Saturday 6 June 2015

Saturday Knight fever.

Khall: "Can you airbrush an Ultramarine in my test colours while I assemble my Knights?"
Drake: "Get the airbrush out for one guy?"
Khall: "Yup. I really need to see if the scheme is the one I want"
Drake: "Fug it, I will airbrush the Knights too!!"

That escalated quickly. A non-Alcohol imbued Saturday night has heralded some very promising results. 



2 Paladins for Makabius assembled. 
1 Paladin for Vornerr assembled. 
1 Errant for Vornerr started (not seen). 
1 Errant, 1 Crusader and 1 Styrix (what we thought we recalled as a Magera which on 7 month later inspection was actually a Styrix) all airbrushed Khorne Red. 

At least we are making headway with our projects now!

Drake Seta

10 comments:

  1. Looks like I'm going to have to pull my finger out lol

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  2. cool =) what's your overall plan for the houses? how much knights/house? my plan atm is to have atleast one knight/legion (f.e. vornherr for ultras, makabius (done) for death guard, aerthaegn (you know what i mean) for SoH,...) , and a house vyronii army :X

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    1. Hey Atia.
      Well I am planning for 5 Knights for my Makabius house. 2 Paladins, Castigator, Lancer and something else from FW hopefully.
      Khall and I are just doing 3 Knights for Raven at the moment. Errant, Crusader and Styrix. We may revisit with a heavy gun one from FW in the future and a Magera.
      I'm joining forces with Darko to do a Lancer, Errant and Acheron for Orhlacc (for my Dark Angels, Night Lords and his Blood Angels during the GC).
      Targel is going to be doing Vyronii (Imperial Fists and Word Bearers made use of them). I think mainly Cerastus patterns.
      Khall is currently only considering Vornerr for his Ultramarines and White Scars.
      Looking forward to seeing them on the table now.
      How many do you have finished?

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    2. I'm doing 6 Knights for Vornherr:
      1 Errant
      1 Paladin
      1 Lancer
      2 Castigators
      1 Acheron
      The last three will be used as the Life Guard formation. Buzzing for Vornherr.

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    3. Love the Life Guard Formation. Will look awesome.

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  3. Looking good, nice to see those Knights coming along.
    Any chance to see that Ultramarines tester you guys did? I'm quite interested how it turned out and which colors you used. Thanks.

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    1. Hello Felix and Idaeus.

      I have had a go at roughly following the UM scheme laid down by FW. I was very unhappy with the way the colours came out and I am not sure why it happened. I love the vibrant look of the Deredeo and Invictarii, however I am doing around 100 legionaries and countless tanks so in honesty I want to find a way to get a similar colour with less effort lol (honest eh?). I am currently toying with a couple of colour schemes - away from the FW scheme - that will hopefully be vibrant, clean and easy to replicate. I am waiting for a tester to dry currently. I will look at doing a post on Wednesday evening to look at the different models I have trial and errored so far. I wish I had an infinite supply of the old Regal Blue and UM blue. They were beautiful. Stay tuned guys and feel free to share your own ideas or trials :)

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  4. Hi Bunnies!

    So many Knights, I can't even consider how I could paint all of them before my dying day...^^ I am sure the result will be amazing, can't wait to see more pictures!

    As Felix, I'm interested in the colors Khall chose for his Ultramarines. Mine have always been... well Ultramarine Blue, but I'm looking for various inspirations now I am going to start an Ultra army for the HH.

    Good luck guys! ;^)

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    1. Hello Felix and Idaeus.

      I have had a go at roughly following the UM scheme laid down by FW. I was very unhappy with the way the colours came out and I am not sure why it happened. I love the vibrant look of the Deredeo and Invictarii, however I am doing around 100 legionaries and countless tanks so in honesty I want to find a way to get a similar colour with less effort lol (honest eh?). I am currently toying with a couple of colour schemes - away from the FW scheme - that will hopefully be vibrant, clean and easy to replicate. I am waiting for a tester to dry currently. I will look at doing a post on Wednesday evening to look at the different models I have trial and errored so far. I wish I had an infinite supply of the old Regal Blue and UM blue. They were beautiful. Stay tuned guys and feel free to share your own ideas or trials :)

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    2. Thanks a lot Khall !

      I was thinking about a mix between those two (the new Macragge Blue is a bit too purple for my taste) but I have only one UM Blue pot remaining... I'm usually a big fan of dark shades, however I don't want my Ultramarines to look like my Night Lords. I am curious to see what your trials will produce. :^)

      The Deredeo shades of blue are perfect but yeah, not easy to make the same for an hundred minis... I've never worked with the new Altdorf Guard blue, but it looks like the old UM one. maybe some mix with the Kantor or Macragge could be great. Hmmmm...

      So hard to choose, I'm waiting for wednesday! ^^

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