With mere hours of the year's Dreadtober challenge left, I managed to get my project completed.
The Neverness Hobby Chronicle
My exploits in miniature gaming/painting, RPGs, art and anything else going on I think is worth telling the world about.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Ultramarines Redemptor Dreadnought (Part 4)
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Ultramarines Redemptor Dreadnought (Part 3)
WIP continues. |
Progress on this metal hulk continues. Well, he's a plastic model of a metal hulk anyway. Regardless of all that, he is now blue! With the Dreadtober deadline for my stated project fast approaching I set about trying to achieve my month-end goal.
"Guve me details or give me death!" |
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Ultramarines Redemptor Dreadnought (Part 2)
And finally, a progress update:
Forgive my tardiness on this update. I found the construction of this Remdemptor Dreadnought to be a tedious affair. And, much to my chagrin and annoyance, I made multiple mishaps along the way that set me back a bit as well.
And now, let's get painting!
Tuesday, October 01, 2024
Ultramarines Redemptor Dreadnought (Part 1)
I love this annual event (Dreadtober) as I usually get a really cool model built and completed for one of my factions. Two years ago I did an original Rogue Trader-era Space Marine Dreadnought (Furibundus). This year I will be revisiting that theme by doing a modern-era Redemptor Dreadnought. I will probably be following the same painting steps used for the Furibundus, although it has considerably more detail, so I will likely be using more colors in addition to the Ultramarines scheme.
Redemptor in three sprues. |
Why I chose this Dreadnought is simply because it came with the final issues of Imperium Magazine and I thought it would make for a good endcap for the year considering how many Primaris Ultramarines I painted while I was recovering from my heart event earlier in the year.
I haven't decided how I'm going to equip this guy yet, but these in depth profiles from the magazine are giving me some ideas...
Inspirational load-out guide. |
Battle Record charts. |
A Snippet of the assembly guide |
With the plastic piled up and clippers in hand, it's time to get Dreadtober 2024 going!!!
Ready to build. |
What are you going to build and paint? Leave your pledge on the dreadtober blog page once you have it figured out.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Thunderer Struck! (Part 1)
Here is the next unit of my recently acquired second-hand Warhammer Fantasy Dwarves to receive my attention. I have already updated their bases from 20mm to 25mm.
Rebased. |
Before. |
But unlike the Warriors unit, I felt these guys needed a bit more than just grass tufts. Rocks, random rocks scattered about seemed like a logical, and easy, thing to do. However I needed more small rocks and I wasn't about to pay $9.99 for a bag of them when my front yard looks like this:
Lots o' rocks. |
After a matter of minutes I had gathered up a few appropriate, and interesting enough, rocks to serve my basing ambitions. And I finally found a use for the empty container that came with the old Citadel Basing kit.
"I gotta rock." |
With a few strategic glued down rocks, I decided that the unit leader would look snazzy with an orc skull on his base. Then it was time to apply all the rest of the grit. -Exciting stuff huh?
The process for painting these guys is the same I used to paint the previous batch of Warrirors. The original painter painted the wooden stocks of the rifles in a bold burgundy color. I drybrushed on a layer of Screamer Pink and finished that with a wash of Carroburg Crimson to get a look that I liked.
After. |
And with that I have the first guy of this unit done. Well, 'done' to level that I'm satisfied with. I think I can knock out the rest of them in part 2.
Sunday, September 22, 2024
The Deadly Assassins (Part 9)
The Deadly Assassins return! The sort of annual-ish feature where I paint up an Imperial Assassin. Somehow I skipped last year, but this year I'm (sort of) catching up by doing two-in-one with this odd-ball model.
Admittedly this post should really be called the Silly Assassins. This model is called Krak Shot, and it's inspired by an original humor piece, by an artist on Deviant Art, titled Callidus n Vidicare Combo. Clearly it's ment to be a punny joke, and when I found out someone made it into an stl.file I had, half-jokingly, suggested on the Neverness Facebook Group that someone should make a copy for me. Well, my old friend Scott accepted that challenge and was thrilled to make it for me. He said it was quite challengingt to print but on the third attempt he got it. And as you can see, it's quite fragile.
A few manic months went by and I eventually made some progress on this model. I primed the model in Chaos Black then gave it a layer of Abaddon Black. This is advice that I got from Duncan's brilliant tutorial of painting Synthskin, which I followed for both figures here.
Black on black. |
Synthskin. |
The rest of the model was fairly straightforward forward and (mostly) followed the steps laid out in Part 3 of this series. .
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Celestial Lions Chaplain (Part 1)
Recently I decided to slightly upgrade my Celestial Lions from being a 1st edition Kill Team to a small force with just enough models to fill out 750 points. One of these models will be an additional character model and this time it's a Chaplain. A metal Chaplain from the mid-'90s specifically.
A metal Chaplain. |
He was primed white way back in the late '90s with the intention of painting him for my Brother's Ultramarines but clearly that intention was unfulfilled.
Pin in place for his arm. |
While digging around the Neverness Archive in search of an appropriate character model to add to my first born Celestial Lions, this model really seemed to fit the bill. I attached him to a 32mm base and set about drilling out some holes to pin his arm on.
Arm pinned and attached. |
Next I dug through my pile of printed Celestial Lion shoulder pads that The Bob hooked me up with aeons ago. Most of my Celestial Lions have crudely painted on chapter icons but I thought it would be appropriate for this particular model to have a more professional look. I say that because I imagine that the other models I have may have had to update their armor in an ad-hoc manner as they likely had to scavenge serviceable parts from wherever they can find them.
Next up, I will prep the base and begin the first proper stages of painting...