Hi all, this thread started off as a Chaos only Dread build blog!!!! But as it's gone on, it seems it's developed into a more, build as many different types of dreads that I can!!! big or small

Hope you enjoy!!!

Hi all, this started of as a WIP of my first dreadnought conversion, but after finishing it I could not stop, and decided to try and make a dread for each chaos army. So this is now my blog for all that is dread

I thought I would share my first ever Chaos Dreadnought conversion, and hope people can give me some pointers.


I started, by drilling out some demon heads, and inserting copper tube for gun barrels and exhausts. Cut out middle part of a doom siren so it fitted over the lascannon, now need to GS around it to finish it off.



Addicted to drilling out demon heads, so I did it again for the flamer also cut of the igniter from the original flamer, and stuck it to the demon head



Decided to change the feet back to original. I used a hair dryer on the chaos symbol and bent it around the leg plate.



Cut up a chaos terminator heavy bolter and stuck it on the hand. This is one thing im stuck with, not sure what to do with the hand, any suggestions would be appreciated. Chaos hatch spikes stuck to arm with copper tube.



More hair dryer action to bend chaos symbol over right arm. Added chainsaw, hatch spikes and chains.



I've stuck hatch spikes on rear, but not sure i want to keep them there.

I'm stuck on what to do for the front of my dread, please help need suggestions.

I like the modifications you've made. I dont know if I like the halos on the arms and back or not. They kinda work. I think they definately add a sense of chaos...but I think chains would work better on a dread.

Thanks Element, I've already removed the rear spikes, and fitting the chaos chains with the skulls on. Does anyone know where you can buy chain links from, preferably chunky ones that look like the chaos vehicle ones.

oooo, thats a good questions. My recommendation would be to start at a local hobby store or craft store. I know places like 'Michael's' will have things like that in the jewelery/bead section. I cant guarantee that you will find the exact scale or shape, but its a good place to start looking.

Thanks again

Nice conversion!

Good points: the use of the doom siren is purely awesome and I will steal it for one of my next dread. The exhaust stacks, lascanons and icon-bending job are great too!

Things I'm not sure: the hatch spikes really seem out of place on your dread, and the head you've used for the flamer looks a little disproportionate (note, the realisation is awesome though, and you really have a great sense of detail.)

I'd really like to follow your work on this one.

I personally dont care for the halo thing on the back. Its a bit wonky to me, almost like you were finished but felt it missing something. Other then that a very nicely done conversion.

Hyenajoe wrote:Nice conversion!

Good points: the use of the doom siren is purely awesome and I will steal it for one of my next dread. The exhaust stacks, lascanons and icon-bending job are great too!

Things I'm not sure: the hatch spikes really seem out of place on your dread, and the head you've used for the flamer looks a little disproportionate (note, the realisation is awesome though, and you really have a great sense of detail.)

I'd really like to follow your work on this one.

Thanks Hyenajoe, I got the idea of bending the icons from looking at your Khorne Dread, which I think looks really cool!

I've already pulled the back spikes off, and I stole your idea of chains off the back of the engine but im using the chains with skulls on. Yeah im looking hard at the arm spikes and they have not turned out as they did in my head, so need to rethink.

more photos to come


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KingCracker wrote:I personally dont care for the halo thing on the back. Its a bit wonky to me, almost like you were finished but felt it missing something. Other then that a very nicely done conversion.

Thanks KingCracker

Halo on back has gone

The bit i'm really stuck on is, what to do for the front plate.

You should get like 5 sets of hatch spikes and make him the galaxies most deadly hula hoop!

But honestly this looks great! I started with the metal chaos dread for mine and used washers from a hardware store to space the waste and arm joints to make it look like it was larger, I never liked the stunted look of Marine dreadnoughts myself...

That front plate has my brain running wild! you could use a blood-letter model chained in the seat and have it struggling to get free like its trying to leap out! or you could used some green stuff and just make a chaos stilled icon on the original lid. You could even use a plane piece of plastic and paint lit like its a glowing hunk of basalt or obsidian.... that's the best part about chaos, the options are seemingly endless.

Good stuff so far!

Red Corsair wrote:You should get like 5 sets of hatch spikes and make him the galaxies most deadly hula hoop!

But honestly this looks great! I started with the metal chaos dread for mine and used washers from a hardware store to space the waste and arm joints to make it look like it was larger, I never liked the stunted look of Marine dreadnoughts myself...

That front plate has my brain running wild! you could use a blood-letter model chained in the seat and have it struggling to get free like its trying to leap out! or you could used some green stuff and just make a chaos stilled icon on the original lid. You could even use a plane piece of plastic and paint lit like its a glowing hunk of basalt or obsidian.... that's the best part about chaos, the options are seemingly endless.

Good stuff so far!

Lol, a hula hoop of death

Thanks Red Corsair thats given me a few ideas

I have removed the hula hoop of death, and replaced it with skulls on chains



First I drilled holes for the top links to slot in. I did not want to just stick the skulls on



Ready for skulls to be hung from



Stuck a couple of links on the skulls and its done

What does everyone think?

tipios wrote:Stuck a couple of links on the skulls and its done

What does everyone think?

I think it will be more solid than mine!
Good job, and thank you for your comments and ranking on my dread.

Looks goon, the only problem is after a couple of games all those spikes are going to break off and you'll have 2 big half rings on the side of you dread.

Hyenajoe wrote:

tipios wrote:Stuck a couple of links on the skulls and its done

What does everyone think?

I think it will be more solid than mine!
Good job, and thank you for your comments and ranking on my dread.

Thanks Hyenajoe, I did get alot of ideas from looking at your dread, so thanks for sharing




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Generalstoner wrote:Looks goon, the only problem is after a couple of games all those spikes are going to break off and you'll have 2 big half rings on the side of you dread.

Lol, Generalstoner, I have already dropped the las arm and broken off one of the spikes

Yea dropping and breaking are a part of the game
My wife had a cat that knocked my warboss I built off a table and broke the holy gak out of it. I was rather pissed. You learn ways to build your conversions that make them last longer though. For example, on your spike rings. If you were to drill through the entire circular part, and use a small finishing nail as the main pin, the head of the nail will hold on the outside of the ring, so its actually glued to the dred in several places.

Its not totally break proff, as nothing is, but it will make it last alot longer

KingCracker wrote:Yea dropping and breaking are a part of the game
My wife had a cat that knocked my warboss I built off a table and broke the holy gak out of it. I was rather pissed. You learn ways to build your conversions that make them last longer though. For example, on your spike rings. If you were to drill through the entire circular part, and use a small finishing nail as the main pin, the head of the nail will hold on the outside of the ring, so its actually glued to the dred in several places.

Its not totally break proff, as nothing is, but it will make it last alot longer

I notice you said "My wife had a cat" you were that pissed

I think it was fate, as I was having second thoughts about them anyway so now I need to go back to the old drawing board.

Got around to sculpting mouth of the doom siren.

I was dreading messing this up, but found it was easier than I thought.

Nice Where are the dragon head bits from?

Barren wrote:Nice Where are the dragon head bits from?

Thanks Barren.

I buy them from wargamers world here in U.K. You should be able to find a bitz seller in th U.S. They are from the chaos vehicle spur, and so are all the other extra parts i've stuck on

Thats looking really good. I agree that the chain looks much better on the abck compared to the spiky ring thing. Will it be painted soon?

Flinty wrote:Thats looking really good. I agree that the chain looks much better on the abck compared to the spiky ring thing. Will it be painted soon?

Thanks Flinty.

I've still got some filling in to do, and those spikes on the side are coming off.

I need some ideas of what to put in the hole that they leave behind.

Painting will be once I'm more confident, I need more pratice

Looking pretty cool to me - nicely done.

Thanks Silver

Got around to doing some more work on my chaos dread.


Added a Sentinel chain fist.

And removed the side hatch spikes from both sides, still thinking of what to put in place of them.



Also I loved the look of this shield so stuck it on

I think it looks great and I'm happy to see the halos gone. They were more distracting from the great work you've done.

imo the chain fist looks rather odd. Besides that it looks relay cool. I would have to agree, the shield is rather awesome and seems to fit right in place.

HungryTaz wrote:I think it looks great and I'm happy to see the halos gone. They were more distracting from the great work you've done.

Thanks alot HungryTaz. Although the chainsaw I have changed slightly, there was something not quit right, but still i'm staring at it thinking it may have to go.


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sinthes wrote:imo the chain fist looks rather odd. Besides that it looks relay cool. I would have to agree, the shield is rather awesome and seems to fit right in place.

Thanks sinthes, I think I will be using that shield on a few more dreads

the chain fist has changed a bit, because I 'm just not happy with it, still thinking about it.





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Yey I found the perfect parts to cover the holes left by the hatch spikes, and added the chaos symbol to the left arm.





All thats left is the face plate, refit chains to right arm, and a bit more green stuff to be done here and there. Oh and still thinking about chainsaw

Right, more dread work.

I thought I would try using my doom siren idea from the lascannon on the chainfist







Now I just got to get that faceplate done.

good stuff, I like the new CCW, much more Chaos-y

The new chainfist design is a marked improvement. A more dynamic positioning will really help 'lift' the model though.

Try having the dread taking a step forward, with the chainfist arm by its side, for example.

Brother Heinrich wrote:good stuff, I like the new CCW, much more Chaos-y

CadianXV wrote:The new chainfist design is a marked improvement. A more dynamic positioning will really help 'lift' the model though.

Try having the dread taking a step forward, with the chainfist arm by its side, for example.

Thanks Heinrich and cadianXV

I Will get back to work on this as soon as I get bored of Fallout:Vegas

At last I have added some sort of face to my dread.


Now I can attempt to paint it this weekend.

Damn that looks cool.

One thing that would make it look extra awsome, would be to drill out the eyes and put an LED in the Sarcophagus. May be too much work though, I know I wouldn't try it.

Ha! Nice sarcophagus! I would say great minds think alike, but you are obviously of those damned types. Pity.


I really, really like what you did w/ the chainfist. The original idea looked a bit weedy and easily broken. The followup design is so awesome that I cam going to unashamedly rip off your idea and use it on my own Dreadnought. I really liked what you did for the Heavy Flamer as well, that was inspired, but I won't steal that one.

