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So I am gonna be unable to post pictures for a little bit as we are switching internet providers and have yet to get them to hook us back up so I will have to check via phone as I am now, but that is going to limit my ability to update photos :[/i](

But the good news is that tonight I finished the riders bodies, [everything minus arms and pauldrons) and will be glueing the, to their respectable steeds and should be able to finish the arms tmrw at least for a few of not all of them.

I did have to lighten my riders up alot because I had gone a little too dark when I painted the, so I made a mixture of 1:1:1 leviathen puprle, bleached bone and water and applied it to add a little pop to the models before I washed them again and got a pretty good turnout, the colors seem to now match and that makes me alot happier.

Well I hope to be able to upload photos soon but until then or my next update thanks for looking

Cutthroatcure

Those steeds are amazing. Such great work here. Sorry to hear your ISP switch has you offline at the moment... but that's just more time to work and post a *huge* update when you're back up and running.

Well for a textual update 5/5 Knights are complete [Minus bases) and I will be begin building the next part of my army tmrw or Wednesday...I do start work again tomorrow so I will be losing a few hours of painting time but I should be ok.

One question I will ask is do you all think I should start worki g on warriors or Hounds next? I am at a stalemate for which to begin next so which would you rather see next...

Also internet should be back up tmrw so I should be able to put up pictures of the finished knights for all to enjoy.

Thanks for looking

Cutthroatcure

Warriors. Will bring your army up to "playable" that much sooner.

INTERNET IS BACK!

So in celebration of this and the fact that I have had to keep you all in the dark for far too long I am going to do a MEGA post! Complete with pictures and small blurbs from this dark time!

So I am going to do two posts, one with the work up to my finished products and one of the kinda artsy photo's I took today to give the knights the real zeal they deserve.

So this last weekend was all about me going thru the steps and putting in the level of detail work I wanted people to see on my army. I decided after much debate to go with a sort of "Changing" Aspect to the weapons & Armor to give them a supernatural feeling and show somewhat where the faith of this army lies.

I went "Hawk turquoise" and decided to thin it down 1:1 and at points mix in a little "Bleached bone" for a light touch in certain areas. The Demon shield was one of the areas I spent most of my time because I had high expectations for how I wanted it to look in the Finished Product.

I got one knight finished my first knight and then another three done the second knight, I first thought I had finished all the Knights, but upon further inspection realized the musician was not up to the same level and was missing his pop I tried to give each of them so I placed him back on my workbench where he will be getting a little more attention before he is photo ready!

Ok now for the finished products of my blood(There was blood) Sweat, and plenty of tears!

I wanted the pictures to kinda have this were off to war feeling so after a bit of walking found a rock wall with a little ledge on it and began to take some shots of the Knights as if they were riding along a mountain pass. I also wanted them to be seen with some natural light so you would have a good Idea what they would look like when they were seen on the table top.

I want to thank you all for following me this far and hope you Enjoy!

Cutthroatcure

Looks awesome! A little heavy on the wash in certain areas, but still really good!

They are looking great! Only thing I would add is maybe some sort of freehand on the banner

Like the purple on the armor and the colors on shields and swords, nicely done!

@Johnny-Crass I have had serious thoughts about what to put on there, but i do not have the best faith in my free hand to not just totally F*** that banner up sadly :( I thought about a roman numeric V for the banner, but as I said I am not sure what to do about it and it came out so pretty with its original color!

@Selvaggio Thanks, I really have been trying to deliver good work, I know it could be alot better and I just need to work harder to get there

@th3maninblk Yeah washes are sometimes a little crazy to work with and it being my first time working with them to this extent i expected a little issues, but I was not at all upset with the way the colors came out.

Do what I did with my empire banners (shameless plug as I just posted updates two days ago). I needed anchors on my banners so I got my idea then painted about 30 of em on the bottom of my movement tray. By that point I got the shape and feel down and they are turning out great.

@Johnny-Crass Difference is your banners are wide and have surface area, the Chaos Banner is long and super scrunched up...Hard area to work with :(

Tonight before I went to bed, I was able to put the finishing touched on the horn and last two pauldrons and finish the last knight and officially complete my first entire full squad!!! A full 240 points of my 1500 have been finished and now sit nicely on my shelf!

I will be starting my first 12 man box of warriors tomorrow and will be cutting from the sprue and filing away unwanted notches and lines.

I will upload some photos of the work and will see you all tomorrow

Thanks for Looking

Cutthoatcure

The purple is looking really good and I like how the metallic trim contrasts against it. And I have to say that even though I'll never switch (becasue I have ... 30? painted Chaos Knights) I like the new scale a lot better, they seem more realistic than the older range.

Great work, thanks for sharing that update!

So before I jumped into some Stats Homework that's due tmrw I decided to take a break and get my warriors started so that I had no excuse not to start building them tonight and keep my progress with the project up.

Hopefully I will throw some more photo's of my progress up later tonight if I can finish this work and ditch this headache

Cutthroatcure!

Hate to break it to you mate but they are not finished! They need to be based!

@Johnny-Crass Basing will come when all 1500 points are finished being painted...I have a bad habit of changing my basing theme halfway thru an army so, now I wait till they are all done and then base them in one fell swoop!

I get the same color and texture across the entire army and keep myself from changing things!

Yah I do the same thing to. Just had to make sure you were going to base them though

Hey guys,

I am working on my WOC army and wanted to go with a dark rock look for my bases that kinda gave the idea of the army walking across a wasteland, I wanted like bits of dead looking wood to set on the bases and just some small rocks to base with.

So any links or tutorial you all may know of please throw my way because as much as I have looked I have found nothing of real substance. Also anywhere you know where I can buy rock basing material for cheap that is of good quality would also do me wonders!

Thanks for any help!

So my Friday has been pretty productive and I thought I would give an update to how much I was able to get done while watching the last season of Greek.

Keep it Classy Dakka!!!

They're looking great mate!

@Johnny-Crass Thanks, I still have a lot to do but I was happy with their progress tonight and hopefully will get this 12 done relatively quick so that they can stand beside their Knightly Brothers!

My update for the night,

I was not able to get any where near as much done as I would have liked but I did make some progress. I darkened the Pelts and took a shot of what I have in mind for them to look like.

Loving the look of the pure wash purple. Very tempted to try that out myself. I did something similar when I did Army of the Dead for LoTR. Only difference is I did washes of Purple, Black, and then Purple again because I liked the darker look.

Can't wait to see them finished.

Looking great and for some reason the armor reminds me of glass!

@Buttlerthepug I am going to go over them with a Brown wash to darken them some but basically the deep purple is what I like

@Johnny-Crass Glass you say?

Like tinted car windows. Its really cool IMO

@Johnny-Crass Well hell yeah then

You've progressed loads since I last looked in, everything is looking very nice.

For rocks you could use small bits of cork or slate. For the slate wash before glueing and don't apply the glue to the slate only to the base, I found out the hard way and got some dust in my super glue and it went rock hard

I've not tried cork myself but seen loads of people use it for small rocks.

I was looking at Chaoslords Army and I love what he did with their bases and as soon as he gets back to me hopefully he can throw me his Recipe.

But worse case I am going to go with cork, I may even use it to make the bits of burnt wood that will litter the larger bases. I also may put just a wee bit of static grass just for an offset.

@GiraffeX Thanks