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Hey, I want to convert a dreadnought or possibly helbrute model into a sonic dreadnought, as forge world no longer print the model. I already have the blastmaster down - I'm just going to stick two normal ones onto it's arm. I also want to put some speakers and sound systems onto a drop pod, just because it would suit my slaeensh army and the noise marines that it carries.

I dont really know where to start with doing something like this though, if I can do it at all. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could give this effect?

Thanks.

I'm doing similar, but still working out the kinks.

Firstly, mesh. I've tried model aluminum mesh, but I'm not totally happy with the scale of even the small stuff, so I'm currently exploring other options.

Secondly plasticard for constructing the speaker boxes, I've also got some tubular stuff for circular speakers.

Thirdly, again, this is theoretical at the moment, but there's some pretty small actual speakers out there for not much cash, so I'm thinking they might work for some larger ones.

Like I say, I'm still figuring it out, but two heads are better than one!

What kinds of small speakers are you referring to?

And where can I get 'some tubular stuff'? Because I think the circular speakers stick out across the whole body of the dreadnought would look pretty cool.

I'm sorry as I may not be able to help much, I'm not very experienced in conversions and stuff.

Tubular plasticard, that stuff doesn't just come in sheets!

Squares, I beams, tubes etc..

There's various diameters as well, which I'd recommend, as uniform sized speakers everywhere may not look great, clusters of various sizes may be better.

Have a look in eBay under electrical components, there's all sorts of speakers available, the smallest I've seen are around 45mm that will look like speakers still, smaller than that and they look like plastic discs. I've seen one or two square ones that are around the size of a rhino top hatch too.

 Azreal13 wrote:
Tubular plasticard, that stuff doesn't just come in sheets!

Squares, I beams, tubes etc..

There's various diameters as well, which I'd recommend, as uniform sized speakers everywhere may not look great, clusters of various sizes may be better.

Have a look in eBay under electrical components, there's all sorts of speakers available, the smallest I've seen are around 45mm that will look like speakers still, smaller than that and they look like plastic discs. I've seen one or two square ones that are around the size of a rhino top hatch too.

So, if you're interested, I recently bought two upgrade packs and two weapon packs for my noise marines. I have an excess of blast masters, sonic blasters and doom sirens, so I'm going to be cutting off the speaker parts of those and sticking them on the helbrute. I also might try using a noise marine head in place of the helbrute's head, but I'm not sure if that will fit yet.

Your question and Azrael's suggestion about mini speakers gave me an interesting thought: what about putting a miniature actual speaker onto your Hellbrute?

http://www.railwayscenics.com/miniature-speakers-c-20_368.html
http://www.dccconcepts.com/advice-1/sound-installation-tips

As a caveat, I have no experience of this but it looks like people fit these to model trains. Imagine a Sonic Dreadnought that actually played snatches of heavy metal music. Might need some innovative hiding of the components but surely it would be worth it