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

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**Gitsplitta**

That's a ton of models.

**Knightley**

Agreed, when I put them all out on the table I was quite overwhelmed with how much I had assigned myself to paint.

I closer view below

Next up is my trials with the airbrush (in an effort to save myself some serious time)

**Knightley**

Seeing as I now have an airbrush, I figured I would do some coats and see how it goes.

Blue

Bone to white

Red - blood red

White

Well I was very happy with how well the color came out on all the models, seeing how well you can do highlights to armor I would have added a lighter tone to a darker base

**Gitsplitta**

Yep, you're hooked.

**M0rdain**

You table looks great, and the airbrush seems to make things so much easier. ... Now to persuade my wife its a need not a want.

**Knightley**

@Gits - Yes, yes, yes and yes, very hooked. I'm surprised I took this long to get an airbrush after zipping through 6200 points of marines in only a couple of days!

@M0rdain - Many thanks for the compliments, air brushes...... should be a staple for any painter!

Update: So what did I want these armies to look like? Well I wanted a quick table top quality not like my Grey Knights, I brought a tub of Quick shade and resolved to use that as the final coat. Weapons are painted red, there is silver on guns and bits on the back pack, purity seals are red for the wax and bone for the paper, skulls are bone, eyes are red. Chapter and squad markings are done by hand (because I didn't have nearly enough transfers) faces are base, highlight then wash, no eyes/teeth etc

So as a reminder:

These are all going to be Table top standard!

First up a squad of Dark Angels that I completed in an afternoon

**Knightley**

Then Three days later I had completed

**Gitsplitta**

Very proficient of you Knightley... looking very sharp!

**Knightley**

Thanks Gits, four days later again I pumped out

**Gitsplitta**

Wow! Fantastic!

**inmygravenimage**

That's damn fine sir! Damn fine!

**Sageheart**

Did you paint strip them before priming them?
Good idea on two same armies, good for teaching and fun even games.

**Knightley**

@Gits - Thank you

@Graven - Cheers mate!

@Sageheart - Yep, spent 2 weeks cleaning, re-arming and rebasing.

Update: Next up Scouts + Tac squad + Captain

**IceAngel**

Wow you're getting through all of this stuff quickly. I thought this would have taken forever and here you are with like 15 squads done.

**Knightley**

Cheers Ice, don't forget this is what I did while having 3 months off from work, so while you are seeing the compact version of it, it did take about a month and a half to paint all 6,200 points

Next up is smoe dreads, command squads and characters

**Knightley**

Next is the Terminators and Terminator captains

**Knightley**

Next up speeders and bikes

**inmygravenimage**

You are a speed paint demon! Where's the squiggles?

**Knightley**

Haha if only I was this quick, sadly this is a recap from my 3 months off

Next up is Rhinos and Pred's

**Gitsplitta**

Man, look at the size difference. Pretty amazing.

**Miss Dee**

If i got my airbrush out an cat would go nuts

**Knightley**

@Gits - Yeah, and weight wise, the old predator has a ton of metal on it, where as the new one is all plastic.

@Miss Dee - I have to do my airbrushing in the garage for that exact reason.

Update: Lastly is the landraiders and vindicators

**Miss Dee**

I dont have a shed or any out buildings.

**Knightley**

No Garage or lean to?

Update: So all models done, only took a month and a half to knock out 6200 points, not bad and I'm happy with how they came out as well

**Miss Dee**

Nope nothing .. Looking very good

**Knightley**

Sounds like no airbrush for you then, well until you move to a location that is fit for purpose

Update: Next is a GMS model for our very own Iceangel! I took a Dark Vengeance Terminator Sgt and went about removing as much of the DA paraphernalia, changed out the sword and attached on a reaper autocannon from the chaos terminators (of course taking the chaos bits away)
From something like this

Spoiler:

To this

**whalemusic360**

You missed the GIANT WINGS on him when you removed the DA stuff

I'm really impressed with the autocannon, didnt know it could clean up so well.

**inmygravenimage**

Beautiful mate. Bare plastic alone and it's a thing of crunchy goodness.

**Miss Dee**

A friend popped round and put her ciggy on the side of the sink and bubbles pawed it into the sink

**Knightley**

@WM360 - Heh yeah you know me with wings and scribbles, gotta have it all, Ice didn't raise any concerns when I showed him the WIP2 pic so I've decided to run with it

The autocannon was the really big risk, not knowing if I could remove enough chaos from it to still have it look like a working cannon.

@Graven - Cheers mate, much appreciated!

@Miss Dee - Sounds like your cat is on the anti smoking bandwagon

Update: now with paint

I tried to highlight the black by using a 50/50 adeptus battlegrey/black mix then using badab black to darken it down a bit, I think it works ok in this case.