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

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**Mad..**

Heh, that daemon head detail is a nice touch.

**Knightley**

@Mad - Cheers man, I thought it made it more Grey Knight with the addition, glad someone agrees

Update: Started on 3 little bitty terminators

**JustaerinAtTheWall**

Cool stuff! Fine work on the spartan and i'm likin' these little travelers for him as well!

**Knightley**

@Justaerin - Thanks man!

Update: Washes applied

**WarbossDakka**

Back to the roots - nothing like a bunch of GK termies! Lovely highlighting as usual Knightley.

**Casey's Law**

Glad to see you've been keeping busy! Is the squiggle god still not satisfied with your contributions after that bloody awesome titan or was it a, 'talent untold for a lifetime of servitude' sort of deal?

Seriously that titan is really something, it all is, you never seem to wobble. So which of your babies is bigger now, the titan or the wain?

**Knightley**

@WarbossDakka - Cheers!

@Casey - Welcome back (been a while) I suspect that no matter how many squiggles are applied it will never be enough

I measured the titan vs the little one, he towers over him, the little one is 3 and a half now, where has that time gone!

Update: Startomg the layering, red and some parchments first

**Casey's Law**

Me oh my, time certainly marches on. Squiggles gona squiggle though, eh?

**inmygravenimage**

^ Those squiggle aren't going to squiggle themselves.

I love the effort that goes into your WIP shots. It's a mighty impressive record, and instruction manual at that.

**Knightley**

@Casey - I know, its kind of scary how quickly they grow up.

@Graven - Thanks mate! I have tried to make pictures easier to see, sometimes that works, sometimes not so much.

Update: Got all but the edge highlighting of the grey (and squiggles) done

**WarbossDakka**

That power sword is impressive. You've come on a long way Knightley!

**JustaerinAtTheWall**

Cool stuff Knightley, just noticed the sergeant's legs. That certainly dates the models, but still work after all these years!

**Camkierhi**

Above all the big and wonderful,your ability to churn out such amazing high standard troops is your real truly amazing talent. At this you are among the greats.

They look brilliant.

**Diesinthewarp**

Hey I looked back about 10 pages and couldn't see the answer. Currently painting my grey knights army and loved the back backs you did!! Wondering how you achieved the blue and brass colours?
I don't own a airbrush so even the colours would be helpful, if you don't mind divulging!

**Knightley**

@WarbossDakka - Heh, considering the blog started in Feb 2011, I'd agree with you

@Justaerin - I had a spare set of NDK pilot legs, what was I going to do, let them go to waist (Pun intended)

@Cam - Aww, you're far to kind, I would say there are easily better painters out there, I'm forever in awe at the skill I see on the boards, but to be considered great is a high honour indeed!

@Diesinthewarp - Welcome to the blog! Brass is Warplock Bronze, followed by a purple wash, then layer with warplock again, highlight with Hashut Copper. Blue is Macgragge blue base, black wash, macragge blue layer, enchanted blue layer, ice blue highlight, skull white extreme highlight. I hope that helps.

Update: Terminators done, crappy lighting as one of my normal lights gave up the ghost and its base shattered, so only 3 lights to form a light box and the shadows are horrible.

**Gitsplitta**

Looking mighty fine my friend. Mighty fine indeed!

**WarbossDakka**

It's not too noticeable, hopefully you can get a replacement (shouldn't be too difficult). Anyway, the highlights are great, as they are at just the right colours to give a consistant gradient as you get towards the top of the model. Awesome work Knightley, what's next on the to-do list?

**Casey's Law**

Iffy lighting or not, another unit joins the ranks in the resplendent grey armour we know and love.

Can't remember if we've discussed this before but how do you store the army? If it was me I'd have it all on display but it would take up a lot of space and I'm guessing a lot of dusting.

**ZergSmasher**

Been a little bit since I checked in on this blog. The Spartan turned out great, and so did these Termies. I love Grey Knight models, although if I get some I'll probably do the standard metallic finish on their armor. Which is not to say I don't like yours; one of the best things in this hobby is seeing many different people's artistic take on the same models! I'd kind of like to see what you could do with the GK character in the Triumvirate of the Primarch, or maybe even what you could do with Guilliman himself, although I'm not sure if there's room for any squiggles on that busy model.

**Knightley**

@Gits - Cheers

@WarbossDakka - Thanks! Next I have is more troops, I have two squads of interceptors (making 4 total) two 5 man strike squads, a 5 man paladin squad and a 5 man purifier squad.

