Showing posts with label IG Sentinels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IG Sentinels. Show all posts
Monday, 20 October 2014
Baron Galfridas de Nordcote, Converted Imperial Knight
My converted Imperial Knight, Baron Galfridas de Nordcote, is now all painted. Here he is with his smaller cousins:
And here's some close-ups:
Bigger pictures of everything are available on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47446154@N08/sets/72157624191172526
Sunday, 2 March 2014
Imperial Knight converted to Knight Baron
Baron Galfridas de Nordcote, along with the rest of House Nordcote:
As you can see, his head has been swapped for a Sentinel Cockpit, to match the rest of the house:
I'm not a fan of transfers, so all decoration is 3D. A mix of purity seals, things from tank accessory sprues, and WFB shields. The heraldry of House Nordcote is a winged AdMech skull, Galfridas' personal heraldry is a crowned AdMech skull:
In Epic, Barons were armed with Power Lances rather than Chainswords. Hence this conversion:
Now on to undercoating! And painting. Not looking forward to doing all those purity seals!
Monday, 24 February 2014
Plans for new knights
So... GW are finally releasing proper Knights models. And Gods they are beautiful. http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod2380151a
My House Nordcote are obviously an Adeptus Mechanicus house, that much is clear!
At the weekend, when the official models are released, I'm getting one to make into my Baron - a bigger, funkier suit. I'll be swapping the official GW head for a sentinel cockpit, to tie him in with my existing models.
Then my current Baron (aka the Decimator) will be converted into an Errant. Then add lots of purity seals to all of them, so that he's not the only dude covered in them. I might also up-armour the Crusader and the Paladin. Think the Paladin needs shoulder pads, and the Crusader could do with a top on his carapace.
I'll possibly also build a Warden and a Castellan. The Warden's overlapping carapace reminds me of the Forgefiend, so that'll form the basis for that conversion. The Castellan will be similar to my Crusader, but with a Dreadnought torso not a Defiler.
Then I'll have models of all 7 knight types, which'll be nice! And led by the beautiful official GW model.
My House Nordcote are obviously an Adeptus Mechanicus house, that much is clear!
At the weekend, when the official models are released, I'm getting one to make into my Baron - a bigger, funkier suit. I'll be swapping the official GW head for a sentinel cockpit, to tie him in with my existing models.
Then my current Baron (aka the Decimator) will be converted into an Errant. Then add lots of purity seals to all of them, so that he's not the only dude covered in them. I might also up-armour the Crusader and the Paladin. Think the Paladin needs shoulder pads, and the Crusader could do with a top on his carapace.
I'll possibly also build a Warden and a Castellan. The Warden's overlapping carapace reminds me of the Forgefiend, so that'll form the basis for that conversion. The Castellan will be similar to my Crusader, but with a Dreadnought torso not a Defiler.
Then I'll have models of all 7 knight types, which'll be nice! And led by the beautiful official GW model.
Sunday, 2 February 2014
My Army So Far
I love the Adeptus Mechanicus! There are so many really cool converted armies of them out there, with such strong themes. Mine's not really one of them, it's more of a random collection of pieces that I've made over 5 years or so. But it's kept me entertained!
Long post this, sorry...
Next I want to add the new GW Knight Titans (if they do make them!), all the lovely Forgeworld pieces, and I have a set of Skullz models sitting around waiting to be painted. Then an armies on parade board... There's always something new to add!
All the photos are on Flickr here
The whole army:
The left flank, with lots of ranged Skitarii converted from Space Marines in the front:
The centre, with a variety of leaders and elites:
The right flank, with feral Skitarii converted from Orks in the front:
Some Praetorians, converted from Tyranid Warrior torsos:
Some more Praetorians, a mix of Ogres and classic ork warbike tracks:
And yet more Praetorians, again converted from Ogres:
Not really sure what these are! Made from Tyranid Warrior lower halves, obviously:
Robots (or maybe dreadnoughts?) These are inspired by the old Space Crusade dreadnoughts, with hulls from Forgefiends (& an old Space Crusade dread), and legs from IG Sentinels:
More robots! Ork Killer Kans here. They remind me a bit of Wall-E, I like them:
A final triad of robots/dreadnoughts. Dreadnoughts on sentinel legs, obviously:
And one big boss robot, some sort of Forgeworld grot-controlled mega-armoured dude:
My Knight Baron, a converted Decimator:
My Knight Paladin, a converted Dreadknight:
My Knight Lancer, converted from a Blood Slaughterer:
And my Knight Crusader, converted from a Defiler:
When GW finally release their Knight Titan, I'll probably swap the head for a sentinel...
