Knightsword's WIP Thread - count-as Bjorn Fell Handed and Chapter Master page 9

[Knightsword]

Couple more armoured plates and a tabard added. Calling him done. Now for painting 

 

[Paradogmatic]

Something that really hits a great proportion / aesthetic combo with the use of those Titanicus bits - one of those kitbash ideas that just comes together and looks super natural. Love the GS work going on here so far; the loincloth is cool but maybe feels a bit to squared out on the bottom with all the other curves going on.

Hope his belt buckle gets a cool icon to represent that he's the galactic heavyweight champion ( reminds me of a wrestling belt but definitely in a good way )

[Knightsword]

39 minutes ago, Paradogmatic said:

Something that really hits a great proportion / aesthetic combo with the use of those Titanicus bits - one of those kitbash ideas that just comes together and looks super natural. Love the GS work going on here so far; the loincloth is cool but maybe feels a bit to squared out on the bottom with all the other curves going on.

Hope his belt buckle gets a cool icon to represent that he's the galactic heavyweight champion ( reminds me of a wrestling belt but definitely in a good way )

 

Oh thrones! I can't unsee the wrestling belt now  but you are right, it needs something on it, not sure what but something. I also hadn't really noticed the straightness of the tabard until you pointed it out. I may heat up my craft knife and try and roughen the bottom edge up a little.

[Knightsword]

Some quick base colours and potato pic. I ended up putting a crux terminatus on the wrestling belt.

 

[Knightsword]

I genuinely don't know what to do about a base for not-Bjorn. Dead Chaos Marines or cultists? I had thought maybe a Helbrute but the bits for those are really hard to come by it seems.

 

 

 

[Tallarn Commander]

Or you could do dead Chaos Marines AND dead Cultists.  

[Knightsword]

10 minutes ago, Tallarn Commander said:

Or you could do dead Chaos Marines AND dead Cultists.  

 

Ah the good old have my corpse starch AND eat it approach.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

If you have to choose, I would go with the marine - my own thoughts, the more powerful the model, the more powerful its terrain corpse. 

[Knightsword]

12 hours ago, Dr_Ruminahui said:

If you have to choose, I would go with the marine - my own thoughts, the more powerful the model, the more powerful its terrain corpse. 

 

Got it.... put Angron and Magnus on the base together 

[Knightsword]

A brief distraction from decisions about basing. Tested out my idea for the Hounds of Morkai proxy colour scheme. Oh my emperor I hate painting black power armour! My respect for Black Templar collectors has increased exponentially after painting this one chap.

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Very nice. I do love the Reiver helm with that paint scheme - it seems especially threatening/ominous on them

[Knightsword]

34 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Very nice. I do love the Reiver helm with that paint scheme - it seems especially threatening/ominous on them

 

Threatening/ominous is what I'm aiming for with this squad so thank you. There will hopefully be some glowing runes added to the vambraces, shin guards and right shoulder pad too when I pluck up the courage to try it.

 

On a tangent, I had some fun with photoshop and the Space Wovles index. Just a reskin of Bjorn's datasheet with some name changes.

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

The unit card looks ace

[Knightsword]

On 11/14/2024 at 5:55 PM, Firedrake Cordova said:

The unit card looks ace

Got them done for all pretty much all proxied characters and units to go in the codex.

 

Painted the Chapter Master a little bit. Does the face in the second photo remind anyone of Kurt Russell? I think it's the jaw line doing it.

 

Tried to do a blue lava effect sword but adding the final black bits messed up. Might try and rescue it or I'll just do the same effect I've done of the Lord on Thunderwolf and Murderfang proxies as an easy fix.