isotope99
02-19-2011, 08:02 AM
Background:
In the heresy thousand sons book there is a section where the pyrae cult thousand sons can animate giant robots, controlling them psychically. I wanted to do one of these for my thousand sons army.
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?t=11823
With the new dreadknight coming, I think that this would make a good model for that. Based on the blurry photos doing the rounds it is perhaps a little short (I guess about 1-1.5") but otherwise what do you think?
Construction & painting:
The core is a furioso dreadknight made taller uisng the old leman russ track wheels.
The arms have been extensively converted to incorporate big shields (eldar support weapon bases I found on a bit site) and wraithlord swords (ditto, very lucky to get these in stock).
The head is supposed to be carved from psychically attuned crystal which I made using a daemon prince head with the mouth GS'ed over.
The sunbutrst chest plate comes from a tiranoc chariot and the loincloth from phoenix guard cloaks.
The weapons really shouldn't be paired like that, but the balance of the model is so much better that way. I had one punisher cannon spare already and was able to get the second online.
The new dreadknight looks to come with a Trygon base, so I made a detachable version so that this and my dreadnought can be converted to work as either unit without being on an illegal base.
The thousand son is meant to represent the astral projection controlling the robot and so has been painted in the same colour as the daemon tutelaries that the resto of the force have.
In the fluff, the robots are in the post heresy blue and gold, which is nice as it allowed me to use a different colour scheme.I used the same part-metallic style mix as my red.
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/DSC02213.JPG
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/DSC02212.JPG
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/DSC02214.JPG
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/DSC02215.JPG
In the heresy thousand sons book there is a section where the pyrae cult thousand sons can animate giant robots, controlling them psychically. I wanted to do one of these for my thousand sons army.
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?t=11823
With the new dreadknight coming, I think that this would make a good model for that. Based on the blurry photos doing the rounds it is perhaps a little short (I guess about 1-1.5") but otherwise what do you think?
Construction & painting:
The core is a furioso dreadknight made taller uisng the old leman russ track wheels.
The arms have been extensively converted to incorporate big shields (eldar support weapon bases I found on a bit site) and wraithlord swords (ditto, very lucky to get these in stock).
The head is supposed to be carved from psychically attuned crystal which I made using a daemon prince head with the mouth GS'ed over.
The sunbutrst chest plate comes from a tiranoc chariot and the loincloth from phoenix guard cloaks.
The weapons really shouldn't be paired like that, but the balance of the model is so much better that way. I had one punisher cannon spare already and was able to get the second online.
The new dreadknight looks to come with a Trygon base, so I made a detachable version so that this and my dreadnought can be converted to work as either unit without being on an illegal base.
The thousand son is meant to represent the astral projection controlling the robot and so has been painted in the same colour as the daemon tutelaries that the resto of the force have.
In the fluff, the robots are in the post heresy blue and gold, which is nice as it allowed me to use a different colour scheme.I used the same part-metallic style mix as my red.
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/DSC02213.JPG
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/DSC02212.JPG
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/DSC02214.JPG
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/DSC02215.JPG