I'm enjoying this thread, I'll be back for more.

hey, I'm a damned type

I thing it looks good. the skulls epic but I think the fist is a little orky. I think its the chain saw that does it.

Now all you need is a red LED inside the sarcophagus and you'll be all set!

Thanks all,

I think an LED project will have to wait, I agree it would look but it's too late. I never even thought about it.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote: those damned types. Pity.

No Im a dammed lol but my next dread that im gona make is a khorne with twin chain fist

Started painting today.

My brush control is rubbish, but it's turned out better than I thought.




What is this best way to highlight silver?

Now I've tried adding chips to the paint, and attempted some rust marks.


To add a mud effect to the feet should I just dry bush some browns?

Nice color scheme. The rust effect looks cool. Macro photos are not always forgiving but it will look absolutely perfect on the tabletop.

And yeah, I don't know what happened when I clicked on ... I do know the difference. Really.

wow, you changed some things around since the last time I saw this model. Absolutely LOVE what you did with the chains coming off the power generator on the back....it actually looks like part of the model rather than a random bit glued into place....this project is turning out great!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Nice color scheme. The rust effect looks cool. Macro photos are not always forgiving but it will look absolutely perfect on the tabletop.

And yeah, I don't know what happened when I clicked on ... I do know the difference. Really.

Thanks Skalk,

I'm very happy with the colour scheme, I love imperial blue.
I'll stand back a bit on the next photos

Element206 wrote:wow, you changed some things around since the last time I saw this model. Absolutely LOVE what you did with the chains coming off the power generator on the back....it actually looks like part of the model rather than a random bit glued into place....this project is turning out great!

Thanks element,

Yes those halos had to go, and I'm loving skulls, there's 2 more now on the front that look really cool too. I'm in the middle of painting now so I'll try to get some pics up soon.

Wow, there's been a lot of progress here since I last checked this thread!

Tipios, your dead is great! I really like the way you've used the doom sirens and how you worked sarcophagus (WoC marauder icon?), and from what I can see, your paint job is excellent!

Can't wait to see some paint on the torso.

Damn this is nice.

Hyenajoe wrote:Wow, there's been a lot of progress here since I last checked this thread!

Tipios, your dead is great! I really like the way you've used the doom sirens and how you worked sarcophagus (WoC marauder icon?), and from what I can see, your paint job is excellent!

Can't wait to see some paint on the torso.

Thanks Hyenajoe,

Yes it is a Woc marauder icon , and the skulls that I cut off from the head I have stuck to the front of the dread.

I still need to highlight and weather him, but hes coming on nicely.



@The Night Stalker, Thanks

Nearly finished.

Today I rusted up torso and legs. Also had a go at the base.

Just checking in on your progress. Most recent photos are stunning! Very good work. Seeing it from the beginning only adds to the effect, it is an incredible and very unique model.

This is turning out to be a realy nice engine of chaos! GW should take afew notes and consider updating their own chaos dreadnought, yours is much better. How did you paint the rust effects, they turned out fantastic!

Looking really good.

@Skalk Bloodaxe
@Element206
@Lars

Thanks Guys

Element206 wrote:This is turning out to be a realy nice engine of chaos! GW should take afew notes and consider updating their own chaos dreadnought, yours is much better. How did you paint the rust effects, they turned out fantastic!

I washed all the silver parts with a mix of Vallejo Umbershade and Fleshtone. The Fleshtone added that redish feel. I can't remeber if it was a 1:1 mix or not, which is a problem as I still need to go over the arms I then dry brushed and dabed different shades of brown over some parts. I did this randomly, so easy and very effective.

On the body work I built up the Umber shade so it looks like the rust is running.

I got this idea from awesomepaint job. Under one of his fav vids is a couple of tank weathering tuts, that are good for rust and mud.

I had to put painting on hold for a bit, but now work has calmed down and I'm allowed to use the dinner table for painting again I can fish it off.

Happy christmas everyone!!!!!

hey dude thats looking pretty badass nice 1

I was impressed by the modelling, but now that you have paint on it I am simply blown away! You are very skilled.

Looking great! He really looks brootal

Thanks everyone,

If I get snowed in tomorrow, I plan to finish this off. Come on snow!!!

tipios wrote:Thanks everyone,

If I get snowed in tomorrow, I plan to finish this off. Come on snow!!!

... hoping for record snowfall in the UK for the next 12 hrs. Will check back tomorrow.

Looks fantastic. I love the smokestacks. Are those tips of chaos lascannons?

Its a simple touch, but I really like the Skull Chain hanging off the back. It looks like the model was built that way. Fantastic placement.


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Its a simple touch, but I really like the Skull Chain hanging off the back. It looks like the model was built that way. Fantastic placement.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

tipios wrote:Thanks everyone,

If I get snowed in tomorrow, I plan to finish this off. Come on snow!!!

... hoping for record snowfall in the UK for the next 12 hrs. Will check back tomorrow.

All snow melting boooooooooooooo Looks like this will be done over christmas.

Peter Wiggin wrote:Looks fantastic. I love the smokestacks. Are those tips of chaos lascannons?

Not part of a chaos lascannon. I drilled out those daemon heads and pushed through some brass tube.

@spireland Thanks spireland, I got the idea from Hyenajoe, and I think all chaos dreads should have them

I'm sure the rest of the UK is happy my wish didn't come true.

I know I'm going on and on about this, but I am really impressed by this project. The vision you had to "see" it, the ingenuity (materials, etc) to get it started, and the skill of execution to make it all happen is making this one of my favorite projects on Dakka right now. Looking forward to the final product and can't wait to see what you are doing next.

Hey lad, it is a great conversion - I might gonna steal the idea for my Iron Warrior Dread conversion, if you don't mind.

Cheers all, and a merry christmas

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I'm sure the rest of the UK is happy my wish didn't come true.

I know I'm going on and on about this, but I am really impressed by this project. The vision you had to "see" it, the ingenuity (materials, etc) to get it started, and the skill of execution to make it all happen is making this one of my favorite projects on Dakka right now. Looking forward to the final product and can't wait to see what you are doing next.

Please go on about it as much as you like I'm just sorry I havn't had the time to finish it off .

merchant wrote:Hey lad, it is a great conversion - I might gonna steal the idea for my Iron Warrior Dread conversion, if you don't mind.

Cheers all, and a merry christmas

Please feel free to copy

Merry christmas!!

im really loving this conversion and cant wait to see the finished piece.
merry christmas.

@shingouki - thanks

here's some pics os latest progress

I've added dry mud effect to the feet. Weathering is so much fun






The only problem is I've not got the same rust colour on the back of the lasgun, so i gona have to add a bit of redness to it.

In between waiting for parts to dry, I've started trying out ideas for a khorne dread.

Chainfist



and sarcophagus



What do you reacon? or

The bloodcrusher head looks kind of clumsy and unnatural in the position its placed in. Perhaps tilting the head might look better?

remove the horn on the BC's head, it makes it look bad

other than that its looking fantastic

Great job on this chainfist Tipios! The only thing you could do to improve it would be to reduce the length of the Dread's forearm.

I bet your Khorne dread will be really great looking.

Blitza da warboy wrote:The bloodcrusher head looks kind of clumsy and unnatural in the position its placed in. Perhaps tilting the head might look better?

Tilt it to the right?

DPBellathrom wrote:remove the horn on the BC's head, it makes it look bad

other than that its looking fantastic

thanks I've got BC heads with smaller spikes so can try that

Hyenajoe wrote:Great job on this chainfist Tipios! The only thing you could do to improve it would be to reduce the length of the Dread's forearm.

I bet your Khorne dread will be really great looking.

Thanks Hyenajoe, I knew there was something obvious that was making it look funny, hack saw ready


I have finished the thousand son dread at last

Here are the pics.

awesomesauce. epic job man

Really nicely done.

Congratulations for your Thousand Sons dread, it's a great model : modelling and painting are both very well executed and the general mood of the model screams "CHAOS".

Good job

I'm still waiting for some explanations on the way you've made the doom siren fit the lascannon so naturaly.

^ listen to him, hes got some brains.

Thanks everyone

For Hyenajoe, and anyone else who wants to know, I give you "doom siren lascannon"

First start cutting out sirens mouth with sharp knife.

The pipes Always snap when I do this but when finished you can glue back together.

Once you have cut out most of the mouth, use a half round needle file to finish off the rest.

Now, make a line across the back of the head as in the picture.

File down below the line until it is level with the bottom half of the siren.

Now we file the front of the siren down as in next photo.

Lastly we need to widen the inside of the sirens mouth, so that it slots over the lascannon.
So it looks like this.

Now test to see if it slots over. If you have filed enough out it will slot down with no problem, if it is a bit tight just file it out a bit more until it fits nicely.



Now green stuff to finnish it off.

If you don't like GS, try not to file so much of the mouth out, and keep slotting it in until you are happy with the fit.

Happy modeling chaps.

And happy new year!!

And a happy new year to you mate, and I must say - I cannot waite to make one meself.

it is such a great idea, I have never been a fan of GW own Metal mini - so to see such a great alternative version is very great

Cheers

yeah tilting the head slightly to the right so the horn is facing the outside might make it look better. You considering the furioso dread for the other arm?

Fantastic work, definitely inspired me to do one

merchant wrote:And a happy new year to you mate, and I must say - I cannot waite to make one meself.

it is such a great idea, I have never been a fan of GW own Metal mini - so to see such a great alternative version is very great

Cheers

Thanks.

The GW dread is so over priced too, nearly £40, jokers.

@Blitz - yes I need to order a right hand CCW, then I was just gona make another chain fist with BC head. I don't play the game, but most Khorne dreads I see have 2 CCW's is this normal, or are there other weapons they use?

@Enjoyablenewt - Thanks, good luck with the build.


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I could not help it, I've got so many projects that I should finish first, but I had to start my next dread

Parts so far.

I'm gona try to make the Tyranid guns into exausts.


I've painted the head and stuck it in place first, I think this will make life easier.

I want to do the skulls and chains like my last dread, but this time on the front. I could just stick them in place and move on, but adding rings makes it look so much better, even if it is a headache.

Any ideas are welcome.

