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Love those white detailings, makes em stand out well. Oh, and love the whole grimy grimdark look they have going on.

The bone coloured areas on the NDK are nice too.

The CSM legs look fine, the trim picked out in gold looks really cool.

As for drawing comments, either pester DCMs () or do something like this.....


"Hey Graven! Really nice stuff. You mind checking out my thread and giving me some feedback?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/342824.page


That tends to work

Ps. Click the link and comment on my thread....

^I see what you did there. Cheers mucker!

Love those graven... Bravo mate!

The NDK looks awesome, the fist guards are a great idea, one I hope to replicate if I can find some suitble subsitutes
The first Purifier with the psylincer looks good, I'm not been a fan of the head you've chosen mainly because I hated painting it on one of my models
The second guy, love the demon head on a spike, great conversion!
The third one, looks like he is doing an upward cut judging by the way his head is looking, again nice and dark.
The kneeling guy. Amazing use of SM parts, this one will be stolen and reused for my purifiers, you can bet on that, brilliant!
The rubbish pic guy, I can't see what you are refering to with a rubbish pic, looks good to me.
The whopping great conversion... nice, real nice, any chance of more shots of this guy, so I can see what parts you've used?
The next guy, well unfortunatley im not a fan of the arm sitting idle by his side, you've got some form of movement with the weapon arm, but a static arm on the other side doesn't quite fit in. (no arguments on the painting however)
Your obession with BA/DA parts? I'm happy to see I've managed to get you hooked great model as well, however im surprised you didnt use the BA DC hammer with a different head on it?
Old school metal model, I think it fits perfectly, how did you assemble it? did you chop off the end of the old weapon or remove the entire of the old weapon?
The group shot looks very impressive!
I do like the next guy with point with a sense of movement, It looks like hes saying, right move over there and slay everything!
The guy with the chaos tentacle? he looks like one of my guys build wise. So I approve!
BA parts on a GK..... top man, top man!
The next one (halberd across the front with arm out to the side) very commanding pose, almost like he's saluting his next kill.
Mr "What he said!" I feel like this one could have had the entire feel of him changed by pointing the head over his left shoulder, I believe it would offer a sense of wistful thought, odd I know but fitting.
Capt "Look! Over there! Something else to kill!" has a great pose, however the bolter looks pure black with no highlights, is that just a trick of the light or did you put that in to test us? I also like the use of the raven wing part for the Psyhic hood!
You're early conversion looks to have stood the test of time, still looks great now as it did back ages ago. How did you find getting the tabbard to go over the robes?
The sternguard conversion one looks pretty cool, is that a brass etch covering up the lower part of his face?
The helmst on the next psylincer. I LOVE that head, its has to be my favorite head out of all the marine head's I've seen, I regret not being able to make copies of it.
The group shot, what I found was putting them in two ranks and taking a wider shot then trimming the picture down works wonders. you don't tend to end up with depth issues.
Lastly, the chaos legs on the interceptor, I think it fits perfectly, the weapon covers up enough that you don't question its chaos legs, but the back end with the bronze/gold fits great

*please note posted on my phone so spelling mistakes will be plenty*

My, you have been a busy little graven haven't you?

Very nice work, love the posing on all of them, but the kneeling mid-sweep guy and Mr 'Dang!' are my particular stand-outs.

Demon bases are wonderful too I see no signs of excess anywhere

Wow amazing!

I love your GK's they are the perfect fusion of many different kits.
Their great paint job really does them justice too.

Wow, thanks for the comments guys!

Gitsplitta wrote:Love those graven... Bravo mate!

Ta

@Knightley - blimey, that's a comprehensive reply! Here goes:

Knightley wrote:The NDK looks awesome, the fist guards are a great idea, one I hope to replicate if I can find some suitble subsitutes

Cheers. They're the weapon guards from Furioso dreads, if that helps.

Knightley wrote:
The first Purifier with the psylincer looks good, I'm not been a fan of the head you've chosen mainly because I hated painting it on one of my models
The second guy, love the demon head on a spike, great conversion!
The third one, looks like he is doing an upward cut judging by the way his head is looking, again nice and dark.

Thanks, I know what you mean about that head from the Ven Dread box. A beast.

Knightley wrote:
The kneeling guy. Amazing use of SM parts, this one will be stolen and reused for my purifiers, you can bet on that, brilliant!

Those little reliquaries on SM legs are a great way to get the GK vibe, for sure.

Knightley wrote:
The rubbish pic guy, I can't see what you are refering to with a rubbish pic, looks good to me.

Ok, maybe I'm just being precious!

Knightley wrote:
The whopping great conversion... nice, real nice, any chance of more shots of this guy, so I can see what parts you've used?

