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Foda_Bett wrote:Lord Kaesar II - Thanks!

........................................................... ^ under the ultra symbol

Loving the polished metal look!

sonofruss wrote:under the ultra symbol

That is actually a gloss coat. I apply that before I apply decals so the "shiny effect" you see on most people's decals doesn't happen. I had planned on putting a decal there for the tank's name, or perhaps another eagle but decided against it later.

Knightley - Thanks!


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May I present Rabacyal Grand Master of the Grey Knights

sweet model! How'd you do the head? I want one!
I like the hanging book...unwieldy, but he's a fething armoured superhuman with a rapid-fire cannon that explodes inside you and a massive sword that could cut through centimeters of steel in seconds, who hunts daemons for a living in worlds where mere men go insane and physics is your enemie's plaything- WHO CARES ABOUT A BOOK HANGING FROM HIS WRIST?!

shrike - Thanks! The head is from MaxMini
http://www.maxmini.eu/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=101
He's actually holding the book, the first model I envisioned as calling out a demon as a challenge. Kind of a "I know so I can kill you." This model I see more as using his powers, and the book, to use the summoning, power.

About 6 years ago I went to the Battle for the Lonestar with my grey knight army. While there I met Gary Moreley of GW fame. He was nice enough to sculpt me some details on a land raider I picked up there.
I started scratch building the drivers chair and gunners hatch, then I put a few quick colors down. Afterwards I decided to put the Land Raider away to work on other projects.
My local game group has decided to have a vehicle contest so I thought it was time to finish off the beast. Here it is after a few washes.

That LR interior is AMAZING!! Always wanted to do that but could never be bothered

Very cool modelling - love the seats in there and makes it interesting to discover all the hidden stuff you have in there.

I like it!

Love the interior. Looking forward to it more put together!

that LR is so very nice.
I love the whole "radar" thing you have with multiple monitors, as well as the seats. If you don't win, I'll definitely want to know what DID!

Vitruvian XVII - Thanks!
tallmantim - Thanks!
s.j.mccartney - Thanks!
shrike - Thanks! Here's the last painting comp we did where I entered my Grand master
http://www.380gamers.com/forum/index.php?f=6&t=359&rb_v=viewtopic&start=50
Apparently I came close to winning but didn't quite make it.


Last night I finished stripping the last of my 10k (according to the last codex) of grey knights.

Tonight I hope to finish up getting rid of the mold lines and polishing the armor and bladed weapons.
The landraider has had the floor boards glued in, the engine glued on, and I've scut some detail panels to fill in the louvers I cut off the upper hull/engine area.
I'm planning on replacing the removed louvers with some very fine screen to show off the detail panels and hopefully get this thing finished in time.

Well as I wait for the release of the GK codex this weekend I have continued my work on the Redeemer.





The little parchments on the inside of the raider I added have been decaled up as well as the inside of the flamestorm cannons.




I also hinged one of the forgeworld doors.



I also prepared my next project

I'm hoping to get them primed when I prime the raider.

Dude, where are the 2 metal models from?? Theyre hawt.

The middle one is from Helldorado, the one on the right was picked up on ebay.

The auspex/scanner/radar thingy is awesome...
And I really love those teeny weeny little details that make it go from "HOLY SH**!" to *faint*

shrike - Thanks!

Work continues on the Land Raider, I have managed to putty the gigantic seam lines running along the top of the tank, and the engine area. I've also managed to sand it smooth, rescribe the lines that are supposed to be there, and installed the tracks



Next up is installing the Psyk-out launchers and puttying that join then priming the beast!

Since I had the airbrush out priming the titans I decided to go ahead and prime a few grey knights.


