BLACKHAND'S Rifleman Dread Conversion and Dread shoulder molds

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**BLACKHAND**

Hey people, A combination of the Dread Arm conversion I just did, a new army I just started that will need two custom dreads and my birthday (I have been allowed to do whatever I wanted today, I chose modelling) has seen me convert and build two dread shoulder "blanks". Basically I sculpted left and right shoulders that are identical, cast a mold for them and can now cast as many shoulders as I need for new weapon systems, right handed CCW fists or anything else I can think up. So here is the process...

Step 1 - I took two dread arms, the always handy AoBR arms of course.

Step 2 - I carved them to pieces and rebuilt them to a simple block shape, obviously I skipped a few pics...believe me it was messy.

Step 3 - I then cast a mold of the two shoulder pieces and cast them in resin, came up with these. The reason they look like cheese is due to the age of the resin I used for this test run.

The end result is that I can now save a ton of time when doing Dread conversions, and I can build my two rifleman dreads to look similar...which is something my modelling OCD insisted on

I know its not a stunningly exciting post but I am pretty happy to have found a way around carving up set after set of Dread arms

Cheers

BLACKHAND

**MeanGreenStompa**

Nice and well done on the casting.

Love the rifleman dred.

**BLACKHAND**

Thanks Stompa,

I am pretty happy with how wide and squat he looks which I think is one of the iconic things about the Space marine dread. I don't care so much anymore about how they have no knees or proper hips, they still look mean.

Oh and in the one day since I posted this on dakka and my local clubs forum I have gotten 3 orders for right arm shoulders, looks like I wasn't the only one wanting to save on carving up Dread arms.

Cheers

BLACKHAND

**Gitsplitta**

Oh, that's beautiful Blackhand.... WOW!

That's far superior to my just sticking the guns on the sides of my dread! Wow.... really... just wow. I stand in awe... yet again.

Nice GS'd hand too by-the-way!

**whalemusic360**

Quite spiffy. What autocannons did you use?

**wolfshadow**

Very Nice work.

I love the look of the rifleman style dread.

**BLACKHAND**

@Gitsplitta - Thanks bud, if I could afford to buy a couple of Aegis defence lines I would have happily used the quad autocannons from them but... Instead I have gone this route, and TBH I am happy with the new shoulder molds anyway.

Oh and the GS hand is a sign of things to come......

@Whalemusic - Thanks WM, the autocannons are from the IG heavy weapon kit, people almost never use them so I have been able to scrounge all I need with very little trouble.

@Wolfshadow - Cheers! I am a big fan of the rifleman too, but then I am a Mechwarrior player from way back, as far as I am concerned Mech Commander 2 is the finest game ever made and is basically how a 40k game should have been built.

Cheers

BLACKHAND

**2PaintPots**

whalemusic360 wrote:Quite spiffy. What autocannons did you use?

I would guess that he used the autocannons from the Imperial guard heavy weapon team

**Monkeh**

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I BUILT MY DREAD!? Hahah, nice bud! I contemplated doing that when I was making my raider ven dread but decided I wouldnt have enough demand on my own for them. Awesome stuff dude!

**BLACKHAND**

I can still flick you a set when I eventually send those SM feet to you if you want

**wolfshadow**

[quote=BLACKHAND

@Wolfshadow - Cheers! I am a big fan of the too, but then I am a Mechwarrior player from way back, as far as I am concerned Mech Commander 2 is the finest game ever made and is basically how a 40k game should have been built.

Cheers

BLACKHAND

**Finch Claw**

Nice stuff.

**BLACKHAND**

@wolfshadow - Damn, now you are making me want to track down a copy and lose a weekend fighting the good fight

@Finch Claw - Why thank you sir!

**Draglide12**

Krow krow Krow Krow! I want a dread with guns like that now lol.

**The Fox Lord**

That's a good way to do this, gonna have to try this once I can afford the materials again.