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The finished Knight looks amazing. Magos is coming along nicely too.

EDC

Cheers EDC. Paint finally going on the Magos. Just the bases metals so far but it's a start

So pretty. Amazing stuff. This has winner written all over it.

Cheers Cam. Not painting in sub-assembles and parts is weird though - lol

Its looking great so far jan! Its giving me a lot of ideas for my dark mechanicus

Havent checked in with ya in a while Jan! Holy mother of feth that knight is gorgeous. Definitely the best I've seen!
The magos looks like a really cool model too!

Painting a fig attached to a base? Shouldn't be any challenge for you. I do it all the time myself (of course that may not be a good habit...).

Thx very much lads. Still really over the moon with how the Knight turned out. Learned a lot from that project an got to try out some new weathering techniques. def worth it
Painting up the Magos at the moment and e's coming along nicelt. very satifying paint although painting and and around the mechandrites is ......tricky! will pop a wee WiP up later

Good day painting today, inbetween a trip to the hospital! Magos is really coming along. Something extra satisfying about painting a fig you've built from the ground up out of this n that. Anyways - leaving him for the night. Onto the cloak(s) tomoro. Cheers for looking in, hope the like the creepy fella

Can't wait to see this guy finished! The conversion/scratch build looks so (un)natural and that gold is really nice!

Cheers Para. Trying out a new metal mix. As he's the top cog, I wanted to give him a metal that none of the rest of the forgeworld has in their schemes. Something a bit different and old looking to set him apart and above. It's technically not even gold!! Runefang steel washed with reikland then washed again (twice?) with seraphim. Robes tomro. Should have him all done and fully assembled by the weekend

As always your colour choices are perfect. Looking great. Can't wait to see the end result.

Hope all is ok, regarding the hospital trip.
Magos coming along nicely! Love the gold, might need to try that colour out on my Dark Elves. Looks like it would fit right in with them.

That magos is magnificiently creepy, and very inspiring. Thanks for sharing !

That is one of the coolest Cairn Wraith conversions I've seen to date, Jan! Setting that bar higher still.

You're metal work is really interesting, I had already made the switch to Ironbreaker, but I think I will move up to Runefang too. It seems much more flexible than Leadbelcher.

@Zambro - all is good. Just a wee checkup. Cheers - that gold effect started as a mistake when I was painting my DA Haemonculus. Was really tired and wasn't thinking what I was doing. Laid down Runefang instead of Runelord and then shaded it. Came out pretty nicely. I'll add a little staining with Athonian later to age and corrode it a touch.
@Kernel - thx very much fella. Glad you like him. Wanted him to have that creepy Blanche AdMech preiest feel - tall, skinny, looking out from deep inside a heavy hood kinda thing
@Bottle - many thx B. Credit goes to krautscientist (if you havent seen his admech and csm kitbashes/conversions, go check his Dakka plog out - amazing stuff) for switching me onto using a cairn wraith for AdMech. Ironbreaker is still really handy but really only use it for wee things now. Most metalwork I like to use several layers of differnent metal to get a more varied effect with hints of different colour showing through. Gives them a more full and aged feel. Runefang is handy but very bright on its own

Jan that recipe for the gold, is it really just runefang reikland, sepia? I kinda want to use it on one of my upcoming guys if you dont mind.

Go for it! Aye - base with runefang (2 thinned layers with lahriman) then a light wash of reikland (more focused toward the recesses but do cover all) and then build up layers of seraphim lightly until you get the tone you want. Highlight with Sycorax Bronze but go easy on it here. Oh - if you want to really deepen the recesses, thin line wash with agrax in the cracks, just the recesses and dont use it neat

You have made that mech look creepy as gak. Good job.

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Cheers Az. Aye - ordered up a set of the rollers before Christmas. handy dandy wee things! Thought about guitar wire but reckoned a greenstuffed wire core cable would be easier to manipulate and pose etc

Grab some guitar wire as well when you get a chance. It's cheap, available in different gauges and the core is surprisingly firm. Worth having in your toolbox for a couple of dollars. Or Won. (yes, I had to look that up). The Magos is looking amazing - I can't believe you've done all that so quickly.

More importantly, I hope all is well with the hospital trip and your (and your family's) health.

Thx Az. Aye - all is good. Hos trip was routine. Nothing scary - lol! Gonna be doing a few more character tech builds soon for bth AdMech and an Inq retinue so def gonna pick up some guitar strings and give it a bash. Isn't it a bit bendy and springy though?

That's the thing that surprised me the most. In the lengths that we tend to use, it's pretty good - and is bendable with pliers to the shape you require. It's probably a tiny bit springy if you try, but then if you put that kind of pressure on a model or part of a model then if it were resin or HIPS you'd be breaking it, so not exactly a drawback..

ah ok - will pick some up and see how it goes, cheers

I'll be honest, unless you're working in 6mm then you should stick with the greenstuff tube maker that you seemed to use. The guitar wire's ridges are much too small IMO

I think you have really captured the creepy horror that is the ad mech. The model is shaping up really well and the choice of colours will really help him stand out (not that he needed to with the awesome sculpting going on).

Thx Archer. Painting his robes now. With all the mechandrites twisting around him painting is like a game of 'Operation'!

Omnissiah Approved

Wow

Love it as usual, and the build has inspired me to do something similar when I get around to doing my 30k Mechanicum. One question though, what is the torso armour piece from? Looks like the Kataphron armour to me, but I'd rather have confirmation from the source

The two torso armour plates are from the Kataphron Breachers. I built my Kats as Destroyers so had all the Breacher bits left over. Had to shave doen the sides quite a bit to get them to fit inside the robes

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm looking at grabbing a box of Kataphrons to use as the basis for 3 Legion Rapiers anyway, so I think I'll steal that idea for my Archmagos when I get around to it. Now just to find a use for the actual bodies