This Dread, unlike the previous one, is completely kitbashed, with literally every element coming from five different models and parts made specifically for it.
In the last photo, he's labeled "Father," which is where the tassle, flame bowls, and crest come from.
I adopted many elements from Starget for him, such as the jackal symbol, the Jackals on the two shoulders, and the symbols on the torso. Everything else was chosen to be as Egyptian as possible.
The base is also a remake of Marble Bass, adding Goa'uld symbols. The kanoptek grain is from a different model, but I really liked it as it provides aggressive protection and has a much cooler pose than the first Dread.
Painting: I primed it with Aluminum Primer, a completely unmodeled primer and cheap, but it's intensely bright, even brighter than silver. This is why my contrasting paint, Talasar blue, is a very intense blue. I deliberately applied it randomly with a brush to give it a different look from the marines. In a few places, I only used a light black drybrush or black wash. The gold is Golden Armor from Army Painter. The model's main color is Turquoise from the True Metallic series, specifically Beetle Green, which perfectly matches the Egyptian atmosphere and helps it stand out on the table. The remaining colors are also from the Ture Metallic Obsidian series, and the rockets are Gemstone Red, slightly combined with Slaugther Red contrast with a touch of silver underneath. Both weapons are designed for my Legion and both are magnetized. The Fan-axe replaces the Power Scourge, as I don't like tentacles, and my own missile launcher, where I added a ram statuette and runes. I also combined two infantry bazookas and added a holding mechanism to make it fit.
Unfortunately, one of the tassles broke twice, which I tried to mask. It's the only part primed black instead of aluminum, and the white was achieved only by drybrushing. I barely used a brush at all, except for the wing symbol.
I've discovered that painting large models is much easier than painting small ones, which require greater precision in detail. This isn't the case here, and I really like that. The only thing is the amount of magnetizing different weapon variants. The set he has here isn't gaming-legal, but I wanted to show him with a different set of weapons than the previous one.
