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

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

Could we get some more pictures as this looks super kool

I do much prefer your take on the Dreadknight.

+1 more pics please.

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

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







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

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


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

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

Ok wow, this is an awesome conversion!

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

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

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

-Sincerely Viridian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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



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

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

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Wow. Wow wow wow.

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

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

Thanks guys! :-)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sorry, what power weapon idea?

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

Green/jade as contrast.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Very nice work. Just love the banner loincloth... think I might be stealing that idea.

THAT is what the Dreadknight should have looked like! Awesome job, man!

Thanks guys!

Balsak: Thought somenone would notice. :-D It's the codpiece from the original pilot. Actually the new codpiece on the banner, is a shoulder pad, so it also has a lot of upside down words. I guess I'll fix it sometime. I don't have access to green stuff right now.

The reason why I used a small shield, was to make sure it wouldn't attract too much attention, away from the head, since the head isn't incredibly large.

Feel free to steal any and all ideas. I can't really take credit for the loincloth, I saw it somewhere on the net.

awesome stuff man! Keep it up!

This is SO MUCH BETTER than the normal one. Great work. I'll be keeping my eye on this to see the end result

That dreadknight is delicious, such an improvement over the standard model.

Thanks a lot, guys - I am really overwhelmed by the response. :-)

Unfortunately, I've been sick the past couple days (clogged sinuses - I think its called? Snot all over, and makes my head hurt. :-( ), so I haven't gotten any further. I'll update as soon as I get more done.

In the meantime: How come dakka keeps logging me off? I've checked off the box "keep me logged in on this computer"?

Also, to the guys inspired by my conversion; I'd really love to see what you will do with the kit - please feel welcome to post some pics in this thread. :-)

How exactly did you get the legs in that pose?

That looks awesome, way better than the original. I love the colour scheme too. Great job

Looks like a really cool conversion. I like it. How are you going to paint it? Are you going to do it the same as your other GK or are you going to do it the more traditional way?

Looks great.

Love it! you totally fixed the original baby carriage concept that GW went after lol. Keep up the great work man!


Wolf

That is how a Dread Knight should look like , the idea was for a GK in a larger power armor NOT a baby carrier

Looks great, much better then the normal version.

Thats really nice. I just don't have the attetion span to do that good of a conversion. I give it a 10 out of 10!

This thread is inspiring to me.

Could you make another with a pictorial on how you put it together? I want to make three!

Love it! I really want to do an ork conversion for it but this makes me just want to run it as GK!

-cgmckenzie

I had been planning to do that same color scheme, but you did it masterfully!

Another thing, With this scheme, it feels almost steampunk. This gave me inspiration for another dreadknight. Where the pistons are replaced by cogs!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/255859-Highlighting%20pistons.html

By removing the highlighted pistons, and then placing appropriately sized cogs in it's place!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/255858-Dreadknight%20with%20gears%20%28Paint%29.html

What does the community think?

BTW, love the dreadknight!
More cheese for you!

Thanks all! Really appreciate the comments. Unfortunately, I'm still at home sick, so there's not really any progress.

Byte wrote:This thread is inspiring to me.

Could you make another with a pictorial on how you put it together? I want to make three!

I'm more of a modeler and painter, than a player, so I probably won't make another one. However, I can try to explain how I did it.

I've tried to put together a pic, so you can see where the parts come from. As mentioned earlier, the head is from an old Epic Titan, but I'm sure you could find a suitable replacement - maybe a toy?

Here goes:



Please ask, if you're in doubt. Some of the parts have been cut up a bit, but it should make sense.

Edit: "5" on the pic, are GK terminator shoulder shields filed smooth.

I repositioned the legs, by drilling the the inserts in the hip, so they became a ball joint, and carefully carved the hip joint on the thighs into a ball as well. The feet are already ball jointed, so that's pretty easy. It's a great simple way to make it more dynamic.

Rennoc215 wrote:I had been planning to do that same color scheme, but you did it masterfully!

Another thing, With this scheme, it feels almost steampunk. This gave me inspiration for another dreadknight. Where the pistons are replaced by cogs!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/255859-Highlighting%20pistons.html

By removing the highlighted pistons, and then placing appropriately sized cogs in it's place!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/255858-Dreadknight%20with%20gears%20%28Paint%29.html

What does the community think?

BTW, love the dreadknight!
More cheese for you!

Thanks man! I think I can se where you're going with the cogs, but I'd love to see it done. Please make one.

(Whats up with the cheese? )

Very good. I like it very much.

Thanks! Looks great! I'll give this a go.

This is one awesome conversion man.
You have put the parts to really good use and the thing with the banner is just ingenious.

I like it a lot more than the normal. The normal dreadknight is just silly, and the bald head is like asking for a bullet in the head hehe.
This looks like a real knight! The painting is awesome also, not the usual metal theme.

That is fantastic!!!!

Which old titan is that head from? I need something like that for my chaos dreadnoughts. Also what colours did you use for the armour?

