Monster March: Knight Crusader Complete!

The end of the month is here and the knight that I assembled in 2015, primed in 2016,  and guiltily ignored in 2017 is finally complete.

My Knight Crusader is also my Kingsward. I've got a bit of fluff fleshed out from my initial go at it which I will present at a later date. The heraldry on the shield is incomplete, as well as there being no waterslides on the model yet. I'm waiting on some Microset and Microsol to arrive before I run at decals again.

I'm really pleased with the way everything turned out on my first Knight. I need to pick up Forgebane for the Armagers and Skitarii. I'm very excited about the new Codex and models!

Cheers,

CJ

Monster March Update

 We're into Spring now and my monster is really blooming!

...I'm done I promise.

 I have been cracking right along though. I've got the legs done to the point I can mount them to the base, since that's done too.

 My first idea was to treat it like a normal infantry model and drive the pins through the base.

That shit didn't work. The idea just doesn't scale properly. Luckily for me the JB Weld hadn't completely set and I was able to peel the pins off and try again. I put the pins in the legs of my Knight and that worked out a lot better. JB Weld is pretty handy stuff.

As of this evening this is where progress currently sits. The carapace is more or less done. I've glued the chest, face, and the plate above the head on. The battle cannon is ready for highlights and touch up, and the gatling cannon is ready for it's all over black wash. As long as nothing crazy happens in the next ten days I should have no problem getting this guy done.

Next update will be the completed Knight!

Cheers,

CJ

Monster March Update

I've managed to get a lot of painting on my first Knight done in the past few days. The house heraldry is the blue and yellow, with a quarter blocked out to signify an alliance with the Mechanicus.

My idea for a household is a filthy rich Rogue Trader raised his banner and a few Freeblades came to the call. They provided fire power and support while the trader plied the fringe. The Freeblade pilots formed a household of sorts. Eventually the Trader 'retired' to the governership of a deep space way station. The Knights became a powerful force on the station and were able to hire out as a mercenary band to myriad nearby systems. After a thousand years or so they had adopted uniform heraldry and made strong alliances to a forgeworld in the sector. The household has persisted to the 41st millennia.

It works for me.

Cheers,

CJ

Paint Table Saturday

A quick update for this weekend. I'm working on my Monster March pledge.

It's just the shoulders but I feel like I know where I want the paintjob to go now.

Stay tuned for progress of this monster all month!

Cheers,

CJ

Monster March 2

I was checking out blogs I follow and over on BERSERKERBLADE I saw that the community has a March theme already, Monster March. Organized by Swordmaster over at Path of the Outcast.

Remember this guy? He's been on the Pile of Grey Shame since 2015. In 2016 I primed him and that's where he's languished ever since. I have to admit that the though of painting such a large model is sort of intimidating. Before this guy the biggest thing I've painted was a Baneblade, and that was years ago... and it wasn't a very good paint job. Perfectly serviceable, but basic.

Anyway since it is Monster March I decided to tackle something suitably large. I've got some solid ideas about how I want to paint it as well.

Cheers,

CJ

Imperial Knight 001: Last Summer's Knight

In 2015 life took a turn for the more interesting for a while. While I was dealing with depression I impulse bought a Knight Warden since I wanted one and had stopped caring about bills or rent (foolishly....) at least for the moment.

Seriously, I went out for a pot of paint and ended up with the Knight.

I got him all put together in short order. I also set about making the arms interchangeable so that I can field whatever variant the mission calls for. Now I've got four Knights and that's less of an issue but hey, I'm going to repeat the process for each.

I'm working on custom house colours at the moment, but came up with this last summer when I was working on the initial build.

I want my Knight household loosely affiliated with Legio Astorum, so I worked their eclipse design into my heraldry. Looks good on paper, lets see if I can actually paint it on the area provided.

At the moment I'm working on finishing the Knight's base and dabbling with actually diving in and painting it. The model is primed silver and waiting for love like so many of my other models. I downloaded Freeblade for my phone to play with the knight painter... the knight painter is full of fremium content. Fortunately the colours I wanted to play with were easy to approximate with the available options.

So something like that.

Cheers,

CJ