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Mechwarrior for the win. Your knight was pretty mech-warrior inspired as well, IIRC. He looks very nice, a rifleman sentinel! I especially like the layered armour on the legs, was that easy to do or a real pain?

Yeah, the Knight had elements from MW as well. The layered armour wasn´t that hard really, I used 0.8mm Plasticard and it took about an hour to do all four armour plates.

Tonight I´ve been working a bit more on the pilot, the collar is taking shape, and the helmet is getting there as well. No piccies, sorry.

If I´m not wasted when I get home from work tomorrow, I´ll get some pics up then. I took some pictures of my Knight at the store, but the camera isn´t cooperating at all... :S

After looking it over a couple times, I think you need to add armor to the pipes sticking out either side of the cabin. They just look undetailed and unnatural. Judging by the rest of the model I think you can handle it.

Hey Qualude, I will be adding detailing to the piping holding the cannons, not sure if it will be armor, but some detailing definitely.

I´ve been working some more on the Hydra Knight, remaking the detailing on the Autocannon sides, and working some more on the pilot. I´m considering calling this type of walker a "Squire", since he´s smaller than my knight. Do people think that would be confusing?


Also, I finally managed to get the pictures of my Knight Manticore off of the camera. They aren´t the best, but this way you can see where he´s at now.


The base is a CD that I did some basing work on, including a fence that he´s trampling across as i it were nothing!




I really like this new head. I still have a LOT of painting to do, but there you go, this is where he´s at now.

Tomorrow I should hopefully have time to work some more on my pilot, and maybe even finish the Autocannons and ammo feeds on the Hydra Bot.

Looks awesome, but it just doesn't seem like AV12 would do that beast justice, it looks huge, intimidating and worthy of AV14

That thing is monsterous!

@Illumini: Thanks. I wish there was an AV14 Missile launching Warmachine in the IG codex... :S
For now, it´ll have special stats when we play Apocalypse games, but in regular games, he´ll have to be a Manticore..

@person person: So that´s a good thing?

Brilliant work there, mate. I really like the pose, both the head and the weapon arms look like they're more "in action" than one usually sees on knight conversions.

As for the rules: This guy carries lots of serious ordnance. Why not just count it as a Leman Russ? Those are some burly missiles, they could easily stand in as a battlecannon shot. Sure, you'd get no indirect fire or anything, but that's not all that useful, and that chassis should be more than AV12 front.

And the uparmored Sentinel Hydra is great.

Splendid knight, it's come a long way from the last pic I saw of it. As for AV: BOLS have the paladin, lancer and errant with 12 front AV, only the castellan has more. of course, the castellan is equipped with the missiles... In friendly games, ask your opponent if you can use it as a knight castellan, armament is almost right.

Sell it to Forge World, they'll write you some rules.

Thanks Savnock, I tried to get him looking as if he´s advancing, not just static and dull. I´m glad that came across.

CommissarKhaine, thanks for the heads up on BOLS, I had forgotten their rules, and may end up using them if the FLGS is up for it.
If not, the Russ idea may be the way to go, I do like the idea of him sticking around a bit longer than round 2 or so of a game.

Heheh Qualude, that´s a pretty cool idea, might have to do that.

Oh yeah, also: Waiting for GS to dry is such a chore. I wish there was a spray on hardener for it... I´ve gotten to the detailing stage of my pilot guy, and just did another stage. Now to wait for 6-8 hours, sigh...

Oh well, might just do some painting while I wait.

That looks great man...I need to keep up my blog but with exams in 5-6 weeks time and other stuff i'm finding it hard to make time!

Plus my LGS won't sell me a chimera till the new one comes out :(

Weird, I've never seen a manticore before but it looks AWESOME! Good work.

That's incredible! Love it!

Maybe it's just me, but the Heavy Bolter kinda looks like a cigar jutting out of it's mouth, like it's enjoying a good smoke whilst on a killing spree. Badass.

Thanks for the words guys, it all helps with the motivation.

