5.05.2016

Leviathan Dreadnought: Nearly Done

My Leviathan Dreadnought is nearly done! More phone photos, because that's all I've got for now:

Front shot. Right now, he's pretty basic. Black armor, metal understructure, little brass details here and there. I wasn't too sure about how plain he looks, but then I remembered that I'll be adding white decals to him as well. He's not a Venerable Dread, so he won't get a bunch of white paint. I briefly thought about a white helmet, but skipped the idea. I'm still writing an intro story for him, but he's basically a long-forgotten relic of the Chapter, nearly expunged from history due to data degradation and the vagaries of a Chapter having a massive armory. He'll start out plain and unadorned other than a few markings, and start earning honors again as I run him in games.


 Close up shot. You can see where some wash pooled under his eye lenses. Because I haven't finished the eyes yet, I didn't bother cleaning this up. I like to overpaint the lenses, and then cut back in with the armor color. I also tried something new for me, and painted the rivets with the armor highlight color instead of a metallic. I like how it came out. I felt the little dots of silver would havelooked out of place on the big planes of black armor.


 Rear shot. I've since added some brass details on those little box things on his back, as well as whatever those little round things are just under the top armor. It was too much silver.

I took these shots before starting painting last night, and stopped for the evening after completing the power cables and washing the brass details with Devlan Mud/Agrax Earthshade. The cables are green and purplish red. He'll also get green eye lenses. I figure one or two more nights and he'll be complete. Then we'll see how the phone pictures turn out when I use three lights instead of angling him under my OttLite.

5 comments:

  1. Are you going to do any kind of heat effect or brass on the Flamers? Would give you some extra color but not be to much against the black.

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    1. Probably not. I've never been very good at heat staining. I'm not sure how to make it look proper on the perforated heat shroud.

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  2. Nice work. It's an impressive model, especially when painted. I assume he'll be making an appearance at Fratris? I know I saw your list, but I saw so many I forget who is doing what.

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    1. Thanks. He looks even better now that he's complete. Hoping to get pics tonight.
      He will be the centerpiece of my Fratris list, which means people will shoot him straight away. Lol.

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    2. Damn right. I know when my Knight is done that he will never play as well as he did unpainted.

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