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Hi to all!!

I show you one of my very last works. I tried to make a lonely and devastated scene from the 41st Millenium; all of it with rust and ancient effects trials.

Last October I decided to do an ambitious project, because the quantity of effects that I wanted to give to my Dreadnought. I tried to represent that the machine was dead, fill of rusts. A solitary and ancient titan.

I decided to place the dread tilted towards the left side, as if the "pain" had come from this side and had finished it consuming; I had to retouch the arm of that lateral. I decided to do injuries in the robot armour too.

After that I start the paint time ,very important, because this project needed some dirt accumulated after countless years of loneliness.

And for the scene ... I put 2 soldiers in the center; I wanted they interactuate with the dread, but being the robot always the main character. So I decided for breaking the scene: the soldier is walking but observes the dread, while the sergeant, with cigar in the hand shaped by me, indicates him that it must continue with the march.

In this scene everything interacts, with lines of union between the figures placed to the detail.

As you can see, I tried to paint the miniatures with the scheme of wooded camouflage, but adapted to the environment.

Finally, I am very happy with this work, since it served me to prove a military scene that up to this moment had never made, and of step, prove the use of the rusts.

In addition it helped me to do a work in the style of the Warlike Model-maker, with relaxed scenes but, I believe, with feeling.

I hope you like it!

I absolutely love it. Possibly my favourite diorama ever. The understatement makes it so tragic. It says that war is pointless rather than glorious. It reminds me of some of the best war films, especially Viet Nam films, for some reason.

Very nice!
Some good damage/rust effects.
Looks like the dread has been there a long time - the grass has grown round it!

Nice photos, too.

That is actually quite sad, very moving.

Arran

wow looks amasing

SWEET. . . creeping vines maybe?

a very well done scene, definitely gives the war is pointless or maybe endless.

That's excellent.

I love the small features such as the flowers and that you have gone through with battle damage all over it - nicely understated realistic scene rather than an over the top 40K one.

Have you/are you entered it in any comps?

You should be proud of such nice work.

Cheers

That is farking stunning. The technical aspect of the weathering and field is only matched by the emotional aspect of the diorama. This reminds of every war movie that shows the rookie walking into the theater and staring at the wounded/dead being marched out while the Sarg screams to hurry up. Very, very excellent dude.

War....War never changes

That's very moving, and also extremely well painted. You win a pack of Morleys, although I don't feel like that really covers the excellence of your work.

That is beautiful and conveys a great deal of emotion, excellent work.

Thanks a lot for your quickly answers!
You're coments are pretty cool!
Sorry about me, but I don't understand you:

Cerberes: creeping vines maybe?
Tallamantim: Have you/are you entered it in any comps?

Regards and thanks again!

Nice work. The background makes it even cooler.

Beautiful. Love the camo and the rust.

Amazing work yet again.
I can tell you have been doing this for some time!

A bit of help on this:

Connann wrote:Sorry about me, but I don't understand you:
Cerberes: creeping vines maybe?
Tallamantim: Have you/are you entered it in any comps?

Comps= Competitions
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An extreme example of creeping vines:

It is the wrong sort of habitat for vines. However, a similar diorama, a rhino with wounded marines nearby, for example, perhaps by a ruined church, would look great with vines.

WOW it looks fantastic. poor dreadnought.

Connann: I feel borderline rude making the following suggestions, as you've done a fantastic job - however - instead of vegetative growth on the dread, it would be a nice touch to throw an abandoned birds nest on to it somewhere - possibly in the damaged sarcophagus. It would be an understated way of indicating that it hasn't moved in a long time.

I like how the two guardsmen are hard to spot, and how they look sorta of derpressed to find a , friend?, dead. Very cool.

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Great work but i've seen something like this before.
I think it was on another forum?
Can't recall, maybe same model, have you posted this one some were else before?

Second thing, Dreadnought is sacred to Chapter.
NO WAY they will leave that behind, they are the old en honor veterans of the Chapter.
It also has the genseed of the chapter so thell do everything to retrieve it
Fluff why' s BIG NONO my friend.

Other hand great work on paintjob and scene allround


greetz typhoon

is there something inside the sarcophagus?

This is powerful stuff, even outside of the fictional universe of 40k, I can imagine how those guys feel. It's like when we've come up on a Humvee or MRAP that's been hit by an IED.

Typhoon wrote:
...Second thing, Dreadnought is sacred to Chapter.
NO WAY they will leave that behind, they are the old en honor veterans of the Chapter.
It also has the genseed of the chapter so thell do everything to retrieve it
Fluff why' s BIG NONO my friend...
greetz typhoon

I don't Rightly think that matters in this case my friend, and you could always imagine that perhaps this was a Chapter's last stand, them marines lose things for good all the time

I highly doubt this was meant to be a storyline model more than one with a message. Seriously, if you can deny the amount of a powerful message in this then you have no heart... Chaos of course excluded.

This model is absolutely fantastic, quite possibly one of the best I have ever seen.

Fifty wrote:I absolutely love it. Possibly my favourite diorama ever. The understatement makes it so tragic. It says that war is pointless rather than glorious. It reminds me of some of the best war films, especially Viet Nam films, for some reason.

agreed

almost makes me wanna sing "The Unforgiven" by Metallica

As an Imp Gaurd player and being thrashed by Dreads all the time, this piece is priceless! Kudos! Bueno!