First batch of Empire Knights painted

I was quite apprehensive about starting these guys, because I loved the conversions I'd done, and wasn't sure I'd have enough time or ideas to do them justice.

I'd originally thought of them as freelance knights, with seperate paint schemes and heraldry, but didn't have the time to do these, and was pretty sure they wouldn't look very good without some kind of comprehensive colour scheme.

I wanted to get the nordland colour schemes in there somewhere, and so originally went for a dark metal colour, that ended up, after a number of washes, looking black. Duh! Why didn't i think of that in the first place. Then came the chequer schemes, and the coloured bits were added last.

Not sure if i'd made these guys too 'busy' with crosses and writing etc, but wanted to get a mildly gothic feel about them. I like the more gothic feel of the terminator shcileds, and have my eye on the forge world black templar sheilds, which i might see if I can get over the xmas period.

Going to start the next lot now, which should go a little easier now I know what colours I'm painting, though might see if I can add a few more skulls etc.

Lances were painted with air brush and masking tape.

Nork Dedog /bonehead

The ogre hunter struck me a long time ago as being perfect for an ogryn conversion, and here is the beginning. Simple arm swap, and addition of a commissar's hat. Fairly nervous about doing the hat - but the trick I've found is to break the hat down into minimal stages. So I started by clipping off the hair and bone so I had a fairly even surface. I then added a simple hat shape, and let that dry.
The I added the peak at the top front of the hat, to give it its shape.
Then, I added the brim, which was the trickiest part. I made it roughly the right shape before putting the piece on and gently smoothing it onto thefront of the hat.
Then I added the thin roll of cording over the top of the brim, and lastly - when everything else was dry, I added the aquilla, which was fairly simple. I put the wings in first, and then a small ball for the skull went over the top.




Cant decide what to do with him now. Either Nork Dedog, or a bone head, or an inquisitorial retinue member.

40k Terrain

Been a little distracted recently by some 4OK terrain, and thought this would be interesting.

I've been doing alot of buildings, but thought it'd be good to have some terrain that went down instead of up. A bit like the Rockefeller Centre...... but without a thick foam base to dig down into, the best I could come up with was a kind of sewage treatment centre.

Enjoy: