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**lipsdapips**

If we ever did meet Knightley you'd probably be amazed

**Lord Kaesar II**

By the way, I might not have been paying attention/ might have forgotten, but from whence does that half head come from, the bottom left one? It's been high on my mind, what with you and others making it look rather cool, and I'm a spot too lazy to check all the different parts sets GW has.

Skulls of solid ceramite! Kaesar II

**daxx367**

Hi long time no post everything you've been doing looks great keep up the good work.

**stonned_astartes**

Lord Kaesar II wrote:By the way, I might not have been paying attention/ might have forgotten, but from whence does that half head come from, the bottom left one? It's been high on my mind, what with you and others making it look rather cool, and I'm a spot too lazy to check all the different parts sets GW has.

Skulls of solid ceramite! Kaesar II

DA veteran pack

**Eggroll**

stonned_astartes wrote:
Lord Kaesar II wrote:By the way, I might not have been paying attention/ might have forgotten, but from whence does that half head come from, the bottom left one? It's been high on my mind, what with you and others making it look rather cool, and I'm a spot too lazy to check all the different parts sets GW has.

Skulls of solid ceramite! Kaesar II

DA veteran pack

Actually it's not from the DA vet sprue as the pic from GW's DA Veteran pack is here: http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2070130_99120101060_DAChapterUpgrade_873x627.jpg

Can't remember where the half bionic head comes from...I know I have at least two in my collection.

*Edit: sorry you're right it was included in there though it's apart of the normal special weapons sprue that comes with the standard tactical squad. http://bitspudlo.com/t/category/66-tactical-squad?page=2

**Miss Dee**

Bionic head is from a space marine squad

**Lord Kaesar II**

In that case, maybe I need to take another look at that first new tactical sprue in... a lot of years (first one since the addition of more than a flamer and missile launcher

)

**Knightley**

Awesome, another page down (only 191 left to go till I can catch Gits...)

@Egg - I'm honored you've commented! your Blood angel blog is truly inspiring and your painting is top notch! Re the service studs I wasn't sure if I had wanted to paint them metallic, I've highlighted them as if there was something under the skin as I figured that the rate at which an astartes regenerate would have skin trying to over grow the studs. This does give me more opportunity to add differences to faces now, I could do some boltgun, mithril, gold, bronze or tin to designate certain stages, thanks heaps for the Link

@LDP - I'm sure I'd be amazed with anyone I would meet

@LKII - Seems I was a little late in responding but yes, the half heads I have are from tactical boxes of marines, I could have sworn there is two different types of boxes as the old Sgt heads were quite plain in comparison.

@Daxx - Thanks mate, no worries about the time in between posting I'll keep trucking on and the next time you check there should be more to look at

@Stoned - I first thought that as well when I found the head (back when I would take all the bits out of sprues first) and ordered another DA pack only to find it wasn't in there.

@Miss Dee - Agreed.

Update, the last repaint for the second strike squad marine is done

Front

Right

Back

Also started on.....

The next paladin model, the Apothecary

Again thank you all for posting

**inmygravenimage**

Is that a metal GK I spy? Good stuff. Also really looking forward to the Apoth!

**Knightley**

Yeah mate, I have 15 of them, 2 repainted, another 5 to repaint, 5 painted (Interceptors) and 3 more to paint normally. I'm feeling good about getting on to painting more GK's as well, I've spent a while on normal SM's (if that's what you could call my SM's) and I really need to get up to my 1k point army asap.

Also I got my Chapterhouse SR bits last night, epic!

**lipsdapips**

I didn't mean it like that. Lol I feel like a cocky bastard now

I meant it in a different way. (cough cough facebook is a little hint cough cough)

Some more nice work btw, love all your minis, so clean!

LDP

**Gitsplitta**

Holy crap knightly, you've been busy. You know you might be able to address the off-balance issues of the Libby simply by rebasing him. Giving him some rocks orde ris to move across might make a world of difference.

**Knightley**

@LDP - Ah, misunderstood the intention there.

@Gits - Thats an unfortunate problem with so many models left to paint, I'm always in progress mode! I'll seriously consider changing the base of the libby and see if that helps me with his posing (wont help with the over abundance of swag he has on him though)

Update: was supposed to post a couple of days ago, so you get both barrels now:

Rhino with two coats of grey done

Paladin with Base red and Base bone done, followed by a wash

The next two days:

Rhino with highlights done front

Back

Almost finished the Rhino for squad 4

**Gitsplitta**

Loving that rhino... really crisp.

**inmygravenimage**

Agreed, beautiful work. And is that =I= freehand on the door? Lush.

**Lennysmash**

Hey Knightly, the Rhino is looking awesome so far. As far as the libby goes, have you considered not just re-basing him but moving him to a 40mm base. That should alter the perspective of the whole model and reduce the effects of the swag.

**tipios**

Great work on the rhino, how did you do the I on the door?

Only thing I would say is drill the exhausts

**TyRaide**

I'm being harsh, but the top hatch on that Rhino is not up to your high standard!

**lipsdapips**

Haha you've got some fantastic stuff yet again for us! Great work on the paladins, I LOVE your paladins! But I have to agree with TyRaide, perhaps to should straighten the red lines on the top of the rhino? But don't get me wrong, the rest of the work is absolutely fantastic! Keep it up!

LDP

**c0un7_z3r0**

Man, it's been some time since I made a proper visit on dakka! It's nice to see that you have kept up your good work! The Dreadknight turned out great as well as the librarian! I also like the red bionics on marine 7 from sqd 4, my first thought was on Ratz from Neuromancer whose prosthetic arm got a casing of pink plastic, which seems more rational than bare steel. Don't know if that is anything near what your painting is meant to represent, but cool never the less!

**Knightley**

@Gits - Thank you! I am really looking forward to seeing this force completed now

@Graven - A keen eye my friend, yes, I tried my hand at some free... um hand and the I was was I could start with

@Lenny - Could be an idea, I'm not 100% on the bases sizes, 28mm is the normal round bases, is 40mm the terminator bases?

@Tipios - Thanks, I started with a micron pen and dotted out the outline (for the corners) then basically joined the dots and filled it in. I'll have to buy a bigger drill bit for the exhausts

@TyRaide - As a WIP of the rhino I'd never leave it in that state, I did it like that just to get a separate line for red/white and I've blocked over the join with black (see below)

@LDP - Well, fingers crossed this next Paladin is my best yet, been trying to go slow and steady on the paint job to make sure it is crisp.

@Count - Welcome back

The Sgt for squad 4 was my attempt at fresh/not fresh burnt skin/face like he was hit with a flamer and has continued to fight on. It was easy to do and looks quite good against the grey of the armor

Update: Rhino for Squad 4 is done.

Front

Rear

Rhino and the squad together

Another angle

Working on the paladin and 5 tac marines now. Thanks heaps for reading/posting!

**jirc**

That squad looks awesome all together like that dude! Can't wait to see more. Might have enough for a 1k army soon, so might have to come in on a Thursday night and have a battle against ya! (you'll have to teach me though...)

James

**Knightley**

If your short of any models I have about 12,000 points worth of all three chapters (ultra's DA and Grey knights) So will have enough to fill the gaps

**Knightley**

Update:

Finished the Apoth head, took a shot without flash and with

and

All the armor pieces have had a coat of codex grey, will hopefully get through another tomorrow then I can start highlighting

Also, fething heck are codex's expensive! $64NZD wtf? I guess I should bite the bullet now.

**tipios**

Very nice details!!

**Knightley**

Cheers, Tipios! I had to edit in the Apoth WIP on his armor.

**tipios**

He's gona be another bad boy

Also forgot to mention how great the Rhino hatch turned out

**Gitsplitta**

That rhino and squad are spectacular Knightley! You really should be proud of those. Apoth head looks really good... keep up the excellent work!

**Miss Dee**

can Terminator heads fit on standard marine

**inmygravenimage**

GK ones? Yeah. Look slightly disproportionate. Pm/fb me if you want some.

Back OT: beautiful work Knightley - and fie on anyone who doubted your rhino hatch! Fie I say!