That knight is beautiful. The weathering is really nice.

Cheers Warboss. Just some inital chipping done so far. lots more weathering to be done at the end

Awesome. Probably one of the best Knights I've seen, and it's not even done yet!

D

Thx Dr.C - tis coming along. Looking forward to the end product -eventually!!!

I hope you are pleased with your work. It is a truly impressive piece of work and well worth all of the accolades. Really keen to see what you do with the base.

Cheers Archer. I am really pleased!! It's taking a while to complete but wirth it. Not rushing anything. Base will be fairly built up I think but done in dark greys but some deep metals. Nothing too bright or garish so it'll contrasst nicely with the knight. Leasting, thats the plan!!

Started on the kataphrons. Primary metals are done. That takes a while. The livery base coats for the converted Kat carrier are done as well. Beginning to look smart

Awesome!!

getting there. pretty sweet figs to paint. few buggery areas like inbetween the rollers in the tracks but overall pretty cool. love the massive cannons

Very nice. Everyone loves tracked cyborg gun emplacements.

EDC

That knight is amazing!

Thx Mym, Gonna ttya dn get back to him this weekend. Still loads to do on him

Oh man, I didn't know you had finished the knight. That is a thing of art!

Will you be doing a diorama base?

The kataphrons are looking great too.

Knight isn't finished yet Bottle. Far from it, but really happy with how it's looking. Looking forward to doing the freehand heraldry I've drawn out (somewhere a few pages back in this thread) Just taking a wee break from it to do the Kats. The carrier Kat is coming along nicely. Colour panels are based and washed now. Threw the Dominus onto the platform to make sure the big lunk fits!!!

Awesome progress!

Those AdMech kits look really fiddly, but you manage to make them look good! Awesome stuff!

Cheers Zerg. Yeah ....they are pretty fiddly, especially the Ironstrider model. Fiddliest model EVER!!! but they're so worth it. New admech stuff is the business

Absolutely love what you have done with the platform and Dominus riding shotgun. Hmmmm, maybe he should have a shotgun......

Whats up next in your amazing menagerie?

after these Kats.....finish up the Orphan's Wrath the freeblade and base him with hacked up bits'n'pieces.....then........squad of skit rangers I think. That'll be me out of AdMech stuff then until December...when all the FW stuff I ordered ages ago will arrive with Mum from Ireland. Thanatar, Hector Rex, some tech priests and a squad of guardian automata!!! Achyls III forgeworld is getting its guns together

That knight is looking bloody lovely so far. Dominus and his ride are also looking pretty good as well.

Cheers Az. Looking forward to getting back to the knight and getting him further along. Kats are pretty fun though so I'll get them all finished up first. Getting as much done as possible before this huge load of FW stuff arrives

Quick cruddy WiP of the lead Kat. Greys are done. Might need another glaze though later. Skin next. Then my fav part - the brass!!

That's a stupendously huge gun. Is it a custom weapon or a standard one?

Endless stream of awesome!

Great AdMech, and that Knight is looking amazing thus far!

God dammit jan you're doing the omnissiah's work here!

getting there eh?! Gonan try and get some more done on the Knight next week.
@Archer - that's one of the standard loadouts. Kat Destroyers get either that one, a heavy grav gun or a plasma culverin which is slightly......larger!

Up at stupid'o'clock to get some Sunday painting on the go. That's the lead Kat's primary paintjob finished. Guy's looking pretty spanky!! Will go back and finish his lenses, eye, chipping and weathering and highlights at the end when the other two Kats are at the same stage. Great fun (medium fiddly) figs to paint. Hope yez like him

Like him? I LOVE him! You've done a really awesome job! Hard to see where he even needs any improvement.

Cheers Zerg - will just add some marking and then chip and weather him later. Few more highlights n filth as well.....lenses....Now onto the other two oO

Looks fantastic, Jan! Really well done.

I really like that paint scheme, great work!

I find myself liking that model a lot more in Januine-style than in the rather garish GW studio scheme, splendid stuff!

Looks awesome, Jan! Love your metals. I cannot wait to see that Skitarii riding shotgun get the same treatment :-)

Thx folks. Really really wasn't liking the stock AdMech schemes - all too bright and meh......didnt fit in with my idea of what the cogboys & co were like so made my own that fitted how I'd imagined them. The metals are several differnet layers of drybrushed metallics over a black basecoat; warplock bronze followed by ghenna's gold and then runefang steel followed by a nuln wash. Give a deeper more varied and aged look to the metals as different tones shine through rather than the usual flat look from leadbelcher + wash.......I think ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Yea, the new model's red is too... red.
THIS is better!

Stepped back from the Kats for a mo to get the Alpha some paint. He'll be riding on the back of the lead Kat. As he's an alpha, I inverted the usual colour scheme to blue on the outside with a dark grey lining. Blue is still a touch bright but it'll tone down after shading a glaze.

I love these... Katvalry!

Hahaha - tidy! Nice one LeC!
Do live this skit figs. Only little problem has been putting a magnet in his feet so he'll attach to both his base and to the back of the Kat. Skit feet are kinda ......dainty and just too thin and small to fit even a 3mm magnet into. Drilled two holes into the soles of his feet though and put metal rod (aka a paperclip!!!) in. It's not the strongest maglock at all but it'll do.

Great idea to make him multi use. Can't be worse than the fine cast tomb king I did so he could go into his chariot or on a base.....that was horrible.

Extra two days off this week due to the entrance tests. I love exams was hoping to get a mountain of painting done but spent most of yesterday building a squad of skits. Gorgeous figs but fiddly little fethers take an age to put together and smooth out
Have managed to get all the blues done on the ranger alpha and the remaining to Kats. Jumped ahead a little and did the alpha's trim, squad designation and forgeworld marking on his cloak though. Onto the greys of the Kats next

Loving the paint scheme on the Ad Mech. The blue and grey looks great.

