Running LongThis Month

 Yesterday was a bit lazier than I intended, on the plus side I got all of Arthur's satchels on my latest play through of Red Dead Redemption 2.

Marbas and the Leviathan both got the wet blending body work done, the Satanine Terminators and Chaplin dread didn't get started. 

Marbas needs the sword finding, flesh areas need a touch up and then it's on with the details.

Leviathan 2 is in need of detailing and the weapons painting. 

I'm planning to get this done on Tuesday, the  Chaplin dread I'll do bits of at the same time as I do the details on Marbas as I'll be doing it the same way.

I'm tempted to leave the Leviathan details until the Satanine Terminators are done as I'm aiming at the same style on all of those.

I also got a run down to Wigan in the morning to pick up the old Defiler I had ordered last weekend, its quite a chunky box, fingers crossed it'll be warm enough to get this sprayed in black. 

Satanine Dreadnought.

Yeah, it's a big boy. 

I think I've got the blending done well with the green. 

Now I've finished it, I can spot a couple of problems with the build. 

Those petals on the plasma bombard are a bit fragile and I lost 2 of them during painting, and I had the end the wrong way when I started painting it. 

I would be happy to get another one.

So the 2nd Leviathan and the Chaplin to paint and the Bjorn Brutalis to build, I'm not stopping at the 12th this month, I'm running this Vow to the 20th as I'm off to my dad's for an early Christmas lunch there on the 21st. 

Silver Dart, Iron Hide Of Dekkara

 Got those quad autocannons finished today,

As well as finishing the base off. As I've got the dread box down I got a photo of the old version. I'd also forgotten I had the Deredo dread in there.

It's nice to have this finished and the resin version is really nice to paint. 

Leviathan Dread

 I had fun with this yesterday, I used the wet palette for the first time.

It's not exactly scientific, but 3 blobs of black to 1 blob of Caliban green, then slowly adding more Caliban green as I went along.until it was nearly all Caliban Green, and got the body and legs done at the same time, I forgot to do the actual shoulders though, so had to redo from a near black to green on those after it was finished.

This wet palette should definitely make the Satanine Terminators easier to highlight.

So after I took the ' break' to bake 2 cakes and 18 muffins, I got back to the Leviathan Dread and start looking at magnets in the elbows.

I glued the large magnet in one elbow and then tried it on the quad cannon and it fitted nice and snuggly onto the joint, no magnet needed. Which is nice...

I noticed the bit on the left side were I came to far out with the green, I guess I'm just going to have to either touch up when I do the next Dread or leave the black touch up I put in there. 

Plan for Wednesday, get those cannons finished, add the tilt shield with the coat of arms from the little dread. Get a photo of them both together. 

1st Legion Leviathan

 I've been doing little steps on this all week, I've managed to get a weekend off and plan A is to get wet blending the green highlights on this one with the wet palette.

There's a bit of work on the spot lights and tiny skulls and I was waiting for some magnets for the guns, the weapons elbow are getting a magnet to make it easier to move. Both of these builds are getting this treatment.

This has been a nice mini to paint, this is the Forge World Leviathan, the plastic version is still unpainted. 

Resin Mini Easier To Build Than Plastic Kit!

 In what is possible the most single surprising piece of news ever from Poxy Proxy Predator; The resin Leviathan dread is actually an easier build than the plastic kit. If only I hadn't lost the bag with the knee pads and second gun, and taken a photo... Oh well.

So, pre gaming the next Dread Filled Month by getting the 2 Leviathan dreads built. The plastic one was a way more complicated build than the already expert resin Leviathan. I'm a bit narked that I've sat on the resin Leviathan that long I've misplaced one of the bags that had the second weapon and the knee pads. I've got a couple of Leviathan dread legs coming from ebay to replace those, and I've got the Leviathan heavy weapon sprue on order from GW, and honestly the plastic autocannons are better than the resin ones.

So about those Autocannons. 

