Thursday 23 November 2017

Toybashed Retro Dreadnought

I wanted to add a Dreadnought to my old fashioned Space Marine army, and I wanted it to be vaguely reminiscent of the old Rogue Trader ones sculpted back in the 80s by Bob Naismith- or at least to look as through they might conceivably have been designed in the same solar system, within the same millennium!


I started keeping an eye out for bits, and found an old broken toy that I liked the look of, and worked out was one of these (on the right)


The size was good, the face looked suitably robotic and '80s-looking and it had overtones of M.A.S.K., which was no bad thing.

I nicked the legs from one of these (in the middle) that I'd found on eBay very cheaply from Singapore.


I stuck them together with a pelvis made from two 25mm hex bases, and added two Assault Cannon barrels left over from when I converted my Space Crusade marines to Lascannons.


After the usual quick paint job and varnish, I'm pretty pleased!



2 comments:

  1. Such a fantastic idea and a great use of old 80's style toys, plus everyone likes an assault cannon or two :)

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