Death Company Dreadnought

[Enzephalon]

Hi guys,

 

This guy was one of my very first conversions. He's been sitting on my desk for over one and a half year. Mainly because I rarely field him.

Today I had the time to finish him.

Enjoy.

 

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[SnorriSnorrison]

Looking good there buddy! Kinda like the name ;)

 

Good choice of bits and loadout, my only gripe with him is the back-standard, you could have filed down the meteor and cut off the hammer, it's a little bit too much of WHFB Empire. ;)

 

Looks like a clean paint job otherwise. I especially like the feathers and the searchlights from the landspeeder(I guess?) weapons, they look surprisingly well on the dread!

 

 

Well done! :P

 

 

 

Snorri

[Enzephalon]

I do not know the source of the lights. They are from ebay. ^^

I do understand the critique concerning the whfb symbol, but I have too many other things to do to change it.

Maybe next century. ^^

[Deschenus Maximus]

How did you do the black?

[Taz]

"Haters gonna hate."

[daryl]

Nice paint job, I wouldn't have even noticed the meteor, but hey to me that is just the drop pod hitting the atmosphere. Rather appropriate for a drop pod army like space marines.

[Enzephalon]

How did you do the black?

I keep the black very simple. Prime it black and hit the hidden spots with Chaos Black. Adeptus Battlegrey (or whatever it is named now) to highlight the edges, and then hit it with the black wash aka "Ye goode olde Badab black"

[The Holy Heretic]

Your boy looks good B)

 

Though, personally I'm not a fan of the "bright lines along the edges look", its just not how light works.

 

Here's a little experiment for you. For your next model spray prime it black, then take a white spray primer and give it a squirt, but only from one direction. In this way, you use your spray as a 'light source', which you then can work from, when you start painting ;)

[JamesI]

Very Impressive DC dread!

[olcottr]

I thought the bright lines around the edges represented wear and tear on the paint, rather than light effects.

[knife&fork]

Your boy looks good

Though, personally I'm not a fan of the "bright lines along the edges look", its just not how light works.

Here's a little experiment for you. For your next model spray prime it black, then take a white spray primer and give it a squirt, but only from one direction. In this way, you use your spray as a 'light source', which you then can work from, when you start painting

That's fine for display models that will be viewed and photographed from one angle in a controlled setting. Not so good for general tabletop looks where you'll have no fixed view angle or light source.

[Taranis]

Sweet painting. Looks good. I have quite a few dreads lying around. I think they'll be high on my to do list. Thanks for some great inspiration.

[Zynk Kaladin]

I've always pictured loyal imperial children controlling claws like those to pick up cute fluffy toy xenos on the Sanguililia.

 

Merry Sanguinilia!

[Somar]

looks very nice, well done

[Brother-chaplain Astador]

I don't like the look of it, but in a good way, the claws look very very nasty. It's actually a scary looking dread, like something from a horror film, it makes me feel uneasy!