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 OnlyWar wrote:
is this thread still going?

It's been a week dude. Chill

the obliterator is a good size , the scale shot is appreciated !

Cheers, guys!

 Brother Payne wrote:

 OnlyWar wrote:
is this thread still going?

It's been a week dude. Chill

Haha, I'll just take the rapt attention as a compliment, I suppose Anyway, if you want to know what I've been up to, you may check out the latest update in my INQ28 thread . Oh, and I've also taken a look back at my very first 40k army, in case anyone's interested

But for the impatient and the faint of heart, here's a sneak peek at my next bigger project:



Now what might this be...?

I seriously hope it Is What I Hope it is.

So what do you hope it is?

A warhound Titan?
Or a warlord Titan?
Or a reaver titan.
Looks too big to be much else.

Could be a knight pilot as well.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Could be a knight pilot as well.

That's what I think it is, now that I think about it.

An Imperial Knight?!

 Brother Payne wrote:
An Imperial Knight?!

A Chaos Knight!

Hehe, I should have known you guys were smart enough to figure it out quickly

Deunstephe is quite right: I have finally begun working on my own Chaos Knight. I realise that I am rather late to this particular party, especially since I purchased the kit back when it was released, but that gave me the opportunity to collect lots and lots of inspiration for building my own chaos knight -- I'll highlight some of the most important sources of inspiration in a more detailed post on the matter at some point. The most important influences were definitely Jeff Tibbet's amazingly detailed thread, skrundle's mutated Daemon Knight and InsanePsychopath's Chaos Knight.

So yeah, that sour looking guy is indeed the pilot for my chaos knight, Knight Captain Harrowthorne, to be exact. In fact, you'd be amazed by how detailed his backstory is -- it was what made me purchase this kit in the first place, to be honest, and after seeing so many hobbyists building pilots for their knights, I knew there was not easy way out of this for me

Now the obvious thing to do would have been to build a completely mutated pilot fused to its machine, right? But in keeping with the rest of my CSM force, I decided that Baron Harrowthorne would remain surprisingly untainted in body (if not in spirit). He joined the XIIth legion during the days of the Heresy, as a way of repaying a debt of honour -- a choice transforming him into a traitor and forever dishonouring his family once the Heresy broke out (being damned by your own sense of honour is a bit of a running theme for my World Eaters, in case you hadn't noticed)

Anyway, here's a closer look at the Baron:









I wanted to achieve the look of a career soldier, complete with an immaculate uniform. The scion shoulder pads add a bit of a baroque/medieval vibe, though.

And here's a - very early - mockup of how the Baron will be positioned inside the cockpit:





Regarding the rest of the Knight, there's really not that much to see at the moment, although I can assure you I have most of this planned out:



So yeah, I guess you can expect to see more of this model pretty soon -- although I have to give you a fair warning in advance: I'll only ever realistically build one of these, so I will surely take my sweet time with this

As always, let me know what you think!

This had better be more than stock with spikey bits. I know you have it in you to create something absolutely stunning, though, so I'm confident I'll like it. Think you could pop down links to your inspirations? That mutated knight sounds interesting, particularly.

Looking forward to seeing this develop. I really like the throne you've built. I've yet to buy a Knight, though I have been gathering inspiration for the day I do pick one up so you can be sure I'll be watching this thread closely.

Cheers, Anvildude! While "stock with spiky bitz" is a pretty fair description of my basic recipe, I hope the end result will still be suitably awesome. You can probably look at my Dreadknight conversion for a reasonable idea as to the general look and feel I am going for:


As for my main inspirations, InsanePsychopath's Knights can be found here , Jeff Tibbet's highly inspirational thread is here , and skrundle's amazing Daemon Knight may be found here , along with the rest of his fantastic conversions.

EDIT: @ Biohazard: Cheers, buddy! Looks like you ninja'ed me there Don't forget you still have the Gorehound...

Damn! KrautScientist? Converting and building a Chaos Knight?!?

Yes please!!!

