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Sunday, January 27, 2019
New House!: 23 to 27 January
No hobby work done for these days, because I've been busy acquiring a new 1:1 scale piece of scenery (assembled and painted) - a new house! With visits and calls and planning etc. I haven't had time for hobby ... but I have made many plans of what I am going to do with my new hobby space!
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Knight Valiant Trygon: 22 January 2019
The final gaps are filled and the little scrabbly claws were attached.
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Monday, January 21, 2019
Knight Valiant Trygon: 21 January 2019
Very similar to the previous pic, but this has the tail glued in place, the arms attached, and gaps filled.
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Sunday, January 20, 2019
Knight Valiant Chainfist: 20 January 2019
I underslung an Armiger chainblade on the armor for the fist, attaching a fuel tank to cover a hole and give some detail.
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Saturday, January 19, 2019
Knight Valiant Trygon Tail: 19 January 2019
The tail of the Trygon was too long and too straight, so I cut it up and repositioned it.
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Friday, January 18, 2019
Knight Valiant 3d Parts: 18 January 2019
The 3d printed parts arrived from Shapeways and I glued some of them in place.
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Thursday, January 17, 2019
Knight Valiant: 17 January 2019
The orange juice lids were glued in place, with little holes drilled in the top to take the turrets.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Knight Valiant Carapace: 16 January 2019
I bit the bullet and started cutting the carapace up so the orange juice lids would fit in. I glued in the shoulder pads and held them in place with some poured resin. The circle in the carapace was cut by scoring the line, sawing to it and then snapping off. I filed it out smooth with a piece of sandpaper wrapped around a tube.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Knight Valiant Rockets: 15 January 2019
Not much done tonight, but I did assemble the little rockets.
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Monday, January 14, 2019
Big Flamey Thing: 14 January 2019
I assembled the big flamer - it is not going on the Valiant, but will instead be used on my Sisters of Battle Thunderhawk. I assembled it just so it wouldn't be sitting on the sprue.
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Sunday, January 13, 2019
Knight Valiant Weapons: 13 January 2019
I assembled the double melta guns for the Valiant.
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Saturday, January 12, 2019
Knight Valiant Leg Positioning: 12 January 2019
The pins were cut off the left leg so it could bend more and they were carefully positioned as if it were holding down the Trygon.
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Friday, January 11, 2019
Knight Valiant Leg Assembly: 11 January 2019
The Trygon arrived and so I started assembling it and seeing what position the legs would have to be in to make it work.
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Thursday, January 10, 2019
Knight Valiant Claw: 10 January 2019
The Dreamforge claw arrived and so I assembled that, working out how best to attach it to the shoulder mount of the Valiant. The GW Knights are skinnier than the Dreamforge Leviathans, and so some hydraulics etc. will clearly be indicated to bulk it out.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Knight Valiant: 8 & 9 January 2019
A little bit of work each night assembling the various sub-assemblies.
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Monday, January 7, 2019
Knight Valiant: 7 January 2019
The Knight Valiant arrived and I started work assembling!
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Sunday, January 6, 2019
Armiger Knight: 6 January 2019
Got some orange down on the Armiger - it's very bright . . .
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Saturday, January 5, 2019
Armiger Knight: 5 January 2019
I pulled this bad boy out (if I am going to be buying quite so many Knights, I should probably paint some of them . . .) and did a little bit of work. Specifically, I completed the base coats on the green cables and red trim, and painted the yellow on the chainsword.
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Friday, January 4, 2019
Knight Planning: 4 January 2019
I am not sure if "planning" really counts as #OneHourANight, but maybe it does. It certainly takes time - and it is not merely purchasing (which does not count).
With the new knight I've got on the workbench, as well as the Armigers and Dreamforge Leviathan I still have incomplete, I've got a fairly sizable Knight force (a maniple? I dunno . . .) To keep them thematic with the rest of my 40K armies (which, with the exception of the Blood Angels, are all from the Ophelia system), I decided to make them "Black Nobility" - noble households allied with the church. This would allow me any sort of variation in painting, lots of heraldry, but a theme nevertheless.
I recently became a godfather, and my goddaughter's name means "strong like a boar" . . . and this was the specific reason the parents chose it. I wanted to make a model inspired by her, to honor her (and which might be completed before she has children of her own given my slow painting . . .)
