DreadTober 2022 - To DONE!

 

Greetings and welcome back.  I have managed to complete my DreadTober 2022 project this week!  I'm super happy with how the project came out.  Primarily, I worked on the base and tidying things up.  I did add a Hekatonystika symbol to the inside of the left leg.  This is a Terran veteran of the old legion before the Lion was rediscovered and put in charge.

There is my first big stamp o' DONE for the 2022/23 hobby season.  Next month I'll add another with my (soon to be) completed Predator tanks, which were started in September. Here is the new dreadnought with it's brethren.

The dread on the left was painted for DreadTober 2019, shortly after Forge World released the new model. Here is a shot of all four painted dreadnought class models I have so far for the I Legion.

The Legion Deredeo dreadnought was painted in May of 2019 and the Legion Leviathan Dreadnought was painted for DreadTober 2020. So in all, three years of DreadTober represented here. I'm super psyched to see all four models show well together over that span of time.  I have been able to maintain consistency in the paint scheme over that time and you would not be able to easily tell that they were painted at different times.  I do need to go back to the older dreadnoughts and add a couple of the new transfers, though.  The Hekatonystika and various wing transfers were not available when I started this project. The Deredeo in particular is a little bare of heraldry for the I Legion.

I'll close with a few close-up shots of this year's completed project after the break.  Thanks for following along, and I hope you found something here to inspire your own hobby journey.  I'll no doubt be back with a new Dread next year, and as long as the community challenge continues.  This is definitely my favorite challenge of the year, with #MonsterMarch coming in a close second.  

Congratulations to all of the participants this year for their hard work and excellent results.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!

DreadTober Week 3 Progress

 

Welcome to DreadTober week three.  We're over the hump and headed back down towards the end of the month and project completion.  The I Legion Relic Contemptor Dreadnought is coming along quite well so far.

I started the week off by applying transfers to the dreadnought. The I Legion heraldry is diverse and confusing so I mixed some of the obvious with the less obvious. On the front here we have the Legion number and the Lion head, a show of loyalty to the primarch Lion El'Jonson. In the glare on the face of the right shoulder is a badge symbolizing a veteran of the Terran wars, prior to the primarch joining the Legion.

The Lion's winged sword badge, the later symbol of the I Legion, is featured on the left shoulder.

While membership in the Hexagrammaton (Ironwing) is displayed on the right. I'd like to get the symbol of the Hekatonystika on the dread somewhere, but I haven't decided where just yet. Maybe on the inside of one of the legs?

Personal heraldry is featured on the small shields on the chest and right leg armor.

The transfers were sealed with a flat coat, then it was on to highlights.

So many edges to line! Gold and red details have also been highlighted.  In addition, the targeting lenses have been painted in with a faux-lens effect that looks better on the table than in the pictures.  You can see an example above on the Autocannon arm, between the two barrels.

Lots of panel definition now.  Looks a little cartoon-ish in these pictures! I'm wondering now if I went a bit too bright on this grey highlights...

I really like how the claw arm has turned out, especially the claws themselves.  It's a bit more interesting with the light gold look rather than the standard silver metal on the rest of the weapons and skeleton.

Anyway, that's where I'm at.  I will now move to the base and when that is complete go back and clean up anything I missed before sealing the model in a flat lacquer.  There will be no problem hitting the end of the month deadline at this point.  I'm feeling pretty positive with this fella! 

How are your projects going?

Cheers and Happy Gaming!

DreadTober Week 2 Progress

 

Welcome back for week two of DreadTober 2022.  You can check out the week one progress from all of the participants here. There have been lots of great projects this year.  During week two, I began to tackle the details on this Legion Relic Contemptor Dreadnought, as well as adding in some Dark Angels heraldry.

The Talon this contemptor belongs to uses black and white checkers on the arm as a unit designation. The Relic Contemptor from Forge World has lots of extra details like this honor badge on the lower leg here. 

The back is relatively plain by comparison.  Some highlights and weathering should make things a little more interesting. The skeleton under the black armor plates has been base coated and then shaded with GW Nuln Oil.

The checkers are al hand painted so far on this model. They are coming out fine so far.  I decided this DreadTober challenge would be a good time to try a little more free hand.  I normally rely on transfers for checkers.