Looking forward to watching this creature take shape.

Again, thanks guys!

Man a Knight!!! This is going to be very interesting. Is ot just me or the man on the throne looks a bit disgusted....by life, by himself, or maybe by his unworthy foes
Two questions:
1. Will the cockpit be opening and if yes, how?
2. Where did you find the shoulder spikes and the big fires on the knight (is it the WFB Chaos Shrine?)?

Epic, Just EPIC

Yes buddy I do still have the Gorehound and thanks to you I've just made a little addition.

Cheers, guys!

@ Legio Ultra: I am really glad that you picked up on the disgusted look on the Baron's face, because that's really what I was going for: Indeed he is disgusted, both with himself and with his enemies. Not to delve into his backstory too deeply, but Knight Captain Harrowthorne damned himself by an utterly honourable choice, losing everything but his honour in the process. Ever since, the only thing that matters to him is to see the Imperium burn. Plus I have this picture in the back of my head of Harrowthorne laying waste to an entire Imperial army, and then the last thing his opponents see is a transmission of his gaunt, utterly emotionless face when he tells them, in a deadly calm voice: "Pray to your false Emperor. Perhaps he may yet save you." before cutting contact and obliterating them.

As for your questions: I'll keep the upper carapace plate removable, which is really as easy as not glueing it to the body: It still snaps shut with a satisfying click, held in place by a number of connection points. I think I'll also leave the top hatch loose, although, since I have zero experience with magnetising, I'll probably just use a bit of putty to seal it in place when it has to stay shut.

Oh, and those spikes do indeed come from the warshrine kit (or the "Chaos Knight armour plate and accessory kit", as I have begun to call it ).

@ Biohazard: Cheers, buddy! Like I said elsewhere, your latest additions to the Gorehound are very promising!


So, another look at the current state of affairs. After spending quite a bit of time with the Imperial Knight kit, here are my two most important observations:

1. The kit itself is extremely well planned and explained, making it go together remarkably easily, especially for such a monster of a model

2. However, due to both the various modifications I am planning and the planned way of painting this thing, working on the model is getting more and more frustrating, because I just cannot glue the bigger sub-assemblies together just yet, and a model of this size is nearly impossible to temporarily tack together with modeling putty. I will prevail, though

Here's a look at my latest additions to the kit (please ignore the unfinished and unarmoured legs):



As you can see, the top of the carapace will likely see several trophy racks, which makes for a silhouette that is instantly recognisable as chaotic. At the same time, going for several smaller trophy poles like this seems more practical than adding that enormous chaos icon from the warshrine, as several people have done.

Speaking of the warshrine, many people have used it to great effect on their chaos knight conversions, although I've only ever seen the huge, stylised daemon face used either on top of the upper carapace or, in one notable instance, as a decoration for the knight's shoulder pad. I knew from the start that I wanted to use it as a breastplate, and today I realised that, if I combine it with the lower half of a standard from the Ogre Kingdom's Ironbreakers, both bits seem to be forming a complete daemon face, if seen from the right angle:



I am seriously happy with that incidental idea at the moment

Oh, and one more thing: I know that the skull face plate seems like a bit of a no brainer for a Khornate Knight, but the longer I think about it, the more it feels like the slightly more sinister of the two knightly faceplates might actually be a better choice for a disillusioned fallen hero of the Imperium like Baron Harrowthorne...



Anyway, let me know what you think!

As always I'm humbled and amazed by what you manage to come up with.

I like how it looks as you have it, but if its still blutacked on then what about removing the head piece entirely and doing battle damage there and having that maw part be the demonic controlling entity that took over after the pilot was destroyed? You could also have the pilot compartment blown out to show that the pilot succumb to the chaos gods and the energy exploded out from him. He later merged with the knight becoming truly one with the machine.

Just a suggestion, didn't get to read everything as I'm cooking breakfast for the kiddos and trying to catch up with my lurkings.

Again, thanks for the feedback, guys!

