Okay so there seems to be a bit of confusion about my previous post, so I just wanted let everyone know the official rules for this contest.
This is a conversion contest. Entries do not have to be painted, but you can paint you entries. LOL make sense? So if you paint your conversion, then just make sure you take a WIP picture before you paint it so we can all see the work you put into it.
The theme of the contest is to make a Non-Astates pattern DreadKnight, so that mean absolutely no power armor. So Marines (both Chaos and loyalist) are out, but pretty much everything else is in. This technically includes Adeptus Mechanicus, but not Adeptus Custodes.
Some cool stuff I've heard being kicked around are Eldar Avatars, Daemon Knights, DeffKnights, and CarniDreads, lol. So the results should be pretty awesome.
The rest of the rules are [URL="http://blog.spikeybits.com/2011/03/40k-contest-dreadknight-mega-build.html"]here [/URL]
and yes actually giving the REST of the armies inspiration to work on this model is a good idea