EDC

Cheers fella. Should look pretty grand eventually.

You did the white trim so well, mate. I'm embarrassed to say mine came out horribly! You must have a very steady hand. Loving the blue.

I'm going to try following your recipe for metal next time too.

I cheated a little with the trim. Chopped up a few of the cog line transfers and put them on in pieces so as to try and follow the uneven hem of the robe. then filled in the blanks with some white scar. The forgeworld symbol is half a cog transfer, half an alpha designation number and then the rest of the symbol painted in in white scar. All comes together fairly well
Aye - give the metals a go. It takes abit of time but I prefer the worn and old metal effect that comes with it. Has a bit more depth than just leadbelcher/nuln oil.

Awesome knights, man. I especially like the marble effect. Rarely seen and very well done.

Thx Meph - hoping to get back to the Knight again this week or next....once I've got these Kats done, he's up to get finished.....hopefully

Alpha is pretty much done. So many tiny little details and he's just a troop choice. Love it!! Next back to the Kats

Lovely work. Finish is spectacular.

The Alpha is absolutely amazing. Love the colour choice as well. Nice to see something other than red works really well. Is he going to get a squad to lead at some point?

Cheers lads. I've built the Alpha's squad (feth those wee buggers take a while to build) and I'll get them painted up.......soonish. The squad will have grey claoks with the blue on the inside. I reversed it for the Alpha......need to give him a name too at some point I guess. I want to get the Kats finished up this week (to go with the Alpha for Para's monthly comp) and then the skit squad done and the knight finished before Christmas as the mother is coming over here for Christmas adn bringing a lovely FW haul with her that I ordered a wee while back

Damn that Alpha is nice. Great work.

EDC

Looks nice, and I like the soft blue tone of his cape.
Great job.

Lovely stuff! Once again, your metallic work is superlative!

Going to have to work up the confidence to have a go at both yours and Nerdfest's metallic methods at some point, and see if I can take a break from NMM and get actual metals looking decent... just need to find a suitable mini...

Cheers lads. I do love my metallics!! Fun to tryout new effects and methods. It's all about the washes and how different layers interact with each other. Loadsa fun

I know I request these far too often from you, but any chance you could do a quick step-by-step on how you do metals at some point? You've explained it a few times, but I always get stuff better when I can actually see the steps involved.

No worries Para. I will indeed.....I'll pop up a s-b-s here next time am doing a metaljob. Loads of AdMech stuff inbound soon

Popping a quick WiP in before I head off

Damn jan!

Lots still to do but happy how they're looking all the brass detailing nearly sent me loopy

What brass detailing? (kidding pls dont kill me)

Eejit!

Alpha is looking sweet, mate!

Cheers fella. Hopefully get them all finished up in the next few days

Getting there......

Now that is the sort of ride I need in peak hour.

Looks fantastic. The conversion is a really great example of the massive size of the Kat. The grey coat stands out really well overall even though it isn't a contrasting colour to the rest of the piece.

Cheer Archer. Still need to add a bit of filth and the like to the Kat's tracks and that but he's pretty much done. The Alpha on the platform came out well. The Kat has the same blue as the Alpha's robe on the underside of the chasis. The reast of the ranger squad will (eventually) have grey robes with blue on the inside instead of the Alpha's grey inside/ blue outside scheme. Just need to finish up the other 2 Kats now and they'll be all ready to roll on out

So, the Kats are finally all finished and based. Hopefully get them photo'd later today. Time to get back to the Freeblade knight. Onto the last group of pieces to be painted. Once these are done, it'll be onto freehand designs, and then weathering and damage.
Last lot of marble to paint next. Had to go back over old photos and posts as I've kinda forgotten how I did it!!!! Really should write this stuff down in the future!!!! Think I've got it sussed though!!

White and black? Sons of Malice confirmed.

hahahaa - no white n black. That's just the undercoat. Pauldrons will be halved marble and twilight blue then the heraldry freepainted on later

And we're off!!! Last marble bits steps 1 & 2 done. Minor freak out over not remembering how I'd done it before sorted out and looking good so far!!

Looks great. Can't wait to see the finished knight. Plus congrats on finishing the Kats off.

Cheers Archer. Should have some photos of the finished kats up soon

Ooo looking good.

EDC

Cheers EDC, steps 3 & 4 done. just waiting on the glaze to dry......dry faster dammit!!!!

If you have a hairdryer handy, give it a quick blast with that on low power, it should speed things up a little. Just be careful not to blow the paint into pools or areas it shouldn't be.

Aye that's why I stayed away from the missus' hairdryer. Feared it may start pushing the glaze around and leave unwanted stain lines. This step is a pretty thin glaze so it dries fast enough

Gonna call it for the night. Eyes are beginning to go all bleary!!! Painted for a stupid number of hours today - lol. So this is where we're up to

That's impressive, very impressive!

Cheers Para. Full day's work. Should get all the (last of the) marble finished up tomoro. If my eyes are still working - lol

Nice veined marbling effect there Jan really not easy to pull off on such a large piece.

That is some fabulous work. Need to click on the pic to zoom in and admire it all.

Cheers ckig. just finished steps 6 & 7 . just 8 & 9 to go!!!

Ugh... so good. Cant wait to see him all finished up!

And that is the last of the marble pretty much done




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And finally got some photos of the finished Kats with a Skit Alpha commanding them. Photos were a pain in the arse. Had to use the wife's camera which is so-so for photos. Doesn't give a good depth of field and then the damn photo combing software refuse to save the fething thing. Anyways..... here's the boys!

It all looks spectacular, those Kat guns are absolutely huge. It is going to be awesome when its all assembled. Can't wait.

