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My god are those things ugly.

yeah,
the 'nid one is made of win

Panic......

They're all beautiful little snowflakes, and damn anyone who says otherwise.

I started 40K way back then so I have three of those, marine, ork, chaos (two) and I have the Eldar Dread too.

That old-school chaos dreadnought is calling to me, saying "Convert me into a daemon prince, please... I would make such an amazing base for that conversion..."

I fondly remember my old carnifex, where bio-plasma was a heavy flamer, and you only had a 5+ invulnerable

I still have 3 of the 2nd ed Carnifexes.
I use them still in my current Nid army as a Brood of CC Carnis.
I use the newer models for the ranged ones.
My brood of CC Warriors are the 2nd ed, as well as my CC Hive Tyrant.

Love em, always will.

Rev

My entire nid army is 2nd edition. Giant head zoanthrope....mmm

What? No Eldar Dreadnoughts?!? For shame!

Most of the old dread models just suck balls. The stuff they are putting out today is millions of years better. The Eldar Wraithlord still looks decent, as does the old Carnifex, but the rest are just terrible, IMO.

@Reece: I wouldn't be adverse to swapping for new, smaller heads on the Wraithlords to update them for 6E.

Heck, I could use a whole set of 6...

yeah,
JHDD, They look awesome.. I regret selling my old eldar dreds (fully painted) and buying new ones (still on sprue).

But yours need round bases... square is all wrong.

Panic.......

Thanks, Panic. They're build, painted, and based, so they're keepers.

WRT the old-skool 40mm square bases, they are properly mounted upon the bases with which they were supplied.

Just like the other large models pictured at the top of the page.

I like the old dreads much better. The design made much more sense to me. The new ones from Forgeworld the helmets are too big... It's still a Space Marine inside. Oh well.

G

Honestly, I always thought that the whole method of surgically implanting the dreadnought pilot was much more gruesome when it was obvious there wasn't enough room for very much of the pilot's "extra" parts. Especially the part where it's explained as necessary because of the unreliability of Imperial mind link technology.

Panic wrote:

But yours need round bases... square is all wrong.

Panic.......

Like JHDD said, older large models came with square bases. My buddy's 2E Hive Tyrant came with a 40mm Square. That thing looks (IMHO) way better than the new Tyrants. If only it were about 3 or 4 inches taller, we'd be in business.

I WANT ONE OF THESE SO BAD!!!

some old school pre heresey dreds! does anyone know where you can nab one of these?

EBay, if you're lucky.

They aren't "Pre-Heresy" though. Just RT-Era. Pre-Heresy dreads look nearly identical to current ones. Chaos Dreadnaughts of the original Traitor Legions are Pre-Heresy, and they look almost alike.

well you know what i meant! and i still want one.

metallifan wrote:EBay, if you're lucky.

They aren't "Pre-Heresy" though. Just RT-Era. Pre-Heresy dreads look nearly identical to current ones. Chaos Dreadnaughts of the original Traitor Legions are Pre-Heresy, and they look almost alike.

Actually they are Mk4s, which are post heresy or possibly heresy era. Pre heresy are MK1s and look like this:

http://www.underthecouch.net/albums/album103/600px_Pre_Heresy_Dreadnought.jpg

Which is very similar to the old RT dreads (in fact most pre-heresy models are based on the RT models). I want to see what Mk2 and Mk3 look like

Looks more like a normal dread with RT arms on it. IMHO, doesn't really look much like the RT dreads though.

Fear the egg-walker!

Haha I remember painting those Screamer Killer Fexes for my buddy in middle school.

metallifan wrote:EBay, if you're lucky.

They aren't "Pre-Heresy" though. Just RT-Era. Pre-Heresy dreads look nearly identical to current ones. Chaos Dreadnaughts of the original Traitor Legions are Pre-Heresy, and they look almost alike.

According to the artwork we've seen, Pre-Heresy Dreads don't look much like 'current' ones at all!

JohnHwangDD wrote:What? No Eldar Dreadnoughts?!? For shame!

Special present for you:

Ugh. I remember those days. When you had a card with your vehicle stats out of the Dark Millenium box. Not the walking box we know today, but I had to deal with many of those, and the big egg-head carnifex guys later ripped off by starcraft, when a carnifex was meant to be a CC monster, not a fire platform. I wish I still had those figs. Thanks for the (un)happy memories.

Eldar dread? that was before they became MCs and actually worked a lot better. I was a big fan of peanuthead.

yeah,
I know they came with square bases but that just looks so wrong in 40k... 50p and 20mins will update them to a nice round 40k conforming style.

Panic..>

The orky one isn't really too far off. I had a couple of those long ago and if I could dig them up they could still passably serve. The Marine and Chaos ones though... oh dear oh dear.... Whats with the giant phallic bulge?

Dreads definitely got better with age.

The old Ork Dreads are the size of the current Killa Kans.. pop off a ccw and a range weapon, and there ya go!