Looking very nice. And best of all its not a bog standard GK color scheme. Thank you SO much for not painting it standard grey. Seriously, thank you, I was starting to go crazy with all the bland colors people are afraid not to use

Wasn't sure at first as it was missing on the main points of the dreadknight that I liked, that's the pilots arms mirroring the machines. But now you got some paint on it's turning out awesome. Very cool colour scheme.

man that is one nice looking dreadknight, i want one like it
-Alex, PlusD6

I like the way you have replaced the baby carrier I'm doing a similar thing with my chaos dreadlord. Nice paint scheme too!

Great work! I like what you have done and like others I could see me stealing the loin cloth idea. Nice paint job too!

I just got my hands on a dreadknight and turned it into a deff dread.

baron deathnyx wrote:I just got my hands on a dreadknight and turned it into a deff dread.

Me too! I am in the process of painting it now! Except I am running it as a mega dredd from IA:8.

-cgmckenzie

I was having difficulty choosing between starting GKs or SWs, but these pictures helped make up my mind! Awesome yet fairly simple conversions really really gives it more character!

Would love to know a more detailed description on which colours you chose for the copper tone, and how you painted it, since i will most likely use it as a contrast to the greyish tone off-white im planning to use as the main colour for my coming kniggets

Turkeysaurus_Rex wrote:That is fantastic!!!!

Which old titan is that head from? I need something like that for my chaos dreadnoughts. Also what colours did you use for the armour?

It's from the old plastic Epic warlord Titan. They're great plastic models, considering the time they came out (about 1990?), and I've used them for chaos dreadnoughts myself, back in the day. It also came with an alternative head, which is even better for chaos:





I'll see if I have a couple of the alternative heads lying around - if you pm me your adress, I'll send 'em to you, if you're interested?

tipios wrote:I like the way you have replaced the baby carrier I'm doing a similar thing with my chaos dreadlord. Nice paint scheme too!

Now THIS I want to see. Being an old chaos space marine player (Nightlords and Khorne, 20.000 points. Yep. 20k), I would love to see what you come up with. Please post in this thread. :-)

Tjolle79 wrote:I was having difficulty choosing between starting GKs or SWs, but these pictures helped make up my mind! Awesome yet fairly simple conversions really really gives it more character!

Would love to know a more detailed description on which colours you chose for the copper tone, and how you painted it, since i will most likely use it as a contrast to the greyish tone off-white im planning to use as the main colour for my coming kniggets

Thanks! It's really simple, actually. I haven't gotten brave enough to try NMM, I love the looks of it, but I'm still stuck on the metallics. I use a base coat of tin bitz, with a heavy highlight (almost completely covering the tin bitz) of (dwarf?) bronze, and a final highlight of shining gold. It can be drybrushed, if you're in a hurry, and look pretty good.


Thanks a lot, all! I really really appreciate all the positive feedback - what a great forum, and a great spirit. :-)
I've gotten a bit further on the painting, and I'll try to get some pictures up in the weekend. :-)

Here's what I've come up with so far. He's gona be an Iron warrior Dreadlord

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Those old Titan heads are cool! I've got one head, but can't find the rest of the bitz:( they are in my dads loft somewhere

tipios wrote:Here's what I've come up with so far. He's gona be an Iron warrior Dreadlord

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Those old Titan heads are cool! I've got one head, but can't find the rest of the bitz:( they are in my dads loft somewhere

Wow, that looks great - what did you use for the head? And what the heck is a chaos dreadlord?

The head is from a FW chaos dread. A dreadlord is a Lord of dreads it's just for fun

tipios wrote:The head is from a FW chaos dread. A dreadlord is a Lord of dreads it's just for fun

Hehe, cool - I just hadn't heard about this, but then again, I'm way behind regarding the rules. :-)

@tipios: that thing is sweet!
@guita: I sort of pinched your green power weapon idea, though went for a more obsidian effect; thanks for the inspiration!

@inmygravenimage - thanks
@guita - you should thank inmygravenimage for given you a shout out on his thread, thats how I found your thread in the first place

its all really well done

very nice DK, I made one as well::

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7p5_sLQlL-U/TfL2Zber_5I/AAAAAAAAD24/lqOl8hIcFMg/s1600/IMG_5747.JPG
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AQuEaXFc58U/TfgtC82bDBI/AAAAAAAAD3c/CV3os2or7bk/s1600/IMG_5775.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mtrd2_n-GH0/TfgtDEo0l0I/AAAAAAAAD3k/YEnnXNDbm08/s1600/IMG_5779.JPG

Okidan_Champion wrote:very nice DK, I made one as well::

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7p5_sLQlL-U/TfL2Zber_5I/AAAAAAAAD24/lqOl8hIcFMg/s1600/IMG_5747.JPG
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AQuEaXFc58U/TfgtC82bDBI/AAAAAAAAD3c/CV3os2or7bk/s1600/IMG_5775.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mtrd2_n-GH0/TfgtDEo0l0I/AAAAAAAAD3k/YEnnXNDbm08/s1600/IMG_5779.JPG

I....I think I soiled myself.

