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Built me 4 dreadz.

Got lego bitz for pullin off gunz, and putting on over fingz.

Still needz some paint! detailin? Wut sez you boyz?

Gonna have skorchaz, make run; *skorchy-skorchy-krunchy-kill*

New dread zippy, wif some boyz, and some kind of old killa kan fing? Grotz inside dat old fing, fer sure.

Big fer blockin da boyz wot hide behind em. More skare - you gonna wanna shoot dem and forget about da boyz, wut really kill ya.

-Gargazz

Dems mad kunvertin skillz. Gud wurk.

I like them alot,really good scratch builds,like to see them when you get some paint on them.

They look great .

Nice job, they look great..

Looks realy good,

Swbruni, your avatar is sooo freaky, im so scared of spiders and that made me jump puta my seat.

They rock ! Lets see em with some paint on.

Wow. I'm not really a fan of scratch-built models usually but hell, these are better than the GW DEff Dreads!!! And I bet easier to put together

Excellent work, though I think they need a little bulking up around the feet, it looks a little bi plain when compared to the effort you put in on the rest of the models.

Gargazz wrote:*skorchy-skorchy-krunchy-kill*

I lol'd.

Excellent builds. They look great.



Ghidorah

Its easy to build them in mass. Economy of scale. I sat down, figured out a basic design for each of the major components, and made scale drawings. Then I decided where I could encorporate alterations to the primary body work. Then I built things in a way which prompted randomness to occur. All cutting, no measurement... that sort of thing

In doing body work, especially the rivets: mass production is everything. I have my 4 primary chasis squares, and I just drill lines for the rivets. Then sit down and painstakingly rivet them all.

It makes the jobs a lot more boring to go through, but ultimately much faster. Critical for something, like my methodology of riveting, which requires basically no thought

I'll get to work painting soon. Thats where I hope to break the boundary between good and fething great. Currently considering: lots of decals, flames, rust, red, black, checkz, white, lightening bolts... that sorta thing.

We'll see. Summer is almost gone, and when its done: must finish degree in molecular genetics. No time for paint.


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And - painful admission. I did the feet at the very end. I had the posts for the legs, and the models totally assembled, and I was just exhausted and kinda lazy.

I think I'll take a breather and then tackle it.
Other criticism?

Honestly the only thing wrong with them is the feet ( as was previously stated) You did a great job on these. good work.

Nice work!

Considering they are only made from plasticard and some metal rod, with some paint and they will look better than the standard deffdread!

Great work!

Cheers,

Jack.

Awesome scratch builds! Good Work

Yeah difinately beef up the legs with hydrolics and such but out side of that HOLY CRAP THOSE ARE COOL!

Very nice scratch built but just add some hydraulics and pipes going to the legs or maybie some armour, but other than that looking really good!

Those are lovely! The only thing I could possibly suggest is that you put some more dynamics into the buzzsaws on the first one. (like teeth, damage,..)

yeah, actually: thats all coming out in the paint job.

I hate how the GW buzz saw is totally static. Its not buzzin or sawin anyfing when its sittin still!

My buzz sawz will put the saw in "I saw your dreadz coming, but they ran up so sawrprisingly fast"

Top notch scratchbuilds, looking forward to seeing these painted.

Out of curiosity, how much did they cost to make? (bearing in mind a GW Deff Dread is £30+)

again: economy of scale. I did keep rough track.

I estimate that if I bought all the materials to build a single dread, it would cost me around 30 dollars canadian.

However at the end of building it you'd be left with a lot of surplus.

Building 4 dreads probably cost me about 40 dollars.

When all is said and done I think I will have constructed 4 dreadz and 9 killa kans for well under 60 dollars.

The cost could, concievably, ballon really easily if you were wasteful with your plasticard. Its important to be precise and frugal, and always "do some figuerins" of how much you'll need, and how that translates into packages.

Just slightly more than a single GW metal dread.

However this does not factor into time. Building 4 of em, and the killa kans I'm building now, will probably end up taking almost 100 man hours.

These look SUPER rad!!! I wish I had that kind of skill it would save me TONS o money! Plus I agree I think these look better than the GW versions.

They're pretty awesome.

Dude this is awesome! So, you used mostly plasticard to build all that? Really cool model, inspiring actually.

Very nice work! Very nice work indeed

Nice Job!

Great work, dude.

Very nice! Ace scratch builds!

Nice work.

Those are freaking awesome! Makes me want to learn how to scratch build . . . but knowing me I would get half way through building the first thing and then get bored . . . the best I do is using a small hole punch to make rivets for things . . . works well, and and can really add character to things.

Can't wait to see the Killa Kans now . . . Burn 'em, Chop 'em, Stomp 'em!!!