Warhammer: Bretonnia, Grail Knight

Hello everyone, Das Wolfgarde here again. Bringing you more Warhammer and Warhammer 40000 models. This time of the Warhammer universe. 

This is a Bretonnia, Grail Knight. Basically a knight of the holy grail with special powers. I bought this guy on the whim awhile back and thought he be fun to paint. Which it was, and wasn't...

The knight himself is made of white metal while the horse is made of plastic. The metal was easy to clean of any flash, and after some bending to fix the lance he was all ready to be primed and painted. Now, what made this a difficult model to do was the fact that, after the green cloak was painted and the highlights added I decided to add the silver vine work on the cloth. That was harder and took longer that I expected. But after a while i managed to find a rhythm and paint it all. After all that was done I added the grail and demi-griffon on the shields on the side of the horse, those turned out to be easier than all the vine work on the cloth. When all the painting of the model was finished, I stuck it to the top of a cookie jar lid and applied 'green-stuff' to the base to give it an earthy feel. Painted it up and added some turf and called it finished.

Despite all the difficulty building and painting this model, the paint itself and the fact that the rider didn't fin in it's saddle. I had allot of fun with this one. I have no intention on building one again for a while, but I wouldn't mind doing it. 

Hope you enjoy.

Paints used:

Vallejo:

Black

White

Chain mail Silver

Citadel Shade:

Nuln Oil

Formula P3:

Gnarls Green

Iosan Green

Necroite Green

Ordric Olive

Frostbite

Battlefield Brown

Bloodstone

Rucksack Tan

Menoth White Base
Menoth White Base Highlight
Quick Silver
Pig Iron
Rhulic Gold
Solid Gold
Armour Wash

Tau XV8 Crisis Battlesuit

Hi everyone, this is a bit different. For those of you that don't know, i'm Rebelsatcloudnine's little brother, Das Wolfgarde or simply Wolfgarde. He's been asking me to post pictures of my models on his blog for a while now and well here they are, well at least one of them.

Unlike my brother, I prefer to paint more fantasy and sci-fi based miniatures compared to his more historical or modern models. I mostly prefer to build models form Games Workshops Warhammer 40000 and Warhammer fantasy, and a few others, but I mostly build Warhammer 40000 or Warhammer 40k miniatures. And this is one of them.

This is the Tau XV8 Crisis Battlesuit. (older edition.) I built this one years ago, only it had a different paint scheme, red, an off black and a light grey colour scheme. I was never fully happy with it and my skills weren't at the level there are at now. So years later I took it apart and and decided to repaint it. And i'm very pleased with the redesign, I was able to add more detail and highlights then I was able to do with the original paint scheme. I went with a dark green, almost a dark grey base coat, then added a light grey highlight to that. For the green I used a an almost olive green base coat, then used a light green as a highlight. For the orange markings I used a bright orange  as the base coat and then a light yellow/orange for the highlights. As for the metallic parts I just used a silver base coat and added a black wash on top of that. Added a pale blue for the sensors and lights. And after that I added some brown paint on the base and some grass and called it done.

I am really pleased that my skills have developed to the point I can make my oldest models look better. Hope you enjoy. 

Paints Used: 

Formula P3: 

Quick Silver. 

Meredius Blue.

Cryx Bane Base. 

Cryx Bane Highlight. 

Ordic Olive. Wurm Green. 

Khador Red Highlight. 

Heartfire.

Citadel:

Shade: Nuln Oil