The left flank, with lots of ranged Skitarii converted from Space Marines in the front:
The centre, with a variety of leaders and elites:
The right flank, with feral Skitarii converted from Orks in the front:
Some Praetorians, converted from Tyranid Warrior torsos:
Some more Praetorians, a mix of Ogres and classic ork warbike tracks:
And yet more Praetorians, again converted from Ogres:
Not really sure what these are! Made from Tyranid Warrior lower halves, obviously:
Robots (or maybe dreadnoughts?) These are inspired by the old Space Crusade dreadnoughts, with hulls from Forgefiends (& an old Space Crusade dread), and legs from IG Sentinels:
More robots! Ork Killer Kans here. They remind me a bit of Wall-E, I like them:
A final triad of robots/dreadnoughts. Dreadnoughts on sentinel legs, obviously:
And one big boss robot, some sort of Forgeworld grot-controlled mega-armoured dude:
My Knight Baron, a converted Decimator:
My Knight Paladin, a converted Dreadknight:
My Knight Lancer, converted from a Blood Slaughterer:
And my Knight Crusader, converted from a Defiler:
When GW finally release their Knight Titan, I'll probably swap the head for a sentinel...
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Knight Warden
The Warden is my third Knight. Wardens are heavy support Knights, crewed by semi-retired veterans, which are only used in the direst of circumstances. The Epic models were very varied, but Warden 1 is probably the most famous: overlapping armour plates, stubby arms with gatling cannons, carapace mounted missile launcher.
Ever since I saw the Decimator I knew I wanted to make it into a Knight. It just looks so perfect... Here's my chance! The overlapping armour plates and general bulkiness of it compared to my other Knights made it a good Warden. Like the Blood Slaughterer, I ended up rotating the torso 180 degrees and mounting the head where the daemon-engine-hatch is meant to be. Then with a Sentinel's engine on the back and a Defiler's Havoc Launcher on the carapace we're almost there! There was also lots of removing Chaos iconography - I wouldn't approach this job without a dremel, lots of files and a pile of green stuff.
The guns came from a kid's toy, the "Kung Zhu Rhino Tank". I thought they had a good AdMech look, with hints of the Thunderfire Cannon? The arms are actually a Blood Slaughterer's arms, swapped with my Lancer who has the Decimator's arms.
3 down, 1 to go, and then on to painting! Coming up next: the anti-vehicle Crusader...
Ever since I saw the Decimator I knew I wanted to make it into a Knight. It just looks so perfect... Here's my chance! The overlapping armour plates and general bulkiness of it compared to my other Knights made it a good Warden. Like the Blood Slaughterer, I ended up rotating the torso 180 degrees and mounting the head where the daemon-engine-hatch is meant to be. Then with a Sentinel's engine on the back and a Defiler's Havoc Launcher on the carapace we're almost there! There was also lots of removing Chaos iconography - I wouldn't approach this job without a dremel, lots of files and a pile of green stuff.
The guns came from a kid's toy, the "Kung Zhu Rhino Tank". I thought they had a good AdMech look, with hints of the Thunderfire Cannon? The arms are actually a Blood Slaughterer's arms, swapped with my Lancer who has the Decimator's arms.
3 down, 1 to go, and then on to painting! Coming up next: the anti-vehicle Crusader...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Knight Lancer
And here's the second Knight. This guy is a Lancer, a fast scout Knight armed with a battlecannon and a power lance. I wanted to keep some unifying elements (sentinel head, loin-banner, colour scheme), but shake things up and make it clearly a different type of Knight. And as it's meant to be a scout I wanted it more stream-lined and lanky...
King Fluff's amazing Knights were obviously a huge inspiration, both to this whole "build a Knightly household" project and to this model in particular. He uses the Blood Slaughterer torsoes to absolutely stunning effect. I can't hope to approach his standard of painting and modelling, but I can steal his bits choice!
The torso itself is actually rotated 180 degrees from the standard Blood Slaughterer, with a whole new armour plate added to cover the wires & dead bodies (made out of half a GW paint pot!) To make it look more stream-lined than my Paladin all the armour plates were cut from roung plastruct tubing.
The legs are Defiler legs with Chaos iconography removed. Still waiting for some better feet bits to arrive from the internet (I've ordered Ork Deff Dread toe-caps), and looking at the pictures that crooked leg needs to be straightened, and they need to be rotated so they're more upright in line with the centre of gravity, to stop it toppling over backwards...
The lance is a mix of a killa kan arm and a missile I found in my bits box, the las-battlecannon is the same design as my other Knight.
King Fluff's amazing Knights were obviously a huge inspiration, both to this whole "build a Knightly household" project and to this model in particular. He uses the Blood Slaughterer torsoes to absolutely stunning effect. I can't hope to approach his standard of painting and modelling, but I can steal his bits choice!
The torso itself is actually rotated 180 degrees from the standard Blood Slaughterer, with a whole new armour plate added to cover the wires & dead bodies (made out of half a GW paint pot!) To make it look more stream-lined than my Paladin all the armour plates were cut from roung plastruct tubing.
The legs are Defiler legs with Chaos iconography removed. Still waiting for some better feet bits to arrive from the internet (I've ordered Ork Deff Dread toe-caps), and looking at the pictures that crooked leg needs to be straightened, and they need to be rotated so they're more upright in line with the centre of gravity, to stop it toppling over backwards...
The lance is a mix of a killa kan arm and a missile I found in my bits box, the las-battlecannon is the same design as my other Knight.
