So, once again the hobby butterfly has struck. Instead of finish building the last Hellverins, or completing Lady Oxidia in Entropy I started another knight build, a Dominus. This is something I have been thinking about since the Dominus kit came out, and I have had the model for quite some time. Apart from the Dominus being to similar in load out to the Questoris, I did not like the small extra turrets on the back shield for the melta guns. So I always had the intention to remove them and make something else, but exactly what has not been clear until now. So once inspiration struck I started cutting up the kit. I removed the turrets from the back and covered the holes with some laminated plasticard. I will cover it up with more layers until I get a solid border like the front of the Questoris carapace. As I wanted to be able to remove the back to show an inside I also needed to solve the attachment of the melta guns so that the were independent of the carapace. So I turned them upside down and attached them to the bottom of the body super structure instead of at the middle as per the original. Having the central carapace removable also meant that the shoulder mounts had to be attached to the main body instead of the carapace. I made a similar structure as I did on my Questoris Dominus, using some support legs from the Aegis defense kit as arms supporting the discs for the shoulder weapons. Since the shoulder guards also would be attached to the weapon mounts and the central carapace I needed to figure out how to attach them to the weapon mounts only. The siege breaker cannons in the kit was a bit small so I decided to use some rapid fire cannons instead. When I bout the kit I thought that the Valiant carapace looked better than the Castellan. So even though I planed to build a Castellan type knight, I bought a valiant. That meant I could not use the main weapon in the kit and needed to build something of my own. So the main weapons are based on two Baneblade volcano cannons that will act as volcano lances. So far I am pretty much still in the base building, mocking things up to see how it will fit together, before starting with details etc...
