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

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**MeatShield**

You are going to have one hell of an army, and I'm looking forward to it.

**IceAngel**

Knightley wrote:

Are you replacing his halberd with a table leg? Ingenious!

Chapter Master - "Thesious, you have served the Emperor for seventeen decades. It is time you wield our holiest of relics!" - opens large case - "Behold! The loose leg of the Emperors kitchenette, not the cursed leg that wobbled in the shadows. THIS is the front right left that absorbed Terran sunlight for a thousand years. It is said that he brought the sacred table on his great crusade and for hundreds of years SMOTE his foes when his other weapons were being cleaned. In the final days of the heresy, it is said that the greater daemon Lublub broke it during the assault on Terra." - dramatic pause - "Thesious, it is now yours. Let the enemies of the Emperor, quiver with fear before you."

Thesious - "A table leg?"

But seriously, it looks cool. I can't wait to see it all completed!

**Knightley**

@LDP - Yep, you guessed it, a Halberd on a NDK... dun dun dun!

@Meatshield - It's already one hell of an army! but yes stay tuned this army will continue to grow

@Ice - You made my day, the holy table leg! Brilliant!

Update: doing basing and trying to get through the Dread and NDK, so I'll give you a shot of the cream colored terminator

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**Gitsplitta**

Love the old "owl" termies!

**MeatShield**

That's a switch. Go for it but its going to be hard to integrate the old models and make it fit as well as Gits does. I think the flamer looks good. I'll bet the old guy is glad to get some use.

**eldartau1987**

MAn a halbred for NDK is an awesome idea! If I invest in a 3rd one, I am going to make it a punch blade!

**Miss Dee**

Space Hulk "DeathWing"

**prototype_X**

Thanks for that close up knightley. Looks like it should fit in with a crisp grey paint job

**whalemusic360**

TheGunslinger wrote:
Just a quick tip, but for the WM360, you might want to further accentuate the red, especially around the iron halo. It's a little too mono-chromatically red. But otherwise, fantastic job Master Squiggle!

It's shaded, but not my normal colors (DA green), so not maybe my best. I also majorly dislike hard edging, so I would never go to that extreme of it.

**Knightley**

@Gits - it does have a certain look to it, he's a tad bit smaller then the other Terminators but it doesn't phase me

@Meatshield - I'm always happy to give things a go, you never know how things could end up without trying.

@ET - I thought about doing dual falchions or short blades, but the halberd won out in the end (see below)

@Miss Dee - Is that where the model came from, that's cool to know a bit of the history!

@Proto - Fingers crossed mate

WM - I still like the model.

Update: action packed weekend, I've started playing airsoft on Saturdays and it's been leaving me knackered for the rest of the day (I swear I'm to old for this sometimes) but I did manage to get some build time on the NDK so without further ado

**inmygravenimage**

Wow. I have halberd envy

**IceAngel**

That is awesome!

**Briancj**

Compensating for anything, there?

**Knightley**

@Graven - Hahah, it didn't take to long to make, it was committing to cutting which took the most time.

@Ice - Thanks mate

@Briancj - Heheh, pretty sure I'm not but it is rather large isn't it.

Update: Proto has offered to another swap and given me free reign on a model, so I made one with a magnetized backpack

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**Gitsplitta**

Love that pose!

**inmygravenimage**

Agreed, and the purity seals add great dynamism!

**prototype_X**

Very nice! I can't wait to start work on yours. Combi plasma sternguard yea?

**Knightley**

@Gits - Thanks, being given free reign to design any model for Proto really allowed me to come up with something cool

@Graven - I'm a big fan of the long seal on his jump pack streaming strait out

@Proto - Cheers, and Combi bolter+melta please

Update: been slowly working on my AdMech dread (care of graven for the idea a long time ago)

CC variant

TLAC variant

C&C welcome btw

**Briancj**

My only complaint is the shinguards. The triangular tops sitcking up over the admech layered armour is off-putting. Either another layer, or take off the triangles, or something.

I know, UTTER NITPICKING.

Where did the hammer arm come from that you turned into the Axe?

**whalemusic360**

I'd agree in the shin pads. The ironclad would would, I can send a set if you'd like.

Or just toss the whole thing and sent it my way. Your call.

**prototype_X**

I agree with the shinpads, and the fingers seem a little too skinny to crush the foes of the emprah, Maybe it's just me, but the whole thing looks awesome, very admech.

**inmygravenimage**

Very cool indeed! Are you going to fit an underslung weapon to the fist? C-Beamer maybe

? Thanks for the nod, btw, ages since I've looked out that bad boy. The hammer looks like its from the NDK, Briancj, but I could be wrong.

**Knightley**

@Briancj - Noted on the shinguards and adjusted, Arm is from the NDK but heavily adjusted.

@WM360 - Hehe, I'll get some new shots of the shins and lets hope they are better.

@Proto - I was more going for a more dextrous hand for fiddling with mechanical parts etc

@Graven - I hadn't thought of it, but I'll definitley look into it

Update: Basing begin!

**Knightley**

So I got some time to paint last night.

LDPs Melta gunner got a coat or two

**eldartau1987**

Nice stuff here man! I like the blue. Has it been nice to paint a marine something other than Grey?

**Knightley**

You have no idea! I also get to paint a Lamenters after this guy as well, so yay... yellow.... I tried a different painting technique as well with this ones armor, I based the guy in dark blue and progressively dry brushed lighter and light blue and cut it together with a heavy blue wash, very different way of painting and very very quick. LDP will be the overall judge though

**lipsdapips**

Well from what I can see now it's looking fine! I have a command squad that's missing a member and this guy would fill the slot better than anything. Can't wait to see the overall result. Speaking of which I have to start painting yours between working on my nids. I'll get round to it as soon as!

**eldartau1987**

What technique are you going to use for the yellow?

**Knightley**

@LDP - Mint! and you let it slip what the bone was for

@ET - I think I'm going to have to go for a very solid base and mix progressively a lighter yellow into the mix and just try to get a nice solid yellow, I've only ever done small amounts of yellow so this will be a huge step up for me.

**Matt.Kingsley**

I like the blue colour