Pre-Heresy Era Space Marine Dreadnought Conversion

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Back in the dim, dark mists of the olden days (around 2008), before Forgeworld started making Contemptor Dreadnoughts, I was asked to build a dreadnought based on the artwork from the Horus Heresy cardgame. What follows here is a compilation of posts from my modeling blog on DakkaDakka as the build came together. It’s fun to look back on it now and think about what I would have done differently or better if I was to do it today…

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I like Dreadnoughts. It makes happy happen in my head that I get to work on another one 🙂

I’m taking this:

…and (hopefully) turning it into something that looks vaguely like this:

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You can see how it worked out in the Tutorials & Articles section here.

Aquila Landed – ‘reassembling’ the crashed shuttle from Battle For Macragge

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A conversion log by Iain Wilson.

Back in 2004 when 4th edition Warhammer 40000 was released, I took one look at the crashed Aquila shuttle that was included in the box as battlefield scenery and thought: Hey, you know what would be fun? Putting that back together…

So over the next two weeks I did, and was lucky enough to win a Bronze Demon at the 2004 (and last) Australian Games Day.

Reassembled Aquila Shuttle, by Iain (insaniak) Wilson

For the curious or the nostalgic, there’s a bit of a run-down on how this piece came together in the Tutorials & Articles section here.