I was gona do left and right chain fist the same, but not sure now. What other weapon should I put on? maybe just a claw?

Thanks for the tuto!

I must say I'm curious to see how these tyranid guns are gonna look like as exhaust stacks... I might think of it for my slaaneshi dread.


I notice that you've used the spare bits from the marauders icon to give a brutal look to the hull, that's a good point.
On the chains, I'd go for some good old glue. I know the rings would look great but the fixation points are going to be far lower than on your previous conversion and the chains might be hanging to close to the groud to be set before the feet of your dread ("Hey Dready, beware! Your shoe's untied!" )

And talking of feet, what are those feet you're using, Forgeworld?

I keep on watching this thread regularly, you've really got some good ideas man!

Thanks Hyenajoe.

I have been looking at the exhaust, and am thinking they are not really khorne too, so I need rethink. I might go for same as before but with bigger daemon heads. I will still make the exhausts with the tyrind parts and see how it looks.

Yes feet are forgeworld, but I use these legs just for testing. I prefer the GW as they are bigger.

Tried making the tyranid exhausts today, but it failed. Nothing looked good so all plans have changed.

I have used the skulls on chains idea from my first dread. I just love the way they look.



I'm going for a spikey feel for this dread, so cut up a chaos tank spikey thing.



Pinned them and stuck them on the top.



Now to add more flavour I've put some holes in a skull and skeleton body and stuck them over the spikes.




Tomorrow I want to get the skeleton body further down the spike, then stick another skull at the top. I'm not totaly happy with the chainsaw bloodcrushers heads on the arms.

Does anybody think, just have the bloodcrusher head as a CCW claw would be ok?

Anyway I need to try to find a right hand ccw on the internet, or have a twin linked lascannon, or build a twin linked autocannon, or has anybody got some other ideas?

Looks really cool! Those spikes are particularly gruesome, which is good

Thanks Samus

I've got the skeleton body looking much nicer now, and I'm really happy with getting the spike just coming through the skull's eye.


Also got half the engine done tonight. I broke the second daemon head when I was pushing it on, so I need to make another tomorrow


Bank hoiliday tomorrow so can do more work on it

Looking good. The tips pf those spikes from the ram(which you put on top of the dread) look great as fingers for the dreadnought close combat weapon.

Great weathered look to your dread! I love the tones of the metal and the damage. Excellent conversion work!

Both Dreads look great, inspired idea for the doom siren, got tons of those things I can use them for now.

Thanks guys,

@Bossasaurus - Have you got any pics of that claw?

@Element - I love weathering, I can't wait to paint my leman russ, and see what I can do on a bigger scale.

@Earthbeard - yes dust off those doom sirens and cut'em up.

Génial!

Using those spikes on the Dread as trophy rack is another great idea!

The hanging skulls are very nice looking too. This dread is on the right path to become an amazing model!

Any way you could cover up, remove or defile the mechanicus symbol on the back of the dreadnought?

@ Hyenajoe - merci beaucoup. I'm stuck on arms ATM, I've decided not to go with the BC head as chain fist on this dread, might just use the chain fist like on your dread. Also I think I need to get a MOD to change this to my blog of dreads as I've already got ideas for a dread, and want to make a nurgledread too. Hows your nurgle coing on?

@btemple0 - good point I can do that on this one.

Here's an update of dread.

Khorne symbol with more skulls stuck ontop of the venerable dread blank plates,


and sentinal missile launcher.



Now I need to think more about the arm weapons.

You could always "borrow" a chainfist from the Ironclad Dreadnought kit.

tipios wrote:@ Hyenajoe - merci beaucoup. I'm stuck on arms ATM, I've decided not to go with the BC head as chain fist on this dread, might just use the chain fist like on your dread. Also I think I need to get a MOD to change this to my blog of dreads as I've already got ideas for a dread, and want to make a nurgledread too. Hows your nurgle coing on?

Here's an update of dread.

Khorne symbol with more skulls stuck ontop of the venerable dread blank plates,


and sentinal missile launcher.



Now I need to think more about the arm weapons.

Nurgly boy's primed an ready for paint (I just need some time to paint now - sometimes, being a responsible father is a rather time-eating hobby ). Unfortunately my home PC is not yet back from the dead and I can't upload new pics...
My slaaneshi and tzeentchian dreads are still only projects since it seems USPS has lost my bits order...

If you need WIP pics of my dread's chainfists ,check my "Khorne Dreadnought" gallery .

I agree your thread deserves to be transfered to the PM blog section.(and it would be easier to find it than in the bubbling Painting and Modelling).

I really like the venerable dread plates, they're just fine for a chaos dread, and I should get a pair of those for my next dreads (especially the Slaaneshi)

However, if you allow me a small critic, the missille launcher on top breaks the "majesty" of the trophy rack. On a purely visual point of view it drags the eye away from the great details of your dread and makes it look too bulky (I know, a Dreadnought is meant to be bulky...but...).
However, you might include this missile launcher in one of the Dread's shoulder (or split it and include it in both shouders)

Anyway, I can't wait to see more progresses on your dread!

Hi Hyenajoe,

The venerable plates are great, I've ordered more for my next dread too.

I agree with you about the missile launcher luckerly I never glue anything until im 100% with it.

Now I'm trying to make a twin chainsaw arm with 2 sentinal chainsaws, and a missile arm with 2 sentinal launchers. Waiting for parts to arrive to finish them off.

While waiting for bitz to arrive for my Khorne dreadnought, I could not resist starting my next Slaanesh dread.

The theme is noise, so I thought that faces that looked like shouting were appropriate.
Here is the WIP so far.



When more bitz get in I can make some weapons.
I want to make a sonic blaster, or blastmaster. If anyone has made when or got ideas for one I would like to see or hear your ideas.

Get a couple of sheets of plasticard, and a small diameter piece of PVC, about four to six inches in length, bisect the pipe using a dremel or other rotary tool of the sort and use the plasticard to make a long oval tube, and add some bits to the front end for the barrel and attach the rear to the shoulder somehow, then again I may just be rambling, either way great job so far.

Thanks btemple, Oval tube! I didn't think of that. I might stick a doom siren on the end, and see what it looks like

Wow. Your dreads are beyond great. Defnintely have more skill and patience for conversions than I do.

Your first dreads paintjob is great too. Keep it up!

Thanks alot bunnygurl. Dreads are great fun to convert, I am definitely addicted to it.

Wow.

I haven't checked in here fort a bit, and in a word I am stunned. Like "slack-jawed". Staring with googly eyes saying "woooowww". Ha.

I am resisting the urge to make a new Dread. I am buried under an avalanche of Death Guard at the moment and with my motivation level being lower than it has been for months I have to resist or I'm going to have the biggest Shelf of Shame entry since I stopped painting my Orks.

But once I get things going again and catch up I am sooooo going to get my hands on a plastic Dread and do absolutely horrid things to it. I have some ideas I'm -stealing from- crediting to you, and a couple other Dakkalites have contributed in their own way. But I'll hold off on anything more because I'm so overwhelmed I can't hardly keep my work area clean let along produce a finished product.

Amazing work. You have my respect.

tipios wrote:Thanks btemple, Oval tube! I didn't think of that. I might stick a doom siren on the end, and see what it looks like

Yay!!! Go for the sonic weapon! I also like the use of Daemon prince exhausts on the dread!

@Skalk Bloodaxe, thanks alot. Keep going with the death guard, it's a very impressive army

@Hyenajoe, thanks, yes I thought the daemon prince parts looked like speakers so I copied forge world and stuck them there. I got a few bits in the post today, so have started making my sonicy thing.

More pics.

I've used a seekers standed as my slaanesh symbol.


Now for the sonic weapon. I tried a few things but they all failed, but then in the post came my latest bitz order which included a seismic hammer.
I carefully cut the end off,


and stuck it to a twin linked lascannon arm which I had already cut up.



Now all I need to do is add is a grill or speaker cone. I was gona stick a doom siren on the end but it looks rubish.

Try the speaker cone, IMHO it would look better inside the hole than a grill of sorts.

@btemple0 I've gone for the cone, but first I fitted another part of the seismic hammer inside to add more detail.

Started to make it look more chaosy too by adding spikes.

I thought first rule of CSM was when in doubt add more spikes.

I think it's 1st, 2nd and 3rd rule.

I just have to say, amazing work on the dreads. I'm gonna have to steal some stuff from this...

@ZacktheChaosChild - Thanks

Great imagination and vision to see "what could be" then the modeling skills to bring it to life. I love the various dreads and look forward to seeing more.
<bangs fork and knife on plate> "MORE! MORE! MORE!!!"

great work!!

Awesome Dreads.

Btw how many extra heads does the Blood Crusher kit come with. If I ever got one,I might take a leaf from your book.

Loving the Slaanesh one btw.
Can't wait for the Nurgle one either.

Your sonic weapon is turning great Tipios. I'll keep this one in mind.

Any news from ?

@MudgeBlack - Thanks, MORE coming soooooon

@azekio - Thanks

@Melkhiordarkblade - Thanks, I got the bloodcrusher heads from a bitz seller, so I don't know if the kit comes with any spare.

@Hyenajoe - Sonic weapon has turned out slighty differently too what I first thought of, it was gona have doom siren on the end, but when I saw the seimic hammer's end looked like a bass tube that you would have in your car for mega sound, I went with that. Now here's latest, ccw arm prototype 1.

After using seimic hammer for sonic boom weapon, I have the left arm peace that it would normaly attach to left over. I want to try and make my own ccw, so after cutting the part that holds the hammer, we are left with a blank left arm. Time for some converting maddness.


I have decided to use parts from the sentinal's legs to make the arm.


I thought it was too big, but puting it againts my tzeentch arm it is the same length.


As the end off the arm looks like a flammer, so thats what it is going to be, now I want to add sentinal chainsaws to both sides of the flammer for a chainsaw bloodfest


I need to get some plastic rods so I can add, details like pistons, also need hose effects, and spikes

Can anybody in UK tell my where they get their's from, I find lots of sites, but I'd rather buy from somewhere that one of you guys recommend.

Right i'm off to continue my work, if I get anywhere with it I will post it tonight.

