So, here I am again, I know my other project is far from done but I couldn\'t help myself, I just had to do this for my Space Wolves. Ever since I made my venerable dread(http://www.coolminiornot.com/141600) for them I\'ve been playing with the thought of giving him a something of a retinue. Yesterday I gave that thought some love.
I started out with the standard GW plastic Dreadnought on which I cut away the sarcophagus from the front plate.
to make the distinct \"body\" of the Mk IV I took a piece of plasticard tube and cut it open, inserted a top and bottom piece and finally filed a notch along the upper end of the tube. After that it was just a matter of adding some brass details and it was satisfactory.
I decided to cut away the exhausts and fill the gap with some plasticard so that i could make exhausts of my own a while later.
With that done I continued with the cavity for the head. Butchering an old shoulder pad, stretching it a bit and gluing it onto a piece of plasticard seemed to do the trick.
Adding four Melta-muzzles and chopping up a marine helmet gave it quite the \"finished\" feel, even though I was far from done
Some Guitar String added for tubing,
Now it started to look like a Mk IV. But i still needed that Ironclad look to it so I added some plating:
And with even more plating and some posing it started to turn out quite nicely if you ask me.
I added the arm just to get a more bulky feel to the pic. I\'ve got a totally different plan for that arm later...
That\'s where I am now.
I started out with the standard GW plastic Dreadnought on which I cut away the sarcophagus from the front plate.
to make the distinct \"body\" of the Mk IV I took a piece of plasticard tube and cut it open, inserted a top and bottom piece and finally filed a notch along the upper end of the tube. After that it was just a matter of adding some brass details and it was satisfactory.
I decided to cut away the exhausts and fill the gap with some plasticard so that i could make exhausts of my own a while later.
With that done I continued with the cavity for the head. Butchering an old shoulder pad, stretching it a bit and gluing it onto a piece of plasticard seemed to do the trick.
Adding four Melta-muzzles and chopping up a marine helmet gave it quite the \"finished\" feel, even though I was far from done
Some Guitar String added for tubing,
Now it started to look like a Mk IV. But i still needed that Ironclad look to it so I added some plating:
And with even more plating and some posing it started to turn out quite nicely if you ask me.
I added the arm just to get a more bulky feel to the pic. I\'ve got a totally different plan for that arm later...
That\'s where I am now.