Cheers Archer. Kat photos didnt come out the best. May have to reshoot them later when I have time. Knight is coming along nicely though

Damn the metals on those tracked servitors is amazing.

Nice progress on the Knight arms.

EDC

Got my own camera working and re-shot the Kats. Happier with the photos now

Awesome work as usual!

Cheers Para. Really happy with them. Think I may need some more - lol

Beautiful work! I get a real sense of cold mechanical purpose from these and indeed the new pictures showcase your paint job much better! Keep it up!

Cheers fella - didnt realise how big the new shots are - lol. next comes a squad of rangers and then the big bad Thanatar!

That marble effect on your Knight sure is interesting, and you accomplished it well. The Kataphrons, well, all I can say is, wow, just wow...

Thx very much there Zerg. Glad to have the marble totally finished now. It'll get weathered pretty heavily later on but first need to get the rest of the metals done. Kats were fun...definitely gonna get some more at some point and make the breacher variants. Moar armour!!

Nice wee bit of progress. This is the final batch of parts to get their main paint. Marble is all done. Blues are down and it's on to the brass trim

Looking excellent, as we've come to expect .

Any thoughts on decals or freehand house themes?

EDC

Funny you should mention that. Just made a start on the Knight's tilting plate.
If you look back a page or so I think I posted up some of the sketches for his heraldry. It'll be mostly freehand. I'll use a few danger decals but the heraldry will have to be done with the brush.

Those Kataprhons are awesome, love the Skitarii platform

Cheers Myr, really chuffed how they turned out. Platform took a wee bit of doing - reversing the chasis and that but worked out in the end. Ah the usefulness of old sprue -lol

Mini update. Did a little more on the tilting plate. Helmet is coming along...... I think. Scuse the crispy photo

Love that heraldry! Really nice work!

Cheers Bash. It's a trial before the banner between his legs. Not exactly nmm, but it's as close as I get

Very nice! Setting off the sublime marble and metalwork with freehand like that is a surefire way to make this one of the best (maybe even the best) Knights I've seen.

Thx very much Para. Was a touch nervous starting the freehand. but seem so to have gone well so far. still need to add in the trident. Not sure to have it in front of or behind the helmet. The it's onto the banner,......tomoro.....maybe - lol

I say put the trident behind the helm. That's traditional on this style of heraldry from what I've seen and you don't want to break up that nice bronze blend.

Random question, but do you have any background in art at all? You seem to have a very good understanding of how colours work and interact, and a real knack for designing stuff like this.

Wow, that's a cracker! Love getting to see your work really shin on the big panels these projects give you.

That free(blade)hand skill! Amazing work janny!

Nice work so far on the shield, fantastic freehand !

Crkey - thx so much you guys. Means a lot. Freehand designs are loadsa fun. One of the best parts of hobby is doing all the designs and doodles for the figs I'm painting. My wall is covered in pages of the stuff!!!
@Para - no formal training in art per se but I've been drawing and painting pretty much all my life. Had a few watercolour exhibitions back in the day. I never went to art college but my father is an artist so I had a good teacher


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Oh - while I think of it - just going through my ipad sorting wip photos. That last batch of marble plates I did for the knight - I phot'd pretty much every step along the way. Is anyone interested in a wee 'how to...' article/tut/whatever? If y'are, I'll try and put something together

Jan

I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing how you did that marble. I don't know if I'll ever have a use for marble for my projects, but some of the techniques could probably apply to other things. And btw your freehand work on that tilting plate is great! Wish I could do freehand that well. My own freehand is garbage, probably because I don't do enough of it.

Cheers Zerg. I find freehand is more about being prepared and knowing exactly what youre going for. Sketch that design out beforehand larger on a piece of paper then shade it with pencil so you know where your darks and lights should be going. Then draw it with a light mechanical pencil onto your fig. Then get painting with your best brush. For the tilting plate I used a W&N S7 #0 & #1 brushes. Oh and thin those paints even more than usual!!

As for the marble 'stepbystep' - I'm working on it!!!!! I've never done one of these before so I really hop it makes sense!!!

It's weird, I'm a painter and illustrator by trade, but I've never had the confidence to apply freehand to a miniature. I'm bloody envious of your confidence to do so (and do it well!).

Seconding that I'd like to see the steps.

The steps for the marble is on the make, will try and try and get it posted up today or more likely tomro.

Would one on freehand be useful too? I haven't started the banner for the knight yet so I could do one for that if folk would find it useful...

Wow. Check out that tilting plate.

Great work.

EDC

Cheers EDC - one one thing left to add to it and then that's another thing done. Determined to get this fella finished before Mum arrives fro Christmas with all my FW goodies - lol

The step by step for that how to paint a marble effect I did is now done and up over on my other blog. You can find it here: http://warpbound.blogspot.kr/

Hope it makes sense and folk'll find it somewhat useful
Cheers

Jan

Thanks for that, I'll check it out in more detail later and then try and find a mini to apply it to... perhaps Lorgar's base...

No worries Para. Just hope it followable.....yeah...that's so not a word!!!

Fairly solid start on the heraldry

DUUUUUUUUUUDE!

Lol

That's an impressive set of dangleberries!

Awesome work Januine

@ AoV - thx fella

@Bash - dangleberries???? I see Colour Sgt Bourne has returned!

Pauldrons, tilting shield and first bit of heraldry pretty done. Metals need highlighting still but that'll happen later before weathering everything.

Impressive. Most impressive!

That is beautiful, I envy anyone with freehand ability but that is a different league to most stuff you see that helmet is excellent.

Cheers lads. Still have the banner to do. Maybe tomro

Fan-bloody-tastic.

EDC

If that banner is as good as those pauldrons and tilting plate, we here on Dakka are in for a real visual treat!

