Here we are again to present you my lattest addition to my Raven Guard army: a venerable dreadnought made from the plastic space marine Venerable dreadnought.
As you can see it is build with a plasma cannon as well as painted to match the scheme of my Forgeworld Raven Guard Venerable Dreadnought.
I´ve opted to build it in a classical style instead of make use of the other sarcophagus, which show the helmet of the "pilot", that is ´cause I like the columns bits, in the sarcophagus as well as in the torso, cause it lets you freehand something between the "columns" but sadly up to date, I haven´t been able to find a design that I want to freehand in it.
That doesn´t mean that there is not a freehand in the mini, as you can see the legs bits are quite freehanded, except for the raven skull and the Raven Guard icon (etched brass, you know).
Here you have a side view of the dude and how the white raven seems to be much brighter than it should be, I don´t know how to achieve this effect but I like it pretty much.
One of the things I like from my new miniatures is as simple as the use of Citadel´s Boltgun instead of Vallejo´s Chainmail, cause the Boltgun metallic colour has a "greased metal" look that I like pretty much, and because the citadel colour is pretty uniform when correctly painted, without bubbles or lumps and every ink you put in it seems to correctly place itself so it gets the most of the metallic colour.
There is the plasma cannon, is painted as ever, Vallejo Torquoise, highlighted with vallejo light turquoise, highlighted with vallejo green blue and with a white dot in the edges (yes, the "shoulder" needs some details, I know)
Here you can see the effect on the plasma cannon and how the boltgun metal and the badab black make me happy every time I combine both :D
A detail of the right "kneepad" so you can see the freehand decoration around the skull.
The same for the left "kneepad" and the bit in the... Groin???
A detail of the lenses on the dreadnought, turquoise as well, because I think it makes a nice contrast with the redness of the rest of the army.
But the thing is that the BA claws fit perfectly in the plastic standard dreadnought arm, but not in the venerable dreadnought arm so if you are going to try this you have to be cautious glueing it (if you take a look you can see a bit of glue in the center of the fist).
Just another thing: any ideas of what can I freehand in the torso and sarcophagus???
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