Garage Dreadnought : Step by Step

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These are the posts I made during the making of Garage Dreadnought in chronological order

Mixed-media Patoroch Dreadnought

Since my Land Raider has a lot of staring-at-the-walls-waiting-for-the-paint-to-dry going on, I decided to start working on another of Eli Patoroch's models: the Dreadnought. This ... 

Beefed

I've gone and compared my model with photos of the official Dreadnought, and realized that the body was not quite in proportion to what it ... 

Dread progress

Here is some progress on the weapons. The multi-barrel auto-cannon needs rework (I don't like the look of the toothpicks, I will roll barrels out ... 

Some more progress

A bit more progress on the body: panels, rivets, etc.I am using some green stuff (putty) to fill in some deeper holes.There is some vinyl ... 

Not the dreadnought you're looking for

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Nothing to see here, move along... 

Rivets & Surgery

More rivets, and some surgery for the next steps.I think this build will have a *lot* of mixed media in it, so it might not ... 

Bulking out

Some more progress: bulking out the... bulkheads?The body fits together nicely. Adding more detail to the feet... 

Prime, bake & mold

So here is the primed body of the dreadnought - it looks a tad cleaner this way I did this last night, then took the ... 

Power fist

The mold is complete, so I removed the parts from it. They only suffered minimal damage, nothing a bit of CA couldn't fix. Started building ... 

Molding & Casting

Here is the progress I've made in making molds and casting resin parts for this figure. Minus the left hand - this gave me a ... 

Dreadnought proto clone

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Finally, I've got all the molds together to cast one of these: The hand took the longest to properly mold. Because I am using caulking ... 

Primed and gap-filled dready

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A coat of gray primer showed up a fair amount of tiny bubbles on the surface of the parts, again more so toward the parts ... 

Weekend basing

Spent the weekend basing the couple of models I have made: The dready also got a base: All primed and ready to go: Looks like ... 

Garage dread wip

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He is getting the rough and ready treatment. Needs some insignias and then a ton of weathering. Because of the rough cast, with visible bubbles ... 

Garage dread: chipping and insignia

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Slapped some chipping and insignia on the garage dread. Basically, the same process as the Raptor's chipping, but I went a step further and added ...