Heresy Era Thousand Sons - Contemptor Dreadnoughts painting in process

I've had these assembled and primed for a couple weeks now but just got around to getting a little paint on them and snapped a few pics (black primed models don't photograph particularly well).

I decided I'd do one 'furioso' style with twin DCCWs and one with a single DCCW and a magnetized weapon arm to take advantage of the upcoming (at the time) alternate weapons. Since then Forge World has released/put up for pre-order a number of other options that I'll be picking up at some point in the future. For now a twin linked Lascannon should do the trick!

  

For the twin DCCW variant I wanted to pose it in a dynamic running pose to show it has Fleet, and I was really pleased with the options the Contemptor kit gave me. The model has joints at the ankle, knee, hip, waist, torso, shoulder, elbow and wrist, so it could be posed pretty much any way I could imagine. I went with a storm bolter in the left fist, and a heavy flamer in the right, and posed it such that it appears it is thrusting the right arm out prior to unleashing a gout of flame over its opponents.

  

The ranged variant I built with a bit more of a static pose, as though it is bracing itself to fire the Lascannons. Overall the models were a blast to assemble and thus far I'm enjoying painting them quite a bit. I am going with a mirrored paint scheme on the two of them though at the moment all I've done is block in the alternating shoulder and knee pads. Further pics as progress allows!