Dreadtober 2026 - Necron 'Knight' - Construction Begins

Hello Dreadtober-teers!

For those not in the know, Dreadtober is an annual event held over the month of October where hobbyists pledge to do a dreadnought-sized model from the to-do pile and get it finished, starting 1st Oct and hopefully completing 31st Oct (Halloween/All Hallows Eve) with lots of progress shots and encouragement along the way :) and I like to partake in Dreadtober, and have done for a few years, a veteran of now 10yrs with a sum of six Dreads, two Imperial Knights, two Armiger Knights and a Necron Construct, now joined with this larger Construct!

Firstly I posed the MacFarlane Necron Warrior and glued into place the joints. I added the Scarab as a face, to differentiate from a 'huge Warrior' to something more akin of a walker-construct.

I really like the cyclops style single occulus sensor / eye. Very Deathmark-esque.

As a close combat alternative using magnetised forearm swap for a counts-as Reaper Chainsword / Thunderstrike Gauntlet close combat arm using more Tesseract Vault leftover cables. This will be the Knight Paladin close combat arm.

Or Twin Tesla Destructors to counts-as Avenger Gatling Cannon of a Knight Crusader

A top mounted gun to either counts-as a carapace Twin Icarus Autocannon array or act as the Questoris Heavy Stubber. Close up of the mandibles from a Triarch Praetorian torso.

Pieces mainly from the leftovers from an Obelisk Build using the Tesseract Vault bits. I will also use some bits to break up the shoulder silhouette too. Pipes and cables from Night Scythe kit.

I quite like the massed mechadendrites look of the close combat attachment.

To make a silhouette difference from a huge Warrior to a walker-construct, and echo design of an Imperial Knight somewhat, I cut down some Necron terrain bits into Greaves. The extra toes were placed in a cruciform design like Imperial Knights, again parts of the Tesseract cables. The knee guards from Triarch Praetorians, and a groin pterges/baltea from a Overlord cloak.

I then wanted the head to look different from a Warrior, firstly using the MacFarlane Scarab as a base, then adding spares from various Necron kits to make a construct face sensor cluster keeping the insectoid mandibles and the singular eye sensor.

As a Knight Crusader, the Rapid Fire Battlecannon using a Doomsday Cannon barrel from the Ghost Ark kit and attached using the remains of the MacFarlane Gauss Flayer, plus some suitable Necron bits.

In sub assemblies to aid painting, once painted I can affix the main weapon to the hand, keeping the left hand interchangeable between Knight Crusader and Knight Paladin builds. I'll add some more Necron themed terrain bits to the base from the newer Kill Team Tombworld set. Enjoying this foray into mad-cap construct building!

Cheers, Siph.

Dreadtober 2026 - WeeMen Participating for 10th Year - Necron Knight

Hello Dreadtober-teers! My favourite hobby event of the calendar year is back again for another instalment and I nearly missed it again! This year is yet again being run by Marc (Old School Gaming) so a massive thanks to him for keeping the hobby event alive for another year! And thanks to the founder Greggles, and Joe B and Todd (Sincain40K) and Joel (Mordian7th) for their contributions through the years too.

Dreadtober is an annual event held over the month of October where hobbyists pledge to do a dreadnought-sized model from the to-do pile and get it finished, starting 1st Oct and hopefully completing 31st Oct (Halloween/All Hallows Eve) with lots of progress shots and encouragement along the way :) and I like to partake in Dreadtober, and have done for a few years, a veteran of 10yrs with a sum of six Dreads, two Imperial Knights, two Armiger Knights and a Necron Construct!

This year, another Necron Construct, but this time a counts-as Necron Knight! A counts-as Paladin or Crusader Knight. It will be based on the MacFarlane Necron Warrior Toy

And a few inspirations

#dreadtober2026 #dreadtober

Adeptus Custodes - Adeptus Astra Telepathica - Sisters of Silence

Hello All, thanks for dropping by. This week's offering to the paint gods is a long overdue squad of Sisters of Silence. These were once the militant arm of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica and were referred to internally within the records of the Adeptus Terra as the Departmento Investigates. They are an all-female order of Imperial Witch Hunters and soulless psychic Nulls tasked with hunting down renegade psykers and other psychic threats across the galaxy. They also help to enforce the Imperium's rigid laws on the use of psychic powers.

On the battlefields of 40K, Custodes armies suffer from low model count and expensive basic troops, thats where the Sisters of Silence help out. These Bolter armed Sisters are the cheapest variety for back field Objective holding.

• Prosecutor Squad: Equipped with Umbra-pattern boltguns for balanced, longer-range fire and defensive screening.
• Vigilator Squad: Armed with executioner greatblades for heavy melee damage.
• Witchseeker Squad: Fitted with flamers for close-range, multi-target assaults and clearing objectives.

Sister Superior, with face shield and lots of Purity Seals

I quite enjoyed painting these Sisters of Silence with dark armour to contrast the accompanying Custodes gold, but linking with the golden pauldrons, resulting in Judge Dredd-esque uniforms which is nice and fitting... They have a final finish of Colbalt Blue colourshift over the dark armour to give a psyker-Null witchery vibe.

