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or a card catalog in its leg armor, that would be rich

That's awesome can't wait to see more

I feel the book really adds to the librarian feel, no way to crit that. Is the book his 'rank badge'? I know in the old SM codices, each librarian class had a differrent symbol: hood, book, horned skull, etc...

As for the glowing orb: I've seen eldar minis where the player went either for a small ball (painted black with lightning over it), ligthning made from wire, and transparant balls with lightning painted on top; hope that helps!

great work, keep it up!

How about greenstuffing some lightning (with a thin paperclip skeleton) to represent some psychic powers around the hood, blade and fist?

Perhaps even add another small book above the horned skull on its left armour plate as well?

i like it exept the skull 0n his right shoulder looks like it has 2 crossoints for ears 0_o

Papaskittels wrote:i like it exept the skull 0n his right shoulder looks like it has 2 crossoints for ears 0_o

thats the librarians "logo"

They are probably french

Hey again all. Managed to get some more work done on the Libby Dread, and I think he's pretty much set as far as the conversion goes.

I got a little sick of seeing the same plastic dread base on all my dreads, so I decide to customize this one a bit more than normal. I used the base of my Storm Hawks Librarian as inspiration, so there would be a more cohesive theme to the leadership models in the army. Hopefully it works as well as I hope it will when painted!

Here's the final pics of the conversion. He'll be going under the brush pretty soon. I want to get some more work done on my Ork Lootas, but when I tire of them I'll be painting this guy and updating the blog here as well.

Enough blabberin', on to the pics...

Cool looks good
when you paint it would the whole modle be blue like reg libarians? or would you have the knee pads and sholders or somethin like that blue?

looking good; I like the flow of all the pennants, it really adds some movement to the model.

Top notch work. The Dread has been one of my favorite marine models and you have definitely raised it to a new level.

Looking really good i like how you have all the banners and such all flowing the same direction i can just imagine this chap (do you call a dread a chap?) standing on some rocky out crop surveying the battle to come.

The only thing is i get the impression that there should be something in the power fist/hand

He looks epic, I want one sooo bad now

coming along very nicely, cant wait to see some paint hit it.

Excellent work! Allow me to ask, does he not have any ballistic weapons?

Very cool! Love the pose!

Oi again...

WarPetie - I'm thinking that he's going to be my regular chapter color (kinda shadow grey) with some white and the shoulders as the regal blue color for Librarians.

Commissar - thanks, I wanted it to feel like there was some movement there, even though he's clearly standing still.

cuscus - thanks man, I love the Dread models as well. All flavors.

TaintedMess - I've put the new pic below, he's got the (Star Wars) Emperor's Lightning Powers thing going on. Thoughts?

Karl - get crackin'! You've got one way to make a Librarian Dread outlined right here!

Hits - once this last question gets answered, he'll get hit with some paint...

Million - that's a dang good question, one I couldn't remember from the Blood Angels codex. I think he might have a Storm Bolter on the power fist hand, but I'm not gluing that on until I'm positive.

'Eadbreaka - thanks!

One more unpainted pic for your perusal. I've added wire to the fist that will represent the dread flexing his psychic abilites. Not sure on how it feels or looks yet. With some source lighting on the fist and the arcs of energy, it might look pretty decent. Be a pain to paint that way, though.

So, thoughts on the lightning? Yea or Nay?

Wow again. On the lightning, perhaps a wee bit too eccentric.

Actually I think The electric lines could be a tad bit thicker and have a few little bolts of electricity comint out of the main ones. I have to say it looks superb already though.

Looks like a nice start maybe provided its not to complicated you could have it as ball lightning just above his hand not really sure how you could model it perhaps a glass bead/marble in the shade of lightning you want with the wire shaped to support it?

Yes, a definate yes. Because if Librarians are all they are cracked up to be, power wise, then electricity would only right.

I think I would just go with OSL and skip the lightning/wire. OSL is pretty easy to pull off.

Also, I got to say that you totally outstripped my expectations, not because I expected less of you, but because I just didn't think the Librarian Dread could look this interesting.

I have got to get thinking about how I want to do one up.

I think the lightning is a good idea but it will only work if properly painted, otherwise I fear it will be a major fail to the model.

The wavy thingy on the sword arm looks out of place , but other than that good job o_o

Yea, any way to make more of a fire like motif on the sword arm? Wavy is Eldarish.

Lightning most definitely YEA, especially if you add some OSL to it it could really make it stand out, however bulking up the bottom of the bolts with a little greenstuff and a few 'lightning veins' trailing across the fist might really make it pop.

The fist pose is ace. I would say don't just stick with the wires. GS it so it looks like electrical fire. Great work so far!

~DG

+1 For the lightning! I like what you did with the wire, if you get the source light(n)ing right it should look pretty cool. From this angle, it really looks like he's focusing on his fist and on the lightning.

Holy gak this is awesome, damn your blowing my mind on how awesome this conversion is, and the ideas are freaking amazing as well. I really will love seeing how this will turn out when it is finally finished!

I do believe that if you can paint the lightning on the hand the right way, maybe a glow effect, that you will pull it off without equal.

1-i wrote:I think the lightning is a good idea but it will only work if properly painted, otherwise I fear it will be a major fail to the model.

Have you looked at some of his painted stuff? I think he definitely can pull it off.


I vote yea...most definitely.

A solid YEA on the lightning from me! But why limit it to only the power fist? Why not go berzerk and do lightning on the hood and power weapon too? DO IT, I say! It's a "Bossnought", for crying out loud! The Libbydread NEEDS to stand out from the rest of armoured fighting tin cans with Zzap and Dakka guns!