Dreadball Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2022

Sunday was my D&D day.  We’ve taken a month-ish off from my campaign between adventures while someone runs something short and different, to give us a break and give everyone a chance to deal with some down time.  As such, I’ve not had a whole day to paint.  I stopped mid afternoon to spend a few hours prepping and trying to get the whole adventure fresh in my mind as I’ve no idea how much or what they’ll do.  Turns out I didn’t need to stop painting as only 2 of my 7 players turned up.  The rest backed out last minute, or said they’d be running late but would be there, and then didn’t show up at all.  Useless bunch.  I wasted half my Sunday for no good reason.

Anyway, before that I pushed through and finished off my Marauders, and started work on the lady space elves (the Kalyashi).  I sleeved up my KD:M cards whenever waiting for paint to dry.  There’s a lot of cards and decks in that game!:

1. I drybrushed P3 Cold Steel over the lighter iron areas I’d washed at the end of yesterday.
2. I base coated the leather areas with P3 Bootstrap Leather, then washed them with GW Agrax Earthshade.  They then got a drybrushed highlight of P3 Beast Hide
3. The teeth were picked out with P3 Menoth White highlight
4. Buckles were reclaimed with a little P3 Pig Iron where needed.  This brings the Marauders to completion, ignoring bases and transfers so they’re added to my Completed Tray, to finalise later.
5. I brought the Kalyashi over to my work tray and drybrushed on their flesh highlight colour: P3 Frostbite, P3 Morrow White, with a tiny bit of P3 Skorne Red and P3 Exile Blue.  basically, the base colour, with some white mixed in.
6. I’ve picked out a couple of reds for their armour to use next time I sit down.  I want their red armour to look different to the Marauders armour, but still be a strong red.  I’ve gone for a rich darker red from Vallejo as the base, but not had time to start applying it yet.

That takes me up to 18 models “done” in 9 days, 5 of which were spent at work, with progress made on a whole bunch more.