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I just got hold of an old SM dread. RTB01 era. I was looking for some conversions online and then I thought if anyone has done one it would be you lot.
Gonna make mine Death Gaurd and need some inspiration on bulking it out a bit.

Assuming you're talking about this RB01:


I did this one for the 3.5 edition codex, trying to make a possessed dreadnought (and losing one of the arms and a shoulder)...

(shudders)

The new dreadnought design is a huge improvement imho.

Yeah I agree with that. But I'm also a fan of the old stuff and as most of my DG are RT era models I thought I'd keep the theme going.

this is nice

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/245189.page

and this

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/267859.page

M'Kachen's Nemesis wrote:(shudders)

The new dreadnought design is a huge improvement imho.

The 'New' dreadnought was released in 1992 or so - it's almost 20 years old itself. It's not new.
The difference is that Jes Goodwin had a hand in its design.

The other FW "pre-heresy" styled dreads are bollocks compared to the old one.

The older ones suit fine for "venerable" dreads.

I replaced one arm wit a peg (5mm rod) and a couple of 3mm magnets, so that it can take any of the walking toilet block's (R) weapon arms.

Hey! Glad you liked my attempt (2nd link). Well, you saw what I did, pretty much took the old guy and added plastic bitz to bring him up-to-date. He ended looking a bit like a PP warjack! I also have another old dread that I kept as is, since I really like the old stuff as well.
Do you have any of the original arm weapons? I guess you should first decide what weapons you want to give him.
Death Guard Pre-heresy or Nurgle?

I'm going nurgle with this guy even tho he's not the old chaos model. I picked up an old Eldar scatter laser (the guy who owned it was prob using it as an asscan) and what looks like a missle launcher arm with twin linked melta guns on it. When I feel proud of it, I'll post a pic.