#leviathan dreadnought

[nightscalestudio]

"Those few examples of Relic Leviathan Dreadnoughts which survive into the 41st Millennium are ancient and terrible relics, rarely spoken of and rarely deployed, dreaded as much as they are revered by those Chapters in whose Armoury vaults they reside and stand empty until direst need."

[mayhemlia]

A very new, very stompy lad has joined my army, ready to mulch some cowardly Mormons Word Bearers

[ezri-is-real]

Blood for the Primarch, Skulls for the legion!

[ask-mortarion-the-death-lord]

The problem with [primaris] dreadnoughts

Since I've been seein it around a lot, I will note that whats arguably the actual problem with the old firstborn dreadnought being 'squated' in favour of the shiny new primaris dreadnought model is that the new primaris dreadnought looks to much like the old one but messes enough with the design to make it unpleasant/unpalatable to look at.

namely the legs having an extra joint, its most obvious on the ballistus dready but that extra joint [at the knee] throws the whole design off balance by giving it legs that are ironically too long for its bodies design and shape to not be uncanny. the castaferrum is a squat lil dwarfy boy for dreadnoughts, but the primaris dreadies have the contemptor legs essentially which are designed for tall narrower/rounded bois with more human proportions. so you get the uncanny valley of a dwarf with long human legs.

and i can already point ya to a pair of legs that would have worked better for the primaris dreadies, and thats the leviathan.

the leviathan is not a dwarf dreadnought its a big honker, but it shares a general silhouette with the castraferrum in the sense of being wide and boxy, with what is essentially a squat posture. and its legs are designed to lean into that visual aesthetic being effectively more compact so more of the designs outline rests on the upper portion giving it a more solid appearance of weight. compare that to the contemptor

who has legs that are not only obviously thinner but obviously much taller in proportion to its body. and finally compare that to the primaris redemptor

whos legs are thin and tall [and even look more like the contemptors legs then the leviathans legs]. and to drive the point in compare to the ballistus as well which better highlights the problem

and for the sake of comparison heres a mortis castraferrum to further contrast things

[gameoftravel]

Leviathan Dreadnought I finished last weekend

[spacemarinewithastick]

Friendly reminder to my fellow leviathan dreadnought owners that those little balls either side of the sarcophagus are not lights, they are grenade launchers

These things here

This is not me telling you how to paint your model, I am simply here to inform you all.

[titanomancy]

[CHONKING INTENSIFIES]

[garden-wolves-40k]

THIMUKKI THE LEVIATHAN.

Just finished him and love him, so he gets a little post.