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hey lads i am thinking about buying a FW dreadnought soon enough and the question i want to ask is what do you think is the best looking one for Blood Angels?

 

I was thinking either the Chaplain Dread or the Ultramarines one?

 

Your thoughts?

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I do like Mr Chappy dread but, as TheMouth says, it's been done quite a bit. I was having a look at these myself yesterday for my new dread; I came to the conclusion of either the Chaplain one - but maybe with a head swap or similar to make it unique - or the Dark Angel one. With the DA dread I liked the banners and the fact there's some more subtle wings, but all those swords would take some careful hiding under blood drops/removing.

Ultramarine dread I think would be more work still to remove various 'U' symbols - he has them behind chains on the shins, inset on the chest etc, plus they're all over the (very cool) back banner so you'd have a lot of resin shaving to do.

 

Choices choices.....

I've gone for the Ultra as the base of mine 'coz I haven't seen one in BA colours yet, paired with GW venerable legs as the FW ones require a lot of work to de-ultra (but it is not impossible) and I find the GW ones easier to repose. A few BA specific icons later and.....

Front View

Right View

Left View

I'm planning on selling the FW legs and banner, although they could be saved and would fit in very nicely with a successor chapter with Tyrannic War fluff if you don't mind the extra work in getting rid of the pesky 'U's. Its still in wip 'coz I haven't decided what colour to paint him as yet (play testing pending), but hope it helps B)

At first I though the Ultramarine Dread would be a rather poor choice, but after looking at it a bit I think there could be a way to make it BA. If you're talented in the Green Stuff department, it looks to me one could modify the U's to look like the interesting new Blood Angels shoulder pad art in the codex. The one that looks like an Ultramarines U with feathers and a blood drop in the center. The sword icon on the right greave would be a bit of a challenge though, as it doesn't easily modify into something more BA.

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