I'd been really excited by the Dominus-class Knight chassis, especially the Knight Valiant with its harpoon. I loved the idea of a "monster hunter", going after Tyranid megafauna, and of going overboard with 40K gothic detail. I also liked the idea of not using the flame cannon (there are enough flamers in the army already and that would be perfect for my Sisters of Battle Thunderhawk) but instead giving it some kind of close-combat weapon to fight monsters with.
I'd been toying with the idea of a Captain Ahab inspired model - a nautical theme, with one leg replaced with a massive spar of chitin taken from a Tyranid bioform - but when my goddaughter was born, it all came together in my mind with "strong like a boar". I would create a monster hunter with a huge boar spear held in a massive power fist, stabbing downwards into a felled monster.
With this in mind, I went "hunting" for parts and components!
First off, a Knight Valiant - that part was easy! To replace the flame cannon, I ordered a Dreamforge Mauler Claw. This is a great kit I have used previously (and which may soon be going OOP, so I don't know if I don't need to order five of each "handed" variant to have a stock!) It has wonderful poseability and is nicely detailed. It is oversized, perhaps, for a GW Knight - but that is just part of its charm.
To up the ante on this weapon, I will make it into a chainfist with an Armiger chainsword, and probably add some kind of knuckle-mounted weapon (a heavy stubber or the like). The boar spear will be scratch built.
One criticism I have heard about the Dominus chassis is that it is too short - or, rather, it is not much taller than the Questoris chassis. OK, I heard this criticism from a guy who had designed a torso extender which he was selling but that's fair enough - I think I agree with it. Certainly, the pictures I saw of the piece in place made the Dominus look much better - I ordered one of those, and some arched skull vents from his Shapeways shop to extend and bling out the Knight.
I'd been fascinated by the tops of Tropicana juice bottles - seriously, check those things out. They have arched alcoves beneath a flared top - perfect as column capitals. I'd used them on some scenery, and had collected a few of the larger size ones, but there is a smaller version which I thought would work. A simple transaction at the local party store / off license / corner shop, a few glugs of orange juice, and I had two nice small gothic column tops! My plan - if they are an appropriate size - is to use them on the shoulders, below the turrets, to raise the height of the Knight even more.
Finally, I wanted to turn my attention to the head of the Knight - I wanted this to look like a boar hunter, not a boar itself, so I was going to paint it in brightly-colored livery (more on that later) as if it were a medieval knight on a hunt. But, the use of decorated, shaped or crested helms is part of a knight's panoply - and so I searched for pieces I could use.
(I did ask if there was a boar's head available from an after-market seller, but none of the FB groups knew - they suggested Comrade Quiche, who made the torso extender, and I even posted asking if he could make one! I don't think such a thing exists.)
I ended up buying a Schleich wild boar and a wild boar pendant - they were both inexpensive and I'll see if either or both will work. If not, I will come up with something else!
When it came to the painting, I wanted to reflect my goddaughter's origin - her parent's names and families. A quick Google search revealed the coats of arms for their family names - now, I am certain the College of Arms would be aghast at whatever was turned up, and all this modern fascination with fabricated heraldry is probably galling to professionals, but the arms are pretty and dramatic, and will quarter well.
A simple quartered design will look dramatic - black and red fields with gold chargers will be both contrasting and harmonized. I think I shall search out some decals for the heraldic animals, rather than trying to paint them by hand.
The entire model will be posed and mounted stabbing into a felled beast - which I have not yet acquired! Some kind of Tyranic monstrosity is called for - but I don't want to pay a fortune for a model I am just going to cut up and glue on a base underneath a load of battle damage and ichor! I shall have to hunt through the second-hand market to find something.
So, that is the planning - all in all, probably more than an hour, and certainly as creative as actually modelling or painting! Let me know what you think!
With the new knight I've got on the workbench, as well as the Armigers and Dreamforge Leviathan I still have incomplete, I've got a fairly sizable Knight force (a maniple? I dunno . . .) To keep them thematic with the rest of my 40K armies (which, with the exception of the Blood Angels, are all from the Ophelia system), I decided to make them "Black Nobility" - noble households allied with the church. This would allow me any sort of variation in painting, lots of heraldry, but a theme nevertheless.
I recently became a godfather, and my goddaughter's name means "strong like a boar" . . . and this was the specific reason the parents chose it. I wanted to make a model inspired by her, to honor her (and which might be completed before she has children of her own given my slow painting . . .)I'd been really excited by the Dominus-class Knight chassis, especially the Knight Valiant with its harpoon. I loved the idea of a "monster hunter", going after Tyranid megafauna, and of going overboard with 40K gothic detail. I also liked the idea of not using the flame cannon (there are enough flamers in the army already and that would be perfect for my Sisters of Battle Thunderhawk) but instead giving it some kind of close-combat weapon to fight monsters with.
