Space Marine Dreadnaught

It's finally time to finish my last Space Marine model from the Assault on Black Reach box (not considering the captain which I wont be playing with due to much better HQ choices), the big and chunky Dreadnaught! 

He's big and mean, but thankfully it's only one model, so effectively it didn't take me that long to paint... :) Several months ago he was put together, based with some sand and spray painted black. The first step was to get to work on the metal bits (which there are quite many of) and paint them Boltgun Metal / Leadbelcher. 

This was followed by a layer of Macragge Blue. The paint was thinned down quite heavily and applied in at least 3-4 layers to give a nice smooth finish...

 Then all metal parts were washed with Bedab Black and all tubes were painted red (Mechrite). The base was also painted using a few heavily thinned down layers of Scorched Brown.

The remaining metals bits were painted using Dwarf Bronze, while the skulls were first painted grey, then white and finally washed with a thinned down black wash...

 I opted not to do any free hand painting on this guy and instead used a few decals for two Ultramarines symbols and a skull...

Finally, the base and feet+legs were drybrushed with Calthan Brown and Bleached Bone. Additional details were finished and the whole model highlighted with Ultramarine Blue. Finally I had a go with some weathering on the armor, drybrushing/dabbing some Leadbelcher randomly over the model...

Although the model is still missing the last bit of weathering (and maybe some highlights), I will leave it for now and come back to the model once I have gotten a bit more experience with this. I do after all have some more armor and vehicles waiting for me, so stay tuned for some updates soon! :D