This veteran warrior's personal heraldry is on the shields on the left shoulder and right leg. I will be adding some fun transfers there during week three.  The targeting lenses and helmet eye lens are base coated.  I had great fun on the sarcophagus with all that detail.  So far things are simply base coated and shaded. I'll use .005 micron pens to detail the seals and scrolls with some script at some point.

Here is a close up of the right arm.  I purposely chose larger checkers for the claw arm.  Sometimes, looking at everything together, I think I should have gone with smaller checkers.  Other times I'm fine with this result. There are many, many purity seals and oaths of moment on this dreadnought.

So that's where things stand as week two draws to a close.  Good progress has been made and I'm in good shape for transfers and highlights during week three.  Then I'll wrap up week four by completing the base along with any remaining bits on the model itself. I've slowed to one post-per-week during DreadTober because I haven't felt there was sufficient progress to warrant two posts-per-week. And I'm trying to remain focused on this project for the month, so there aren't any side builds or other hobby stuff going on in parallel to post about.

Best wishes go out to all of the other DreadTober participants.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!

DreadTober Week 1 Progress

Greetings and welcome back.  This week I'm sharing the progress I've made so far on my DreadTober 2022 project.  I started off priming the new arms and then spraying GW Chaos black over the body.  Then I decided to break with tradition and start with the arms this time around.  It seems I'm always scrambling to get the arms done at the end. Not this time...

The most work went into the Conversion Beamer.  I needed to paint the coils and heat sinks/shields (?!) so I could complete final assembly with everything painted up.  Here's how things ended. I painted it to match the scheme on the Predator turret I've been working on....no surprises there!

Some close in detail on the claw with plasmagun.  Lots to do here, but coming along nicely. Over all, a possibly slow start, but not bad for only a couple hours work by my standards.  All of the arms were sprayed dark silver (see painting recipe on the tabs above for details on my 30K Dark Angels) using an airbrush.  Then I put the black back on where necessary with a standard brush before getting to the other metal details.

Check back next week for another update.  I'm starting to plan how this Dreadnought will wear Dark Angels livery.  Black and white checkers? Red and black? You'll have to stop by again to see.

Best of luck to my fellow DreadTober peers.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!

DreadTober 2022 Kickoff!

 

Image Courtesy of dreadtober.blogspot.com

Greetings and welcome to DreadTober 2022. Do check out the main DreadTober blog site to check out the challenge and see all the great work the community contributes.  Here at 262Krieg, I'll be taking on a Relic Contemptor Dreadnought from Forge World, painted in I Legion colors.  One ting the Horus Heresy (30K) game seems to like is Contemptor dreadnoughts and I seem to have collected a large number of them over the years.  

I originally built this dreadnought for the first edition of the Age of Darkness game.  Under those rules, Dark Angels (I Legion) had special heavy bolter ammunition (molecular acid, or something like that) that made these weapons more deadly.  That rule was removed in the second edition released earlier this year so I decided this dreadnought needed some other weapon options. So for the challenge I'll be painting the dreadnought with a power claw/plasmagun arms, a Conversion Beamer arm, and a twin-linked autocannon arm to go along with the two twin heavy bolter arms.  This should provide a fair number of options that go along with the other four dreadnoughts in the army - oh and the fifth from the new boxed set which I haven't even begun to think about building yet.  I have four more years of DreadTober projects  it seems!

This dreadnought is based on a couple stone pieces from the yard.  The relatively heavy stone provides good ballast to prevent the resin model from being easily knocked over which is great since resin can be brittle, and light.

To match the rest of the army, I use wood glue (white/PVA glue would work as well, of course) and a quick dunk in my tub of random, small sized railroad scenic gravel. I like wood glue for this because it's thicker (so less controlling it from running off the base) and seems to provide a more durable bond.  With white glue, I had the issue of bits flaking off on occasion, spoiling paint jobs.

Magnets were used to connect the lower arms with the shoulders.  These dreadnoughts don't come with sockets, so I used a 3/16ths inch drill bit and corresponding 1mm thick magnets to do the job. Here the dread is borrowing close combat arms for a demo. With a plethora of arms available for Contemptor dreadnoughts, this simple magnetization allows for lots of gaming options and future proofs them against rules changes over time that render some weapon choices weapon better than others from time to time.

So that's the build for this years project.  I have some priming to do on the extra arms, then I get stuck in with the paint work. DO check out the DreadTober website to keep up on the action this year. And come back form time to time through out the month of DreadTober to see how things turn out with this Relic Contemptor.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!