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Now your approach sounds very complicated to me, but give it a try, in case it doesn't work you can still try sawing the cybot blades into pieces.

Vitruvian XVII - I'll post some pics when I get started on it. I've got to find where I put the letters first.

Baiyuan - Don't worry I'm keeping the sawing in half idea. It just seems really hard since the blade and stuff is so thin.

Updates!
All 50 decals have been applied! Most are ready to go but others need some more micro sol.


Again 1st squad is white skulls, 2nd squad is white =][=, and 3rd squad is red =][=, 4th Squad is black =][=, 5th squad is a black skull.


And I've started laying out the display base

That's a lot of work! Bet you're glad to have that behind you.

Sorry I have ust noticed are you doing armys on prade?
If so nice!
If not I would recemnd it!

Gitsplitta - Thanks! I've got about 52 more decals to apply (the names for the shoulder pads) then I'll be done with them. Then it'll be seal and backpacks!


HAZZER - I'm not going to try and kill myself to finish them by next Saturday I'll be lucky if I can get these finished for BoLScon err I guess they call it WarGamesCon now. Its a convention in Austin Texas (about 5-6 hours South of me) on the 7th-9th of July.

Well another reason to not take them to Armys on Parade is my display base is 20" across and not the 24" you are required.

Cutting of the cathedral steps has started.

Well it turns out my list was about 125 points over so I had to drop a few things from my list namely the Incenerators and the sword/halberds from my Dreadknights!
However I did manage to get them decaled.
Dreadknight 1


Dreadknight 2


Display base


The castle I'm using had no detail on the walkway so I had to cut some textured plasticard to fit. That box cutter is a place holder for something special...

No halberds on the Dread Knights??!!! Waaaaaaaaa!!!

Gitsplitta - Funny you and I had the same reaction.
I rejiggled my list and found that if I drop the teleporters I can get the halberds back as well as adding in some much needed servo skull support!
Libby 1's skulls


Libby 2's skulls


They all got primed last night in our new spray booth


So what was the box cutter holding a place for?




Super awesome inlay effects!

I'm now down to 2 weeks and I still need to.
Get more brown spray
Paint servo skulls
Paint bases
Pin models to bases
Carve rocks
Glue down texture in entry way
Develop stained glass windows
Glue walls together
Paint display base

Sweet! Really love the inlay and very happy you got your halbreds back. Your dread knights wouldn't be the same without them.

I really like the fact that the servo skulls actually do something in the GK army. I've picked up BLACKHAND's GKs and after finishing them up (they're mostly done... just some detail to paint & I want them on fancy bases) I'll may add a few tweaks... and the skulls are something that is on the list.

Gitsplitta - Thanks! I was against the skulls at first but they really have their uses!!

Step 1 is now rocked



After priming the servo skulls I put quick layer of bleached bone down


Then some boltgun and devlan mud, some tamiya clear gloss colors and they're done!

The steps are rocked!



It's amazing what you can do with a pencil and a straight edge. Next up is detailing the sides of the steps, and gluing the keep's wall.

I've been working on some non-BoLScon Grey Knights at work for the last week. Every lunch break I put down 1 color. During the last week I have managed to paint 13 Incenerators and 4 Psycannons! It took about 1.5 hours of touch ups to finish them off last night.

If I can keep up this pace I should be able to burn through the 12 paladin/strike squads pretty quick!

Foda, can you go into more detail on how you're doing the stone texture/carve into the foam?

I'm planning a display board and was thinking I'd need to use some sort of sculpting medium over top of the base of the display to do stonework, but you've got very impressive results just from the foam!

targetawg wrote:Foda, can you go into more detail on how you're doing the stone texture/carve into the foam?

I'm afraid there isn't much more than.
1) Get a straight edge (an L) and a sharp pencil.
2) Set the straight edge on the foam, draw a small straight line with the pencil.
3) Repeat for the next 4 hours.

Foda_Bett wrote:

targetawg wrote:Foda, can you go into more detail on how you're doing the stone texture/carve into the foam?

I'm afraid there isn't much more than.
1) Get a straight edge (an L) and a sharp pencil.
2) Set the straight edge on the foam, draw a small straight line with the pencil.
3) Repeat for the next 4 hours.

So you use the pressure from the pencil to put the indentation in the foam? Seems simple enough.... (famous last words).

I worked with sculpting putty/straight edge/clay shapers for sculpting my resin bases, and that's a bit more forgiving. Screw up a stone, just mush back and redo, on this I worry that one mistake at hour 2 of the process = tears.

Woot woot!The steps are rocked!

The stone work came out fantastic. I thought it was time for me to pop in and tell you that I love your work.

targetawg - In principle it is simple, it is however very time consuming. If you can break down your item into multiple pieces (like the steps). Don't start on each end and then fill in as it will look wrong... speaking from experience there

HAZZER - Thanks!

MeatShield - Thanks!


Well y'all may have been wondering what that goofy castle is in the back of my display board. That castle is a 1/35 IMEX Blackstone Castle, I'm going to be converting it into an apocalypse sized cathedral. First step is the front door which is being turned into this display base.
Some skulls from the Arcane Ruins set, and some statues from the LOTR Scenery set, combined iwth a couple Cities of Death lights and you've got a decent castle from a toy.



The plastic strips will be riveted later, and I've got to attach the last of those skulls!

What could this be?

The cathedral has been detailed!







And the base has been primed with latex paint so it won't melt!

I. Love. This.

Oooh, lots of work! That is going to be one army stand worth looking at.

You know Foda, if you could mass-produce that base you could probably sell it... with ease (depending on price). Nice work.

Wow, such great work, enjoyed reading through the whole of this thread today! Made up for the disappointment of not getting my 40k in the post today :(

Keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

Foda_Bett wrote:

My guess is a halbred without a blade! ..Well without a big blade. ;D

I love how those steps turned out! and very good work with the gate too!
Is there going to be any battledamage on the walls or something?

Valkyrie - Thanks!
Baiyuan - Thanks!
Gitsplitta - Thanks! It's about 15 hours of work all together on the steps. So they wouldn't end up being cheap
niallkissick - Thanks!
DiDDe - Thanks! The walls are not going to be battle damaged. The side walls may be but this part is going to be fresh.

The secret project was a new blade design for the DreadKnights!






Well I got a TON of work done yesterday!
Bases and wall are painted!



Steps are painted


Models are pinned




Every model also has a unique name applied to their shoulder scroll


And the army on display












I made a dakka Gallery with more pictures:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-273-18004_Grey%20Knights.html

That's phenominal!! Wow!

Very Nice!

Friggin awesome! The halberd blades look much better as well

How did you paint your bases for your GKs? Trying to find a good paint scheme to paint my own Cathedral floors for my sisters.

Edit: Phenomenal work so far, exactly how all GKs should strive!

Wowzers!!!!