Monthly Vow, 12 of August To The 12th Of September

photo heavy, accidental dread filled month

A couple of days early, but it does mean I get weekend off. Yes I too noticed a complete lack of scouts, bikes and Land Speeders in the month's end photos. . . There had been zero intention to make this a dread filled month and yet it was. August to September will be scouts and bikes and land speeders, with a repaint for the Hounds Reivers and Boltstorm Aggressors to make them Lion's Blades, around those I'll also keep up the conversion work on the dreads for Dread Tober. Review Time

I started off with the Marnius Calgar Redemptor plan, adding some of the marine suit bits to a Redemptor Dreadnought, I later swopped the arms for a dread Knights arms and magnetised the gatling cannon on one hand, which I don't actually have a photo of. Could do with building the Redemptor this month and see how those arms fit.

Very early in the month I did at least rough up the Scouts so I knew what I had and ended up with 10 shotgun scouts and a number of fillers in other squads. Interesting thing I did do was scrap one of the Space Crusade missile launcher guys and give that to one of the Scouts.

The same weekend as I organised the Scouts, I also dug our the chaos dreads and did some things with them, the Dark Vengeance helbrute got transferred to the death guard dread mob, I have not done another conversion that has just flowed together as easy as this one, also the green meany got a bit more done on it. A busy weekend in deed.

When the dread knight arrived I happily butchered it, the weapons came off the arms and the arms came off nice and easy. I had a couple of dreadnought assault cannon arms that I had cut the cannon off in the past and was able to mount the flamer on an arm for the dread Tober Salamander dread.

Now this was thrown together in response to the blurry images seen in the background of the Primaris Lieutenant's twitter photos, I'm hoping the actual walker has an option arm gun so I can mount that instead of the plasma cannon. The missile pod was a pain to get right as I didn't want it to dissappear into the support arm socket, I decided to put a bit of sprue over it and magnetised the mount, the mini gatling cannon just went over the socket nicely.

At the same time as the dread knight, I was also working on the green meany and Math's bolter arm, plenty of green stuff has been used on this lot, I had to buy another 3 feet of green stuff from Troll Trader, with the great service as always.

Over the course of the month I'd bought a large assortment of bits, mostly dreads but some bikes and a drop pod minus the fins, and set about playing around with those, the Venerable hull has ended up with a standard dread set of legs because of the weight issue with it. The over sized fist has ended up on the Ultramarines dread and Math , son of Mathonway, got started. Orginal idea was to use the metal chaos dread then I realised that I had a Blackreach dread not doing anything, after its feet had been donated to the Ultramarines dread.

Frankly the Hounds dreadnoughts are down to 1 Redemptor after this. The mono pose Contemptor got the death guard upgrade.

I then finished the green meany and hislittle friends.

The Contemptor got some more work

As did Math and his green stuffed base, which is to hide the fact he doesn't have feet.

I finished off the Dark Vengeance helbrute. At this point I was beginning to question the actual utility of a scythe as a weapon.

The Predator and the drop pod got done, the Predator had had a couple of chaos plates removed so I smoothed those over and touched up the paint and the drop pod got a repaint.

Bit more work on the Contemptor, I mounted the scythe in the same manner as the Contemptor chain fist, rather than going with it in a clenched hand.

And Math got his other arm, with a heavy bolter. I like this conversion and I thinking of doing an Imperial version at some point.

Finished the Contemptor of Contagion and Math, son of Mathonway.

Another one for the 30k Dreadnought army project, this one will be one of The Emperor’s Heralds. That head was pulled and will be used on a different project later.

The Warden of Rites got stripped down, picked clean and re painted, the armour plate on the back of the hand had been misplaced when I started this, so I used a Warlord titan bit instead and green stuffed a chapter badge on it.

The Herald got a bit more work, need to strip it though before I paint it grey and the heavy weapon pack arrived, I filed down the stub on the weapons mounts so it doesn't look out of place with the magnet behind it.

The few things were the Björn Contemptor and what I'm intending to be the Emperor’s Children dread. I've had fun this month the Death Guard dread mob was great, I really enjoyed the conversion process with them and the dread Tober stuff has been good to, I just need to focus on the The Lion's Blades stuff this month and not get carried away with the sonic dread and other things.