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

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**stonned_astartes**

Ohhh righht, its more like a razor back:/. but still cool! loving how high quality the detail is for a table top gameing force! well done!

**Markillius08**

Sir, I just have to say you never disappoint.

Looking forward to playing you sometime!

**Dave82517**

Your Grey Knight Dreadnaught is badass! lol How the hell can he walk with those missile launchers and fist, i'll never know lol

How come your techmarine only has a small harness? :( I feel bit sorry for him

**Knightley**

@stoned - Cheers man, you actually gave me the idea to run it as both fingers crossed the paint job will do it justice

@Markillius - Thanks man, next time I'm in the states with my army I'll look you up

@Dave82517 - Thanks for commenting! the small harness guy is the newbie, he gets a training arm before getting a full servo harness

Update: I got SFA done on the weekend, the LAN I went to was awesome, so the only update is below on Graven's GM

**Knightley**

I can't stop getting more models out to build/convert, I've managed to add 5 purgation marines, a squad justicar, a 10 man tac squad and a Rhino to the current lot.

I should actually get started on better assembling/ undercoating etc

So many models.... 46 models to finish...

**stonned_astartes**

Me to mate, i reckon it'l give your army a bit of heavy fire support, and i dont think the normal tanks would fit really.
haha yeah good look with that lot, and the tank!

**TyRaide**

I wish my desk looked like that!

**DarkStarSabre**

Your desk looks nice and organised. This is terrible. It's making me want to clean my house again but I can't because my family's 4th of July stuff is happening this weekend D:

**inmygravenimage**

Holy heck that guy looks great! And I feel your pain on the building front generally - I have just too much stuff! Ah, toys.

**Knightley**

Oh yes,

Finally finished the mould line scraping on all the models that need to be assembled (not sure if I want to do it on the re-painters yet. Next is finishing off drilling the barrels and getting a primer coat on Gravens GM, that should take all of tonight's time up.

Sorry for the lack of pictures, during this process there isn't really anything to show, should be some better ones soon.

**Markillius08**

Lol you've already given us a lot to be happy looking at, so don't feel too bad bout the pics. Also, I am genuinely envious of your ability to keep stuff organized.

**Knightley**

Cheers Markillius

Update: I had a game last night with my SM version of my army (sorry, in fact it was my Ultramarines force) played 1000 points against the same DE force which tabled my GK force in the last battle. I'll try recollect how the battle went but I lost by 1 inch (or lost by not rolling a 5 for my run movement) It was a truley EPIC battle and I fully enjoyed myself this time.

When I got home I did the primer on Gravens GM

Then started working on my Techmarine in Term armor. Shoulder pad is going to get some GS to fix up the edges on the mech icon. Also need GS on the belt shield and legs. The three lengths of guitar string with ends will go just under the belt sheild somehow.

Front

Sideish

Shoulder pad WIP

**Vitruvian XVII**

WOW!

Is that a conv. beamer in his right arm?

Made me think that would be a sweet setup for a servo-arm.

I do feel the plas pistol could do with a bit of integrating more, a bit of GS on the cutoff bottom would help imo.

**tipios**

Really nice work.

Dreadknight is so cool!!

**inmygravenimage**

GM looks phenomenal, and you know how I love techmarines! Great work mate.

**Gitsplitta**

Sweet. Just sweet.

**Revenent Reiko**

graven's GK is looking awesome!
and the Techmarine is looking kick-

!

**Dave82517**

seriously, one has to admire not just the work you put in to your modelling, but the effort and time taken to put all this up for all of us to admire. Love the sharpshooter btw. simple conversion yet effective. nice

**Markillius08**

I agree with Dave. You truly love your work, and it shows. I wish more wargammers would put that much effort and thought into what they did.

Would be a much more exciting hobby than it already is!

**Knightley**

@Vit - Indeed it is mate, I banged this one up around page 1 or 2 of this blog then shelved it waiting for the best time to use it. and now it has arrived! The plas pistol arm is getting some GS loving, only to fill in the gaps between the pistol and the tube, I'm not that good as GS.

@Tipios - Thanks for taking the time to comment, I'm glad you like it.

@Graven - Course, this small section must be close to heaven for you?

@Gits - Thanks!

@Rev. Reiko - Cheers

@Dave82517 - Thank you very much for taking the time to comment, hopefully your impressed enough to keep coming back to check up

@Markillius - Thanks mate, I'm only a small part of this community and there are some truly fanatical bloggers out there who I take a lot of my cues from and give it as much effort as I can

Update:

Gravens GK WIP2

Gravens GK shoulder sheild done

Remember how I said I'm no good at GS, this should prove the point. I should hopefully be able to save some by using a sharp knife to give the plates some edges. either that or the paint job should hide it heh.

Now on a rather sad note, my work has finally blocked Dakka so I can't check the site every hour like I used to without some serious work arounds, so updates will slow down, possibly every second day with pics.

I'm gutted.

**inmygravenimage**

Enjoying my little slice of heaven very, very much

**lipsdapips**

Yeah, keep it up man, every second day is fine with me!

**daxx367**

Hi long time no post.
A sharp knife on GS works wonders and for what your doing it should be fine I've done something similar.

**Knightley**

@Graven - No need to be embarrassed mate

I'm just stoked your liking it so far!

@LDP - Sweet as I'll try keep that as well, unless I have a free weekend then I'll be posting hopefully every day

@Daxx - Welcome back! hopefully the knife skills are better than the GS skills eh?

Update: more on Gravens GK GM below

Psycannon shots

Chest shots

Left arm shots

And the all important head shots

Oh and a shot of the Terminator Techmarines CC arm

C&C greatly appreciated, even if it is to say 'Hi'

**Markillius08**

LOVING the head and the psycannon. The Axe is pretty sweet as well.

**inmygravenimage**

I could be so jealous of me right now. This is proper lush. Interesting you've gone for the apothecary head, like it, planning on using that on my NDK. Amazing work as always.

**lipsdapips**

Your paintjobs are SO clean, it's perfect! Great placement of freehand, Fantastic highlights and great colour as usual! Fantastic! P.S FOO FIGHTERS AND TENACIOUS D! WOO!!!!!!! Opinions?

LDP

**Revenent Reiko**

inmygravenimage wrote:I could be so jealous of me right now. This is proper lush. Interesting you've gone for the apothecary head, like it, planning on using that on my NDK. Amazing work as always.

Im jealous of you!

**Gitsplitta**

are those gadget testicles on that guy??!

Go, go, gadget.... (well, you get the idea)...

**Knightley**

@Markillius - Cheers mate! the axe has actually claimed some blood already (managed to slice a decent chunk out of my index finger when I slipped while cutting the semi circle)

@Graven - The apoth head on a DK would look pretty awesome, I might have to follow suit

cheers for the idea hehe.

@LDP - Oh yeah, Tenacious D and Foo's going to go off! Fully hanging out to get tickets now aye!

@Rev. Reiko - Jealousy will get you know where, he offered to send me an old school libby and I felt honored enough to send something back to him

@Gits - erm, I could have sworn there was supposed to be 3 testic.... erm, tentacles one seems to have fallen off. Now I have to search for it... I can't believe I'm now having to search for a testicle... I mean a tentacle... wait none of this sounds right.

Update: Why on earth did I have to have such a long name for a character!?

Legs done

Right shoulder

Sword incl. both sides

Which means.....

Hes done.

Front

Side

Back

the Sword and Psycannon arm are not affixed at this time as I have NFI how I'm going to get this guy to England from New Zealand without having some damage...

Ideas anyone? lots of bubble wrap? wrap it in glue and let Graven break it out with a hammer and file?