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MOAR ARMS!

Casting Day! Replicating the housings from the original dreads to finish the champion and make more weapon arms.

So, magnetising these buggers has been a NIGHTMARE, taking me all week on and off.

So, I started by magnetising the main bodies - they have a point on the CCW arm, a point on the plug for the main weapon arm, and a point on the hull for upgrades. Annoyingly, the addition of the magnet cause the plug to be too long, so I had to go back and do them all again!





Here's the champion again, this time with a proper left arm.



And then, the weapons. Here they all are. I recast the Autocannon arm to use as a base for all my weapon additions. I also used some old SM Dreadnought arms, as I have no other use for them.



Everything has it's socket widened and a magnet inside.



And the close combat weapons have a point for affixing to the left arms. At some point I want to do some mini-missile launchers and some Thunder Hammers, but I'm not sure how yet.



The Lascannons are 1ed Land Raider bases with chaos nozzles.



And these fethers were what took me so long. Close combat right arms using some old metal Kan arms donated by Panic. I should have done them all like the ones on the left, because the ones on the right were an absolute nightmare to get balanced and sitting correctly - I must have pulled them apart four or five times and re-greenstuffed them...!




RIGHT. Off to be sprayed pink.

yeah,
Looking awesome!

I have a dremel bit that's perfect for that size of magnets if you wanna embed those?

Gonna be doing my overlords dredds arms too.

Panic...

DREMEL bit? This is with a 9mm drill bit, with a bloody great drill! Big magnets.

They're all embedded except the CCW ones, which don't really need it...

Yeah,
Cool cool, we can have a mega magnatized walker battle soon!
I gotta get a morkaKan!


Panic!!!!

You've got a stompa, right? I'll need to get my decimator knight built!!

OK, I'm away again for work, but I've taken a little box of toys so I can make some progress. Once I get back I'll only have a couple of weeks until NOVA, and I have whole Heldrakes to cast/convert/build.

So, I've started on some Spawn, converted from some Mantic Trolls and Ogres that I got free in their KoW Kickstarter. They look suitably gribbly, and I like that they have plates of armour still riveted to them. Very basic at the moment, I'll get some extra GS muscle sculpted this week to cover the joins.





And I've also started updating the Obliterators - some Maxmini shoulder pads and Anvil Industry heads and backpacks to make them look a bit less messy and more intentional. More cabling to go on later in the week.

Looking great are the trolls proper plastic or restic and how bad are they to work with?

 Llamahead wrote:
Looking great are the trolls proper plastic or restic and how bad are they to work with?

They're restic but they seem fine. No more mold lines than a plastic model and the odd tag like you get on a FW model. The only annoying thing I've noticed is that the restic is a lot harder to cut than either plastic or resin, making the conversion or prep work a bit more annoying.

Useful to know

So, back from work and I have two weeks before I leave for California, followed by the NOVA open. Here's the list I'm planning on taking...

CAD - Crimson Slaughter
- Belakor [350]
- 12 Cultists [58]
- 12 Cultists [58]
- 12 Cultists [58]
- 12 Cultists [58]
- 2 Obliterators, MoN [152]
- 2 Obliterators, MoN [152]
- 1 Obliterators, MoN [76]
- Heldrake (Baleflamer) [170]
- Heldrake (Baleflamer) [170]

Formation - Hellfist Murderpack
- Helbrute Champion (Multimelta, Power Scourge) [110]
- Helbrute (Multimelta, Powerfist, Hvy Flamer) [115]
- Helbrute (Multimelta, Powerfist, Hvy Flamer) [115]
- Helbrute (Multimelta, Powerfist) [100]
- Helbrute (Multimelta, Thunder Hammer) [105]

Total : 1847

So, I need to get a few things painted and I've been having an assembling day to get started.

I need more cultists. All my guys have pretty random weapons (shotguns, rifles, pistols, axes, exterminators, etc), so I'm probably ok to just say 'these are all pistols', but I'm going to have to leave the obvious heavies at home, so I've assembled ten more random guys from various places. A last few Redemptionists, a DV Cultist, some WHFB Beastmen and Flagellants. Anything in a robe, really!




The Obliterators are all assembled!





I need a couple of extra weapons for the Dreads - a Thunder Hammer and more Multimeltas!



And finally, I got two Hell Blades that I've been meaning to convert into Heldrakes, so cast up their pointy bits to use as extra wings and bulk them out a bit!




A few hours later....

OKAY. I've spent all day on these guys and I have massive amounts of complicated progress to show. Here goes.

