Bringing out the big guns - Showcase Acastus Knight Porphyrion

Phew! What a paint filled couple of days that's been!

Since it saw the Acastus Knight previewed at the Forge World Open Day I knew I wanted one but didn't actually expect to own one any time soon. Then Christmas came and maybe I got all caught up in the spirit of giving but anyway it happened I ended up ordering myself one! Haha no regrets!

Whilst I've been privileged to work on no fewer than 7 Imperial Knights over the last couple of years, I always seem to forget just how much of a time and space investment they are, and this guys is bar far the largest thing I've ever tackled. 

 

Once I'd gotten my head around the basic construction I set about deciding how I wanted the Knight to look and what I saw him doing in my mind. 

I wanted to attempt to inject a little more movement in the model than I'd seen so far and fortunately the FW kit is pretty good at allowing different  positions, I did however run into a few issues with pistons being too short once I had positioned the one leg and later found the armour panels clashed so ended up having to break the leg apart (rather scary...) and rebuild it. Fortunaly the rebuild actually looks all the better for it so no harm done. 

 

As I have probably mentioned before, I'm a massive fan of basing models so I figured "Let's start from the ground up" and set about making a suitably scaled area for the Knight to be operating in. Unfortunately the Acastus doesn't come supplied with a base (160mm being the largest GW manufacture) so I knocked up a 200mm base from some clear Perspex I had laying around at work. Then added some ruins, sand, rocks, FW casting blocks and a stray 9mm shell and boom. Base set. Shout out to LukoDakka for the orientation advice, ruin to the rear 100% the right shout. 

With the base done it really was just a simple case of throwing down my Knight House Colours and getting stuck in. I'd still got a few days off of work so with the wife at work I managed to attack him pretty hard for three days of straight painting. 

Please meet the latest addition to my Knight house -

Ruins Bastion 

 

All told I'm chuffed with him, I'm not totally happy with the paint job and a few things have irritated me in the venture but I'm probably just being overly critical of myself. Anyways, here's a group shot of him with his brothers..

 

Lefts to right - 

Red Wrath 

Tempestuous Reason

Ruins Bastion

Indomitable Heart

Omnissiahs Repugnance

Anyway - I'd better dash as I've a doubles tournament to prepair for in the morning that a few of us from the Code will be attending!

As ever, many thanks for reading and I'd love to hear any comments or critiques from you guys so be sure to drop something in the comments :) 

Thanks all 

Db  

Dismember December 2016 - Final Post - Voting for your Favourite!

Morning All,

As promised I am back with the voting post for all our Slaughterpriests.  I hope you have enjoyed our little internal code40k painting competition.  So now its time for you the readers to vote for your favourite via comments below please.  If you are feeling brave your top 3 would be good.

Code guys you can also vote but not for your own!  Please comment below.  Each name is also a link to the original post allowing you to look at more angles should you desire.

Anyway in no particular order

Dark Bristles

Boss Bluddtoof

LukoDakka

Innermech

DOC

Look forward to seeing who comes out on top.

Cheers

DOC

Slaughter-Priest Dismember December Showcase by DOC

Hi All,

Happy New Year readers!  DOC here with my entry to our December event and we are now into January woops!  Anyway mine is somewhat of a rush job but he is at least finished.  It also the first time in many years I have not glued sand onto a base which was a nice change!  I used vallejo black lava which is a gritty paste.  I think it has worked out well base wise.  The model itself has been painted in standard Khorne colours with a simple base, wash and single highlight method.  I used this as a getting back into hobby piece having not painted since September.

In a couple of days I will put a voting post asking for all you fine readers to vote for your favourite of all the slaughter priests.

Anyway enough chatter here are some work in progress and completed pictures.

Finished Model:

Comments are most welcome look out for the voting post in the coming days.

Cheers

DOC

Dismember December - Slaughterpriest

Showcase - Dismember December
by Luko Dakka

Here is my take on Dismember December, although joking with the others, it should really be for New Years Evil as I was finishing this guy off on the eve of 2017.

Painting wise I used the airbrush for priming, base colours and the first and second highlight, enough to allow me to go in and do the detail work, edge highlighting.

Had a little blast with non-metallic metal, experimenting with a darker gold as it suits Chaos quite well I think. I simply use a great colour Vallejo Japanese Uniform, mixed in a little black and worked up to white. The red was done by painting black to white and then glazing thinned mephiston red over the top. The skin was Vallejo Heavy brown, highlighted by simply adding more white, a shade of umber wash was then applied to tone it down a bit and then a mix of tank brown and heavy brown was added to give a bit of depth to the muscles.

The base is cork for the rock and a fine detail filler was used between for the lava. This was airbrushed with Vallejo Italian Red, Hot Orange, Gold Yellow, Sunburst Yellow & the hottest spots with Ice Yellow/white. The rock was drybrushed Vallejo Black Grey and Light Grey and mephiston red slightly round the inner edges.

I really enjoyed painting this and it was nice having the freedom of a one off miniature to paint.

This has got me itching to get started on a neglected Silver Tower Boxed Set so that may pop up at some time.

Until next time

Cheers

Luko Dakka

Dismember December .........By Bluddtoof

So I finally got my entry completed after a long period of having no mojo for painting. I'm pleased with the finished model and love the palette I went with. Oddly enough it's very similar to my Imperial Knight! I only realised as I was nearing completion. I obviously have an attraction to cream and red.
So here's some pics.....

Hope you like it, c & c welcome and I look forward to seeing the other entries.

Bluddtoof