Fingers crossed!!! It's a lot narrower than I figured on but we'll see what we can do!! Thinking he's gonna need a big proper banner atop the carapace at some point and/or one under the barrel of the weapons.

Hoped to get loadsa paint time today. But RL decided no!! Managed to make a start on the Knights banner though. Love doing this freehand stuff. Glazes ftw

Wow looking great Can't wait to see the final product

I really like the freeblade heraldry! Cannot wait to see this all come together.

Waheey - Bottle's back!! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Finished the other side of the banner. The trident half was a pain in the arse to do. Made the helmet look easy >< Still not 100% happy with it but will leave it for the now in case I overwork it and feth it up. And I really have no idea what colour(s) to do the banner trim that will fit in with the overall scheme...... :/

Does it need a trim colour? He is a free blade after all and perhaps he has removed the trim colour as a sign he is no longer affiliated somehow?

Otherwise I would wait for the full assembly and see what sort of spot colour would look the best.

Oh and by the way it looks fantastic.

Cheers Archer. Yeah - there's a raised edge around the banner I need to decide on - thin kI may just go metal and do a brass,bronze colour to match the rest of the knight.

Deffers brass and bronze on the trimming!

Bronze trim sounds good. What about the tassels below? The trident looks fantastic imo

Cheers. Tassels .......... Beige I guess. They'll be getting pretty dirtied up later on anyways

All the brasses are finally done and shaded. Everything all laid out now for next step. Stains then highlighting a
Then onto chipping and weathering. Really begining to come together now

Edit: where the feth have his legs gone? Great, my knight is legless ><

Wow. Just... Wow.

Keen to see how the weathering turns out. Never been a huge fan of it myself. Prefer the showroom fresh look. But you have done such a magnificent job so far I am sure I will be eating my words.

Cheers Archer. Aye - needs the weathering. The showroom straight off the production line has never really done it for me. Prefer to give it a little bit of history and battled apprearance. Much of the chippingis already done with masking fluid. Working on staining the metals at the mo, then a touch of verdegris and wear then onto the paintwork - sponge et al. Get there eventually The boy is really begining to come together though

This is a real labour of love, Jan! Guess it's all down hill from here and you get to do all the fun stuff (like weathering) now.

Oh, did you find the legs? Haha

ahhaha - yeah - found them! sitting up on the shelf of shame. Really loving doing htis guy though. great seeing it all come together as go into the final stages n techniques. Weathering be fun!!! as long as I dont totally arse it up - lol

 Januine wrote:
ahhaha - yeah - found them! sitting up on the shelf of shame. Really loving doing htis guy though. great seeing it all come together as go into the final stages n techniques. Weathering be fun!!! as long as I dont totally arse it up - lol

absolutely love it, gorgeous stuff!

also, when I read the post about the legs of course I thought of this black knight - he was a freeblade (I think lol)

hahahahahahahhhaaa - Nice!!!!

Started using some nox over the coelia for the verdigris on the brass. Coming out even bettered than I hoped. Well chuffed

Taking a wee break from the knight a few other things to start on making my arch Magos. Very rough start lots of trimming and blue (yellow?) tac. But it's a start. It that damn cable roller would arrive I could start making some mechandrites!!!

 Januine wrote:
Taking a wee break from the knight

Inexcusable....

Wait, Archmagos Cairn Wraith conversion? I'm listening....

Hahahahaha. Knight is coming along deliciously. Should finish the staining and verdigris tomoro and then chipping/weathering. Started on his base today as well. Thought I'd take a wee break to start on the Magos. Gonna have to scratch build his axe though

Here's a wee sneaky of where the knight is at

(Those handles and rails were a complete pain in the arse >< )

It looks really good Januine. The colors work perfectly well together.
The marble looks better on the head and an the back than on the shoulders imho. The "veins" look more natural.

Gorgeous work on that Knight, mate. Loving the marbled effect, and the colours compliment one another very nicely.

Feel like a parrot when I say how good the Knight looks, but it really is stunning.

Magos looks interesting too.

EDC

Thx so much all. So happy with how he's progressing. Started working on the base this morning. Green stuff is a little old so wasn't as mailable as usual but still working nicely. I'll pop a WiP later on

Great stuff. EDC is right, it's hard to say anything but!

That knight is all kinds of awesome. Nice work!

Morning's progress on the base. Still a bit more GSing to do, then bits of slate to conceal the foot risers and so on from there. Barbed wire came out nicely but damn that stuff hurts to make!!!! Holes in fingers and under a few nails!!!

Gonna echo everyone else and say that that Knight is looking great! Apart from the base, is there really anything left to do on the model?

Most of the plates stilll need to be glued on. All the weapons are magnetised so that's no problem. Once I finish the verdigris, the brass just needs a touch of wear/highlighting. Few more minor decals. The script on the chest and reaper chainsword. Then chipping and weathering on the non-metal parts. Final stains and filth, lenses, and then finishing touches. Seems a lot but it's not really....well, apart from the chipping. That'll take a wee bit of time. lol.

Nice use of the promethium pipes on the base there. I'm considering using one of the space marine casualties for the base of mine. As if the guy was about to be overwhelmed by the enemy, only to have the Knight stomp out to meet them head on and buy time for extraction

Cheers, nice wee kit that pipe realy. Loads of them inside. I got it just for bits n the like for basing. Aye - having a casualty on the base would work nicely. Big brother gonna save you style!

Looks spectacular. How have you made that barbed wire?

wire n staples! the main wire is just two lengths of thin wire twisted around each other and then the barbs are made of normal staples from a stapler. twisted around the wire, clamped tight with a pliers and that's it. damn barbs are pokey though!

That's the base built, sealed and primed. Back to other stuff.

Lovely job

Base is pretty sorted now. Maybe a touch of the ol powders later on. Oops - forgot to paint the trim black. Lol.

