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Hi chaps!

I finished this converted AOBR dread recently for my upcoming Red Scorpions force.
This mini was painted in space wolves colours and some details were already missing so I went for some extensive weathing to hide most of the lost details.

As usual I took my airbrush for most of the work but also tried some regular brush blending on the yellow front stripes. Weathering was done with the casual sponge, some rust colours and vallejo pigments.
I kinda rushed this mini (as usual) so I was able to complete it in under 4 hours (excluding base, the dread is not fixed in the picture). I have another AOBR dread with a different layout and I'm reallly looking forward to paint it.

Comments and critics are highly appreciated!

Looks very good

Wow...under 4 hours?????

It would take me at least that much time to decide to paint it that way, then double that, or even triple to paint it XD

Wow! It looks fantastic!!!

Nice work man...

But you asked for comments and criticizes, so i tried to figure out minor mistake on your paintjob (to help you, keep it clear).

The glow effect o the lass cannon look a bit monoromatic, and cartonish when looked from the front, i dont know how to make it better, maybe adding more white?

Still on the Lascannon, but not on paintjob, i think the "body" of the weapon, bofore the barrel, is to long and massive, i would have reduced the lengh of the barrel or the size of that massive piece.

For last, and thais imortant: your color scheme is not striking, i can see an yellow, but i can not see the contrast collor. It make a lot of diference in the table, as from afar the models seens to be "all the same color".

I hope to have not been to harsh, im not trolling on you, just trying to help... and your skill is amazing, without doubt

luck...

Thanks for the kind replies!

The Dwarf Wolf wrote:Nice work man...

But you asked for comments and criticizes, so i tried to figure out minor mistake on your paintjob (to help you, keep it clear).

The glow effect o the lass cannon look a bit monoromatic, and cartonish when looked from the front, i dont know how to make it better, maybe adding more white?

Still on the Lascannon, but not on paintjob, i think the "body" of the weapon, bofore the barrel, is to long and massive, i would have reduced the lengh of the barrel or the size of that massive piece.

For last, and thais imortant: your color scheme is not striking, i can see an yellow, but i can not see the contrast collor. It make a lot of diference in the table, as from afar the models seens to be "all the same color".

I hope to have not been to harsh, im not trolling on you, just trying to help... and your skill is amazing, without doubt

luck...

Thanks for the honest critics, Dwarf Wolf.
Your statement regarding the laser cannon is absolutely true, it was a modification I did some years ago and I could have spend the time to make it right.
The "front OSL" seems to be a reflection from the source light because it is 100% metallics grey, the OSL is only visible from the side.

The problem with the low contast theme is that I dont have any red scorpions bits or edged brass. I ordered some from forgeworld and will add them later to get some red colour to the model.
My chosen scheme is exactly the one you can find in the Imperial Armour Badab War Books.

So the damage is just sponge work? That's excellent! I'll have to try that.

Rented Tritium wrote:So the damage is just sponge work? That's excellent! I'll have to try that.

The weathering was done like this:
- sponge dark red
- sponge slightly reddish grey
- heavily watered down blazing orange and vallejo brown iron oxide pigments for rivets and such
- Sponge with the same pigments but dry for some fading rust effects

thats about it, might sound more time consuming than it is.

He looks very nice. I love that yellow. Great weathering!

Thanks, chap!