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I dug up an old dreadnaught i had painted YEARS ago and in spirit of me just starting an ork army i thought of converting it into what i would imagine to happen if a band of our favorite bloodthirsty green skins got the chance to loot a space marine Dreadnaught!

I was thinking of a shoddy paint job with splashes of red paint because "RED ONES GO FASTA!" of course

If i have some extra ork models i was thinking of setting one up to look like hes halfway in it

Of course this project would be purely for the fun of it

Anyone have any tips, suggestions, or thoughts on this project? Any input is welcome!

Oh! and of course i'll take pics and upload when im done no matter how much of an average painter i am!

I think the half-in idea is good but how will you do it? I would have him as if he was pushing the sarcofagus open from the inside or make it look like he is closing it. I think that this will make a great display piece and should give you and your opponent a good chuckle. Hope you can use this and good luck .

CLV

Replace once of the weapons, or completly scratch build one.
Giant chainsaw arm perhaps?

Theres some great pictures of this kind of the thing in the gallery... check it out for some inspiration. It's definitely a cool idea, you just gotta go crazy with the gubbins and weapons. I like your splashed red paint idea too.

I would love to make it look as rag tag as possible but idk if i have many extra orky parts laying around (just started)

I'll check out the gallery for some looted ideas though! i might get a bitz box or something to help me out but i still have a ton of orks to paint and assemble so i'll get you some pics of it asap

This is a Dreadnaught I converted into a Big Mek for my army. The pictures are from the early stages of building, unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the finished product. Basically I made it look like he ripped out the sarcophagus and climbed inside.

"I dunno if youz gonna fit boss"

"SHUT YER YAPS AN' PUSH 'ARDER!"

WOW that looks awesome! i love the power line things on the back! Thanks for the ideas! :]

@ miles982.
Man that is %$*! sweet,I love seeing conversions like yours,makes me love Orkz even more.

Duuuude that is such an awesome build. I can picture the dread hobbling along with the mek inside shouting profanities at the top of his voice, all guns firing and the claw flailing madly XD

I thoroughly enjoyed your conversion. If you don't mind, I am gonna post up my version of a Looted Deff Dread using a 'Uman Dreadnaught like you did. I believe I found your Dreadnaughts 'Ealous brother Grim grabbin 'is own dreadynaught. Again, excellent job on your conversion I look foward to seeing the final product.

-Cheers

You should look up jamsessioneins dred he made. I bet youll get some inspiration from that one.

nice build there.

i would get rid of the melta nozzle and put the shoota's in its place though.

For maximum GRIMDARK, impale the former occupant of the Dread on top of something.

Doctor Optimal wrote:For maximum GRIMDARK, impale the former occupant of the Dread on top of something.

Like the end of the Dreadnought CCW or something. Also The first dreadnought posted here would look much cooler as a meganob




-Orkishly

If you're going to have them getting into the Dreadnought, maybe have a mek boy around to fix it up so that the Ork would be able to use it instead of it standing around. Or if that isn't good, maybe have the mek boy attaching some random pieces of metal to it to make it look more Orkish.

Me and some friends recently scratchbuilt some killakans using 4 armies worth of bits boxes, some of the more used parts from ork sprues you could use are :

- The stormboyz jetpack top with the grot steering, makes a really good controller and can easily be slotted/jammed in a dread/kan as an operator,
- The stormboyz Nob powerklaw, makes a pretty mean klaw with a little modelling,
- Any mechanical parts from the bikes/trukks such as exhausts, gears and engines
- Anything sharp/spikey/orcish from any sprue will nicely hide any 'uman details you might have left on the base model
- Get some Greenstuff and link as many mechanised parts as you can with wires/cables

Hope this helps, and there's a part on almost any sprue that you can use. (We used Sentinels, Marine bikers, Tau Crisis Suits and Leman Russ sponsons amongst others)

Doctor Optimal wrote:For maximum GRIMDARK, impale the former occupant of the Dread on top of something.

n0t_u wrote:If you're going to have them getting into the Dreadnought, maybe have a mek boy around to fix it up so that the Ork would be able to use it instead of it standing around. Or if that isn't good, maybe have the mek boy attaching some random pieces of metal to it to make it look more Orkish.

Sedai wrote:Me and some friends recently scratchbuilt some killakans using 4 armies worth of bits boxes, some of the more used parts from ork sprues you could use are :

- The stormboyz jetpack top with the grot steering, makes a really good controller and can easily be slotted/jammed in a dread/kan as an operator,
- The stormboyz Nob powerklaw, makes a pretty mean klaw with a little modelling,
- Any mechanical parts from the bikes/trukks such as exhausts, gears and engines
- Anything sharp/spikey/orcish from any sprue will nicely hide any 'uman details you might have left on the base model
- Get some Greenstuff and link as many mechanised parts as you can with wires/cables

Hope this helps, and there's a part on almost any sprue that you can use. (We used Sentinels, Marine bikers, Tau Crisis Suits and Leman Russ sponsons amongst others)

Great ideas, gonna implement some of them.

BTW, its Ork with a K in warhammer 40k. Orc with a C is fantasy.