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I own 5 dreads and want to make right close combat arms, does any one have a link to a tutorial or and ideas? I would like to field them as Furiouso's but don't want to buy the right arms for 20 bucks a piece, at that price I might as well buy new dreads..... I have plastic card but thought I would ask around before diving in without a plan........

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I'm going to assume that these are AoBR Dreads, as everything else would have come with the arm you need... Just be aware that the arm studs on an AoBR Dread are a different size then those used on the rest of the GW Dreads and most associated arms, your either going to have to green stuff the stud or magnitize the arm to make them work.

There are a few options avalible to you.

- The first, and my prefered method is Forge World arms.

- The second, is the arm from the Ironclad Dread.

Catyrpelius wrote:
- The second, is the arm from the Ironclad Dread.

^This

Cheaper than forgeworld and would exactly fit a left arm CCW.
That's what I've used here:

You could try making one from scratch.
There is a pattern here but you have to download the whole dreadnaught file. Quite complicated but probably the best one I've seen so far. Designed with paper/cardboard in mind.

http://paperkraft.blogspot.com/2009/03/warhammer-40k-papercraft-dreadnought.html

Click on the first link below the blurb to get the pdf files.


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The file is for a left arm so obviously you'd need to reverse it for a right arm.

Thanks for the ideas guys, only one is AoBR three are old school pewter ha ha, and one is the first plastic kit series and didn't come with many extras..... I think I will try my hand at scratch building them, but the iron clad seems like a good fall back...

Thanks again folks!

I like the chaos head bit on the bottom there.

I scratch build one using a spare venerable dread upper arm, some styrene tubing, random bits, guitar wire, and a spare dread shin guard on the forearm. Wasn't too bad.