I, LOVE, THIS, THREAD!! More chaos dreadnoughts are needed! Have to finish my dreads soon too, althought I'm stuck with the GW metal one -.- Other one is the FW nurgle dread thought, one of my favorite models.

It's to bad that there are no rules for using a sonic weapon on dreads, what will you count it as?

Can't wait to see these guys finished!!


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Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
I am resisting the urge to make a new Dread. I am buried under an avalanche of Death Guard at the moment and with my motivation level being lower than it has been for months I have to resist or I'm going to have the biggest Shelf of Shame entry since I stopped painting my Orks.

Just give in already, you know it will be awesome =)

@Limbo Thanks I'm loving doing this thread too . Yes GW need to release a new plastic chaos dread, old one is to out of date. Buy a plastic SM dread convert it for the win
I really like your iron warriors. I was thinking of doing an Iron warriors dread using ironclad torso, does the iron warrior dread have a special weapons layout, or is it just normal?

I don't play the game, but I think you can count it as plasma gun.

Found some blu-tac, so I mocked up what the arm would look like on the dread. Im happy with it so far.

Daemon head will be the flamer






For the ultra win I think I need to copy this for the right arm, but getting the parts would be a pain, I would have to cut up the right arm ccw from the ironclad, and they are rare to find on bitz sights.

Any comments welcome

Bloody hell.
Brilliant.
Better than my dread conversion, anyway.

Ahhhh i hate finding these topics when they re WIP lol, i just want to see finished products! lol, great work man.

What do you plan on doing with these??

Very good job on the CCW! Have you thought of putting a chainsaw where you've placed the flame thrower (or above)?
What are you going to do for the 2nd arm, another CCW?

I usually get my bitz from Hoard of bits on ebay (they're great as long as USPS doesn't lose the parcel). Check their shop they usually have great stuff for dreads.

@alexwars1 Thanks, what have you tried to convert?

@KRUDD Thanks, Well I wish I could finish them quickly , I plan on putting them on my shelf and admiring them

@Hyenajoe Do you mean put a third chain saw for even more hacking up goodness? thanks for pointing out ebay sight I will look through. I am planing to try and make the same arm for the other side, but will take alot more work, as they don't make a seismic hammer type arm. I'll have to do some serious cutting up of a GW right side ccw. I was thinking of doing an twin linked auto cannon on the end of the same type of arm i've done for the left arm.

tipios wrote:
@Hyenajoe Do you mean put a third chain saw for even more hacking up goodness?

-drool- yeth thur!

The auto cannon is a good idea.

The only thing that I'm not sure with your CCW is the length of the arm (or perhaps its the picture). Otherwise it's a really inventive work, I like this.

@hyenajoe when the arm is glued it will be higher up, it's only being held up by blutac so it droops down too much. Auto cannon on the way . Now I need to think up a ccw for the slaanesh. I've orded more seimic hammers because I like the top half of the arm, but I don't want to make it the same as the khorne.

Looking through the GW website I saw the SM drop pod, and for some reason want to chaosyfy one, but want to wait until I get these 2 dreads done. Oh and my leman russ needs finishing, and my havoc squad and terminators and oblitorater

...Sorry I thought it was already glued...

About the Slaanesh dread CCW, just remember that the claw has been Slanneshi's predilection weapon for maaany years!

I've seen a thread from a guy who made a basic, but effective conversion of a SM Drop pod to Chaos. Problem is: I can't find this thread (I'm really, really tired these times)

I see, so a claw it will be I found that thread, I am intrested in making it auto open like someone posted on the same thread. Just tried some experiment with electromagnets, the idea was to change the polarity of the electromaganet so it would repel the magnet on the door and thus push it open. I have only tried with some computer fan motor magnets and can't seem to make it repel the normal magnet:(

Progress has been abit slow, because the postman did not bring me any of my lovely bitz orders yet:(

So while I had time I'd thought I would share how I made the flamer.

First I drilled the daemon head out, I did not do this straight so made more work for myself, had to file it out a bit afterwards.


So now the brass rod fits through nicely,


now I can cut it off at the back of the neck and fit a small brass rod through. I shoud have drilled holes in the outer brass rod before I glued it to add more detail. I don't want to try it now it's glued.


To give the flamer look, I cut off the igniter from a normal flamer,


and stuck it to the head, cut the inner brass rod off but left enough sticking out to act as a pin.


Now I cut the leg sentinal leg down and drill out the right side hole for the heads pin to fit in.


Now I can slot the chainsaws on, I drilled the same size hole through all the peaces and pushed a brass tube all the way through. I did this for strength.


Sorry I forgot to take a photo of upper arm before I glued it altogther. The part on the right shows you what I glued into the upper arm. I then add green stuff all around it for strength, then had to drill out the plastic behind where the hole is, so it will slot onto the dread. You can see also where I drilled out the lower arm for the brass rod to fit through.


Now to add more detail, I wanted to add the dread flamer pipe. It did not fit, but with the adition of more brass rod that was not a problem.


Greenstuff to finish it off.


Now to add a little detail to the chainsaw upper section I cut up some chaos tank spikes


Add pin for strength.


Then suck on, and greenstuff added.


Picutes of the beast so far.



While I was in a greenstuff mood I started adding details to the Slaanesh dread.


Also I have started my nurgle dread. It took alot of filling, but I got the in the end.
This is a warhammer chaos shield, I love the detail on the face so had to do it.


With green stuff left over I started adding wierdness to it.


Comments please.

Excellent dread faceplate, I wish I would have thought of something like that, because I would probably be playing CSM if I did

Thanks btemple0. Have you converted any nid stuff?


Some progress on my nurgle dread.

The claw on the face plate fell off when I dropped it, so I replaced it with a pus thing. More pus things on the breast plate, and engine. I'm gona put a big pus thing where the missing exhaust goes. Claw started, when this layer of GS goes off I can start adding detail. For the main weapon I'm gona use the sonic blaster that I made for Slaanesh, but GS it up so it becomes one of those bile spitters.

Because of the above I started to make a new sonic blaster, now it really looks more like a speaker



While I'm doing these three dreads, I'm still thinking of my next dread . It' gona have a load of missile launchers on it, should it be an Iron warrior or something else?

Ah the ever wandering imaginative mind. Gotta love it. Your work looks great so far and it's unique.

Wonderful work, imaginatively conceived and skillfully executed! I particularly like the faceplate for the Nurgle dread, and the arm of the Khornate dread. Really, though, these creatures are studded all over with characterful and distinctive touches.

And then, the step-by-step coverage of the conversion work is especially welcome. I'm picking up a lot of technique and ideas. So thank you, and well done.

Thanks bunnygurl, Even now at work I'm thinking of ways to cut up the top part of the nurgle dread and have stuff coming out of it, this imagination may lose me my job

Thanks tinfoil. I'm glad to be of help, I try to post as much WIP as I can, because when I first saw this site, seeing peoples pics and WIP really inspired me.

For example your Soul Grinder Ii: The Altar Of Souls WIP and pictures, are just amazing

Very nice use of the shield on the sarcophagus, it's perfect!

I also really like the claw! Using nids scything talons is a good point!

I will soon start my Emperor's Children Dread, following the same technique I've used for my first two dreads. I'll probably make him a sonic weapon using a variant of your Doom Siren technique. I hope you'll like it.
Unfortunately, I still don't know when I'll be able to upload new pics but I'll take step by step WIP pics as I did for the Khornate dread.

Thanks Hynajoe. It's nice to see you got your bitz and can continue your work, and with an empty house!Good luck.

I have just restarted my sonic weapon, which now has a more speaker look to it, and this time I'm gona try putting the doom siren in the same place as on my lascannon.

I have orded a load of different sized plastic tubbing so I can make the khorne autocannon, I really want to have a go at making the ammo drums. Thanks to Cypher and this article http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Predator_%28Walker_Conversion%29

LOVE LOVE LOVE this!

Great work!

Thanks Zeke.

Toady I was able to try out fitting a doom siren to my sonic blaster.
I like it. I did this really quickly with my new rotary tool. It was only £15, but makes filling so much quicker, although I over did it a bit and took too much off.


Also today I added more detail to nurgle dread.

Horn sticking out of top.

Green stuff added.

When thats dries I can add more sicknesss.

Blob of green stuff on back,

Then.

Also started adding the nasty deatail to claw.

I need to order more green stuff to finish him off

Love what you've come up with for a doom siren. Great idea.

And thanks for your kind words.

Great work - Chaos dreads dont get enough luvin for my money. The fact they occasionally murder their own troops is what makes them so endearing .

The plastic dreads appear much easier to work with (as compared to the metal ones), or at least allow greater flexibility in conversions. Ive converted a few metal ones (if you're interested, they are here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-14062-8462_Darkkt%27s%20Alpha%20Legion%20Dreadnaught.html & here http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-14062-2385_Darkkt%27s%20World%20Eaters.html), and it was a painful process, and didnt allow half the creativity yours demonstrate!

Keep it up - I shall keep monitoring this plog!

Tipios, your sonic blaster is impressive, I'm curious to see it assembled with the dread's arm!

Keep up the good work.

Btw ho do you get a CC right arm for the Dread?

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:
Btw ho do you get a CC right arm for the Dread?

The Ironclad has a CC right arm.

@darkkt - good job on those metal dreads, the snake head is fantastic.

@hyenjoe - thanks, I'm gona stick it to a lascannon arm same as the first one, although I was thinking of converting it so it looked like the left arm seismic hammer would, but then I would lose the doom siren. This gives me the opportunity to use an original seimic hammer arm but with the iron clad claw on the end, so both arms look similar.

@Melkhiordarkblade - yes iron clad had right hand ccw

I really wanted to finish my khorne dread, by making a twin linked autocannon. Unfortunatley my order of plastic rod has not arrived.

So I continued the GS on my nurgle dread. Also I went mad with my rotary tool, to magle up the armour and make it look mouldy

Now I started to add the vein effect I wanted to try, got the technique from tinfoil.

I'm quite happy with the skull.


I'm trying to build a flamer into the claw, pics later.

Wow, great work! I haven't been keeping up with this thread since you finished the Tzeentch one!

Thanks samus, I've been very busy since I finished tzeentchy.

