So with a bit over a month left to Australia's biggest Epic tourney I thought I'd chronicle the build process of my army I'm trying to get ready in time.
I've wanted to do a Knight army for a while, and with the new list being approved for use at the tourney by the TO I've dived in and started planning. Problem is, Knights are way to expensive on ebay at the moment, and I know everyone has one or two laying around they'd be willing to sell me it's a bit hard to get them all together in time.
So i decided proxy it was and with the release of wonderful true scale titans popping up (I may have a couple already still waiting to be built) I decided I'd make my Knights a little bigger to fit in with all of them.
So after a quick look around I've decided to use the FW Thallax models as a base for my Knights, with a l,little bit of shaving, some head swaps and arm swaps i think these could work out quite well.
Last week a lovely box came in from over seas depositing all the base models i needed
Now I ordered more than i needed because the quality isn't always that great... in fact i ran into the problem towards the end of way to many left legs and not enough right legs to match up.
Here is a test mock-up of an Errant
I'm not too happy with the power fist, and have some ideas on what to swap it out with, just sourcing what i want currently.
Here was the mock up of the first paladin sans chainblade (Also still deciding how i want to do)
Happy with where i started I contacted a friendly 3D modeler and we designed some heads for them (I'm an old school anime fan, so i couldn't help myself with how these came out)
While awaiting this i also decided i didn't like the added thickness of the GW 40mm bases, so another quick order to the local wargamming store and I came away with a stack of the Rendara thin bases and started working on those with a mix of the GW Crackle paint and some desert sand.
Now i have an Idea and theme for this army and Rough Riders on hourse back didn't really meet with what i wanted so another scrounge around and i remembered the old-school Imperial bikes.
I have a few people helping me get the number of these i wanted all together and with few already in I started The painting up the first test one of these
Last night my head swaps came in and it was time to do the fisrt paint scheme test on these and with that done i thought i could actually start my road to cancon blog. This is just the basic scheme, so detail/weathering still needs to be added, as does one of the arms.
So that's the start of my Zeon Knight forces army, I'll be doing a little bit of this every night and luckily i have the week off leading into Cancon this year to finish up what I need to.