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

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**Knightley**

Edit: Page six, didn't think this blog would get this far!

@Chrono - In my opinion I found more enjoyment out of making my lightbox. give it a try all you need is a cardboard box, baking paper and some tape

@Rev. Reiko - Haha lucky for me when I joined it was only about 60 pages long (Git's plog that is) so no worries mine isn't that large.

Update: Pic's of the new lightbox, and now I can fit larger models into it!

The lightbox!

Now I took some pic's of my Landraider Crusader (painted in the old style... very quickly) slightly embarrassed by it so it gets the spoiler tags

Spoiler:

I also chucked the Ven dread in again to see if the pictures were drastically different.... turns out there isn't any real difference. This is good news as I wont have to take all new pics

**TheChronoTrigger**

Looks solid man. By baking sheets do you mean wax paper?

**Kraenox**

Very nice color scheme, very good eye for detail too. Keep up the amazing work there.

**Tellis**

I am pretty sure that I found the easter egg from page 4 of your blog here. The "Modeling oddity" is that the rhino is not built correctly. The lights on the rhino were glued on to the wrong spot, they are actually lower than they should be, and you can see the little tabs where they are supposed to go. I have enjoyed looking at your blog, and think that your painting is really good. I am going to steal the weapon objective idea if that is ok with you. i have a lot of extra weapons, and it seems like a good way to utilize them.

Cheers

**Knightley**

@Chrono - Yeah, basically any waxy paper that will diffuse light well, I tried a solid sheet of white paper but the resulting light was very poor (hint plastic wrap is just like a window - no diffusing)

@Kraenox - Thank you for your comments it means a lot

@Tellis - Close enough for me, the rhino lights were put there as a tester and I left them there as I thought it looked alright. By all means use the weapons cache idea I do have one request, you have to post a pic here once your done

Update:

Interceptor marine completed: Brother Dukagos, I've gone with a Black face trim as I wanted to see if I could highlight black, it looks ok I think but could be better.

Front

Back

Working on a flamer for the bionics squad now. If im lucky I should get him done this weekend

**stonned_astartes**

Is that an old model just with the new power pack?

**TheChronoTrigger**

Nice looking model Knightly. One beef i have tho is with the halberd. Not sure I care for the paintjob on the weapon. It looks nice on the swords, but i'm not too sure it carried over to the halberd. Just my thoughts.

**Knightley**

@Stonned - Yep its the old OOP metal GK with a new personal teleporter backpack, I was going to have 5 GK's with actual jump packs but the conversion work I was going to have to do to get it looking right was putting me off doing it. then with the new codex I saw something I could do quickly

@Chrono - damn, you're getting far too good at noticing

I did rush that blade. Started of going light far to quickly, then screwed the blade up, then thought I could bring it back... I couldn't. So here you go, I've re-done it does it look better?

So quite a busy weekend painting wise, I hung out with a mate of mine (elbrokendo on the forums with an awesome DE thread here who was giving me some critiques on some of the stuff I've been doing. He brought up that while the painting has been getting better some of the colour choices are to similar to each other and wash together, in particular the chest eagles beign white on a light grey background. He made comment that the siege hammer on the Ironclad looked really good, and why not carry that motif through out the army. I took his words under advisement and tried a test model to see if I liked it. the next day I redid all the newer models with the change, I personally think it looks much better as now it stands out and brings contrast to central part of the model, please see spoiler tag for comparisons

Ironclad

Spoiler:

Command Squad

Spoiler:

Chaplain and Tac Sgt

Spoiler:

**stonned_astartes**

Certainly makes them more 'real', less blended. Don't look like Grey knights when they stand alone though, still cool!
And your getting distracted, Either snap a few photos of your predator or repaint it please!

**Knightley**

@stonned - Yeah when you look at a single model they are very spacemarine, it's only when you see them with force weapons does it start to sink home. The Battle cannon predator wont make it in to this 2nd push (see front page WIP list for the current lot) but I will do it for you in the 3rd push

I guess you'll have to keep coming back to read this thread.

Small update:

Flamer done for Tac Squad - His face is messed up, I have repainted it but no pic's (maybe in the group shot at the end)

Front

Side

The other side

For my next WIP's I'm going to try work on 3 models at once, mainly to see if I can concentrate on making them all some what unique at the same time.

**nerdfest09**

Like Rob Schnieder said in waterboy....You can do iiiiit!

you'll start with 3 models, then 5 then a whole squad and you'll have stay up all night posting pics for us! :-)

**TheChronoTrigger**

Knightly that looks real nice. You're producing some really great stuff my man

**Knightley**

@NF09 - If I do end up staying up all night painting I will get some pics just for you, as it happens my stamina for staying up to the wee hours of the morning has slowly dissipated over time, it gets to 11:00 and I'm almost asleep where I stand/sit.

@chrono - I'll keep painting if people want to keep seeing stuff.

