Knightsword's WIP Thread - Knight pattern Dreadnought page 10

[Brother Christopher]

Your conversions are stunning, as always. The new new Dreadnoought is ace - the reasonable part of me tells me that it's a bit too much but hey, it's 40k!

 

But the JP Chaplain is something else. Man, I love and I'd love to steal your idea but it seems like a lot of work.

[Knightsword]

3 hours ago, Brother Christopher said:

Your conversions are stunning, as always. The new new Dreadnoought is ace - the reasonable part of me tells me that it's a bit too much but hey, it's 40k!

 

But the JP Chaplain is something else. Man, I love and I'd love to steal your idea but it seems like a lot of work.

 

By all means steal the ideas, I'm thrilled if anything I make inspires others. The JP Chaplain was a lot of work, but only because the base AoS model came already assembled. If he'd been on the sprue then it would have been a lot easier  I do regret using the Terminator Chaplain chestplate rather than a normal one now but hey ho.

 

I've got some photos of the Dread with the shield, but didn't realise his damn finger had somehow come off mid shooting. I think I've now managed to fix the finger placement holding the sword and make it look less deinty (last photo). 

 

[kabaakaba]

Amazing dread, but I can't stop seeing The Emperor in this model

[Knightsword]

Added a heraldic beast so that he matches the not-Bjorn and count-as Murderfang. I'm running out of easy to sculpt animal heads. Wish I had decided to add a fur texture at the time though.

 

[Knightsword]

All the magnets! I've started using these ring magnets on Redemptors and Brutalis Dreads because I can never get the arms to clip as shown in the instructions. I figured it would also be a good idea to magnetise the waist too, however this has proven a little frustrating. The magnet kept coming off the top of the legs so I tried gluing one of the plastic rings that seperated the magents in the pack to the legs and then gluing the magnet to that. That too seemed to ignore the glue so I'm now  making a blue stuff mold of the plastic ring to cast a green stuff ring to use for securing the magnet instead.

 

[Knightsword]

I don't know why super glue bonds green stuff better to GW plastic than it does another type of plastic, but at least the plan worked!

 

I am now debating taking the barrels of the heavy stubber and putting them on the bolters behind the shield and then sticking a larger iron halo on top of the Dread, but not 100% sure on the idea.

 

[Knightsword]

So I decided I wasn't happy with the shield and used what would have been the aforementioned iron halo there along with a failed cast of the Lion's sword to make a fancier version of the Chapter's symbol. 

 

Still don't know if I want the stubber on the top or not...

 

[Jhadzaan]

Looking fantastic!

 

As for the stubber, do you have any plastic tube/rod you could stickytac in place to give you a rough idea of how the stubber barrels would look? I kinda of like the idea of having the guns behind the shield. Although if you're going for the more anti-flyer look the back makes more sense.

[Knightsword]

18 hours ago, Jhadzaan said:

Looking fantastic!

 

As for the stubber, do you have any plastic tube/rod you could stickytac in place to give you a rough idea of how the stubber barrels would look? I kinda of like the idea of having the guns behind the shield. Although if you're going for the more anti-flyer look the back makes more sense.

 

No rods unfortunately but I can place the turrent insitu with the shield and wrist mount to get an idea of how far the barrels would protrude. If I don't change the barrel length then they'll stick out almost 10mm, so I'd probably cut them down so that they're concealed behind the shield or only stick out a couple of mm. The lore behind these Dreads in the Chapter is more for monster hunting so I'm not hung up about the anti-flyer aspect.

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Interestingly, I had the mental image of the barrels going through the shield, a bit like the Breachers ....

[Knightsword]

22 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Interestingly, I had the mental image of the barrels going through the shield, a bit like the Breachers ....

 

I could see that working really well with the Invictor, and truth be told that may now be on my future project list. I was thinking more along the lines of the below though. 

 

On a separate note, I seem to have been demoted from Veteran to Novitiate and all my badges have gone so I'm guessing Brother Tyler has begun wrestling with the board's machine spirit for the rank and achievement overhaul.

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

I like the underslung heavy stubber  

[Grotsmasha]

9 hours ago, Knightsword said:

On a separate note, I seem to have been demoted from Veteran to Novitiate and all my badges have gone so I'm guessing Brother Tyler has begun wrestling with the board's machine spirit for the rank and achievement overhaul.

 

Correct. The Ranks and Achievements will reappear as the machine spirits work through the data-spires 

 

Edited Tuesday at 09:04 PM by Grotsmasha

[Jhadzaan]

Yeah. Scratch what I said, the underslung stubber looks better.

[Knightsword]

Stubber is now on the wrist of the shield arm and will for the most part be hidden behind the shield. Also used the lower part of the torso hatch to cover up the hole where the stubber would have originally gone. A few gaps to fill here and there but this one's almost done apart from basing. The basing elements are coming in a May issue of Combat Patrol in the form of the Hellbrute issues, although I will probably try to find time to paint him before that arrives.