You might not know this guy, even if you've trawled through the backlog of posts, it's from 2017, when the game group had a day trip to Warhammer World, 실버 다트, 데카라의 철가죽, Silver Dart, The Iron Hide Of Deccara was finally brought low after taking nearly 30 Dark Lance and Blaster shots, which is how I gave it the name Iron Hide. I always wanted to give this guy an upgrade but there just wasn't the parts available. Until now.

 I've got a resin set of the quad autocannons and a plastic set as well. As I lost the other weapon package I need to buy the weapon sprue for another set of elbows and frankly the plastic quad autocannon looks better than the resin version, I'll probably mount those on the resin version and watch Iron Hide be one shotted in ever game I'll ever put him on the table in going forward. 

I liked these little bits on the hip pates, my first instinct with these two was indicators, but a bit more thought would be one is the readout for the pilot and the other is the readout for the weapons and power plant. 

One last bit is with the second weapon bag missing I'm giving the vulkite blasters to the resin version and the flamers are going on the plastic version. 

Brutalis Dreadnought and Lord Binface

This is the vallejo desert sand I'm using for the bases of the Dreadnought army I'm using a Serpihim sepia wash on this as the agrax earthshade wash left it to dark. 

Which looks okay I think need to get the yeril yellow out for High lights. 

Made a start on the Brutalis Dreadnought for the Blood Angels army, so far it's had a Mephiston red base coat. Tomorrow's plan is for an agrax earthshade wash when I get in with a evil sunz scarlet layer and then the 2 shades of wild rider red as edge high lights. There are also gold and black details and as this is a close support unit there will be some yellow detailing on some of the inserts on those armour plates. 

Lastly for this weekend we have Count Binface our evil overlord. I can provide a link to his manifesto for the London mayoral election if you want to see how evil he is. 
 

Monthly Vow 12th Of May To The 12th Of June.

Yep target of 1 mini and I missed.

Well sort of. I did get most of the dreads sorted for the Blood Angels Dreadnought army, that I have, and the Heavy Intercessors finished.

Target. 

Paint The Lion Proxy!

I have made a start there. I did buy a Nephilim/ Black Talon kit off a mate last week so build and paint that and hopefully the missile marines for this month. I did get my hands on a Leviathan box so looking forward to getting that and will add the mortis Redemptor Dread to the Dread Filled Month, which could well be stretched out here, I'd like to get the new Terminators done as well and that Librarian would be nice to add the 1st Company. 

In Summary. 

Paint The Lion, which I've started, Nephilim Jet fighter finished, the Leviathan box mortis dread built at least, 6 of the Terminators and a stretch goal of the missile marines. 

In Review. 

I started with the bases. 

As well as getting some Dreads located for the 10th Edition Blood Angels Dreadnought army.

The first thing I did was start on the heavy Intercessors as I chickened out of doing The Lion.

This was sourced from ebay for the dread army just needs a clean. 

The order arrived with my Contemptors, which I put together. I do like those sculpted bodies but it needs some knee pads and shoulder decoration.

And Saturday afternoon I got around to getting The Lion built at last.

The current state of it. 

Trying to decide between a nuln oil or a Coelia Greenshade wash on the robe and great coat. 

4 Of 4

 

Got Contemptor number 3 built yesterday with moulded body and plastic kit. It would look better with at least 1 knee pad and 1 shoulder pad that was moulded. 

I've still not started The Lion 

3 Out Of 4 Built

Friday and Saturday was a day spent building the 2 different Contemptors for the Blood Angels Dreadnought army. Number 3 is planned to be primed around paying the gas bill on Monday. 

 The Brutalis Dreadnought is now only missing 2 claws and a single top plate for those storm bolters. I have a mind to add the Ultramarine dread to this army and add some boltguns on the arms. 

Red Ones Go Faster

 Got home tonight and had a box to open. Inside the box is the plastic Contemptor and the Forge World body for the June Monthly Challenge. 