@ Theophony: That would be a beautiful idea if this Knight didn't have a pilot any longer. But in this case, the machine's pilot is really what set this project in motion (and a model for him is also posted further up in this thread), so no daemonic possession, sorry

Alright, I took my chances and took another couple of pictures that should give you a better idea of what the Knight's main body will look like all armoured up. Lots of details are still missing, of course, and I also had to work really fast because, once tacked together, the model stays that way for about 30 seconds before starting to tear itself apart under the combined influence of gravity and the hateful, spiteful machine ghost that doubtlessly already sleeps withing the god machine







Anyway, let me know what you think!

I love it, don't get me wrong, but why would this misguided soul adorn his Knight with skulls and flayed skin? If he's fighting for Khorne because honour compels him to, does that necessarily mean he takes enjoyment in his grizzly duties? I understand that it's important to tie him in visually with your army, but it's not gelling, at least in my mind with the character. Maybe if you elaborate on his backstory, I'll understand better.

Cheers, ghosty! I see where you're coming from, and, of course, the very simple reason for making the knight look like that is the need to tie it in with the rest of the army visually, as you have correctly pointed out. But I do think the look also makes sense from a background perspective. Let me give you guys the short version:

- Harrowthorne sided with the World Eaters during the Heresy because he felt he owed them a debt of honour for the liberation of his world. That honourable decision, however, cost him dearly as he became a traitor, to his own world as well as to the Imperium at large. His rivals back at home took this chance to wipe out his entire house and its ancestral holdings.

- Harrowthorne returned to his world to seek revenge (and presumably his own death). The World Eaters accompanied him and made sure he got the revenge, at least. Afterwards, his world lay in ruins and everything that was important to him had been destroyed -- except for his honour. However, he seethed with fury at an Imperium that held a thing like personal honour in so little regard, so he kept following the 4th assault company, fighting with them during the siege of Terra, his only wish to see the world burn.

- the 4th assault company made him into a honourable member of the XIIth legion, to give him a new home and band of brothers, so to speak. It goes without saying that he would share his new "family's" aesthetic preferences at least to some degree. There is also the fact that the 4th are a hunting party, first and foremost, with its members decorating their armour and wargear in the trophies they have earned.

- and, last but not least, Harrowthorne's Knight is very much a terror weapon, of course, so he would decorate it in a way that strikes terror in the hearts of Imperial Citizens. They all deserve to die for following the Throne of Lies, in his opinion, and the more terror he can create on the battlefield, the better for him.

Anyway, that's the gist of it. I will probably do a more detailed writeup at some point

That is a great piece of background story.

Will he have a red or blooded hand symbol to show he is considered as an honourary World Eater?

I think I remember from Angron or Betrayer that the captain of Angrons Flagship was given this award for her service to the Legion.

Interesting. So the grisly trophies are less of the "WROAAARGG!!" *rips spine out and wraps it around neck like feather boa* variety and more of the 'snaps on the rubber gloves and apron and sets about disecting and ritually flaying the corpses of slain enemies before methodically running them through on the spikes that allow for the most disturbing aesthetic' variety. Cold-blooded, rational-minded horror more than random violence?


Also, and again, it doesn't fit in with your legion's ideas, it would be kinda neat to see that daemon face GS'd into the torso more smoothly, so it's more like, say, a Gunman or this guy. Even if it ends up being more mechanical connections, I think that would look better than a setup where it's just artistic armour plates strapped on to the pre-existing structures.

I feel that the lower jaw on the knights torso should be raised a bit. It's mouth looks too open.

Also, do the Chaos Knight shields really fit on the legs as well as it looks like they fit?

Very nice job mate, looking good already . Though I think I'll have to Back YourIntestines up on the lower jaw of the breastplate being too low. And maybe, but that's just my opinion, he should have slighlty bigger horns/tusks on his faceplate. Oh and may I ask if you could try to give this one the Lord of Skulls axe. I've been picturing such a Knight since they came out and I think you could pull it off (please )
Either way can't wait to see the rest of it