Looks really nice. You have struck that fine balance between interesting detail but not so much it will detract from the model that will soon be attached.

I do like it when as much effort has been put into the base as the model. It looks great!

Wow Jan! That base looks top notch!

Januine, your Knight looks fantastic!

If you don't mind sharing, how did you paint your gold trim and the marbling effect, what paint / process?

I may have missed it earlier in your blog, but it's damn stunning.

~Azalle

 Master Azalle wrote:
Januine, your Knight looks fantastic!

If you don't mind sharing, how did you paint your gold trim and the marbling effect, what paint / process?

I may have missed it earlier in your blog, but it's damn stunning.

~Azalle

Probably something similar to this-

Thnks for all the comments folks. Really happy with the base now. I do like a bit of basing!!! The pipe was al red at first but it was way too distracting to the eye and was going to take away from the knight that'll (eventually) be above it so I 'stripped' the paint back to the metal on top. Think that works better now.

 Master Azalle wrote:
Januine, your Knight looks fantastic!

If you don't mind sharing, how did you paint your gold trim and the marbling effect, what paint / process?

I may have missed it earlier in your blog, but it's damn stunning.

~Azalle

Cheers very much Azalle. The marbling was done quite differently to the methid Duncan shows in the video AoV posted above. The method I used is a bit more involved. I used all GW paints and it's done in stages. I wrote/posted a tutorial/step by step on how I did that marbling over on my other plog here - http://warpbound.blogspot.kr/ if you want to have a look. I tried to be as comprehensive as possible but I've never written a tutorial before so if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

The brass/gold trim is pretty straightforward. Just layers and washes really. Basecoat of warplock bronze with 2 thinned layers of brass scorpion over that (love that metallic) then wash with ol'faithful Agrax Earthshade. First wash over everything and then go back and add a little more around the rivets and recessed areas. I start the weathering before highlights as the highlights are more showing wear and rubbing on the edges. For the staining on the brass I use coelia greenshade - goes on brass perfectly as the darker base for the verdigris which goes on sparingly next with nik oxide. Finally drybrush the outer edges (places where the metal would take more wear an tear from hitting off things and being rubbed against) with runelord brass and a tiny touch of runefang on the edge of brush to the edges. All GW paints. That's basically it. All about building up layers and stains etc. Hope that helps

Finished the lenses and optics last night and the metals are now all finally done. The only thing left to do now is final weathering and chipping adm we shall be done!!! Mum arrives over here in Korea tomorrow for Christmas and the New Year so I'll finally be getting my hands on all the Mechanicum stuff I ordered from FW 3 months ago!! Happy little Irishman I shall be!!!!

The mother finally arrived in Korea!!! And with her came my forgeworld stuff and a Christmas care package from TP - thanks so much fella

Shiny! Looking forward to you getting to work on those straight away finishing the Knight!

I looked but forgot to comment before, the base looks great!

Cheers para. Knight is a spit away from being finished. Legs pinned to the base now. Just the chipping to do and he's done.
Meanwhile the wife bought these...... 2 Darth Vader heads????

That is a welcome package! i'm seeing a thanatar, a scyllax cohort, servo skulls and Calleb Decima; whats the last one on the right?
The knight is looking beyond great, but would you mind toning down the awesomeness a bit? you're making us all look like amateurs!
I'm looking forward to those scyllax - they'll look fantastic when they're finished! (definetly bend the mechantendrils before affixing them to the bodies - i learned the hard way)

Cheers SirD. I'll try hopefully have the big fella done in the next few days. From FW was Thanatar, scyllax automata, inquisitor Rex and retinue, some servo skulls and a tech priest enginseer. Sitting on the living room floor now surrounded by resin as well as all the goodies TP sent me. Like a wee kid at Christmas...... Oohhh, wait a minute. Lol

And Darth Vader heads become......... Darth 2 pints of ice cream Vader heads. Lol

Haha! And perhaps this is just the SW nerd in me, but that definitely looks like Hoth and Endor rendered in ice cream!

Hahhahaa. Nice. Think I'll be having me a nice bowl of Endor before bed!

ahhh, an Inquisitor!!
It's so obvious now! Round of applause to your missus on those vader icecream portions - it's not the first unit that i think of for measuring icecream, but it's working for me right now; "i'll have two vader-helms of vanilla and one vader-helm of chocolate please!"

pretty classy tubs eh?! Baskin Robbins been doing a special with them for the new SW movie.

And. He's. Done. Phew

Pics or it never happened!

I WANT Vader Helm tubs.

House is pretty mad at the mo, with the mother visiting, Christmas and folk popping by so proper photo can't get done till next week. A shifty wee iPad teaser photo is the best I can do.

The Dakka language filter probably wouldn't allow me to accurately and express how totally fething awesome that thing looks. I very eagerly await proper pics.

Cheers Para. Am totally chuffed with how he turned out. Lotta new techniques and experiments went into it. So much fun. Try n get some decent photos up soon as I can.

With the knight all done and awaiting his shots, time to move on to other things, resin things!! First of the FW haul a the scyllax. Beautiful set of figs with loadsa options n extra bits. Can make them shooty or CC or both. Into the soapy tub they go!! Looked over all the bits and I'm damned if I can find a single air bubble. Nice one FW

Just looked the scyllax up. They are creepy awesome and I think your mechanicum colour scheme will work really well on them.

Cheers Archer. Yeah - creepy little fethers; love 'em!! Gonna fit them out as pure close combat slicers'n'dicers! They're really straight out of John Blanche's Mechanicus imaginings.

Looks stunning Jan, I eagerly await a full photoshoot of the Knight.

