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Dark Angels Veteran Squad
Dark Angels Veteran Squad


Wow doesn't time fly when you are not aware of it. Life has been up to its usual tricks of being very painful and unpleasant at the moment so haven't had mush time for painting, or writing!



Dark Angels Veteran metal 40k
Anyway I have made some progress on the new five man veteran squad, after distributing some of the kit from the sprues around the whole army I have a five man squad of veterans kitted out. Not all of these come with monk style robes, which I am assuming equate to Inner Circle or at least further on the path to the Inner Mysteries than other marines.

So the first guy just has enhanced equipment with a sniper sight for his bolter and the combat shield.




The second guy will probably act as the Veteran Sergeant for the squad with his power maul, bionic eye and monks robes. A little frustrated with the flash lines on the robes which are still a little visible despite much scrapping with a sharp knife. The robes are a sightly different hue to those I have done before, more honey in colour, but I guess that just makes the army look less uniform on the detail front rather than too monochrome.

Dark Angels Veteran with Power Maul
Dark Angels Veteran with Power Maul

Veteran Dark Angels with Power Maul


 







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