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I literally had a dream about a knight being closed away for thousands of years. This prompted me to get off my butt and finish mine. My renegade knight, locked away and completely mad!

He looks great. I love the "who am I?" Graffiti.

 General Kroll wrote:
He looks great. I love the "who am I?" Graffiti.

Thanks! He was an absolute blast to paint!

 thekerrick wrote:

 General Kroll wrote:
He looks great. I love the "who am I?" Graffiti.

Thanks! He was an absolute blast to paint!

I bet, did you use an airbrush, or did you do him by hand? He has a really gritty dirty look. He's definitely got that locked away madman feel about him.

No airbrush. All by hand! GW's technical paints are really really good.

I like it - a lot!

The Showcase Forum is for 100% complete models only though - base included.

PM a Mod when you're finished and we'll move it back for you!

I'm loving the messages on him, I think it gives a lot of character to him, like he has been lost for so long, he's finally just gone completely. I like to think that the last message is just 'DIE' Like it's his last coherent thought or something

This is what I like to see! Looks like a blast to paint and no lazy airbrushing! I'd love to see what the pilot looks like.

That texture of the paint is ace!

 FakeBritishPerson wrote:
I'm loving the messages on him, I think it gives a lot of character to him, like he has been lost for so long, he's finally just gone completely. I like to think that the last message is just 'DIE' Like it's his last coherent thought or something

Oof didnt know bases were included. Sorry! No idea what im gonna do with that though.

I gotta go back and clean up some of the words. The die scrawl and it hurts dont look great. Any other ideas for some mad scratchings i can add?

How about...

NO MORE. NO MORE WALLS. NO MORE WAAL. NO MOORE WALLL. NOO MMORE WALS. NO WAAAL. NNO WAALS.

With the last full stop just trailing off in a line toward the cockpit.

thekerrick wrote:No airbrush. All by hand! GW's technical paints are really really good.

Awesome! And yeah, I've got a lot of use out of some of their technical paints, typhus corrosion is a cracking little pot for weathering, I'm guessing you used a fair bit of it! Haha.

Alpharius wrote:I like it - a lot!

The Showcase Forum is for 100% complete models only though - base included.

PM a Mod when you're finished and we'll move it back for you!

I hadn't even noticed he didn't do the base! I'm actually looking forward to seeing what you do with the base now thekerrick, any specific plans?

Chef_of_Cadia wrote:This is what I like to see! Looks like a blast to paint and no lazy airbrushing! I'd love to see what the pilot looks like.

Yeah it would be cool to hear what became of the pilot. Did he die, was the knight found with a dead pilot who scratched his hands down to nubs on the locked doors of the cavern? Gross

On a side note, I don't think airbrushing is lazy, it's just a different technique, it's certainly quicker in some cases, but there are many things that can't be achieved as easily with hand brushing that can be achieved with an airbrush, and vice versa, if someone finds it easier to achieve a different result one way than another, I don't think it really matters, so long as the result is achieved.

Really great job on this knight. I don't use an airbrush so you have given me hope

Seeing this really makes me want to finish my twin Mechanicus Knights, Deimos and Phobos.

Ace job, man! Love the graffiti and weathering.

 SirDonlad wrote:
How about...

NO MORE. NO MORE WALLS. NO MORE WAAL. NO MOORE WALLL. NOO MMORE WALS. NO WAAAL. NNO WAALS.

With the last full stop just trailing off in a line toward the cockpit.

I like the no more. When I clean him up next week ill put it on!

I think the question remains, that if most knights who lose their marbles never leave the suit, then who wrote all of it?

or is it a case of "then who was phone??!"

What technical paints did you use for that dirty look? Really love it

 Retrogamer0001 wrote:
What technical paints did you use for that dirty look? Really love it

Ill go over what I did.

First, after priming, I base coated all the colors. Red, White, Black, and all the metals. After that I washed it all in nuln oil. Then I used Typhus Corrosion over most of it. I dont recommend globing corrosion on. Its literally like grainy mud and it covers all details. You have to be very targeted with it. It also dries quick. After Id put it on a section I would wipe it around and into cracks with either my fingers or a paper towel. This gave it that streaky effect. After that I dry brushed Ryza Rust over the metal areas. The grit and sand in the corrosion paint gets picked up when you dry brush and it looks a lot like rust!

Thats about it. Very simple to paint but a lot of fun.

On a side note I was working on a cool scenic base for this and as I was drying some wash on it in front of the space heater I melted and warped the base. So I wont be doing the base for a while.