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@Noigrim I actually was quite happy with them but as it turns out thats hot how it ended up looking! I got some flexible chain from Zinge and replaced those bell chains because they kept braking and it was driving me crazy. ideally I would have attached one huge bell on a chain (I also had a big flexible chain which looked cool), but frustratingly lacked a big bell to use so I just settled for the little ones. What do you think, what would you have done with the end? I didn't look right to me with nothing on there. @Bjorn thanks very much! I've completed 2 more blog post covering other areas on the knight so I'll try to get them transferred over onto here today maybe. Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Thanks guys! hopefully these next few posts will help pick out some of the details. Right... so first the chain scythe. The Scythe of the knight was the catalyst for this project, so I wanted it to be something pretty cool. I had an approximate concept for a pose and size of the scythe, not to mention that Mortarion already has one. Although that poses some problems of its own… I don’t exactly want to copy it, but should I use some of its aesthetic for reference? So I sort of used its profile for reference, but changed the design in a significant enough way to make them different, I would reverse the positions of the chain and blade… making a big Chain Scythe. To make the blade, I drew the shape I wanted to blade to be on some 2mm plasticard. even thought its pretty substantial, to fit a the teeth on there I new it would need to be thicker so after cutting it out I made a copy, glued the together and then once glued I filed/sanded/scraped the edges so that it was even all round. I already knew that for the part holding the blade I wanted to use the front of the Skull Cannon, a kit I significantly made use of for the Khornate Knight. So when I made the blade I made sure that the base of it was narrow enough to fit through the mouth. The other tricky part was to remove the chain teeth from the knights reaper chainsword and transfer them over to the scythe blade. (I’ve since discovered while looking for other parts that Zinge Industries do teeth for chain weapons). Next I started working on the haft which I made from the reversed body of one of the guns, part of the rapid fire battle cannon and part of the skull cannon barrel, that fit in quite nicely with the other part of the same kit. I also added the bevel on the front axe like, blade edge of the Scythe. Once I did this structural bit, I really had to mesh all the components together, make them seem like they were meant to belong. So I started green stuffing up gaps with textures that matched adjacent areas. The side of the blade was obviously quite bland being unmarred plasticard so I added some more plasticard decoration, battle damage/corrosion and some green stuff to that. It still looked a bit like a hatchet thought with all of the weapon at one end of the “grip”, so I used most more of the rapid fire battle cannon as well as the axe haft from the lord of skulls to give it a bit more length and I was much happier with this look. I was also hilariously monstrous, even compared to the size of the knight, but I loved how lop sided it made the knight when i offered the piece up, I could already see it shambling. Now for an important bit, attaching the arm. I had originally planned to attach it normally, but not only would this no allow for sufficient range of motion, it wasnt long enough. This posed a new challenge, I needed to be able to suspend the arm in just the right place away from the body while I fixed it. so I drill 3 holes in the body of the knight and 3 in the arm, glued paperclips into the arm and then put bends in them before threading them into the little holes I’d drilled into the body. Now I just had to adjust the wires like legs on a tripod to get the angle the way I wanted it, once it was in the right place I glued the wires into the holes and let it set. There was obviously still some give in the wires after this and I didn’t want to accidentally bend them out of shape while working on it, so using plastic glue I attached plastic struts to it to make it a lot more ridged. I had no idea really how I wanted the arm to look from this point, I had used a heat gun to twist the arm socket a bit before fixing it, as if the stresses on of what ever was moving it was buckling the metal. The body had lots of organic fatty lumps on it and it would make sense for it to look strong enough to wield the scythe. So I started using Milliput to create muscle strands, mostly to help bulk it, with the assumption that I would end up green stuffing over it it skin once I had the volumes in place. While I was doing it though I quite liked the aesthetic so I just ran with it, adding more layers of muscle, sinuous tissue, and tendons instead of pistons. I then started to layer up some details around the shoulder to get it to blend with the rest of the Knight a bit. Sculpting flesh onto the surface and then blending it in with the fatty bits surrounding it, adding damaged Shoulder guard (enough to tie the arm to the body but not so much as to obscure everything I had done). I also at this point had got some wires from Zinge industries, they were recommended to me by Rictus of Recalcitrant Daze. They make among other things, wrapped wire, which looks just like guitar strings but is considerably easier to manipulate. I also felt like the back of the handle haft was missing something, I didnt like that it ended flat, and when I was given some Nurgley bits by someone I found some bells on chains, which when added give a bit of a sense of movement which I liked. Near the end of the project I noticed that at the front of the knight were there would normally be a weapon and heraldry shield, there was only space for one after the alterations I made. I didn’t want to lose an item that had a functions… but at the same time I like the shield that comes with the Chaos Knight kit. So i asked about to find out what people thought of the Nurgle texture on the side of the gun and if I should swap it for the shield… enough people came back with “why not both?” that I just moved the texture over onto the featureless part of the shield. I had to cut the back of the shield away to get it to fit snugly enough for it to look like it belonged as well as make some alterations to the part of the shield that looked like they were defying gravity in their new position. I also started filling in more areas like underneath the pauldron, and in areas where the muscle met the body to have a nicer transition. I hope that give an idea of the work that went into that arm anyway. The next post I'll do about the gun arm.