Sadly gloss black is not the easiest thing to photograph, but I can assure you those minis are shiny and black
I managed to prime 2 squads of halberd/psycannon purifiers, 1 squad of halberd/incinerator purifiers, some random psycannons, some random halberd purifiers, draigo, the emperor, Constantine, and the helldorado mini. Next up is 5 more squads of halberd/psycannon purifiers and following that will be tons of terminators.
I have so many grey knights that I'm able to assemble every squad as though it were a strike and a purifier squad. I will be painting 12 minis per squad, Hammer Justicar, 7 Halberds, and 4 psycannons or incenerators. This will allow me to field the units how I choose in a normal game, and take the remnants and form smaller squads in Apoc.

Well I have officially primed every PA GK in the house! That means I now have 6 psycannon squads and 6 incenerator squads configured as I mentioned in the post above. However I noticed I'm 3 halberds and 7 incenerators from my full 144 power armored warrior goal. I've started collected psilencers in an effort to combine them with the remnants and make Gargantuan Demon hunting squads.

Being totally unhappy with the shape of the new fluff (and being forced to have a Crowe) I decided to make the huge terminator justicar sword from the new box and put it where the demon sword went on crowe. The primed result is below.


Somehow in all of my buying escapades I managed to get 3 captain stern models! I'm keeping one as the reject himself and converted the other 2 into librarians. The first was a simple conversion with the halberd from the old metal captain model and the back pack topper from Hellbrecht. The second was done using a damaged stern I recieved. I took a broken metal halberd terminator arm and combined it with the firey end of an empire wizards staff, then removed his damaged chest plate and replaced it with a baubble from Inquisitor Tyrus. Next up I removed his head and replaced it with a helmeted head from the new terminator box.
Here are those 2 conversions with my last 7 hammer justicars.

First up I managed to prime the GK Redeemer.

The psykout launchers didn't prove difficult to mount and I decided to leave the seam lines to serve as panel lines for the launchers which would obviously be installed later.

I also started a small commission for a friend of mine. He needs a dread, a full command squad, and a tac squad in Ultramarines colors.
I sprayed his stuff and 4 of my dreads at the same time, then put down boltgun on all of them


They're a little sloppy but it's just the base coat.

I learned recently that "Steel" is not the alclad color that my grey knights are! The bottle I used (which was pruchased on sale) said steel but the 2 other bottles I've tried since have been MUCH darker. I've been experimenting with other colors in the range but I've yet to find one that exactly matches the grand master I already painted.

Well after a few nights of experimenting with colors I finally found the correct one!
It turns out my Grand Master was sprayed with Dark Aluminum! Not Dur Aluminum, or Polished Aluminum, or Aluminum, or any of the other 4 colors I tried that didn't start or end with Aluminum but Dark Aluminum!
So after spraying them on the 24th I've been putting some colors to them!




And you'll notice I changed the haft color on my weapons. After looking at the GK codex over and over I've come to the conclusion that I REALLY like the black hafts on their weapons.
So I repainted my Grand Master's...

Well yesterday was quite a productive day!
I got a ton of painting done on my Grey knights, and even got some more work on the dreads!
First up the dreads, the one on the far left is the commission piece



I added the furioso dread to the mix, even though I painted him some months ago I've decided its time he gets some decals and weathering!
The furioso will be part of my 8th company (uses Blood Angels rules), the 4 melta dreads will be part of my 3rd company under commander Vulkanis, and the commission will be for the 2nd company.

Next up was the Knights.





As you can see there is a dark blue highlight on the black weapon hafts, I've also started coloring their right shoulder pads. Each squad will be broken up depending on what symbol is on that pad.

Comments criticisms?

I've only put the first coat of Sol down and there will be MANY more to go.

Love that steel colour, came out really well.

Vitruvian XVII - Thanks! I'm amazed how much dark alumnium looks like steel and how much steel looks VERY dark according to Alclad.

Well last night I was able to get some painting done to make up for tonight's slack.
First up the Commission marines to go with the 1 dread

Not finished but basic colors applied.

My Alclad special order came in at the FLGS so I was able to get roughly 50 more PA GKs basecoated!


I also put some more micro sol on the dreads so their decals are laying flatter.