Finished making the main body and engine look decayed. Also I though I better start trying to make my own bases. So I got the dread splatting an Imperial Guard, on a tiled floor.


The chap was using binoculars, but didn't see this coming

Got to add a few end trails to imperial head.


Now i've got to go to town on the arms to deacy them, also I need to build the claw arm.

Awesome dreds man these are some of the best ones I have seen. Very inspirational designs. I made my own chaos dred out of an old SM one and I have recently bought another one for cheap that needs fixing but I am feeling inspired now I have seen your work and need to raid my bits box.

Will def be following these guys progress.
What chainsaw did you use for Tzeentchy was it a Sentinel one?

tipios wrote:
Also I have started my nurgle dread. It took alot of filling, but I got the in the end.
This is a warhammer chaos shield, I love the detail on the face so had to do it.

You're welcome for this idea tipios

tipios wrote:Hey Warboss,

I know you look at my thread already because Hyenajoe sugested it (thanks Hyenajoe ).

The idea of using that chaos shiled with the face on is a good idea. I did it over the weekend, it takes alot of filling but well worth it.
I've updated on my blog, but here's the picture.


Also I am trying to cut up the warp face like you want, so it will fit on a shoulder, if it works I will put it on my blog. Hyenajoe did a good GS version on his nurgle dread, you could try that. You've got to start GS sculpting a some point, give it a go.
Check out all the chaos vehicle spurs for parts to add. Chains and skulls are a good addition too.

Good luck

Thanks Killmaimburnkillmaimburn and god luck with your next dread. I like the skulls and skeleton that you stuck to your dreads chaos symbol. -Yes the chainsaw is from the sentinal.

Lol Warboss, you really want the credit for this? I spent ages filling it down to fit really nicely inside .

I could not think of how to fit a flamer to my nurgle claw, so at 6am this morning a sat down, and came up with this.

Lol I want credit for the idea since it was mine and you got it from me tis only fair to give credit where credit is due the quality of how it turned out on your dread and the effort put into it however is all you

Oh ok! but I read your thread after I had already done the work. I'm happy to accept that you had the idea first on this sight, you can take all the credit if you like. If I see or read something then use that idea I always give credit. Please don't hate me.

full of win mate, epic work

BTW, I'm stealing the idea for the slaaneshi one. it would be rude not to

Maybe you should try to make a Pus canister for the top of your Nurgle dread to use as ammunition for the weapon it will be firing, which would be somewhat similar to the weapon a Nurgle Baneblade has.

Fantastic work! I hadn't looked at the thread in a while either, and a lot of this is just brilliant.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:Lol I want credit for the idea since it was mine and you got it from me tis only fair to give credit where credit is due the quality of how it turned out on your dread and the effort put into it however is all you

Seriously? He didn't get the idea from you. It'd be polite for you to check your dates before calling someone out like that. We really try to encourage folks to be extra courteous and supportive of one another in the P&M forums.

Thanks DPBellathrom - sonic boomness FTW

btemple0 - I'm trying to incorarate a barrel into the arm for the puss feeder, but maybe on the top of the dread is better, thaks for the idea.

Thanks Mannahnin.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:

Lol I want credit for the idea since it was mine and you got it from me tis only fair to give credit where credit is due the quality of how it turned out on your dread and the effort put into it however is all you

Seriously? He didn't get the idea from you. It'd be polite for you to check your dates before calling someone out like that. We really try to encourage folks to be extra courteous and supportive
of one another in the P&M forums.

Lets see, regardless of when he read it I had the idea to do it and posted it in my thread before he even created his and updated it into his blog. So it is natural for someone to think that if they post an idea and then someone else does the same thing shortly after it was posted that they got it from them. Now if it just happened to be coincidence then fine it happens and that's between myself and Tipios but I had not been able to respond before this to apologise. But in no way was I not supportive in what he's done or uncourteous, asking for credit when it's believed to be rightfully earned has nothing to do with either of those. He has done an amazing job on all of his dreadnoughts both conversion wise and painting and there are things he's done I will be using myself.

@Tipios: As I said since I have a chance to respond now it was only natural to think that you got the idea from me given the time frame in which I posted it and you did it, but if it was just coincidence then I apologise and you owe me nothing. You've done a great job on each of your dreadnoughts and as I said in my thread I'll be using the Doom Siren gun frame idea for my Word Bearers Drednought, keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing the rest of your work

Oh are you going to make an Undivided dread to?

Warboss - No need to apologise, I did not make it clear that I had the same idea, Ijust posted the picture in your thread so you could see that it was a good idea and you should do it, so it is totally my fault for the misunderstanding.

Oh and my aim is to do as many different chaos dreads as possible, so yes I will like to try to make an undivided dread, good luck with yours

Well you deffinitly seem to have a nack for it I'd like to see your take on a dreadnough that isn't piloted by a Chaos Marine but is possessed by a daemon, but anyway keep up the good work

Oh yes, from a pervious question asked to me, I have not converted any nids, I just like to paint them like cockroaches, so those TFGs and Annoying Game Store Kids, will not touch them.

Warboss - Do you mean, like a short of daemon prince conversion?

btemple0 - Im really going for your idea of barrel ontop of the dread, I've only got a barrel from the leman russ spure, and was going to cut it in half and stick it on top. Hope to have that done tomorrow. Or should I try and find a differnet type of container?

Today I've got a couple more things done.

A bitz order for a twinlinked lascannon came today, so I got straight onto my sonic blaster.

Cut the lascannons off, and pinned the blaster, also stuck on the chaos symbol.


Then I've just got to GS the gap.




I'm thinking of leaving the the dreads mouth open, and using GS to sculpt the bottom half of the daemon face, I've also got a dragons tounge that can stick out.(still just a thought)



Now for mr nurgle.
With the latest bitz order I also got my nurgle symbols.

The claw arm is put together next. The same way as the khorne dread.

I forgot to show this stage of the arm last time. It's packed out with GS to help give it strength.

Before gluing the back plate on, you can see in the next photo some plastic needs to removed to allow the dreads arm pin to slot in.

Finished.

Now I just need to go over the upper arm with the rotary tool, and and some pusssyness and veins.

After btemple0s advice the next thing to do is to add the puss feeder for the puss gun, and after looking at some nurgle tanks that have a short of puss cannon, the puss gun needs much more GS work, luckily I've bought a load of it

Lastly I took a group photo of the boys, showing work done so far.


The only too main things to do now, is the khorne twin linked auto cannon, and the slaanesh claw fist which is gona be the right hand claw from the ironclad, converted the left.
Any surggestions welcome.

You can get some of the thinner rubber surgical tubinb and connect it to the barrel and the other end of the tube goes to something that is like a cauldron which would ride on top.

then you GS over the other end of the barrel to make it look like there is a biological relase point for a pus cannon

No not like a DP, it isn't too far stretched to say that Chaos Marines would plunder and defile captured Space Marine equiptment. And dreadnoughts aren't always in use or occupied so if a Chaos force had recently aquired a Dreadnought shell and had no one to put in it then it could be possible for it to be possessed by a daemon in the same way as other chaos vehicles ya see where I'm going with this?

Ok but i thought, using the skulls and face, as the sarcophagus was a bit daemony already, thats why I put them inside where the marine would be instead of just stuck on the front.

Amazing dreads. Truly inspiring work.

Thanks BlutEisenRegel, I like your ork plane, and bike conversion

Quick update on Nurgle.

The rotary tool was out to mash up the armour,


and my final decision on the puss feeder, was to place t on the arm, not on top of the dread. Rotary tool again, now just left to do a mega GS puss gun sculpt, and finish the GS on the claw arm.



It looks like Nurgle will be the next dread finished, as I'm having so much fun doing it.

I see you found soemthing to hold the pus, now you just need a tube. Were you able to find any elastic or plastic tubing you could GS over?

Great work so far on the Pus cannon.

Eh that's fair I guess but to me that's more like metal that has been carved to look like a daemon instead of an actual daemon ya know? and skulls don't really say daemon to me the daemon would take the dreadnought and mutate it alot, I guess I'm thinking something like a Soul Grinder except in dreadnought form. Maybe I'll do it myslf


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Oh and the mold on your dread looks good, it reminds me of that green mossy slime that builds up on lake beds.

Thanks btemple0 - I have not got any tubing at home, but I saw this on the net last night. http://www.hiroboy.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=93&products_id=3629, I'ts just a bit expensive, but looks intresting. At work today I hope to find something.

Warboss - I got you now. When my GS skills get better I would like to sculpt something like that.

If you're looking for a nice tube,I remember Lego had some thing like it.



You can see the tube bit at the head.
I'm sure lego bits will be easier to find.

Nice one Melkhiordarkblade looking now.

I really like the group shot.

I can't wait to see some paint on your new dreads, especially on the Nurgle one! I really like the pus cannon, and the filed armor plate!

Your slaanesh dread is very promising, and since you've decided to leave it's mouth open, I suggest you give him some teeth or tongue(s). I'm planning to give chainsaw teeth to my Corpse Grinder (using CSM chainswords and this defiler breastplate)

@bunnygurl - next group shot I will do will be all painted, I hope, maybe next year lol!

@hyenajoe - I've just ordered a load of lego pipes that look very promising(thanks too Melkhiordarkblade) for the puss feeder, I've also started to GS pussy skin over the cannon it's self(pics up later). So if all goes well painting could start this weekend on nurgle. Now I've seen your WIP of you upper arms, I might be working on khorne tonight because I really like that idea of cutting up the chaos symbols, and want to give that a go.

On the slaanesh I've got the dragons tongue from the high elf model, and I'm planning to GS bigger upper teeth and add lower teeth with a bottom jaw.

tipios wrote:I've also started to GS pussy skin over the cannon it's self(pics up later).

Wait, you can say that?

Group shot looks inspiring, Tip.

wooooooooooooooooooooooops!!!! I must have been thinking of something else when I wrote that lol!!

If you want any ideas, game-wise, you could use the pus-cannon as a missile launcher (lots of dilute acid = frag, concentrated bile = krak)

Keep up the awesome work!

S_P

Thanks Space_Potato

I forgot the football was on tonight, so didn't get alot done

Here's the pus cannon GS so far. I need to go all around the barrel



I have finally started the khorne's autocannon. Just the barrel position done so far, to give me an idead of what it looks like.

