Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

In my ongoing effort to do battle damage, I have finished a venerable dreadnought. The combat arm is converted from four chainswords.





What do you think?

Good start. I feel like you could have done more minor knicks and dings, as right now all you have is large damage marks. Vary it up a bit. The chainswords feel a bit tacked on, but like I said, good start.

I really like it, but like warpseer said, it needs more of a variety of damage. The way it is right now it looks like it walked off of the assembly line and got blasted right away. Realistic battle damage should be done with the age of the machine (dreadnoughts could be 1000s of years old), materials it is made of (ceramite or whatever), various weapons and conditions it has faced (bullet dings, scratches and scuffs, dents from smashing through walls, etc) and even environmental conditions (sun faded, dusty, rusty, etc) all kept in mind.
I like the fact that you're going for real battle damage and I like the close combat arm a lot! It's a great start. For inspiration on damage I always use construction equipment like bulldozers and such as an easy source.

Looks good but for the love of gawd, paint over his name. It really takes away from a nice paint job.

 CrazyBones wrote:
Looks good but for the love of gawd, paint over his name. It really takes away from a nice paint job.

But then nobody would know his super cool name.

So which Chapter does Honoured Scissorhands belong to?

(Like the scissorhands, btw ... )

 Necroagogo wrote:
So which Chapter does Honoured Scissorhands belong to?

(Like the scissorhands, btw ... )

It's a DIY chapter I'm working on called the Stone Sentinels.

The paintjob looks great! I do think he's a bit plain. Some gold decorations for a Venerable Dreadnought would not only be appropriate, but really make him pop!