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Very nice work. Just love the banner loincloth... think I might be stealing that idea.

THAT is what the Dreadknight should have looked like! Awesome job, man!

Thanks guys!

Balsak: Thought somenone would notice. :-D It's the codpiece from the original pilot. Actually the new codpiece on the banner, is a shoulder pad, so it also has a lot of upside down words. I guess I'll fix it sometime. I don't have access to green stuff right now.

The reason why I used a small shield, was to make sure it wouldn't attract too much attention, away from the head, since the head isn't incredibly large.

Feel free to steal any and all ideas. I can't really take credit for the loincloth, I saw it somewhere on the net.

awesome stuff man! Keep it up!

This is SO MUCH BETTER than the normal one. Great work. I'll be keeping my eye on this to see the end result

That dreadknight is delicious, such an improvement over the standard model.

Thanks a lot, guys - I am really overwhelmed by the response. :-)

Unfortunately, I've been sick the past couple days (clogged sinuses - I think its called? Snot all over, and makes my head hurt. :-( ), so I haven't gotten any further. I'll update as soon as I get more done.

In the meantime: How come dakka keeps logging me off? I've checked off the box "keep me logged in on this computer"?

Also, to the guys inspired by my conversion; I'd really love to see what you will do with the kit - please feel welcome to post some pics in this thread. :-)

How exactly did you get the legs in that pose?

That looks awesome, way better than the original. I love the colour scheme too. Great job

Looks like a really cool conversion. I like it. How are you going to paint it? Are you going to do it the same as your other GK or are you going to do it the more traditional way?

Looks great.

Love it! you totally fixed the original baby carriage concept that GW went after lol. Keep up the great work man!


Wolf

That is how a Dread Knight should look like , the idea was for a GK in a larger power armor NOT a baby carrier

Looks great, much better then the normal version.

Thats really nice. I just don't have the attetion span to do that good of a conversion. I give it a 10 out of 10!

This thread is inspiring to me.

Could you make another with a pictorial on how you put it together? I want to make three!

Love it! I really want to do an ork conversion for it but this makes me just want to run it as GK!

-cgmckenzie

I had been planning to do that same color scheme, but you did it masterfully!

Another thing, With this scheme, it feels almost steampunk. This gave me inspiration for another dreadknight. Where the pistons are replaced by cogs!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/255859-Highlighting%20pistons.html

By removing the highlighted pistons, and then placing appropriately sized cogs in it's place!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/255858-Dreadknight%20with%20gears%20%28Paint%29.html

What does the community think?

BTW, love the dreadknight!
More cheese for you!

Thanks all! Really appreciate the comments. Unfortunately, I'm still at home sick, so there's not really any progress.

Byte wrote:This thread is inspiring to me.

Could you make another with a pictorial on how you put it together? I want to make three!

I'm more of a modeler and painter, than a player, so I probably won't make another one. However, I can try to explain how I did it.

I've tried to put together a pic, so you can see where the parts come from. As mentioned earlier, the head is from an old Epic Titan, but I'm sure you could find a suitable replacement - maybe a toy?

Here goes:



Please ask, if you're in doubt. Some of the parts have been cut up a bit, but it should make sense.

Edit: "5" on the pic, are GK terminator shoulder shields filed smooth.

I repositioned the legs, by drilling the the inserts in the hip, so they became a ball joint, and carefully carved the hip joint on the thighs into a ball as well. The feet are already ball jointed, so that's pretty easy. It's a great simple way to make it more dynamic.

Rennoc215 wrote:I had been planning to do that same color scheme, but you did it masterfully!

Another thing, With this scheme, it feels almost steampunk. This gave me inspiration for another dreadknight. Where the pistons are replaced by cogs!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/255859-Highlighting%20pistons.html

By removing the highlighted pistons, and then placing appropriately sized cogs in it's place!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/255858-Dreadknight%20with%20gears%20%28Paint%29.html

What does the community think?

BTW, love the dreadknight!
More cheese for you!

Thanks man! I think I can se where you're going with the cogs, but I'd love to see it done. Please make one.

(Whats up with the cheese? )

Very good. I like it very much.

Thanks! Looks great! I'll give this a go.

This is one awesome conversion man.
You have put the parts to really good use and the thing with the banner is just ingenious.

I like it a lot more than the normal. The normal dreadknight is just silly, and the bald head is like asking for a bullet in the head hehe.
This looks like a real knight! The painting is awesome also, not the usual metal theme.

That is fantastic!!!!

Which old titan is that head from? I need something like that for my chaos dreadnoughts. Also what colours did you use for the armour?

Looking very nice. And best of all its not a bog standard GK color scheme. Thank you SO much for not painting it standard grey. Seriously, thank you, I was starting to go crazy with all the bland colors people are afraid not to use

Wasn't sure at first as it was missing on the main points of the dreadknight that I liked, that's the pilots arms mirroring the machines. But now you got some paint on it's turning out awesome. Very cool colour scheme.

man that is one nice looking dreadknight, i want one like it
-Alex, PlusD6

I like the way you have replaced the baby carrier I'm doing a similar thing with my chaos dreadlord. Nice paint scheme too!

Great work! I like what you have done and like others I could see me stealing the loin cloth idea. Nice paint job too!

I just got my hands on a dreadknight and turned it into a deff dread.

baron deathnyx wrote:I just got my hands on a dreadknight and turned it into a deff dread.

Me too! I am in the process of painting it now! Except I am running it as a mega dredd from IA:8.

-cgmckenzie