@Imperial Monkey, I feel your pain, they are out here as well, luckily I grabbed the last one they had for my Krieg veterans.

@aromasin: This walker is probably closer to a "Castellan" class, but I´ve been calling it a Manticore since that was what I figured on using it to represent. Recent comments, both here and at the FLGS have shown me that I may need to reconsider..

@Commander Endova: Hah, I never thought of that, but you´re right! That´s great.

For tonight´s upgrade, I´ve got the first WIP pictures of my Pilot for you guys. He still needs a little love, but he´s getting there.

And he´s been really fast too, less than a week since I took the bits out of the box, to this stage. I´ve been using FW´s Titan crew as a source of inspiration for him, but have changed a few things here and there.

The FW crew can be found here: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/titancrew.htm



He´s got the distinctive collar for interacting with his machine, but in addition I´ve given him a life support unit, a bit like the astronauts carry before they board. This connects to the plugs in his back, and is set aside after entry in his vehicle.
On the collar is the classic eagle, I´ll be leaving off the cog symbol here, but have added it to his belt, as a buckle.

Oh, the head is not final yet. I may switch it out, but feel that I need something rugged and "hard"..


On his left arm is a house marker, the wheel for Taranis. I´ve also changed his sleeve somewhat, and removed the armored shoulder. He carries his life support unit in this hand, the cables from the unit to his collar are not done. They need fleshing out.


From the rear it is a bit more obvious that he has been lengthened, he has been given about 1.5mm length total, in his knees and waist. The collar is not quite done, the plugs of the cables need work, but other than that the back is pretty much done.


And the right arm. Here he wears a badge with the lightning symbol, the other half of the "Knights of Taranis" logo. Also, he is holding a pistol. I´m not entirely happy with it, I want it to be an auto, but have no easy access to such bits, and was hoping kitbashing would do it. So far it´s not good enough.

That´s where I´m at for now. I´ll be working on him till tuesday, when he´s going to the store to be shown off. I need to fix that pistol.

Awesome GS work , wish I could get that kind of detail, keep it up!

I think a magazine in front of the trigger well would nicely flesh out that pistol, other than that, great little conversion ya got goin on there.

I'm thinking hard bout a conversion of them titan crew into MoO, and MoF and possibly a bodyguard

nicely Done!

The Knight and pilot both look great.

I really like the pilot! making him taller is something that really lookes great! The mech-sentinals look awesome to!

The pilot's sick! Looks alot more 'truscale' thanks to that seamless GS lengthening. Looks like a cooler re-sculpt of the BfM starter set pilot

Thanks for all the kind words guys, really helps keep the motivation up.

Anyways, I just wanted to drop in and show you guys a few shots of progress on the Knight.


A full view of the walker as it stands now. As you can see, I´ve added some markings, but I´m far from done yet.


A closeup of the fott, showing rust damage, and some yellow markings.


Closeup of the leg, from the front.


The left arm, here you can see how the yellow striping has been worn away by repeated missile launches.


The banner on the carapace now reads "Foe Hammer", the name of the Walker.


And finally, the heraldry on the Knights left shoulder has been started. The text is "Mars", the home planet of the order, and "Taranis", the name of the house. I´ll rework the wheel and lightning on to the other shoulder, and remove them from his heraldry. Other details still to be added, and cleanup also coming.

So that´s it right now. I´m currently replacing all the plastic cabling with cables and hydraulic hoses made from bass strings, takes some time, but I think it´ll look good. After that is done, I´ll start on the weapon banners.

The text is great, well tbh its all great, thats brilliant. Especially the use of the sentinel as the cockpit, inspiring

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Brilliant! I have always had a special place in my heart for Krieg, and you pulled these guys off wonderfully. Consider me subscribed, sir.

Prax

Very nice! You've come a long way with this walker, and I love the execution. I wish I had the patience to spend this much time on a model...

Love your weathering on the walker, keep it coming mate

probably the coolest walker ive ever seen! Kepp up the good work!!

Frickin awesome!