Slicin', dicin', shootin' and torchin'.

Happy New Year. Or, as you're likely a reader of 40K blogs, then perhaps Grimdark Greetings might be more in order. In my first post of 2026, I want to share one of my outstanding projects completed in the last few months of 2025. This was the final of three Ork Deff Dreads.

Like the previous two Dreads (that you can see more of here and here), this clanking collection of pistons and bolts is only partially based on the Games Workshop Deff Dread kit. The main body of it was taken from Paolo Parente's Light Panzer Walker for his Dust miniatures game. 

I flipped the body up the other way, discarded the weapon options in favour of more conventional looking Ork parts from Games Workshop, built up the shoulders, added an engine and some other Orky gubbins, grafted on a huge claw-fist thing that I grabbed from Ramshackle Games (which I then gave a couple of extra heavy-duty digits), then constructed a kind of 'face' from grills, sensors and plasticard teeth.

You might just notice that it's got a slightly cleaner paintjob than the two previous Dreads. This is because it is the newest of the three walkers, having only just lurched its way out of the mek boss's workshop, and is of course nothing to do with me having spent considerably less time weathering the thing.