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I've seen many showoff threads for diffrent factions, diffrent races, and scratchbulds, but I havent seen a specific model showoff thread, so I made one.


I will not start with the first Dread, sooooo...It's up to you, Dakka Dakka, give it your best Dreadnought (I know shameful pun... deal with it )

ill be the first one to post my dreadnought, its not the best but it is my first model I have painted and i just started painting a few days ago

This was my entry for the last dakka paint comp:



And here is one of my old school dreads waiting for a re-paint:

dude can you tell me what paint you used for the paper on that dread and did you use a wash over it?

I used Reaper paints for the paper/scrolls; no washes, but I made very thin mixes of my shadow and my highlight and just kept pushing and pulling in the appropriate direction.

So basically - base coat, then the writing in a dark brown, then the shadows and highlights (over the writing).

Overall it came out alright... the only part I really liked was the leg badge "mortis", but it's not clear at all in the photo.

great jobs, keep um coming!

great jobs, keep um coming!

Here's my ironclad.

Ootah wrote:Here's my ironclad.

This makes the God Emperor smile.

i like the oversized hammer, i like to think it weigs more than ur dreadnot

Ootah wrote:Here's my ironclad.

Now THAT is a seismic hammer The current one looks like some sortof drill, which makes no sense.

On topic: ill see if i can post a picture on my dreadnought (First ever model i have completely finished, besides doing the base).

Work in Progress. I combined the sorcerer bits left over from a Chaos Terminator Lord and an AoBR. I got a ton of great advice here about not "over-Chaosing" it. The paint is a test.

jgemrich wrote:

Awesome paint job

My CSM dread:

Here are some of mine







The loyalist dreads

The New Deff Dread

My slightly kit-bashed Deff Dred


Only primed in this pic

Ootah wrote:Here's my ironclad.

Why does it have such a wimpy hammer?

2 dreads I built mostly from scratch.

This is my Imperial Fists Ironclad:

Still a WIP and man its HARD to take pictures of a chrome mini that I havnt weathered lol

Black Templar Forge World Dreadnought. The arms are magnetized. His close-combat arm is the Iron Clad Seismic Hammer with Heavy Flamer because I think it looks cool. The other arm is a Forgeworld Plasma Cannon. The base includes hirst art blocks. I tried to give him a more dymic pose: 1 foot higher, turning slightly to his left, balancing on steps. No name, yet.









Followed by an Assault on Black Reach Dreadnought with close combat weapon and multimelta. Name is Blaze.







And here is one of the first Black Templar models (or any 40k for that matter) that I have painted. Shown with the Assault cannon and Close Combat arm, I can also load him out with a Forgeworld Plasma Cannon, Lascannon, Missile Launcher, Multi-Melta, Hurricane Bolter, Chainfist, or Seismic Hammer. His name is Raze.

There's some great stuff in this thread.

I must echo praise for jgemrich, your paint is crisp, unique, and very well done. Kudos!

General_Chaos wrote:The New Deff Dread

Nice paint work!!!

I'd really like to see one of these assembled WITHOUT the giant 80's shoulder pads...

Also does this kit come with only the one set of legs or does it have piston-style legs like before as well?

I much prefer the older classic look of the ork walkers ("true-style") to this newer more humanoid look and hope i can solve that by not using the shoulder pads and doing the legs like before.

Dread-Grot!

Awesome dreads so far... That super huge hammer is so damned cool.

Mr. T, I love your paint job man.

Awesome Dreads so far. But then again, they're my favorite thing


The mega hammer is awesome!