Some of you may have seen my last project, a Red Corsair's Land Raider. It turned out fairly good from the responses I received. (Thanks again!) I have had that particular Land Raider for many, many years and only now got around to painting it. Well, I dug up an even older model that I have owned since second edition 40k was released, a chaos dreadnought. It had a heavy plasma gun (2nd ed. wording, it's a plasma cannon by todays definition) and a power claw (now just a DCCW.) I have had it sitting, never assembled or painted this entire time in my drawer collecting dust. Seeing as I am flat broke and wanted something to paint, I busted it out.
Well, better late then never. So, here it is....
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First off, I really do not like the static pose of the standard dreadnought model. It is boring and unoriginal to me, so I had a go at changing it up. I cut out the normal helmeted front with a dremel tool and replaced it with a khorne skull fascia made of greenstuff and a plastic khorne emblem. I also repositioned the arms, legs, torso to lower leg mount and foot joints to be more dramatic. Everything was pinned in place. The resulting gaps were greenstuffed. The hardest part for me was the right arm. I didn't want the not so attractive plasma cannon arm, so I butchered together another DCCW from some bits left over from the ork killa cans kit. I cut out the plasma cannon, filed smooth and added some greenstuff, the choppy bit, some skulls, a bit of chain and a lot of patience. This was my first real attempt at using greenstuff other than making little balls or for just filling tiny gaps, but to create an actual part for the model.
As for painting, it was rather straight forward with red, brass and dulled boltgun all around. The Khorne symbol is free handed and so is the Ultramarines "U" on the rhino door. (For some reason I really like how the base turned out.)
Sorry for all the words... what do you think of it?
Well, better late then never. So, here it is....
First off, I really do not like the static pose of the standard dreadnought model. It is boring and unoriginal to me, so I had a go at changing it up. I cut out the normal helmeted front with a dremel tool and replaced it with a khorne skull fascia made of greenstuff and a plastic khorne emblem. I also repositioned the arms, legs, torso to lower leg mount and foot joints to be more dramatic. Everything was pinned in place. The resulting gaps were greenstuffed. The hardest part for me was the right arm. I didn't want the not so attractive plasma cannon arm, so I butchered together another DCCW from some bits left over from the ork killa cans kit. I cut out the plasma cannon, filed smooth and added some greenstuff, the choppy bit, some skulls, a bit of chain and a lot of patience. This was my first real attempt at using greenstuff other than making little balls or for just filling tiny gaps, but to create an actual part for the model.
As for painting, it was rather straight forward with red, brass and dulled boltgun all around. The Khorne symbol is free handed and so is the Ultramarines "U" on the rhino door. (For some reason I really like how the base turned out.)
Sorry for all the words... what do you think of it?
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