I'd been toying with the idea of a Captain Ahab inspired model - a nautical theme, with one leg replaced with a massive spar of chitin taken from a Tyranid bioform - but when my goddaughter was born, it all came together in my mind with "strong like a boar". I would create a monster hunter with a huge boar spear held in a massive power fist, stabbing downwards into a felled monster.
With this in mind, I went "hunting" for parts and components!First off, a Knight Valiant - that part was easy! To replace the flame cannon, I ordered a Dreamforge Mauler Claw. This is a great kit I have used previously (and which may soon be going OOP, so I don't know if I don't need to order five of each "handed" variant to have a stock!) It has wonderful poseability and is nicely detailed. It is oversized, perhaps, for a GW Knight - but that is just part of its charm.
To up the ante on this weapon, I will make it into a chainfist with an Armiger chainsword, and probably add some kind of knuckle-mounted weapon (a heavy stubber or the like). The boar spear will be scratch built.
One criticism I have heard about the Dominus chassis is that it is too short - or, rather, it is not much taller than the Questoris chassis. OK, I heard this criticism from a guy who had designed a torso extender which he was selling but that's fair enough - I think I agree with it. Certainly, the pictures I saw of the piece in place made the Dominus look much better - I ordered one of those, and some arched skull vents from his Shapeways shop to extend and bling out the Knight.
I'd been fascinated by the tops of Tropicana juice bottles - seriously, check those things out. They have arched alcoves beneath a flared top - perfect as column capitals. I'd used them on some scenery, and had collected a few of the larger size ones, but there is a smaller version which I thought would work. A simple transaction at the local party store / off license / corner shop, a few glugs of orange juice, and I had two nice small gothic column tops! My plan - if they are an appropriate size - is to use them on the shoulders, below the turrets, to raise the height of the Knight even more.Finally, I wanted to turn my attention to the head of the Knight - I wanted this to look like a boar hunter, not a boar itself, so I was going to paint it in brightly-colored livery (more on that later) as if it were a medieval knight on a hunt. But, the use of decorated, shaped or crested helms is part of a knight's panoply - and so I searched for pieces I could use.
(I did ask if there was a boar's head available from an after-market seller, but none of the FB groups knew - they suggested Comrade Quiche, who made the torso extender, and I even posted asking if he could make one! I don't think such a thing exists.)
I ended up buying a Schleich wild boar and a wild boar pendant - they were both inexpensive and I'll see if either or both will work. If not, I will come up with something else!
When it came to the painting, I wanted to reflect my goddaughter's origin - her parent's names and families. A quick Google search revealed the coats of arms for their family names - now, I am certain the College of Arms would be aghast at whatever was turned up, and all this modern fascination with fabricated heraldry is probably galling to professionals, but the arms are pretty and dramatic, and will quarter well.
(I reproduce the arms without the names for privacy's sake, although you could easily look them up, I suppose . . . )
A simple quartered design will look dramatic - black and red fields with gold chargers will be both contrasting and harmonized. I think I shall search out some decals for the heraldic animals, rather than trying to paint them by hand.
The entire model will be posed and mounted stabbing into a felled beast - which I have not yet acquired! Some kind of Tyranic monstrosity is called for - but I don't want to pay a fortune for a model I am just going to cut up and glue on a base underneath a load of battle damage and ichor! I shall have to hunt through the second-hand market to find something.
So, that is the planning - all in all, probably more than an hour, and certainly as creative as actually modelling or painting! Let me know what you think!
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Thursday, January 3, 2019
Dominatrix Tank: 2 & 3 January 2018
Most of this work was not done in #OneHourTonight! The tank has been sitting part completed for a while, and the bottom picture is just to show what it is like. What I did on a couple of evenings (and really not that much work on each) was glue up the Knight-Titan flame weapons, attach them to some tubes, drill holes to mount them and added a few fuel tank details.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Imperial Knight: 1 January 2019
I do not make much of the new year, but my friends do and enjoy staying up late for it - usually, we are at one particular friend's house (it is a nice big house, with a well-stocked bar and circulation space - suitable for gatherings). This year, I took my nice new Miniature Scenery workstation and assembled the chassis of a Knight-Titan which, as luck would have it, arrived on the 31st December. I have pre-ordered the "Nuns of Battle" Knight armor set from Legio Models which should be shipping some time in January, but I wanted to get ahead of the game!
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