Hello Dreadtober-teers!
For those not in the know, Dreadtober is an annual event held over the month of October where hobbyists pledge to do a dreadnought-sized model from the to-do pile and get it finished, starting 1st Oct and hopefully completing 31st Oct (Halloween/All Hallows Eve) with lots of progress shots and encouragement along the way :) and I like to partake in Dreadtober, and have done for a few years, a veteran of now 10yrs with a sum of six Dreads, two Imperial Knights, two Armiger Knights and a Necron Construct, now joined with this larger Construct!
Firstly I posed the MacFarlane Necron Warrior and glued into place the joints. I added the Scarab as a face, to differentiate from a 'huge Warrior' to something more akin of a walker-construct.
I really like the cyclops style single occulus sensor / eye. Very Deathmark-esque.
As a close combat alternative using magnetised forearm swap for a counts-as Reaper Chainsword / Thunderstrike Gauntlet close combat arm using more Tesseract Vault leftover cables. This will be the Knight Paladin close combat arm.Or Twin Tesla Destructors to counts-as Avenger Gatling Cannon of a Knight Crusader
A top mounted gun to either counts-as a carapace Twin Icarus Autocannon array or act as the Questoris Heavy Stubber. Close up of the mandibles from a Triarch Praetorian torso.
Pieces mainly from the leftovers from an Obelisk Build using the Tesseract Vault bits. I will also use some bits to break up the shoulder silhouette too. Pipes and cables from Night Scythe kit.
I quite like the massed mechadendrites look of the close combat attachment.
To make a silhouette difference from a huge Warrior to a walker-construct, and echo design of an Imperial Knight somewhat, I cut down some Necron terrain bits into Greaves. The extra toes were placed in a cruciform design like Imperial Knights, again parts of the Tesseract cables. The knee guards from Triarch Praetorians, and a groin pterges/baltea from a Overlord cloak.
I then wanted the head to look different from a Warrior, firstly using the MacFarlane Scarab as a base, then adding spares from various Necron kits to make a construct face sensor cluster keeping the insectoid mandibles and the singular eye sensor.
As a Knight Crusader, the Rapid Fire Battlecannon using a Doomsday Cannon barrel from the Ghost Ark kit and attached using the remains of the MacFarlane Gauss Flayer, plus some suitable Necron bits.
In sub assemblies to aid painting, once painted I can affix the main weapon to the hand, keeping the left hand interchangeable between Knight Crusader and Knight Paladin builds. I'll add some more Necron themed terrain bits to the base from the newer Kill Team Tombworld set. Enjoying this foray into mad-cap construct building!
Cheers, Siph.
