Finally the dreadnought I ordered off E-bay arrived! I have been waiting for it for almost 2 and a half weeks now, and I hate waiting for things in the mail. Three of my favourite words to see on a website are “next day delivery”.
As mentioned in a previous post, a dreadnought is a very powerful Warhammer 40k piece, a giant mechanized walking battle tank controlled by a near dead Space Marine in a sarcophagus. Since starting I new I had to get one as they are absolute beasts on the playing field and can rip through most enemy units like a knife through air. It isn’t the Space Wolves unique dreadnought though, just a generic Space Marine dreadnought. but I did manage to etch in a faded looking wolf symbol on his left shoulder pad. He came armed with a multi-melter arm on the right, and a close combat claw/storm bolter arm on the left. My brother was also kind enough to give me one of his bases, so instead of the generic flat base he is stood on a rocky base with a few spent bullet shells and a human skull at his feet. Makes him look a bit more dynamic.
Also finished painting my Terminator unit, the biker and bike, and all of my scout unit. All I have left to paint now are 4 Space Marines, and the shoulder pads for all the Space Marines. I Purposefully left out painting the shoulder pads until later, as there are two key units in the Space Wolves. Blood Claws, the younger marines, and the Grey Hunters, the older more experienced men. I think this unit will be assembled as Grey Hunters as the weapon load out I have given them is more suited to Grey Hunter style fighting, which is a mix of mid to close range, but focusing mainly on close quarters combat. Blood Claws also do a lot of close quarters fighting, but as they have less experience they are supposed to dwindle down the enemy numbers from a distance first, then go in for the kill.
I also found a great website which makes unique “bitz” for warhammer modeling, including some great feral heads, fur cloaks, skulls and armoured knight heads which would look great on a Space Wolf unit. So I know where my money is going when I have some spare!
Here is a quick video of my Terminator unit and the Dreadnought, sorry for the low lighting, its hard to get it right in my room. Very dingy.
Do you spend this much time on painting your warhammers usually, or are you finding that you’re doing more, just so you could blog about it? That was the original intention of the blog for some people – if you have to write about what you’ve done in the day, that actually means you have to do something!
Either way those things are damn cool
I like to try and do one or two a day but having the blog has made me want to do them a bit more professionally, so I have something interesting to show instead of a model just done with base colours. If I take my time on them it can be about 2 hours per space marine, so I like to lock my door and get in the zone with them.
That new one with the cape took me about 6 hours though, that green stuff is a pain in the ass