Nemesis Dreadknight conversion question

[LordPathos]

Heyo,
This is for those that have a better eye for this sort of thing than I do.
I, like so many others, do not like the draedknight model. I am leaning towards the method of closing everything up with a reg Dreadnought's frontplate. Plenty of pics online of that.
But the new SM warsuit thing looks pretty neat in comparison. So my question is do you think I could take the upper torso of the new warsuit, slap the arms and legs of the Dreadknight on it, and call it a day?
Obviously we don't know true size for comparisons yet, but here are the pics:

[NidNoms]

the new dreadnought walker looks stupid to me, i mean why not just have a regular dreadnought?

[LordPathos]

A Dreadknight is not a Dreadnought?

[NidNoms]

Aug 11, 2019 1:46:09 GMT LordPathos said:

A Dreadknight is not a Dreadnought?

Im a nid, all i see are different kinds of tin cans

[hivefleetkerrigan]

I think that the legs could attach, but you'd have to greenstuff over the marines legs that are extending out.

[naviedzony]

Theese two looks exactly the same for me.  Both are hard objects with some biomass inside.

[yoritomo]

Where there’s a will there’s a way.

I’m sure it’s possible to do, but I don’t think it will be as easy as you think. The first problem will be the size difference. The dreadknight has big limbs and a small core while the dreadnought has small limbs and a large core. This has the potential to creat a huge model. Plus if the sizes don’t match up the model could look weird.

You also have the problem of how the limbs attach. In the dreadknight the limbs go straight into the body while in the dreadnought the limbs run parallel to the body. If you put the dreadknight arms on in parallel then parts of those arms that weren’t meant to be seen will be exposed. If you put the dreadknight arms straight into the dreadnought then you’ll find that there isn’t really a good place to attach them (and it will make the model even bigger).


I have no doubt that the conversion you want to do can be pulled off. I think if it is done properly it will be a very cool conversion. But there are some hidden things that will make this conversion more difficult that you think it will be.