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Has anyone converted SM dreads to look more animated? I hate how squatty, boxy, and encumbered they look.

I am about to undertake some simple conversions simply to make the dread look less static. I'm thinking about lengthening the torso a bit and extending the arm joints to give some lateral movement to the armaments.

What have you done? PICS please if you've got them

Well I did this, with just bulking out the shoulder joint and some carefull cutting up and repositioning of the legg.







Also google Vince Hudon aka Boltman and see if you can find his dread. It will give you some great ideas.

oh that is perfect! Exactly the type of thing I was talking about!

THANKS

Nicorex wrote:Well I did this, with just bulking out the shoulder joint and some carefull cutting up and repositioning of the legg.







Also google Vince Hudon aka Boltman and see if you can find his dread. It will give you some great ideas.

That looks so awesome a nice relief from the sea of boring dreds

Out of curiosity, how long did it take?

Very nice conversion btw.

I'd like to know that too.

This looks like a simple and yet really effective conversion. Which means that it probably took hours and it was almost impossible to get the right look.

Personally I like it. My dreads have twin autocannons. So I stuck at aiming then skywards, this has got me thinking though as those extra panels look really great and do look out of place at all...

Years ago I did this with a Furioso tearing through a fence.

And when I say years....I mean it was an all metal fig....the plastics these days make it uber easy to pose them

But nice work on the extra armor panels. Are you planning on adding the SIIR's all over them?

(SIIR= standard issue Imperial rivet) <--I jsut made that up and found it amusing.

just my 2 Cents. I think dreads are kind of akward to pose nicely (good job on that one tho. looks great!) i have always found it hard to not make them look clumbsy. Re-posing always helps but i can never seem to rid the look of unbalance from mine.

Hi

I simply animated by repositioning of the right leg, too.

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Well IIRC I did the basic build in about 4 or 5 hours. then went to work on GSing and the other gubbins. So without GS drying time i would say I spent about 10 hours total.

I actually wasnt going to do any rivit work on the extra armor bits, I was going to try to paint it up as if it had been welded on.

I had seen Boltmans WorlEater dread and luved how he was able to instill such a great sense of motion to it, I just had to try it for myself. This model lead me to build a complety customized marine army trying to instill the same sense of motion to almost every model. you can see some pics of it in my gallery.

You deffinetly got the motion down pretty good. That looks WAY better then the normal static look of a dred.

Nicorex, paint some of that stuff, dude. Your SM gallery has some great conversions, but the bare plastic and GS makes we weep bitter tears of sadness.