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Post by Asyrean on Aug 15, 2018 8:17:04 GMT -6
Awesome! Thank you, sir. This is helpful. I had significant concern about damaging my models when I started trying to haphazardly jam paperclips in to different pieces. My terminators thank you.
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Post by Nick P on Aug 15, 2018 11:40:27 GMT -6
Yup, pin vise drill is what I use! Also handy for drilling out barrels (do it!) and for making holes for magnets on miniatures you want to have variable options for.
The stripes are actually done freehand, but smarter people would probably tape them off and use an airbrush *before* putting the model together and doing all the detail work. I'm just dumb.
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Post by Russell on Aug 15, 2018 12:15:39 GMT -6
Diggin the tree, but what happened to the cherry blossoms idea?
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Post by Nick P on Aug 15, 2018 12:30:45 GMT -6
Diggin the tree, but what happened to the cherry blossoms idea? BRB painting the green pink
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Post by Russell on Aug 15, 2018 13:10:14 GMT -6
oh nice
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Post by Nick P on Aug 15, 2018 13:39:36 GMT -6
In reality, I felt that the cherry blossom/pink sylvaneth look has become too popular, it doesn't feel that unique anymore (that's what I get for taking 2 years to actually paint these frigging dudes). So I went with green because it was easy, but it does need something to help it pop, so I'm going to go over the 7 green leaves on this guy in pink and see if that helps.
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Post by Russell on Aug 15, 2018 13:46:40 GMT -6
I was thinking you could add some color to the face or the weapons. You could keep it subtle and just put a blue in the weird patterns or just make the whole weapon blue.
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Post by Nick P on Aug 15, 2018 14:29:55 GMT -6
That's a good idea - I could drop some coelia greenshade or some drakenhoff nightshade in there over the nihilakh oxide (that's being washed out by the celestra grey of the weapon and the bone of the face) to create more contrast.
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Post by Nick P on Aug 24, 2018 7:13:51 GMT -6
Hey its me your dumb friend who thought it would be fun to try to paint 3 knights in 4 days for the Dojo tournament this weekend. Here's where I stood as of Tuesday night. I have since cleaned up all the black/grey panels and done all of the silver metallic details, as well as drybrushed all the knights and their weapons necron compound and applied agrax wash to certain areas to make them more oily. about 50% of the armor panels have been blacklined with nuln oil as well in the recesses. Tonight, I'm going to finish blacklining the panels, and do all of the gold trim and green armor panels so that at minimum the models have all of the colors blocked out. They might not get all the highlights I intended, but they'll look pretty enough. Onward!
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Post by Asyrean on Aug 24, 2018 7:32:53 GMT -6
Tonight, I'm going to finish blacklining the panels, and do all of the gold trim and green armor panels so that at minimum the models have all of the colors blocked out. They might not get all the highlights I intended, but they'll look pretty enough. Onward! Damn! 3 Knights in 4 days?? That's quite the tall order! But hey, good luck and send some pictures! And how many knights will that get you up to in total?
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Post by Nick P on Aug 24, 2018 7:47:59 GMT -6
That will be my full 2000 point list - a Castellan, 2 helverins, 1 warglaive, a gallant and a crusader. These are my first knights ever, I didn't start building and painting them until the new codex dropped a couple months ago, its been a blast! I never liked the look of them upon their original release but for some reason with the new smaller and bigger knights the whole aesthetic changed for me and drew me in. It feels more like an actual cohesive army now than just "the same model with different arms 6 times".
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Post by Asyrean on Aug 24, 2018 9:25:07 GMT -6
That will be my full 2000 point list - a Castellan, 2 helverins, 1 warglaive, a gallant and a crusader. These are my first knights ever, I didn't start building and painting them until the new codex dropped a couple months ago, its been a blast! I never liked the look of them upon their original release but for some reason with the new smaller and bigger knights the whole aesthetic changed for me and drew me in. It feels more like an actual cohesive army now than just "the same model with different arms 6 times". Awesome! And now you just need 6 of the IK's from Adeptus Titanicus and you can use them as objective markers for your knight army!
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Post by Nick P on Aug 24, 2018 10:13:08 GMT -6
Its like you read my mind! I've been thinking of using them as statuary for terrain and/or objectives!
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Post by Asyrean on Aug 24, 2018 10:31:55 GMT -6
Its like you read my mind! I've been thinking of using them as statuary for terrain and/or objectives! Exactly! That would be really cool. And, of course, if you get a bunch of Adeptus Titanicus Knights then you have the beginnings of your Adeptus Titanicus Army! Win/Win!
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Post by Nick P on Aug 27, 2018 7:47:57 GMT -6
So I didn't get the knights finished for the tournament, I ran out of gahennas gold and nuln oil to finish the trim work and recess shading in the grey panels, but the army still had a cohesive feel and I did end up winning best painted afterall, so mission accomplished! (I came in 3rd place for points overall - 69 [heh], 2nd place had 72, winner had 75). This week's project is to finish the knights (refilled on paints at the dojo), and to get a test model done for my GSC now that tooth and claw is in my possession. I'm loving the abberants and the new Abominant character, and am thinking of getting another set of them from eBay to run a big vanguard detachment of abberants with my Nid list for some extra thunder hammer punch. Look at these dudes!
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