Dreadnought

Posted: August 8th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: 40k, Hall of Honor, The Cloven | View Comments

Hey, to kick things off for my ‘The Cloven’ chapter of marines I have converted and painting for Assault on Black Reach dreadnought.

Dreadnought

Unfortunately while I was working on the conversion part of this model I’d lost my cameras charger, but the build process was to separate the legs from the torso at the hip, then break down the right leg so that it could be repositioned on to be standing on the rock.

Once the torse was separated I processed to carve out the sarcophagus so that I could replace it with one from the new Venerable Dreadnought kit, this was done mainly to give the dreadnought an air of uniqueness, as Black Reach model is a pretty common sight.

Finally I positioned both arms using green-stuff in an attempted to make the model generally more imposing pose, the DCCW arm is from a standard Dreadnought kit, as I wanted to use the heavy flamer.

  • Anonymous

    I know this is forever old, but I was wondering just where you cut the hip section? I’ve been looking at mine for a while, trying to figure out where to place the cut, but the problem is that the front of the hip axle is different then the back, so there’s no clean place to go with…

  • http://horrain.com Iain

    Yeah what I did was cut along the bottom of the sarcophagus, as the base has a nice flat edge. Once the front half of the legs were removed I then placed them on the back half of the model and cut so it all lined up.

    Unfortunately when you do this you get a bit of a large gap, that needs filling with green stuff, I’ve taken a photo and uploaded it to http://www.flickr.com/photos/horrain/4902195046/

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