The ammo drums will be at the back of the arm.

Looking amazing so far. I readily await the day when I can see them all finished.

tipios wrote:Thanks BlutEisenRegel, I like your ork plane, and bike conversion

And thank you!

So your Slaanesh Sound Cannon got me to thinking Tipios, that is honestly something I've never seen before or heard of and is very god/legion specific. Have you thought of anything else like that?

For instance I'm thinking of how I could make a "container" on a Khorne Dreds back that is a portable shrine to Khorne. Some sort of basket that warriors can throw skulls and heads into, besides what is a greater shrine to khorne then a giant walking killing machine?

You have any ideas?

@ZacktheChaosChild - thanks, I hope to have nurgle finished next week.

@BlutEisenRegel - your welcome

@Warboss Imbad Ironskull - The basket is a good idea. I would try making a sacrifice hole on top of the dread, with chaos markings and the new deamon prince back spikes all around it. The hole would be full up with skulls and heads. Oh maybe you could leave the top of the dread off, so it could be filled up with skulls, bodies, and heads. Put spikes all around the top. The driver could be a bloodletter chained to the front. The weapons would be a chain fist and a claw, which would be long enough to reach up to place the victims in the sacrifice hole. Dam, I might have to start another dread now:(

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:So your Slaanesh Sound Cannon got me to thinking Tipios, that is honestly something I've never seen before or heard of and is very god/legion specific. Have you thought of anything else like that?

For instance I'm thinking of how I could make a "container" on a Khorne Dreds back that is a portable shrine to Khorne. Some sort of basket that warriors can throw skulls and heads into, besides what is a greater shrine to khorne then a giant walking killing machine?

You have any ideas?

tipios wrote:@ZacktheChaosChild - thanks, I hope to have nurgle finished next week.

@BlutEisenRegel - your welcome

@Warboss Imbad Ironskull - The basket is a good idea. I would try making a sacrifice hole on top of the dread, with chaos markings and the new deamon prince back spikes all around it. The hole would be full up with skulls and heads. Oh maybe you could leave the top of the dread off, so it could be filled up with skulls, bodies, and heads. Put spikes all around the top. The driver could be a bloodletter chained to the front. The weapons would be a chain fist and a claw, which would be long enough to reach up to place the victims in the sacrifice hole. Dam, I might have to start another dread now:(

Have you thought of using the Vampire Counts Corpse cart pile of bodies? Perhaps it's a little oversized but it would look great on top of a Dreadnought.

Hyenajoe, that does look the part. If it is too big, maybe the dread could pull it along:O The spikes look really good, I think it could be down sized and put on top.


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Slaanesh got a new tongue, teeth, and claw today.



Also I got some work done on the khorne auto cannon. This is just to show me where the ammo drum will go. I can't cut the plastic straight enough with the tools I've got, so need to go shopping. Then I can finish it off.


Nurgle got GS today too. I hope all my tubing comes tomorrow. Then it will be well on the way for painting this weekend.

What green is good for nurgle? I might have to order some paint.

tipios wrote:@ZacktheChaosChild - thanks, I hope to have nurgle finished next week.

@BlutEisenRegel - your welcome

@Warboss Imbad Ironskull - The basket is a good idea. I would try making a sacrifice hole on top of the dread, with chaos markings and the new deamon prince back spikes all around it. The hole would be full up with skulls and heads. Oh maybe you could leave the top of the dread off, so it could be filled up with skulls, bodies, and heads. Put spikes all around the top. The driver could be a bloodletter chained to the front. The weapons would be a chain fist and a claw, which would be long enough to reach up to place the victims in the sacrifice hole. Dam, I might have to start another dread now:(

See I wasen't thinking about putting a hole into the dreadnought, I'm thinking of an actual basket mounted on the dreadnoughts back with maybe chains that are punched into the metal in between its exhaust pipes, almost like an Iron brazzier just filled with skulls and heads. You gave me an idea though that I could have a Bloodletter hanging off the back of the basket with a spear that it uses to stab severed heads as the dreadnought passes by.

The Slaanesh Dread was a KISS fan in life.

I love the tongue! (part of being French I guess )

The ammo drum is impressive, great plasticard job!

What a great topic for a blog! And you've done stellar work on the subject matter.

veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery nice!
*hrgm* cough cough
AWESOME! want to see more

Cheers LFF666

The best and cheapest way of geting small tubes, is using guitar strings. A lot of music shops will give you old strings for free.

@hyenajoe - thanks, I'm really happy with the way the autocannon is coming on.

@migsula - thanks, love your models especially the chaos

@LiveforFun666 - thanks, great looted tanks > and am intrested in seeing your keeper of sectrets finished.

@Necanor - I've got loads of guitar string but I wanted something a bit bigger.

This lego pipe is great, but it is rubber.

Some GS work done, again I seem to have slowed down alot. So progress is taken longer than I hoped.

Cut the arms of the imperial guard that has been splated, need to add GS endtrails.

Still alot more GS work to be done, I'm trying not to rush it.

Well, I just got caught up through this blog and have to say I'm a fan. Great work.

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@Necanor - I've got loads of guitar string but I wanted something a bit bigger.

Not to sound like a smart ass, but have you thought about bass strings. A Low E string for the bass is substantially larger than a guitar's low E, especially if you go for the largest guage you can find.

Moltar wrote:

tipios wrote:
@Necanor - I've got loads of guitar string but I wanted something a bit bigger.

Not to sound like a smart ass, but have you thought about bass strings. A Low E string for the bass is substantially larger than a guitar's low E, especially if you go for the largest guage you can find.

You are right, bass strings are often better.

I cannot wait to see the tank filled with whatever is going to go inside now.

Haha you looked up my stuff 8D? XD
i think most of it is scheisse, but i'll give another shot to that Keeper, just for you
And looking good so far

Cheers^^

Nice job.

I only fear that paint might not stay on the Lego pipe.

If the paint does not stay you could always just GS something fancy over it, making it look like it has some musculature or something.

I was gona try varnishing it first.

it looks great!

Hi tipios, see that you're still hard at work on models that do something completely stupid and annoying 1/3rd of the time... ha.

I finally finished the Death Guard Dreadnought. I won't post the pic here, you know where to find it. Just wanted to drop a line to let you the inspiration you gave me came to "life" and now I'm going to go back and do a bit of GS work on my old metal Chaos Dreadnought.

The cannon on your Nurgle Dreadnought is sick. I love it. I might have to go back to the main gun on mine and ruin it a bit more. I've been thinking about getting add'l weapons and magnatizing them, maybe I'll -steal your idea- try something different on that.

@stalk - yes checked out your dread, looks amazing, so does the rest of the army. I'm trying my best to get my nurgle done, but I just run out off steam, so took a break for a couple of days. Glad to see I could inspire you and your gona get back to you metal dread soon

btemple0 wrote:If the paint does not stay you could always just GS something fancy over it, making it look like it has some musculature or something.

ustom paint Lego parts, Citadel paints or any water-based paints should work fine.

Also, great dreads.

WOW Your work is truly inspiring mate, the look awesome

Thanks Capt. Rex and White-Wolf

No work today, so I was able to get the nurgle dread ready for paint.



Only details on the base left, and the puss barrel needs filling with puss


Done some teeth on the leg plate,



For Slaanesh the doom siren has got a tongue.



Has anyone got some tips for the green on the nurgle.

Watch Lbursleys painting Death guard marines video, it should be in the P&M sextion, you may be able to get some ideas from that.

Thanks btemple

Through watching your blog I was inspired to touch up my chaos dread and I also started converting the aobr one into a nurgle dread. They are so much fun to build I might have to get one of the new furioso's and corrupt that one too mwah ha ha Can't wait to see them all finished and painted.

@Killmaim, yeah the new furioso looks like it has many nice bits to use for a chaos conversion, good luck if you go with that. Nurgle should be ready by the end of the week. here's a prize for being the 200th post

Wow , these teeth on the Nurgle dread's leg plate are awesome! A clean scultping job, very impressive!
On the other hand you might work a little more on the lips (which are too smooth for Nurgle, IMO) once the GS will be hardened.

I had not noticed the way you have inserted the flamer in the CCW, good job there too!

The tongue and chains on the doom siren are amazing too!

What about the Slaaneshi dread's leg plates?

Thanks Hyena.

For the mouth I sculpted the teeth first, then when dried added the lips. I agree with the too smooth look, fixing now.

Here's what I've done with the slaanesh plates.




I'm planning more chains, and have just got the main mouth and engine to do.

WHat is that face you used on the Slaanesh leg plate with the spike coming through its mouth?

Its the a defiler face cut down a bit.

Are you going to do a bit more on the the Slaanesh leg plate to blend it in? right now it's just kind of stuck on there maybe you could have it look like the metal is stretching out into a daemonic face?

Yes it needs the old GS'ing. The stretching thing is a great idea, thanks!!

These are some sick looking dreads you have here. I wish I had the time and skill to put together something close to the collection you are amassing. Can't wait to see more.

Thanks Stretch, here are some more pics.

I know I had planned to have paint on my nurgle dread, but I still had to fill the barrel up, and felt I need to add some more detail here and there.

I have filled the barrel with pvc glue, and placed more glue over the top of the barrel to give a spilling effect.




A few more details added to the claw arm.





The leg plate lips were made to look less smooth.



I've started constructing the mouth of the slaanesh dread. This is a big sculped job, and I'm taken it slow, I hope it turtns out ok, or I will have to buy more dread parts and start again lol.



Hope you enjoy, any suggestions welcome.

Magnificent dreadnoughts! I'm looking forward to seeing how it comes together.

Just WOW!!!

Thanks guys.

Oh well, while waiting for GS to dry on the other dreads, I could no longer resist starting another dread

It's gona be an Iron Warrior. So I've used an Ironclad torso, and I'm gona beef up armour where I can.

I've started with a drop pod missile launcher, and armoured it up with defiler parts. When it's finished it's gona be a missile launcher on legs

See if you can give it a larger vox for the body, and I am thinking a plasma cannon for this guy. Then again I may be referring to a story of a Iron Warriors dread that I read in a BL book.