And finally - the big fella is done Finsihed him a few day's ago but just got around to taking some photos. Not 100% happy with the shots but beyond happy with how ol' 'Orphan's Wrath' turned out. Big model I've painted yet so I totally took my time on him. Loved every minute of working on him. Really allowed me to try out a ton of techniques and even come up with one or two of my own. He is fully magnetised for all weapon options/loadouts and the base is detachable as well. So chuffed with him. Hope you like him - 'The Orphan's Wrath' - piloted by the freeblade pilot Sarpedon of Tiryns.

He looks absolutely fantastic mate! I hope you are sending these pictures to the white dwarf team too.

The burns came out really well on the marble, I imagine that was no easy task to add weathering to an already busy surface. Looks amazing though.

Feels like you've been working on the knight for so long what will you do with yourself now? Haha

Cheers Bottle - yeah - the scorches were a bit of a bitch to do but think they came out ok Onto building an Arch Magos and painting his Scyllax bodyguards next lol

Incredible. Just incredible.

Many thx Zam

Just wow. Without a doubt, the best Knight I've seen on Dakka! Such stunning attention to detail, and a great overall image too!

I'll second Bottle's suggestion to email this to the White Dwarf guys, I think you'd stand a very good chance of getting this featured!

Cheers Para. Really am happy with. Fantastic kit. Be a while before I get another one though - lol. May just drop a few photos by the WD folk

Truly incredible. I won't reiterate everyone else's comments for fear of sounding like a bleating sheep. But yeah, wow!

Grand idea to email WD, they'd be idiots not to feature this

Thx TP. Will do. Onto the lovelyScyllax next

Jan why must you be this good? Makes me feel insignificant seriously though amazing job. But that palm up gauntlet knight reminds me of the could you not meme

Lol. I was thinking more 'cmon then, come get some '

With the knight finally all done, it's onto some more servants of the giant Cogboy in the sky! Here's where we're at. Making a Magos from bits, bobs n green stuff & have scrubbed, glued, pinned and shaped 4 scyllax guardian automata to serve as his bodyguard.

Just flipped on to see what everyone was doing before we see out the year.

Your Knight......wow. What an absolutely fantastic way to see out the year. Cheers for the eye candy.

OMG...that Knight...words utterly fail me . Probably your best work to date, and that is saying something. Thanks very much for showing us, and I will second the suggestion to send the pics to the White Dwarf guys, there is no way they won't feature this unless they are completely brain-dead.

That's got to be one of the best looking and well balanced paint schemes I've ever seen on a Knight, Beautiful work .

Thx so much everyone. Really glad you like the big guy. Was a cracking project to put together. Sometime in the next year may be doing his evil brother
Sent in the pics to WD but not sure if anything will come from it. We'll see

 Januine wrote:
Sometime in the next year may be doing his evil brother

There guys, he said it, it's in black and white and we can hold him to it now! Everyone bookmark the post for future reference!

Better not mention that warhound titan I've been eyeing then........doh!!!!!

Awesome, Awesome stuff - Yet again, Januine!!
I enjoy painting my knights, but compared to yours? im just applying a neat multi-coloured basecoat.


I second the notion of sending your pics to the white dwarf/GW team for featuring - Do It!

Cheers SirD. Really glad you like him
I've seen your Knights - absolutely nothing there to be anything less than well chuffed with. Gorgeous metals.
Email + photos to WD sent earlier. Just have to wait n see.

WOW

That Knight

I thought someone was posting pics of one of the masterclass books

Did I mention

Cheers very much - great compliment

Bells just went so a very very happy new year to us all

Bit of progress on the Magos. Started installing the first mechandrites. Having a wire core to them means I can twist and pose them much more later once they're filly set and anchored. Cog-axe is coming along too. Probably won't be quite that length

Liking how this is going. Needs some.....guns though

Nope, nope, not fair! You can't You can't be allowed to sculpt that well on top of painting as well as you do! Leave some talent for the rest of us!

lol. Bit nerous on this one. First time using GS for more than just filling holes n seams. The Magos' back n shoulders needed some major filling and modeling but think it came out ok. We'll see when he eventually gets primed. The axe handle was a bit of an arse to do

Excited to see you start sculpting, Jan! Looking great so far :-)

Cheers B. Just mounted his shoulder cannons Few more mechandrites and a wee fun detail I'm planning and he should be ready for posing. Need to buy some bases though ><

Looking brilliant, the axe came out well - I'd stick with that length of handle.

Your Magos is incredible. Will be such an amazing centrepiece to what is already shaping up to be one of the best armies floating around the Internet. Would love to line up against it one day.

Cheers lads. Pretty happy how he is shaping up. Never really done a figbash/build/whathaveyou like this before so kinda feeling my way through. He has two back/shoulder mounted bolters now. just need the final few mechadrites to cure then I'll put them plus two other ones looted from the scyllax kit on. Oh and a servo skull.....or two?...

Definitely a servo skull or one of those creepy cherub things.

Beautiful work on that Knight. I'm also a huge fan of the Vader ice cream containers. WANT!

Oh, and the Magos is looking cool as well. Did you get those rolled-greenstuff tools? Have you looked into guitar wire as well?

Cheers Az. Aye - ordered up a set of the rollers before Christmas. handy dandy wee things! Thought about guitar wire but reckoned a greenstuffed wire core cable would be easier to manipulate and pose etc

Finally that's the ArchMagos built. The servo skull and his wee mini cogitator thingy will go on after paint. Just need the last of the GS to cure and then it's priming time!! Counted up and bits from like 7 kits/models contributed to this fine fella!! Hope yez like him

OK that's fantastic, just brilliant bud, now get painting..

I gotta ask, where do you get your tools from to make green stuff sculpts like that?

cocktail sticks from the local shop, clay shapers nicked from my Dad, normal craft knife and tentacle/cable rollers from greenstuffworld

 Ustrello wrote:
I gotta ask, where do you get your tools from to make green stuff sculpts like that?

