But I'm firmly keeping my pace on unfinished paintjobs and I had decided this one was next !
So a (seemingly) clever plan arose in my mind to modify it into something else and why not tick another entry so I went looking for some legs and found the admech dunecrawler to be the absolutely perfect donor ! I just had to give it some alternate weapons and head from a Hellbrute (previously dreadnaught) and I had something cool, tying with the old aesthetics !
Painting wise, I used the same recipes I've used on most of my renegades to give that feeling of really old worn out armour and organic feel but I added some more organic parts with bowel like tubes and such everywhere which was quite fun to do ! I'm not easily grossed out but there was a point where even I had to stop because it was just disgusting !
I really like how the heavy Melta ended up with the fusion of flesh and weapon and the inner fire !
Of course I couldn't resist taking a picture of the Dreadfiler (that's got to be its name from now on) with his tiny brothers ! They feel so tiny and cute in comparison !
I'm not a 40k player anymore so I have no idea how this is going to be used in the future, I guess some models are just gratuitous fun ! There might be some potential for Xenos Rampant though which I'm keen on trying !
Anyway, it's a fun model and a nice itch I got scratched, plus he leaves A LOT of space on the desk now and it's officially my 100th model of the year just at 6 months so hopeful yet another 100 for the rest !
I absolutely love it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I had fun with it despite some hair pulling now and then !
DeleteFor your 100th of the year you've certainly outdone yourself with this one JB!
ReplyDeleteIt really is a disturbing creation. I think that weird blood red mouth/face thing does it for me. Very nasty, very chaos and I dearly wish the best for whomever it ends up facing on the battlefield!
I wanted disturbing and menacing, it seems both are ticked off !
DeleteThis is one of those projects where I think 'I wish I'd thought of it'! I love the concept and the execution. It's a very clever way of using the larger scale dreadnought torso that doesn't look out of place against the originals. Perfect!
ReplyDeleteNico did pull one earlier but it was definitely a "wish I had finished it earlier" for me !
Deletethanks !
Oh, wow, this one is awesome. Terrific work! I would have loved to see some WIP pics, but the results speak by themselves anyway. So cool!
ReplyDeleteI know ! Sorry about that ! I changed phone between start and finish and lost some WIP pics of it but it would have been intersting to show how I painfully blended one model into the other !
Deletemy god this is completely insane and awesome. i cannot find a word to describe it..
ReplyDeleteits like a brood mother with her children going out to hunt and feast on some unlucky victim.
great job!!
Funny how the classic creads don't feel as scary in contrast !
DeleteLovely drab muted filthy tones and bright melta glow. The old chaos dread was always a great design to my eyes, your dreadfiler creation is superb, captured that old warped madness with a seamless merge of new corrupted machines or war. The only sadness it brings me is I won't be able to buy a model of this.
ReplyDeleteThanks ! It's not that complicated and it doesn't require tremendous putty skills since the textures are mostly organic, I'm glad people enjoy the balance of biomechanical parts on this one !
DeleteGods what a monster! An impressive looking model to lead the heavies. Great to see the 3 of them together.
ReplyDeleteHe is a big boi indeed, I like to have a range of all sizes in the army to make it more chaotic, I've had a Forgefiend for a while now and this might be the perfect excuse now !
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