Nurgle Imperial Knight pt6 (complete)

Well it took some doing between 4 - 6 weeks, but it is finally finished and I am a week early for the GT final.  This got me thinking: 15 years ago when I got back into gaming I remember wanting to game quick and I painted 16 Crises Suits and 90 Fire Warriors in about the same amount of time it has taken me to create this.  Now don't get me wrong I'm not made of money, I did not buy new, I bought them all on ebay for a steal and what ever condition they were in for the right price (cheap) and I repainted and rebased them all.  It just goes to show that we game and paint sometimes out of necessity; either to full fill our need to roll dice or to let our creative juices flow through our creations..... But I am slowing down in my old age :)

WIP Nurgle Imperial Knight pt5

The finish line is in sight which is good as I only have a few weeks left before the GT final, so I thought I would put on a quick update of my progress and hopefully he will be finished by this time next week Woohoo!

Swords almost finished I just need to add some more weathering to the blade. 

All the armour is now complete and ready to be attached. I find it amazing the uses we can find from the spare bits from kits, I managed to use both spare heads and bits from both spare arms from someone else's ebay reject pile to create my conversion "waste not want not" :)

WIP Nurgle Imperial Knight pt4

Boils, boils and more boils.. With only a few weeks before the GT final I decided to break the back of the painting and as seeing most of him is flesh now, it feels like I've achieved a great amount by doing his possessed body, boils and all.  In the end I decided to keep my painting pallet muted keeping to; yellows, greens, blues and purples and mixed combinations of these colours.  Even the mouths have a heavy amount of purple in the red.

WIP Nurgle Imperial Knight pt3

Time for an update on my Renegade Knight.  I'm still adding milliput rocky spikes to the base but I have painted all the base colours and completed the horns.  The Castellan green base coat on the armour has been airbrushed and the highlights along with the rest of the colours to be painted "the good out fashioned way" :)  

WIP Nurgle Imperial Knight pt2

A quick update on my Nurgle Knight.  I thought I would test out the colour combination on his pauldrons, and I couldn't resist adding some reflective scenery :)

WIP Nurgle Imperial Knight

With the imminent release of the new Imperial knight codex and some awesome new knights to add to our ranks, I thought it would be a good time to share my WIP Nurgle Imperial knight.   With later posts showcasing my WIP House Terryn and Khorne Imperial Knight.

Now for the reason why I needed a Nurgle Knight, after the GT it became apparent that my Land Raider did not do at all well in all of my 5 games.  The best it did was the warm up match with Dave on the Friday night.  I've wanted to do a Nurgle Knight for ages but I never got around to it, and the longer I left it the more and more models became available for conversion like the Glottkin Knight; and if I'm honest I almost did the conversion then I saw someone on ebay selling all the bits I needed from the Great Unclean One, and I thought it would make for an easier and less time consuming build (the jury is still out on if it was quicker or not).  So I'm going to replace my Land Raider with a Nurgle Knight the issue being it has a definitive finish date, I'm torn between doing a good conversion and loads of time to paint it or a better conversion and less time to paint it.  As of this morning this is were I'm up to I'm about 95% complete I still need to finish the base and other odds and sods but I'm running out of time. 

I thought I would include a couple of my favourite Nurgle Knights that I found online, I used these as inspiration.  There are so many to choose from but Brian's and Tony's I really like and are great painter to boat, there truly are some amazing people out there.  I hope you likey :) 

Brian Hansen's Nurgle Imperial Knight Link

Tony Craigen's Nurgle Imperial Knight Link

If you have a favourite please feel free to post an image or leave a comment if you have any constructive ideas for my build :) 

New Adeptus Titanicus - Well almost :)

For one moment this morning I actually thought Adeptus Titanicus was going to return and then I saw the Lords of the Battlefield video for the new Imperial knight and my hopes were dashed, but also excited about getting another new Knight :)

"How many guns!?"

I don't know about you but I'm getting excited about the new codex and the combinations we will be able to field in the future.  But I still think it looks like a mini Warlord class titan :)