Dreadtober. A Sad End for NafNaf

Yes it has been a sad (and frustrating) end to my dreadtober project this year.


You may have noticed a distinct lack of progress posts after the build was completed and painting should be taking place. Sadly it is not through any blogging procrastination or furious painting getting in the way of posting. The truth of the matter is the dreadnought is pretty much ruined and all the work I had built up has gone to waste. Overly dramatic? Yes but I am feeling pretty blue about the whole thing. Enough self pity NafNaf! Tell us what the deal is?? Well I was over the moon with the build and cracked on with priming the next day after my last post. It was a nice, warm and non humid autumn day and perfect I though for priming my model. I got cracking and sprayed the dread, along with the 2 apothecaries, with my army painter silver primer rattle can. I left them to dry in the garage whilst I cracked on with other things, but when I came back.... Disaster! The primer on the dread had gone seriously wrinkly, and the entire surface was covered in little rough waves that was beyond sanding, scrubbing or any other method of salvage. Oddly the apothecaries avoided most of the wrinkling, with only a little here and there, so I can actually use them and attribute it to battle damage, sadly the dread is not so. Below is the pic I posted on twitter and a couple of forums when I was desperate for some method of salvage before I had to strip the whole thing in dettol.

 

I received some great advice and tips, and plenty of commiserations and similar stories of woe from other people but sadly it was beyond repair and into the dettol it went. I managed to break both legs at the plasticard joints while trying to remove it from the base which is doubly frustrating, but the whole thing is now soaking in the stripper waiting for a good toothbrush scrubbing to (hopefully) remove all that wrinkly primer. I am hoping (probably in vain) that the greenstuff work I did will not be ruined, but going from past experience I am fairly sure it will be gone when I take start scrubbing.

Sadly after this whole episode I have not really done much of anything else hobby related (as well as still being busy with house sorting stuff now we are settling in after the move) as I felt (and still do) a little deflated. I have treated myself to a couple of new toys to cheer myself up however, so look for some posts soon as I crack on with finishing building them both. I might do a little painting work on La Danse Macabre too to have a clean break from the Space Wolves for a little bit, although I am still excited to work on them again soon (once the minor blues departs ;) )

Just want to say thanks to Joe for organising the whole dreadtober thing this year. He has done a cracking job collating everyones projects, as well as adding some really cool articles to help us along the way to finishing. Great stuuf dude, and if any of you have not checked out the dreadtober posts over on Joe's broken paintbrush blog pronto and soak in all the dreadnought glory :) NafNaf