Dreadnought Part II

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All right.... so part II of the Dreadnought build.


Below is a closeup of the converted imperial eagle with greenstuff to fill in the gaps. I'm not real happy with the way this turned out. But I think it will look "good enough" once it's painted








Picture of the weapon arms after many brushed on coats of white. I can't wait to see what a difference spraying these will make.

The Airbrush

The cup I used for the spraying

I used clothespins and a tweezer to hold the weapon arms.

I really had a hard time with my airbrush. I had to stop multiple times to clean the the tip. This just goes to show how out of practice I am. I don't think I had the paint thin enough.

Post Air brush pics.

This picture just to show where I'm going with the color scheme.



Picture of my airbrush parts soaking in acrylic cleaner. This is the downside of airbrushing, having to clean the thing after you use it. But it's extremely important to clean the airbrush as soon as possible after use to keep it in top shape.



Here now I start showing some pictures, after I put another brushed coat of white, and filled in the areas that will be black or that needed a black base coat.









I'm not happy, at all, at the way the brass raven looks in the pic below. It's gonna take a lot of work to make it look right.

So it's starting to shape up. I need to spend some time cleaning up the over brush mistakes, which by the way are very easy to to do when painting black on white or vice versa. But in order to make contrasting colors like Black and White look good you have to get it as close to perfect as possible for maximum impact.

Also the next post will show the start of shading as I will be using some inks to shade the recesses of the white areas. I ultimately plan to use some weathering techniques that I have seen used in historical modeling and also in some of the French style miniature painters.

In keeping with my raven guard theme of olderstyle equipment I purchased a mark IV Dreadnought close combat weapon off of ebay. It has that kind of claw effect that should mix in perfectly with Raven Guard.

I've also started getting some parts for my marines, so I will post some pics of that coming up shortly.