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So, to prevent the Imperial Knights news and rumours thread from going too far off-topic with the useful hobby banter, budding sacristans and nobles can post their questions, advice and models, both work in progress and finished here!



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RESOURCES & REQUIRED READING

IMPERIAL KNIGHTS FAQ

INDEX: RENEGADE KNIGHTS

THE IMPERIAL KNIGHTS SERIES

Prequel short story: BECOMING

BOOK 1: KINGSBLADE

Bridging short story: DEFIANT

BOOK 2: KNIGHTSBLADE

OTHER NOVELS / NOVELLAS / SHORT STORIES

KNIGHTS OF THE IMPERIUM



To kick things (hopefully) off, here's a WIP shot of my own Knight Valiant, the Freeblade VENGEANCE ETERNAL, which is scarily enough slowly reaching completion.



Still need to do the left leg plate, the rear of the thing (reactors..), the right missile, both arms and add some more details to the base, but we're getting somewhere! After that, a pair of Helverins to accompany their Lady into battle.

What color is that blue? Really nice looking.

This is “Baroda’s Hope”, of House Makabius

 Verviedi wrote:
What color is that blue? Really nice looking.

Several thinned down coats of Celestra Grey, bit of a bother to get on evenly, but I'm quite smitten with the final result.

 Bi'ios wrote:
This is “Baroda’s Hope”, of House Makabius

Spoiler:

Nice!

One minor quibble, though this may be due to the lighting, but the base and overall colour of the Knight appear to be the same, making model and base blend together somewhat, was this intentional?

It’s the (poor) lighting. I plan on building a light box. The base, while gray, isn’t the same. It’s much lighter colored than the Knight itself.

My knight household is mostly done, just needs heraldry (as of yet not designed) and basing.

Then I'll probably buy a Castellan.


Also got to try out my valiant in a 1750pt game vs my brother.

My Knight Styrix for forgeworld Phobos currently WIP:

Bi'ios wrote:It’s the (poor) lighting. I plan on building a light box. The base, while gray, isn’t the same. It’s much lighter colored than the Knight itself.

Then I've said nothing. Top work on the decals as well by the way, I hope those diagonal lines haven't given you too many grey hairs!

Destroyer_742 wrote:My knight household is mostly done, just needs heraldry (as of yet not designed) and basing.

Then I'll probably buy a Castellan.


Also got to try out my valiant in a 1750pt game vs my brother.

Spoiler:

They kinda just waltzed up the board deleting units.




I got to try the sniper missile on my exalted champion he borrowed.

And the Handshake of DOOM



Ended up a tie in spite of me killing all of his army but for two 10 man cultist squads. We had three objectives as our only victory conditions, one was unclaimed on the void shield generator (played as a ruin) one was controlled by 10 cultists (out of LOS, also in a ruin), and the one objective on the ground thoroughly controlled by three knights.

Isn't Death Grip on a small model a bit overkill?

Thanks for sharing, love the more muted colour scheme you've used.

ph34r wrote:My Knight Styrix for forgeworld Phobos currently WIP:

That ghostly grey contrasts nicely with the red base, it also makes the lenses and Volkite coil pop nicely.

The new big guys don’t seem that much bigger then the older ones, is that right?

Edit: Guess I should contribute too.

House Hawkshroud
https://imgur.com/a/J3U0VVt




I just bought the new Renegade boxset, still have the Acastus knight porphyrion, knight Magaera, 2x mini knights from forgebane in box for IK. Then there is the chaos knight and taunar in box still too.


EDIT: I plan to buy the knight valiant in the near future too.

The only Knight I have is a Renegade Knight that I used with the FW Chaos Knight rules in 7th edition, and it's not completely finished:

It's been sitting like this for about a year and a half now, and since Renegade Knights are kinda trash I have no real incentive to finish it. Other projects are taking priority right now.

Not sure if it belongs here so much, but I do have a machine designed by its creators to kill Imperial Knights (spoilered since it's not actually a Knight):

 BrookM wrote:

Spoiler:

ph34r wrote:My Knight Styrix for forgeworld Phobos currently WIP:

That ghostly grey contrasts nicely with the red base, it also makes the lenses and Volkite coil pop nicely.

Probably a similar color to your knights, it's celestra grey plus a bright green and a bit of beige.

My house Malinax Errant/Paladin got his first decal today. Soon it will march in full livery...

Finally got my Crusader into a position ready for priming! Now just gotta finish building my Valiant and then a Gallant from the 2nd half of the Renegade box!

Looking forward to finally getting some paint on them!

I folded and bought the Renegade box, decided to finish my DG for the moment and then when we go on holiday in the caravan, take it with me, and build it in the evenings.

