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I acquired the front half of an AOBR Dreadnought in a bitz trade and thought that since I couldn't build a complete model it would make a nice themed objective marker for my son's Ultramarines:




C&C welcome...

Man thats awesome! I'm so stealing that idea and making a fallen Crimson Fist Dread. Only thing i would do different is i wouldn't "waste" that assault cannon (there way too good to not use if you've got them )

Joetaco wrote:Man thats awesome! I'm so stealing that idea and making a fallen Crimson Fist Dread. Only thing i would do different is i wouldn't "waste" that assault cannon (there way too good to not use if you've got them )

Thanks. We are hoping to play a campaign this Summer and I want to make three themed objectives for each of us to use in addition to the hand full of generic ones we already have.

I'm thinking some downed marines or a destroyed rhino would also be cool (I think i have enough bitz to build a burned out blown apart rhino(again I don't have the whole kit)


And I would have used the mult-melta arm but I couldn't find one, and his dreads already have assault cannon arms so i figured I'd just go with it...

Wow, that's very cool. I like it.

i love it,great terrain building.
i love it how space marines just leave the dreadnought to sink into the quickdirt. hahahaha.

very nice paint job too i might add

very nice to see so much effort put in an objective marker. Great work!

I think the number of holes you put in it is a bit excessive considering the armour, but it's a really nice piece. For extra internets, i'd have modeled the front of the sarcophagus coming off, and a crippled marine covered in wires on the inside, still just about alive (hence the recovery)

Excellent, as usual!

Iron Bear

That's really good man!

I'm doing the same thing with a Tau pirahna I picked up for dirt cheap!

Hopefully mine will look as good!

Very cool! Personally I would make some bullet holes in the sarcophagus to really show that the marine inside is dead. Otherwise, great!

DarkAngelsRK wrote:Very cool! Personally I would make some bullet holes in the sarcophagus to really show that the marine inside is dead. Otherwise, great!

Maybe the Dreadnought is simply immobilized, hence why they need to make the recovery. Also if you do intend to remove the sarcophagus use a skeleton model instead, because that's all marines in dreadnoughts are if you've read the fluff.

The Ghoma wrote: Maybe the Dreadnought is simply immobilized, hence why they need to make the recovery.

This.

The idea is that he is still alive: hence it's value as an objective.


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Million wrote:I think the number of holes you put in it is a bit excessive considering the armour, but it's a really nice piece.

That was intentional as a visual cue: to exaggerate the damage so that visually it is very clear when it is on a table(amidst two armies) that it is a terrain/objective marker and not simply a model that is broken off it's base, etc.


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Mr-_-Flidd wrote:That's really good man!

I'm doing the same thing with a Tau pirahna I picked up for dirt cheap!

Hopefully mine will look as good!

Be sure to post pics.

It's nice but it seems like a waste of money dreads aren't cheap!

kravus master of Horus wrote:It's nice but it seems like a waste of money dreads aren't cheap!

Did you read the post, or just look at the pictures?

He said he got it in a trade, but that it was only the FRONT HALF of the model. Without the back half, he couldn't do anything with it.

That's really cool, actually. The only thing I'd change is the position of the assault cannon - having it stick straight up looks odd. If it was at more of an angle towards it's feet it would look more natural. Pretty ace work overall though.

Great work.

Quite awesome.

very nice!