-Crisp & Grey- A NZ blog (May Update - I painted a Dragon!)

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**Mad..**

That is a nice varied looking terminator squad... very nice work, the missiles loaded in the racks catch the eye nicely

**Januine**

If you're looking for a free and very easy to use photo app - try out Photoscape Knightley. Dead easy to use and really handy for touching up photos quickly. I've been using it for years and well happy.
The termies are looking well sharp. Great job

**Knightley**

@Gits - I do have access to GIMP, however no understanding on how to use it, I've had a look online but perhaps my old age has stopped me from learning anything new

@Mad - Cheers man!

@Januine - Cool, will see what I can do with that, I'll have a look at it when I get a moment, thanks for the help

Update: Figure I would do a quick job on Telion, small model, should be quick

**Knightley**

Update: Got the back of the cloak mostly done, needs a wash

**JustaerinAtTheWall**

Lookin' good knightley! The camo cloak looks great, and I have to ask what colors and techniques you used.
Ready for that wash,
JATW

**Knightley**

@Justaerin - Thanks man, Base was Dark Angels Green, Next was goblin green in little jelly bean shaped blobs, after that was Calathan Brown in blobs as well, some covering the lighter green, Next was a Yellow base (can't recall the name, its the darkest of the base yellows) done in thin lines, then last is black done in similar ways.

Update: After taking the advice of Januine on the photo editing software, I produced this

Urgh, seeing it in the light of day shows I really need to clean my desk of dust... his cloak is covered!

**Mad..**

Love that Telion!

Cloak looks particularly awesome.

PS: It's not dust, it's the cloak trying to alter its camo pattern to better hide the wearer in the current environment

**evildrcheese**

Termies look awesome together.

Telion is looking great too.

EDC

**Solar_lion**

Nice job on the temies,

I think the cloak should have a bit more Lt. green in it. It would better match the basing.

**Gitsplitta**

That photo is *much* better. Nice to see your models in living color rather than something that's tint-dominated.

**Knightley**

@Mad - Hahha love it, all my models on the painting desk are trying to camo up

@EDC - Thanks man

@Solar - Cheers, I agree I had thought about doing it to match the base, but I had already done another 5 camo scouts a couple of years ago and needed to match them

@Gits - Heh, thanks for the good will, the photo editor is simple as to use as well, almost want to go back and re-edit all my previous photos.... almost.

Update: sorry for the lack of updates, was sick yesterday and posting a pic fell off my radar, so today you get two! the one from yesterday and todays.
Yesterday

Today

These guys have SO much detail its ridiculous almost OTT amounts imo.

**JustaerinAtTheWall**

Ooohh, Centurions! I don't see the play value in them, so i've never painted them myself. Yours are lookin' snazzy, though. Just the basecoats, I assume?

**Januine**

nice job on the grav centurions knightley. seen winter seo use them to good effect a few times. never sure about the sculpts - part of me likes them part of me just sees Baymax from BigHero 6!!!!!

**Gitsplitta**

Cents are looking beefy!

**Spacewolverine**

Centurions are looking great, the half paneling adds a really nice touch. I love the centurion models myself.

**Knightley**

@Justaerin - Yep, just base layer colours, they should brighten right up after layer highlight, Interestingly enough I've had a lot of fun with 3 Grav cents, the dish out a decent amount of AP2 shooting and with the grav amp they really can pile on the pain.

@Januine - Yeah the sculpts are what really put me off for the longest time (this is coming from someone who impulse buys pretty much everything as you can tell from my 'To Paint' list) however after proxying some in a Bat rep I was very happy with how they preformed.

@Gits - Cheers

@Wolvey - Thanks, they do have the odd small panel that you can add your own flair, but I find they are just to full of details for my personal tastes.

Update: Finished up the base colours and on to the washes

**evildrcheese**

Cents look awesome. Top work, as ever.

EDC

**Knightley**

Thanks EDC!

Update: man, this is slow going, got red layered but not highlighted and some white put down

**JustaerinAtTheWall**

I believe I told Nerdy this as well, by slow and steady wins the race amigo. Keep it up!

**Gitsplitta**

I think they look wonderful Knightley. Stick with it man, you're getting there!

**inmygravenimage**

Looking grand. Maybe you should play Batman, that'd be an exciting sight

**Spacewolverine**

They look awesome Knightley. Took me a long time to finish them as well, they are just gorgeous models and you are doing them serious justice! I really like the crispness as always.

**angelofvengeance**

Lovely clean paint jobs

**Knightley**

@Justaerin - Slow and glacial, full steam ahead I guess

@Gits - Thanks man, need the encouragement right about now!

@Graven - No doubt, I figured if I started another universe it would definitely be something small (akin to the Batman universe) I'm not there just yet, to much a fan of 40k still

@Wolvey - Here's a question, how long on average did it take per centurion to complete? I estimate about three or so hours for each one of these guys, as opposed to about 1.5 hours for a marine.

@AoV - Thank you!

Update: getting started on edge highlighting the grey

**Spacewolverine**

Same took 3-4 hours each. Assembling took about 4 hours for all three. They came out awesome! I love them!

**Knightley**

@Wolvey - good to know, I suspect I might get them done later this week if I'm lucky

Update: Aaaaalmost finished the edge highlighting of the grey. So. Many. Lines.

**Solar_lion**

Looking good.. they will be a good addition to the army

**ZergSmasher**

I don't care what people say, I think the Centurion models are cool. You are making them even cooler with that paint scheme!

**Knightley**

@Solar - Hope so, I have another 3 to paint, but they are converted GK ones with... interesting load outs

@Zerg - Thanks man, I appreciate that

Update: whites greens and blues got a hit today

**JustaerinAtTheWall**

Yay blue! Those grav guns are a great spot color for this army.