Assembling/converting an imperial knight part 2: my poor fingers

I still cannot get over the utter beauty in this kit.  I'm sure I'll be buying more titans in the future.  Also, I have decided upon a name: House Silenzi-- based on the knight world of Brillig, recently liberated from chaotic influence by the Sagodjur Fjorlag, so I suppose you could say it wasn't really...

Leaving this middle space empty irked me greatly.

The main colour scheme of the house isn't actually a proper heraldic colour; hurricane wire.  I am still in the process of replacing as much of the armour as possible with mesh, drilling out, trimming and cutting my fingers to bits in the process-- great fun!  No doubt I'll be hanging trophies/slain foes from them eventually.

What I've done so far.  Nothing is safe from my scalpel...

... at all

Once again, I considered hanging the wire diagonally and thought against it: maybe one day though-- right now it feels too difficult.

Instead of exhaust pipes I will be topping the titan off with this little chapel.

And my beautiful pilot!  She isn't quite finished yet.  Lady Fransicique Algrethi Banquo is her name, pilot of the White Rose.  Next time I'm sure she'll be painted, as will the knight's interior be also... Unless I find something else to distract me...

This is what we call epic foreshadowing.

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Converting/assembling an imperial knight part 1

It was the first kit I have opened and been frightened of.  The number of pieces in this kit are quite phenomenal.
Everything else has halted until either I stall with this project or finish it.  I shall create my own house to ally with my Astartes, so you know what style I'll be going for.

John Blanche...

...and team Silent.  I am content.

These two images in particular gave me a good idea what colours I could use, although I am not fully decided; white, yellow/ochre, chequerboard, black flames, red and brown-- unsure in what order, though.

But the kit itself-!  Throne of Earth, did it scare me!  I decided to ease myself into it by building the torso and then kitbashing an interior until I felt more at home with the model.

So--

the pieces that aren't from the land raider are cut from the Aquila strongpoint base

The land raider screens I was going to save for my thunderhawk, but I won't be furnishing that any time in the near future so I can get another whenever.  It also seems to be the piece everybody uses.

What I am intending is to make and paint the interior, then the pilot separately, then put them in a nice little cage to drop in cleanly.

The sentinel seat seemed good enough.  And now for the pilot...

...'twasn't bad, I suppose.  This was half an hour's sculpting.  My greenstuff skills are sorely limited; hopefully it will look better with purity seals and some frills and things.

This is where I am at the moment.  I thought about wiring up some lights but then thought against it.  The wires in there are just to make the sides a little more interesting, but it's not nearly finished, oh dear me no!

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I assure you, things are still happening

It's just the fact I have been doing so much at once beside 40k.  I've been looking after a friend's farm while they were up north, I'm in the process of writing a novel and there's been a lot of other stuff going on i.e. everyday life.

My thunderhawk is awaiting a pair of wings and some undercarriage pieces which I'm having cut for me, as I am too lazy.
For some reason, I assembled a squad of crisis suits and a piranha...

the drop pod is not part of the squad, it was just there

I'll never amass a decent Tau army.  My brother got them at one point and was never in the mood to assemble them; he's one of those people who think 40k is simply another miniature hobby like trains and such...

been a long time since I used evil sunz scarlet and THRONE is it loud

I'm also in the process of painting my beautiful 3rd captain.  Most of the base colour is there, next will be the dryad bark wash; the wings I'll paint last.

My third big project is making my chapter master; he will be magnetized to have every-- almost every-- combination of weapon he's allowed, even a boltgun and chainsword just for photos.

everything in various states of converting; note the RT boltgun and the combi-plasma above it

As you see, I don't particularly like to give him-- or anyone-- weapons straight off the sprue.  And don't ask what the land speeder jets are for, they're nothing.

I was happy to find that I still had a heresy-era chainsword left on the remnants of the chaos sprues in the bottom of the box.  The torso will look a little less Grey knight-ish when I have finished.

So that's that.  I am still doing things, just not any one thing at a time.

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1st Lord Klatos finished

Alas, I meant to take progress pictures, and did not; but I've painted my 1st captain after several days worth of hunching over a nice, clean desk with a few, relevant paints sitting before me as opposed to all of them along with half the contents of my bitz box.

...Couple of things I should like to make clear first.  One, I am still with the Thunderhawk project, I haven't thrown in the trowel yet, oh dear me no-- second, his name is pronounced "klei-tos" I only write it with an "A" after hearing how everyone pronounces his name "kray-tose".

Not sure who's helmet, but they've been dead a long time

 

Unfortunately, the camera I use at the moment coupled with the yellow light doesn't do him justice.  I'm also reconsidering giving him a back-banner.  Thoughts would be appreciated.

I spent a lot of time on the face, I don't know if it shows but at least I like it...  There was a scene from Saw VI where a guy gets pumped with an acidic substance I can't remember what, but the thing I remember most was the colour his teeth went-- I replicated that colour to show how far gone his mortal flesh was.

The chainfist Led into Madness was a terrible challenge but great fun

This project was quite demanding overall, but the result was very satisfying.

And that's that.  1st Lord Klatos, depicted in his last campaign, about 6,000 standard years after the Chapter's founding by his hand.

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It's happening, by Throne

Oh, am I excited about this.  I know I don't have everything yet-- a scrapped land raider is on its way-- but I figured I'd start now or I never would and my desk would still be in a mess.
Actually, I meant to take progress pictures of tidying (a dreary task!) but oh well, here we are now.

I printed a number of pictures I found on various sites, and I have a folder full of thunderhawk images on my laptop to keep me psyched.  After drawing the basic shape on a piece of A2, using one of my unpainted sternguard for scale, I altered it to suit what pieces I already have-- thinking to fill in the angles with plasticard or what-ever I find later.

The gunship is going to end up a bit bigger than I anticipated, but that's okay.  The GW miniatures are generally, what, 4/5ths proper scale?  Something akin to that-- anyway, I wanted to fit a Nastrond assault dreadnought in the hold, and his wingspan is a little less than a stormtalon's.

progress

I'll be filling in the interior with crossbeams of some kind to keep it fairly rigid.
And I suppose that's it.  A most grandeous plan that will probably kill me.  I think, from now on I'll only be doing small side projects such as painting single figures, and I'll return to this whenever possible.

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