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So, after a lot of building yesterday afternoon and some touch-ups this morning, I proudly present my first Dreadknight aka Knight Titan:

Lord Katchar, Hound of Wrath


The Dreadknightkit is full of win for modellers and I really enjoyed working with it. I have him in two parts right now so I can stick him together pretty easily. If that proves to be unstable I will simply glue both parts together.

Legs:


Some bobbles for the pilot to climb up:


I also changed the engraved "Terra" on the left knee into a "Mars":


Whole:


Front:


Upper body close-up:


Cannon, left side:


Chainsword, right side:


Scale shot with Sister Commander




I'm really proud of him so far, can't wait to paint him up and/or do some more

Freaking Sweet!

I love it.

Neat... I knew it was only a matter of time before a Dreadknight got turned into a proper knight

Now all we need is a comparison to an equivalent Defiler based Knight

Very wow- Nicely done.

Thats a good start, can't wait to see it painted!

Damn, why didn't I think of this. It's awesome, I may borrow the idea.

Flinty - Depending on how its done mate, the defiler - knight is bigger.



OT: Looks pretty damn good, will have to keep an eye on this.
However, a knight is not a titan.

Very nice man, I wasn't a fan of the model to start but that looks really good

This looks awesome and has some very clever converting. You need to keep updating this thread with painting progress.

that looks very cool.

I like it!!!!


A note for those who are less GS and plasticard skilled than OP...you can achieve similar by using the cockpit from a sentinel. Once my building/painting waiting list clears up I may build one.

See I don't like the head coming out of the chest area, it doesn't work with the DK proportions in my opinion. That said, it's a fantastic piece, and I really like the attention to detail you've used in its construction.

Mad4Minis wrote:I like it!!!!


A note for those who are less GS and plasticard skilled than OP...you can achieve similar by using the cockpit from a sentinel. Once my building/painting waiting list clears up I may build one.

This is an awesome idea and makes me want to go make one of my own.

ghosty wrote:See I don't like the head coming out of the chest area, it doesn't work with the DK proportions in my opinion. That said, it's a fantastic piece, and I really like the attention to detail you've used in its construction.

Ghostly, it may look weird, but if you look at the old paladin models, he's dead on in terms of where he put the head. It looks like it could be a paladin titan from the old Adeptus Titanicus game...

Another great Dread Knight conversion.

Is anyone actually building the stock kit?

Wow, that's great! I especially like the chainsword, which must have been horrendously tedious to sculpt

Sculpt my jaws on the base, 'cause they just dropped. Excellent work!


King Ghidorah

Wow, stunning. All I'd change would be to hang the banner in line with the cannon rather than across it.

I'm rather pleased to see Knights and Mega Dreds being churned out with the DK kit, I thought it was going to be a complete write-off. Huzzah.

Very Impressive! Great use for a dreadknight if you do not want to make a dreadknight

This is all kinds of awesome - well done!

I'll be looking out for more of your stuff - post more when you can!

I like, impressive changes - looks tons better.

And your Sister of Silence is REALLY nice too - overall excellence everywhere!

Kasrkinlegion wrote:

Mad4Minis wrote:I like it!!!!


A note for those who are less GS and plasticard skilled than OP...you can achieve similar by using the cockpit from a sentinel. Once my building/painting waiting list clears up I may build one.

This is an awesome idea and makes me want to go make one of my own.

The more I think about it the more I want to do one. However, I have a ton of stuff waiting to be done. Im also totally broke for a week or two.

Wow I love the model! I never thought of doing that! It is full of win!
I wish I could slap a 6/5 on this piece of art!

Very nice. I'd like to see more of that Sister of Silence too!

That is a very kool model I like it a lot.

And I am surprised (more so because Alpharius has commented) that there has been no Knights are not Titans comment as of yet...

Very, very cool conversion!

Reminds me of the good ol' days of playing Epic Space Marine...

This abounds in win. My hat is doffed to you and your skill at using greenstuff. How did you carve the MARS so neatly into the knee?

Kilkrazy wrote:Another great Dread Knight conversion.

Is anyone actually building the stock kit?

No and I think GW made a smart move by making a kit no one wanted for its intended purpose but purely as conversion gold. Scratch that conversion Diamond encrusted money laying gold!

Sorry forgot to say @Captain Engelhardt My room is now painted with my brains cause you blew my mind!

Alright, that's pretty dope. I think I'd make that banner thinner though; it looks a little funny hanging off that gun.

JunkyOrk wrote:
No and I think GW made a smart move by making a kit no one wanted for its intended purpose but purely as conversion gold. Scratch that conversion Diamond encrusted money laying gold!

What I find mystifying is that GW made the same mistake they made with the Stormraven. Why not let all marine chapters have it? They'd sell a hell of a lot more models. For both the Stormraven and the Dread Knight they should have made versions for normal marine chapters. All they have to do is publish rules in White Dwarf and done. It's decisions like this which have contributed to them losing sales for the past two years.