PeteB's Harlequins

As I sit here awaiting the delivery of my 40k man-cave and bemoaning a lost ['errant'] piece of an Imperial Knight I thought I'd share some of PeteB's Harlquins. I'm not sure how many time's Pete's put faith in these clowns but it's nice to see the old skool metal ones which I had myself way back when.

It's interesting how the choice to continue a theme from the rest of the Craftworld actually makes them all look like they've been plucked from a B&W movie. Anyway, he's got just a little to say about them...

Not sure about the name for the masque, but due to the cold conditions I thought the Masque of the Shrivelled Weenie?

I've also included a pic of Fuegan, who I will be using as a fire dragon exarch, mainly as he has to be the most over compensating elf I have ever seen!!

Imperial Knight - in manufactorum

And here's the beginnings of the Google AdSense funded Imperial Knight. Now, as you can see there's a Space Marine in here and Knights don't pilot them but I have some really good fluff in my head about why this is the case and one day I'll be able to put it down on the blog, alongside some cool fluffy images and you will find out about the Shards of Caliban and their impact on Ferron Proxima. It'll also feed into the background behind the Mechanicum Knight order that resides here too, and there involvement with the Ferron Titan Legion.

Now I had to do some serious cutting and shaving of his kneepads, legs and waste so this old plastic marine is a shadow of his former self, and you should see him now he's got the shoulder pads in place he looks like a mushroom! Anyway, the throne manages to fit in with easy so I'll paint that separately, I know I should fit out the cockpit but I don't think you'll be able to see half of it once the carapace is on so I'm going to leave it as is and just paint the interior pretty vague. The marine should be black but I'm not sure that'll stand out in the dark confines so I may paint him Bonewhite as if he took the Deathwing reason - white being the colour of the dead and painting themselves as dead men, might fit with the pilots choice to inter himself in this machine. It doesn't quite fit as this guy is Heresy old [hence the reason to go black] but his armour isn't quite Heresy legit so I can do whatever the hell I want.

Followed Alex's tutorial on making the legs and body detachable although I may not have shaved down as much of the little stump as I should have, it rotates a little too freely now, I'll probably add some spots of glue in places to try and thicken it up to add some more friction.

I'll have to look closely at his magnetising tips as I'm at that stage now and keep looking at inferior guides. It's not helped by my choice of magnets, I've some 4.5x3mm and 5.5x3mm magnetix magnets that are super strong. Then I have some tiny 3x1mm magnets that aren't very strong so I'm struggling a bit with the process.

I also wanted to have a slightly dynamic pose and chop the legs a bit but I've got enough obstacles to progress at the moment I really don't want to slow things down.

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Dark Angels Scouts - MOAR pics.

Sorry to eek this out [money for old rope?] it just seemed far too many pictures for one post but moving on the scouts are perfect for shooting from cover :)

So here's some individual close-up shots so you can pick out all the detail.

Quite pleased with the tread on his boot. And yes, I think the camo does look like leaves.

Notice I did three types of chevroned cable, back-slash, vertical and forward-slash, just to add a bit of variety. can't decide which I like most.

Company markings on the missile launcher scout, really like how the mix between brass and bronze worked on this.

And his oversized camo cloak doesn't look too bad now.

I also did some litany scripts alongside the chapter symbol poking out of the camo cloak.

Interestingly the Bolt Pistol is from the Space Wolves but I actually think that wolf on top look more like a lion

That'll be handy because it looks like there are Space Wolf Plasma Pistols that do the same thing and as Space Wolf weapons are going for buttons on ebay I may well use some Plasma Pistols to make Plasma Talon upgrades on a spare set of Dark Vengeance bikers so I can have more Ravenwing Knights.

 

Another visor, the Tamiya Clear Orange X-26 manages to rescue all my lens effects and it's further augmented with Vernidas gloss varnish, it still shrinks a bit but it's much thicker than acrylic gloss varnish.

OK, so more of the same but as I've mentioned things are a bit disrupted at the moment. I am still getting to do little bits of hobby, some really exciting things but I am flitting from one project to another. Snip bits of sprues here, scrape mold lines there it's all stuff that needs doing, it's just not particularly photogenic so please understand if things go a bit quiet over the next couple of weeks. 

Also, the man cave is due on Monday so I will be fitting it out with insulation and the electrician will make it powered, then I'll be painting it and transferring all my hobby stuff to the shed. Following that there'll be DiY in the vacated back room to make it half decent as a dining room so progress will be even slower but then hopefully the new space will allow me to crack on with things.

In the mean time I've a couple of little WiP posts to whet your whistles but we'll have to see how things progress from there. Stay frosty!

Dark Angels - Scouts TO DONE!

I've split these pictures up into two posts for a couple of reasons, one it can be quite daunting to see a page full of stuff and this means you only have to devote a small amount of time over two days compared with twice the amount of time on one day. Also, given how most of my currect enterprises are difficult to show progress I'm better spreading this out a little bit so at least the blog is ticking over, otherwise there'll be nothing to post. Hopefully you don't mind.

I really enjoyed painting these, I know I felt a little impatient at the end but it resulted in a sense of freedom that the rest of the Dark Angels fail to deliver.

I was also wary of painting the guns, the tarnished bronze didn't seem to fit the stealthy hiding in the shadows purpose of snipers but thankfully the verdigris toned down the half-way done brass and bronze elements to actually make them still fit with my theme and not stand out. Anyways, the anacronisms of the grim dark universe means these things could be day-glo and I'd get away with it!

I also made sure that I managed to cover up as many eyes as I could with sniper scopes. I'm all out of patience with them, I can't paint them for toffee. I must have tried about ten times on my Azrael conversion and I'm just about to give up on my Tac Squad sergeant too

But these guys make a nice unit. I wonder if the Space Crusade ones will fit in...?

The sergeant also had a freehand chapter symbol added.

Camo cloaks turned out alright.

I'm really thinking I should do some warpaint on some of my bare headed models but I fear it won't make too much sense, but we'll see.

Glow effects didn't work too well on the visors but I do think the little whit highlight looks like a targetting reticule which just about lifts them from mediocrity.

The sergeants one worked out OK too. I'm really chuffed with the chapter symbol. Sure it's quite patchy and a decal would be tidier, I don't even think it's my best but there's something about the roughness to it that's just right, almost like he painted it himself [badly].

Cloaks blend together well.

The extra highlights on the black may be a little too much but I think it help break up the orange expanse a bit more.

So I'm really chuffed about these, especially as they're seen as 'competitive' now. I'm kind of wishing I took a longer look at what my nephew was selling now as ther was scouts in there. But it's nice to have something done that's going to definitely get used, considering I had zero intention of using them when I started! Anyway, there'll be moar pictures in a day or so but in the mean time a big red stamp! Incidentally I was thinking of doing a green one for the 2015/16 hobby season, alternate red/green each year, what do you think?