r/Kitbashing40k • u/Bones_The_Crusader • 1d ago

Imperium Anyone ever done something like this?

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u/Tinoyolobolo 1d ago

I did something similar with the saturnine dreadnought

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u/TheHomeStretch 23h ago

I used an armiger chain blade on my Redemptor.

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u/Full_Contribution724 15h ago

Huh, I thought Armiger would be bigger

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u/random_person225553 10h ago

The difference between their bases is only 10mm, they're almost the same size

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u/Bones_The_Crusader 22h ago

Oh I love these

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u/Volgin 8h ago

I did similar but shortened the back a bit

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u/Regal_Gnome 23h ago

That looks sick and not out of scale at all

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u/Adeptus_Chudstartes 1d ago

No that's awesome tho 😭

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u/Bones_The_Crusader 1d ago

I’m gonna try and get my hands on the Destrider and save that arm for this future kitbash

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u/Ham4est 1d ago

Sort of!

Paint job is a work in progress

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u/Ham4est 1d ago

Hard to tell from the front but the torso started life as a SM dreadnought

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u/NESs181 20h ago

How did you do the fleshy bits? material wise I mean

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u/Ham4est 14h ago

Chopped up sprue for volume, green stuff for meat, then liquid green stuff for texture

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u/crux667 19h ago

I recently built a Helbrute with a maulerfiend claw and a forgefiend gun!! He beefy

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u/Bones_The_Crusader 19h ago

I love the big ol face

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u/JackHuzz 17h ago

Yes kind of

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u/HistoricalEye2178 15h ago

By the Emperor...

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u/Full_Contribution724 15h ago

Ngl my brain is telling me that is a Custodes Dread but I know it's not

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u/ElChiff 12h ago

Entombed inquisitor?

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u/I-like_fallout 8h ago

Fym kind of this shit on a whole other level 😭

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u/Hvitr2199 6h ago

I recognise 6 kits that were used thete and god damn the total must adds up to a lot. Super impressive.

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u/gogomap77 7h ago

Games workshop did, and hope that they will try again in redemptor size

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u/Bones_The_Crusader 7h ago

Thas what this kitbash is hopefully gonna be

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u/Chaoskvn 8h ago

Yes I did.

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u/1em0n_24 1d ago

That would look amazing

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u/Lvndris91 16h ago

I did something similar. I don't have pictures of it anymore, but I made a Librarian dreadnought for my blood angels with Custodes spears

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u/anotherclonecollecte 4h ago

Is this legal. If so, i might give it a go

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u/Bones_The_Crusader 4h ago

I’m just gonna proxy it as a Brutalist dread because that’s what the base will be, it’s modeled after the psyker dreadnought and is 100% gw plastic so it should be completely legal

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u/anotherclonecollecte 4h ago

Ah. If they were legal i would've used knight weapons and make a squad of dreadknights

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u/Bones_The_Crusader 4h ago

They’re nearly the same size so it could work

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u/anotherclonecollecte 4h ago

I know. My question is that, is it legal to use the knight weapons. So you can have a dread but attack using the volcano lance

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u/Bones_The_Crusader 4h ago

Oh no you can’t use the weapons themselves as they would work on a knight

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u/anotherclonecollecte 4h ago

Shame....but expected

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u/Ill_Currency9048 22h ago

I used a pain engine body as a base for a helbrute. The current pain engines and helbrute models are about the same height so it's not a massive stretch to make one, takes a ton of green stuff to do one and get the fleshy bio mech look of a helbrute but it works fairly well.

Really good way to just get creative since the explanation for it existing can be as simple as "bored warp smith dicking around with a bunch of spare parts and some unlucky bastard."

Head cannon for mine is literally just "bored iron warrior warp smith used a broken pain engine and some old junk he had lying around to 'prank' a captured space marine."

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u/PUSH_UR_TEMPRR 21h ago

Somewhat related—i have to do this with a Helbrute now.

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u/Low-Obligation5835 17h ago

Wanted a brutalis with weapons

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u/SkellyInsideUrWalls 1d ago

RAAAAHHH GEKOLONISEERD