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So I decided to get back into the hobby and splurged on a copy of Overkill and some Knights. First up a WIP crest for house Celebensis:

I've been wanting to try out Shapeways new DLP material and figured this would be a good opportunity. Current plans are for 3d printed shields, shoulder and hatch logos and banners as well as a blinged up battle cannon because the barrel is too boring. I'm also pondering how best to repose the legs as I don't want four knights that all look the same. It might be worth modelling up the lower leg assembly as it looks like a bit of a knightmare to repose. Hmmmm....


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First batch of Genestealers painted and based. A few details still to do but quite happy with how these are turning out

Love the GS Cultists but especially keen to see how your Shapeways project comes along!

I've bought a few parts from there but not in the last couple of years so it'll be interesting to see how the quality has improved (was pretty good before but even the finest prints had micro-ridges).

They now do an even higher resolution of their frosted plastic but it still has the problems of the FUD in that its incredibly brittle and you always get micro ridges where the waxy support material meets the plastic. I'm hopping the new DLP acrylate will be both stronger and smoother, though it is lower resolution and will need cleanup where the support material is. It should be fine though for the scale of parts I'm aiming to make.

Decided to change the boars head from a "realistic" one to a stylised one to fit the overall them better.

So I got this far on modelling the leg (also did the foot and foot plate) before taking another look at the model and realising I'd have to cut the hips and reposition them as well.

At this point I decided it probably wasn;t worth the effort to model the lower leg and would be easier to just do it the old fashioned way, cut the legs at the knee and reconstruct the pistons with plastic rod. Oh well, only a couple of hours wasted. I also finished assembling and magnetising the first knight that is going to be in standard pose. Lots of gap filling and mould line removing to do and then I'm going to start carving in some battle damage. Still planning on 3d printing crests and the next job is to start designing personal heraldry for each of the knights.

Ever get that feeling when you look at something and you think... hmmm... something's not quite right. Just had that. Yep turns out I put the legs on backwards on my first Knight. Luckily with a bit of brute force and ignorance I managed to take them off and put them back on the right way with only a little bit of damage that will probably be covered by the groin armour anyway, but still. Not my finest moment.
Moving on... While waiting for liquid green stuff to arrive I decided to start cutting up knight number 2's legs so I can repose him. I've stuffed the leg cavities with magic sculp so I can drill into it for pinning and the bits of sprue are Araldited in place. The ball joint at the ankle is a bead liberated from a gift bag that my housemate had and is pinned and Araldited as well. To turn the solid footplates into functional sockets I drilled a hole in each one then used a piercing saw to cut out the rough hole. I then used a jewellers wax file (that gnarly file with the teeth) to even it up until I could just push the ball through. These are really useful if you need to remove a lot of material and don't fancy using a dremel or spending ages with a needle file.
Lastly I cut the hip and reconstructed it at a closer angle with greenstuff so when his right leg is bent his knee is facing forward rather than out to the side. Lots of pinning and neatening up the holes to do but should be able to dry fit the pose tomorrow.
Note to self: Pay more attention in future.

Looks like you made a decent recovery from putting the legs on backwards. Sounds like a horrible realisation to make on such a big/expensive kit.

EDC

Yep, saved thank God. Have now pretty much finished gap filling the body of Knight 1 and will get some paint on him this weekend. Yay! I've also added a load of scratches to the feet as I figure these would get pretty beat up kicking through rubble and stomping on the enemies of the Imperium. Added a few little nicks in other places and will really scratch up the blade of the chainsaw so it looks like its been cutting through steel and concrete.
Knight number 2's legs have been reposed roughly and now I'm just waiting for some plastic rod to reconstruct the pistons. Got quite a lot of gap filling to do on these as well as wasn't too neat in hacking up the joints.

So got some paint on Knight 1's bodywork. This is a basecoat of 75% / 25% Vallejo Gunmetal Grey / cold grey airbrushed over black, followed by a wash of Nuln oil, then drybrushed with gunmetal grey and lastly a little necron compound. I've then gone into the cracks with some typhus corrosion and also sponged some on lightly all over. I think its got a nice aged steel patina.




Also a set of 3d printed shields arrived for my knights. Got these done through 3d hubs on a Form 2 at 25 micron resolution. Kind of hard to see with it being semi transparent but the text is perfectly readable and there's almost no stepping visible. Very pleased



Going to take a break from the Knights and start on my Genestealer Patriarch for this months painting challenge.

That's a nice looking crest. Look forward to seeing it painted, as well as the patriarch.

Nice progress on the knight, those custom shields are sick.

EDC

Thanks! Trying to think of what else I can get done for the knights which won't break the bank. Thinking a custom breastplate and helm for my High King might be cool

Got some painting time in and have been working on my Patriarch. He's almost there although I think I'll do some more on the base to make it less grey. Need to take some proper photos of him once I can find my tripod and decent camera.

Got to spend some time on my knight over the last couple of days. I've been trying to get a dull brass look by mixing Brass scorpion with flash gitz yellow, a bit of bleached bone and some silver drybrushed over a coppery colour made from brass and a bit of brown. I think its working pretty well. Heat staining is washes of Seraphim Sepia, Agrax Earthshade and a bit of Druchi Violet and tarnishing is Nihilakh oxide. Would have liked the Melta cannon to come out smoother but experimented with several different blends on it and the paint ended up a bit thick. Might strip it right back with isopropyl and start again but haven't decided yet.

So Knight number 1 is coming on



Still got a lot of detailing work, transfers, rivets to shade and last lot of weathering to go but he's definitely getting there. I've used the hairspray technique to distress the paint work. Simply slop a load of hairspray on with a brush, wait for it to dry and then paint over either by hand or with an airbursh. Then once its dried dampen the surface and then rub off bits of paint with a brush. The more hairspray the easier it is to flake the paint off.

Gratuitous crotch shot:



Really pleased with how this has come out and I'm glad I pre-weathered the base coat layer by sponging over typhus compound after dry brushing as I think the little flecks of rust showing through really give it some depth.

Pretty pleased with how the 3d printed shield has come out as well, although damn some of the detail on it like the Knights helm is seriously tiny! Will take proper photos of it when I can be bothered setting up the light box