Now I just need to watch the myriad of tutorials on magnetisation. No way in hades am I gluing a £120 box set together without swappable options!

whalemusic360 wrote:The new big guys don’t seem that much bigger then the older ones, is that right?

Surprisingly, no! About the same size even, give or take. Swapped legs and torsos won't look out of place one bit.

Just a few Knights.

"Just a few knights"?

*checks own shelf*

Yes. JUST A FEW KNIGHTS, this is a normal amount of Knights to have.

An excellent assortment though! My only quibble is that personally I feel that the green decals on your Gallant and Warden stand out a bit much with the rest of the used colours, but that's just me.

Are these all of the same house, or a band of Freeblades?

 BrookM wrote:

whalemusic360 wrote:The new big guys don’t seem that much bigger then the older ones, is that right?

Surprisingly, no! About the same size even, give or take. Swapped legs and torsos won't look out of place one bit.

Interesting. I want to do something different for the character guy when he comes out. Might do a leg swap plus some shapeways bits.

 BrookM wrote:
"Just a few knights"?

*checks own shelf*

Yes. JUST A FEW KNIGHTS, this is a normal amount of Knights to have.

An excellent assortment though! My only quibble is that personally I feel that the green decals on your Gallant and Warden stand out a bit much with the rest of the used colours, but that's just me.

Are these all of the same house, or a band of Freeblades?

They are a mix of Ad Mech and Imperial, so more like a group that found a common cause in a Imperial crusade. This way I could... have some freeblades too. If I needed more Knights.
The green decals was me beeing a little bit ...underequipped with decals of more than 4 colors.. so green seemed like an option.

The knight and warglaives of a more renegade house. Not one fallen to Chaos, but just not one who works for the Imperium. Pictures are a little outdated, I've finished up the knight and the warglaives a lot more since this, but it's the best lighting photos I have.

I am liking your take on the chain cleavers there, I may need to do something like that as well for one of the extra Warglaives coming in Wednesday.

some pictures of the renegade knight I built and painted for my brother back when we split the original renegade box.

 mmzero252 wrote:
The knight and warglaives of a more renegade house. Not one fallen to Chaos, but just not one who works for the Imperium. Pictures are a little outdated, I've finished up the knight and the warglaives a lot more since this, but it's the best lighting photos I have.

Spoiler:

Nice job on those, the chain-pole-arm/chain-halberds are a nice idea.

Also, what is that grass mat they are standing on and where can I get one?

 BrookM wrote:
Isn't Death Grip on a small model a bit overkill?

 BrookM wrote:
I am liking your take on the chain cleavers there, I may need to do something like that as well for one of the extra Warglaives coming in Wednesday.

My thoughts were..."How does this thing hit a smaller target at all?" So I just drilled holes into the parts after carefully severing the blades. Put a 1/8 pipe through it and sealed the new gaps with greenstuff. I made all four with different adjustments to show the apparatus was adjustable for them.


As for the grass mat, I have no idea. My local gamestore just has it. It's the softest fluffiest mat ever but DO NOT ROLL DICE ON IT. If you've never seen somebody roll 50d6 and every result is a cocked die..you will on that thing.

I like it, they've got a nice the shock lance vibe going on as well.

A couple lower quality update pictures since I posted much older ones before. Same knight, but with a few upgrades this time around.The little warglaives there too. With my Sisters of Battle for scale.

Getting along nicely...

 ChaosDad wrote:
Getting along nicely...

Spoiler:

Is that Scorpion a decal or some very patient freehand?

On my own end, after a two day break I've decided to power through the Valiant. Still not done, but slowly getting there, please ignore the arm weapons, they're still far from done!



In the background of the model is a little "reward" for all the painting I've done over the week.



The plan is to buy a pair of Forge World Zone Mortalis tiles, the flat Theta ones, and use those as a floor and wall section to represent a mech bay DROP KEEP interior.

I quite like that the Valiant and Castellan neatly fit just over the gantry way, sliding nicely into position there. The rest of the gantry will be host to various members of the entourage belonging to the Freeblade, an excellent excuse to finally get around to painting some minis like an Astropath, scribe and whatnot.

 BrookM wrote:
Is that Scorpion a decal or some very patient freehand?

Decal, I have invested in bottles of micro sol and micro set, and it makes all the difference in the world as to how decals behave...

And since I have set my heart on House Malinax I'm sure that that decal sheet will see use again for future war engines... I'm looking forward to the preceptor kit...

Quite so, a bit expensive around these parts, but they last you forever and good quality decals wind up looking like they've been painted on.