Not All is Dust - A Thousand Sons blog

As I type this my local club has plans for a small 30pp 40k tourney in a couple of months, and to fit an army into that I decided to field a Helbrute. Unfortunately I don’t own any regular dreads/brutes and Utu (see his personal entry) is far to fancy to be one, so instead of buying one, I’ve decided to scratchbuild my own.

The core is made of balsa wood, cut to size and then glued together.  Once glued together the sides were filed to smooth them down and then have been armoured up with plasticard.

On the sarcophagus I’m sculpting an Egyptian style death mask and I’m using procreate to add edging to the armoured plates.  On the armour to either side of the sarcophagus I’ve glued shields which come from Wargods of Aegyptus I believe.

The weapons are a (in game terms) a thunder hammer and a power scourge, but which I’ve modelled as  a crook and flail to fit the Egyptian theme.  These started as Utu’s unused arms.  To make the flail I used some plastic tubing from a q-tip and the ‘dragon head’ vent from a metal sorcerer’s backpack to make the shaft. In the dragon’s mouth I glued lengths of plug chain that was in my bitz box and to the other end of the chains I’ve attached Tomb Kings Skeletons’ skulls.  The crook on the other hand (heh) was made from the key of a corned beef tin that I hacked up.

The power plant is kitbashed out of the cart from one of the WHFB starter sets (Battle for Skull Pass?  The one with dwarfs vs night goblins).

The legs use the feet from the dread legs used in Utu and the shin plates are the forearm armour from the dreadknight arms used in Utu (hmm this guy seems to be getting a lot of Utu’s handmedowns doesn’t he?).  The knee joints are made from the wheels of the cart used to make the power plant and the bits at the back of the shin are (again) from Utu, this time the barrels of the contemptor assault cannon.  I have yet to build the rest of the legs or the pelvis.

Last (for now) the waist is made from one and a half Uruk-hai bombs from LotR.