Linky: http://www.greenstuffworld.com/es/

yup - that's the place. 12 euro for a set of 3 rollers. pretty reasonable I thought

That ArchMagos looks fantastic, I love all the little details .

Cheers fella. Really stoked with how he turned out. The paint starts tomoro

looks fantastic!

Magos is looking fantastic, can't wait for the paint

Finally a bit of paint - first paint of 2016!! Build is all finished and the big fella is primed

Getting some serious John Blanche vibes here. Nice work Jan

Cheers AoV. Looked at a LOT of Blanche's illustrations while working on this one! Need to paint the axe and the wee computer seperately mind. First time in a long time painting a fig with the base attached but no real choice.

The finished Knight looks amazing. Magos is coming along nicely too.

EDC

Cheers EDC. Paint finally going on the Magos. Just the bases metals so far but it's a start

So pretty. Amazing stuff. This has winner written all over it.

Cheers Cam. Not painting in sub-assembles and parts is weird though - lol

Its looking great so far jan! Its giving me a lot of ideas for my dark mechanicus

Havent checked in with ya in a while Jan! Holy mother of feth that knight is gorgeous. Definitely the best I've seen!
The magos looks like a really cool model too!

Painting a fig attached to a base? Shouldn't be any challenge for you. I do it all the time myself (of course that may not be a good habit...).

Thx very much lads. Still really over the moon with how the Knight turned out. Learned a lot from that project an got to try out some new weathering techniques. def worth it
Painting up the Magos at the moment and e's coming along nicelt. very satifying paint although painting and and around the mechandrites is ......tricky! will pop a wee WiP up later

Good day painting today, inbetween a trip to the hospital! Magos is really coming along. Something extra satisfying about painting a fig you've built from the ground up out of this n that. Anyways - leaving him for the night. Onto the cloak(s) tomoro. Cheers for looking in, hope the like the creepy fella

Can't wait to see this guy finished! The conversion/scratch build looks so (un)natural and that gold is really nice!

Cheers Para. Trying out a new metal mix. As he's the top cog, I wanted to give him a metal that none of the rest of the forgeworld has in their schemes. Something a bit different and old looking to set him apart and above. It's technically not even gold!! Runefang steel washed with reikland then washed again (twice?) with seraphim. Robes tomro. Should have him all done and fully assembled by the weekend

As always your colour choices are perfect. Looking great. Can't wait to see the end result.

Hope all is ok, regarding the hospital trip.
Magos coming along nicely! Love the gold, might need to try that colour out on my Dark Elves. Looks like it would fit right in with them.

That magos is magnificiently creepy, and very inspiring. Thanks for sharing !

That is one of the coolest Cairn Wraith conversions I've seen to date, Jan! Setting that bar higher still.

You're metal work is really interesting, I had already made the switch to Ironbreaker, but I think I will move up to Runefang too. It seems much more flexible than Leadbelcher.

@Zambro - all is good. Just a wee checkup. Cheers - that gold effect started as a mistake when I was painting my DA Haemonculus. Was really tired and wasn't thinking what I was doing. Laid down Runefang instead of Runelord and then shaded it. Came out pretty nicely. I'll add a little staining with Athonian later to age and corrode it a touch.
@Kernel - thx very much fella. Glad you like him. Wanted him to have that creepy Blanche AdMech preiest feel - tall, skinny, looking out from deep inside a heavy hood kinda thing
@Bottle - many thx B. Credit goes to krautscientist (if you havent seen his admech and csm kitbashes/conversions, go check his Dakka plog out - amazing stuff) for switching me onto using a cairn wraith for AdMech. Ironbreaker is still really handy but really only use it for wee things now. Most metalwork I like to use several layers of differnent metal to get a more varied effect with hints of different colour showing through. Gives them a more full and aged feel. Runefang is handy but very bright on its own

Jan that recipe for the gold, is it really just runefang reikland, sepia? I kinda want to use it on one of my upcoming guys if you dont mind.

Go for it! Aye - base with runefang (2 thinned layers with lahriman) then a light wash of reikland (more focused toward the recesses but do cover all) and then build up layers of seraphim lightly until you get the tone you want. Highlight with Sycorax Bronze but go easy on it here. Oh - if you want to really deepen the recesses, thin line wash with agrax in the cracks, just the recesses and dont use it neat

You have made that mech look creepy as gak. Good job.

 Januine wrote:
Cheers Az. Aye - ordered up a set of the rollers before Christmas. handy dandy wee things! Thought about guitar wire but reckoned a greenstuffed wire core cable would be easier to manipulate and pose etc

Grab some guitar wire as well when you get a chance. It's cheap, available in different gauges and the core is surprisingly firm. Worth having in your toolbox for a couple of dollars. Or Won. (yes, I had to look that up). The Magos is looking amazing - I can't believe you've done all that so quickly.

More importantly, I hope all is well with the hospital trip and your (and your family's) health.

Thx Az. Aye - all is good. Hos trip was routine. Nothing scary - lol! Gonna be doing a few more character tech builds soon for bth AdMech and an Inq retinue so def gonna pick up some guitar strings and give it a bash. Isn't it a bit bendy and springy though?

That's the thing that surprised me the most. In the lengths that we tend to use, it's pretty good - and is bendable with pliers to the shape you require. It's probably a tiny bit springy if you try, but then if you put that kind of pressure on a model or part of a model then if it were resin or HIPS you'd be breaking it, so not exactly a drawback..

ah ok - will pick some up and see how it goes, cheers

I'll be honest, unless you're working in 6mm then you should stick with the greenstuff tube maker that you seemed to use. The guitar wire's ridges are much too small IMO

I think you have really captured the creepy horror that is the ad mech. The model is shaping up really well and the choice of colours will really help him stand out (not that he needed to with the awesome sculpting going on).

