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Knightley - Thanks!
Rochronos - Thanks! Check the first page of my titan plog (link in my sig). I go through a little step by step of the resin process and cost.

I got some work done on the first Dreadknight. I got the red base, the blue for the eyes/ teleporter, the black wash on the panels, and the gold down for the writing.






I'm thinking of making the exhausts gold to match the marines backpacks. What do y'all think?

I also put the red, gold, and black wash down on the other set of legs.

Very, very nice! man there isn't much left of that marine is there? Pretty much just head and neck! ;-)

Gitsplitta - Thanks! I figure it's either an enhanced dread, or a mechanicum robot, or the marine is lying down

Well last night I put the gold down on the exhausts for DK1

I was also able to clean up both sets of legs and incenerators. There is no way to touch up paint on these models due to the paint I'm using, so I have to go back through and lightly scrub it off with rubbing alcohol. If I scrub too hard it goes through to the black primer and I have to respray that area.

I also rebuilt DK2!



Tonight I plan or re-priming DK2 and highlight DK1's torso!

Ha,I just love the current title "Painting for the Emperor - 06/08 - DreadKnight 2 Reubuilt!"!Lol!
The nearly painted dread just looks amasing!

Hazzer - Thanks! It is amazing what the edit button can do.

Well last night I was able to get DK1's torso cleaned and DK2's torso primed!


Tonight I'm hoping to get DK2's torso primed and the touch ups on the 15 or so marines that had some spots worn off as well as the spots that came off DK1's torso.

I don't think I've ever seen such a shiny primer... what are you using?

Yay dread 2 primed!!!

Gitsplitta - The primer is Alclad II's gloss black base. It's used to make their metals shine like they do. Its a little weird at first but the end result is really worth it.

Hazzer - Thanks! There'll be more updates in the morning.

Very interesting Foda... I'll be watching closely to see how it affects the look of your figure.

I like the fists on the dreadknights (well i love the dreadknights full stop lol) any more info besides 'gundam hands' would love to know how you got a hold of them?

Otherwise Keep painting for the Emperor Foda, he is watching!

Gitsplitta - You can see the effects on all of the Grey Knights that have been pictured so far. The Gloss Black Primer is the only primer I've been using on them. You can see it applied to the boxes of primed knights.

Perkustin - Thanks! If you'll go to the 6th page I gave a link to HLJ where I purchased the hands.

Well I had to stay late last night at work so I didn't get the base coating I'd hoped to done. This may be a blessing in disguise as it will allow me to finish the gold wash on the backpacks today at work and then hopefully see if they'll have any wear through spots. With any luck I'll be able to spray tonight as I have to work on Saturday :(


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Well I didn't think I'd have an update today but I forgot that I've been working on the backpacks for all of my BOLScon strikes.

See y'all tomorrow!

OK. so what kind of metallic paints are you using over the black?

Probably the ones from AcladII, I mean that's what the primer is made for.
Interesting to see somebody use this on tabletop minis, I never saw it on miniatures meant for playing, only showpieces.
Good work, the incinerators look ace!

Gitsplitta - Baiyuan is right if you'll go back a few pages you'll see I had some trouble determining the correct color of Alclad II paint I used on my grand master.

Baiyuan - Thanks! I always use anything I can get my hands on for my minis. I had originally painted the army in testor's metalizer but found it was a little weak and a PITA to put on.

I've had some questions about my backpack pins on other forums so I'm posting the info here for other people's benefit.
The pins are toothpicks cut in 1/2. They're attached to the backpacks by shoving the toothpick into the small hole on the backpack that originally serves no purpose. I put a drop of super glue in the hole then shove the toothpick in.
They're painted on pins as I wanted to be able to paint the shoulder pads of the Grey Knights without having to worry about the vents being in the way.


Last night I was able to get the backpacks cleaned, it turns out this either tarnished or cause the primer to show on nearly 2/3 of the backpacks. Those that weren't damaged got a bit of gunmetal applied to the heat sink looking area.

Well after getting back from work I was able to spray the colors on DK 2 and some touch ups on some strikes, and some backpacks



Then I sat down and started painting DK2 and didn't get up until he was at the same stage DK1 is at:








Then I black washed the backpacks!

Work begins on the Dreadknight Halberds!
First step was to a blade. My original idea was to make a blade, but after about 7 attempts I decided against it. I couldn't get something I was happy with. So instead I hacked up a Forgeworld Grey Knight Dreadnought close combat weapon.


You may notice some detail on there. I knurled the majority of the weapon haft on a lathe to provide some texture and detail to the large blank surface.


The weapon heads will slip onto the front when they're ready to go.


Next up is adding a "counter weight" to the back end. I'll also be lightly black washing the haft and then sanding it to bring a "pop" back to it.

