After a long month, and many hours at the painting table, my renegade knight of Khorne is complete!
The technique I have been using for bases was tricky on such a large base. Since the Martian Iron Earth paint is not distributed evenly, parts of it dry faster than others, and I essentially had to chase the portions that were already dry rather than working from one side of the base to the other.
I used a lot of custom bits. Both of the gatling cannons were taken from my left over forgefiend bits. I decided to create the armored portion out of plasticard. I freehand drew the shapes that I wanted, and things ended up a bit crooked, but this is chaos! As I get more experience with plasticard I am going to invest in some small square graph paper to help get properly proportioned shapes. If I really feel like redoing the gatling cannons I will have more bits from my next maulerfiend. Everything is magnetized, so any of the weapons can easily be replaced.
The magnetization took the most time out of this whole project. I'm fairly certain that I re-worked each joint at least once. Now I have a new technique that makes life much easier. I will write up a tutorial here soon.
More than likely I will be running this monster with a gatling cannon and the chainsword. I think these offer the most versatility.
Next on my table, I picked up a box of chaos warhounds to use as flesh hounds. Hopefully I can get those done in the next week and a half (before I leave for vacation).
Very nice with the knight Andrew. I am curious as to your Chaos God faction alignment distribution now (How much Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, Slaanesh). I have tried to remain Nurgly but I am slowly dabbling in more Tzeentch and it makes me feel traitorous!
ReplyDeleteI am primarily dedicated to Nurgle. I have both a CSM army and a Renegade army dedicated to Nurgle.
DeleteKhorne is a more recent development, and I am still working to finish my first army.
I just cannot decide if the slide to undivided makes me a dirty harlot.
DeleteI hadn't thought of using the Forgefiend bits as Knight weapons, that's a pretty good idea. Knowing that it's an ecto*plasma* cannon makes it hard for me to see it as a Melta weapon, but the weapon itself looks great. And anyone not well-versed in Chaos would probably never even notice. The gatling weapons look perfect.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I briefly thought of tearing the axe off my Lord of Skulls or buying one as bits because it would make for an awesome Khorne Knight... but no one sells the axe so it would basically mean a $100+ conversion since I'd need to buy an entire new LoS just to get a second axe.
DeleteI was amazed at how well the head worked. It should have been able to swivel, but I mis-glued things and that didn't happen.
DeleteThe armor plates on the thighs were also left over from the forgefiend bits.
Yeah, that's pretty awesome size-wise how that kit lined up perfectly with the Knight even though the Maulerfiend/Forgefiend is so much smaller.
DeleteTotally awesome knight! Great work!
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