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Katrina and the Waves my friend.

Golds complete, and I've started to highlight the silver metals. Getting close to completion on these, so I've started putting armor on the knights at this stage. A majority of whats left is just the little details like the white embossed details on the resin shoulderpads and the red lenses.

HAPPY 100 PAGES RAMOS!

Congratulations on your page count. The knight is beautiful btw.

waheeyy - congrats on 100.
just curious/did I miss it......what happened to that wkd knight conversion - the big fella with the clockwork shield?

Man, I didn't realize how big the Castigator was compared to regular Knights.

Yeah, that's what struck me too. Looking good though. And congratulations on reaching 100 pages, that's quite a mile-stone!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Man, I didn't realize how big the Castigator was compared to regular Knights.

Wow yea, thats crazy...

If anything though it makes it cooler when they're done having some size differential to break it up. Can't wait to see them done!

Massive armor addition. Love the poses. The height difference really also amazed me as well. However what I think is a cool feature is the ammo feed belt. It really does looks like it puts out a tremendous amount of firepower.

Are you planning to power(ize) the sword?

ps. congrats on the 100.

I wasn't sold on the idea of a massive power weapon. Seemed like it would be to distracting from the overall model

Oh crap! 100 pages!? REALLY!?
What the hell, man. Where did the pages go


Re: the big sword on the Castigator:
When i first got the kit in hand (and before I spoke with WM about color), I was thinking of painting it as a big power sword. Might not have been terrible looking, but certainly would have had a dramatically different focal point. Might of even been distracting! (to counter, youd need to keep it relatively toned down. Not like my usual intense colors)
After talking with him and going with a plain metal, I figured Id try out a MNMM style on it. Sorta painting it like a power weapon, just with metals. At its brightest, I tried out one of the Reaper paints- Polished silver. Its an even brighter color than Mythril silver- its sorta like a metallic white, so it makes an awesome final layer on highlights like these.


@Januine: You didnt miss the Clockwork Knight- In fact, hell be coming back very soon! The way it went is that Gits added another knight to the group. When I drop these two Knights off, Ill be picking up the new kit from WM.
I just wanted to do all the Taranis Knights (red ones!) all at the same time, so I put off the Clockwork Knight.


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Knights are complete!!!



More pics will be uploaded tomorrow- It took just a little longer to get these up than I thought- kept finding tiny bits I forgot to paint



Anyways, thanks for sticking around with me for 100 pages. Heres to another 100!

Those Knights are AWESOME looking - really great work. My knight just arrived in the mail this afternoon. Gotta love the Korean delivery system - ordered Thursday night, delivered Saturday lunchtime!! Can't wait to get busy building him up once I've figured out how to magnatise all the guns!! Much bigger fig than I reckoned - bonus!!

Wonderful work. You make me green with envy.

Look good! The only thing I noticed is the Aquila above the head on the other two is silver, not gold.

Beautiful work on those knights Ramos. I'm sure WM will be delighted!

@Januine: Thanks a lot! Rather impressive delivery time on your knight too (GW one or a FW one?)... here its all up in the air if itll be two days or two weeks! I've had paints take nearly a month to arrive due to being lost in the system :/
Enjoy building your new Knight!!

@Storm: Or perhaps.... Blue with envy

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On second thought, thats silly.


@WM: You want I should change that? Up to you. I could have sworn that I painted them gold on the last ones xD I cant tell in my photos if its a silver or a gold. They all catch the light juuuuuuust right!

@Gits: Thankee kindly! Now it'll be on to making YOU happy with knights

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As promised, more pics or the Knights.














And the regular Knight Paladin, with FW armor kit

Beautiful work, I just love the way you did the metal on that model... wow.

Definitely silver on the other two, so matching would be good.

Thanks Gits, I took a lot of inspiration from nerdfest's orks- lots of washes then a veeeeeery fine bright highlight on the edges!

And aye aye, WM. Ill hit those up with silver today!

Wow.



No I don't think you're silly at all, I think you might be right.

Very lovely, and congrats on the big 1-0-0!

Wow, those knights look fantastic! I think silver would look good on the aquila, that was the only thing that stuck out to me too (that they were the same color as the panel they were on).

I especially love the FW model, beautiful work!!

Those Knights look lovely Ramos, the Castigator is an amazing model that ammo feed is

Where did you get the little trees from they look very useful?

Thanks, guys! Yeah the aquillas on top are now silver, and look MUUUUUCH better! Soon as the paint hit them, it jogged my memory. This is exactly what I had last time

@Gir: the little trees are actually the branches from that GW terrain kit you always see with the leaves that always break off. I happened to pick up some of the bitz in a box several years ago. I just cut the different branches down and paint them up as dead wood. Seems to get the point across pretty well!

Good news, Everyone!


Remember my evil old camera with no battery life?


Well today I finally retired it. Now I have one that ACTUALLY HAS A BATTERY!!




I saw it on sale and it was so cheap I couldnt pass it up. Gonna take me a while to figure out how to use it, but so far so good. Lots of new features to use too (like WiFi connecting!? weird, but could be neat. and it has a touchscreen!) Really astonishes me how much technology progresses over a few years.



First shot with the new camera is of the updated back side of the clockwork shield. Nothing truly impressive to see, but Ive added in some technical gubbins and power cabling. I just didnt want the back to look like one giant slab of plastic.




Other than that, I worked on the assassins and Infinity minis today- nothing interesting enough to warrant a picture, though!

Nice to have a little bit of detail on that shield Ramos. I like it!

More please Ramos. Also, it always sucks to retire good and long lived tools but, that new tool feeling is so good.

Tonights progress! Another Knight stands....





New camera definitely focuses better... Did some other tests, too, and it'll take some finagling in order to get it to do better Macro.

Anyways, I just happened to be in an assembly mood, so knocked this guy out pretty quick. He is planned to be a Sword and Powerfist knight, posed with his sword forward in a challenge. Tomorrow I'll get further shots of the other two I have ready in this group. Still have a fourth (yes, a fourth!) to be picked up, but thats going to be a week or two yet.
In the mean time I'm still painting the 4 assassins and the 11 Infinity minis I have on hand, as well as the two smaller giveaway prizes from last month. Then (if Im still waithing to grab the new kit), I might give a glance at some Gators....


Fun awaits!

nice one!! building my first knight at the mo. Man these are aweosme kits

I have faith in your clockwork brilliance!