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Hi folks,

I was hoping the community could help me with my Dreadnought problem.

This is a Dark Angels Chaplain Dreadnought I converted about 18 months ago. For starters, I had an awful time trying to fill in the saltires on the right torso. I used liquid green stuff, allowed it to cure then added more a few times, but the last fraction just wouldn’t fill satisfactorily.

I wacked a DA icon over the top, which covered the problem, but when I painted the icon it made the model too “busy”. It really didn’t fit, so I removed it with difficulty.
As you can see I have now painted the torso in 3rd Company markings, but damage and unfilled parts are quite visible.

Soooo... what should I do?

1) Strip the torso and fix it from scratch.
2) Add some purity seals.
3) Plasticard over the top.
4) Something else entirely.

Let me know what you think.

Cheers!

I'd probably go with making it look like battle damage really since it's halfway there.

If you do choose to go with filling though, you generally want a layer above the level you want to fill then sand it back (from my own experience anyway).

edit: The pictures are visible now, thanks.


At first your images aren't showing.
And Liquid Greenstuff isn't the best for filling larger gaps and stuff. It only works for small imperfections and gaps but nothing more i think.

A good way of filling larger gaps is to use a putty that cures harder than GS and as a result can be sanded and filed easily. Smear it into the areas to fill and then sand everything down until it;s smooth.
If you are carefull you can fill gaps with GS too but you need a really fine sandpaper or you'll damage the GS.

What you could try is to fill the gaps carefully and sand them down if needed then. Just paint over them Even without primer it should work. But better let the putty cure for more than one day so that i has nearly reached it's final cureness.

Useing plasticard would require to sand down the whole area for a better glue bond. And you'll also have a larger area to repaint compared to just gapfilling and you might need to reprime it. (Maybe brush on primer?)

I'd scrape it back and put a layer of milliput on there, or perhaps Squadron Green, whatever, so long as it doesn't shrink when it dries. LGS shrinks quite a bit.

 Nephilem wrote:
If you do choose to go with filling though, you generally want a layer above the level you want to fill then sand it back (from my own experience anyway).

You are right, that was how I did it. I think that perhaps the last layer wasn't quite set properly and partially came out when I cut it back. Very frustrating.

Edit:

Sorry about the pics at the start, for some reason they were not showing. I'll investigate when I have had more sleep

I don't think the shrinkage of liquid GS really sank in until working on this model. I'll see what products I can get hold of and fill it in.

Repainting is no stress for me, hell I've gone to this much trouble I may as well go the whole way huh

Thanks for the replies!

Well GS doesn't take sanding very well. If you want to do it you need to be very carfully, use a sandpaper with a really fine grit and wait for about two days or so that the GS is really cured.

But it is probably better to use different putty for gap filling. I use milliput what winterdyne already mentioned or there are also gap filling pastes for model air planes and such that you can probably get in most model shops. But i never used those so i can't say how they are compared to GS and Milliput. But as their sole purpose is gap filling they should probably work fine.