Will try to. Just as a run down, the prts are: Sternguard Body, Regular GK head/arms/pack, DA Vet Pads, dreadnought storm bolter, Ravenwing detail as psychic hood, brass etch eagle gorget.

Knightley wrote:
The next guy, well unfortunatley im not a fan of the arm sitting idle by his side, you've got some form of movement with the weapon arm, but a static arm on the other side doesn't quite fit in. (no arguments on the painting however)

Hmm. Fair point; I might reposition.

Knightley wrote:
Your obession with BA/DA parts? I'm happy to see I've managed to get you hooked great model as well, however im surprised you didnt use the BA DC hammer with a different head on it?

It's in there on the Purifier justicar

Knightley wrote:
Old school metal model, I think it fits perfectly, how did you assemble it? did you chop off the end of the old weapon or remove the entire of the old weapon?

Just took my heavy duty cutters and clipped away. Replaced the left hand with a basic plastic sm one, and added a little gs to the back of the psilencer so it fitted snuggly.

Knightley wrote:
The group shot looks very impressive!

I still think I need to learn how actually use my camera!

Knightley wrote:
I do like the next guy with point with a sense of movement, It looks like hes saying, right move over there and slay everything!

Seems like a plan...

Knightley wrote:The guy with the chaos tentacle? he looks like one of my guys build wise. So I approve! BA parts on a GK..... top man, top man!

Either great minds think alike, or fools seldom differ...

Knightley wrote:
The next one (halberd across the front with arm out to the side) very commanding pose, almost like he's saluting his next kill.
Mr "What he said!" I feel like this one could have had the entire feel of him changed by pointing the head over his left shoulder, I believe it would offer a sense of wistful thought, odd I know but fitting.

I'll have a think about that actually, I see where you're coming from.

Knightley wrote:
Capt "Look! Over there! Something else to kill!" has a great pose, however the bolter looks pure black with no highlights, is that just a trick of the light or did you put that in to test us? I also like the use of the raven wing part for the Psyhic hood!

Just a trick. Weird. Those raven wing bits are a good sub, yeah.

Knightley wrote:
You're early conversion looks to have stood the test of time, still looks great now as it did back ages ago. How did you find getting the tabbard to go over the robes?

Cheers; only slightly awkward. The front was carefully bent outwards slightly with jewellery pliers.

Knightley wrote:
The sternguard conversion one looks pretty cool, is that a brass etch covering up the lower part of his face?

Yup, good catch.

Knightley wrote:
The helmst on the next psylincer. I LOVE that head, its has to be my favorite head out of all the marine head's I've seen, I regret not being able to make copies of it.

I'm with you there, there's few better helm designs out there by GW, imo.

Knightley wrote:
The group shot, what I found was putting them in two ranks and taking a wider shot then trimming the picture down works wonders. you don't tend to end up with depth issues.

Sounds good, I'll have a play with that.

Knightley wrote:
Lastly, the chaos legs on the interceptor, I think it fits perfectly, the weapon covers up enough that you don't question its chaos legs, but the back end with the bronze/gold fits great

I think the fact that they're so ornate really lends them well to gks. Also, bits stores tend to have them in stock both more often and for less!

Knightley wrote:
*please note posted on my phone so spelling mistakes will be plenty*

Yeah, yeah. Blame the auto-correct! Thanks for the comprehensive break-down!

monkeytroll wrote:My, you have been a busy little graven haven't you?

Very nice work, love the posing on all of them, but the kneeling mid-sweep guy and Mr 'Dang!' are my particular stand-outs.

Demon bases are wonderful too I see no signs of excess anywhere

Thanks mate. I knew I could count on your support for my conversion madness! For my next strike squad: daemonettes !

Lysenis wrote:Wow amazing!

Merci!

Flying Pooo wrote:I love your GK's they are the perfect fusion of many different kits.
Their great paint job really does them justice too.

Thanks once more!

Did you just use plasticard to extend the stromraven?

Nope, it's the Chapterhouse conversion kit plus various gk accesories and the turret weapons mounted in the nose. It was a bit fiddly but apparently the second generation kit is better.

I can't quite believe it... I'm done. I will playing my first fully painted game of 40k in, well, ever on Tuesday.

Finished chimera:



NDK to follow...

Congrats graven! Vehicle looks great!

Nice! Love the banner. Inq symbols dotted round look great too.

@ gits: thank you kindly sir! I tried to keep it really simply; if I get a chance I'll try to dirty up the tracks etc a bit.
@ vitruvian: that's a lovely model. Happy with how the etch has worked, especially on the banner.

