Flamekebab's glacially-paced log

[Flamekebab]

Minis have been on hold for a bit whilst I whipped myself and the GCE Kommittee until GCE 2.0 got out the door.
My baby daughter is growing fast and GCE takes big chunks of concentration time - I figured that I want that project to a good state now because as she grows I'd rather that time goes to her. I like my projects but she's a bigger priority than multi-year rulebook projects!

Now that GCE 2.0.1 is out (of course there were some mistakes, it's basically inevitable) I'm able to get back to short painting sessions when she's napping and the like.

I've got these two done. A Dredge Marine Tide Master and the Doctor of the Dredge:

That lad is a bit blurrier than I'm okay with so let's have him on his own too:

For some reason I thought the Tide Master was a standalone mini. Hmm. Might need to do the rest of the squad next, I guess!

 

[Flamekebab]

I've painted the rest of the squad but I'm not getting them out of the cabinet right now so instead you can have this tentacly lad (quoth a friend: "That is too many tentacles"):

He's Mezgike's Addicted Dredger 'B' if anyone wants him.

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

Tell your friend that there is no such thing when elder gods are involved.

 

[Flamekebab]

Here's the squad I mentioned earlier:

They're Dredge Marine Tide Masters.

Then I painted something much simpler, simply described as "Lord of the Dredge":

He's an older mini from that range and nowhere near as detailed which I appreciated. Got him done quickly.
Next in the queue is the Heavy Dredge Lord!

 

[Punktaku]

They’re like the 40k version of the crew of the Flying Dutchman from the Pirates movies.

 

[cainex1]

Seems to be a bunch of jovial chaps!

 

[Aulenback]

I am a fan of those dredge marine sculpts. So nice to see them printed and painted! Yours look lovely!

For a given value of love.

 

[Flamekebab]

Mezgike's Heavy Dredge Lord next. Not super keen on this one but scratch it off the list and move onto the next one:

 

[Flamekebab]

To illustrate how much heavy lifting the washes are doing:

A few more of the finished mini:

The model is the Rig Lord from Mezgike's Dredge range: https://mezgike.com/products/rig-lord-emissary-of-the-sunken-one-digital-download

I did print the crab but it didn't survive the cleaning process, but I quite like how the tufts turned out.

 

[Narflung]

Damn you paint so fast. Looking great.

 

[Wasteland]

I've painted the rest of the squad but I'm not getting them out of the cabinet right now so instead you can have this tentacly lad (quoth a friend: "That is too many tentacles"):
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He's Mezgike's Addicted Dredger 'B' if anyone wants him.

This is what happened to him: An encounter with an...Octalus (German title for Deep Rising; 1998):

 

[Flamekebab]

This time I've been painting a Daemon Prince with wings, or Mezgike's equivalent at least:

Abyssal dredge prince (Digital Download)

The flood continued. Fetid waters relentlessly rising and swallowing the imperial city. The storm hammered from above as the last remaining unit of defense cowered atop the recon tower. A crack of lightning revealed the black shape of a winged demon of the deep, landing upon them like an eagle...

mezgike.com

Here's some close-ups of details. I really like the tentacled creature that's part of his gun, and I decided to make the latest victim one of my Sons of Sonora (I need to get around to painting more of those - there's so many still to do...).

He's quite big, but pales next to Mthulus:

As you can see, I'm building up quite a number of these lads. Next up is a dreadnought and the one I call "snail guy". Whilst my printer is staying with a friend, I stopped by today to pick up a missing part for him (no idea what became of mine - I was processing a LOT of models when I was assembling these guys!).

After that I've only got one normal sized character left to paint, I think (Thalpior). A few more minis have been released but I'll have to get to those later. After Thalpior I've got to decide whether I should paint more infantry (I've got a load of standard troops - Dredge Marines and Rig Walkers) or to tackle some of the vehicles. I'm not doing the Knight yet (did I mention I printed a knight?!).

What do you think I should do next? Troops or vehicles?

 

[cainex1]

More excellent colors.

 

[Flamekebab]

Let's start with Snail Guy!

Snail guy's snail:

He's Mezgike's Slime-ridden Exterminator (https://mezgike.com/collections/the-dredge/products/slime-ridden-exterminator-digital-download ) but I'll be using him as a Foul Blightspawn).

Then we've got Thalpior, the Typhus proxy (https://mezgike.com/products/commander-thalpior-dredge-legion-master-digital-download ):

Painting him I realised that so far not a single other mini in this army has helmet lenses. They all have weird heads, helmets, or something obscuring them!

 

[Flamekebab]

First dread done!

Dredge marine dredgenought (Digital Download)

The Dredge has become known as one of the most terrifying legions to surface in recent times. With dredge marines, rigwalkers and axe-wielding lords trudging onto the beach, now looms something even worse. The Dredge marine dredgenought. It's corroded, multi-eyed dome helm is a soul-sinking...

mezgike.com

This one I found heavy going, mainly because of the amount of metal. Something about painting metal with a brush puts me off.

Still, the end result isn't too bad and now I can get onto something else!

This was actually the last of the prepped Dredge minis on my shelf. I have loads more boxed up but the actual shelf is clear, which has been quite cathartic. There's a few bases of dredgelings that aren't primed and the other dredgenought design too, but as they're not prepped my brain is okay with it.

I'm toying with trying to paint a grot a day for a while next. I've got about thirty sitting about, although only ten are actually prepped.

 

[Biggle_Bear]

These dudes look crazy! I love them