Right I've started to work on a Blog Post for the Scythe arm, so hopefully when I've finished that i'll have a better idea of what the best pictures are to use, I have 40 photos to look through for that side of the Knight so it will take a bit of sorting, but hopefully not too long, maybe the end of the week or sometime next week Verux Thanks! yeah I wanted it to be very torn open and fleshy, I got it on the hobby roundup on warhammer TV and it was quite fun to listen to Nick Bayton say "it looks like... its just BURST" Mechanist Thanks very much! I'm certainly proud of it, it was a fun project to work on, and trust me, I'm as eager to see it painted as you are if not more so Bjorn Firewalker Thanks Bjorn

Ok brill, thanks guys. Everyone seems to be cool with that option so I'll try my best to post up some pictures and see how that goes. So what have I been doing? for the last 7 months at least I have been working on a Nurgle Knight. I was making it for Krakendoomcool for his birthday and he had it a couple of weeks ago (it was actually going to be for Christmas but I overshot a touch). After i gave it to him he was kind enough to do a little spine around for me on his electric turn table which you can see here! So lets get the finished results out of the way so I can see what people think and get some feedback on what I achieved. So just to clarify, IT IS FINISHED. I built it and handed it over and now he is going to paint it. I will not be doing any more conversion on this thing. I'd still love feedback though so I can just learn from the experience.

Mechanist Really pleased you found it useful! I'm a little behind... like, delorian behind, so it would be cool to see what you have done since if you have a link! My friend loved it and its his profile pic on his Twitter hobby Account now Duskraider Ha ha ha, really pleased you like the end result and I was really grateful for all of your help and feedback with the project, sorry if you havent had it yet, must have got lost in the mail... Augustus B'raass Hey man, honestly the pleasure was mine. This project wouldnt have been what it was if it wasnt fro the constructive feedback I got from yourself and numerous other poeple on bolter. I miss posting on here but sort of fell out with the process when I no longer had an easy way to post my pics on here. I want to figure out a new convenient way though because I really like the community here and I miss it a lot. if you liked this project then you might like my come back posts I'm mentally preparing myself for. Krakendoomcool pointed your insta out to me so I'm following you there, if you look at mind then the finished product is there and is right up your disgusting street ; ) Brother Carpenter Happy I could be of some inspiration, god knows that the community deserves something back from me after everything I've had from it. RIGHT!... so. I've been absent for some time. I really want to get back into posting on here again, just have to iron out some kinks. for my first post back, I have a dilemma though... the "wip" that I want to post is technically finished. Its not painted, but its no longer mine, my end of the project, the build, is done. So... Should I post on here as if I just started, go through the processes that I did to make it sort of like a tutorial, which could be confusing for people who think I'm still working on it (and I also run the risk of getting loads of good advice I cant follow XD)... OR... do I post the final result, and then respond with more specific photos of areas people ask about? the second way is how I'm thinking of doing the blog post, because I have about 250 progress photos and I don't REALLY want to use them all. 1. Post as if Wip/Tutorial 2. Post the final project and then post how I did the different parts? 3. or I suppose since its no longer actually in progress... don't post it. although I think some of you will enjoy seeing it so I would really like to post it I would really appreciate everyone's thoughts. Thanks everyone, and its good to be back... hopefully to stay.

Great to see this thread revitalised! Rally nice work, it will be cool to see these guys in action when normal service resumes

Uuuuuurrghhh.... its been tooooo looooong, I forgot how jealous I am of your precision green stuffing. epic chest work on the Maesteros and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with Varko. I've been doing a lot of green stuff reccently but a lot more organic, but I think soon I'll be taking my hand to some Inq28, and I feel like thats going to test me. This sort of "manufactured" green stuff I feel like is what I'm missing and a gap in my ability. Only one way to improve it I guess, glad to see your work is still as inspirational as ever.

Oh man these are awesome! I've just been into Augustus' thread and I forgot how much I love reading what you guys have been up to. I've been gone way too long. Ill have to have a proper comb through later but I'm already excited about trying to crack on with some of the Inq28 stuff me and a few locals are thinking about starting. I've been absent because I got a bit sour when my easy method for resizing photos to upload to Bolter stopped working, I'll have to figure something else out and upload some stuff into my dusty old threads. Man this stuff is so cool, Love the GSC guys and the Lord of Bones, so wicked

Awesome. I've been away a while... Might be over 12 months now, but it's glad to come back and see reliable gold. These look stunning man, really really cool. We are thinking about starting Inq28 soon and so I might embark on some small characterful conversions soon. Really cool to see these for inspiration. Hopefully I'll find time to post anything I've done in my absence soon. Thanks for sharing!

Oh this is a great idea! I'm slowly starting my GSC (just the Aberrants so far) but I do have a load of spare cultists (I have 40 and I don't know if I can be bothered to do these other ones) so I think I might swell the ranks as much as I can with those. Thanks, looking forward to seeing your stuff.

Hey man the Traitor guard look awesome! I really like the style of the helmets to go along with the dank grossness. I think these are the most like how I was imagining the Chaos forces in the Gaunts Ghosts stories... The have a proper grimdark feel to them. The GUO has come along too! Looks brill an I'm excited to see more details develope. I really like the stretch marks around the little legs and how the look like they have clawed their way out. Epic work man.

Hey buddy, I've been a bit absent from Bolter for January working on some stuff but it's nice to get back and see all the drinkers your dropping in the thread while I was away! Helverins looking wicked, nice work. Also interesting to see you putting some. Necromunda up! I've never played but I know Krakendoomcool used to, not sure if we are going to get into that but I know they have a great range. Love the work your going on these girls!

That is an inspiring haul man! It's really great how you can smash out not just so many minis but of such a high quality. I'm going to try and get more done this year but I don't expect to hit this kind of level of production. Amazing effort, looking forward to 2019's output.

Bigger? You need a good camera (high megapixle) I use my mother's borrowed SLR but I mean most phones these days have more than enough. It's all about the resolution right? If you blow it up with that it will look pixilated. Buy high resolution mean you can crop if you want and still have a big detailed photo. What's you're set up like Kraut, can we get a behind the scenes of your next shoot or will that destroy the magic?