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Day 51

Alright then, where’s your girly tanks?

Lascannon squad done in metallics. As ever, just the Dreaded Reddening then tidy up to go. And that will be my 120 assembled infantry done.

Will pick the next project and get it sprayed tonight, ready for some kind of further work tomorrow.

Tremendous work doc

Cheers dude

And now with a splodge of colour and a tidy up, really digging these now. Soon as the Vampire Red is dry, on with the True Red, and they’ll be done. Luvverly.


UNT FIN!

And the payoff.

Ere we go, ere we go, ere we go!

It’s finally Dreadnought o’clock.

Day 52

Here we come.
Stomping down the street.
Getting the most terrified looks from
Ev’ryone we meet.

Hey hey we’re the Dreadies
And people say that we’re OP
But we’re the old generation
And we’ve got plenty to slay.

IT’S DREADAPLOOZA!!!!

Cue pillarmen meme?


It does feel marvelous though, the horde of finished infantry,doesn't it?

Most definitely. To the point I’m somehow not actually sick of painting them. I’ve got 20, possibly another 40 in the box room, and a bunch of Heavy and Special weapons unused, so there’s definitely scope for more.

But this lunchtime, I’ve been assembling the second Deredeo. Aiming to get all my Dreadnoughts assembled and sprayed, so I can at least try to batch paint them.

Yes I am a bit mental.

No. From experience in batch painting you are doing the right thing.

Do need to dig out my magnets though, as I’m keeping my Leviathans flexible.

And that’s the second Deredeo assembled.

Quite an enjoyable, if fiddly kit. Will need a schmear of liquid green stuff or similar on that top plate though. Not ideal on a plastic kit, but not exactly a cardinal sin.

Next up will be the second Leviathan.

Looking BADASS Doc, congratulations on some serious hobby momentum!

At my current rate, and providing I can smash through the Dreads at a reasonable rate? I may have all my 28mm Heresy stuff done by the end of April.

Also, now need to buy more plastic glue.

Day 53

With a big splodge of Gun Metal, and my biggest brush? Three Contemptors ready for the Grim Black speed paint.

Which will have to wait until tomorrow, as I’ve a D&D session tonight.

Random question, but do you plan on painting any of your Heroquest stuff?

At some point, yes. And almost certainly this year. As I now have all the expansions, my approach there will be to paint dungeon-by-dungeon. That should break it down into manageable chunks.


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Day 54

The Dreadening.

All seven done to drybrush. Next up is Grim Black on the lot of them. Somewhat optimistic I can get them all done by the end of the weekend.

And in the black.

That’s probably it for tonight, on account they’re gonna take a while to dry.

First thing tomorrow is checking them for any run off or missed spots and sorting those. Then, as with the Infantry? Metallics o’clock.

That is a lot of finished Space Marines, nicely done!

Thank you Not gonna lie, I’m pretty chuffed with myself!

How many expansions is HeroQuest up to these days, anyway?

Erm…..

Kellar’s Keep*, Return of the Witch Lord*, Mage in the Mirror, Frozen Horror, Spirit Queen’s Torment*, Prophecy of Telor*, Rise of the Dreadmoon, Against the Ogre Horde.

Those are your dungeon expansion, with the occasional new hero.

Pure Hero Expansions are…

Wandering Monk, Guardian Knight, Rogue Heir.

*these ones came with my Hasbro Pulse pledge thingy.

Day 55

Dread Reckoning 2.

So off to a certain start, touching up the Grim Black. I genuinely cannot praise this Speed Paint enough. Whilst in no danger of winning anyone any award, apart from “laziest sod”, as a Contrast-A-Like Black I get a really good coverage, without streaking. The second pic is a close up, which will hopefully post OK. As you can see, just enough of the grey and silver base coat is showing to make it look like I’ve bothered to highlight.

This stuff kicks ass! It kicks ass!




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Also I’ve had a headache most of the day, which has been “fun”. Worse, I’m thinking it might be eye strain from VDU use at work. And so I’ve not made much more progress.

Have now acquired ibuprofen, so hopefully in an hour or so I can start laying down some metallics.

Now picking my placement for the metallics. It’s kind of slow going, but my Standard Brush is on the wonk, so I’m using a detail one.

I will get there though, and this absolutely counts as Something Hobby for today.

Just as bloody awful 90’s Britpop Oasis once “sang”? Little by Little.

Really starting to develop a steady hand and brush control skills, as I picked the rivets out with barely a splodge.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Just as bloody awful 90’s Britpop Oasis once “sang”? Little by Little.

Really starting to develop a steady hand and brush control skills, as I picked the rivets out with barely a splodge.

They look AWSUM. I'm planning on building one for my 40k IW and these might genuinely be my favourite dread designs. If I may ask, I have started a P&M blog as well, and have uploaded images, yet, when i reply to my own topic the unrelated text renders above the images which they are supposed to be under. Would you know how to solve this problem?

Erm…I’ve no idea! When attaching the image, you can give it a description. I don’t know if there’s a character limit, as when I’ve done they’ve been short captions.

Your other choice would be to upload to say, Photobucket, and use hyperlink thingies to slot them into the text where you want them.


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Anyways.

Planning ahead, I may soon take a break from my Dark Angels, and switch up my projects.

I’ve got my long gestating “2nd Ed to Modern Ed” Eldar project. Got the models built and in cabinet No.2, and somewhere I’ve got the paints to do them at Atlansar. And I’ve got my gribbly Tyranids from Leviathan, including 20 Termagants I haven’t been arsed to build.

Those are of course far smaller projects, but more involved on account Dark Angels are that gloriously blocky black. But as a palette cleanser, playing with brighter colours should work. And certainly for the Nids, I’ll be breaking out my Contrast Paints, and maybe I’ll even be a bit clever with them.

 bullisariuscowl wrote:
If I may ask, I have started a P&M blog as well, and have uploaded images, yet, when i reply to my own topic the unrelated text renders above the images which they are supposed to be under. Would you know how to solve this problem?

As far as I'm aware, if you directly attach images to a post, they'll always appear at the end of the post.

If you want the flexibility of inserting images into your post wherever, might I suggest making use of the Dakka Gallery as a host? You can upload images into it, organise it into folders, then use the code presented under the "Forums" option to add the image anywhere within your post. See this most recent upload of mine as an example. Note - I normally do this on my laptop, and I don't know how easy it is to use on mobile.

Day 56

There we go, I’ll call the base metallics on this one done. As you can see some bits have had Nuln Oil, and the rest will get that later. After that just The Dreaded Reddening and I’m calling this one done. Yes apart from basing.

Really enjoyed picking out the rivets, which frankly is not something I ever thought I’d say ever. But I did!

He’s got Red on him.

Letting that layer dry, then on with the final brighter one. Quick tidy up after, and that should be job’s a good enuff ‘un.

Not quite belting through the seven this weekend, but hey ho. Progress is progress. And I’m out of plastic glue for now, so gonna make the other six last until next weekend, when I get some more.

Calling that done, for now. Needs transfers and basing. But transfers are a Next Month purchase, as this month I had to tax my car. Which sucked.

That was a bit of a fib. Went back for some extra detailing. Those rivets are tiny, but picking them really does make a difference.