++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[Augustus b'Raass]

@ BCK: I love autocannons too, actually. And the weird thing is, now that you've reminded me they're actually autocannons, the awkwardness I feel looking at them disappeared! So thanks

 

@ Pandoras Bitz Box: There's no core at all in the 'teeth/nails'. I use a mixture of 2:1 or 1:1 Greenstuff : Milliput, and just sculpt them with my sausage fingers, which are moist with spit. The Milliput makes the putty susceptible to moisture, making it super easy to wet-sculpt with the putty. 

 

@ DuskRaider: sorry, you ninja'd me on this reply. That is actually one of your Pestigors on the base! I love that you picked up on it - even though I expected it would only come up when they were finished. I thought it would be nice to give a nod to you on one of the bases of these Knights, as I pretty much followed your footsteps in making the army I'm bringing to the Amsterdam and Manchester GTs - Nurgle Death Guard/Daemons + Knights. :tu: 

Edited November 9, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[DuskRaider]

Ha! I was only kidding but that's awesome. 'Tis but a flesh wound, he'll be fine. And thank you very much for the shout out, lol

[KrautScientist]

Whew, seems like you're very much on a roll again, buddy! I like that! :)

 

Regarding the Knight's faceplate, it certainly does draw the eye and created the kind of focus point I was talking about. I would probably have painted the side panels of the helmet red, rather than the faceplate in the middle, personally speaking. Then again, maybe the side panels wouldn't have added that much pop in the first place? Anyway, it may take a bit of getting used to, but if nothing else, it unfailingly draws the eye now, and in a good way, methinks.

 

The tweaked blues are quite delightful now!

 

As for the Armigers, you definitely haven't skimped on converting these, in spite of the tight deadline! Fantastic work all around -- I love how their armour now matches the design of the FW pieces (and, by extension, of your bigger Knight). I think you could (and should) do more with the faceplates, though: Adding the lower jaw to the cyclopean one already works really well! Maybe a suggestion of an upper jaw/snout just below the eye might work? And the other guy definitely needs some jaws/forehead spikes/whatever to make him look a bit more evil and a bit less vanilla. And why didn't you do anything to make the cannons look a bit more chaotic? Is it because you are still considering replacing them with those chainguns? I will say that it has taken me a while to warm up to the Helverin guns, but there is something pretty cool and fitting about their lance-like look.

 

Anyway, brilliant work all around, buddy! :)

 

P.S. Will reply to your PM later today or tomorrow at the latest, but I do want to give it the time it deserves!

[wiqid]

That is some menacing looking GS work going on with that conversion. Stellar work mate. 

 

I envy your GS skills and the amount of detail and creativity on display. Bravo. Can't wait to see more !!

[ElDuderino]

Wow, these armigers are amazing! Such cool work on all the trim and teeth and stuff, it really ties them together with their bigger cousin. I might be biases, but your work looks better than the official FW knight armor. The horns framing the head on the last one is particularly awesome.

 

Regarding autocannons, i dont really dislike the armigers' guns, never really understood what people have against them. Those gatling guns look mighty brutal though...

[Augustus b'Raass]

The Armigers are about 70% finished. I will finish them today, but here's an update. 

 

 

Cheers

 

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@ DuskRaider: He'll bite you! ;)

 

@ KrautScientist: Still thinking about going back to the bone faceplate - with blue OSL. About the faceplates of the Armigers, I really want those to be as unaltered as possible, for I need to do five more and need as many ideas as I can - which I have a limited amount of - ie I'm going to safe weird faces for the other three ;) The cannons... well, these are corrupted, but not completely daemonic - so I'm going to leave the cannons as they are as well. 

 

@ wiqid: The GS is very elementary - I've only been able to do this after seeing KBC's tutorial. :D

 

@ ElDuderino: Cheers! That's high praise indeed!

[teku]

 @  Augustus b'Raass it's a date! good luck vs the dark eldar. Lucky its a 'softer' list 

I'll be looking at you a few tables up facing Mechanicum, Guard and BA

 

Helverins are looking great! 

[DuskRaider]

Looking great, Auggs... just one question: You didn't glue those thigh plates on did you?

[Pandoras Bitz Box]

These look wicked, will be cool to see them all together. And thanks inspiring me to try out the trim claws on my friends Knight, I think they are going quite well!

 

Hmmm... I see what dusk raider is talking about, if you have accidentally glued that one on upside down and can't get it off without damaging it, maybe you could just carefully cut the skull off and turn it the right way up? Hopefully you can just turn the armour plate though.

Edited November 12, 2018 by Pandoras Bitz Box

[noigrim]

Specially like the cockpit

[Augustus b'Raass]

I finished the first Armiger! After doing the base colours, I split working on them, as I wanted to give each my undivided attention. So here's pictures!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you like them and appreciate your comments and feedback!

 

Going out to the gym now, after which I'll finish the second one. :D :tu:

 

Cheers

 

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@ teku: I've heard the first round was published but haven't looked at it yet. Good luck and have fun against the soup. 

 

@ DuskRaider: I didn't glue thse plates, of course - I always paint in sub-assemblies! It was all blutacked on fr a quick snap, which would explain the upside-down thigh plate ;)

 

@ Pandoras Bitz Box: You're doing your own (or a friend's at least)? Pictures! Show us! Do you have a WIP thread yet? 

 

@ noigrim: Cheers and welcome to my thread - I haven't seen you comment here before, I think. :D 

[KrautScientist]

The first Armiger is looking fantastic, buddy! You've really come up with an excellent colour scheme for your Knight House, and I am still in awe of that super elegant cockpit assembly. Brilliant job all around!

