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Hi all - old timer here - used to play Rogue Trader and 2nd edition wh40k, haven't been playing for 15 years, and have recently been reintroduced to the hobby - I work with children, and through this I've seen some of the new models, which are amazing. I've been converting some Orks, but recently I've become enamoured with the grey knights - I especially like the dread knight, but not the baby hanger thing - so I decided to make it my own.

I've only used parts from the Dread Knight kit, except the banner/loincloth, which is from the GK terminators, and the chestpiece, which comes from an ork deff dread - oh yeah, and the head, which comes from an old Epic titan. Please excuse the poor pic, I'll try to get a better one, once it's painted. I basically just used assorted parts (most of which are parts for the psycannon) to build a chest, and did some hacking and cutting to reposition the kit, so it looks more dynamic. I'm pretty pleased with it overall, but any suggestions are welcome. It's still a wip.

Could we get some more pictures as this looks super kool

I do much prefer your take on the Dreadknight.

+1 more pics please.

Ralin Givens wrote:Could we get some more pictures as this looks super kool

Thanks! I've just tried taking a couple more - this is probably the best I can do right now (it's night here, and I don't have much in the way of direct light in my apartment):







And a shot with some of his little friends - I've opted for a different paint scheme, since... Well, since I wanted to paint copper/gold armour. :-)

EDIT: Never mind, you've fixed them or I've stopped being a gak, which ever it was (I'd put money on it me being a gak tbh).


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Absolutely love this man. I cannot wait to see this painted. Looking at your termis, I reckon it'll be epic.

You know what? That looks really good. Your Terminators look ace, and make me confident that you can paint it well enough to do the conversion justice.

Ok wow, this is an awesome conversion!

Wow, thanks guys! Wasn't expecting this kind of response. I'm just a hobbyist getting started again after many years. :-)

It sure is fun to mess around with the little buggers, tho'. :-D

Like everyone else has said love what you have done with the conversion. Though I had a few smaller questions or ideas to throw out too you. Far as the... what looks to be a Bloodletter head on a stake. From the back picture of the conversion it looks like you are aiming to make this inter-changeable are you going to be switching heads once and awhile dependent on chaos opponent? Or maybe you had an idea of throwing on a banner as well? Just a question / idea rather but lovely conversion man will be nice to see that in bronze.

-Sincerely Viridian

That is bloody inspired mate! So much so that when I get home from work I'll be copying your pics as inspiration for my own eventual DK.

Your terminators also look great. You should sets these guys up in a P&M blog with more and regular photo updates.

It looks really awesome, but I personally don't like the blood letter trophy on the back. I just think it isn't something a grey knight would do. It might be your orks coming through. IMO grey knights are too "noble" to show petty trophies like that. Again just my opinion, take it or leave it. But its still amazing.

Looks great! Your scheme will look fantastic on your conversion.

Yeah! This is the style a dread knight should look like! Great!

I´m doing 2 dreadknight´s and I´m glad I saw your now ( before continuing on the idea I had ).

I know now I will put a head/helmet on each , great work and also great painting .

Viridian @ PraetorDave: I'm not completely sure about the head on the pole either - I'm not to sure that it fits the character of the GK, but since the trophys come with the termis, I thought "oh well...". But I guess you're right - I just need to find the right banner, since I dont want it to be so big, that it'll take away from the rest.

Thanks very much guys, I'm overwhelmed by the response. Please do use any of the ideas on your own DKs - I would love to see what you come up with.

Man, love the loincloth banner, it is really really cool, I cannot wait untill this thing is painted! Keep up the great work!

Just a couple shots of it, primed and ready for paint:



Closeup of the titan head - I think it works really well here. Good thing I have 3-4 more lying around. :-)



Since I already had the paper and camera tripod out, I also took a couple of shots of my terminators. Funny - my paint jobs seemed a lot cleaner, late at night, when looking at them by electric light. ;-) Daylight and closeups are very revealing - oh, well, I'll just have to practise more. :-)

(Edit: They're not entirely finished - I just based them to play in a necromunda type skirmish with the kids where I work)

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Wow. Wow wow wow.

That's a very nice color scheme on the Knights.

I also approve of dropping the Dreadknights's baby harness.

Thanks guys! :-)

Very, very nice work indeed - so very sub'd, sir!

First off, love the knight. Looks a bloody ripper.

Second. That is a really solid white on the termie helmet. How did you get it looking so good?

I think I'm going to steal your power weapon idea. Me gusta.

Brother Azul wrote:First off, love the knight. Looks a bloody ripper.

Second. That is a really solid white on the termie helmet. How did you get it looking so good?

Thanks! It's nothing special really, just multiple thin layers of skull white - probably about 3-4 thin layers.

inmygravenimage wrote:I think I'm going to steal your power weapon idea. Me gusta.

Sorry, what power weapon idea?

3-4 thin layers you say. Hmm i must suck at painting white then coz thats how i do it and it never looks that good.

Green/jade as contrast.

I've begun the painting - mostly the large surfaces. It's harder than I thought to blend the highlights on such large surfaces. There's a long way to go, but it'll be pretty cool in the end, I think.

Your Dreadknight is honestly the among the coolest looking ones I've ever seen. I'm so glad that there are people like you who take a disappointing kit and turn it into something really cool.

Love the colour scheme. Copper against teal/jade... delicious.

Its cool, but I can't get past the upside down titan on his chest. I really think you should hve filled that in with GS. Looks just silly.

Edit: And one more thing, why didn't you use the bigger shield on his shoulder? I think it would have been alittle better looking with the bigger shield. Would look more like a bigger terminator, IMHO.

That looks beautiful. The epic titan head was a nice idea, it just looks a little too small to me. Awesome work though.