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

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**inmygravenimage**

Loverly. How glad am I that I've got BA stuff coming now?! Really like the repaint too. Keep it up chief!

**Gitsplitta**

Looking really good knightly, love the free hand on the robe. Nice touch!

**Vitruvian XVII**

The progress is astounding as usual Knightley.

Love the tank, looks mean!

**Knightley**

@Graven - Cheers mate, I'll keep plugging away here, so long as your doing the same, are you going to include a lot of the BA stuff in your models? or just have it for your Mentors?

@Gits - Cheers Gits, this small squad is getting a rush job so I'm stoked you like it

@Vit - Thanks Vit!

Update: Quite a bit done tonight!

PA Libby bolt pistol:

Attached to the PA Libby now

Squad 4 marine 2 front

Squad 4 marine 2 back

Squad 4 marine 3 front

Squad 4 marine 3 back

Hopefully will get another two marines done tomorrow providing the time is good

thanks for watching.

**inmygravenimage**

Beautiful as ever. Like the two-tone purity seals on the bp especially.

**Gitsplitta**

Rush job or not... they're looking great!

**Knightley**

*Edit* Stink didn't even respond to Gits or Graven...

@Graven - Cheers, Having red on red just didn't seem logical at the time

@Gits - I'm stoked you like them, Im just amping to get done with these so I can move on.

Update: 2 more marines done on the repaint squad, only 5 more to go as well as their Rhino

Squad 4 Marine 4 front

Squad 4 Marine 4 Back

Squad 4 Marine 5 front

Squad 4 Marine 5 Side

Squad 4 Marine 5 Back

Can't wait to be done with these I can finally work on new models

**ghostmaker**

Love the paint scheme looks great.

**Gitsplitta**

More great stuff! Way to go Knightly!

**inmygravenimage**

As always, I love your sneaky use of BT bits

great work mucker!

**Some_Call_Me_Tim?**

Lookin' good, lookin' good! Loving the smoothness of the models, and your freehand script really is nice.

_Tim?

**Knightley**

@Ghostmaker - Thank you for taking the time to post! I'm happy you like them

@Gits - Sorry for not actually replying in the last post, not sure what I was doing, fingers crossed this update is just as good

@Graven - Course, if only I had some storm shields from somewhere

BTW I finished the Sword pics I'm not 100% happy with them but it will do till I get on with a bigger sword, where do you want me to post it? under a guide or just a spoiler tag here?

@_Tim? - Cheers, welcome to my blog btw

Update: another 2 marines done, also finished pics for a sword helix guide thingy which ill put once I write up how I do it

Squad 4 marine 6 front

Squad 4 marine 6 Back

Squad 4 marine 6 Side

Squad 4 marine 7 Front

Squad 4 marine 7 Side

Squad 4 marine 7 Back

Libby WIP 5 Front

Libby WIP 5 Side

So many pictures....

**inmygravenimage**

Love where the Libby's going, and really like the side of the bionic head - any chance of a close up on that?

**lipsdapips**

Really cant wait to see him done! So excited!

**Gitsplitta**

You missed a mold line on the right side of the plasma cannoneer's head. (smirk)

I love that libby. Really like the way you handled his weapons too. You've just got a "feel" for power weapons that completely eludes me.

**tipios**

Great job again, your face work is ace!

**Knightley**

@Graven - Cheers, I'll take a closer pic when I get home tonight for you, I also should have your bits in the post today as well.

@LDP - Thanks, I can't wait either, only his head and back back left!

@Gits - Heh, I missed a TON of mold lines on this squad, but that was before I started cleaning them off the unpainted models, I can say "At least I drilled the barrels!" I figured I might get one or two comments on the libby's axe, so I took pictures stage by stage of it which I'll post soon

@Tipios - Thank you, It's really easy perhaps I should do a guide on faces as well?

Sword guide:

I start with a foundation paint blue base (Mordian I think) and give it a black wash, the next up is smooth coat of Regal Blue leaving the darker area near the hilt with the wash showing. the first layer is Regal Blue with a very small amount of white added to the mix. This is painted almost to the centre of the blade, leaving only the ridge showing

Next up, add more white to the mix (still a very small amount) and add water to make it translucent and put this over the blade leaving the ridge and a small line of the last color showing (apologies for the blurryness)

Each of these steps are basically the same, just with more white added in

Once the mix gets to about an Ice Blue color you should be about half way down the blade towards the cutting edge

The next stage is adding twice as much white as previously added to ramp up the brightness, this stage has to have a lot of water as the goal is to have the paint slightly pool in places along the helix as this will supply the pulse nodes to suggest power being surged through the blade, continue to paint this color towards the cutting edge

In this one more white is added, but not applied to the whole helix, only towards the pulse nodes and a small line is added (if possible try to get a see through trail on the back edge

The last step is just pure white, small dots are added to the nodes on the forward edge and the cutting edge is given a white coat as well

I'm just putting together a guide on the Axe scheme, hopefully it wont take to long to do

**tipios**

Nice TUT knightley

Now do face one

**Gitsplitta**

That's a great tutorial Knightly... thanks! Looking forward to the axe one... that's quite an interesting and unique scheme.