I started by filling the cockpit area with a aluminium-laced modelling putty from Sylmasta. I'm going to paint the 'glass' sinister green like all the other lenses in the army. The thin resin that is inside the window frames needs a bit of support to not just break at the first sign of a breeze.




But most importantly, this is a pre-flying-stand model and has nowhere good on the underside to put a massive cross-shaped flight stand. So, I'm going to drill a bit hole and mount it on a length of plastic rod, but I need quite a deep hole, which the putty will provide. PLUS, the centre of balance is quite odd, and the metallic putty will add more weight directly above the rod.



I cut down a length of 10mm plastic rod to test.




Fast forward a few hours, and I've bent, cleaned up and assembled the rest of the bits. The tails needed to be bent into shape, but the rest went together really easily.



I built three magnets into each of the wing recesses, which will be where the additional cast Heldrake wings sit. I smoothed over the area with Milliput afterwards. The mechanisms for these additional wings are made from some old Leman Russ wheels.




I placed magnets on the underside so that I can switch between Autocannons or a Baleflamer. I had to scrape off the little mounting bars to the outside and mount the weapons wider than usual to accommodate my massive pole (hee!!).




I then made two big flamers out of some old FW Heavy Flamers and Sentinel flamer tanks.




And finally, drilled through the bases and mounted the plastic rod inside and tested with a fully built Helblade.




Only the additional Heldrake wings to do next!!

More progress on the Hellblades. Here's a dry fit of the wing assemblies.




In the end, I needed the three magnets and some long pins to keep them in place and secure.



And, after some Milliput work to seal gaps, here they are sprayed pink!






Returns and extra borders were made from Milliput to fill the gaps, and massive cables added to make it feel a bit more detailed. Turns out cable-making is a lot easier in Milliput than in Green Stuff.

Nice work on the 'drakes, that's a pretty cool design

yeah,
The Drake-Blades look great!
Very nice.

Panic...

Getting there! I've got today to get these finished for the HATE Club Killzone Escalation tournament tomorrow (and then the NOVA Open - I leave for a holiday around the US on Tuesday).

Here are the Hellblades - painted, glossed, oil washed and I'm just going around removing the excess wash.


Dreads have been painted and washed and are now just awaiting matt varnishing.



And the Oblits are almost base coloured, ready for weathering.

Those Hellblades looks amazing I wish the actual Heldrake kit looked like that.

Ok, getting there...

HELBRUTES DONE (for now) - Five dreadnoughts, mutlimeltas and powerfists, one thunder hammer, Champion with power scourge and power fist.

All looking great!

Are the dreads going with you to NOVA? That's going to eat into your luggae allowance if so.....

 monkeytroll wrote:
All looking great!

Are the dreads going with you to NOVA? That's going to eat into your luggae allowance if so.....

Yeah, that and the 50 metal Necromunda cultists!! :/

Beautiful conversions. Especially on those fliers.

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Beautiful conversions. Especially on those fliers.

Thanks! They're on their way as soon as it's daylight - they won't fit in my lightbox!!!

In the meantime... OBLITERATORS!

So, the tournament went well. I'll do a proper report at some point, but for now, here are some photos of the army in action!









I realised I was missing a few Cultists and that my Daemon Prince (not yet updated to the new scheme) really stuck out, so I did some last minute painting last night!



The Daemon Prince has had some much larger wings added and pinned in place, and a complete repaint.





I'm leaving for the US this afternoon. Bay Area for this week and then DC in the middle of next week for the NOVA Open! All packed and fitting into my carry-on bag..

Awesome plog, ArbitorIan! I really wish I was going to be at Nova this year to see it and you in-person. It's literally in my backyard, but I'm out of town... take lots of pics for us of your experience

yeah,
Good Luck - Kick Ass!

Panic...

*DREADGASM*

One hell of a project dude, I can't imagine a total army repaint, but it makes for good reading (and a great 'final' project)

(Good call on the DP repaint, I was just about to call you out on that after the tournament report )

- Salvage

5 dreads against one little jet-packer?

Last minute changes look good, have fun!

Fantastic looking stuff on the tabletop Ian!

Long time no update!

So, I went to NOVA and lost five of my six games! Go Dreadnoughts! You can read the full report here but it isn't pretty - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/613694.page





In addition, I finally got around to taking some photos of the Hell Blades. They wouldn't fit in my lightbox so I had to improvise with paper.

Great job on those hellblades AI. Really nice!

Sorry to hear the heavy metal all got trampled - hope you still had a lot of fun though.

The hellblades look very nice, great job there. Good choice on the cockpit glass colour too, wouldn't have thought of that but it does work really well against the pastel pink.