Looted Primaris Redemptor Dreadnought

I’m hoping to do a few updates today hence the part one. In line with how I’ve painted my existing Orks I’ve started off here by painting everything in what I hope is a grimy metallic and then I’m going to add the colour over the top of this. To get to this stage I started off priming everything with Vallejo black surface primer applied with an airbursh. I’m glad I did it this way as three are that many fiddly bits I had to keep going back to bits that I’d missed. Next up I simply dry brushed everything with the darkest metallic I had which in case was a Scale 75 black, then over this I dry brushed a lighter metallic. To grim this up I gave it watered down wash of Secret Weapon Baby Poo, which is a wash I really like before darkening things down with Nuln Oil.

Next up I’m going to start with the legs adding colour and detail before working up to the body then the arms. Or at least that’s the plan.

The first section to get any colour has been the legs and I’ll work up from there. I’ve gone with a base colour and then given it one highlight so far. I’ve also started to pick out some of the detail but I want to get the body and arms on before I finish things up as I want to know which bits will be in shadow before doing the final highlights. Weathering will also get done when everything is complete.

I know that painting the body would take me longer than I planned but this really has taken me a lot longer that I planned. I’ve been plugging away at this today right up to the point where I took my dad to the pub for father’s day. So a couple of pints later I’ve got the body mostly finished and ready to share. There are a few details that still need working on but with the same approach as the legs I’m going to get the rest of the build finished before I go back and pick out these details.

Nearly there with the driver now in place. I painted him on his own and there is quite a lot of him that isn’t visible now that he’s in place but I’m sure weave all done this before. Especially if you’ve ever painted the inside of a Land Raider. The bulk of the work on the close combat arm is now also complete. I think it’s just going to be a case of going back over things looking for the details that I know I’ve missed once it’s all complete.

Last piece to get completed will be the ranged weapon arm but I’m not sure if that will be tomorrow or Wednesday, all depends on how bad the trains are tomorrow. Northern Rail on a strike day, still can’t realistically be worse than Northern Rail on a normal day.

The last major piece to be completed has been this ranged combat arm. A nice multi barrel big shoota with an underslung drill for when it gets up close and personal. The colour scheme is the same as the rest of the model and now that bit is done I can go back over everything to pick out the bits that’ I’ve missed before some final weathering and getting the whole thing varnished so that it can be used in game without the worry of chipping the paint off. The varnish will also help knock back some of the shine hopefully giving it more of a traditional orky feel.

The finishing touches are now done with all the details, that I can find, completed and weathering done. I’ve not gone to heavy on the weathering, partly because I don’t really know how to get that really worn look and partly because I want this to fit in with the rest of the my existing Orks. Having said that I think it still has a nice Orky feel.

There are a few close up’s of some of the detail but I’d be here forever if I tried to get everything in.

Hope you all like it and I’m already planning the next one. An Orky medium Bomber kitbash based on a standard Ork flyer. Just made wider and longer to fit the bombs and Gatling gun. Once I get going I’ll share it with you here.