First of the Capital ships for the current Dreadfleet project done! It’s the Seadrake, the High Elven ship. No guns, just bolt throwers, but they’re packing two proper large dragons as well. Always fun to see how different the experience on painting each of these…

Another small update. These here are the turn markers for the big ships. Just two of the many templates and markers in that boxed set.

Last but not least in our series of Dreadfleet ships, here is the Swordfish. Another classic design but lots of fun stuff going on on the sails and stark contrasts. The big fish guys on the mid mast look like they’re letting is know that…

Here’s another one of the more notorious and instantly memorable Dreadfleet ships – the Skaven’s Skabrus. It’s a huge, ugly corpse of a fish turned into a warship by ratmen! What’s not to like? 😉  The only thing I find a bit sad about this…

As a complete counter-point to the clean and neat high elven ship, we proceed to the Shadewraith. I have a bit of a connection to this one because it’s the ship I got to command in our review game (no, I haven’t played since then…

The High Elven Sea Drake is another visual highlight to me. Bright, elegant, different to human ships and with a very Fantasy twist in the shape of a dragon. In true High Elven form, there are no cannons on the ship but instead it’s all…

Next we got the flagship of the “good” side, the Heldenhammer with it’s shipwrecking automaton in the front. Lovely model and pretty much encapsulating what I enjoy about the Empire (or Warhammer as a whole). Pretty much grounded in familiar real-life concepts from history but…

Today’s capital ship is the steam-powered, airship launching dreadnought – Grimnir’s Thunder! I won’t pretend that I’m particularly fond of the new design concept that Dwarfs built EVERYTHING from metal or stone but in the context of Dreadfleet, this one fits in rather nicely (by…