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amazing works mens, KEEP GOING!

The DP exhausts is a good idea, I originally bought the DP exhausts for that purpose, but used them as sonic speakers on the top of my slaanesh instead. For the leg armor, you could try the arrows and trim like you used on your khorne chain fists.

The Abberation Prime model looks really nice, and all those spare parts you could use. Have you tried one of those heads on your dread?

Good luck!!

My hobby buddy had given me the left-overs from that Aberration kit, your idea is right on spot : I'll have to check if I can use those awesome parts on my new DP concept...

Thanks for the inspirations!

@ azekio: Thanks man!

@ tipios: It appeared that the DP exhausts were too...organic! I'd better use them on a possessed dread or possessed vehicle of some kind. As for the Abby Prime parts, they're a little over-sized for a dread. About the leg armor, I went exactly that way as you'll see it

@ Yggdrasil: If you have some left-overs from the Abberation kit, use them! they're exactly the right scale (I've checked). The only problem I've seen is that they are far more detailed than the GW plastic parts! You'll have to work on your GW bits to get an harmonised model. Otherwise, It's really good stuff, and I have a lot of things in mind for my DP.

I've been busy during my three days holidays, and between a nap and a new home made cheese-burger recipe experimentation, I've spend a lot of time working on my EC sonic dread.
As I'm working with the cheapest bits I can get, I've used an Ironclad torso, Venerable legs, and AOBR arms. (plus a variety of chaotic bits including most of my chaos icons )

Here are some wip pics from Friday. As I had time to work on it yesterday, consider that the dread is now almost complete and waiting to be primed.

1) the legs armor plates:

This was the basic look of the armor plates. They now have received moar arrows (grouped by 2 or 3) on each plate side .

2) the sonic blaster arm:

An AOBR multi-melta arm. The whole sonic blaster is now fully done, using plastic rods and thin plastic card, and using this:

This was about to become the mouth of the blaster (thank you tipios, your work on the doom siren was the initial inspiration for this one).It has been green stuffed and bent to look exactly like a sonic blaster mouth.
I hope i will soon be able to post some more pics of the whole blaster (I'm very proud of this one)

3) the CCW:

There again, it was tipios' nurgle dread claw that made me think of using tyranids scyting talons on the ccw.
Otherwise, it's very close to my Khorne dread's chainfist. I has also received more arrows and symbol now.

4) the torso:

Nothing special here. It was built exactly the same way as my other dreadnoughts, I have just changed the theme. I've added a CSM slaanesh icon, arrows on the top plates, and a 2nd ed noice marine head (you'll like it )

I' will paint it with a pink/purple and gold scheme. How do you think I should prime it?

And now, something I made with some extra GS and an old backpack exhaust, for a noise marine test.:


What do you thinks guys?

Wow. Really nice work. I love the way your conversions deepen the textures of the model. And of course, the craftsmanship is superb.

I particularly admire the way you slashed the mouth of the doom siren. Such a simple touch, but it works wonders. The GW version always looked too cartoony to me. You make it look truly sinister.

edited for clarity: "blaster" = doom siren

Yes yes yes. Another way to use the doom siren, great job taking the horns off and cutting it into a triangle is a great idea.. I was stuck on what to do with my khorne upper arms, but now I know also i'm gona have to do the same with the leg plates. Thanks for the update, I can't wait to get home and try some stuff out.

Oh and the green stuff face on the marine is perfect too more pics more pics more pics!!!!

Thank you guys!

@ tipios: I'm glad you like it! I had this in mind since I first saw your job with the Tzeentch dread lascannon. Be carefull if you want to make a doom siren this way, the cables on each side of the siren broke when I bent the edges to fit the triangle shape.

@ tinfoil: I must say I didn't expect such a kind comment! Thanks man!

I really hope you'll like the finished model (and I hope I'll be able to post more pics soon).

Dread is looking awesome Hyenajoe, can't wait to see the finished doom siren!