Nice idea using the lathe on the hafts... looking forward to watching these come round to completion.

Those dreads are so cool!! I really like the pose on the second one. love your titans too! and the hydras really is something else ;D Are their top halfs from some terminator toys or something?

I really like the stuff you're doing, consider me subscribed. And keep up the great work! ;D

IMHO the blades are too small, so I would like to see them on the dreads for a viable scale comparison.

Gitsplitta - Thanks! I thought about trying to add the same details the metal models have on their halberd hafts but I didn't think I'd be able to do it justice.

DiDDe - Thanks! The hydras are Terminator toys. Check the first few pages and I post a link to it.

Baiyuan - They are a little on the small side but I don't have the skills to recreate an inlay like the forgeworld blades I'm using have. I'll get some comparison pics later.


I got home pretty late from work last night and only had an hour to work on the grey knights before I went to bed so I started the decals for them.
1st squad is white skulls, 2nd squad is white =][=, and 3rd squad is white haloed =][=.





Tonight its 4th and 5th squads turn!

Any progress is good progress. Stick with it!

I think you belittle yourself, I'm sure you can do something similar to a big force halberd, maybe you didn't think of the right thing yet. What did your attempts of making your own blades look/go like?

About the decals, as it's only the first step and I'm sure you'll use softener on them and all the works, I really can't say anything about them, but the GKs look great. Only one question, are you sure GKs would use those "haloed =I="s? I thought those were a symbol associated with the AS and the Ecclesiarchy.
I might be wrong though, I'm not a heraldy jerk, like "oooooh, but the emperors dipers would never have a brown turd marker on there shoulder guard, they only use green baby turds with baby blue dipers, give back the slayer sword..." hate those guys, even when they are right.

Could you not just replace the blade? ie. Keep the inlay and the "power" box thing and make a larger blade out of plasticard? Would be fairly simple to do i reckon.

Vitru is right, now that he says it, you could keep the whole thing as it is, including the blade, saw the whole thing in two pieces, put a new blade made from plastic card in the middle and glue it all together. You would keep the inlay and the "powerbox" and the former blades would be additional structure to the new one.

Gitsplitta - Thanks!

Baiyuan - Blast! You're right that isn't the right symbol. I'll get the haloed decals off tonight. The decals are just applied for now, there will be many more steps before they're done

Vitruvian XVII - That's what I had tried. The biggest problem is making a decent halberd looking blade out of plasticard. I may be using power tools a little too much though.

Baiyuan - Are you thinking like my blade would be an extension between the box and current blade? That sounds a ton harder but I might give it another try, I don't know if I have anything that thin though.

What I mean is cutting the cybot weapon in two thin lenghty halves. Then take some 1mm thick plastic card, cut out some shape of halberd, file the edge a bit and glue the halves of the cybot weapon onto both sides of it.
Maybe a picture helps:

This really shouldn't be complicated, assuming you have a good saw to cut through the thin back of the cybot blade without taking away too much material. You should be able to pull it off in like 20min, granting some time for testing. If you're willing to give it a try, I'm sure you will achieve a good result.
Personally I would probably sculpt the new blade from brown stuff, including inlay, doesn't sound that difficult, but it would certainly take a week or something and I'm crazy.

Awesome use of the old OOP metal GK's and I'm loving the dark red on their shoulders.

Did you make the decals or did you get them from somewhere?

Nice to see some knurling done the rod is kind of small for that size of knurl but use what you have.

Baiyuan - I get you now. That's going to be even harder IMHO but I got another idea on how to make a weapon with inlay. I picked up some plasticard letters and I'm thinking of building a box with no bottom then putting the letters in the box. Mount said box onto a blade then put a slight film between the letters and the box edge. It's a little hard to describe and I didn't get time to do it last night but I'm looking forward to trying it later.

Knightley - Thanks! The currently applied decals are from the Witch Hunter decal sheet (for the =][=) and the cadian sheet for the skull.

sonofruss - Thanks! It's supposed to look more like something a robot would hold and not like a human would. For a human those knurls would be huge and would probably hurt. For a robot they're large enough to catch on the metal hands and not slip away.

Well last night I stripped off the Ministorum decals from squad 3 and gave them new decals.
1st squad is white skulls, 2nd squad is white =][=, and 3rd squad is red =][=, 4th Squad is black =][=, 5th squad is a black skull.

When I get to painting 6th squad I'll have to find some red skulls.
The old GK fluff was that you only got to put your own heraldry down if you were a justicar so the squads will have the same pad, while the justicar will have a design on his small shield.

I get what you mean, will be interested to see how it turns out! Please post a pic even if you dont go with it, always nice to see WiP shots.