Monday, 14 May 2012
Knight Paladin
I'm currently preparing my Adeptus Mechanicus army for Armies on Parade. And I wanted some big impressive eye-catching centrepieces - I wanted Knights!
Step 1 was to do some research (you can tell I'm a librarian in real life, right?) So I devoured the original fluff and scoured the internet to see how other people had converted their Knights, and gathered all my findings and links into the uber-post here: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?showtopic=248882
My plan is to make a complete feudal Knightly household - House Nordcote (named after my mother's family, using their heraldry).
In the original fluff there were 7 different types of Knights. For now I'm making 4 of the 7:
I made a non-specific Knight model from a Grey Knights dreadknight at the start of this year. With a bit of work, this became my Paladin. Here it is before any changes:
To update it into a Paladin it needed to have a battlecannon and a chainsword. Later I'll also repaint it slightly, and add the loin-cloth.
After testing out a few options for the battlecannon I decided that having it fire solid shells is hugely impractical - it'd need an absolutely massive magazine! So I made it into a sort of las-battlecannon instead, firing massive bolts of energy at the enemy. Much more AdMech. The gun is made from a Tau Ion Cannon's rear end and 3 sizes of plastruct tubing.
The chainsword was another difficult choice. The giant chainswords people put on their conversions always look a bit unwieldy to me, and cutting out all those individual teeth did not sound tempting... So I went for a spare Ork Killa Kan buzz-saw instead. It's still got teeth, and is clearly different to a powerfist or lance?
Everything's magnetised so that I can change it's armament for gaming purposes, but this is what it'll have in my Armies on Parade entry.
Next step: the Lancer! This needs to be taller and lankier, to fit it's role as a fast moving scout. And it needs to be armed with a similar las-battlecannon and a cool power lance.
- the basic Paladin, with battlecannon and chainsword
- the scout Lancer, with battlecannon and power lance
- the heavy Warden, with carapace-mounted missile launcher and twin gatling guns
- the anti-tank Crusader, with mini-quake cannon and twin-linked lascannon.
If I get time I'll add an Errant (meltacannon & powerfist) and a Baron (individualised & fancy suit), but this current list covers a nice spread of styles. I want each type to be clearly distinct, made from very different parts (and stealing ideas from all the coolest Knight models I found on the internet!) But I also want them to share common unifying elements - sentinel-cockpit-heads, loin-cloth-banners displaying matching family heraldry and a matching half-and-half colour scheme. My first challenge was the Paladin, the basic Knight. Here's the Epic models:
To update it into a Paladin it needed to have a battlecannon and a chainsword. Later I'll also repaint it slightly, and add the loin-cloth.
After testing out a few options for the battlecannon I decided that having it fire solid shells is hugely impractical - it'd need an absolutely massive magazine! So I made it into a sort of las-battlecannon instead, firing massive bolts of energy at the enemy. Much more AdMech. The gun is made from a Tau Ion Cannon's rear end and 3 sizes of plastruct tubing.
The chainsword was another difficult choice. The giant chainswords people put on their conversions always look a bit unwieldy to me, and cutting out all those individual teeth did not sound tempting... So I went for a spare Ork Killa Kan buzz-saw instead. It's still got teeth, and is clearly different to a powerfist or lance?
Everything's magnetised so that I can change it's armament for gaming purposes, but this is what it'll have in my Armies on Parade entry.
Next step: the Lancer! This needs to be taller and lankier, to fit it's role as a fast moving scout. And it needs to be armed with a similar las-battlecannon and a cool power lance.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Inspiration: Work In Progress Forum
The Work In Progress forum http://z11.invisionfree.com/Work_In_Progress/index.php is one of the best-kept 40k secrets on the web, an elite group of mind-blowingly cool convert-a-holics and scratch-builders.
Their Inquisition board includes plenty awesome of Adeptus Mechanicus conversions.
Some of my favourite Adeptus Mechanicus related conversions on WIP are those made by Malton Necromancer, also shown on his photobucket.
His tall skinny Grand Artificer was a clear influence on my Techno-Magi, his heavy praetorian/ogryns made from WFB Ogres are excellent, and I love all his walkers and skitarii and general craziness.
But my favourite of all the WIP Adeptus Mechanicus posts has to be this heavy dreadnought made GreyDeath (the chap who runs the forum). Mixing sentinel legs and a dreadnought torso looks so good! I really want to make some of these for my AdMech at some point- possibly I'll use this as the basis for a Knight Titan?
Their Inquisition board includes plenty awesome of Adeptus Mechanicus conversions.
Some of my favourite Adeptus Mechanicus related conversions on WIP are those made by Malton Necromancer, also shown on his photobucket.
His tall skinny Grand Artificer was a clear influence on my Techno-Magi, his heavy praetorian/ogryns made from WFB Ogres are excellent, and I love all his walkers and skitarii and general craziness.
But my favourite of all the WIP Adeptus Mechanicus posts has to be this heavy dreadnought made GreyDeath (the chap who runs the forum). Mixing sentinel legs and a dreadnought torso looks so good! I really want to make some of these for my AdMech at some point- possibly I'll use this as the basis for a Knight Titan?
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