Thousand Eyes Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Fonud and read this whole project in one go, just a shame I got to the end now. Great stuff and fair play to you running them all through it at once. I look forward to the updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col.hertford Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Your making great strides in this project (pun intended). Glad you found your mojo again. I really need to stop hobby butterflying and get back on with my knights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macloren Posted April 17, 2016 Author Share Posted April 17, 2016 @Thousand Eyes: Thank you, glad you like my hobby offerings! It's not something I would do again I think. I have a Lancer on the back burner who will be my Baron but I couldn't face doing all four at the same time! :-) it'll be nice to concentrate on him once I finish his kinsmen. @Col: I love a pun, me! I know how the lure of other projects can be a big old conflict, I've tried to focus on my Knights as much as possible, but I have tinkered with other bits and bobs too. Right, so update time! Some more progress last night. I finished the white on the greaves off, so I'm at a point now where I can do the decals next. I still have some white to do in some of the plates, but I wanna do something interesting next. I've sharpened up all the plates that have been masked etc. and I thought it might be good to show you chaps where the three Knights I'm mostly working on are as a whole rather than just individual plates. Sir Aldred Sir Trystyn Sir Baldwyn So that's where I'm at up to this morning. I might need to take some time out from painting in order to get the construction on the baron finished in time for next weekend, but I'll share whatever progress I manage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col.hertford Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Your getting there mate, can't wait to see these done! You've guilted me into picking up my knights again ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonlover Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 I love Sir Trystyns fluff. I also love the unified heraldry you've got going on. Ties everything together without making it all the same. Dragonlover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovidius Incertus Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Huzzah. They look great assembled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macloren Posted April 23, 2016 Author Share Posted April 23, 2016 Cheers boys! @Dragonlover, thank you, I'm pretty happy with how the scheme has come together. And Young Trystyn is a bit of a favourite of mine too. The youngest child is always the favourite! So I finally got round to doing the decals on the grieves and placards. Decals all trimmed. The difference the decals make to the overall look always takes me by surprise. I'm off to Cardiff tomorrow. We've planned a game with a load of knight Titans, I believe 25/30 on the field, should be a blast. Need to sleep now though! I'll make sure I get some pics of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna707 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Shaping up Great! I love seeing a knight house come together well! I have a couple questions for you, did you secure the knight with one foot off the ground with pins or just glue? Does it feel stable with the one foot attached to the base? I have been wanting to do a running pose with my cerastus knight but I worry quite a bit about all of the wait on a single ankle joint. I know the Forgeworld knights are a bit different but do you have any tips for that kind of posing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col.hertford Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Hey Macloren, those shoulders are excellent. I'm looking forward to seeing pics of you massive knight game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macloren Posted April 23, 2016 Author Share Posted April 23, 2016 @Luna707 thank you, I can see the end now, I'm really looking forward to having them all done. Sir Trystyn, dose have a little bit of flex in him, where his back foot isn't attached to the base. As he's a plastic kit, I didn't pin him. The weight of the kit is much less than the forge world ones, so I didn't feel it warranted the additional support. But if I was going to be doing it with a Cerastus, I would definitely pin the crap out of it! ;-) I think I would go as far as running a pin up through the foot, through the shin and into the knee. @Col, thanks, the shoulders really bring the knight together I think. And don't worry, I'll make sure I get a bunch of pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna707 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 That's what I was thinking about doing, thank you so much for the response! Keep on cracking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kassill Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Absolutely stunning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macloren Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 The Monday after a wicked weekend is always a total downer, but alas my weekend of alcohol fuelled gaming fun is over and it's back to the real world with me. The knight bash was a huge success, as a five v five game using a modified version of the Triumph & Treachery system. Everyone had five Knights each, so that's twenty five Knights in the field! Here's some pics. Yeah, that's Angron facing off against them! Poor old Angron, doesn't know when to quit! The game was a lot of fun, with a suitable amount of carnage, at one point three Knights were destroyed my a single shot, one of my Knights lost his final hit point and exploded, taking another of my Knights with it, that Knight staggered into one of my opponents and the resulting explosion also killed his knight! Brutal, and silly! I loved it! I think I'll be taking a break from my Knights for a bit, in order to work on my other projects which I've been neglecting of late. Check out my Iron Warrior plog if you like that sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangaman Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 That is an amazing sight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col.hertford Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Wow, shame your stepping away from the Knights, but I look forward to seeing your Irow Warriors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kassill Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 By the Omnissiah that's a boat load of Knights! Looks like it was great fun indeed. And you have possible the best looking ones on that board! