Imperial Knights painted with the aid of an airbrush - kind of

Dave or better known as Dwez from 40kaddicts sent me a text saying take a look at this on Twitter and you should put your stuff on; the twit said "Hear ye, hear ye! A grand galactic knightly tournament declared in ye old Emperor’s name. Share your loyal and heretic Knights with us!"
So I put my Chaos Knights on and I got some nice positive re-twittes and comments.  Then I realised I hadn't photographed or blogged about my new loyalist Knights, so hear goes.

Following on from the strange and mixed response from my post on my "Project: Custodes Castellan Knight" I had decided to paint my Imperial knights using my airbrush.  I still consider myself to be a novice at airbrushing but I felt confident enough after painting my Castellan.  I had already painted the blue armour on them all, and I had finished my warlord, but I wasn't happy with the gold trim which was hand painted. as you can see below, the airbrush gold on the Castellan looks better, in my opinion.

I stripped the armour off him and dug out all the other armoured bits from my other Knights and started to mask up.

This is a long and laborious process, and adding cleaning the airbrush every blink of an eye, it can put people off airbrushing.  But the results speak for them selves, it's not quicker, it's just an alternative method of painting.   

Then following my technique I used on the Castellan I began to airbrush away with no idea how hey would turn out as it is all masked off.

I revealed one first to see if I liked the effect, and I did, phew.

It all looks a little too clean and tidy so it needs a lot of weathering.

OK so far so good, but now they needed basing and I wanted a theme base for all five but I didn't want the bases for my three un-based ones to over shadow the first two.  I decided to use the same Aquila and add some building wall sections and rubble, hoping it would work together.

You can also see I have some 10cm bases in the shot too, they are from my Armiger Helverins which I still haven't finished oops.  I airbrushed the bases just in the same style as  my Warlord and Castellan and here is the results of many months of work.

And as a passing shot this is my full collection of Knights and stuff I hope you enjoy :)

WIP Roboute Guilliman - with NMM Gold Armour pt5

 Welcome back to part 5 and he is finally finished.  I added the eagles head from his original base and a column from the Kill Team box set, everything else has been carved from Foamex board (the stuff sign-writers print onto) which is condensed foam.  I find Foamex board has a lovely quality for doing scenery of this type, if you score it and snap it gives a great masonry texture in the break perfect for rubble.

WIP Roboute Guilliman - with NMM Gold Armour pt4

Welcome back to part 4 and as you can see, he is almost.  I just have a couple of touch ups and some  details to do, but for the most part he is complete.  

This is a strange thing to admit but this was my first attempt at flame and it quite tricky to make it look right, hopefully you will agree it looks a little bit like flame :)

Next time he will be on his base :) 

WIP Roboute Guilliman - with NMM Gold Armour pt3

Just a quick update on my progress with good old Rob, helmet, right arm and back pack done.  From the start of this project I have been conscious that I didn't want too much gold on the model, which is difficult as potentially all his armour could be gold.  That was why I decided to add the blue but also the white to the eagle wing tips and I almost did the same on his iron halo, but as you can see I went for gold instead.

What are your thoughts, did I make the right decision?

WIP Roboute Guilliman - with NMM Gold Armour pt2

Welcome back to part 2 of Roboute Guilliman WIP, as you can see I actually ventured past shades of brown.  I was getting bored of just using the same colours all the time, so I decided to see how the Ultra Marine Logos would work with his gold armour.  I'm interested see what you think of this gold and blue combination :) 

WIP Roboute Guilliman - with NMM Gold Armour

I thought it was time to share my WIP Roboute Guilliman, Seeing now that he is the "Emperor of mankind" he should be wearing his new golden amour.  

I'm still trying to perfect the NMM (non-metalic-metals), I have tried 3 different variations on my Renegade Knights, I thought this style or my 4th would suit Guilliman best.  Your thoughts and comments are most welcome :)

World Eaters Renegade Knight

Death Guard Renegade Knight

Black Legion Renegade Knight (sorry for the rubbish picture)