark Angel Captain.

I'm impressed with how well these still hold up (I believe I said "Why the heck did I not choose to play Dark Angels?!") This old SM Commander is interesting. I really seemed have no issue at all with slapping iconography and decals all over the Doctor's models, yet I seem to think I tend to be some what conservative about that with my Space Wolves...

I have always loved this classic model and always wanted to paint him. Still, to this day, I feel this is GW's best Librarian model. There is just no way he would look right in a Space Wolf army though, and I recall begging to paint this for the Doctor.

Looking at it years later, we're both still pleased with it. In particular I like how 'brown' I made the pages of his book appear, to give the impression that his book was really old and well referenced. Odd choice of color on the force sword, I wish I could recall how I did it...

I was really thrilled with seeing this model again, I really think he holds up well for me! That power sword in particular I just had to get a pic of for my own reference.

He ordered a bunch of those caped back-packs for his HQ choices back then. I really miss the days of the Bitz program...actually this model might have came with it, but the Librarian did not.

 I really impress myself with just how much of the metallic green I used on this guy! It really compliments the over all color scheme quite well.

....and here's a teaser that I will discuss at length in part 2!  I hope you enjoyed!