Dreadball Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2022

It’s Sunday morning.  I’m between models looking at my To Do tray with no immediate inspiration so I go with the three purple fleshed guys.  They should be simple enough, and they’re already based and shaded.  They got a quick drybrush of GW Genestealer Purple.  I know what I want to do with the Nameless Bloodsuckers carapace, but he really needs his rusty metal doing next.  I’ve 3 other models that want rusting so I set him on one side to do with them, and finished off the two big purple guys, Krastavor and the Nameless Spawn.

Krastavor’s Black Metal
Base VMC 70.994 Dark Grey
Drybrush P3 Pig Iron (heavily on the parts that will end up Iron)
Wash GW Nuln Oil

Nameless Spawn’s Brown Armour
I was concerned about this looking like leather, so I tried something new here to try and make it look more like metal: I mixed some iron/silver in to the brown.  Not enough to take over.  Just enough to give it a sheen.

Base VMC 70.873 US Field Drab with a little Hataka Have Glass Grey FS36170 (it was in a dropper bottle and in front of me unused.  Hataka paints tend to be a bit thin for my tastes
Drybrush lightly P3 Pig Iron
Wash GW Agrax Eathshade
Drybrush P3 Hammerfal Khaki
Drybrush super lightly P3 Pig Iron

Iron

Base P3 Pig Iron
Wash Jan’s Magimix (see previous posts)
Drybrush P3 Cold Steel

Yellow Armour

Base P3 Mouldy Ochre
Highlight P3 Cygnar yellow

Green Glow

Undercoat with watery white (p3 Menoth White Highlight)
Undercoat/Base P3 Necrotite Green in the middle of the big light only
Base 2:1 P3 Yellow Ink : P3 Green Ink.  Apply a few coats as needed.  Splash a little outside the lines as glow.

Nameless Spawn’s Lighter Brown Cloth

Privateer press’s Hammerfall Khaki recipe from Forces of Mercenaries, as below

The red lights on the spider were just given a quick coat of GW Evil Sunz Scarlet.  The eyes were based P3 Coal Black and given a tiny dot of P3 Menoth White Highlight.  The fangs were painted with Menoth White Highlight.

It’s almost 4pm and they’re both done. I think I took a little time to play Diablo while some washes dried.

On to the rust.  This goes on the Nameless Bloodsucker, Grak, and both versions of Frank Burke.

Rust

Base P3 Pig Iron
Wash GW Nuln Oil
Paint and/or dab on P3 Typhus Corrosion to taste  Leave the iron showing through in variable amounts as you see fit
Drybrush GW Ryza Rust over the previous layer.  Go heavier and lighter in different places.
Drybrush P3 Pig Iron wherever you want a little shine showing through

It was while I was working on the next stage that my doorbell went off.  I wasn’t expecting anyone.  I had a friend who was supposed to pop around to grab something the weekend before so I could only assume this was him.  Nope.  Its an 8-10 year old boy with a plate full of cake to offer me.  I thought he was just offering me a slice, but it was the whole plate.  He’d come from next door and wanted his ball back from my garden.  He didn’t need to bribe me to get it, but it was very much appreciated!  They’re a polish family and there appears to be two different polish cheesecakes here, unlike anything I’ve had before.  The cheese part is usually very moist, but in this  the cheese part was dry like cake.  Google tells me it’s called Sernik and it’s made from dry cheese curds.

Does anyone know if there’s any polish (I assume they’re polish, but I could be wrong.  I know English isn’t their first language and they sound polish, but what do I know?) traditions about giving cake to neighbours at Easter, or did I just get super lucky and they’d baked more than they could eat?

Anyway, I didn’t eat it all right away.  I was in the middle of painting

Frank Burke’s Trousers

Base P3 Cryx Bane Base
Drybrush P3 Thrall Flesh
Wash GW Agrax Earthshade

Grak’s Flesh/Fur

Base P3 Gun Corps Brown
Wash GW Agrax Earthshade
Drybrush P3 Hammerfal Khaki (His beard didn’t have any detail to pick this up unfortunately)

Leather Belts

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

Grak’s Mouth Insides

Base P3 Midlund Flesh
Wash GW Caroburg Crimson

Grak’s Red Armour

Base P3 Skorne Red
Wash P3 Umbral Umber mixed with p3 Exile Blue
Pin Wash with the previous mix, with added P3 Coal Black
Careful brush highlighting was the used for all the highlights (Possibly the one and only time I’ll do this in this project!)
Highlight 1 was P3 Skorne Red
Highlight 2 was Skorne Red with some P3 Ember Orange
Highlight 3 with more Ember Orange added
Highlight 4 with some P3 Heartfire added

I called it a night there.   It was getting late, and I had cake to eat and a book to read.  The next morning I got back to it. The red may have been done Sunday morning.  My time stamps are lacking for this stage.

Grak’s Black Armour

Base VMC 70.994 Dark Grey
Drybrush P3 Sickly Skin
Wash GW Nuln Oil

I played a little Diablo while waiting for everything to dry thoroughly.  After lunch I got the airbrush out and varnished everything and applied a base coat and some highlights to 3 more models

Apparently, I’ve only room left for one image when I want two so I’m ending with a gallery.  At the end you can see the models I’ve been prepping.  They may look lightly zenithal primed, but I promise you, that’s black and grey paint in prep for black armour.  The final image is my To Do tray as of the end of the four day weekend.  Only 25 models left to go, many of which already have paint on.  This seems a lot more manageable.  There’s about 9 weeks left in spring so that’s about 3 models a week I’ve got to get done on average, and there’s more bank holidays to come too.

With my airbrushing all done by mid-late afternoon I threw myself back in to Diablo 3.  I’m now max level and I’ve completed the first 3 tiers of the season, unlocking 4 of my 6 set armour pieces..