 

Then again, it wouldn't be me if I didn't have something to complain about, so here goes:

 

• I think you should swap those heads around again, if that is still possible: The mostly unchanged vanilla faceplate really worked well being framed by those vicious, curved horns, looking more evil and chaotic, whereas the slightly more openly evil looking cyclopean head with the jaw already looks mean enough to get away with the less ostentatious teeth decoration (also, the more regular looking head might work really well with a red stripe down its forehead -- just sayin'...)
• I noticed that you seem to be adding the decals as the very last step, which leads to them looking squeaky clean and a bit like foreign objects. Therefore, I'd at least suggest a wash of thinned-down Agrax (or, maybe even better, Gryphonne Sepia), to tie them into the rest of the paintjob. Ideally, though, you may want to think about adding decals at an earlier stage and then weather them along with the rest of the carapace, for that extra bit of "realism".

Edited November 12, 2018 by KrautScientist

[Pandoras Bitz Box]

Totally agree with Krautscientist on decals, I actually don't like using them at all but when I have in the past I always paint over them so that they don't look perfect.

 

The Armiger looks fantastic though man, I have two of my own destined to be part of my Ad Mech contingent, very excited to do them now.

 

The Knight ive been working on is for my friend for christmas and it's the most recent thing in my Thousand Sons WIP Thread. I've been it itching for you to join in and lending your experience! I did mention it waaaaay back when I started it but it was only an off hand comment so I'm not surprised you missed it. Your obviously still more than welcome over there any time!

 

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/347515-pbbs-thousand-sons-and-daemons-khornate-khristmas/page-7?do=findComment&comment=5190048

Edited November 12, 2018 by Pandoras Bitz Box

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work. I like the savage and "tribal" appearance the bone spurs and the jagged paint gave the first Armiger.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Alright, second Armiger finished!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So that's it! I will do some more weathering for them both (especially the transfers) but as I said before, I like to do all weathering at the same time to make things consistent. 

 

Let me know what you think!
 

Cheers!

 

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@ KrautScientist: Of course there's complaints! lol - but you know I love 'm so don't hold back. Let me address both your points. The first, about the suggested head swap - I won't do it, for the same reason you gave for suggesting it - you see, I consider this last one to be the 'less mutated' one. Except for his tippy toe, all his chaosification is purely ornamental - the horns and chaos stars are bolted on. So to suggest some 'eviller' look, and to balance the two out,  I ave him the more evil faceplate. The other one is far more corrupted, with horns and even a chaos star growing out of its armour - to contrast it, I gave him the more standard head. I like to balance things out like that. ;) About the transfers looking too bright: you're absolutely right. I'll do some more weathering this Wednesday. 

 

@ Pandoras Bitz Box: I just went through your entire thread and BOY was that a privilege! You're super talented, dude! Now I feel even more blessed to have you as a regular here! I'll follow your thread like a maniac too. :)

 

@ Bjorn Firewalker: Cheers! How do you like it with paint?

[Biohazard]

Armigers look fantastic bud, I really like the way your gs additions look like stock gw parts after you paint them. Your colour scheme is equally as striking on these guys. Looking forward to the rest :tu:

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Again, excellent work. The paint scheme you chose looks aggressive and violent.

[Pandoras Bitz Box]

I'm stupidly humbled by your praise man. I'm no long standing Bolter regular, I've only been on since like April or something but you've definitely been a huge inspiration to me. Not only for your creative ideas and great pant work but also your general attitude. Yours such a positive influence on the hobby community, you genuinely consider people's feedback and encourage them in return. If people get half as much pleasure from my thread as yours then I'd be doing something right!

 

Speaking of threads I'm really greatful you like what I'm doing. I do plan to get through yours... But it like, 50 times longer than mine and I think I'm going to develope a callous from scrolling so I'm building up to it.

 

How many Points/PL of nurgle do you have now?

Edited November 13, 2018 by Pandoras Bitz Box

[DuskRaider]

Well look at you, Mr. Fancy Pants. Done already.

 

They look fantastic, man. You pulled the theme & scheme of your Questoris over flawlessly and the result is great. Take a group photo when you get a chance, I'd love to see all three together!

[Augustus b'Raass]

GROUP SHOT!

 

As requested. :)

 

 

Hope you like!
 

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@ Biohazard: CHeers, dude! I am planning to make an entire renegade Knight Househould, so there's plenty to look forward to. ;)

 

@ Bjorn Firewalker: Wow, thanks! I like that: aggressive and violent... 

 

@ Pandoras Bitz Box: Well, thanks! You're an awesome member of the community yourself! Also, I think my Nurgle points painted amounts to about 7000 now...

 

@ DuskRaider: ;)

[Atia]

Awesome trio Auggi

[PeteySödes]

Heck yea those are excellent! Whats next?

[Pandoras Bitz Box]

I think if I played against these I'd just play super defensively to prolong the game so I could look at them.

[Doghouse]

Fantastic stuff mate, I especially like how they still look like loyalists at a glance.

[k0nahrik]

Really really like the knights, the paint scheme is spot on. Especially the leering red skull. Can’t wait to see the household grow!!

 

If you’re planning on expanding the household, you might wanna take a look at some parts made by Shane Bloomberg and James Taro. They’re both designers with a selection of parts made to be compatible with Imperial Knights, mostly weapons and decorations, as well as a few extenders I believe to make the Dominus taller. Might be worth taking a look at!:

 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/taromodelmaker

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/gadgetsplus