HELP for HEROES 'Salamanders' SPOTLIGHT! IDIC Dread

Nick speaking,

Finally finished my contribution to the awesome Salamanders army we are building for the HELP for HEROES charity raffle. To be in with a chance of winning this Dreadnought and the rest off this awesome army, just click here to find out the deatails of how you can buy your tickets...

Dreadnought by IDICBeer

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HELP for HEROES 'Salamanders' Dread (part 5)

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Continuing on with painting my Dreadnought for the HELP for HEROES 'Salamanders' charity army that we are raffling off. I have now washed and highlighted him, and started work on some of the details, like the scrolls. Just the flames and brass etchings to do now, then the final touch ups and he is all done! You can buy your tickets here if you want to have a chance of winning this Dread, along with the rest of the awesome army that is up for grabs...

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HELP for HEROES 'Salamanders' Dread (part 4)

Nick speaking,

Time to put some paint on my Dreadnought for the HELP for HEROES 'Salamanders' charity army that we are raffling off. Don't forget to buy your tickets here to have a chance of winning, if you haven't done so already. I started by painting my Dread with several thin layers of Warpstone Glow over my pre-shaded work. It was at this stage that I realised the vents on his back seemed to be a bit 'plain' as such, which I can only assume is down to it being an Assault on Black Reach model...

After a quick scout around I managed to find some plastic tubing I had left over from a Laser Cut Card product, so I cut two pieces of that up and bevelled off the edges to make two vents and glued them on. Then I went over all the metal work with watered down coats of Boltgun Metal and Shining Gold, and based up a few of the other details. Now I am ready to wash and highlight...

Still plenty to do, so keep watching...

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HELP for HEROES 'Salamander' SPOTLIGHT! Vanhammer Dread

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Time to show case another finished unit that will be included in our HELP for HEROES charity raffle. Tickets are now on sale at only £1.50 a ticket, so go and check out the official homepage to buy your tickets and to have a chance of winning this awesome Dread with magnetised gun options, along with all the other fantastic units that will be in this massive army...

Dreadnought by Vanhammer

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HELP for HEROES 'Salamanders' Dread (part 3)

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With the pose all sorted on the Dread I am doing for the HELP for HEROES 'Salamanders' charity army. It's now time to go in with some green stuff and do some scales and flames. I have actually used 'grey stuff', but it is essentially the same. Here is the results of the work I did on the scales, which I made a tutorial of here, if your interested...

Next I started work on the flames, here is a picture of the flames on the top of the arm, which I extended down to the wrist section as well. Again, I did a tutorial of the flame work here, if your interested...

Here is the final work all completed, with the Dread glued onto his base ready for painting. I hope you like him...

 

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HELP for HEROES 'Salamanders' Dread (part 2)

Nick speaking,

Continuing on with my Dreadnought for the HELP for HEROES 'Salamanders' charity raffle. Once the green stuff on my Assault on Black Reach Dread left arm was dry, I got to work on the other side...

At this stage I had run out of green stuff and had to open a new pack of 'Grey Stuff' that I had. It is exactly the same stuff, but you get more for your money. For his right arm, I wanted to continue with the dynamic theme, and went all out and angled his armpit out and up. I was also very generously donated a Forge World Salamander Melta arm and some brass etchings, by Salamander lover, Chuffy, which I quickly put to good use...

Right, that's the pose done, now to go in with some green stuff and do some scales and flames, which you can see in the next update post...

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HELP for HEROES 'Salamanders' Dread (part 1)

Nick speaking,

So, just in case you are not aware, I am helping to oversee a team of forty very talented wargamers from the YouTube community, to give you a chance to win a fantastic Salamanders army, all built up and painted. All the proceeds from this project will go towards the HELP for HEROES charity, which I am sure you will all agree, is a very worthwhile cause. I myself, will be converting and painting up an Assault on Black Reach Dread, that was donated to the project by the very generous Jason Prior...

My aim is to make this very static Dread look as dynamic as I can make him, so first of all, I cut his leg off at the knee joint and repositioned it backwards. I was careful not to cut the piping, which just bent back into the new position without any problems. Just a bit of green stuff work will be needed here to fill the gap, but it was pretty easy to do...

To help get the pose even more exaggerated, I used a piece of angled slate on his base. Once I pin him to it, he should start to look like he is charging forward and hopefully look like a totally different Dread...

Taking the dynamic side a step further, I then green stuffed in an angled section on his body for his arm, and set in some magnets and let it dry. That's it for now, watch out for the next post where I will get the other arm done and start to make it look more like a Salamander Dread...

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