Dreadfleet - The Flaming Scimitar

This has been the most complex of these Dreadfleet models, so far, and it really is a beauty.

I've painted it as well as I can manage yet it deserves better.

Games Workshop gives you  plenty to complain about nowadays but there are no complaints here.

It's an imaginatively sculptured delicate little craft.

Too delicate to take part in games, perhaps?

I've kept close to the colours suggested in White Dwarf 382 but simplified things a little.

Some of the washes seemed pointless and one actually spoiled the look and required a dash to the wash basin to get rid of it, smartish.

It's captained by 'the self styled Sultan of the seas, the Golden Magus', according to the rule book and is aided by elementals, djinns released from shattered jars when they are needed.

Here, she is carried through the waters by spirits of the deep as her sails billow with the breath of a Tempest djinn and the two headed fire efreet (close cousin to the Balrog?) wields its flaming scimitars and awaits enemy craft.

I am surprised at how good the main colour of the sails looks as it's 'Vomit Brown'.***

Purple and gold go well together too.

The detail on the sails deserved better than I could manage.

One problem I had was that the holes for the masts needed drilling out or filing a little.










*** Thought about it afterwards. The base colour is Vomit Brown but that only shows in he sail recesses. The main colour is Vomit Brown/Bleached Bone mix with Bleached Bone highlights.

I'll now do a few of the game tokens and scenery pieces before going back to Middle Earth.