You should post your own thread man, that thing is deserving of one!

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

WOW.

Finally an update - sorry about it taking so long, but I've been busy working and playing concerts - I just got my custombuilt guitar, so I've been playing a lot, and not painting so much. However, it is getting closer to completion:



Just need to add the last details. I tried to make the eyes glow, but it's not really working - any tips?

He really looks awesome!!

Are you layering up the colours for the glow?

GuitaRasmus wrote:Finally an update - sorry about it taking so long, but I've been busy working and playing concerts - I just got my custombuilt guitar, so I've been playing a lot, and not painting so much. However, it is getting closer to completion:



Just need to add the last details. I tried to make the eyes glow, but it's not really working - any tips?

WOW! The helmet is awesome, the legs are beautiful and the contrast is great! I want one! If GW made models and a little better fluff for these guys i would definitely buy one just for show.

This is really wonderfully done.

I too find the upside down TITAN a little off-putting but the model as a whole is so WOW it's not a real bother.

Your choice of colors and subtle modifications really set it apart, so much so, you'd never be tempted to think Dread Knight conversion in the first place.

If I might, while I am a huge fan of the FW Contemptor and own several, this model evokes more of what an IoM Dreadnought should have looked like in the glorious past.

Thanks a lot guys - I'm glad you like it!

@ Tipios: Sort of - layering 3 different colors of green, working way to almost white.

Maybe if you give us a close up, someone might be able see what needs to be done, only other thing is the paint needs to be waterted down alot.

This is one of the best dreadknight conversions that I've seen. I love it. I like the different colored armor as well.

awsome work budd love it

Amazing. Great paint color choices btw too. You've inspired many with your work, great job. Off to re-assess my dreadknight now...

Thanks a lot, guys! I'm really overwhelmed by the response.

Check out my Berzerker Dread as well - I think it's my best work to date:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/395043.page

Dude, you are *awesome.* I may just have to buy a Dreadknight now. Thanks for the numbered sprue chart too, as it helps someone with no skill, like myself.

Quick question, those beams coming out of the DKs shoulders and attaching to the arm further down... I was thinking of just having the bottom round gear in the shoulder and leaving off the rest. Seems like that would be relatively easy to do, right? I haven't seen a DK in real life, but I imagine those beams aren't necessary for the model to stay together, and can be left off?

Now that's what it should have looked like. I absolutely hate the baby carrier monstrosity that it currently is.

@stavkat - you can leave those parts of if you want

tipios wrote:@stavkat - you can leave those parts of if you want

Yeah, my idea was to make the DK look even more like a giant terminator. I'd just put one of those circular gears in there, instead of all of the joints and beams that come off of it now. Feel like I'd need to put something in there, otherwise there'd be huge holes in the shoulders!

Some epic convos in this thread here. Much better than the babycarriers

Need some update on the big gribbly thing pleeeease.
peace

Fantastic conversion project.

Kind of curious as to what's going to happen with that lego on your base,.... oh yeah, and the Dreadknight is pretty Frakking awesome.

BRAVO

This model is everything the original Should have been! I absolutely think this is the best conversion of a Dreadknight I have seen.

I intend (when funds allow) to buy one and convert it to make an Imperial knight Paladin with Battlecannon and DCCW.

That was some awesome converting of the dreadknight....I look at mine now with a look of disappointment

When the Dreadnight model was first released I thought GW had taken a daft turn and produced a Transformer. Yours is definitely how this model should have been presented. To me it truly captures the 40k vibe, wish I could paint like that! Well done mate!

Truly amazing mini's, great work!

Amazing work. Your conversion is very impressive.

GuitaRasmus wrote:
Finally an update - sorry about it taking so long, but I've been busy working and playing concerts - I just got my custombuilt guitar, so I've been playing a lot, and not painting so much. However, it is getting closer to completion:

Now here's a man who understands color theory. Brava!

Fantastic work.

 chuckwilliams wrote:
Now here's a man who understands color theory. Brava!

While it is a stunning model, please don't revive threads more then a month old.

 Snrub wrote:

 chuckwilliams wrote:
Now here's a man who understands color theory. Brava!

While it is a stunning model, please don't revive threads more then a month old.

Sorry for the Necropost. I was reading another P&M and saw the link...

It is always good to revive old threads when they contain such nice conversions , especially if I haven't seen them before

That dreadknight is stunning .And the termies are very nice too,puts me to shame.

Thats cool, nice work.

I do like the dreadknight mini but the baby carrier is stupid.

Yours looks like a proper knight. The colour scheme and banner are also awesome.

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

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

Yeah, I agree with the Swede. Nice work and great color scheme.

YAY! You fixed the grey knight baby carrier! Looks great.