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I have very nearly finished the leg assembly. The picture in the last post was taken just after I added in a piece of brass guitar wire (which seemed to take ages to bend to the right shape). The 60mm bases I ordered from GW arrived so I was able to cut the cork to […]
Continue ReadingSo I managed to get the right knee join pinned, glued and filled last night. I used pure Green Stuff for the fill, as it’s more suited for the kind of gap that was created. Also the trick of using a Milliput and Green Stuff mixture is that you sand it to get a perfect […]
Continue ReadingManaged to get the left leg cut off the pelvis and all of the rods that form the new hip cut and drilled. These provide a lot more flexibility for the whole model’s pose in comparison to the solid joints that it comes with. I’ve not glued the leg on yet as there is a […]
Continue ReadingDue to it being a weekend, I’ve actually made quite a bit of progress. I’m still not 100% sure about getting it all ready for this weekend yet, as there is still a bucket load of stuff left to do. The photo to the left I’ve just taken and shows the knee joint pretty much […]
Continue ReadingJust 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 […]
Continue ReadingPictures 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 […]
Continue ReadingDuring my perusal of the good old internet, I chanced across an entry that won gold at the Chicago Golden Demon. The entry is fantastic – just the right balance of realism versus fantasy. Metallics are definatly worth inspecting closely as they’re spot on, looks like a fair number of black washes to remove the […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingSo that I can keep up with what things need to be done, I’ve knocked up this hit list, which looking at it, is unbelievably long… The torso assembly is the bit that is worrying me the most as this is the bit I was hoping to have completed for the 9th. Edit – updated […]
Continue ReadingVery 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 […]
Continue ReadingOk, just to make it official – it’s highly unlikely that I’ll be doing any work on the Dreadnought tonight as I’m donating a pint of blood.
Continue ReadingOne 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 ~ […]
Continue ReadingA 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 […]
Continue ReadingI’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 […]
Continue ReadingOk, 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 […]
Continue ReadingAfter 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 […]
Continue ReadingWhen 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. […]
Continue ReadingToday I was lucky enough to be able to scrounge a lift to Swindon on September 27th. For those who don’t know, September 27th (2009) is the date that Games Workshop is holding its annual ‘Games Day’ exhibition. This is held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Bristol. Every Games Workshop store runs a […]
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