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I'm making a chaos dreadnought, but the model which gw sells look insanely stupid as well as space marine equavalent (oh hell lets admit it THEY LOOK LIKE F*****N MAILBOXES). After a while got an idea to use penitent engine for the job. It looks cool and its agility fits well in my slaanesh army

thing I would like to know anout petinent engine
1. is it platic model?
2. How big it is?
3. what kind of parts it includes?

I'm also interested about buying single parts like heads, but I dont know where to get them (There are battlewagon and bitzbox but are these places reliable?)

Here's some consept art:

It is a great pile of metal of a model, about the same size as space marine dreadnought. I don't know about parts, hope that someone else knows more about that.

Its all metal and will sap your will to live when putting it together. Maybe try FW they have some wonderful dreads!

Grandmaster wrote:Its all metal and will sap your will to live when putting it together. Maybe try FW they have some wonderful dreads!

Isn't resin just as bad? I mean, you still have to use that glue, which instantly bonds to skin but takes forever for anything else.

I suggest you dig through your bitz box and break out the green stuff. Have you ever bought spawn or possessed? They have great parts for conversions.

BTW, if you hate the GW dreads, what do you expect a dread to look like?

Dreads look okay in my opinion. But their looks could be improved so I'm interested to see this unfold.

Masaioh wrote:Isn't resin just as bad? I mean, you still have to use that glue, which instantly bonds to skin but takes forever for anything else.

That gives me a great idea... they should just make models out of skin.

It would be really easy to cut and glue. Some parts of models wouldn't even need to be painted!

yup ALL METAL. Back when GW still sold bitz I bought the legs for a deamon prince conversion I did. Little taller then a dred I think. Good luck on your idea

Masaioh wrote:

Grandmaster wrote:Its all metal and will sap your will to live when putting it together. Maybe try FW they have some wonderful dreads!

Isn't resin just as bad? I mean, you still have to use that glue, which instantly bonds to skin but takes forever for anything else.

I suggest you dig through your bitz box and break out the green stuff. Have you ever bought spawn or possessed? They have great parts for conversions.

BTW, if you hate the GW dreads, what do you expect a dread to look like?

FW's dreads look a lot better compared to the GW ones (they cost a bit), but they are still boxy and I want my dread look like an agile cc beast. Also with a closed box you cant really see the driver and feel it's anger and pain.

Masaioh wrote:

Grandmaster wrote:Its all metal and will sap your will to live when putting it together. Maybe try FW they have some wonderful dreads!

Isn't resin just as bad? I mean, you still have to use that glue, which instantly bonds to skin but takes forever for anything else.

The plus side is its a lot lighter so the strain on the joints is a lot less. Ive made 3 FW dreads and all have remained in one piece through many years of gaming whereas my pinned, glued Penitent keeps on trying to destroy its self - evil model.

Whereas http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/emperorschildren.htm mmmmmmm

I was also wondering how to add heavy weapons (like multi melta and plasmacannon) to the dread, but I dont want to lose any of those fierce cc arms penitent engine has. Maybe optonal weapons can be added on top the the "driver" by magnets?