Imperial Knights for 40k… a loooooong term project!

Then I got some blu-tack, and test-fitted the armour on the legs… which worked! I reckon it looks pretty good, but I decided to leave the dangly tabard bit off; I’ll be adding a banner to one of the shoulders instead.

Then I tried it all blu-tacked together. It looks good enough, so the next job will be to take it apart again and get it undercoated. No idea when I’ll find time for that, though!

I decided that all the Knights in my household would have a bonded cyber-lion as a companion. So I converted one using an AoS Gryph-hound. I’ll be adding him to the Knight’s base.

The only bit of sculpting which still needed to be done was the shin armour, which involved a couple of stylised lion heads, and an Imperial Eagle chopped in half…

I had a bit of putty left over, so I used it to add a few extra details to some of the other parts.

Next, I did the shoulder plates and the dangly tabard bit. According to the Codex, both shoulder plates get half and Imperial Eagle. And one plate gets the Household symbol (a lion’s head for my household) and the other plate gets the Knight’s personal symbol.

The tabard gets the Household crest, any battle honours the Knight’s earned, and the symbols of any important Imperial organisations that the Knight has served with. As he’s a close combat nutter Gallant, I figured the Flesh Tearers symbol was appropriate.

I also added the House symbol to one knee-pad, and the personal crest to the other. And some random ‘heraldic’ bits to the groin plate, because I had spare putty left over! 🙂

I’m planning to use the regular ‘Canis Rex’ head for the model, but as I had the AdMech style heads spare, I decided to convert one to be a bit more lion-ish… honestly not sure whether I’ll use it though. It might be a bit over the top.

Next, I added the Knight Household’s heraldry to the main body armour. I did this in three stages, letting the Green Stuff fully cure between each stage.

With the legs converted,  I built the rest of the model in three sections; body, left arm, and right arm.
Then I blu-tacked it together to test the pose.