Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

.

Nice work. Where's the buzzsaw from?

Those are ork choppa hand weapons.

Is it better to make them all close combat?.. killy wise?

The buzzsaws are made from 3 ork chainswords attached to the spotlight front from an Imperial Guard tank. Glad you like it.

The reason I went for all close combat is that Orks really suck at shooting stuff unless they are massed (i.e. a 30 boy shoota squad) so the chances of hitting anything with a single big shoota are quite low, even if you twin linked it. You could arm it with twin burna's for getting the enemy in cover but personally, faced with a charging close combat monster (and don't forget...it will be running in the shooting phase) I would be moving my troops out of it's way as quickly as possible.

The fact it has 4 close combat arms means it will get 6x S5 attacks when it charges and stands a fair chance of hitting with a WS of 4. Best used to charge into infantry units and tie them up I think allowing your boyz time to get within range or just making your opponent waste his time shooting at them while your boyz mobs close in.

i like it
allthough, if you want a somewhat ranged wep on dreads then a skorcha or 2 works well

i got a pic of 2 dreads i made in my gallery (2x skorcha and 2x rokkit dreadz)

Heh heh, I checked out your Dreads...nice work there JD, though I gotta admit, they remind me more of Mega-Nobz (on steroids!!!).

lol, needed some cheap and easy things to get me back into the game once i got back from iraq, ordered up some black reach sets and ended up with those 2 lol.

@ JD, so it was you who I saw do that first, which I than ripped off and made my own which one me a modeling contest @ my FLGS. Sorry I ripped it off, but thank you for the idea. Ill have to post up some pics if I ever figure out how to take decent pictures.

@cypher, I like the dreds, and the extra CCW conversions. Honestly I never liked the 4 armed dreds, I agree, I cant see an ork being able to use 4 arms coherently. Nice job, I cant wait to see them painted.

dont apologise to me, i used typical ork logic and saw the idea and snagged it too XD
allthough, the one i copied simply had an ork driver and a few armour plates, nothing else done :(

seems cool.
everytime i think about picked up a dread, i remember the pain my two kans were to get together

Yeah, the Dreads were time consuming to build, mostly because I always pin my metal models. Both Dreads and Killa kans suffer from a degree of mis-matching and you need a fairly heavy duty metal file to quickly deal with the parts. I have found that Killa kans are actually getting worse, I think the moulds are faulty as the two halves just do not fit...I have solved this by using a pair of pliers inside the body and opening them up to push the walls out and allow the two halves to match...really annoying though.

I too am on the bandwagon of deff dreds should be CC killers. Nice work on yours, simple yet very effective