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Just discovered a small dilema when starting to clad the various bits of the Dreadnought.  Due to the angles on the shoulder on the arm, using the textured plasti-card isn't going to work.  Basically the front slope is a greater angle (thus longer) than around the side, resulting in the texture not wrapping correctly.  Going to have to think about a solution as it would have been good to have clad the arms - bah! Read More

Pictures to follow, but I made some progress on cladding the torso with plasti-card last night.  It could be a pain to fill the edges, but once done will make the Dreadnought look quite beefy.  The initial fill went quite well and I filed down some of that, though ran out of time to do a second fill, which is a bit of a pain.  I need to get the leg assembly finished by the end of the weekend to stand a chance of hitting my deadline. Running Totals: Time – ~ 16 Hrs; Cost – £Read More

The first of a couple of pictures.  This one shows my progress on converting the lascanon arm of the plastic Dreadnought into a heavy bolter arm.  My concept is to mimic the close combat arm with its flap pivot and elbow. It still needs a fair bit of work and significant filling.  The elbow joint may also be fun and games as plastic disc's aren't a common thing to have lying around. Read More

Very impressivly the bits that I ordered on Sunday arrived yesterday.  That was a sheet of textured plasti-card and some plastic strips from Fred Aldous, and the pair of heavy bolters with drum magazines from Bits and Kits.  The turn around for these was fantastic and I really wasn't expecting them until today at the earliest. Blood Doning went very well and in all honesty I felt absolutly fine afterwards, so decided that I'd begin to tidy up the heavy bolters.  These are going to need a little bit more work than I was planning, but nothing too major.  The top part of the gun (including the little sight stub) needs to be trimed… Read More

One thing has just occurred to me - and that is I need to make a decision on if I wish to add any banners or pendants to my Dreadnought.  I'm personally not a fan of banners, I think that they're highly unrealistic in many aspects - in real life they'd add another 4 ~ 6 ft of height onto a person and likely hinder somebody walking if they were strapped onto their back.  Now I know that in the 40th millennium the rules are a little different, but back banners strike me as just being the equivalent of holding a fishing rod in a lightening storm.  "Nobody move" flutter, flutter... Boom... That said, a miniature with a back banner can look bloody… Read More

A few shots of the components that have been worked on so far.  Top image is the torso.  I've sliced out the sarcophagus and lopped off both spindles for the arm mounts.  I have cut two pieces of tubing to allow the arms to be fitted and positioned as wanted. I've now cut off the pelvis joint struts, in preparation for the custom ones.  I have a piece of plastic rod that is perfect for the larger… Read More

I've just taken a high quality scan of the reference image I've got of the Aesir Dreadnought from the Horus Hersey CCG.  This captures the whole essence of what I'm after.  Of note is the Thousand Son with holes in him under the Dread's foot and the 'shark tooth' grin on the face guard for want of a better description.  I may or may not choose to have mine thumping another Traitor Marine. The… Read More

Ok, perhaps not the best topic line :s I've just tacked the leg components together and in fact they've gone together better than I'd hoped.  Less slope is going to be needed than I anticipated, which is good.  However my gut feeling prooved corect and the left leg needs repositioning slightly, just to make sure that it looks right.  One positive thing of doing that, is that it means I can modify the pelvis joins and use plastic rod rather than trying to work with the blob of plastic that it has, creating a much more realistic and dynamic effect. Read More

After around about 8 hours of cutting, filing and some gluing over the weekend, what I'm aiming for looks like it is possible.  The right leg has been cut up into separate components and should give enough play to allow it to be hinged at the knee and hip so that it's pressing down on a Chaos Marine's chest.  Facilitating a slope into the base and pushing the Marine into the ground should allow it to not look like it's drunk. Running Totals: Time - ~ 8 Hrs; Cost - £36.47 The sarcophagus block has been cut out from the front torso without… Read More

When I collected my ticket I also purchased myself a regular plastic Space Marine Dreadnought.  I'm a Space Wolves collector and have wanted to put together a dread for ages, but held off because I had a gut feeling that they'd be releasing a new plastic one at the same time as the new Codex.  Now that this years Golden Demon has become a possibility, I felt that it was time to fulfil this yearning and put together one of these behemoth's. My intention is to hack, gouge… Read More