Questoris Knight Styrix WIP Update

Hello everyone,

I'm back with a quick update on my Questoris Knight Styrix! Progress has unfortunately been slow due to work commitments, however I do still have some progress to show before I head off on holiday for a couple of weeks!

So since my last post, I have managed to do some of the more time consuming parts of the paint job. Firstly I've sprayed the knight with chaos black spray and then once dry and every part of the model was covered I used the Leadblecher spray. This turned out to be tricky as I struggled to get to every part of the model covered without the paint building up too much in some areas. I was also getting an uneven finish in places so I decided to then just use a large dry brush to finish the coat and get that even finish I was looking for.

 Please note there may be a few areas I haven't quite covered completely just yet!

As you can see from this close up I have also started to now apply the Mephiston Red to the armour plates on the legs. It is also possible to see some of the areas where I can improve my coat of Leadbelcher particularly on the claw.

 

Finally I've also applied the Leadbelcher to the trims on the shin and shoulder armour plates. One problem I have encountered is that underneath this lighting it does show the difference between the Mephiston Red from a spray can and a pot of paint. On the right shoulder pad there is a visible difference where I have had to touch up a mistake! Unfortunately while painting it on, you don't really see the difference. However, I'm hoping that when I come to my next stage which is applying a 50/50 mix of Nuln Oil and Lahmium Medium into the recesses of the armour plates it should hide this, so its not so obvious.

I'm afraid that is all from me today but I hope all of your projects are running smoothly! I wont have any progress to show over the next couple of weeks with being on holiday so see you soon!

Thanks for reading,

Aveinus Kaane

Questoris Knight Styrix: WIP Update

Hello everyone,

I'm back to give you all a glimpse of where I am up to with my Mechanicum Questoris Knight Styrix!































So as you can see since my last post, I have now managed to get the model built. I'll tell you why its missing the armour plates in a moment! Overall its a lovely model to build and the majority of it being plastic has helped a lot! The only tricky part was getting the correct pose.

I did encounter some problems with the pose I wanted as I couldn't get the power cabling to fit from the back of the knight on to the volkite. It is however stated in the instructions that the power cabling may need to be heated in order to pose the model correctly.































So I had to take a trip to B&Q to look for a heat gun! The one above was £24 and was apparently recommended for heating plastic! What I will say is on the plus side the gun worked very well and after only a small amount of heating the resin was very malleable. With some fast super gluing I managed to get both ends where I wanted them, with the pose I was looking for!































On the downside it is another £24 you're paying towards an already expensive model but I'm sure I will have more uses for it with future models. One thing I will say is be very careful with the heat gun! :).






























So my other progress made was on the armour plates. After washing the resin a few times I decided to first spray them with the chaos black primer and then that was followed by the Mephiston Red spray paint. I did this to hopefully get a nice smooth coat on the red areas of the armour paneling and a few coats of spray paint should also hopefully prevent any paint flaking off the resin. This is also why I have kept the panels separate, so that if I do get any flaking during the painting process I can either try to touch it up or just strip the paint off of the resin and start again :(.

Please note that all of the pieces are the same colour red and it is just the lighting that is making the middle pieces seem pale!

So my next step is to spray the knight black before using the leadbelcher spray for its base coat.

I'm pretty excited about the new look GW at the moment and their releases for all of their games look excellent. So I hope you're all  managing to crack on with your current projects and as always let us know how're getting on :).

Thanks again for reading,

Aveinus Kaane

Mechanicum Questoris Knight Styrix

Hello everyone,

I'm back with a short post just to update you on my current progress. So there has now been a bit of an unexpected change in direction from me, as my dad has asked me to build and paint him a Questoris Knight Styrix for his birthday! Now its a step into the unknown for me as I haven't worked on any mechanicum models or any knights yet so hopefully it will go well!

I've decided to go for a paint scheme that can be linked to my Iron Hands so that in the future if I did want to use the model in a game I can borrow it off of him! The scheme is the one from the pictures below which is featured on a Questoris Knight Magaera and a Cerastus Knight-Lancer.

I like this scheme because I think it should be quite achievable for me without an airbrush and I think the red, black and white will fit nicely with the Iron Hands.

I am however, undecided as yet whether I will use any Iron Hands iconography as I could potentially also use it for my blood angels in the future too.

In terms of progress made, I have finished the wash and prep process for the resin parts of the knight and I have begun to assemble the plastic parts as you can see below. I'm not a big fan of the building side of things so I'm glad there are more plastic parts to work with than forgeworld resin lol. I will also give you a look at the paint scheme I am going to use once I have finalised it.

Hopefully I will have made more progress on this and will have it assembled by tomorrow night :). It is a bit of a daunting project for me but I will keep you updated as things progress! I hope you're all enjoying your sunday!

Thanks again,

Avienus Kaane