Dreadfleet

I've put the Thundertusk on hold, sort of. I'm painting it sloooooowly so that I can do a great job.So, instead I am painting up the Dreadfleet. game, put out by Games Workshop. Not going to go into a lot of details but it's a sea faring pirate game set in the Warhammer world. The game play is fun, fairly easy, and has lots of room for strategy.




I'm also using this game to get my 6 year old into miniature painting and modeling. He's been so excited to put models together, paint them, and play the game.

We've (my son and I) unboxed the game, put all the models together, put an undercoat on some of them. The ships that need to be painted before assembly have just been snapped together and not glued. Also, we've not put the sails on any of the ships wanting to paint them seperately and put them on the ships after they are painted.

To see which one I painted first I took the ship cards (each ship has it's own stat card) shuffled them, and drew one. So, the Curse of Zandri is my first ship. Taken from GW website:

Even by the standards of the Undead fleets of Nehekhara, King Amanhotep's flagship the Curse of Zandri is a strange and wondrous craft. It is propelled through the waters by hundreds of skeleton oarsmen, undying soldiers whose strength is drawn from the tides of magic so that they will never tire in their task. Along the flanks of the Curse are massive statues of the Nehekharan gods, given unlife in order to hasten the demise of their prey. Gigantic Screaming Skull Catapults line its decks, ready to rain shreiking death onto the decks of Amanhotep's enemies, and eight-foot stakes of sharpened dragonbone shoot out from the triangular apertures in its flanks as the Curse draws near to its prey.

So here's my progress so far on this ship:

More to come soon enough.