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Mechanist, I’ve got a few days holiday coming up so will try and reread Betrayer then. Will have an update very soon. :tu:

 

Bluedoo, he’ll be my first vow in the ETL I think. ;)

 

SystemSyn, thanks buddy. Glad he’s looking angry enough. :tu: re the jaw, it’s actually the Bloodthirsters own jaws. They’re in two parts and fairly easy to open a bit wider.

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Thanks for all the comments folks.

 

May has been a crazy busy month.

First off, I got myself married :D

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Then of course came the honeymoon, while we were away it was also my birthday so had a lot going on which has meant hobby time has suffered. With the wedding and honeymoon taking place in two separate castles from the 13th century it’s fairly easy to see why my inspiration had taken this turn. :)

 

Still haven’t had a lot of time but I’ve been working on something that I’ve had planned for a long time. Here’s a still very very rough ‘sketch’ of part of an armies on parade board I’m planning for this year.

 

It’s the Baronial Court of Johan Tan Baliol, High King of House Baliol.

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The GSC heads are only placeholders, I have some of the Van Saar heads on the way and the armour/poses will be worked on a little more. Of course I started work on these guys last Thursday and then GW preview Sir Hekhtur on Friday. A plastic Knight scion complete with throne mech by the looks of it. I have three of my 5 knights built and the cockpits in place so far but still have to detail the steeds themselves so no pics yet.

 

Early wip fluff for the House is something along these lines

Situated close to the Eye of Terror the Baliol system has been cut off from the Astronomican for millennia. Daemonic incursions are an almost daily occurrence and the systems leaders long ago began to worship the Lord of Battles and relish the challenge when he sent His children forth to test them in holy battle.

With the rupture of the Cicatrix Maledictum the system has been freed from the Warp Storms and is able to push forward into real space.

 

Current High King : Johan Tan Balliol Knight Castellan ‘BaneLord’

KingsBlade : Edvard Tan Balliol Knight Errant ‘BrassHeart’

Gatekeeper Dervorguila Tan Balliol, Knight Paladin ‘Hand of Blood’

 

Herald : Rabaurt Dar Balliol, Knight Warden ‘DoomSlayer’

Baron : Alaix Dar Balliol, Knight Gallant ‘Pandemonium’

 

Now in these there’s a little clue as to how I want the High Kings Knight to look. ;) Basically I want them to be a completely fallen house who worship Khornes fundamentals of martial honour and strength at arms. High Kings are chosen via ritualised jousts etc. It’s still a basic skeleton of a story but happy with it so far.

 

Anyway this is basically a placeholder post, I’ll hopefully have more time very soon to get some more work done on these and of course Angron. Fear not, I haven’t forgotten about him

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Congratulations again on your marriage!

 

Your Armies on Parade board is looking awesome so far. I love the throne it's self, you've just put in so many of the little details that you don't notice at first. Will you be adding the Armiger pilots aswell, or will thins just be for fully fledged Knights?

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Malcharion, thanks very much :tu:

 

Hushrong, thank you and it has indeed been an awesome month. As for the King, Conan is definitely something I was shooting for. :tu:

 

System Syn, thanks again, as for the Armiger pilots they will be on the board, at least a couple of them anyway. I’ll have them on their knees showing their respect for the King, who really couldn’t care less to be honest ha. :D

 

Traitor, thanks buddy. I’m looking forward to seeing it come together, if it works anywhere near to what I have in my head I’ll be happy. :tu:

 

Nemac, thank you bud, yeah I wanted to show how arrogant the High king would be, the legs still need a bit of work to adjust the pose but it’s working so far I think?

 

Gederas, thanks buddy. The terrain is from an old board game called Dark World. I do like it but I think it might be a bit too big for the display board when it’s all together. I’ll definitly be using it for inspiration though if I have to build my own:tu:

 

Tonight I did actually manage a little time to work on the Gallant Knight. With him being a close combat beast I wanted him to just look properly dangerous. I still have a few details I want to add

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Cheers again for all the well wishes. I really appreciate it :tu:

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First of all, buddy, congratulations on the wedding and all the best in the world to you guys! Really happy for the both of you! :)

 

As for your display board/court of the high king, I cannot tell you how awesome I think it is -- I have that exact same terrain piece (the game was sold as a board game for "Das Schwarze Auge" over here, making very dodgy use of Germany's most popular pen 'n'paper RPG brand), but I have yet to see it used as awesomely as you did -- brilliant!

 

Love the pose of the high king, and I am really looking forward to seeing you add more detail. How about torn and faded enemy (Knight) banners hanging from the rafters and trophies made of damaged Knight facemasks?

 

The Knight is looking awesome as well -- how did you do the facemask? What is that skull faceplate?

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Thanks a lot for the well wishes guys. It’s all appreciated.

 

Skidman, thanks bud, the colour scheme will only be altered slightly and I’ll have a go at adding some unique heraldry to each of the knights. I really can’t wait to work on the High Kings mount. Been hatching plans since the Castellan was revealed months ago.

 

Custom Hero, thanks bud, I’m happy with how the Kings upper body is sitting so far. Like I say though I’ll be switching the head out so hope to be able to maintain the arrogant disinterest I think he has so far.

 

SystemSyn, thanks bud.

 

Augustus, thanks mate, we really did have an awesome day. And I added the Blood Warrior banner to my first Knight before a local tournament at the end of last year and was really happy with how it looks. Need to source a couple more for the rest of the House still but I’m on the case. :tu:

 

Squigsquasher, thank you bud. Ah yeah the Gorehound. I was speaking to SystemSyn about that a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I don’t think it will ever walk again. I spent so long on building that and I used it in an Apoc game but unfortunately it was knocked off the table and smashed (after the game at least, it had taken out a Stormlord, a Necron Tesseract and another Warhound before expiring) The way life is just now I don’t see me having the time to pour into such an ambitious project anytime soon. I may revisit the idea way off in the future but for now it’s languishing in a box in pieces. :( Knuckle dusters are nice idea though, I was planning on adding some detail to the armour on the fist. :tu:

 

Hushrong, thank you, he has a lot more spiky bits than my first Knight but I felt that for a close combat beast it would be helpful if every panel was dangerous to touch :)

 

Pearson, Thanks :tu:

 

Kraut, thanks buddy. Glad you like them. The king came together really easily actually, I knew I wanted something akin to the classic Conan pose and just started looking through the Scions bits kindly donated by SystemSyn.

For the board I do indeed have plans for some flags, banners maybe even a brazier or two with some burning skulls ;) As for the Knight faceplate I actually have two perched on the front wall of that terrain piece it was just out of shot in the pics ;)

 

Oh and the skull faceplate is from a Bloodthirster shoulder pad. I chopped open the Knight face and grafted the lower portion of the shoulder pad in. :tu:

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