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

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**Knightley**

@WarbossDakka - Thanks mate, I like the darker colours to contrast the light armour, so thanks for noticing

Update: ton of edge highlighting done!

**Knightley**

Update: TA captain done, no final pics yet

**inmygravenimage**

Lovely face mate. Beautiful work all over.

**Gitsplitta**

Agreed. Very sharp work.

**Knightley**

@Graven - Thanks dude!

@Gits - Thank you

Update: Base colors underway!

**ZergSmasher**

Termie captain looks great, and you're off to a good start on that Dreadnought! I've always loved dreads, so I look forward to seeing what you do with this one.

**evildrcheese**

Excellent work on the Cataphractii Captain. Tge Storm bolter conversion is pretty seamless too.

EDC

**WarbossDakka**

That Captain looks great Knightley. Much more regal than most SM Captains, so nice work there!

**Knightley**

@Zerg - Yeah I saw the new redemptor dread and I secretly want one, but I'm doing everything not to buy more models!

@EDC - Thank you! I did have to cut it down quite a bit to get it to fit, so its nice to hear it fits nicely

@WarbossDakka - Cheers

Update: washes applied

**Knightley**

Update: started with light grey edge highlighting, I really like doing edges on models where it is very defined, nothing worse than trying to highlight rounded edges!

**inmygravenimage**

Super sweet, looks awesome.

**Azazelx**

Both the Tank and the Terminator look great! And that much of the dread done so quickly as well - you're a painting machine!

**WarbossDakka**

You speak the truth on the highlighting round edges - it's really difficult to get right because of how thin that line has to be on a curved surface. Dreadnoughts (and most Imperium vehicles for that matter) are great in that aspect, due to how blocky they are. Great progress Knightley.

**Knightley**

@Graven - Thanks dude

@Azazelx - I have had a bit more than an hour a day on this guy so this will be why its progressing so quickly

@WarbossDakka - Agreed, so for all those out there saying I should try eldar, I may do, but much later

Update: Got reds and parchment basically done

**Gitsplitta**

That's coming along beautifully Knightley. So crisp and grey...

**Knightley**

@Gits - Thanks Gits! I hope your Birthday went well?

Update: Model done, wasn't feeling very well over the weekend so I may need to come back and tidy some things up at a later date, specially the base needs another layer.

Launcher in place

**inmygravenimage**

Very nice, creepy actually with that face !

**Mad..**

Nice looking Dreadnought you've done up there!

I agree that the face is creepy as on this model. hehe

**WarbossDakka**

Looks awesome Knightley, good amount of squiggles on it as well.

**Gitsplitta**

It went beautifully. Thanks Knightley.

That's an eye-popping dread. Really top-quality work on your part my friend.

**Knightley**

@Graven - Cheers, I wanted a sinister look, I had thought about doing a half red half white face, but with out any good reference points it may have looked a bit naff

@Mad - Thanks Man

@WarbossDakka - Thank you!

@Gits - Tbh I was worried there wasn't a lot of red/white contrast on the model, but due to how I had applied gubbins it didn't lend well to the scheme. Ah well I've learned that now, on to the next thing!

Update: On to 5 bolter scouts, base grey applied

**Knightley**

Update: Base colours applied

**ZergSmasher**

Dread turned out great, although the creepy face would be more fitting on a Chaos model or something I would think. Nice to see you're still cranking out models at a good pace; I've stalled yet again myself. I really need to step on it if I want to finish my goal of doing all the Dark Imperium Primaris guys by the end of the month. Do you set yourself little deadlines like that to help motivate yourself?

**Knightley**

@Zerg - Yeah, I can totally agree with you on the face it perhaps should have been bronze or silver? Regarding motivation, it is something I tackle daily, there are some times after a stressful day all I want to do is veg out on the couch watching some netflix, and I do. But I'll watch one episode of something to relax then get up and tell myself is only an hour, then I can go back to veging out. It's not a fool proof method but it seems to work for me.

I was rapidly approaching burn out on painting around the end of 2013 as I had been painting a sea of grey since 2011 and was trying to paint as much as I could as often as I could and it was shattering me. I ended up taking 3 months off to look after my 3 month old son and had a chance to sit back and re-evaluate. I ended up creating mini projects that I would focus on and not deviate until it was done (although it didn't stop me from buying a ton of new models in the mean time) which lead to me repainting my Ultra Marines and Dark Angels, creating a gaming table, doing a Necron and Tau army in their entirety. It was those breaks which allowed me to recharge for another sea of grey push.

If I were to evaluate where I am at now, I probably have another push of my Grey Knights/Gray Nights before I'll need to recharge the creative juices so you may get another full army completed.

Personally I found setting myself a time frame didn't work as the second I fell behind it was a bigger and bigger struggle to get back on top of things, so now I just sit to an hour a night and let time do its thing. A bit of a wordy reply, but I hope it helps any one reading.

Update: finishing off the base colours (doing 5 models at a time is quite time consuming)

**Knightley**

Update: washes applied

**inmygravenimage**

I like the russet brown you've got for your bases, very martian; what do you use, I don't think I've ever asked?

**Knightley**

@Graven - In terms of the gravel, its simply the GW sand, then a watered layer of pva, wait till try, then Prime of Army painter brown (not sure of the name of it) then its a agrax wash, then a medium brown dry brush, then a bone drybrush, dark brown base lip and the jobs done

Update: edge highlight on the grey done

**Solar_lion**

Pasty face Dread looks great .. nice way to break up all that white/grey with all the scrolls.

Wise words on the motivation topic. Thought mine is more like an hour or 2 a week at this point.

New GK codex out soon so this should help motivate.

**Meph**

Good stuff in here, man. The latest batches of models in particular. That grey and bronze looks awesome.

**Knightley**

@Solar - Yeah, I'm itching to buy the new dex, although I've not heard very good things so far, time will tell (I really want to do a GM in a NDK suit)

@Meph - Thanks mate!

Update: started on the reds and browns