And so, the NDK:



I'm almost happier with the base than the NDK itself!


2nd ever attempt at hazard stripes. Turned out much better than I hoped; used the new GW base yellow, very impressed.

Adios, and thanks for the surge in comments and criticism,
graven

I for one am rather fond of that Chimera.

The NDK however - the green on the book seems to be a bit too distracting though.

Just a quick one graven:

loving what im seeing so far, just give me a couple of days to catch up on what i missed and ill be right back with you

Nice Chimera!
Where does that guy with the banner come from?
That NDk is also looking really snazy.
You should be really proud of its base, I'd say the vast majority of people do not put in that much effort when it comes to basing and you have just proved that that extra effort really pays off!
Also, Nice job on those hazard stripes.

@dss: thanks mate. I take your point about the green, I just felt I wanted a change - but it is a little distracting.

@reiko: good to have you back! Look forward to your thoughts.

@pooo: he's from fw general grimaldson. V cheap, and v characterful. A great fig all round. The base - I freely admit I go a bit crazy, I feel that big figs need a base that is suitably epic. This was the first of the true "corpses of chaos" (being tipios) so more to follow with the rest of the paladins.


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Oh, I hate my phone...
Yay hazard stripes! Really pleased, and not as bad as I'd feared. Almost makes me want to do csm...

Played with the weathering paints - this is mud, dust, granite over a liberal application of tamiya mud stick:






Overall, I think they're pretty decent. I'd like a bit more pigment variation in them - I think they could've done something interesting with more contrast in single pots - but as a 3some (ahem) they work well together, albeit with the caveat that dust is very, very bright. I can see me using them for more tank weathering and covering spots where the basing material doesn't quite catch. Not sure how they'll do as a Db finish on regular basing, though that will be a forthcoming experiment I suspect.

But wait, I hear you cry - why is this not packed to go to war already?

Well, much to my continuing frustration, my opponent had again been possessed by I know it's not his fault but I'm still totally ticked off.

But no use griping; onwards, etc. Next up remaining Paladins and the corpses of chaos at last, I think,

Bah. Sweary words.

Oh well,
Expletively yours,
Graven

Nice chimera, and well done for completing the army in time. Even if it was only in time to sit around and wait.

Agree with the green being a distraction on the NDK, blue perhaps?

Blue might indeed be the way. However, tonight was just about some self-indulgent modelling:

Book or scroll in hand? I wonder...

Congrats on getting the army all painted up they look really nice, the weathering on the tank looks great I really like it.

Shame Nurgle got the better of your opponent again, I think it must be all the impaled blood letters on the bases that's sending bad vibes through the warp.

Wow, I've been away long enough for you to finish everything
Love the weathering on the tank.

GiraffeX wrote:Congrats on getting the army all painted up they look really nice, the weathering on the tank looks great I really like it.

Shame Nurgle got the better of your opponent again, I think it must be all the impaled blood letters on the bases that's sending bad vibes through the warp.

Merci. Also, yeah, I totally d him into the arms of another god...

tipios wrote:Wow, I've been away long enough for you to finish everything
Love the weathering on the tank.

A-ha! it's alive! necro-tipios lives! Great to hear your back, like a long-lost, slightly rusty boomerang; glad you like my chimmy.

I'll be doing a stock take shortly: a big ol' to do list will be forthcoming.

graven

Like the new guy.

I'm feeling a scroll vibe from him myself

Is that bloke a Librarian conversion? I like the Chimera as well. Bad luk about the game.

Scroll was my thought - but it looked gash. Yeah supposed to be a Libby:



I'm pretty happy with him. Might add a brass =][= to his loincloth? Going to have something gribbly crawling from base.

Did my "stock take". Unbuilt I have:

• 5 classic metal gk termies. Planning to do 4 with halberds, 1 with banner, to run as ghost knights.

• 12 pagk. 2 I think I'll do as interceptors, the other as a squad of halberdy purifiers. I was going to have my da vet mods count as purifiers but I'll have them as strikes, I think, in that I'll tend to use them less.

•Chaplain Grimaldus - could work as a =][=? Very techie but would I ever run one with a servo harness?

I could do with building another paladin with banner, but am short the torso parts. Ah well, onwards, and thanks again for the continued C&C!
Graven

I love that GK librarian, His green stuffed loincloth looks really good... I must know your secret!

Cheers mate. Vaseline and clay shapers, mostly.

Flying Pooo wrote:His green stuffed loincloth looks really good

Steady on now.

But I agree, he looks really good.

Wow!

I'm really digging the stellar conversions and am quite jealous of the amount of paint you have on the troopies!

I will be following this quite a bit more.... even if it is full of my arch nemesis!