Hyenajoe wrote:

Wow, that one screams Noiiiiiise Marine so loud, it could tear our ears asunder!

It looks maybe even better than FW's one!

Noise Marine test is also coming up nicely, I think you should add some leather strappings / chains to it, to further the SM feel to it.

It seems like you haven't wasted your time!!

Thanks for the comments guys, I'd really like to post more pics!

Do you have any idea on how I should paint it? I'd like to try NMM but I'm not sure my painting skills are sharp enough for that. Any help is welcome.

Yggdrasil wrote: Noise Marine test is also coming up nicely, I think you should add some leather strappings / chains to it, to further the SM feel to it.

Furthering the SM feel?....err...I guess you're not talking of Space Marine here...petit canaillou!!!

Very nice stuff, makes m wish I could add more stuff to my Slaneesh CSM army. (Only one Noise Marine squad thus far)

Does Rackham still make the Abberation? I know they went to pre-painted garbage a few years back.

l33tninj4 wrote:Very nice stuff, makes m wish I could add more stuff to my Slaneesh CSM army. (Only one Noise Marine squad thus far)

Does Rackham still make the Abberation? I know they went to pre-painted garbage a few years back.

Thanks!

Sadly, Rackham is now dead, but you can still find the Abberration and metal models on ebay.

The Sonic Dread is now done and has received a white undercoat!

I first thought I would try NMM on it but I'd probably screw it, so I'll go for metallic paints and washes. Any suggestions?

I've finally got the first half of the Micro Art Studio bases I'm going to use for my whole Slaaneshi army,

(mine are 25mm)
Since the Noise marines are not ready (still a lot of GSing to do!) I'll use a part of these on my daemonettes.

I'll paint the Daemonettes with a white/greyish skin and hairs, with red or purple eyes. I think I'll paint the cloth red and gold for the metal.
What do you think?

For NMM on the dread, I agree it's a bit bold for a first time... You should try it first on a smaller mini, before going to a large one. And it's really time-consuming, so it'd be a bit ambitious IMHO.

The scheme for the Daemonette looks nice, but I'd have to see a test mini before having some suggestions... I'm not really good at imagining painted minis after just words...

If you want, you can check mine here : http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-17710-3704_Chaos%20Daemons.html

Have a nice sunday!

Yggdrasil wrote:
If you want, you can check mine here : http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-17710-3704_Chaos%20Daemons.html

Have a nice sunday!

Great models Yggdrasil
The purple looks fantastic, I want to pant my sonic dread this colour.

Hyena joe those bases look really cool, can you get one for your dread? Can't wait to see the dread finished, would you go with purple for your dread?

Thanks tipios...

And yeah, a large base would fit the Dread well!

The Dread's base is painted and ready. I just went for a more "fleshy" color for the skin on the base.

@Yggs: your daemonettes are really nice looking. I'll try to paint a test model to show you what I have in mind (and to see if I can make it as I haven't done any white skinned model for at least 5 years).

@Tipios: thanks. I think I'll paint my dread with a mix of warolck purple and tentacle pink (I want my Emperor's Children to look different from The Lost)

I still don't know what to do for the Emp Kids heads... I've tried to work on plastic CSMs head, but it's difficult to give them any elegance, and no masked DE reaver heads available on the bitzshops... Wehrkind's idea of tentacles sounds appealing, but I still don't know how to make it.

Any idea, suggestion, drawing is welcome!

The BA sanguinary guard Masks (without the aura around)?

It sound interesting! I'll try to grab some to make a test.

Thanks you for this suggestion! By the way, I have received the sanguinary guard torsos I'm going to use for the chosen ones with lightning claws.

Once the Dread and the Daemonettes will be done, I'll spend more time on the marines.

Any other suggestion?

No suggestions, but a question : where can you find some nice Lightning Claws?

To me, the former ones with open fists were better than the new ones with clenched fists, and their bent shape made them more feral & savage than the new straight, clean ones.

