Dreadnought Part I

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I am starting this army from scratch, so I wanted to test out some color patterns before plunging in full blast. I have a space marine dreadnought that I had originally planned to use for my Ultramarine force. So I decided to resurrect it from my drawer of stuff for testing. Unfortunately I had already put a base coat of ultra marines blue and put an ink wash. So of course this will make the painting of the white parts much more difficult.

The first picture is of the resurrected dread with the ultramarine icon removed. I had to sand down the area where the paint and icon met. (On the left side of the sarcophagus)




Closeup of the sanded area.



Here are some brass etch I plan to use and also some plastic imperial eagles from my Bitz box. there is also Warhammer Fantasy Dwarf standard I may use, I may use the wings off of it for something, not sure yet though.



I decided to try and use one of the ultramarine eagles, unfortunately filling in the ultramarine symbol with putty turned out to be harder than expected. So I just put a purity seal over the symbol. You can see some of the putty I used to try and fill the ultra marine symbol. The putty worked OK but not good enough for me. So I keep telling myself that this is just a test model.



If you look at the top right you can also see where I cut an imperial eagle in three and glued it on the top.






I need to use a little bit of greenstuff to fill in the gaps. (I'll show this later this week)

These are a few before and after pics of the weapons. The after pics are after a few coats of wolf grey-GW equivalent = space wolf grey. I got to tell ya I usually thin my paints really well to keep a smooth finish but thinning light colors and then trying to paint over black is a huge pain. I should have just started up my airbrush and been done with it. Which I will do for the main body, also will do to finish off the weapons base coat of white.

Before & After

Well that's all for tonight...

Next time, some pics after using the airbrush to finish the white base coat. Also plan to go into the particulars of Raven Guard and how I plan to build them.

GG