@Casey - I am still looking at a reliable way to show the army, currently space dictates they be housed in GW cases and plastic boxes, I am scheduled to move house again in the next 3 years or so and I may have a better area to set up display cases, so for now I have this

Spoiler:

@Zerg - Agreed, I really like looking at peoples takes on classic models, LDP have a very amazing way he paints his Ultramarines, dark and resplendent, yet on the flip side mray01 has very vibrant and amazing ultramarine models (very old thread here - https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/262956.page) Funny you mention the new GK and Triumvirate set, I've pre-ordered it, if only for Cypher and the GK, I figured that LDP might be a little interested in Guilliman and could potentially buy it from me.

Update: Next Interceptor squad underway

**Casey's Law**

Do I sense some old metals in that squad? Some very familiar poses and details jumping out at me.

That's a nice storage solution, very neat and easy to access, hopefully you'll have room for display one day.

**Knightley**

@Casey - Oh yes, of the models in this push, there is about 50% old metal model in there.

Update: Didn't get a lot of time, so only a few more colours laid out.

**JustaerinAtTheWall**

Not gonna lie, seeing you paint GK makes me wanna start a small army even more! They've been on my mind since I started painting Exorcist marines...

**inmygravenimage**

Love the way you continue to merge parts old and new. Makes me a little misty eyed...

**Azazelx**

The Grey Knights came out, erm, Grey-t!

Seriously though, the terminators have come out very nicely, and the regular GK marines look like they'll be just as good.

**angelofvengeance**

You must have at least a chapter's worth of Grey Knights now, surely?

Great stuff as usual, Knightley

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**Nevelon**

Knightley wrote:
@Gits - Cheers

@WarbossDakka - Thanks! Next I have is more troops, I have two squads of interceptors (making 4 total) two 5 man strike squads, a 5 man paladin squad and a 5 man purifier squad.

@Casey - I am still looking at a reliable way to show the army, currently space dictates they be housed in GW cases and plastic boxes, I am scheduled to move house again in the next 3 years or so and I may have a better area to set up display cases, so for now I have this

Spoiler:

@Zerg - Agreed, I really like looking at peoples takes on classic models, LDP have a very amazing way he paints his Ultramarines, dark and resplendent, yet on the flip side mray01 has very vibrant and amazing ultramarine models (very old thread here - https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/262956.page) Funny you mention the new GK and Triumvirate set, I've pre-ordered it, if only for Cypher and the GK, I figured that LDP might be a little interested in Guilliman and could potentially buy it from me.

When was the last time you had them all out for an army shot? Or are you bumping up against critical levels of awesomeness, where if you got them all together they would form some sort of critical mass singularity and break the universe? So you can only dole out small teases for the safety of us all?

I can’t imagine GW boxes are the most economical way to store an army. If you are going to expand, I might look into KR Multicase. Their whole philosophy is based on neatly stacked storage boxes you just pop into a bag to take down to the FLGS.

If you see LDP, and he’s not planning on getting Guilliman, do me a favor and give him a “I’m so disappointed in you” look for me. I wouldn’t ask you to chain him to his workbench and force him to paint it, but I wouldn’t say no to that either.

His own blog has been a bit quiet here, or I’d just harangue him myself there. But the world needs to see his take on RG.

Nice progress on the last batch of knights there.

**Mad..**

Those power swords look wicked!

The rest of the models look great as well, but the swords really catch the eye

**evildrcheese**

Awesome work on the Spartan dude.

Already burning through more high quality infantry, your hobby progress is simply relentless!

EDC

**Knightley**

@Justaerin - This is a good thing! I hope I can help motivate you to get some GK lovin' I'll have to stop by and offer my comments if you do

@Graven - Cheers man, whats interesting as these models were the unpainted ones from your "Graven Knights" I brought from you a while back, the legend continues

@Azazelx - Love the pun! and thanks for the kind comments.

@AoV - Getting close to a brotherhood I would think, Still have some more things to finish it off

@Nev - I think everything was out in January for the end of year photograph, that was what we in the business call a "Armagedd-omglookatallthemodels' I agree with the economical way, only my GK's are in GW cases, the rest are in the plastic bins filled with foam, its slight more economical that way. LDP is down at university at the moment which is why his blog is a wee bit quite, trust me though the Gulliman is earmarked for him. If he doesn't want it I'll make is some Marine god for my army.

@Mad - Thanks man, sword and faces seem to be my jam eh?

@EDC - Relentless? I reckon consistent would be more an apt name at this point!

Update: Washes done, gah it takes so loooong!