A few more coats and I think they'll be ready for gloss then flat, and finally weathering.

Work continues on the Space Marine commission


And I was able to basecoat even more Grey Knights

Between this batch and the last I used up 8.5 bottles of $9 a bottle (per oz) paint! I just called my FLGS to get me 12 more bottles so I can hopefully finish my Dreadknights, Land raider, and terminators. The most important thing is the dreadknights but I might as well buy the paint for the others while I'm at it.

2 of the terminators in that lot were actually my stern to Librarian conversions.




And the last batch of basecoated knights has been steadily increasing in colors

I've added scorched brown to the pouches, and khermi brown as the basecoat for all the parchment and purity seals.

I'm going to be working more on both the 2nd batch of grey knights and the ultramarines commission for the rest of the night, so hopefully I'll have some updates tomorrow!

If you mind me asking, what are you making with the baneblade in the background of one of your pics?
Also, sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! models!

mr-squigi - Thanks! That's my Stormhammer. It's on hold until I get the warhounds finished, but you can see WIP photos here
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v314/Foda_Bett/40k/Super%20Heavies/Stormhammer/?start=all

Well I was able to get the partially painted Knights up to the same point as the previous batch. By my count that is all of the power armor I'm going to need for BOLScon so next is backpacks, bases, and name decals for them. I also finished the commission Ultramarines, next up for that commission is an assault squad of Genesis Chapter, a squad of servitors and an enginseer.
I've started working on my DreadKnight conversion as well.






A little more sanding and it will be good to go. I'll be attaching the power plant to a forgeworld GK Ven dread to remove the baby carriage look. I've got to convert up a halberd as well, but luckily I've got some Gundam hands to replace the tiny GW ones with.
I've used the Dragonforge power cables and base. The Sanctuary style base will be on all of my GKs.
I can't decide if I want to keep the weapons wrist mounted or go for a shoulder mount.

I also finally broke down and took some photos of all of my painted Ultramarines. You can seem in their thread here
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/368597.page
or in their gallery here
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v314/Foda_Bett/40k/Space%20Marines/Group%205-12/?start=all

Work continues on the DreadKnight!
First up I've modified the gundam hands so it can hold my halberd!



And I built the torso! I've got a question however.

Do you like this waist?



Or do you like this waist?





I thought I'd like the extended waist hiding the magnet but I'm not that impressed. I think I'm going to pull it off and sink the magnet into the torso.

Yeah, the 1st option needs to be alot more bulky, the 2nd is a bit too high imo. Itll be tricky to integrate the 2, not really sure what it needs.

Try attaching the arms temporarily. Often people keep telling modelers that the proportions are a little off, until it is fully assembled.
I like the guitar string texture for the waist, but I'm leaning towards some additional detail in the front to try to avoid looking like over use, due to the hip joint strings. Maybe some armored plating in the front.
Most important advise I can give today is: Make sure no matter what to take the time to notice how awesome and unique your model already is.

lolz your Psykers look funny

Vitruvian XVII - Thanks! Check below for the one I went with. 2 was too high, 1 was to plain so I went with sinking both magnets.

MeatShield - Thanks! It's actually the pewter power cables from dragon forge. Guitar wire I've found can be rather finikey and not want to bend the way I want it to.

xXH0LYCRUSAD3Xx - As is your typing.

I started off by sinking a smaller magnet into the Dread's torso, and then dremeling away the excess wires from the crotch and sinking the larger magnet into it.
I had to remove the gauntlet bits from the wrists to allow my new hands to fit but after that I glued the arms to the body and the hands to the arms!




Next up was building the Heavy Incenerator. I added a bit of Malifaux fire effects to the pilot light to make it look cool



This can be attached without a magnet



Next up I took the kit's shoulder pads and set them under the lip of the dread's shoulders




To cover up the unsightly gap where the hydraulics go I took a pair of shields from the dreadknight kit and put them over the hole