**Miss Dee**

sweet.

**inmygravenimage**

Cheers mate, that's swell and really informative. I shall give it a whirl on a weeping angel chapter master!

**Knightley**

@Tipios - Thanks, Not sure if I want to do a face tut, doing a close up of the repainted sgts head made me cringe somewhat, however I'll see what I can do for the Libbys head and might post that for you

@Gits - Cheers Gits, I might get to see it on one of your models eh

@Miss Dee - Thanks

@Graven - Happy to help, btw heres the close up of the head.... you asked for it.... shudder

A bit done tonight on the last 3 marines of squad 4, all the armour has a coat of grey and shouldnt need another, so it will be highlighting of the armor then cloth, yay!

Oh and axe tutorial below

Started with a Liche Purple base coat and washed it black then waited for it to dry, once dry it got another coat of Liche Purple. A very small amount of white was added to the Liche purple and quite large lines were painted out to somewhat simulate lightning

More white was added to the mix (still small increments) and a thinner line was painted leaving the darker fatter line still showing

Even more white was added and thinner lines were painted in (the ultimate aim is to have very thin lines if white basically)

When the lines become to small to paint down I started to focus the lighter paint at junctions where lines meet

The aim now is to bring the paint at the junctions to a single point on the junction as white

and the final result hopefully should look better than this

**Revenent Reiko**

Ahhhh, so your Power Weapon effects are done on the same lines as cattafish's? No wonder they look so good

Great work all over Knightley. Again, astounded by your faces, they are easily the best i have seen! You've even managed to get the flensed look

**Miss Dee**

I like the squad leaders face

**Gitsplitta**

Thanks for the tut Knightly. Funny that it's not that much different from what I try to do, but you do it so much better.

**inmygravenimage**

Very nice indeed, and thanks for the flayed face pic too! My only comment - and this is bearing in mind you are far, far better at painting than I - is that I would consider having the lightning working out from the "ball" on the weapon, like a plasma sphere. But, fab nonetheless.

**Steve.C**

How do you paint such a nice looking grey? I've been using Codex grey to paint my own Space Marines but I just can't get a good result on anything but the Terminators.

**Knightley**

Oh wow, quite a few comments it seems

@Rev. Reiko - I didn't know Cattafish did it like that, I had seen a guide on how to do molten blades following the same effect (instead of strait lines think more flowing and in orange/red) I'll have to look his up and see if I can improve.

@Miss Dee - Thanks, I might give another one a similar try as I have one spare to see if I can make it better (painting over a painted face leads to lost details)

@Gits - I'm pretty sure I could have done it better if I had done more of them before hand (this was my first try so I made a ton of mistakes) and I think you're far to hard on your self, I've seen your painting and I consider it much higher than mine.

@Graven - Cheers mate, I agree with you on the lighting from the node, it was one of the mistakes I made when painting it, if I do it again I'll be fixing the mistakes I made on this one

@Steve.C - Firstly thank you for posting, hopefully I can fill you in on how I get to it.
For my first step its a GW white undercoat spray, this is followed up by the Foundation paint - Adeptus Battlegrey with some water to improve the flow and make it less clunky (for some reason my foundation paints have bits in them..)
once this is dry I give the model a black wash to give shading in the joints/recesses.
After that is dry I start with Fortress Grey with water, I think its about 2:1 but could be slightly more) and the aim is to get good coverage and wait for the water to evaporate leaving the paint flat with out streaks (I was recently taught to add water to paints, but had figured out that once the water evaporated the paint that was left looked much smoother)
There will be cases where the paint wont cover all the foundation paint as it was quite see through, in those cases I will give it another blast of watered down Fortress Grey.
Once that is done I do Spacewolf Grey lining of all the plates and on characters higher models might get a even lighter raised edge highlight.

Hope that helps and thank you all for commenting.

**Revenent Reiko**

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/357667.page

Heres the link for you Knightley, save you looking for it.

Its not exactly the same, but the blending technique you use is very similar (and works beautifully for both of you i might add

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**Knightley**

Oh wow,

Cheers for the link Reiko! I see he uses video's for his posts, that's pretty cool.

The first thing I noticed is how nice his blues are! I also like how he details what hes going to do on paper first, that's a good idea.

If I find myself struggling to paint energy effects on my deamon hammers I might just use his guide and see how it looks

Thanks again!

Update: didn't get much done last night, had to rescue a mate who had a flat tyre then went out for dinner and by the time I got home I CBF'd painting. I did manage to get 2 out of the 3 marines armor highlighted though so next step is red's and cloth!