Denzark's Scrapheap Challenge - Murderfang Dreadnought.

[Denzark]

Hello Chaps.

Denzark Junior being a splendid young chappy, bought me the Space Wolf Dread kit for Chrimbo. Now, this is an excellent kit, with loads of spares and accessories, but whilst it can build 3 marks of dread, you really only have the essentials for one.

Now, I have never been one for magnetising, I fancied a Bjorn and my boy fancied a Murderfang. So, I searched my bitzbox to see what I could do.

This small post will show how to use a few spare parts to get a second dread from your wolf dread kit, and also how I did it. Hope it is of interest...

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So, the first thing has to be Murderfang's head. This bad boy is instantly recognisable by having a bare wulfen head, and BFO claws. Both of these features should stay! So you will need a dread sarcophagus for the wulfen to fit into. As it is quite ragged, I found an old metal Chaos dread. Clipping out the helmet and a lot of filing of the centre piece, the wulfen fits nicely. The arrows show where chaos iconography came off.

http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/denzark/Murderfang/01%20Sarcophagus_zpszly2rqg9.jpg

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So, step 2. Onto the arm. You WILL need a spare right arm. Luckily I had an Imp dread - the powerfist arm - because the murderfang carries built-in storm bolter on one arm. Chop the fist hand off the arm - you will also need to take the lug off for smoothest fit. first picture shows lug removed, second shows claw fitted flush.

http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/denzark/Murderfang/02%20Right%20arm_zps284uzgam.jpg



http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/denzark/Murderfang/03%20right%20arm%20fitted_zpsm1reqrqw.jpg

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Step 3. You WILL need extra legs. I again used Chaos dread. It just adds to the weird battered look of the murderfang. However, I was missing feet. Another rummage in the bitz box revealed old RT sentinel 'chicken walker' feet. I thought, why the hell not!


http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/denzark/Murderfang/05%20Chicken%20walker_zpsscnqnz1c.jpg

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You will need to take lugs off the dread feet to fit chicken walker. Incidentally, when looking for dreadnought feet spares on fleabay, the cheapest I could find was for Kryzmov whassisname's throne of doom.

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Next, the dreadnought waist. Again, using the old Chaos waist. The arrows show where you will need to modify - the old dread carried on-board storm bolters, I point to where the barrel and magazine needs to be removed.


http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/denzark/Murderfang/04%20Waist_zps6wiz70jk.jpg

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Next, a front-on view. You WILL need new engine/exhaust parts. In the event I went for Leman Russ parts - they cover a lot of space.



http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/denzark/Murderfang/07%20Rear%20Engine_zpsnltyzpwd.jpg

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Now, you WON'T need a left arm. Because the murder fang and ven dread are 2 x close combat, and Bjorn has a ranged arm. Hence the kit has one. However, remember how the left arm had a storm bolter? Well the right arm therefore needs heavy flamer. This pic shows where I cut the magazine of the original storm bolter, and added the barrels of a guard heavy flamer from one of the vehicle kits.


http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/denzark/Murderfang/06%20left%20arm_zpssvqib8j8.jpg

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And that as they say, is that. Except for a bit of paint. bearing in mind that this is a lunatic who is frozen in between battles, I went for quite a battered look, as follows:



http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/denzark/Murderfang/08%20Complete%201_zpsjkdwaf0a.jpg



Mr Flibble is very cross (Blood for the blood god and the toothbrush technique.)


http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/denzark/Murderfang/09%20Complete%202_zpsvnclyygr.jpg




A little bit Wolverine I know. Also - spot where a foul xenos met its well deserved end.



http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy257/denzark/Murderfang/010%20Complete%203_zpswhxhevqh.jpg





I hope you find this useful/interesting.

[interrogator_chaplain]

My take away from this is that Mr. Flibble is definitely going to be the name of one of my future pets.

As for the conversion, absolutely cracking!

[Psychosplodge]

Now what happens when Mr Flibble gets cross? 2 Hours WOO?



Very nice use of spares 'Zark.

[Darren Richardson]

wow it's amazing what you can build out of a few old broken parts from your bitz box, My virtual hat off to you Denzark, Cracking good work!

[Wolfshade]

I might need to talk to the potato king about this.

Very nice looking job :)