This evening I started building my Blood Angels Tactical Squad unit from my Blood Angels Battleforce.

I still haven’t started painting the 5 Death Company models I started a few days ago because I don’t have any black primer.

I actually went to a new store called Gamestars today to check it out and was really impressed.  It’s a new store that just opened up a few months ago and it’s huge!

They have a lot of inventory on display and a lot of room for gaming tables etc.

Unfortunately, they didn’t have any black primer in stock.

However, since I had already built the Death Company models, I knew what extra pieces I had leftover on the sprues which I could use on the Tactical Squad so I just decided to start building that while I continue my hunt for black primer.

I ended up building three models.  Here’s a picture of them:

What I’m planning to do is to give each model at least one piece bit which is Blood Angels related to separate them from other Space Marines chapters.  Meaning, for these three models I used three leftover shoulder pads I had from the Death Company sprue to give each model a Blood Angels left shoulder pad.

After I finished building them, I was going to just go to bed and work on the rest tomorrow but then I thought to myself that it might be a good idea to prime them first so that they can dry overnight.

As I went to prime them I realized that it actually wasn’t “Dragon Red” primer that I bought, but rather “Pure Red” which is a brighter, more vibrant red.  This kind of sucks as I think Dragon Red looks better for Blood Angels, but whatever.  I’m going to use it and see how they turn out.

Here’s a picture of the models after I primed them:

I went outside to prime the models (at 2am in the morning) but it was hard to see properly what I was doing because it was pitch black except for the single outside lightbulb that was on.  To make matters worse there were about 20 moths flying around the lightbulb and occasionally flying over and attacking me as I tried to prime the models, lol.

Anyway, I did my best and came back inside.

When I first looked at them I thought to myself “Oh crap, I over sprayed them!” as the models looked like they had lost some of their detail.

However, as they dried for a few minutes the detail came back so I don’t think I over sprayed them too much (if at all).

I’ll have to wait and see what they look like when fully dry tomorrow.

I really wonder what these guys are going to look like using this brighter red color.  I hope it’s not too bad.