Imperial Knights - House Corvus Twins in manufactorum pt15. TO DONE! 🔴

Afternoon #Warhammer Community as you know when something is TO DONE! I usually take a set of 'finished' photographs for my gallery. My homemade photobooth with my Red Planet BASE! 🔴 background - to provide context to their red bases. And also pictures on a white background ⚪ for those who like to see things in a more neutral setup.

However, sometimes I don't get everything done and it would appear I never actually did my House Corvus Twins in this way.

I had done other pictures, but none in the prescribed way I usually celebrate their completion.

So, with these Knights out for comparison shots with their tiny epic siblings I thought I'd rectify that omission.

Lady Pettorini and her tiny twin.

Ser Ellenbogen

I never originally expected I would like the faceplate as much as I ultimately do. This is only because of the way it's painted.

The bone stripe and mouth cover just works so well it's now my favourite.

And with its tiny twin

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Imperial Knights - Cerastus Twins in manufactorum pt3. - Base - TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Imperial Knight Cerastus Castigator and Acheron. Having done the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 on the Adeptus Titanicus models it made sense to do my Cerastus twins.

They're far from being high on my TO DO LIST. I expect to be working on them some time in November or December. But the bases and legs have been primed for a while now.

Seeing them unpainted was a constant annoyance. Not least because the last update on the Cerastus Knights was exactly a year ago! I considered getting extra hobby points for projects long on the hobby table finally getting finished. But I had no idea this had slipped so far down my list that it's over a year old. If it's that easy to be delayed then I shouldn't get extra credit for it.

Goodness help me when I finally get back to my Sammael conversion!

Obviously there are still some additional bits to pick out on both these bases - skulls, pipes, debris and other details but they're mostly TO DONE!

The Castigator also has had its torso 'lock and key' attachment done. It's snapped off already so I'm not sure about if I need to pin it for reinforcement. Certain other elements need doing too, not to mention priming both torsos, carapaces and armour panels.

 

Interesting height differences compared to my Lancer.

And two Great Big Chrome 'BASE' Stamps of Approval.

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#MESBG Middle Earth 3 Hunters and Fellowship - Big Build and Base TO DONE!

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on more Middle Earth Strategy Battle Games figures. First up, the 3 Hunters - Aragorn Gimli and Legolas. These were a gift from my eldest son, my Swiss cheese brain forgets if it was birthday or Christmas but it was an unexpected present in that I can't recall he'd ever indulged my hobby so directly. He knows MESBG is my current game and this was such a kind gesture. As I'd got a few other figures to do I thought I'd get them built and based. Only then did I remember/discover that I I could take Aragorn and the other two alongside the Army of the Dead I just painted of Scott's! It was meant to be.

I'd been looking for a Gollum to add to my Goblin Town force and I thought this was the best one and I got Frodo and Sam too.

As I was just about done basing, priming and base coating those 3 Otty gave me a Gandalf! And I couldn't just have him flat on the 25mm, so I gave him a bit of slate. I'd wished I'd been a bit more adventurous with the 3 Hunters, at least I experimented here.

Another trio of Great Big Wooden 'BIG BUILD' Stamps of Approval.

And with everything built I got all the bases done and did a fair bit getting them all moved forward.

They're a lot darker than I expected but I think there are still elements that will match up with Ben, Liam and Otty's way of painting. Really pleased to get these done so quickly.

And a trio of Great Big Wooden 'BIG BUILD BASE' Stamps of Approval.

Imperial Knights - Cerastus Twins in manufactorum pt2.

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #BuildingWarhammer on my Imperial Knight Cerastus Castigator and Acheron. You will recall I just had a pile of bits but I have since managed to construct one pair of legs [ignore the Horus shin pads, I'm not turning traitor, they're just dry fit in place of the plain ones, that will be primed on the sprue].

Lets have a little flashback. First of all I decided to offset the hip joints. Instead of them both pointing down I cut them off and rotated them so they were asymmetrically angled. I'm not sure if this made any difference, or if I chose the correct angle for the pose but I felt better for attempting it. 

The base itself had a sheet of pink insulation foam for the 'step'. I printed out some reinforcement detail, stuck to cereal bock card and glued to the facing. Coffee stirrer for the top and 1mm gem beads for rivets. The toes had screws superglue/bicarb to add fixed mounting points to the base.

My attempt is to recreate a mirror version of this Reaver pose - stepping down, rather than stepping on a 'tactical rock'.

I haven't quite got the legs perpendicular to each other and it's not quite stepping down, but it's not stepping up either. I'm actually quite happy with it. The thing is there's a lot of thought going in to achieving these poses, so much so that eventually you have to just commit.

It's something of a leap of faith. The alternative is to constantly have the process swimming around in your head on how you will execute it but just gluing the feet in place can settle on the next bit and then the next. Hot glue was used for the toe screws [to fill in the thread] and then superglue in places. I also ran glue into the knee joints to lock the pose in place.

I added some red crackle paint around the foot - to look like it had shattered the surface. Then added sand and gravel to help blend the base a bit. The weapon feed is fantastically engineered. I've even magnetised it so they can be swapped around.

OK, so the Castigator has also progressed. I actually ended up with 3 Paint Your Own Venoms and this one - started with my Dremel, but the cutting disc wasn't wide enough to cut through his feet without catching the base. In the end I just used a junior hacksaw. I then glued on some slate, to cover the holes where its feet were and then used tile grout to blend it together. Legs glued in place, using Milliput to blend around the toes.

Added some sand, gravel, texture and crackle paint then I started to think about more decorative elements. I have a lot of Genestealers and I considered adding some. However the 3 'running away' didn't seem to make sense, despite them looking much cooler than the three running toward the knight.

I've now considered 2 on the left and 1 on the right, which gives the knight a little more space around its feet. Obviously I'll be removing their bases but I think I will pin them and add them down the line, that way I can leave the base as it is for now.

There's still a fair bit left to do on both of these:

• Decide on how the legs and torso will be connected
• Make the pilot access hatch openable
• Finish weapon magnetising

OK, that's just three things, but they're quite complicated problems to solve - the Acheron Chainfist has some pistons on it that I need to magnetise or pin so they still function and there are no guides online to make the hatch moveable.

This has been quite a long-winded build. I started on the 17th August and it's still not complete. It's occupied a lot of my hobby thought processes but luckily my urge to paint is non-existent. I'm hoping DreadTober will go someway to getting my painting mojo back, but I want these ready to go or at least prime, before the weather properly turns and priming becomes problematic.

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