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It looks amazing!

I have to say it looks awesome! Great improvement.

Commissar Agro - Thanks!

Vitruvian XVII - Thanks!

Last night I attached the Personal Teleporter

I added a small piece of plasticard so that it sits levelly now instead of needing to be 1/2 on a panel.

I'm basically calling dreadknight 1 done. It's weapon obviously isn't finished but I'll be finishing both weapons at the same time later.
Dreadknight 2 took up most of my weekend however. I watched a few youtube videos on fighting with a poleaxe and decided to build defensive stance. This involved sawing the left leg to make it crouching.
This was good practice for the future dread knight poses I have planned.

Lovely dread conversion!
Some suggestions:
The flame is physically wrong, it would go up, not side ways, unless there is big pressure, in which case it it wouldn't be curved like that, but straighter, like a welding flame.
The waist is too narrow imo. Maybe add some pistons, tubes, springs or any other mechanical addition to bulk it out.
Same for the pelvis, the legs are held by some tubes, that looks strange.

The overall impression is still great, but I would have a look at those details. Cheers.

Very impressive army! Did you use army painter washes for your guardsman?
Nice warhounds could you PM me some measurements?



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Very impressive army! Did you use army painter washes for your guardsman?
Nice warhounds could you PM me some measurements?

Baiyuan - Thanks!
I tried getting the fire to go up and down with the arm's position, but it looked goofy. I realize it is not correct but we're talking about a company that has painted fire backwards for 30 years
The waist and pelvis may look weird but they allow me to do the poses I want to achieve. The setup may look weird but it's basically the same setup that the dread has.

Hazzer - Check my sig for a link to the warhound thread. The wash on the guardsmen is Minwax wood stain Special Walnut color.

Here's kind of the pose I'm going for on 2

I got home a little late last night so I wasn't able to get as much work done as I'd wanted.
First up I tried out a few different poses on the 2nd Dreadknight.
Idea 1 Keeping the blade low

Idea 2 keeping the blade high


I ended up going with idea 2




And the 2 dreadknights together


Tonight I clean up the greenstuff join, add the shoulder pads and then the shields.

Nice dreads!

I think most GK players have envisioned their DK looking like that. Very well done, much better than the snuggly Terminator attached to his parent.

Mat

HAZZER - Thanks!

combat engineer - Thanks!


Well as promised I was able to get the shoulders installed




At work during my lunch breaks I've been adding a color or 2 a day to my libbys here's how they look now.



They've got some work to go but they're coming along.

Those Dreadknight conversions are pretty incredible Foda... wow! Love the dynamic pose on the second one and the psy cannons are really great.

Nice shading and highlighting!!!
What colour do use?...

...Hope this helps!

Gitsplitta - Thanks!
HAZZER - The base red color is P3's Sanguine Base, and the first highlight is Scab Red from GW. Next will be Khador Highlight which is basically Blood Red.

The heads have been installed!
Pose 1


Pose 2


I've also been working on some commission work.
A tech priest engineseer


and some WIP servitors for him and some genesis chapter marines

Where on earth did those hands come from? (from the dreadknights)

Gitsplitta wrote:Where on earth did those hands come from? (from the dreadknights)

I think It comes in the set.
@Foda_Bett-Thanks for shaing!!! Also do you have a warhoung log?Fancy sharing soem pics?

You mean the dreadknight set? Yeah... (duh)... I suppose that would be the obvious place. *grumble* ... getting old...

Gitsplitta - The hands are from Kotobukia, they're made for 1/100 scale gundams. Hence why I called them gundam hands
http://www.hlj.com/product/KBYMB-28

HAZZER - Again check the link to the titan paint log in my signature. If the hands came from the dreadknight I wouldn't have had to saw the wrist guards off the dreadknight.

Thanks Foda, they look really good...

Gitsplitta - No problem! Thanks for the compliment!

I had planned to spend Sunday priming the dreadknights, but I've got a 13k Planetstrike game which they'll be taking part in, on Memorial Day, so I'll need them dry. If I feel like being in a paint booth they may get primed Monday after the game.

Here's the dreadknights


and here's the backpacks for the strikes I've been painting!

Hopefully they'll be basecoated tonight!

Here's some shots from the battle
I apologize as there aren't a ton of pictures, and there aren't a ton of notes but you get something
We were playing fast a furious to make this go pretty fast. We took NO super heavies so it made for a very infantry heavy game and took a long time.
Board setup




My reserves (missing 3 valkyries and 14 drop pods)

68 Paladins and characters

50 Strikes, 20 sternguard 30 stormtroopers

40 Ultramarines terminators


Chaos setup:
Deploying chaos units in the wall


Turn 1:
Terminators Deepstrike in

2 iron cyclones wreak havoc

Pretty much leaving the left flank alone at this point

I shake 2 bastions kill a few chaos marines in assault with the LC Termis.
Large cylinders are tank traps

Clearing the way to the citadel


Bottom of 1:
My opponent shot at some paladins killed a few, possessed a Libby with an asset and proceeded to loose the combat even though he threw 2 chaos lords into it as well.

Turn 2:
The rest of my force arrives and starts killing chaos left and right. Dreads bust in and kill stuff. More paladins show up and kill stuff.

Chaos opponent calls it.

We didn't finish because we took a nice 2hr long lunch.
We started at 11 and were set up by 12. Then we got back from lunch at 2:30 then played till 5:30.
Getting through 1.5 turns of 15k in 3 hours with no super heavies wasn't that bad.

Where are the shields on the UM terms from? Theyre awesome.

Vitruvian XVII - Thanks! The tower shields are from MaxMini, the rest of the shields are normal GW shields.

Last night I got the backpacks, dreadknight weapons and legs basecoated


I also painted the torsos


But then something horrible happened!
Apparently I put the paint down a little thick and it crazed on Dreadknight 2

So he gets stripped and reworked now

Aaargggh! Daemonic Possession!!!

Thanks for the info on the shields, will definitely have to get some now!

That battle report is just sweet!Lol!

Vitruvian XVII - Glad I could help!

HAZZER - Thanks!

First up is the 2 Libbys


Skull stick



Fire Stick



Next up I started working on the Heavy Incenerators for the Dread Knights



I've got 1 month till BOLScon and I need to:
strip dreadknight 2, rebuild it,
Paint 2 Dreadkngiths
Paint 50 backpacks
Paint 54 Bases
Print Decals
Apply Decals
Pin 54 minis to resin bases
Attach Backpacks
Build a Display base
Paint Display Base
Lightly weather everything

Wooo... It's alot when I type it all out. I've brought the backpacks with me to work so I can hopefully get them finished this week, same with dreadknight 2 (but not at work).

Very nice work on the Libbys... and man I love the look of those flamers. Great job!

the sarcophagus are ice cream colored? why? :'o

Gitsplitta - Thanks!
Lunahound- The WIP Sarcophagus' are cream colored because they are resin.

Awesome scheme for the heavy incinerators!

Dude! Your dedication and skill are an inspiration. The feeling of your IG army is superb, nice and grimdark. Did it cost you much to set up your resin factory?