Dreadnaught Holiday

I’m not the best at green stuff or sculpting, but these pipes look a lot like those vent tubes from tumble dryers and such, so they do the job here.

This is real “trust the process” stuff here. I start blocking in base colours – Blood Angels Red and Black Templar contrast. Tidy and refine from here on up.

How awesome does this look?! I am so pleased with how it came together and just works – it looks daft but also like it could work. I had to use metal pins to keep the forks mounted to the wheel, but it makes it sturdy.

This model has some good height and dynamism. It’s like Wallace and Gromit but Orky!

Having used the legs, but not the body on my first kitbashed Dreadnaught – I needed a form of ambulation for the second Deff Dread.

The broken up Snitch had some bendy arms that were part of the flight mechanism. I also had the head of an old torch that looked a lot like a big wheel.

Could this be something?

This is always the fun part of kitbashing – putting random stuff together to make something cool.

I’ve used parts from Mantic Terrain Crate pipes, laser cut mdf wheels and of course all those ork parts.

He looks awesome – comedy with menace and kinda reminds me of Tick Tock from Return to Oz!

These Ork kits come with so many spare bits (like masses) that I really wanted to use them and make more Deff Dredds.

I ordered another Deff Dredd kit (from Hachette, by buying the magazines) and set about thinking how I could build two models from one kit (and the spare bits).

In my bits box, I had an old broken Golden Snitch toy. It used to fly about but is now fully broken.

The best thing to do with anything related to She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is to destroy it and make it into something cool.

Using the ball, I made a rather tubby body.