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I will be honest: I love the Horus Heresy models, but I have yet to play a single game. I have watched a lot, and I have read the rules, and I have seen battle reports, but I haven’t ever been the player pushing the models around the table.

Part of this is because earlier this year I sold my entire World Eaters army, an army that I absolutely loved painting. The Age of Darkness box is one of the best army boxes that Games Workshop has put out in a long time, and the models are just fun to paint. While I wouldn’t say that I love horde armies, I really enjoy the paint process of just churning through 40 Space Marines.

And that’s to say nothing about the Terminators, which are tremendous sculpts, and it’s to say nothing of the two Praetors, which are some of my favorite models from Games Workshop in the last two years. Would it be surprising to say that I have painted three pairs of these Praetors? Well, that’s nothing because I’ve painted four pairs of them.

After I sold my World Eaters I decided that I wanted to go after the Age of Darkness box again and I started a Word Bearers army–and I painted a lot of it. But I never finished it, because my heart is just not in the Word Bearers. I’m too much of a loyalist, I guess.

What I really am is a Blood Angels fan. I have, in the last four years, created three full Blood Angels (or Blood Angels successors) armies.

So it only seemed natural that I create a Horus Heresy Blood Angels army.

And that’s what I’ve been working on with the Hobby Streak for the past couple of weeks. I’ve also been painting a second project, which I’ll post about soon (it’s the beginning of my New Year New Army). But for now it’s the Blood Angels. Currently I’ve done all the Terminators, ten tactical marines, and the two Praetors.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I may not be the best painter, but there’s something miraculous of when you see an entire unit all painted to the same standard standing together. They just look better when their uniforms are, well, uniform.