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I recently got some time to paint again, so I decided to paint my House Terryn Knight. I bought the Forge World upgrade kit because I am a sucker for sculpted relief in stead of just decals. I wish Forge World had sculpted the leg plates but I guess you can't have everything.

Anyway, after priming the whole thing black, I hit the machine parts with a base of Boltgun Metal (yes, I still have several pots of that stuff). After letting that dry, I went to the red parts and based them with two thinned coats of Mechrite Red (Foundation). After that, I then started putting on thin layers of Blood Red. I'm not a fan of Blood Red as it has blotchy areas of more/less color as you apply it. Still, eventually I wound up with a uniform color. I didn't use any washes at this stage because everything is more or less flat on the model. I'll hit the rivits on the legs with a dark wash later on. I'm also not worried about being neat at this point since I haven't started with the Eagle or brass/silver parts.

Ah, that vibrant Blood Red! Can't wait to see it paired with blue. Unless you're going for some different paint scheme?

The only difference is that I'm using the older paints that I have instead of the latest "recommended" GW paints.

Okay, I got a little bit of work done. I cleaned up the red, blackened in the Eagles with Chaos Black and then hit them with a drybrush of Fortress Grey. They look a lot more grey in the photo than they actually do. Still, I might hit them with a soft drybrush of a dark grey to bring them down just a bit. I'll wait until the blue is on to decide.

Okay, I'm not sure what happened but my camera distorted the colors. You'll notice the green table somehow turned yellow. I also forgot to include my paints in the picture so I'll just post what I have now and update later. I thinned my Ultramarine Blue a little too much so it took about four coats to cover properly instead of the two I'm used to.









I promise I'll get better with my camera work.

EDIT: I managed to get some better pictures. Putting my models on a white napkin helped the camera get its act together. I forgot to get another shot of the chest before moving on but that's okay as it was the least bad of the previous set.

Okay, I finally got some time to paint and I went with the white areas this time. I still have some touch-up work to do around the horses but I think it's going fairly well.

FYI: The "Terryn" banner isn't finished. I just base-coated it and will be giving it a faux parchment took to it at a later time. Still, the lettering came out well considering that I'm still a bit ham fisted with my detail work.

Lookin great so far mate

I got some time today and I started working on the gold trim. I used my old pot of shining gold but am disappointed with how it covered. I guess after sitting so long it just wasn't mixing correctly. What I've done today will work as a base coat but I'll probably have to buy a fresh pot of some gold paint to do the actual layering.

I also noticed some blotching in previous pictures so I did some clean-up work on the blues and reds. Finally, I gave the large metal parts on the legs a wash of Nuln Oil to darken them up a bit. The picture probably doesn't differentiate them much from the rest of the metal bits in the legs but when I go back and hit the smaller parts with chainmail silver, the contrast will be more pronounced.

The gold and the blue on the legs look aces. You did a great job on the red also. I can't wait to see where this goes