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David Gausebeck - 07 Nov 2004 09:23 GMT

As the first step towards my new (small) chaos army, I just finished
converting a chaos dread, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
I just put some pics up on rgmw-genbus:

http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/rgmw-genbus/lst?.dir=/Gausebeck

Of course, there's still basing, and painting, and putting together
the rest of the army... but it's a start :)

-Dave

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Richard Busby - 07 Nov 2004 15:12 GMT

> As the first step towards my new (small) chaos army, I just finished
> converting a chaos dread, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
> I just put some pics up on rgmw-genbus:
>
> http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/rgmw-genbus/lst?.dir=/Gausebeck

Not too shabby! It's a little spikey for my tastes, but I like the heavy
bolter conversion and pose is very dynamic.

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Doctor Rock - 07 Nov 2004 16:35 GMT

nice job. the HB conversion turned out pretty good after all. I like the
off-center havoc launcher, the non-symmetry reinforces the impression of a
mutated hull. wish I'd thought of that :(

I should take some pictures of mine before I get around to painting it (as
if that's gonna happen any time soon). it's been sitting around waiting for
me to finish sticking some suitable stuff on the base for weeks now, or at
least that's my excuse.

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David Gausebeck - 08 Nov 2004 09:21 GMT

>> http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/rgmw-genbus/lst?.dir=/Gausebeck
>
>nice job. the HB conversion turned out pretty good after all.

Yeah, I like it enough that I'm considering doing the twin lascannon
of the other dread the same way. I'll probably stick with the
standard lascannon arm, though, for variety if nothing else.

>I should take some pictures of mine before I get around to painting it (as
>if that's gonna happen any time soon). it's been sitting around waiting for
>me to finish sticking some suitable stuff on the base for weeks now, or at
>least that's my excuse.

I'm trying out epicast bases for this new army. The GW dreadnougt
base isn't bad, but it doesn't really fit with the snowy look I'm
planning.

-Dave

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Myrmidon - 07 Nov 2004 17:02 GMT

> As the first step towards my new (small) chaos army, I just finished
> converting a chaos dread, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
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>
> -Dave

That's awesome! That's the best Chaos dread conversion I've seen
in a good while that didn't involve tons of chains and tyranid scything
talons from the monstrous critters sprue. About the only draw-back I
can see will be transporting it with the spiky bits. And frankly - a
model that nice deserves to be tranported and deserves it's own case or
shoe-box, or whatever so it doesn't get banged up. I've added it to my
collection of Chaos pics for inspiration when I at long last get around
to building my fledgling chaos army some day. Again, it's really nice
work, thanks for sharing the pics. Can't wait to see it painted.

Myrmidon

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John Hwang - 08 Nov 2004 08:21 GMT

>David Gausebeck,
>gausebec@paypal.com speak...

>> http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/rgmw-genbus/lst?.dir=/Gausebeck

>About the only draw-back I
>can see will be transporting it with the spiky bits.

True, that'll be a problem. Have you thought about perhaps cutting the spikes
back to just the points, rather than keeping the shafts as well? The net
effect will be more like the torso plate. Shorter, less breakable spikes might
work better.

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David Gausebeck - 08 Nov 2004 09:13 GMT

> That's awesome! That's the best Chaos dread conversion I've seen
>in a good while that didn't involve tons of chains and tyranid scything
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>to building my fledgling chaos army some day. Again, it's really nice
>work, thanks for sharing the pics. Can't wait to see it painted.

Thanks. I do have some ideas for transport... This guy will be on a
base, and I'm thinking I could find a ring that would exactly hold the
base (a slice of pvc pipe, perhaps?) and keep him stable held just
with that. A ring maybe an inch high. I'd need something else to
keep him from popping out, though. Magnets, perhaps, or just some
foam that would press down on top.

As for painting... I'm going with Black Legion for fluff reasons, and
I'm going to see how it looks with the black highlighted to red,
sortof like on the studio daemon prince model. It will be a while
before I get there, though.

-Dave

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John Hwang - 08 Nov 2004 08:18 GMT

>http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/rgmw-genbus/lst?.dir=/Gausebeck

Not bad. Nothing like growing spikes to make a nice Loyalist whatnot turn to
Chaos. :)

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David Gausebeck - 08 Nov 2004 09:22 GMT

>>http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/rgmw-genbus/lst?.dir=/Gausebeck
>
>Not bad. Nothing like growing spikes to make a nice Loyalist whatnot turn to
>Chaos. :)

I was kindof thinking that happened in the other order...

-Dave

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Qrab - 14 Nov 2004 02:10 GMT

Nice work.

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