u/CollectionPlastic882

Throwing up a pic of a sergeant because I thought the bionic leg and tactical rock combo looked cool, it's not a ferrus joke I just need more practice with faces (well half faces for us I suppose) before I give him a head. The real question is for those of you with experience with the dreadnought kits.

How interchangeable are the Redemptor and Brutalis kits? I got a brutalis dreadnought as part of the combat patrol sub but am wondering if I wouldn't like a redemptor more, are the arms easily interchangeable if i bought a gun arm from a bits store?

Also how did you guys go about the assembly? Are there many pain points? The instructions honestly look more like they are for an RC car than a warhammer model, did you just build it fully then paint it or sub assembly? If so how? The magazine suggests painting it in two halves but what do you mount the top half on? My current sub assemblies are with paper clips and a drill bit handle but I'm not sure that's gunna cut it for half a dreadnought.

Returning to the hobby I had as a kid, played 3rd-4th edition but the further I got through high school the further the hobby drifted away. I never stopped being interested in warhammer as a franchise, always played the video games and read the lore but the modelling side of the hobby fell to the wayside. Now as an adult in their 30s with how good the media side of warhammer has become I have decided (like a lot of people it seems) to jump back into the thick of it.

Man, have things changed....

There is so much information about the hobby now, looking back I was basically just painting from the pot and sniffing the glue as a kid compared to how it all works now. Wet palettes, paint dilution, sub assembly, removing mold lines like they weren't just part of the model lol. It was rough and the first time I actually sat down to paint I was hit with huge wave of dread realising how hard this is actually going to be.

A few months in now and figured I would post some pics just to engage with the community, I live fairly remote so there isn't any real hobbying around here. Getting back into it I decided to start with some marines just to make it a bit easier on myself, I've never really been a loyalist fan but the anti hero vibes of the iron hands fit well. Unfortunately they are also the faction that kinda relies heavily on conversion or kit bashing/ 3d printing to actually look the way they are supposed to but i don't think i would have been happy doing another chapter.

Decided to do a paint scheme similar to how the iron hands were in 3rd edition, hopefully these photos come out OK ive never posted anything to reddit before and I'm hoping they aren't compressed to shit.