Knights of the Covenant

[Brave_Rifles]

So I have been thinking about starting a WIP Blog for a while now to help keep me motivated and show off the models I am working on.

 

Let me start by sharing my dilemma

 

My current marines are painted in a Soul Drinkers color scheme. The way they are currently modeled and painted I have several issues with them.

1. I never really like the Purple and Gold. The purple was always either too dark or too pink and was never able to get them to look the way I wanted to in my mind. The gold on the other hand looked ok on a marine but never seemed to look good on vehicle
   
2. The custom doors, while unique never really came out due to cast imperfections
   
3. The custom shoulder pads always seemed oddly bulky for the model
   
4. I really like purity seals and books and what not which didn’t fit with the Soul Drinker fluff
   

 

Here are some shots of my current Soul Drinkers

 

Rhino Hull

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/SD_Rhino_Front.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/SD_Rhino_Side.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/SD_Rhino_Back.jpg

 

Marines

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/SD_Serg_Front.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/SD_Melta_Front.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/SD_Assualt_Marine_Front.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/SD_Assault_Marine_Side.jpg

 

As you can see from the photos they look much more like Hawk Lords then Soul Drinkers and I was never really able to get the purple I wanted to. So I have been thinking about it for a while now and I decided to strip them down and rebuild & repaint them.

 

Before I go too much further I wanted share with you all some of my inspiration for this.

 

Dice and Brush Guardians of the Covenant

1 – I really like the reds he was able to accomplish and he was nice enough to provide them

2 – I like the angel icons, purity seals, and scroll work on the vehicles

 

From the Warp – Minotaur’s

1 – I like the bronze armor, it feels unique without losing the metallic feel of the Guardians of the Covenant

2 – It is a simple process that I can implement. This is huge for me as I am really not the best painter as you will see.

 

Les Bursley – Other than this guys stuff is amazing I used the following two videos

1 –

Without this video I would not have been able to make the wash to be used in the bronze armor.

2 – Wash Recipe I still use GW washes for some things but I really like the ability to make custom washes in particular the dark shade washes that include some black in them

 

GW Dark Angel Upgrade Sprues

1 – I like the purity seals, books, and angel icons

2 – I have always wanted to do an army with a significant contingent of robed marines.

 

The idea

 

So simply put I am looking to create a Grey Knight army. My thought being that this will be an Inquisitorial Strike Force that contains elements of the Knights of the Covenant, Guardians of Covenant successor chapter, as well as inquisitorial henchmen. This way I’ll have lots of modeling opportunities with Grey Knights range and maximize each models usefulness. Additionally by being an Inquisitorial Strike Force it will allow me to put on a lot of books, purity seals, and scroll work throughout my army.

 

Test Model

 

At this point I am hoping that this sounds interesting enough for you to want to keep following this and to get things started here are some pictures of my test model which is my counts as Coteaz

 

Counts as Coteaz

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/Coteaz_Front.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/Coteaz_Side.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/Coteaz_Side_2.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/Coteaz_Back.jpg

 

 

Let me know what you think

[Ch@oZ]

The coteaz guy is looking pretty awesome- quite the seemless conversion. So are You planning a lot of this kind of bronze on your standard marines or are they going to be painted in stern steel with bronze for decoration?

[Brave_Rifles]

Thanks.

 

I am thinking that bronze armor would replace the silver normally found on Guardians of the Covenant marines.

 

Purity seals in green like Coteaz

Cloth in Red cloth

Given the darkness of the scheme I will probably do details like wings in white. (Still need to do that on Coteaz)

[Brave_Rifles]

So I wanted to share what I worked on last night.

 

The first Rhino chassis was ready to come out of the dip and get cleaned off. After thoroughly cleaning the paint off I removed the Soul Drinkers icons and started adding purity seals and what not. I have a couple more that should be ready for cleaning tonight but they will need to wait for reconstruction as my bits order has not yet arrived.

 

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/KotC_Rhino_Front.jpg

 

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/KotC_Rhino_Side.jpg

 

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/KotC_Rhino_Side_2.jpg

 

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/KotC_Rhino_Back.jpg

 

Getting everything the way I wanted it took longer than expected so I wasn't able to get much more done, however I was able to get the first basecoat on some of the warrior acolytes

 

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b107/mcconje/Knights%20of%20the%20Covenant/KotC_WA_Basecoat.jpg