Hi btemple0, what do you mean by larger vox? Plasma cannon sounds good, I will see if I can make something big, that would count as plasma.

IIRC on the underside of the sarcoughagus and whatnot there is a vox so the dread can communicate with others, bossibly make something like a large speaker or something, I am running off of the idea of "the wailer" from one of the short stories in a BL novel. "The Wailer" is an Iron Warriors dreadnought that was nost noted for the wailing and shreiking that its victims heard before their death, and the thing it most loved hunting and killing was loyalist astartes.

http://www.modelbits.co.uk/Warhammer+40k/Space+Marines/Venerable+Dreadnought/Space+Marine+Venerable+Dreadnought+Plasma+Cannon.html

that bit should cover it, should you find a shoulder piece you could mount it in, then just cover the shoulder with a nice thick piece of plasticard, calling it a thick armour plate.

And for the CCW see if you could fabricate some sort of battering ram, seeing as the Iron Warriors specialise in seige warfare.

Nice one Btemp. Thats given me a great idea. The space either side of the missile launcher I can put megaphone type speakers that will represent what you have just explained. Battering ram is also on the list now.

Man how do you get the money for all these dreads?

I think most are AoBR conversions

They are all full plastic dreads but bought from bitz sellers. Don't tell the wife how much I have spent otherwise this will be last post from me

Iron Warriors Dreadnought,sounds cool.

Btw I hope you don't mind if I make one just like it.
Because Iron Warriors are quite cool.
(I just finished reading Storm of Iron).

Yes more dreads!!!!

Are you going to make one for each Traitor Legion?! A Night Lord or Alpha Legion one would be interesting hint hint.

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:Iron Warriors Dreadnought,sounds cool.

Btw I hope you don't mind if I make one just like it.
Because Iron Warriors are quite cool.
(I just finished reading Storm of Iron).

Fell free to copy any ideas here, just try to post pics of it to incourage others to follow the way of the chaos dread conversion

Killmaimburnkillmaimburn wrote:Yes more dreads!!!!

Are you going to make one for each Traitor Legion?! A Night Lord or Alpha Legion one would be interesting hint hint.

I am planning to do all yes, I already have some bits ready for the nightlord, but I have run out of torsos and legs, so I will have to do a big bitz order soon.

tipios wrote: When it's finished it's gona be a missile launcher on legs

Almost everything in 40k should fall under this guideline.

Curious to see what you do for the Word Bearers.

So am I

Nice sig, Tipios!

I liked the comment so much I had too

Well, it seems someone's been busy during last days!

Great job on the lips, your leg plate is now 100% awesome! As for the pus tank, pva glue is a good idea.
The mouth on your Slaanesh dread is great too!

For the leg plates, since you've used the same Venerable leg plates as I did, I encourage you to work them like I did on the iconless one before to add the shield and defiler head:


Your Iron Warriors dread is on the good way (and the missile launcher on the top fits better than on the Khorne dread).

I'd like to make a Night Lords dread myself, but I already have a lot to do with my ongoing projects (and I'm trying to reduce my modeling budget this year )

Anyway, I'll be following your new projects closely.

By the way, any news of your Khorne Dread? Is the autocanon done?

Thanks Hyena.

I'm getting really bold with the GS now. On the Slaanesh leg plates I am blending in the defiler face, so it looks like it is stretching out of the plate(warboss's suggestion), I gona try with the skull face too but it might look silly, so may end up taking it off, and doing as you say.

I really wanted to do a dread with a missile launcher on the top, so the Iron warriors was the perfect start.

Auto cannon, I've only added a daemon head to the top barrel. I have not done anymore work on the ammo drums, because I have not been able to cut the tube straight enough.

Impressive work man! To be totally honest I didn't like your first one at all, but imho your work has improved a lot from dread to dread. The nurgle dread kicks ass. And my absolute favorite part is the melee weapon of the khorne dread. It looks like it is a little deamon itself, with the face and chainsaws as arms, can picture it screaming and buzzing. I'm really picky when it comes to cc weapons on dreads, hardly ever found a credible and stylish one. Yours is ACE!
(Actually reminds me of Khorn-E the evil brother of Wall-E, a conversion a mate started to show how all the skulls are being cleaned and polished for the mighty skull throne)

Thanks Baiyuan, yes I feel I'm improving alot as I go, helped alot by fellow dakkite tuts and blogs. do you have pics of the skull clearner?

On the Khorne dread I am considering putting the chainsaws on the autocannon too, for ultra chainsaw madness. I've already put the same daemon head over the top barrel of the cannon, so it mirrors the other arm.


Should I go for the extra chainsaws everyone

Maybe you should do one combat blade shaped like an axe head at the bottom on the lower barrel.

You think chainsaws either side of the autocannon is a bit OTT?

They are all full plastic dreads but bought from bitz sellers. Don't tell the wife how much I have spent otherwise this will be last post from me

Lol, love it. I like the puss tub on the nurgle dread, the new dread is shaping up nicely as well. Keep up the good work!


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tipios wrote:You think chainsaws either side of the autocannon is a bit OTT?

No, there's never enough chainsaw!
Remember what Dracula said:
"Chainzzaw izz ze life, Rrrenfield!"

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I did not know Dracual said that but here are the chainsaws on the cannon arm


Wow that means just the ammon barrels to complete and another is ready for paint

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Chainsaws FTW!!! Are you going to paint the God specific dreads in the colours of a matching legion, i.e Khorne= World Eaters, Slaanesh = Emperor's Children?

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Yes I am.

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tipios wrote:I did not know Dracual said that

Believe me, he did!

The autocannon is on the good way. I cant wait to see your Khorne dread done!

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I believe you

I feel the autocannon with the chainsaws really looks good, and don't know why I didn't do it before. I would have done more but my raptor bits came and I just had to start him, so far he looks really cool even if I do say so myself


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Checked!

You've done a good job today, we'll forgive you for not working on the dread

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Tipios wrote:They are all full plastic dreads but bought from bitz sellers. Don't tell the wife how much I have spent otherwise this will be last post from me

Stretch wrote:Lol, love it. I like the puss tub on the nurgle dread, the new dread is shaping up nicely as well. Keep up the good work!


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Fixed ur original quote to how it should have looked lol I think what ur problem was is you typed your response inside of what you quoted. Just remember you'll always have a begin quote HTMl and an end quote HTML for every section of text you want to quote. for example

warboss imbad ironskull wrote:

The dreads in this thread are very creative

I'm sure everyone agrees

Hope that helps

Ok back on topic @Tipios: To me it seems like the drum barrel needs something extra to it because right now with just the barrel and a peg connecting it it looks like it woulden't be able to spin. That's just me though

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@warboss - Yes it is just a peg holding the drum in position too give me a idea of where it will be. I have stopped work on the detailing of the autocannon for now, because I am waiting for a mitre, which will help be cut the pastic tube straight.
Here's a pic of him with all his chainsaws

and the slaanesh where I have stared to blend the face in as you suggested

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The slaanesh dread leg plates are great, the blending of the face is well done.

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yeah, thanks hyena for pointing out I sould smouth the plate under the skull head, I was being mega lazy it looks much better.

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Pustank on your nurgledread looks great, whole dread looks great!
You're making Iron Warriors dread This project just leaped a couple of steps on the awesome scale! Want one for my ormy, but I'll probably take the easy way out and order one from FW. Will you model yours after that one?
Wish I could give some advice or critisism, but I'm to mesmerized. Keep up the good work!!

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Hi limbo, and thanks.

Nooooo, you need to make your own dread or if you want a FW, I would get the new ironclad, and convert it. Your iron warrior look amazing and they need a dread

I'm going for a plasma gun, battering ram, and rocket launcher sa you can see. The only thing I might use from FW is an chaos world eaters dread head that I already have, but not sure of how i'm gona do it yet.

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Awesome stuff. I'm really itching to see these painted.

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I actually have 2 dreads for my IW, one nurgle and one regular GW metal dread. Nurgle dread is painted and done as you've probably seen, metal one is still in WIP stage, can't be botherd to fix the magnets for all his weapon options. So he'll probably stay bare until I've done some work on my new tyranids.
Tyranids is also the reason why I wont get around to converting my own dread, even tought it would be awsome. Gah, seeing this thread makes me understand how Skalk feels >_>

And thanks for the compliment about my Iron Warriors =)

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THAT

IS

AWESOME!!!


Ok, I am doing that. Not even going to pretend I'm not ripping it off directly. Remember that World Eaters dreadnought I posted forever ago that I could not figure out how to fix the DCCW on its left arm?

There you go. I'm off to shop for bits. Will let you know when it is done.

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@ZacktheChaosChild - thanks

@Limbo - yes I have seen your nurgle dread, nicely painted, and your tyranids looking good too. I still thing you should get the FW inronclad but just paint it in your iron warriors colours, your yellow and red stripping is really good.

@stalk - thanks man!, I was really happy how it turned out, and am going to do it again for the Iron Warrior. If you are gona do the left arm, just buy a seismic hammer if you can, there's less cutting to be done.

Here are some test pics of the Iron Warrior plasma cannon, and battering ram.

He has borrows slaanesh's legs, and khorne's right arm for this photo shoot.


Still needs work to make it fit nicely. It's the sentinal's plasma gun.

Just used the seimic hammer with a piece of wall, as the tip. Only concern here is the gun looks a little thin, is the ven dread plasms part bigger than this?



Any one got any ideas that might help, please feel free to give me

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re: Plasma Gun... cables. Lots of cables. Guitar strings of various gauge, maybe even bass strings because they are much beefier. I think cables connected into it would "fill out" the empty spaces w/o having to add anything to the gun itself.

And oh yeah, the Seismic Hammer... I already have a left arm that is ready to go, it's been stripped and filed and should work ok, but I have looked them up and can grab one if this doesn't work out how I am hoping.

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thanks stalk

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It is the same size, BUT it is also molded into the arm, so yes, add a lot of cables and armor plating.

Remember....

IRON WITHIN! IRON WITHOUT!

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thats 2 for cables

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Yeah I'd say add some armor to the cannon, maybe give it some kind of breach tool on that side. Like the PC fires plasma at a bastion/tank and then slams the breacher into the melting metal expanding the hole and it woulden't be the battering ram because this arm would expand like a hydraulic piston. Also if you wanted you could add trophies as if your dread was at the siege of Terra.

