Dreadball Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2022

It’s Saturday morning.  I’ve garden work to do, but I’m not awake enough for that yet, even if the sun is already out.  Yesterday I finished off three colour shifted guys, but there’s one left on my tray.  He’s not a robot though.  He’s a Yindij, and I’ve another of those so I’ll paint them both at the same time.  The two animal/bug free agents are staring at me too.  I know what I want to do with their flesh and I know it’s going to take lots of washes and long drying times so I’ll do all 4 models at the same time.

The free agent things were painted using the Khardic Flesh guide from Privateer Press’s Forces of Khador.

The Yindij Flesh was painted using their Farrow Flesh guide from Forces of Minions.  Eventually the free agent tusks were done using this guide too.

There is some red armour on both creatures and I wanted that done before I got to their carapaces.

Base GW Evil Sunz Scarlet
Wash GW Carroburg Crimson
Drybrush GW Wild Rider Red

Dark Bluegreen Carapace

Base P3 Coal Black with a little black added
Wash GW Nuln Oil
Highlight 1 Drybrush Coal Black
Highlight 2 Lightly Drybrush P3 Trollblood Base

Somewhere around here I knew I had a long wait for washes to dry so I went and tore down the last on my lean-to, chopped up the waste and filled the bin (It’s overflowing and there’s still more waste!), and mowed the lawn.  I then went back inside and took my shoes off before remembering I needed to go to the shops to buy stuff for lunch.  Still, that’s the last of the responsible adulting that needed doing this weekend.

Living Bone Carapace & Claws/Nails
Base Mr Paint MRP-F059 Brown Grey
Pin Wash recesses with Brown Grey with a little P3 Umbral Umber mixed in
Drybrush Mr Paint MRP-F060 Dust Grey
Lighter Drybrush of Mr Paint MRP-F063 Bone White

Yellow Armour Rims
Undercoat White primer
Base P3 Mouldy Ochre (It’s got great coverage for a yellow)
Highlight P3 Cygnar Yellow

Yindij Light Brown Cloth

Base P3 Hammerfall Khaki
Wash GW Agrax Earthshade
Drybrush Ammo A.Mig-0620Dark Sand Dio Drybrush Paint

Black Armour
Base VMC 70.994 Dark Grey
Drybrush P3 Pig Iron, but not too heavy
Wash GW Nuln Oil

Claws/Toe Nails

Base P3 Cryx Bane Base
Drybrush P3 Hammerfall Khaki
Wash GW Nuln Oil

Leather
Base P3 Bootstrap Leather
Drybrush P3 Hammerfall Khaki
Wash GW Agrax Earthshade

Silver

Base VGC 72.053 Chainmail Silver
Wash Jan’s Magimix (See previous posts)
Highlight 1 VGC Chainmail
Highlight 2 VMA 71.064 Chrome

Gold

GW Retributor Gold

It was about 10pm so I called it a night there and hopped in bed for another chapter or two of Heretics of Dune.  I’m enjoying the series, but I kinda want it to end now.  I’ve come too far to not find out how it ends though.  I’m not convinced this whole book couldn’t have been a chapter, or a paragraph in the next book.  There’s time for it to surprise me though.