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thats awsome, a very cool concept brought into reality
i was skeptical at first, but you definately turned me into a believer
cant wait to see it painted
how did you make the axe?

tylermenz wrote:thats awsome, a very cool concept brought into reality
i was skeptical at first, but you definately turned me into a believer
cant wait to see it painted
how did you make the axe?

If you flip back to the first page, I think it shows that I made the axe out of sheet styrene. The blue part was some sort of electrical wire plug or component or something, I don't know, I found it in my garage.

As I mentioned, I'm still not quite done painting this thing. I wanted to do a bit more to the metals, but the whole thing obviously still looked a bit too pristine.

With that in mind, I only had a little bit of free time today, so I had at it by chipping the paint around some of the edges. They're probably hard to make out, but it's not like I'm looking for much of an excuse to post more photos. Some of them might be harder to see, I suppose.











I also worked on adding a bit of gore and bloody spray to the close combat arms. It gets a bit lost against the red of the dreadnought, but it seemed like it would be a nice touch.







I found a remarkably easy method to doing this. It's five very easy steps:

1) Get a red gore color (darker red) and drybrush it on around the area you intend to have bloodied up.
2) Mix a brighter red color with a touch of orange, and water it down a lot. I don't know how precise you need to be, but I did something like 2:1 water to paint.
3) Get a big brush and load the tip up with a big drop of the watered down red liquid.
4) Get a paper towel and wrap the areas you do not want the blood on. For example, on the buzzsaw arm, I wrapped doubled-up paper towel around the entire arm and left just the buzzsaw exposed.
5) Hold the brush up about 3-4 inches from the part to be bloodied, and blow hard on the bristles from a few inches away.

The spray from the paint blowing off the brush creates a convincing bloody mess on the part you have exposed. Just let it dry - don't overdo it. You can control the size of the blood spray droplets on the model by holding the brush closer or farther from the model - the closer you get, the bigger the drops that are sprayed.

It's super-easy, and if you get it right I think it creates a convincing appearance. I'm not certain it worked out all that well on the chainaxe, but that's mostly because the thing was red to begin with. I'm not sure if leaving the red overspray on the yellow glyphs like I have it now helps sell the effect a bit more or not.

Anyway, there you go. I have no idea what I'm going to do with this model now, though the metals need some more work to make them pop. Maybe I'll drybrush them with a bit of a brighter silver in places.

As much as I love the conversion, the paint job just looks so..second edition. (its so bright and happy!) I probably would have had far less of the area 'painted', and gone for more metal/rust/black colors. (but thats just me)

And when are you going to finish that gorgeous truck you started?

if only the normal ork dreadnought looked like this. sheer genius : )


but would it defeat this behemoth of a .gif?

Sphynx, whilst I greatly appreciate being sigged, this is threadnomancy, as a rule of thumb, if a thread isn't on the first page, don't post in it. You're new, so don't fret too much, but give the forum rules a read.

Locked in 10...9....

best conversion concept ever!! Seriously.. It looks so damn good I almost want to start an orky army just so I can loot SM stuff.

thats the coolest dread ive seen.

Hurrah for resurrection of threads i missed the first time around. This is so good, I actually like the fact it looks a bit 3ed, I always liked the red is faster concept.

Now that is as orky as it gets, no question asked. If you happen to do another one make sure it has a wrecking ball instead of the buzz saws... a big spikey wrecking ball.

While this thread probably should not have been unearthed to begin with, I'm going to ask that it not be locked. In a week or two, I'll have Black Reach within my possession, and with it another dreadnought with which to follow up on this project.

That said, while I sincerely appreciate the comments, pulling this up from the depths was probably something that should have been avoided.

This...this is amazing. I hadn't seen this WIP thread before but going through the last 3 pages I kept thinking, "Oh, cool concept, I hope he can pull it off in practice."

Then, "Oh, looks pretty cool, might be a neat little conversion"

Then when the actual converting was done, "Sweet! Perfectly orky. Oh sweet zombie Jesus, he better not ruin it with a crappy paint job."

And of course you paint it amazingly as well.

This is the sort of thing that inspires me.
It's also the sort of thing the REALLY tempts me to start an Ork army so I have an excuse to make a bunch of crazy, orky conversions.

Well done. This is the exact sort of thing I LOVE to see on Dakka's modeling sub-forum.

Also, to be honest, I at first thought all the wiring on the grot and the attachment on the back of the dread would be a bit too much.
But after seeing it painted, I can honestly say you did everything in the right proportion. Not too over the top, yet enough to make the dread unique, orky, and integrated.

I love you man.

Very very inspiring

Dude. You've gotta be kidding me.
STOP THREADOMANCY NOW!

Eric

I'll admit that I'm on the threadomancy bandwagon...but that Dread is awesome!

Conversions like this make it hard for me to choose my next army. especially with all the ork goodies released right now

i don't mind the resurrection of a dead post when it means i would have missed this otherwise

that is an awesome build, can't wait to see it painted *edit* awesome...simply awesome, love that paint job

jep'ray wrote:that is an awesome build, can't wait to see it painted

You missed out and made yourself look silly its painted in this thread.

lol damn slow freaking computer, i must have scroll past it before it loaded...lol

Honestly you must be some sort of genius, how do you do that stuff?

Some splendid work there, can't believe I missed this one...

Left leg is from a Tau Devilfish.

Amazing work, you can't make a Dread' more Orky than this.

well modeled!

what do you use to draw the concept drawings? I can't work out what you are using.
Brilliant conversion btw

yea I agree on not bringing up old posts but dammit its an ein conversion! And one I missed even lol. Ein your conversions piss me off because they are made from just random simple bitz and some how turn out super awesome

The backpack is my favorite part about it so far, it makes it look totally clanky and brutal. You're proably going to want to do some work on that flamer (cut off the clip, ect) but otherwise everything looks absolutely awesome. Keep it up!

OK, the last post was today, and I want to have my say [is this still considered threadomancy?].

This is really awesome. I'm looking forward to when you get Black Reach. Or do you already have it?