Blood Angel Dreadnought Army

 This is the core Dreadnought force of the 10th Edition Blood Angels army. So far I've got 1 Death Company dread, 1 Librarian dread, 1 basic Dreadnought and 2 Venerable Dreadnoughts, obviously the purple one needs to be stripped. The 2 Redemptors will be broken down into component parts and stripped.

This is of course going to be started with the June to July Vow.

I put the last Dreadnought Talon in their box today, as I had most the dread boxes out I grabbed a group photo of the last Talon that is going to fit in that box. That Leviathan Talon and future Deredo Talon will need a new box, handily I need some new trainers so I'll have one before it's needed.

Yes sun screen was required today.

If I'm not too drunk and focused on Eurovision I'll be starting The Lion later as I need to grab some cat food and something for me to eat, I've got a real craving for some spare ribs. 

Plans For Dread Filled Month.

 Okay I've just splurged on a few dreads with the intention of doing a dread filled month after I've got The Lion finished of course. 

There is also the Redemptor Brutalis and an Invictor Warsuit to add to this to do list.

The cannons from the standard Contemptor box are going to be painted for the Dark Angels dreads as well as the fists. 

The Blood Angels Legion Contemptor has 2 fists.

The Dark Angels Leviathan has a Siege fist and the quad auto cannons.

These 3 are the start of the 10th Edition Blood Angels Dreadnought Army. Let's just hope the Casterferrium dread hasn't been fridged/legendary. 

Björn Of The Thousand Sons

 Leaving them alone now...

I had pulled the Thousand Sons dread out of the box it was in and decided to strip it and repaint it as I knew I could do a better job on it now.

After a false start where it got stripped again I started with an ushabati bone base coat, then stormhost silver, followed by a seraphim sepia wash. I'd also painted a test piece Intercessors at the same time. The original plan had been to try the Apothecary white contrast, which led to me redoing the Iron Warriors dread again, to see how that would look, as the test on the power pack had looked more metallic and a lot less white than I had hoped. I went and had a rethink and tried the thinned pallid wytch flesh again which worked a lot better with the metallic base. I went over that with a dry brush of Pallid Wytch Flesh and then a light dry brush of stormhost silver.

The yellow went over the ushabati bone base coat, I gave it an Averland Sunset base, then a Carroburg Crimson wash, a layer of yriel yellow, then a Fuegan Orange wash, then a highlight of flash git yellow.

The blue shoulder had a Thousand Sons blue base with a Seraphim sepia wash then went over that with a dry brush of thousand sons blue, then a highlight of Templar Guard blue.

Gold was a retributor gold base, a reikland flesh wash a highlight layer of the lighter gold, then an edge highlight with the stormhost silver.

The iron warriors Contemptor got done in nearly a day, stripped first thing, washed, dryed and primed, ushabati bone base coat, stormhost silver coat and a seraphim sepia wash before going over that with the Apothecary white contrast.

Today I've added some nuln oil wash in some areas and some temple guard blue on some of those lenses.

Surprise Dreadnought

As I said when I posted the Björn Intercessor the other day, I was going to see how the Apothecary white contrast looks over something that is supposed to be metal,also my living room smells like detol still.

Digging the Iron Warriors Contemptor out of last years Armies on Parade box I put it in some detol to strip first thing, after a wash off and Halfords grey plastic primer it got an ushabati bone base coat, a stormhost silver coat, followed by a seraphim sepia wash.

Next up was the Apothecary White contrast. I honestly think I'd use this if I was looking to do a metallic metal army. One thing I would consider is maybe drop the ushabati bone stage to save a bit of time.

I will go back and do the hazard stripes, most likely at the weekend now. 
 

Dark Angels Rifleman Dreadnought

 

The bases I'd ordered finally arrived for the Dark Angel fronted Rifleman Dreadnought, the metal mounts are slightly bigger than the the resin auto cannons had, so I had to make the hole bigger and stuck some 5x1 magnets on both sides.

Think I need another one of these bases so I can mount the 2 mk4 dreads and this one on matching bases