Calling it a Knight

Inquisitinal record 101 id 90001456160# 37A 174.

‘The Bounty Hunter’ , sometimes known as ‘ The Knight with No Name’.

Home planet Unknown, one of the many known lost Knight planets. , speculations ‘Avalon, Mercia, Narnia, Westros, Rohan.

The ‘Bounty Hunter’as both and his support  prefer to be called all hail from the same world, but even their mechanus adepts avoid any mention of the exact source world.

# Iq ref 100410, believed to be one of many Knight Worlds overrun by Chaos!

#History , although never confirmed by Knight himself, intelligence gained from his support serfs , mechanus adepts etc, believe he is illegitimate son of noble, when planet overun by chaos demons , he with other survivors found Knight abandoned or left when household wiped out. Machine spirit selected individual despite lack of noble heritage and bonding accepted.

Survivors used Knight to fight way of planet, became Mercenaries to survive , salvaging equipment initially until bounties were of sufficient value to upkeep Knight.

Current Knight, Twin Autocannon layout favoured, even if Renegade configuration, initially based on available salvage on home world escape.

#Motivation , Inquisition believes loyal to Empire, motivated purely by acquisition of credits or salvage , for the prosecution of revenge against any agents of Chaos.

Although seems to have a total lack of respect for conventional Imperial heiracy, is an effective agent for Inquisition if targeted correctly. Has an Impressive kill list.

Chaos forces call him ‘Mr Sudden Death’ based on his incredible speed with all his weapons, no foe has ever been able to get the 1st shot in any sort of even contest, combined with his deadly accuracy and a natural tactical ability makes the Hunter one of the Inquisitions most valued assets and allows for his occasional lack of respect.

#Knight Livery and Heraldry,  Has similar style to Obsidian Knight, (believed they have worked together)

Unicorn symbol exact origin unknown but belived to be the insignia of the Lost World Mercia hences above listing for possible source planets.

101 number again exact origin unknown though when once asked it is believed to be something from pre Age of strife.

#Personal appearance:

Taller than Human average, appears to be currently around 30 std Terran years old , Rarely talks unless he has to, when not in his Knight carries an arcane pistol, in a fast draw style hidden under a battered army poncho. Believed to be as fast and deadly with this as his with his Knights weapons

After a bit of phaffing , finished him

• Well doing a bit each free night this week (no pun) and theres not been many.Put on transfers, using micro set and sol, ala Johns demos.

I also downloaded some wanted posters off google, I gave them a coating of diluted pva and brown wash on reverse. I also tried a new Matt Varnish and was really impressed with results.

Been a bit since I added to this project, more Knights have been acquired, this Knight idea awaited having enough Avenger auto cannons, with there being a spare in the Canis Rex I was able to proceed. I this time decided to take a few of Johns Ideas:

1 I left of the armour to paint separately

2 I undercoated black and dry brushed Gun Metal rather than base coat gun metal and then black wash.

Half way through applying the transfers to My Knight Crusader, As it may be my personal Knight, decided to go for my personnal livery, which became the club emblem for a while ( I paint all the minis) This meant that I had to catefully hand paint the White Unicorn on both the Left Knee, and Right shoulder, good thing I’ve had a lot of practice (I put the emblem on the Knees and sheilds of both my Raven Guard and Grey Knights). The design goes back to the mid eighties when or group put on a lot of medieval skirmish game with a set or rules called Retinue , and led to our groups name ‘Knights Mercian’.

I decided to start the project with the squires, to try out the way I was going to paint them etc. As such it helped in the learning process on painting their bigger brothers. One of the things I realised was needed to better seal the base material as bits were flaking off when dry bushing. I already mentioned that I needed to paint the base colour on the base prior to inking. So last night did that on one of the Knights and then coated the rubble piles with Army Painter Strong Tone dip using the thick varnish to seal it to the base.

Next day I put an all over Nuln Oil black wash on both model and base, then once dry , dry bushed model with Plate metal, and the base Greatcoat grey.

Later I put on the base colours including the Gold

Leaving that model for a bit I returned to the Armigers , now ready for applying the transfers, the models have nice flatish areas but having found it easy to use, still used the John Tutured method of prep area with Micro Sol before putting on decal , then putting another layer on after they are in place. Leaving them for a couple of hours for the backing film to Disolve, finally sealing them in with Micro Set.
Some of the unused transfers such as some thin White lines an half of A White Aquilla were added to the Base to give it a more Imperial Industrial setting

I then varnished the whole model other than the Gold bits in Army Painter Anti shine, the Gold being done in Gloss. To give a bit of a sheen to the metal areas I then Dry brushed Gloss Varnish lighly over the areas to put slight shine to exposed areas.

Now I originally said that I wanted the Bases to be a mix between Urban and Desert.

My Idea was to show an wrecked Urban area where the Sand had begun to blow in from the surrounding Desert, so around the rubble , mixed in with it and in patchs on tarmac, so painted pva over areas and spinkled on librally my desert mix.

Believe it the mix is over 20 years old , originally made when I actually flocked my Hexon Terrain at the time. A friend at the Club had been working as a consultant at a Lime Stone quarry and had been looking at the bags of powder accumulated on it extraction,to see if it had any commercial use, so had given me a bag to try. On the test tile it had looked a bit flat, so a whim mixed a big bag of fibrous flock that I had brought at Partizan a year earlier, in the Dark not well lit main hall it looked a good sand colour, but on getting outside it was nearly bright orange!

I thought the fibrous nature of it would give a bit of body to the Limestone powder and the powder would dull its bright colour, and boy did it work, the whole terrain ended up with différent layers such as wind and water, plus lumpy rock layers etc

Having let the base coat properly dry over night, gave them an overall black wash with GW Nuln Oil, and painted the base Formala P Greatcoat grey, in hindsight and on the larger knights will do base 1st and Wash the lot.

Then I dry brushe the model Army Painter Plate Mail, before block painting MP paints Exile Blue and Army Painter Dragon Red, and a wash of GW Reikland Flesh on the Exhausts melter barrels and the fuel tank on base, then Washed wit Nuln Oil base hence earlier comment.

Base colours done, time for cup of tea, start detailing in part 3, gold is P3 Solid gold, and faces used Army painter Skeleton bone.

Been busy today with detailing and highlighting. On the Blue an Red areas , began highlightig by putting on a lighter blue shade , initially with a 20 year old citidel blue , found by a mates sister, no label on it! Then edging and raised surfaces GW Mccragge Blue, likewise with the Red , using P3 Khador red and then mixing Khador Red Highlight, The heads were highlighted wit P3 highlight white( very pale cream) the transparency on the cockpit cover was a base ghost grey by Vallejo and a P3 blue ink put on top