Welcome my friends, to another completed post! This one took months and months of time to figure out and get done properly. It's my most complex model to date, with the most modification, and my first time painting blue!
Get right to the good stuff! Lets start with some of the conversions. It's a valiant knight chassis, with the bell towers chopped, and the secondary carapace chopped (like the other knights). Chopping this one was a lot more difficult due to all the complex curves on the carapace. The shoulders are battlewagon rams, with the tabs filled in. They sit on magnets to let the arms be transported (or changed) easier, and also to raise the curve to match the line of the bell towers. The Top gun is from the battlewagon upgrade kit, with a platform built from stompa parts. (where the grot is standing, he probably isn't on the actual model now for transport reasons).
All the skulls and imperial symbols were knocked off (except for ONE skull i missed) and replaced with ork glyphs and skulls. The top guns are modified from the metals with shoota parts from the dakkajet box. The Claw on the harpoon arm is from the terrain kit with the crane. He head is from the gork/mork kit, the jaw from the deff dread (With stubble shaved off). Ammo drum from the stompa turret gun, guns from a 3rd party (but it is the same scale and size as the FW punisher cannon upgrade kit...just 15 for 3 instead of 3 for 50+!). Legs from dakkajet and mekgun kits. Groin plates from the trukk and deff dread kits. Exhausts from the stompa, trukk, battlewagon, mega dread, and meka dread kits. I think that is everything!
All the skulls and imperial symbols were knocked off (except for ONE skull i missed) and replaced with ork glyphs and skulls. The top guns are modified from the metals with shoota parts from the dakkajet box. The Claw on the harpoon arm is from the terrain kit with the crane. He head is from the gork/mork kit, the jaw from the deff dread (With stubble shaved off). Ammo drum from the stompa turret gun, guns from a 3rd party (but it is the same scale and size as the FW punisher cannon upgrade kit...just 15 for 3 instead of 3 for 50+!). Legs from dakkajet and mekgun kits. Groin plates from the trukk and deff dread kits. Exhausts from the stompa, trukk, battlewagon, mega dread, and meka dread kits. I think that is everything!
Some closeups of the weathering. It came out spectacularly this time. Who would have thought that blue was easier to paint then yellow! I used the same formula as the other knights, only replaced the yellows with french blue, and light sky blue (Vallejo air colors).
Here is the recipe if anyone is curious!
Some shots of all three of the knights (in poor lighting) together! And a comparison showing how much larger the new one is then the others! Super brutal! Hope you all enjoy them! They'll be at nova, getting blown up on turn 1!
