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

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**Gitsplitta**

Very good! Excellent work my friend. I could never get the streaks in a carapace to come out properly.

**Camkierhi**

Knightley wrote:
Update: Old One Eye done (basing to be done by my Brother)

Stunning work, really nice.

Congrats on the bicentennial, 200 pages of crispy squiggles, thank you.

**Azazelx**

Gorgeous work on OOA. Is he for your brother's army, then?

**ZergSmasher**

Old One Eye came out beautifully! The carapace highlighting has to be the best part!

**Mad..**

Nice looking OOE Knightley... I hope to see it in the flesh sometime in the future.

I'm keen to see what you do with those Death Guard models in the background

Congrats on 200 pages as well, quite the achievement!

**inmygravenimage**

Lovely work and welcome to the 200 club!

**Knightley**

@Gits - Wasn't easy and I really lucked out on the lock, All the ones I had seen previous were very 'aggressive' on how far up the carapace the colours went, I wanted something a little less colourful and, had I done it again would have made it even smaller.

@Cam - Thanks! been a long slog to get to 200, other blogs I started along side of are nearing 300 now, I'm not worried, I know my place

@Azazelx - Oh yes, my brother has a largish army, no bases completed yet, but who know maybe in the future.

@Zerg - Thank you for the kind words

@Mad - Oh you saw that did you

there were a few hints in some of the earlier pics I had them all done, they will get a coat of paint, but not this push I think.

@Graven - Thanks bro! good to be part of the 200 club (Is that even a thing?)

Update: Base prime/colour applied, red base started

**Azazelx**

Ooh, one of them fancy artillery-rhinos. I'm interested to see how this thing plays out.

**WarbossDakka**

Well done on the carapace, it isn't easy getting those streaks looking natural like you have. Also I've never really seen one of those Hunters in action, can't wait to see it painted. Well done on 200 pages too!

**Knightley**

@Azazelx - Cheers, I've not played one before and I had this one for 7th as a reply to the flying hive tyrants I kept on facing.

@WarbossDakka - Thank you!

Update: Finished up the base colours and went strait into the black lining (I hate this part)

**Mad..**

Looking good my friend!

If you really want to kill a flying hive tyrant with it once it's done, let me know and I can fly one at you hehe

**Knightley**

@Mad - Would expect nothing less! To be honest though, not sure this vehicle will be that useful in this edition.

Update: Spent a bit longer than an hour tonight doing all the edge highlighting, always reinforces why I hate painting tanks.

**ZergSmasher**

Yeah, edge highlighting is a pain on a model with so many, well, edges! That's why I drybrush them. Saves a lot of time, looks okay, and any mess is not too hard to clean up.

**Knightley**

@Zerg - I wish I had done that at the first model, and not at the 235th model

would have been so much easier and quicker.

Update: Just did the red today, been feeling under the weather so painting is a bit of a chore atm

**Mad..**

Having recently done some edge highlighting a leman russ tank... I understand the "fun" you just had, still it's pretty nice and easy to do and makes things look a lot better, so worth it in the end.

I've been meaning to ask what colour you edge highlight your reds with? I like how it comes together.

**WarbossDakka**

I don't tend to drybrush vehicles because even if they look okay on the edges, it makes the flatter areas suffer for it - especially on boxier vehicles like what the SM and Guard have. Edging bigger models do take much longer, but produce a much better result in the end which I think ends up being totally worth it.

**Moltar**

Nice stuff, Knightley! That red turned out great on that 'nid! Tank looking great too

**Knightley**

@Mad - Agreed, the look of edge highlighted vs dry brushed certainly has its benefits. Regarding the Red, I use blood red for the first edge highlight then I use an old vomit brown for the extreme highlights.

@WarbossDakka - When I first started I did a heavy dry brush over all my models, I hadn't picked up the nuances of dry brushing so it came out looking very very chalky, if I had the knowledge I have now, I would have still done it that way but done it much much better.

@Moltar - Thanks mate!

Update: Tank basically done, Just need to glue on the treads, I haven't put any time in to my new lighting set up so no end pictures for a while

**ZergSmasher**

Tank looks great! I really like that color scheme, and my hat is off to you for painting that much white (okay, light gray).

**evildrcheese**

Awesome work on both Old One Eye and the Hunter.

Glad to see we're back in the familiar territory of GK/SM, i was worried for a second there

EDC

**Mad..**

Oooooh it's a brown colour, cool thanks for that... I thought it was a fleshy colour.

Looks good, even without the tracks... maybe it could be a hover tank

**Gitsplitta**

Beautiful work knightley... looks fantastic!

**Camkierhi**

Beautiful work bud.

**inmygravenimage**

Absolute cracker squire. The colour accents really pop.

**Knightley**

@Zerg - What can I say, I have a sickness

@EDC - Hahah I have to many GK/SM to paint, I could only stay away for a short time.

@Mad - Well, I saw that new "awesome" hover tank, so yeah it could be

@Gits - Thank you!

@Cam - Cheers

@Graven - Thanks mate!

Update: Base colour airbrushed to a TA captain.

**WarbossDakka**

That is one fancy Captain. This guy should look great

**Knightley**

@WarbossDakka - I hope so, not often I get to paint a FW model

Update: base colours applied.

**Knightley**

Updated: washes applied

**Knightley**

Update: Layering underway, reds pretty much done!

**WarbossDakka**

I love the reddish gold you've got going on. I think they look much more effective than just straight shiny gold.