Dreadfleet Complete!

 

Dreadfleet is done and it is the first major project that I have completely finished in quite some time. I get tired of painting minis from the same army over and over so I tend to jump around a lot when there isnt some sort of deadline I have to meet such as a tournament. Now I can finally play a game of Dreadfleet as it is meant to be played. Fully painted! Start to finish I have been working on this project for just over a month, with a couple distractions and painting roadblocks slowing progress along the way. It was a real grind to finish the Bloody Reaver and the Bone Hydra but as I have realized with all of my projects, if I finish everything except a model of two and move on, I will probably never finish those models.

On to pictures!

 Here we have all of the painted piece together in one nice family photo. For those who arent really aware of this game, the game also consists of several different cards, dice, and a really nice rules/backstory book that I haven't included here.

 

 Shipwreck terrain.

 Islands. Of course, as with everything GW, there are tons of skulls.

 Sea Monsters. (left to right) Leech Worm, Sea Giant, Bone Hydra. These guys occasionally pop up in games to try and ruin your day.

 Next up we have the templates. While many people have painted beautifully colorful templates and tokens for the game which are super cool, I kept mine deliberately simple for two reasons. The first was simply to save me loads of time on painting the templates. The second was that I wanted to make the templates look more like tools for the game rather than part of it if that makes sense.

 

ruler

 turn template

 The Grand Alliance ready for pirate battles. (Left to right) Golden Scimitar, Seadrake, Heldenhammer, Swordfish, and Grimnir's Thunder.

 And of course the Grand Alliance cogs...baby versions of the ships

 The Dreadfleet and all it's undead glory. (left to right) Skabrus, Shadewraith, Bloody Reaver, Black Kraken, Curse of Zandri

 Dreadfleet cogs...more baby ships(which actually if you look at how big the large ships are these are about the size of your typical sea-going vessel)

Next up are some individual shots of all the ships. If you want to see the ships in more detail check out my other posts with the label "Dreadfleet"

The Dreadfleet

 The Skabrus- The undead Skaven ship

The ship is the carcass of a dead Leviathan filled with cannons Skaven ingenuity at its finest

The Curse of Zandri- Tomb King Ship

A giant Egyptian style boat complete with a skeleton slave army to row the massive thing, a pyramid, and gigantic living stone guardians. Order yours today...they are selling fast

 The Shadewraith-Ghost Ship

The flying Dutchman pilots this thing around, scaring the folks of Bikini Bottom

The Black Kraken-Chaos Dwarf Mechanical ship

Captain Nemo and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea meets Dwarf  fantasy technology

 The Bloody Reaver-Vampire Ship

For those on-the-go vampires who just dont want to leave their castle behind

The Grand Alliance

 The Heldenhammer- Empire Ship

Lets put a giant Stone Cathedral on the back of a ship and call it a day

The Swordfish- Pirate Ship

Just your average ship...only 50x the size and with a giant blade on the bow

 

The Flaming Scimitar- Araby Ship

Neat ship with summoned Genie/demon things helping you out.

The Seadrake- High Elf Ship

Pretty tame compared to some of the other Dreadfleet ships, with a high elf twist

 Grimnir's Thunder-Dwarf Ship

Giant iron Paddlewheeler festooned with cannons and a hefty armor value. The space marine of the sea

 Sea Monsters

And some close ups of the Bloody Reaver

 To give you an idea of how big this ship would be in real life....Its got an entire castle on it

I dont know where they found trees tall enough to make those masts

 A ship made out of the wrecks of ships...Awesome!

Well that was a lot of photos and was a hefty project. What will the next big project be? Who knows....