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Wohoo my contemptor dreadnaught turned up this afternoon but forgeworld being the spastics that they are didn't include any sholders ! I'm Not the first person that its happened to ! (So will be getting a nice call of me first thing in the morning ) anyways after cleaning it up and giving him a bubble bath I started to put him together.
its a lovely kit you get a choice of flame or storm bolter and 4 feet 2 flat and 2 bent ( for walking) .
I'm gona POP up the art shop soon and look for some nice purple paint for him although I am gona break from the norm for emperors children and his shoulders are gona be a pearly white with heraldry on them . And he will be coverd in raised detail .
Sooooo I thought I would start this thread so you can see how it gos ....

Awesome!!

Could you possibly take a pic of it next to a regular dreadnought for size comparison?

I don't have one but the top of the sarcophacus (? Spelling) is level with the rylanor plaque on this one . So its a lot taller and sexyer !

I wonder if anyone would question me using one as a venerable....hm...

Can't see any reason why not and it wouldn't take that much to use normal dread weapons on it ether .

Man, that is one sexy dread! Looking forward to seeing this guy all done up! Thanks for taking the time to chuck up the photos CURNOW.

It looks good so far. When are you going to paint it?

Had a few its spare this morning so managed a bit more work on him . And hopefully the sholders should be on there way to me !

VERY nice!

I was sold on the Contemptor before, now I want two!

Your green stuffing really spices up a already great model, cant wait to see your progress with it!

Ok so I nipped into the local pound store and saw they had some realy nice acrylic paints for 60p a bottle (59ml) !
I've picked up a metallic purple to use as a base and a pearl white to high light it with and I'm amazed at the quality of theses paints so I'm gona go back in during the week and pic up all the other colours there . They go on realy smooth and cover well .
Here's some pics of it the whole of the armour was given 2 thin coats of metallic purple then a 1st highlight with a 8/1 purple/pearl then some edge highlights with 8/2 .
It's a lot more purple in real life than shows here as the metallic is realy hard to photograph...

That looks soooo cool. That color came out awesome!
Exalted

Gold is done ...

+1 on the first to for green stuff and +1 on the to other for painting droool... Subscribed!

hmm wat particular pound store did you pop into, those paints seem to be very good quality from what I can tell.

also, the dread is looking awesome, really like whats you've done with the greenstuff, i no you haven't got the shoulders, but do you have any idea if the weapons will be easily magnetized?

There's a web addresses on the bottles there made by royal & langnickel and its WWW.royalbrush.com havnt checked it yet .

It's not gona be gamed with do the left ARM is gona have the lascanon pointed up and the left is the power fist pointing out as if its fireing the storm bolter .

Then the base is gona have him crushing a marine ( maybe world eater ? Can't remember who emps didn't like ) under foot .

Wow, that gold and purple looks really great. I was a bit hesitant at first about the purple, but that really looks great! Nice work.

Managed to do the silver and the helmet today . I'm gona add the weathering to the exhaust last thing and I'm now working on the base until the sholders get here .
Also the paper scroll on his groin is gona be a illuminated manuscript page rather than the normal bit of newspaper you seen on less perfect legions ! . And I'm thinking about having a small banner ? Ether on top or hanging if the lascanons ( a bit like titans have ? ) what do you guys think ?

really Really Nice!

Loving it but I would avoid a banner honestly (never liked em on dreadnoughts)

It's...it's beautiful...

CURNOW as ever your stuff is superb. The Contemptor model has convinced me to collect a small 30k Heresy Space Marine Force.

I do like banners personally, but the idea of having a Titan style one hanging from a gun is awesome.

Oh and I am SOOOoooooo getting myself one of these kits.

This is outstanding. I also think a titan-style banner under a weapon would work well, and really give that pre-heresy feel to the model as well.

Do you have pictures of the rest of your EC army?

Hey guys thanks for all the great comments.
I'm gona see what the under weapon banner links like I think.
I don't actually have any other EC this will just be a one off tho I mite get a secound one and do haldon-tal or bjorn .
Base is almost done pics soon .

I hate to correct you fluffwise Curnow as I think you could do an awesome job on Bjorn but he wasn't put into a dread until years after the Heresy He's in a regular sarcophagus dread. I would love to see Haldon-Tal though. Great work on Rylanor Im hugely impressed

Yeah I know but if you jade to interns a hero of your chapter in one which one would you chose ? Sexy of stunty ? Lol

Sooo much nicer seeing your stuff with the 'improved' camera, I'd quite like one of these but will see what other weapon options are released as not feeling the TL LC, sweet build...

Quick update ...

I don't agree with the purple, but other than that it looks pretty cool.