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Third day of painting, third finished vehicle - yay!

I tried to speed up the painting process as much as possible and I was able to finish the whole model in around 2 1/2 hours (excluding base, dread is not fixed yet).
I photographed every step to make a small tutorial so keep an eye on this thread if you're interested, I will post it quite soonish.


Due to faster painting this one is a bit more sloppy in regards to edge highlighting and weathering, in addition the front symbol came out rather bad.
Keep in mind that all three vehicles were prepainted in space wolves colours so some detail was already gone.

Here are some pictures of the dread and a groupshot of my finished Red Scorpions.
I'm waiting for a forgeworld order which include Red Scorpion shoulder pads so I can finally start painting my Tactical Marines.
I also ordered some edges brass, rhino and land raider doors to pimp up my vehicles.

Looks awsome. Good job!

Nice, is that Airbrushing? I am guessing so, looking at the Plasma Cannon lighting effects and were the models undercoated?

Not a criticism more a suggestion (and something someone on Dakka advised me and I do alot) is to drill out the Weapon Barrels, and exhausts and such.

Neat painting. The plasma glow almost made thing that its real

Very nice work on those, especially the plasma glow!

Thanks, chaps.

Funnily the least bit of work got the most attention. The plasma glow was done with an airbrush and took me around... 20 seconds?^^ Nevertheless I like the effect and I couldn't achieve a comparable one with a standard brush.

mwnciboo wrote:Nice, is that Airbrushing? I am guessing so, looking at the Plasma Cannon lighting effects and were the models undercoated?
Not a criticism more a suggestion (and something someone on Dakka advised me and I do alot) is to drill out the Weapon Barrels, and exhausts and such.

Ofc all models were undercoated but they were also prepainted in space wolves colours so lots of small details were not as sharp as they should have been.

I invested in some very small drills for bolters and such but I have no wider ones for the big guns - the holes would be just too small.

Awesome work, love the effect on the plasma cannon!

As promised here's a small tutorial of the creation of this dreadnought. The fella was primed black and mounted upside down on his base.


First basecoat of Vallejo Model Air German Grey using my airbrush.



Black was airbrushed from the bottom up to add some shadows to the model



Vallejo Model Air Medium Sea Grey was used to light up the upper parts of the model.
I sprayed right from the top of the model so only the parts exposed to "direct sunlight" were lightened up.



After masking I used Vallejo Model Air Golden Brown (airbrush) / Vallejo Game Colour Leather Brown (brush) for the basecoat of the yellow.



For the first highlight I took Vallejo Model Air Dark Yellow for both the airbrush and standard brush.
Since the colour is mixed for airbrush use it isn't highly opaque and perfectly suitable for nice blendings.
I only highlighted the upper and side parts so the shadow areas will stay brown.



The next highlight is Vallejo Model Air Golden Yellow.
The upper parts received a good amount of coating but I left some dark yellow on the side areas for a nice blending effect.



The final edge highlight was made with a 50/50 mix of white and golden yellow.
PlasCan was painted from bottom to top with Vallejo Model Air Gun Metal Metalizer, Gun and Silver for the final highlight.



The weathering begins! Using GW Dark Flesh and Vallejo German Grey / Medium Sea Grey I sponged the first rust effects on the model.
I kept an eye on the most exposed areas/edges to make it as realistic as possible.



Using thinned down Blazing Orange, Dark flesh and watered Vallejo rust pigments I added rust on rivets, deepenings and cables.
I also sponged dry pigments on the whole model to give it a rusty shading on some areas.



Using Vallejo Model Air light blue and pure white I gave the plasma can a subtle OSL effect.
I painted several lenses in shiny blue colours, imho this is a nice contrast to the worn and rusty battle look.


Thats about it, a 100% painted up dreadnought in around 2,5 hours. I hope somebody will find this tutorial useful, thanks for taking a look!

derd0m wrote:Thanks, chaps.

Funnily the least bit of work got the most attention. The plasma glow was done with an airbrush and took me around... 20 seconds?^^ Nevertheless I like the effect and I couldn't achieve a comparable one with a standard brush.

mwnciboo wrote:Nice, is that Airbrushing? I am guessing so, looking at the Plasma Cannon lighting effects and were the models undercoated?
Not a criticism more a suggestion (and something someone on Dakka advised me and I do alot) is to drill out the Weapon Barrels, and exhausts and such.

Ofc all models were undercoated but they were also prepainted in space wolves colours so lots of small details were not as sharp as they should have been.

I invested in some very small drills for bolters and such but I have no wider ones for the big guns - the holes would be just too small.

1st off an apology, I saw the greyish colour in the underlaying layer and it looked very close to the Base Plastic Colour, now you have shown how you undercoated it, I realise my mistake. On the subject of small drill bits, I use a small one as Pilot hole. Then at a later day, you can drill out the pilot hole, with a 6mm or 7mm Drill bit when or if you get that at a later date.

Awesome work.

Nice! that dreadnought is AWESOME!

2 1/2 hours, is a pretty good achievement... now try to do the same in 1h
Seriously though, thanks for the tutorial, I'll be needing the part with the yellow colours alot in my models

derd0m wrote:Thanks, chaps.

Funnily the least bit of work got the most attention. The plasma glow was done with an airbrush and took me around... 20 seconds?^^ Nevertheless I like the effect and I couldn't achieve a comparable one with a standard brush.

I agree, using an airbrush for OSL gives really satisfying results in a very easy manner. I've been experimenting with this technique on my skaven recently for warpstone glow and it really couldn't be any more simple. Aim the airbrush away from your source and just release a gently spray of paint: Done!

Amazing
I need a airbrush