Objective Complete!

Finished my "Quad Gun" / "Sky Fire Objective".

Quartering

I decided to try to 'quarter' my knight.
I really liked the blue color scheme but I also wanted something to tie into my Space Wolves army.
I wanted to represent that we had a free blade who worked with the Space Wolves; or maybe had some debt of honor to the Space Wolves.  At first I was going to just quarter the left shoulder and leave the rest of the Imperial Knight blue, but I thought he would look too much like a Librarian so... I decided to try this.  I want to try to mimic the Space Wolf color scheme as much as possible, hence his shoulder is yellow.  His giant chain sword will be red.

I'm diggin' it so far ... 

Imperial Knight

The knight is partially assembled and I've begun the metal dry-brushing that I typically do before I apply armor paint.  It's the armor paint that worries me.  I have a space wolfs army and adding a knight to it would be awesome.  The question is; do I try to follow my space wolf color scheme or do I paint a typical blue errant knight?

I'm torn.

Morkanaut DONE!

W00t!  Pretty pleased with the way it came out.

Next up.... Imperial Knight!

Bitz Box Bingo!

Small update.

I've done a bit more work on the Morkanaut.  Right now I am adding another layer of yellow to the armor to enrich the color and add a layer of depth.

Arm of Mork

 Close Up of Arm of Mork

 Close Up of the Arm of Mork

Also, I've been picking away at my 'Sky Fire' objective...  it's kind of a Bitz Box Bingo sort of situation but ... it's coming together. 

I added an Atari-esque joystick controller... because I thought it was funny. 

Objectives

Something I've been pick away at for a while.  Some time ago I picked up these faux slate coasters from Bed Bath and Beyond.  You can now find them on Amazon.com (Spectrum 19419BX Faux Slate Coasters, Black Set of 4) .

They were fairly cheap ... less than $20 for 4; includes shipping.
They make great objective markers.

Fuel Depot

Ammo Depot

Teleport Homer

Ork for Scale on the Teleport Homer

W.I.P. "Sky Fire" Objective

Progress on the Morkanaut! AND Pain Boy!

I've finished all the 'Mid-tone' on the whole Morkanaut!  Phew!  Actually, not as much work at doing the Deff Speederz.

So the whole model now has a fairly even coat of Averland Sun.  I left some areas around the rivets and in the cracks darker to start to build up color and convey a sense of age / dirt / grime.  When painting Orks I think about who would be maintaining these vehicles.  Certainly not the Orks themselves... they have slaves for that!  So.. I try to imagine some lowly grot being forced to clean armor, polish boot, load weapons... etc against his will.  Sourly wiping away grime and doing a half ass job ... but doing just enough to avoid being kicked in the teeth... or eaten.

Next layer will be a 50/50 mix of GW's Averland Sun and Vallejo's Model Color Flat Yellow (70.953).

In other news.... while waiting for large expanses of Morkanaut to dry I painted up an Ork Pain Boy!

I love this model.  I love everything about it.  I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out too.  The only dissenting opinion I've heard about this model is that there is only one pose... which I suppose I can concede but . . . I have one of the older metal pain boy models painted up too.   

I'm digging this model so much I may buy another one and chop it up to create a Paint Boy on a bike.