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Does anyone ever truly get clean of 40k, for me the answer is most certainly a resounding no.

After my adventures with Imperial Fists (and the accursed colour yellow) were cut short by mountains of real life distractions I haven't so much as picked up a brush let alone enjoyed gluing in a confined space. That was until a couple of weeks ago when Dakka's siren call drew me back in and I was hit by a lightning bolt of inspiration, medieval knights...in SPAAAAAAACE.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that finds the process of painting a lot of models the same way tough in the long run, invariably the feeling of being on production line gets a bit much. "If only there were a force where every model could look different" I thought, it was this point that the voice in my head cleared its throat and suggested that I paint the multicoloured Bretonnians.

Of course this was a ridiculous idea, who wants to paint weedy little men wearing garish pantomime costumes?!? Not me that's for sure, no I decided to paint genetically engineered superhumans wearing garish pantomime costumes, much better I think you'll agree.



The idea is to have the marines armour painted up silver just like ye old stereotypical knight in shining armour, on top of that they'll have a robe/tabard/cloak displaying their livery. Hopefully the silver armour will tie everyone together and the varied "clothing" will help to keep me sane.



Work is already underway on the Dark Vengeance bikers I picked up on ebay aeons ago, these poor unfortunates are going to be the victims of my greenstuff "expertise." I want them all at least partially robed but if that proves too difficult they'll probably end up with some much easier chain mail. The real question is whether or not a metal horses head between the bike's headlights would be overkill?



I'm also cracking on with a close combat squad of sorts, each marine is going to have a shield and good old fashioned tool of his trade, battleaxe, mace, flail etc. The robed body and legs are from anvil industry, I want these chaps to stand out from the rank and file once I get round to them.

When I'm not getting paint everywhere or gluing my fingers together I'm going to try and come up with some fluff since this is my first non-codex chapter. At the moment I'm calling them the Knights Vigilant since GW and their combined fanbase have already bagsied the best chapter names. They may end up being renamed the Emperors Swords because who cares about canon right

Liking this. Looking forward to seeing more!

interested. tell me more

 Four Eyes wrote:


When I'm not getting paint everywhere or gluing my fingers together I'm going to try and come up with some fluff since this is my first non-codex chapter. At the moment I'm calling them the Knights Vigilant since GW and their combined fanbase have already bagsied the best chapter names. They may end up being renamed the Emperors Swords because who cares about canon right

Dude, when the reason is something this cool, feth CANON!

This idea is fantastic and I say to put a horse's head on that bike! If you are going over-the-top with Medieval Knights IN SPAAAAAAAAACE, there's no half-way!!

Great idea needs the Black knight!

Will definitely be keeping an eye on this. I look forward to seeing your progress.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Four Eyes wrote:


When I'm not getting paint everywhere or gluing my fingers together I'm going to try and come up with some fluff since this is my first non-codex chapter. At the moment I'm calling them the Knights Vigilant since GW and their combined fanbase have already bagsied the best chapter names. They may end up being renamed the Emperors Swords because who cares about canon right

Dude, when the reason is something this cool, feth CANON!

This idea is fantastic and I say to put a horse's head on that bike! If you are going over-the-top with Medieval Knights IN SPAAAAAAAAACE, there's no half-way!!

After tweaking a few things I've managed to squeeze some extra horsepower out of the bike.

These are looking awesome, the combination of fantasy and 40k parts makes them look very sci-fantasy as 40k should. I'm not sure about the horse head on the bike, but other than that, great stuff.

It's a nice start. I just think the Horse head on the bike is just to much.

Not keen on the horse head. Like the idea though. Thinking of using the WS chapter traits?

Semper Vigilantes!

Well the horse certainly proved a contentious idea, fear not it has since been removed and packed off to the glue factory, the bike shall remain headless.

I managed to get cracking in earnest today after my order of new brushes and undercoat arrived. I've started work on the first marine to try and give a better Idea of what I'm aiming for.



Nothing fancy yet just a basecoat and quick wash of nuln oil to give a bit of definition. Now that's done he'll be highlighted back up to look factory fresh before being battleworn down again, I'm definitely going to bust out the weathering powder I bought for my mini tau project.

His squadmates have also been mocked up and are patiently waiting their turn to be painted, I fear the chap with the massive flail may be overcompensating somewhat but whatever makes him happy. I originally bodged together a halberd/spear thing for the fellow with the eagle-hammer but it was so fragile it fell apart if I so much as looked at it too hard. They don't have heads yet because trimming down the Bretonnian helms is fiddly and I'm only prepared to shed so much blood in one sitting.



To bulk up the value of my supply drop I picked up an Inquisitor Coteaz to torture. After a little hacking and cursing I think he's turned out quite well, the closed fist and the hammer were pretty much a perfect fit which made the whole process nice and easy. The shield has now been embellished with purity seals etc to disguise my cack handed cutting, any dodgy edges left are henceforth considered battle damage.



I intend to paint him up as a black knight as was suggested above but I'm concerned that all black armour may not fit in too well with the other marines. One solution I came up with was to paint him in a 50/50 scheme, one half of his armor silver with brightly coloured robes and the other half totally black, although this could end up confusing matters even further.

Gold armor perhaps?