Just let me know if anyone (and I mean anyone, including the lurkers) have any preferences they want to see done in the third push post here (check the front page under the 'To do' spoiler and the 'where I'm at' spoiler)

I currently have a repaint of the battlecannon predator/razorback and a repaint of the first tactical squad)

Update: only a small one today, painting 3 models the same way is new to me so quite slow going - 2 Packs, 2.5 arms and 2 bodys have been done with Fortress Grey

**stonned_astartes**

Looking good!

i think the Grey scheme is defiantly better than the normal silver tbh. i think on the more normal marines you should add some red and white patches, on the shin guards maybe, with some gk logos. might make them look more gk, and i think it would make them look more like in training as well. Not sure thats what your going for with all of the non gk models but its an idea.

**Knightley**

Cheers for the comments. The plan for the non-GK units was to be attached to the force having the paint job and some individuality so adding more red/white might be a great idea (I was hoping the Death watch should pads would include them into the Inquisition forces)

Update:

Interceptors are at about 85% done: NFW need to be done and more inscription on the large plates of armour as well then finish off the bases and they should be done.

Comments welcome of course.

**inmygravenimage**

Really beautiful work mate, really crisp.

**daxx367**

They look great, keep going.

**c0un7_z3r0**

Looking good, I like all the little details like the inscriptions and all!! The glaives looks really good as well! I noticed that you paint your joints with metal, personally I prefer black, but that is just my preference. But great work anyhow!

**Revenent Reiko**

Still looking good Knightley, keep it up!

**Knightley**

@Daxx367 - Thank you

@Count - Cheers mate, good observation by the way. I had thought about doing black joints but felt that I could shade the joints better if I used Blotgun Metal and a wash of Badab Black. It did look so much better than my pitiful attempts to highlight black

@Rev. Reiko - Thanks man, I'll keep posting if you keep checking in on the thread

Update:

Quite a few pics

3 interceptors done, front view

3 interceptors done, rear view

Brother Cyreal

Brother Dolphy

Unnamed Brother (could be a red shirt for upcoming fluff)

4 Interceptors in a group!

Working on the Objective marker now.

**Revenent Reiko**

Of cors ill keep checking out the thread Knightley

how do you pick out the detail on the armour btw? Is it just the wash? because it looks ace!

**inmygravenimage**

Hurrah for brother redshirt! I think what impresses me most is the subtlety of your highlighting: it's deceptively simple and elegant. Bang up job mate!

**Knightley**

@Rev. Reiko - Cheers, picking out detail? depends on what detail I'm looking to enhance, if its the writing near the top of the chests, its a Tin Bitz cover, black wash then light dry brush of Shining Gold. If its pipes/joints then I cheese it with Boltgun Metal with a heavy wash of Badab Black. Typically It's patience and having painted for a while its how I've ended up painting.

@Graven - Wow, that is some very kind comments! thank you very much.

Update: Objective Marker 1, I decided to give Yellow a try, and I have to say, yellow is worse than white imo, I had considered doing a Yellow/other colour for my Eldar army repaint, but after doing the one marine helmet, yellow can DIAF.

Things to note, eyes are not lit up, I was trying to give the impression of an inactive helmet - likewise for the Auspex. The crate of bolters has some minor detail added to it, a 'This way up' arrow, a shipping label and some writing akin to a serial number of the crate, the clip box is similar (detail lost as the box gets covered up)

Front'ish, if this thing has a front I guess

Back'ish

Top down

Something different in the sea of Grey eh?

**Chomo-Uri**

Oh man. I would rush towards that objective marker like nothing else.

It's a pity you don't game as much, I'm sure a TO would love to work out a deal where a couple of your objective markers is the first place prize (but even at "minimum wage" it would be a labour of love on your part).

EDIT: Just wondering what you've used as the metal floor for the base. It's cloth, right? Canvas? Any particular prep done to it?

**whalemusic360**

Looks pretty awesome!

**inmygravenimage**

I now have objective marker envy. Curse you nightly, Knightley.

**TheChronoTrigger**

Haha that is a sweet objective marker. I wanna see you tackle OSL dood

**DarkStarSabre**

I am jealous now too. That is a very nice, clean objective marker.

**stonned_astartes**

Like the nights mate, crisp & sharp, but soft. Like the old models better to.

**Knightley**

Oh wow, quite a few replies to the Obj marker, looks like I had done something right with it!

@Chomo - Perfect, that was the look I was going for. I 'may' look at going to Comp's as just a spectator first. Bring along the army for show and tell and see what people have to say about the Obj markers then see if they could want them as prizes. The "grating" for the base was an old card holder from my wallet, its a nylon weave thing but its only big enough for another 2-3 bases total, after that I'll have to source something else.

@WM - Cheers!

@Graven - I see what you did there, and it was nicely done

I saw your kit bashes so we're even on the envy scale I think.

@Chrono - OSL..... yikes that's definitley having to take a leap forward. Here is the small issue I have with OSL thus far. If I try it and it looks good, I would be inclined to go back and do it for all models which would need it, and at this point a third repaint is just to much. I may however just slap together a random marine/terminator and give it a try to see if I can do it. Of course I will post pictures.

@Stoned - Thanks

Update:

Working on, Interceptors Sgt, Tac Marine, and a normal PAGK with halberd.

Thanks for reading