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I agree with cables and armor plates.

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Love the drill weapon on the IW dread. You keep coming up with creative new conversion ideas. Always a treat.

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do you have pics of the skull clearner?

Met the guy yesterday to do some necromunda scenery and asked him for it. He is working on it but not done yet, it's just a little fun thing on the side. I'll try to remember to show once he is done.
It's based on this one here:

without the drills in front, so it's basicly a conveyer for skulls. With the upper body of this I think even though it seems to big right now, might be wrong, it's been a while since I've seen Khorn-E:

They enter dirty at the front, they exit clean and shiny at the back.

btw I like the use of sentinel legs for arms, make the dreads look a lot more agile, which is something I miss about the originals.

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Oh forgot to say thanks to btemple before for checking the size of the plasmagun

@warboss - what would the siege of Terra trophies be, as I have know idea.

@hyena - deffo cables and armour, I have a selection on guitar string ready.

@tinfoil - thanks, I spend ages going through bitz shops looking at stuff, and thinking yeah that will work. Which has become an expensive technique, and dangerous (if the wife finds the visa bill lol!)

@Baiyuan - I look forward to those pics. I got the idea of the arms after looking at the FW CCW, the only thing to hag that I had at the time was sentinal legs.

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Post by: Warboss Imbad Ironskull

Eh maybe a chunk of the wall, some heads of the defenders most likely Imperial Fist. Maybe even some of the dreads armor and parts could be taken from a IF dread. Look up The Cage of Lexicanum

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Post by: tipios

TThanks warboss - I'm gona add some space marine helmets as trophies, painted as IF.

For the siege weapon instead of what I have done I might buy the new BA dreads left arm with the sword in it, but use the wall piece on the end instead of the sword, or I might try and make something myself.

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Post by: tipios

I have tried a different way of making the siege weapon of the iron warrior.

So now it looks like the end piece is on the end of a hydraulic ram, for smashing stuff. It was inspired by the new BA dread's sword stabby arm . I was gona just buy that arm and be done, but that would be too easy, expensive, and no fun.

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Post by: LiveforFun666

Thats really cool i like it ^^
i was just gonna suggest that arm but your version has more charm to it
What faceplate do you have plannes for it? i think maybe some hotwired mad cultist could be cool

Cheers LFF666

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Post by: tipios

Thanks 666, I have not thought about the faceplate yet, but I might try something like that.

I've made the IW a bit taller by sticking sentinal feet on it.

I have given him big toes, to help him climb through rubbled buildings he has just smashed.

A flamer for mass burning,

and now he has got a trophy rack of IF SM parts, from the big fight they had once



Now I'm off to sort out his plasma cannon.

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Post by: Melkhiordarkblade

To be honest.

I thought the 1st seige hammer arm was better,it looked stronger than this new arm.

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Post by: Hyenajoe

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:To be honest.

I thought the 1st seige hammer arm was better,it looked stronger than this new arm.

The structure of the new arm is good, and IMO better than the first one, but the length of the weapon makes it look more like a lance than like a siege weapon.

That's the only point that can be improved on this conversion. I've never been a huge fan of the Iron Warriors ant their imagery, but this dread looks incredibly good!

...And I nearly forgot: This trophy rack!

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Post by: tipios

Thanks for the comments guys. The idea is that this is the weapon fully extended, as it is a piston hammer type thing, I do agree that the end could be a bit bigger, I am looking into adding somthing behind the tip to give it weight.

@hyena - I am proud of the trophy rack , thanks

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Post by: Malganess

These are AWESOME!!! I love these. Great job.

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Post by: Warboss Imbad Ironskull

To bad you coulden't actually make the ram retractable.

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Post by: LiveforFun666

Ooooh.. me no likie toes.. they look goofy and out of place, the sentinel feet were good without 'em.
How's the plasma cannon going? i thought it looke great, want to se more such arms

Cheers// Toby (easier to write xD)

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Post by: Rose_Mountainz

I think you should put a missile launcher on the IW dread's left arm and make it a walking gun of awesomenes.

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Post by: btemple0

Or ring the center hydraulic ram looking part with ML tubes, that way it can penetrate armour from both far away and up close and personal.

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Post by: Killmaimburnkillmaimburn

Nice work as usual! I particularly like the shoulder pad on the trophy rack it's a nice change to just severed heads. Are the trophies Imperial Fists?
I agree with Liveforfun the toes look too long.

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Post by: tipios

Thanks for the comments guys.

@warboss - it could be made retractable with brass or aluminum tube, but I'm not going to

@liveforfun - I did do this in a rush, and because I have just stuck the toe on top of the other it does look silly. I might make it the same as the back toe. Plasms gun has just been set in place ready for more cables.

@rose + btemple - more missiles

@killmaimburn - yes they are Imperial Fist, and toes are gona be ajusted

Today I have just done a couple of things,

first, slaanesh left side of mouth has been built up. I have decided that the whole face is gona be warping out of the dreads body, this means filing back the plate part of the face until only the skin is left then GS it so it looks like it's stretching out of the body


I have made the IW plasma arm so he no longer needs to borrow Khorne's, now it just needs a load of cables everywhere.


I have started paint nurgle. I have just done the legs, trying to get the armour they way I want, If it goes wrong then I only need to change the legs

The bare metal will be mostly rusty, and I've got to add rust to the most worn away parts of the armour.

What colour should I paint the skin and tentacle parts?

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Post by: Warboss Imbad Ironskull

I'd say purple for the tentacles, it would be a good contrast to the rotten colors.

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Post by: chuckwilliams

Baiyuan wrote:

do you have pics of the skull clearner?

without the drills in front, so it's basicly a conveyer for skulls. With the upper body of this I think even though it seems to big right now, might be wrong, it's been a while since I've seen Khorn-E:

They enter dirty at the front, they exit clean and shiny at the back.

I bet it gets really gassy when it processes Orks. Smell it for miles... Papa Nurgle covets the Skullcleaner's Orky bowel movements... they are a thing of putrid beauty.

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Post by: ZacktheChaosChild

I have to admit I'm not a fan of the huge tongue. But they are going great!

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Post by: Asrodrig

Nice stuff! I especially like the Sentinel feet on the Iron Warriors Dread! It's a nice touch.

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Post by: Baiyuan

The huge mouth on the slaanesh one works so much better for me then the first build. Don't know about the tongue, but the mouth is great.

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Post by: tipios

Thanks guys, I'm loving sculpting the mouth. Maybe when he's got all the weapons on the tongue will not look so bad too you, I personally love it

I'm stuck on how to do the purple on the skin and tentacles on my nurgle. Should I start with white, them make a purple wash? or some other way. I fear my painting skills are gona spoil the model:(

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Post by: btemple0

Start white and use a purple acrylic artist's ink

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Post by: tipios

Thanks btemple, I've got an old GW purple ink, would that be the same?

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Post by: btemple0

Should work just fine

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Post by: tinfoil

Good stuff here, as usual tip. I Particularly like where you're taking the daemon-mouth on the Slaanesh dread.

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Post by: tipios

Thanks tinfoil. I'm pleased with the idea of the slaanesh, even though it may take a while to do, I just had to try it

I been busy at work, so when getting home I'm a bit tierd so progress is slow.

I've just added a bit more rust detail to the legs.

Done the mouth too! I need to go over the amour again with some greens, because I went OTT with brown.

Khorne got some muzels on his autocannon, I think this weekend I will try to finish the autocannon off.

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Post by: Warboss Imbad Ironskull

I'm not sure about the dragons head at the back and front of the muzzle

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Post by: Baiyuan

Got to agree with Ironskull. One "mug"zzle should do it. Apart from that I still love it, like I said before.

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Post by: Hyenajoe

I like your paintjob on the mouth

About the autocanon, I have to agree there's too much dragon heads on it. IMO the one on the back could be removed.

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Post by: tipios

I'm going for the rear dragon head on the autocannon, so I need to make up normal muzzels for the ends.

Sorry guys but I didn't get much done on the dreads this week:(

but I did cut out the slaanesh head, which will be blended into the dread's body.



@hyena - do you think I should go for the mouth colour on all the nurgle skin?

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Post by: Killmaimburnkillmaimburn

I would suggest going with the mouth colour for the rest of the nurgle skin as it will help continuity and tie the model together and it is suitably Nurgliefied.

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Post by: tipios

OK

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Post by: The Ravening Jaw

Amazing work... Every single one of the dreads is dead on... keep it up, i look forward to seeing more.

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Post by: tipios

Thanks Ravening Jaw,

Had a slow week or so on the dreads, mainly due to work on other projects, but also because I ran out of ideas on a few things.

Painting is going very slowly on nurgle.

I've done the claw arm differently from the legs, I prefer it my self, looks like the mouldy look I wanted in the first place. So i need to do the legs again:(


After ages deciding what to do with the iron worriors face plate a hour ago it came to me Using hyenajoes style front, I shaved down a warhammer chaos shoulder pad as the head. Still work to be down be I like the way it is going.

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Post by: Killmaimburnkillmaimburn

Really liking the new faceplate it fits perfectly (Dammit you are making me want to build a new dread again)

I'm still not liking the toes, they seem too long when you compare them to the length of the leg, like clown shoes for the lack of a better term.

I like the look of the Nurgle arm almost looks like moss of algae on a wreck . Could you post some more pics of the arm?

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Post by: Warboss Imbad Ironskull

where do you order your bits from?

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Post by: tipios

@killmaim - thanks alot toes are gona be made smaller I just have not done it yet. I'll take more pics tonight.

@warboss - There's a few different online bitz shops in the uk, or I use Ebay.

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Post by: Ouze

I can't lie, I'm myself doing an Iron Warriors themed army, and have put my Dreadnought (converted from a loyalist Venerable) on hold until I see everything you do with yours; it's a really bangup job.

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Post by: tipios

Thanks Ouze I've seen your IW army and like it alot, the dread claw is a win What weapon are you gona put in the right arm? I'll try to finish this dread as quick as possible, but ATM I'm stuck on the plasma gun. I think the barrel looks too small. So I may need to make my own.

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