I also enjoyed the fur - really easy, Rhinox Hide, with drybrushed Mournfang Brown, Karak Stone, Ushabti Bone and a lower section wash of Agrax. Quite effective. 

Cheers, Siph (5pts)

Legio Astorum - Reaver Titan Carapace Warp / Vortex Payload Missile

Hello All, thanks for dropping by. I have added a carapace option to my Forge World Reaver Titan. Since 2008 release only one carapace option exists, which as a hobbyist and a Titan Owners Club member who battles these regularly using AT28mm rules, many options exist at AT scale so I bought an alternative 3D sculpt for one Warp Missile / Vortex Payload Missile rack!

For reference here is the AT official Warp Missile

I got the 3D print manufacturer to scale it appropriately so the rack fits the carapace plate the same dimensions as the AT version, I think its originally too small like the same 3D print of the carapace Vulcan Mega Bolter, so it was scaled 110%-120% to fit correctly.

Painted my usual Astorum colour scheme

The 3D print had a plain nose cone which do the nature of 3D prints was not symmetrical and lop sided, so it was removed and a more archaic nose cone was manufactured (*cough - Scale75 paint pot lid) to suit a Warp Missile or Vortex Payload... the cap makes a 'radiation trefoil' when viewed from the front, I added a half round bead to cover the flat centre. I added detailing gubbins to the rather plain missile rack itself, with targeting sensors and vents.

The missile was also too plain for such a forbidden technology, so I raided the bits box for gubbins and pipes and the like and decorated the upper surfaces of the missile body.

I also painted pseudo 'window' plexiglass sections writhing with forbidden energies within, suitable for Warp displacement technology of the dreaded Vortex Payload. And an official looking seal - probably says 'Do not open on pain of death by the Emperor' or something suitably High Gothic and authoritative!

Importantly, during Titan Walk games of AT28mm, once fired, the missile can be removed from the rack to show it has been fired and no-longer available. During the main Titan Walk in July, it did sterling work successfully firing and hitting targets both days, causing D3 plus one, S10 auto hits bypassing Void Shields on any unfortunate Titans under the small blast template. Nice to do some damage on castled up shielded Warlords.

Cheers, Siph. (5pts)

Relictors Chapter Space Marines - Dreadnought Drop Pod

Hello All, thanks for dropping by. A rather wonderful item scratchbuilt by my mate Goddenzilla (Kaiju County Blog) had this lying around and when I bought 18 Dreadnoughts from him, he also offered up a scratchbuilt Dreadnought Drop Pod! 

Size wise its perfect for my many Castraferrum 'boxnoughts' and even Contemptor Dreadnoughts.

I painted it to match my many Space Marine Drop Pods and based to match my own armies, its a great piece of hardware or terrain. Constructed mainly from plasticard, Goddenzilla has done a superb job recreating the Forge World Dreadnought Drop Pod!

Hazard stripes so they don't charge out and trip over!

Thanks Goddenzilla.

Cheers, Siph (10pts)

Adeptus Titanicus - Terrain and Scenery - Imperialis Spires #2

Hello All, thanks for dropping by. Something a little different, smaller titan stuff. I had a number of sprues of the Imperialis Spires withing the Sector Boxset, so I got to work making some bigger 'churches', as the original set although looking great, didn't add much practical line-of-sight blocking.

The original spire has been added to a larger base to give more height.

A large central spire with two smaller wings

A new Spire with different coloured tiles

And lastly one of the original Spires added to another base unit.

Cheers, Siph (5pts)

Relictors Chapter Space Marines - Terminator Chaplain w/ Storm Shield

Hello all, thanks for dropping by. After a summer of Titans it seems, a return to my Relictors was needed. The newest version of Terminator Chaplain with a Crozius Arcanum and a Storm Shield, hopefully quite durable!

A lot of detail on the Storm Shield, luckily it could be painted in sub-assemblies and glued together after painting.

I chose Chapter colours for the right grey Pauldron rather than keep pauldrons black. Links to the mainly grey armoured Chapter scheme.

A beefy Crozius Arcanum, with a lot of gold bling and trim. And every Chaplain loves litanies on oaths of moment and purity seals!

I love the skull faced visage, similar to the original metal Terminator Chaplain sculpt of the 1990's.

Cheers, Siph (10pts)

Legio Astorum - Warhound Titan - Another Custom Armament - Lucius Melta Lance

Hello Titanseers and all, thanks for dropping by. I've added another custom armament not available from Forge World, but exists in Adeptus Titanicus so I turned to fellow co-Blogger Lord H to print me a Warhound Melta Lance. This time different from the AT version, and akin to the larger Reaver Titan Melta Cannon. Previous version which matches the AT version somewhat can be seen HERE.

Here it is before painting, i've drilled out the arm and cut it down to match my magnetised arms. Also glued the hose connectors from the Warhound Titan kit I had spare. I must say, the heat guard cowling is a lot straighter than the resin cousin!

Here is the basecoats down, the heat cowling matches the Reaver version I have done.

And the finished product, Lucius armour version rather than Mars which is a nice touch, I will ensure my next Lucius has magnetised arms (Lucius 745 'Lupus Excelsior' has fixed arms).

And here it is fixed to 'Canis Victrix'

Cheers, Princeps Siph (5pts)