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Space Wolves Dreadnought kit-bash #2

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So I got a moment to go back and look at my Space Wolves Dreadnought conversion, more importantly I started to finalize how I wanted the legs to be configured. I saw a post from an Italian site on Pinterest which featured a kit bash of the Sentinel and fell in love with the legs.     More so, I felt the short upper portions, extending to a longer lower leg strut was the right combination for the Dread conversion. I started shifting through different configurations of legs, based on what was left of the Dreadknight legs, you will even see a section of a leg from a Defiler. With a shuffle or two, I came up with a few other configurations. But I ended up settling for this configuration, based on the parts I had laying about, as the piston actually looked like to was doing something. The ankle joint is a bit of an issue for me though, as it won't fit into the Dreadknight foot.   I might try to grab some Sentinel legs from eBay and see how they...

Space Wolves Dreadnought kit-bash #1

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So as much as I love the Dreadnought model, and the more "wolfie" version, I decided that I wanted to make a version of Bjorn the Fell Handed that more represented how I pictured him, from Chris Wraight's novel, Battle of the Fang . I looked around online and got a few ideas, to bulk out legs and maybe swap out the sarcophagus façade, but in the end I got pretty jazzed from a few Grey Knight Dreadknight conversions.. So I had a few sprues lying about from a Stormwolf, essentially the hull plates from the Stormfang variant, and I re-purposed a Grey Knight Dreadknight chassis/torso. I had some Murderfang claws, that I added to the Dreadknight vambraces. They looked kind of bad ass, so my idea of making this purely into Bjorn fell by the way side, as the option to build this bad-boy into a more generic venerable dreadnought "plays-as" became more important. Magnetizing various options, and still flirting with how I can do Bjorn. This is how things turned ou...