40k Space Wolves & Daemons Boot Sale Bargain – Help Lawnor identify and fix please (Spring Cleaning)

The box contained 2 dreadnaughts, but 6 limbs so I’ve decided to magnetise everything to allow options.  I’ve had a look around online for advice on this and I saw someone use magnets on the body but metal plates on the limbs in order to save on magnets and to not worry about aligning everything perfectly.  We had one last tub of Twiglets left after Christmas when I read that so I tested to see if the bottom was magnet friendly and it was so I ate the Twiglets and saved the metal.

I carefully removed the limbs from the bodies.  By carefully I mean I pulled, prised and levered, and ended up getting a hacksaw for the last limb.  I used some wire cutters to clip through the rim of the metal, but otherwise it was thin enough to cut through with a decent pair of scissors.  Small squares were cut out and glued on the the limbs.  Three holes were drilled in each shoulder in no particular arrangement and magnets were glued in to them.  I tried to keep the polarity the same across all magnets in all shoulders in case of any future decisions.

Once the glue had dried I tested them out.  They seem to hold very well and allow for rotation.

Next up is Priming.  Anyone got any ideas how to hold the extra pair of limbs while I work  on them?  Sadly I don’t have any large magnets to hand.

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Priming is done.  I’ve tried a mixed aproach.  I started with a solid coat of black, and then went for a heavier than usual zenithal white.  i then downed the pressure and tried to reclaim the shadow a little with some thinned black.  I had less success this time around than with the tanks, but its all learning.  We will see how it pans out.

I was hoping to have these guys finished by today, but I ended up doing a lot of babysitting over the weekend.  With any luck they will be painted across the week and I can base and varnish this weekend.  Tonight I highlight the gold and then perhaps work on the purity seals?  I’ve noticed that there is a nub on the right breast of the venerable dreadnought where research says a purity seal was supposed to go.  I don’t have that part.  I’ve found a decorative wolf skull that should cover it nicely and help tie the Dreadnought better in to the army.  I’m also considering the missing knee pad on the other one to be battle damage.  Had I noticed before painting I might have had a go at crafting a replacement, but it’s too late now.

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I have now finished both Dreadnoughts.  The only new colour I added was for the warheads.  I wanted a different shade of red for them so I went with a VGC 72.065 Terracota base for a darker flatter red.  I highlighted the upper portions with some thinned P3 Skorne Red, and further highlighted the tip with a thinned mix of GW Evil Sunz Scarlet.

The wing of the Bloodthirster was damaged and one of the horns/antenna from the Soul Grinder were broken when I got them.  I was considering just going with it and calling it battle damage, but I thought I’d try my hand at doing repairs.  I found myself with some time to kill, but not enough to paint so I boiled the kettle and reached for the Oyumaro instant mould again.  I melted down my previous castings, and wrapped the mould around the other horn, and the 2 neighbouring talons and left them to cool down to room temperature before removing them.  They were given longer still before I cut a slit up the side of each where I hoped no one would see (without needing stitches this time!).  I then stuffed them with green stuff as best as I could.  They were then left for a week to set before popping them out of the moulds.

I then cleaned them up as best as I could and dry fit them to the models along the way to work out which talon to keep, and ensure the fit was the best I could get.  Pin holes were drilled on both sides to strengthen the connection and reinforce the green stuff, and the parts were glued.  A little Vallejo Plastic Putty was used to smooth over the connection for the talon.  I’m hoping once primer is applied that these parts will blend in if you don’t look to closely.  I might yet revisitn them with a hobby knife before then, but perhaps that’s just inviting mistakes?  They are far from perfect, but I’m thinking they already look better than just the damage.

As for basing, I have the Behemoth of Decay from Titan Forge.  I’m hoping to make him visually compatible with my Chaos Daemons.  Take a look at his base.  I’m thinking I can make similar spikes from old bits of sprue, even if I have to keep them smaller.  I can then paint them up as obsidian.  A dark grey, with a hint of blue/green to them, and edge them a brighter version of that blue/green.  Something like the scheme in the second picture.  Perhaps coat them with gloss varnish afterwards?  I have the Realm of Chaos: Wrath and Rapture box unopened.  What do people think of that for basing across both factions?

I prized the models from their bases using a hobby knife, a box cutter, and the small screwdriver I use to get lids off tiny pots of paint and only managed to stab myself the once, with the screwdriver thankfully.  Turns out the feet on the Daemon Prince are tiny separate parts and one came off and broke so needed gluing back together.  The models have had pins put in their feet so I can reconnect them to their bases, once I have painted and decorated them.  I have marked out where the feet will go so I do not stick anything there that might get in the way.

The priming is now done, and I think it looks OK.  It doesn’t quite have the definition of the original parts, but unless I’m looking directly at it, I don’t see whats real and whats home made.  This may change when I come to actually paint them up.

I’m being a little cheeky and tagging this for the Spring Cleaning challenge.  I started the project before that was announced, and I’ll be doing it long after it finishes so I suspect I don’t qualify, but I am continuing during the challenge so no harm in clicking a few buttons in the hopes of winning £50.  I’m taking someone elses long abandoned project, fixing it up, painting it, and even getting some games in over here.

I’m trying something new with the bases for my Daemons.  This is something I learned from AssetDrop for making crystal growths but I’ve never tried.  I’ll be painting these up to look like obsidian, as detailed below.

The first step was to save some sprue and cut out some straight sections, removing any writing or jutty outy bits.  Then you take your hobby knife and shave off the corners so you have an irregular 8 sided shape.  Then you bring one end to an irregular angular tip.  I then cut a flat bottom on to it at the angle I want.

As you will see below, this gets very messy very fast.  Plan for this, and for gods sake, don’t blow on anything like I did!

Then came the Foundry Nipple Pink system (Light, base and shade).  I mixed 3 parts shade with 1 part Evil Sunz Scarlet, and thinned it down to apply the next highlight, covering most of the previus highlight.  Then I did the same, but with pure Nipple Pink Shade.  Then I highlighted edges and glints with thinned Nipple Pink Base, and finally just the glints and extreme highlights with Nipple Pink Highlight.

I am having a problem painting this model.  Anywhere I want to put my hands theres a wing or a weapon in the pay.  It means I often end up holding the brush a couple of inches higher up than is comfortable and I don’t have anywhere to balance my hands.  As a result I am making more of a mess of this model than I might otherwise.

Once the rest of the model is done I am hoping the flesh will look better.  if not, I might revisit it with an all over glaze or a thinned ink or something to unify the layers better.  We will see when I get there.

This final colour is based loosely on Duncans Bloodthirster video but I switched the paints as best as I could for ones I owned.  Once again I found the wings were in the way of everything.  I rarely had anywhere to place my hands while painting the highlights so all brush control went out of the window, and I don’t have much to begin with.  I have shaky hands at the best of times.