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

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**Spacewolverine**

Those faces are quite scary looking, forgot how horrific (In a good way) they look especially in flesh tones.... I really like your color scheme, its very subtle and the red looks great! Jealous because I cannot paint red to save my life.

**inmygravenimage**

Ooh, now I like them. Chunky, so often lacking in csm. Have you considered some spot green for contrast?

**Knightley**

@Spacewolverine - Cheers for the compliments, I hate painting red as well, Nerdfest can paint a mean red and I'm very envious of his skill there.

@Graven - there is a little bit of green in the eyes, not much else I'm afraid

Update: models done

**Gitsplitta**

Man Knightley... you are a machine! And a talented one at that!

**evildrcheese**

Great work Knightly.

Hard to believe how much you've knocked out since I last was in this thread. Highlights are Huron and the magnetised termie lord/sorcerer but you've done solid work on the cultists and CSM too.

D

**Knightley**

@Gits - Just trying to up my speed at the moment, its surprising how quickly you can paint things when its 5 colours and a wash!

@EDC - Thanks mate, I'm most happy with Huron and Typhus, once I figure out how to base these chaos models then the lord might take centre stage

Update: so this is the current force, just the sorcerer and some plague marines to go!

**Spacewolverine**

It is very surprising ain't it Knightley how effective 5 Colors and a wash is! They look real sharp together. Little basing and they'll look awesome!

**Knightley**

Agreed, if only I had known this when I first started, I could have finished the huge amount of models I have waiting to be painted by now!

Update: some very basic styles on the sorc

**Knightley**

Update: close enough to done

**Spacewolverine**

Looks so much better Knightley! Looks very sinister! Are you going to do something special to the sword?

**Gitsplitta**

I must admit I'm not sold on the skirt...

**Mad..**

Just did a catch up read.... you've been busy!

That Chaos lord is awesooooome, and the fact it's magnetised and all matches up is icing on the cake!

If you are a sucker for punishment you could always do a tyranid army one day and magnetise all the options they have hehe.

**Knightley**

@SW - Cheers for the comments, to aid me getting through this force quickly I'll be leaving the sword bland for now. If I ever come back to the army I will give it a power sword treatment, perhaps in green.

@Gits - I know what you mean, it's supposed to be a flesh'esque skirt and the brown wash doesn't do it justice, I believe it would look much better if it were to get highlighted and some inscriptions lavished on it, just not this time round.

@Mad - Glad to have you back bro, hope your trip away was relaxing and fun! Funny you mention Tryanids, I believe 2017 will be the year of the Nid, but you'll have to stick around that long as I'm pretty confident it will be epic!

Update: last bit of the army started

**Knightley**

Update: Plague marines done

This wraps up this push! tomorrow will post the completed push shot, then its on to the next.

**Gitsplitta**

I likes me some plague marines!

**inmygravenimage**

Nurglicious! Looking forward to the group shot

**Knightley**

@Gits - Thanks, I got stuck with in-opportune arms so most of the maarines have guns up in the air disease

@Graven - Danke! wait no longer buddy!

Update: Ninth push shot!
Front

Top

**Spacewolverine**

Really coming together, looking good and crisp!

**inmygravenimage**

That's a big push... Over the top, even

now I want massive squiggly helldrakes

**Gitsplitta**

Wow... not THAT'S a chaos army!

**Knightley**

@SW - Thanks mate!

@Graven - You buy it, I'll paint it

@Gits - Cheers, it's just a quick and dirty force, nothing to austere

Update: So what's next I hear you call? well for those who remember much earlier on in the blog I brought Inquisitor Hector Rex and ended up with a few henchmen to boot.

Well I wanted to expand on that force in the only way I know how, over the top amounts of models, here's the list:
39 x Inquisitorial Henchmen (assorted)
1 x Inquisitor Solomon Lok
1 x Inquisitor Valeria (custom made)
1 x Inquisitor Coteaz (custom made)
4 x Chimeras (converted 3 of them)

and just to throw some more models in to the mix
3 x Necron Tomb Blades /w Particle beamers
1 x Necron Wraith

I'm hoping I can get this all finished before Xmas, So lets get started with the Necrons first, it should be pretty quick, silver primer and a black wash to start

**Littletower**

Start looks good and quick, but there are a lot of edges there...

**Knightley**

Cheers LT, don't remind me, doing the black certainly brings back some memories from earlier in the year!

Update: blue and Black panels have been started

**evildrcheese**

The Necrons are looking great. The silver and blue are really cool.

Can't wait to see what you do with the =I= force.

D

**Gitsplitta**

Making good progress there Knightley. That one section near the top of each section of bike bothers me though... looks like its where the srue attached to the figure. A little filing or GS would take care of that nicely.

**StarDrop**

Gitsplitta wrote:
That one section near the top of each section of bike bothers me though... looks like its where the srue attached to the figure.

Battle damage that is!

**Knightley**

@EDC - Thanks, it's a bastardised version of Garfy's Necron scheme -

Spoiler:

@Gits - Yep, good point, well raised, I tried giving it a file and made it worse :S so I'll go down the track of StarDrop's suggestion and go battle damage!

@StarDrop - Right on the money

Update: Reds started and blues finished off

**Spacewolverine**

Gotta love Necrons. One reason I always wanted to do them, easy to paint. I didn't see the Inquisitor till now, he looks great, white looks phenomenal and I love his minions. Does GW sell those Henchmen mate?

**Mad..**

Knightley wrote:

@Mad - Glad to have you back bro, hope your trip away was relaxing and fun! Funny you mention Tryanids, I believe 2017 will be the year of the Nid, but you'll have to stick around that long as I'm pretty confident it will be epic!

Trip away was very fun thanks. Almost got back into the groove of life back home and should be back into painting next week. I'm sure you doing a Nid army will be epic, and I'll still be hanging around I'm sure... got some little projects planned myself once I got my main Tyranid army push done.

The group shot of your Chaos group is great, and I like the look of those Inquisition forces, looking forward to seeing more of that!

**Knightley**

@SW - Agreed, that are also very strong in game, the decurion detachment is just rediculous. For Rex, he is a forge world model - http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Inquisitor-Lord-Hector-Rex-and-Retinue

@Mad - I'm kind of looking forward to it, almost a bit of trepidation as well as I'll be helping out my brother as it will be his army.

Update: Necrons done, pretty simple considering