Welcome back! Another Orky Knight update for you all! This week I finalized almost all of the armor plates (except the torso plates), and started to work on the drivers of the knights.
Here is the basic final layout of the knight plates. The shin plates are from the mek gun kits. The thigh plates are from the engine cowls from the dakka jets, and the shoulder plates are from the stompa head. The groin plate is a cut up front armor plate which just had a perfect curve.
For the CC oriented knight, I wanted an ork piloting it. I remembered I had a bit of crew from my old mega dread I never used...well he just fit absolutely perfectly in the little cockpit. The hatch was a bit long open, so I just chopped it up. Of course it wouldn't fully protect him when he pulled it back down, but it's not like he actually would fit in that space anyway :)
On the shooty knight, it will be piloted by a grot. (makes sense right?). The mek gun kit was a lovely purchase, as it has this awesome side door which works really nice as an open hatch. I'm working on a little prop to keep it open, then you'll be able to see the grot looking out, and it'll hide some of the interior so I don't have to make it ultra pretty. (running out of time here!). On which grot to use yet, I haven't figured it out yet. I think the main one is going to be a little fellow looking out with goggles.
I also haven't worked out torso plates (nothing quite looks right, might just leave them off), nor the buzz saw yet, nor the missile pod on the CC knight. Trying to setup a rig to have a whole slew of ork rokkit's on top of the CC knight to represent the barrage weapon. Got the rokkit's, just figuring out a fun way of integrating them. Oh, and I also need a giant banner. Really getting close now. Gotta get these guys into paint next week.
I also haven't worked out torso plates (nothing quite looks right, might just leave them off), nor the buzz saw yet, nor the missile pod on the CC knight. Trying to setup a rig to have a whole slew of ork rokkit's on top of the CC knight to represent the barrage weapon. Got the rokkit's, just figuring out a fun way of integrating them. Oh, and I also need a giant banner. Really getting close now. Gotta get these guys into paint next week.
I've been working like crazy. Also almost finished the painboy. Actually going to finish him this time, instead of plop him on a bike with some skin and call him good enough. Have to do metal highlights and weathering, and maybe another glaze and he'll be good to go.
Also have the normal big mek almost done as well. Just past washes, highlights, weathering next. (also I forgot to put metallics on his shiny shoota). It also appears that one of Shantz teammates dropped out of trios, so I was the emergency backup, so now I'm going to be doing trios, warlords, and nightfighters at nova. My goodness.
So I'm also working on a mega armored big mek, because I have no idea how to do 1850 points, so I just took the dread mob and added grot riggers, armor plates, and max upgrades to everything. It's a horrible horrible list, but hey, I didn't really have to buy anything!
Adepticon hotels went up yesterday, and I was able to get a spot, so I'll be at Nova this year, and adepticon next year, if anyone is looking to meet up! Thanks for visiting and reading everyone! And thank you so much for all the great comments and suggestions!
