Dreadtober Week Five

"Almost there, almost there ..."

Like Red Leader in the Death Star trench, I am tantalizingly close to finishing my dreadnought.  The final Dreadtober post will go up today and I will be too busy with kiddos Halloween tonight so here are some quick new pictures hopefully in time to make the final update.

Dreadtober Week Four

Tales from the Dreadside

Boy am I glad there are five weeks in October this year.  Sliding in at the last minute with an update for tomorrow's weekly Dreadtober check in.

Dreadtober Week Three

Dreadtober rolls on, shredding painting days off the calendar with it's time-space continuum rending assault cannon...

Dreadtober TBT

This Contemptor was the first dreadnought I've painted.  When I was younger I always went for space marine tanks and I've only started buying dreads in the last few years.  The painting was finished in the spring but I just recently figured out how to use decal solvents to put the last touches on the model.  IMHO, that makes these the perfect pictures for some Dreadtober throw back Thursday action (I'm only several years late on this trend).

Lancelot Links

Cadian Shock Chimp

Some more highlights of the Imperium of man in blog form:

Death of a Rubricist -  great blog that's been around for years with lots of fascinating articles about narrative campaigns, miniature conversions, and painting.  One of my favorites is periodic entries set in the "Nova Terra interregnum" which is a big shared universe campaign for various gaming clubs set during a sector wide rebellion in M35.

https://apologentsia.blogspot.com/

Oldhammer 40K - another real treat to read, lots of interesting revisiting of old rules systems, models, and fun Rogue Trader and 2nd edition battle reports.  This guy is a really good painter as well and he also does plenty of modern miniatures as well.

http://classicastartes.blogspot.com/

#DadGoals

Last Saturday the day I've been waiting for basically since my son was born finally arrived.  We played our first game of Warhammer 40,000.  Technically we played Kill Team, but it was his first miniatures games on a real table with scenery.  Starting a few years ago we played Heroclix as super-heroes were the easiest hook into gaming.  Last year Betrayal at Calth came in handy as more than just the source of 30K miniatures, it was the first in-universe GW game we played together with miniatures.

Dreadtober Week Two

When Will Then Be Now?

Alright now that I've filled in my pictures of the project's start and last weeks progress we can emerge from the time-stream (hopefully without the former governor of California naked one-knee kneeling in a coruscating blue globe of energy) in the present with a picture of this week's painting.  I want to get an update in tonight since the main Dreadtober site updates with all the hobby progress on Fridays.

Lancelot Links

Dystopian Space-Chimp

In previous posts I've been hyperlinking the names of other blogs but so far I have not been able to solve the riddle of making that text appear different to indicate it's linky-ness.  Also if you read this on your phone you won't see the blog links that run to the right of the posts.  In case any of the hypothetical readers want to check out all the great projects on the main Dreadtober site:

                                                  http://dreadtober.blogspot.com/

One of the organizers of Dreadtober has run an amazing 40K and 30K blog for years that is also worth a look:
                                                  http://mordian7th.blogspot.com/

Dreadtober Week One

Part The Second

Technically Week One of Dreadtober was last week, but since I just invented this blog on Sunday I'm still back filling a little bit.  If you are one of the what I still assume to be imaginary readers of this blog, you should really take a minute to head over to the Dreadtober site and check out all the awesome models people are working on.  It gives me a very positive feeling about the hobby I love to see so many people participating.  Growing up as a classic rock fan Rocktober always followed Zeptember, but I think Dreadtober may be crushing Rocktober in it's dreadnought sized power fists.

Dreadtober Week One

Part the First

Now that we got some origins out of the way, onto to the pictures of the models!

Origin Stories

or How It All Got Started

Hello, Everyone... or more realistically no one since this is a new blog about an already niche hobby.  Nonetheless for the sake of future back scrolling I will explain the whys of this venture a little bit.  I have enjoyed reading comic book and gaming blogs since they first became popular in the early aughts.  Having been a fan of the main blog for years, I wanted to participate in Dreadtober, a subsidiary collaborative modeling and painting project of the the awesome Mordian 7th blog.

The Mordian 7th author was gracious enough to include me in the project even though I didn't have anywhere to post updates of my dreadnought WIP.  However, the more I thought about it, I believed I had grokked the essential elements of all the blogs I have read and loved over the years.  I have been fortunate enough to have enjoyed 30 years of adventures in the highs and lows of comic books and miniature collecting.  Also, I am a super wordy person who enjoys the long way to tell a story, and now that my children are in elementary school for at least seven hours a day, the potential time to bore others with my tales of gaming and collecting via the magic of the tubes and wires of the Internet.