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint13 Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Awesome work throughout the plog, man! Your Knights have a great war torn look. They definitely look the part of a centuries old battle engine. Also, that pic of Dad facing down a field of 25 Knights was pretty stellar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovidius Incertus Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Awesome! Great to see the assembled force! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zefig Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 These all look fantastic! Excellent conversion work and great job painting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macloren Posted April 28, 2016 Author Share Posted April 28, 2016 Hey guys & dolls, thanks for the positive vibes! The knight bash was a lot of fun, and if you are ever anywhere near Cardiff (Wales) make sure to check out Firestorm Games, that place is HUGE!!!! @Rangaman: yeah, seeing 25 Knights all arrayed like that is something else! @Col.hertford: don't worry bro, I'm not abandoning them or anything, I just want to do some work on my Iron Warriors and other mini projects for I28 and the like, I have some true-scale marines I've been fiddling with for a while too. :-) @kassell: that's really nice of you to say man. Thanks. :-D the game was ace, can't wait to give it another go. @Flint13: thanks, glad you've liked it. I'm pretty pleased with how the weathering has worked out. Angron is insane at wrecking Knights, I played a game where he killed I think it was five or six Knights on his own! @Ovidius Incertus: yeah man, seeing them all together was something else! Well pleased. @zefig: muchos thankos, man. The repositioning of the legs is something I'm pretty pleased with, the only downfall of the GW kit IMHO is the static leg position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macloren Posted March 28, 2018 Author Share Posted March 28, 2018 Hi all! I haven’t posted anything for a while, on any of my projects. So with Forgebane dropping and the imminent release of the 8th edition Knights Codex, it seemed like a good time to pick up the Hawkshrouds of Boar’s Rock again. I have wanted some light scout Knights for ages now and even went as far as to start scratching one together, but that never panned out so it sadly got shelved. Happily now I don’t need to be sad at my lack of mini-Knights thanks to the new Armigers! Yay GW! I love the new kits! But there are a couple of things that irked me about them, so they require some minor tweaks to make them more to my Imperial tastes. First off, I don’t like the Mechanicus cog-teeth on the shoulder pad rims, happily that’s an easy fix, quick trim and file, jobs a good-un! The second thing I want to change is the face, which is somewhat more problematic. The Imperial knights have great medieval looking face plates, so I want to mirror that to make them look like mechanical men-at-arms. That might need some greenstuff and plasticard, but who knows?!? Anyway, I have two and I’ll post updates as I progress. Who knows, I might actually finish one of my big Knights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biohazard Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Great start on the Armiger, I’ve done the same with the shoulder pads for my corrupted ones. I’ve been struggling with the faceplates as well. The gaps between the face/head and the cowl is very tight so adding a full faceplate like the larger knights is tricky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macloren Posted March 28, 2018 Author Share Posted March 28, 2018 Great start on the Armiger, I’ve done the same with the shoulder pads for my corrupted ones. I’ve been struggling with the faceplates as well. The gaps between the face/head and the cowl is very tight so adding a full faceplate like the larger knights is tricky. Thanks man. Yeah I was figuring that I’d need to work out some sort of cheek guard configuration to cover the face rather than a full face plate. I’m thinking that the Defiler head might offer a good option. Hey, if you’re doing corrupted knights, the deamon heads from the Defiler are a good size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biohazard Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Yeah the Defiler plates are probably what I’m going to use, the my fit almost perfectly. Need to try and source another couple on eBay or somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macloren Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 Just a little update to go with my little progress. I’ve been working on different options for making the head more medieval man-at-arms looking, but that’s all proving to be a little tricky, so no progress to share there. Anyway, I made some progress on another element of the project so here it is. The Chainlance Inspired by a member of Apologist’s Facebook group, I’ve tweaked his design slightly. But I still have a fair amount of work to go on it. Green stuff cables etc. Anyway, what do y’all think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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