Dreadfleet Update 2! Lots More Pirate Painting...

This is a follow up to my previous post about swashbuckling, seafaring, fantasy-pirate-battling miniature wargame Dreadfleet, which I bought three days ago and feel like I've been assembling and painting ever since. As I said before, I am completely new to this type of game - in fact, I still have zero idea how to play it - and this is my very first time painting miniatures, so the learning curve is extremely steep. So, because it's such a massive project, I thought it might be fun to share my progress as I go.

Such as this new picture of my updated Black Kraken!...

To see many more completed ships and scenic elements, join me after the jump! I have seven ships done with just three to go!...



First some scenery though. I buckled and bought a few more paint options yesterday and touched up my castle with some new highlights. And as you can see, I'm photographing these on the "game board" now...

Perhaps my favourite scenic element, though, is this smaller castle built on the skeletal remains of a giant turtle...

I am sick of painting giant rocky skulls...

But this happy foursome was pretty fun...

Now on to the ships. This morning I managed to belt out this pale ghost ship, which was probably the easiest one so far due to the limited palette...

This is the skaven ship (they're rat people, right?). It is made of something fleshy and gross... not sure what's going on here...

This one is a favourite and was an absolute bitch to paint. Especially the sails which required a billion coats and still don't look great...

I've included another shot of this one - if you can't tell from the picture, there's an air elemental blowing the sail, and a two-headed fire elemental flying alongside...

These Egyptian guys had the most detail, but it was actually a pretty fun and easy one to paint...

And here's another angle on this one. The tiny blue and red triangles look impossible to paint but it's actually really simple because they're all raised, so your brush doesn't even touch the surrounding areas...

And this last one is a work-in-progress. It still needs a lot of touch-up work, but by this stage I was high on paint fumes and had super-glued my fingers together so I gave up...

And here's a (barely focused) group shot which should give you some indication of what the finished game is going to look like. A big step forward from the daunting box of plain grey parts that we saw a couple of days ago...

Going to take a break for a day or two, and I still have the two biggest and most complicated ships to go. So actually playing this thing is still a long way away. Getting there though!