2005-01-09 IG Dreadnaught

Well my first vision, a tandem seat cockpit on the inside of a dread body with dual weapons was a visual kerbaffel. When I was dreaming this up I thought I could trim down two Sentinel chairs and squeeze these into the body of the Dread, Wrong again! I could not even fit one in there nicely. Heck this thing started out being smaller than my Heavy Sentinel. I now have more respect when I see a Dread that has been customized with a SM or driver inside. The Heavy Sentinel and Dread are being held together with blue tack so forgive the off kilter look.



I started at the bottom feet first. Ever since I cut off all the toes of the feet for my Heavy Sentinel I knew I wanted to use them. Off with the toes and into the bits box. Well now was the time, I glued the feet of the Dread down to the base I had prepared last week. I then filed the corners off the inside of the sentinel toes to fit in between the Dread toes. Later I am going to use some more super glue to fill in under the feet.





I cut the top piece and the front piece to of the Dread to fit the trimmed down Sentinel cockpit to get these together. It turned out a single person could fit into the cockpit but then because of the superglue and angles I could not paint them, closed cockpit time. Super glue has been my friend and enemy.




In hindsight I wish I had just used the top from my Armageddon sentinel. If I choose to add another IG Dread to my army I will work a lot harder on the open cockpit.