Redemption's Grey Knights

[RedemptionNL]

Hey guys! Recently bought a new camera, so I thought I'd take some snaps of my WIP Grey Knights army to try it out:



Kaldor Draigo. I only noticed I should have probably removed the layer of dust untill after I uploaded the picture.



Coteaz



Brother-Librarian Castiel. Made from the plastic terminator box.



Grand Master Alaric. Also made from the plastic terminator box. His left arm is magnatised to swap weapons.



Vindicare Assassin on his perch.



Ordo Malleus Inquisitor.



Paladin/Terminator with Brotherhood Banner.

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Strike/Interceptor squad. All the backpacks are magnatised to swap between the Interceptor and the regular backpacks.



Every model has a unique name and heraldry. Still plan to do some tranfers once I get my hand on some GK ones.



Brother Daes, entombed in his Dreadnought. Here with quad-autocannon loadout.



And here again, with plasma cannon and dccw, in his 'to be or not to be'-pose.

[ss_cherubael]

Looking really good!

Love the dread

[RedemptionNL]

In the spirit of Easter, I also wanted to paint something. I couldn't find any eggs as some stupid rabbit hid them all, so I painted up this Dreadknight instead:





And to test out the video function of my camera, and my new turntable, I did a quick 360° video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzLeczfy-eo

[Mega Nutz]

Awesome looking GK's

[Student]

Nice painting. I like how you've done the swords and Inquisitor Coteaz's hammer.

[RedemptionNL]

Finished a second Dreadnought today, kitbashed from parts of the FW Dread, FW Ven Dread, a regular plastic dread and of course the Aegis Defense line:

[superdupermatt]

Finished a second Dreadnought today, kitbashed from parts of the FW Dread, FW Ven Dread, a regular plastic dread and of course the Aegis Defense line:

He looks a lot taller! Can I see a comparison picture with the other dreadnought?

[RedemptionNL]

Because of the stairs it's actually even a little smaller than the other dreadnought.

I uploaded a Youtube video which shows both side by side, and some Paladins I've recently finished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEa2HUzkIPs

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I've finished a small squad of purifiers in the meanwhile.

[RedemptionNL]

On to the next project, a LED-Lighted Lascannon Land Raider!

The first problem I had to tackle with lighting up the headlights, was drilling out the headlight bits. Most converted Landraiders I see just drill out a giant hole in the headlight bitz, but I liked the look of the wired mesh in front of the lightsm so I attempted to keep that, by drilling out the lights from the back and using a dremel to make little holes in the front for the light to shine through.

Well... that didn't work out so good:



As you can see, the grill is so tiny I basically destroyed it in the process. So I had to work on a different solution. With the advent of 3d printing, I thought, heck, why not give that a try? There's a company based in the Netherlands called Shapeways, where you can send a 3d model and they print it out for you for a reasonable price. I've dabbled in 3d modelling in the past, so I had some experience using the tools.

I measured up the original bit with a digital marking gauge to get reasonably accurate dimensions, and recreated the original bit as best I could, but with the headlights 'pre-drilled' to fit a duo of 3mm LEDs:



And send the model to Shapeways to print out a couple in their 'Frosted Ultra Detail' material. As it's somewhat transparent it's hard to take decent pictures of it, but here goes:



Lessons learned for the next bit I create: carve the details deeper! Here's a test fitting:



Still needs some fine sandpaper to smooth it out a little and make it fit better, but all in all I'm quite happy about the result!

As for the rest of the Land Raider, I couldn't just leave that stock either, so here's some other modifications I've done:



I combined the multi-melta gunner out of a PAGK's helmet, left shoulder pad and torso front with the legs, arms, right shoulder pad and rear torso of the techmarine included in the tank kits.



And I added the twin-linked lascannon barrels with the laurel wreaths from the Venerable Dreadnought kit to fancy those up a bit.



Of course some Forge World doors are always nice to spuce up a Land Raider.

[RedemptionNL]

I've already got some work done on the interior:







I've left it pretty basic, as in the Grim Darkness of the Land Raider interior, you can't see that much detail anyway, especially when peeking through the front assault ramp. If you're wondering where all the holes are for: the battery compartment is going to be housed behind the engine, so I've made the rear engine panel removable with magnets to be able to exchange empty batteries for fresh ones. The smaller holes are for the wiring.

Now to get everything together, solder/glue all the leds, wiring and switches in place and get it ready for painting the exterior!

[DigitalDogParty]

Oh wow, I really like these paint jobs!

[RedemptionNL]

Thanks DDP!

Got a little more progress on it done. I've finished up all the wiring and soldering, and installed a nice little gizmo: a reed switch. This is a switch that toggles based on the proximity of a magnetic field. I jury-rigged the Land Raider's door mechanism so that when the door opens, a magnet comes close to it and...



...lights up the interior!



And a picture from the front end. The light looks a little purple on the picture, but it's a blue led.



No I can glue it all together and start on the exterior paint job!

[RedemptionNL]

And also hooked up the highlights! The green reflection is from the camera lens, but you can see the wire mesh in it.

[Hadriel Caine]

Awesome. I love stuff like this- that little extra attention to detail that really separates armies. The blue glow is perfect for GK IMO. Not to mention the commendable effort in making the headlights work so well!

[RedemptionNL]

Hey guys! Finally managed to finish this thing.

First, two WIP pictures I forgot to post:



Picture of the main whole after I airbrushed the base coat, the heraldry and the shading.



Sadly I somewhat ruined the headlights a bit: I tried to use liquid mask to avoid spraying the leds, but it got all goocked up between the wire mesh. By removing it I damaged it a bit, removing some spokes from the wire mesh and filling up the detail of the 'blinker' lights next to the headlights. But as everything was glued together already, I couldn't replace the headlight bits anymore. So I had to settle on fixing it with some greenstuff. And in the end I could have easily masked it with some tape. That just teaches you to keep it simple... Ah well, live and learn, I'll certainly not repeat that mistake on my second Land Raider!



And here it is, all finished up! I quite like how the square lenses turned out, but I still need to practise the round ones and gems a bit more.







The assault ramp opened to show the nice blue glow coming from inside.

[RedemptionNL]

The headlights lid up.



This shot nicely shows the small conversion of the Venerable Dreadnought's lascannon barrels, I quite like these.



Even Grey Knights use bumber stickers.





And the assault ramp's door, showing the tank's name: 'Deux Ex'. I wanted to go for 'Deus Malleus', but that didn't fit.


All in all, I'm quite happy with the result, considering this is my first tank ever, even with the small blemish of the damaged headlights.

[the damned artificer]

Awesome stuff here!

That headlight solution is a stroke of genius, you shouldn't by any chance have been taking casts of those lovely headlight fittings? as that could easily come in handy in the future

[RedemptionNL]

Thanks! The headlights are 3d prints, so if I need more I can just print out more. But I plan to do a revision for my second Landraider where the small lights next to the headlights are carved a little deeper to show them better. I intend to make similair ones for my upcoming Stormraven and Rhinos/Razorbacks, so I'll send them off to the 3d printer in batch to save a little on cost.