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This is one of my Dreadnaughts. It is scratched built and made of paper cardstock. The same weight paper that you use for business cards. I got the plans from another site that deals mainly to the paper model side of the family, but they do have some plastic models as well. zealot.com. Some of the posters there are also involved in the 40K universe and visit this forum every now and then. It is amazing what can be done with paper. Some models are not cheap, considering the price of heavy paper and ink. Many models have 6 to 10 pages and some upwards of 40 pages. That is a lot of ink, even at a printers shop.

By the way, my model is mediocre compared to some of the other builds on this site.

I think you nailed the shape of the dread.

Aside from the smallest details, you've got all the elements.

The cables on the lower torso are missing but when I built this, I was just starting to make models out of cardstock. My plastic Dreads were awesome but I gave as gifts to my grandkids.

They can play the game but do not have the aptitude for detailing and painting. So they come to grandpa's house and with their smile "Can I have this Granpa" and of course, my pieces are slowly passing on to another generation. I enjoy making and painting the pieces. This dreadnaught has already left and been transferred to another Space Marine Unit.

wow. was he hard to build?

Lol read the OP, it says that it is somewhere between 6 pages and upwards of 40 pages. Yeah. It was hard.

I make some things out of cardstock when I want to proxy them, before deciding to buy the real model, such as Drop Pods. Those are only 3 pages and they still took me a couple hours apiece, so I bet the dred took this guy forever, right silveroxide?

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:Lol read the OP, it says that it is somewhere between 6 pages and upwards of 40 pages. Yeah. It was hard.

I make some things out of cardstock when I want to proxy them, before deciding to buy the real model, such as Drop Pods. Those are only 3 pages and they still took me a couple hours apiece, so I bet the dred took this guy forever, right silveroxide?

Actually this was the easy version. Only one page for the body and two pages for the add-on weapons If you want to build the hard one here is a pic of the Dreadnaught, Brother Charon. You can find the download at Zealot in the sci-fi section, third page. This is not a games piece since it is about 4 times the size of the GW Dreanaught, but it is one heck of a display. It comes in Blood Raven, Ultramarine and White to make your own design. I have yet to attempt it.

Nice
amazing that you can do that with paper though i do beleive i do not have the patience.
congrats well done

Paper modelers amaze me....... I have seen the most intricate details done with paper. It really is a whole 'nother art form in the modelling hobby.

The dread looks good. The second one looks AWESOME! I will probably never get up the ambition to tackle something like that, but I enjoyed seeing it!.

If you can do it in plastic, you can do it in Paper or transfer to styrene and do it. But that Blood Raven Dread humbles me.