Twenty five odd years ago, if you wanted a Dreadnought for your Space Marine army, you had to get one of these…
This metal model, was in many ways, smaller than the current plastic kit, though maybe a little taller!
Though Forge World have gone down the retro path with the old Land Raider and Rhino, there Contemptor-pattern Dreadnought is based on the plastic Epic model and not this one. I am not sure if we will see an updated Forge World of this version of the Dreadnought, but if they did… I might be tempted.
So ‘Old School’ but they had a certain charm. I once had a guy try to have the game results reversed at a tournament because my old school dreads had their weapon arms the wrong (?) way around!
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