Contemptor Dreadnought Rebased

Todays post covers a rebasing of my Contemptor Dreadnought. I haven't been happy with the original base for a while now, and this week I wanted a quick and easy hobby project so thought I'd spend some time giving this model a more detailed base. I've included a comparison image of the old base... I hope you agree that the new one looks much better!

Space Marine Contemptor Dreadnought

 Hot off the heels of the Land Raider comes a completed Contemptor Dreadnought.

I've had this model for 18 months and it had sat, base coated for the vast majority of that time! After completing the Land Raider I was keen to carry on learning the advanced modelling techniques which I had begun experimenting with on the Land Raider. This model seems like the perfect next step as, with it being essentially a 30k model, I could go to town on the weathering and feel comfortable that if I went OTT it would still look good. Mission accomplished I think?

Elite: Dreadnought II

eBay is a wonderful thing especially when it comes to GW! Their prices make my wallet weep so eBay helps reduce the cost of this rather expensive hobby! This particular dreadnought was my first eBay GW purchase and it cost about £10. It is a fairly basic model, coming from an older boxed set I think, and didn't come with any extra weapons however with a bit of blutac placed within the arm sockets I can easily interchange with the weapons from the Venerable Dreadnought kit (model shown in a previous post) so there are options if needed.

I'm happy with the painting standard I achieved on this model. I don't know how often I will use this unit in my lists as my Dreadnoughts seem to have been replaced by Devastator Centurions; however I do want to paint all of my models and I am trying to work through my army based on the length of time the models have been sat half painted in my Battelfoam case. Alongside painting this unit I also forced myself to paint all the weapon options (Las Cannon, Plasma Cannon, Assault Cannon and a further Close Combat arm) that came with the Venerable Dreadnought so that I could close the book on my Dreadnought painting sound in the knowledge that I can, if needed, change the weapons as required... and they would be all shiny and painted.

Next up is another eBay purchase- a squad of Assault Marines. This unit is currently sat on my painting station half painted, and sporting a few conversions. I'm looking forward to getting the squad finished so keep you eyes peeled for my new update!

Elite: Dreadnought

I absolutely love the Venerable Dreadnought model. I picked this unit up in May last year but only managed to get around to painting it over the last couple of weeks. Thanks to the advice of Jai, from Games Workshop Bath, I picked this model up instead of the traditional variant. I have used it as both a standard and also a Venerable Dreadnought but this model is far superior [to the bog standard model] in my opinions and so when I realised that there was nothing stopping me from picking up the Venerable model it was a done deal!

After reading some forums for effective layouts for Dreadnoughts I picked up a couple of the Forgeworld Autocannon weapons and these are the weapons which can be seen on the photo above. I have to admit that I wasn't very impressed with the quality of the weapons- the barrels were warped and the level of detail was very quickly lost under the payers of paint... however for £8 per weapon they werent particularly expensive so its not the end of the world.

 I'm yet to be convinced that the 'rifleman' load out (2 x twin linked Auto-cannons) is viable in 6th... and especially against Chaos (who I battle most regularly) however for fluff centred lists which I tend to go for, it certainly has a place so I will continue to experiment while I paint up the further weapon options.