The only ones I really like are the CSM Terminator Lord's & the Raptors Champion's, but they are terminator-sized and metal, respectively, which has had me wonder about a solution for those...

So I'd gladly welcome any help!

I was looking for ideas for heads for a raptor squad, and came across this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...etTutorial.jpg. Although this a grey night idea, maybe you could try something a little different.

@ Yggdrasil: You're right, lightning claws are a difficult point and the latest version looks lame . Talon-like fingers would be awesome, but appart from stealing them from the necron flayed ones (an expensive but fine solution), it would be really hard to find an equivalence at the csm scale (you can try plastic card, but it will be a fragile and painfully time-eating solution).

The second solution would be to add Wolverine-like blades (old school Dark Eldar helmet and riffle blades would be just fine)

The third solution is the "genestealer claw option". It's a three "fingers" claw for genestealers, but the general idea is to reduce the number of fingers to create a deadly hand weapon (something you can easily do with CSM models, but not so easily with loyalist marines). I could mix CSM hands with daemonette claws to stick to the slaaneshi mood.

I'll try the second and third solutions, to see which one looks better.

@ tipios: Sorry man, the link directs me to the photobucket login page... I'm curious to see what you've found. Could you find another link?

This is the thread with the same link. http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/showthread.php?p=369661 hope that works. If this dosn't work I will have a go and post pictures. I'm gona try this idea but cut in a mouth with big teeth, instead of leaving it smooth which is what I think you want. I am also eager to see claw conversions as I want the raptor squad to have them.

Thanks for the link!

I knew this tuto (I've used it for my nurgle dread's head), but it gives an idea, I'll try to do something similar with regular CSM heads, and see what I can make out of it (perhaps it's the first step to tentacles...).

So you're planning a raptor squad? It sounds interesting, tell me more!

Nice tutorial indeed...

After seeing your raptors with the wings, I wanted to try somthing like that. SoI got sanguinary guard jet packs, and am getting tyranids gargoyle wings to go with them. I want to make claws for the feet, I want one with power claws, and the other 4 will have chain swords and pistols. I'm using terminator heads because the eyes look more bird like, and sort of using that termi tut I want to GS teeth.

tipios wrote:After seeing your raptors with the wings, I wanted to try somthing like that. SoI got sanguinary guard jet packs, and am getting tyranids gargoyle wings to go with them. I want to make claws for the feet, I want one with power claws, and the other 4 will have chain swords and pistols. I'm using terminator heads because the eyes look more bird like, and sort of using that termi tut I want to GS teeth.

Sounds nice! Claw feet would be fine, do you already know how you're going to make it?
About the wings, MasterSlowPoke made this model some months ago:


If the sanguinary guards and plastic gargoyles had been released back when I made the Lost angels, I'd have gone this way too (it was so hard to get the ten winged backpacks!).

Don't you fear the terminator heads to be over-sized?

I was looking through the raptor gallery and saw that last night, really looks cool, and the wings look the part. For the claws I have been looking at birds of pray, and so I need 3 claws at the front and 1 at the back, I think genestealer hands might work, but have none ATM. The termi heads when cut right back are about the same size, trying a test one now to see. Wings are ordered, well I'm getting the whole brood from GW as a gift from the wife wooooo. Back to the dreads for now. Any news on your dread

Well, yesterday I took my afternoon to solve my PC problems (I should be able to post pics again quite soon) and to pay taxes. I was back home early so I started to paint the sonic dread (pink, gold and metal). I'm quite satisfied with it so far.
I'll not bold enough to try weathering on it, but some blood stains on the pink armor plates might be nice.

So you're wife's offering you models? You lucky ! Mine would never do that (she says it would be too easy and not personal enough).

I hope you'll soon post pics of these termies heads (I'm really curious to see it). Are you going to start a new thread for your CSM army?

Lol, you need to convince her that buying minis would prove how much she loves you

I've put the head pics on my havoc squad WIP. I really need to finish those guys of too!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/323770.page