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

Tamiya 1:48 Mitsubishi G4M "Betty"

I bought this one last year, and I've finally got around to building it. Which I'm very glad, so far this has been a really fun kit. The engineering is amazing, and the interior details are pretty nice. But also rather plain, and finding pictures of a complete G4M is really difficult. Luckily I found this drawing, and decided to add a few parts. I added a radio, maps, and seat belts. Thankfully all of these will be seen through the very clear canopy.

Seat belts made from surgical tape, and wire.

Spare radio, from a monogram A-26 Invader.

Not accurate, but it's all I could find.

Google Images, and Photoshop.

Seam line in canopy, can't buff it out.

Very clear windows.

Busy enough for me.

To be continued.....

Polar Lights 1:1000 NX-05 Serenity (Custom Build)

Well I thought I uploaded this one a long time ago. 

Star Trek Enterprise TV series, introduced up to the NX class Enterprise, one of the first to bear the name. Eventually we were introduced to the NX-02 Columbia. In one episode it was mentioned that there were 2 more NX class star ships to be built. The NX-03, and NX-04 were never seen or really officially named. There are a few who would say other wise. 

I've built 2 of these Polar Lights 1:1000 NX-01 Enterprise kits. I really like the design and it's quite a fun model. The first I built when Polar Lights was still around, and a few years ago I built the newly modified NX-01 Refit, with the new tooled lower hull section, (supposedly to be built for the canceled Season 5) I liked this kit a lot as well. 

I have a weird gimic that I like to do. I like to take Starships and pose them upside down, and see if they'd look appealing as a new ship. And with this NX class I liked the design of the ship with the engines on the bottom. I reminded me of a Miranda class star ship, or what could have inspired her.

So I cut off the engine pylons, flipped them around and upside down, and reattached them with superglue. The bridge in the center was a separate piece so this made that an easier task. Would have been more difficult if I was using and older molding of this kit. 

I made a custom mix of Tamiya Metallic Grey XF-56, and lightened it with XF-16 Flat Aluminium. After a gloss coat of future, I began a very long, and rewarding process of masking the kit. Using mostly tiny small rectangles of Tamiya tape. I took over 2 weeks to have it all masked off, and I then painted the hull Metallic Grey XF-56. 

The toughest part wasn't laying down all those tiny pieces of tape. No. The real challenge was coming up with a name for this ship. Since I cut the engines and re positioned them I decided to call this the NX-05. Since they were probably going to make more, why not? And I named it the Serenity, after the Firefly class ship of the same name. From the short lived TV series and movie, Firefly & Serenity. Just my little wink and nod to that TV show I really was had continued, and to the Star Trek series I wish had gone on as well.

Custom decals