Thx Archer. Painting his robes now. With all the mechandrites twisting around him painting is like a game of 'Operation'!

Omnissiah Approved

Wow

Love it as usual, and the build has inspired me to do something similar when I get around to doing my 30k Mechanicum. One question though, what is the torso armour piece from? Looks like the Kataphron armour to me, but I'd rather have confirmation from the source

The two torso armour plates are from the Kataphron Breachers. I built my Kats as Destroyers so had all the Breacher bits left over. Had to shave doen the sides quite a bit to get them to fit inside the robes

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm looking at grabbing a box of Kataphrons to use as the basis for 3 Legion Rapiers anyway, so I think I'll steal that idea for my Archmagos when I get around to it. Now just to find a use for the actual bodies

All the new AdMech stuff is an absolute goldmine for bitz. The Kats, the Skits & the Rusts esp as they are dual kits so you end up with a shedload of left overs. The Kat bodies would make for some nice big chunky gunservitors

I do need some servitors for my guard Jan, you've officially become my conversion consultant! Gives me all the more reason to start a plog of my own as well, something I've been meaning to get around to for a couple of months actually

Hahahaaaa - not sure about that; the Magos is my first proper build/conversion. Still kinda feeling my way

Great progress on the magos.

EDC

He's finished now

Love the robes. Such an unusual colour for the ad mech, but comes up a treat. If you had told me grey robes for them before I saw it I would have thought all the cybernetic's would have become lost in the grey but it works a treat.

Cheers Archer. Tis the colour scheme for my homegrown forgeworld Achyls III. Magos is now finished all finished and based. Hopefully get some proper photos up 2moro

Can't wait! What's up next after the Magos?

The Scyllax covenant is primed and ready to go. They're the ArchMagos' bodyguard in the taghmata ..ish gorgeous figs so well excited to get busy on them. Need to get another chunk of the space hulk stuff done soon too. And that thanatar is waiting........


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Finally got the Arch-Magos finished the other day and got some photos done this morning. And here he is - Arch-Magos Braetalan'Kot. So really happy with this fella. My first proper build, reckon he came out pretty fine Will be entering him over on Nerdy's annual painting comp and see how he does, fingers crossed

My God, that's terrifying, er, I mean awesome, of course! Yet another amazing model from you!

Heheh - cheers Zerg

Stunning!

This has to be one of the best, most awesome painted armies ever, truly stunning.

Wow - thanks a million Cam. Kind words indeed
My AdMech force is begining to come together. Need to get some troops in there soon though. Got a squad of rangers waiting for paint after the Scyllax and then a squad of rusters after that and a Thantar as well. Should make for a nice mixed force of Skit, Cult and Automata

Wow Jan, he looks incredible - I love the posing of the tubes and wires they really look like coiling serpents ready to strike. This Magos would be truly terrifying to see in motion! A top notch paint job too, I love the little extras like the markings on the servo skulls

Cheers Bottle Putting in all the wee details was a lot of fun. Think I like making and then painting his Canticle Seals of Devotion the best though. Was a really fun build and paint though. Gonna make some wee constructs for his retinue when I have time.

An excellent conversion, and awesome paint job as always .

Simply awesome/horrifying/perfect mini!

It's come up an absolute treat. Glad you are happy with it as well. Does make me wonder though. What did he look like at the very start of his journey. You know, when he was still a man.

Gracias lads

Jan - you put your heart and soul in to that ArchMagos. He is superb. You've carried your original fluff story for him through in thievery aspect of the build. A truly superb blend of concept and delivery.

My words don't feel that they describe it well enough, but that's the best I got, sorry

PS You already won, doesn't matter how it does in any contest

PPS Can everyone vote for this in the gallery please!!!!!!

Thx a million TP. Really kind words and much appreciated

Hey Januine,

just browsing through your stuff and since today is the first day i seen your knight finished. just wanted to say amazing job on him he looks unreal! as for your newest ad mech creation super job on the conversion you killed it once again ! keep up the good work!

Excellent work on this guy throughout the execution. He's come up very impressively in his final form, and looks at least as good (or better, let's face it) than anything produced by GW or even FW for any of the "Mechanicus" factions.

Thanks a million folks Really do like the AdMech lot. Some really awesome models and figs in there. Think out of the whole Mechanicum/Adeptus Mechanicus lot there is only about 2 or 3 sculpts that I'm not that keen on. They allow for a lot of conversions and imagination too if so inclined. Defintely gonna be making some kitbashes and conversions along the way - I have a ton of spare bitz now from the Gw kits - lol. Thx again for the compliements and looking in

Starting getting some paint down on the Scyllax. There's something beautifully sinister and creepy about these guys. They should fit rather nicely together with the Magos I think. Still not sure if I should leave that one armour panel bare metal or fill it in grey like the rest......

That is one of the best Cairn Wraith variants I've ever seen (and being an INQ28 fan, I've seen MANY of them). Amazing job!

Cheers Mymearan Wanted that darker more sinister Inq28/Blanche etc look. Came out pretty grand

 Azazelx wrote:
Excellent work on this guy throughout the execution. He's come up very impressively in his final form, and looks at least as good (or better, let's face it) than anything produced by GW or even FW for any of the "Mechanicus" factions.

To be fair, the plastic Magos Dominus is a pretty nice model as well (pretty big too- comes on I think a 50mm base), but Jan's captures more of the Blanche style.

The plastic Dominus Tech Priest is a gorgeous model. My favourite GW character model of last year hand down and easily (He comes on a 40mm base). The only thing I didnt like about it was the 'popehat' head option - which is fine bcs I didnt have to use and after a bit of choppy chop, was able to use it for the Magos instead

I like the single metal panel in the carapace. Serves to break it up a little and adds that mish-mash aspect that suits the Mechanicus.