Monthly Vow, The 12th Of September To The 12th Of October

Well sort of. . . Its nearly time for the another Dread Filled Month and as a warm up for the October dreadnought fun I'm looking at the Typhus Contemptor(plastic), a First Legion Contemptor (resin), and an autocannon Deredo, before I touch those though there is a squad of DV Terminators to do. In a shift from my normal free wheeling and because of the goals I'm setting myself I've just had a break while I write out a plan through to the 12th of November. The plan for October the 1st to the 12th is the Calgar Redemptor, the Björn Contemptor, the Forge World DA, mortis, the White Scar dread and a Salamander Ironclad as plan A, after that it's October to November.

Review Time

First up in the picture log are the Scouts but that's more because I carried those photos over from last month not because I started them.

I did do the bolt guns , shotguns and bolt pistol scouts but not at the beginning of the month vow.

I worked on this for a while before leaving it for the October dreadnought fun.

I had bought some bikes and the first lot of the Conquest bikes arrived and with the couple of bikes that had come in the mass of dreadnoughts I'd picked up last month I was able to make 3 squads of bikers just need a couple of legs to finish the last squad. For this squad I swopped over the Sgt from an old conversion, the Akira pose, and put that one on the new base size and the Outrider bike, the robed Sgt went on the old bike and I swopped it's base as well from the 60mm to the old style bike base.

The Deredo was a lucky find on ebay when it arrived I saw the feet and shind had been fitted the wrong way round so it went in the freezer for a bit, I'm not sure what brand of glue they used but I was only able to get the feet off and the waist broke off as well which made it a bit easier, the legs then went into disinfectant to see if that would break the bonds but it was stuck fast.

As I'd liked how the heavy bolters looked on the Math, son of Mathonway, I picked up a few heavy bolters and dug the metal Furioso dread for a bath, it went into a bag of disinfectant which left a black sticky mess on the mini which took a new electric tooth brush to clean up. I altered the colours a little from the orginal troll slayer orange and screaming skull to wild rider red and Deepkin Flesh and swopped the colours round and the Storm Talon got the same touch up as well.

The first lot of scouts got started, the bolt pistols and knives squad with missile launchers, one is a standard launcher and the other is ripped from a space Crusade mini.

One scout was given a green stuff cloak and sniper rifle, and put in the box to wait for the rest of the snipers from Conquest.

The next squadron of Land Speeders got done as well. I think this kit needs replacing as it's showing its age now, which when compared to the older bikes and dreadnoughts is a shame.

I was going to add this as a Talon Master but it was just too rough for me to use.

The Boltstorm Aggressors got reassigned to The Lion's Blades.

As did a squad of Reivers.

I had bought this one to use as the base for the Typhus Contemptor but it looks to nice to butcher in that manner so as a nice little break I painted it up in the correct colours for The Iron Warriors.

As the Deredo didn't come with the missile pod I've been looking for some to use as the passive.

And lastly I made a start on a plastic Contemptor that is the base for the Typhus Contemptor.

Completed Mortis

Had a birthday this week my youngest is no longer young. Got the hands sorted for the Mortis Casterferrum dread yesterday.

One hand had a base of ushabati bone ten the screaming skull and finally a couple of coats of Deepkin Flesh, the other hand had a base coat of Wazdakka red, evil Sunz Scarlet and then wild rider red.

And the Storm Talon.

Re-Worked The Mortis Casterferrum Dreadnought

Another old dread updated, this time a 2nd edition Furioso dreadnought I've given a sideways promotion to a heavy bolter Mortis Casterferrum type. Only thing left are the hands, buy I didn't like the ones it came with so when I get some time I'm going to check my bits to make sure I have 2 of the closed hands that come in the plastic Björn the Fell Handed kit.

The colours for this are from an old, sold codex army I had a few years ago, back then it was what came before troll slayer orange and bleached bone. I stripped it and repainted it in Wild rider red over Wazdakka red and Deepkin Flesh over screaming skull, over ushabati bone.

Progress On The Mortis Casterferrum Dread and Scouts

Mortis Casterferrum dread is still WIP, needs some Wild Rider Red on the red half, brass on the trim and other bits, status indicators doing blue or green, lenses, but my eyes are going.

Scouts are done, now I have 3 squads of 10, 1 bolters, one pistols and knives and these with shotguns, there's also 10 snipers waiting for the next lot of snipers from Conquest, and a 5 man squad of early metal scouts, including the one with the Shuriken catapult, lead by a Sgt Nemann in the box already.

More Scouts And A Heavy Bolter Mortis Casterferrum

It's nearly 2am and even with the big light and night mode activated, it's not great but I like to share anyway. I really liked how the heavy bolters looked on the the Blackreach dread that I did for the Death Guard, I'm upgrading a 2nd ed Furioso into a heavy bolter Mortis Casterferrum dread for fun.

Once the green stuff is set I'll add the Zinge Industries bendy ammo feeds to the guns and the ammo hoppers on the back of the arms.

And nearly finished the bolter squad just bases to do on those.

The sniper is waiting for the next lot of snipers from Conquest to arrive, so I can paint all I want together, and yes that was done and dusted in day light hence the better photo.