i'm gonna paint a night in 24 hours
hey guys jay here welcome to anza battle i got a knight and i'm not afraid to use it but i do have
to get it done in a timely fashion i'm going to challenge myself to build this sucker in 24 hours
and this is not a speed painting it's going to be good painting quickly i want this to be an epic
model of epic proportions and here we go 24 hours to build a night it's 24 hours way too much time
is 24 hours way too little time i guess i'll find out i have a hunch that it's way too much time but
i suppose this is the equivalent of three boxes of intercessor space marines in terms of price
and usually i budget myself about three hours and that's a quick a quick paint
job three hours to have a model built primed and painted and this is technically only one
model but is one of the biggest models you can get so i guess we will find out how it goes
i had my coffee and my tools i was ready to get started i thought this would be easy as i already
have one night under my belt but as i was looking through the sprues i realized i've forgotten
everything this is basically gonna be a first for me luckily my dog showed up to offer me some moral
support as i began this ridiculous project just past the one hour mark and boy would i rather be
painting than building usually i'm a much bigger fan of painting in general but especially with
this night it's gonna take so long for it to start feeling like i'm making any progress
no fun at the two hour mark it really dawned on me this is going to take a while five big sprues
they're gonna take some real time hundreds of parts and lots of clipping and cleaning mold lines
so 24 hours build a night all the time in the world right well not quite because i don't just
want to build this thing and paint it i want it to be the best night ever and i want to do
a whole bunch of green stuff work and green stuff takes quite a while to dry probably
eight hours to where it's fully cured i can probably fudge it at four if i if i give it
four hours then i can definitely paint it but that's gonna require a lot of time and so i'm
gonna have to start right now that way the green stuff's gonna have all the time it needs to dry
and i'll still have plenty of time to paint i assume the painting is gonna
take less time than the building famous last words but that's what i'm planning right now
if you can believe it knights are medieval in style so i want to push that idea even further
by adding some more decorations creating extra armor plating to create that alternating square
hem found on flags and banners from that era i got the time why not i traced out the shapes of the
shoulder armor then started sketching roughly what i wanted alternating sized armor plates ringing
the round shoulder once i had the shapes and placement i filled in the details then i counted
up what i would need eight long pieces six short pieces and be safe i should make a few extras
it's been a while since i've scratch built so i poured out my plastic card junk bag it's a little
dusty but it'll get the job done i recreated my drawings on the plastic sheet and i was
pleasantly reminded how nice it is to work with plastic card in about an hour and a half i had
two absolutely tiny shields now the question is how will i hang these from the night the knights
famously have dick flags so i used the plastic chain from one of the extras and cannibalized
it into a connection point for my medieval armor plates well that wasn't so bad and it only took
a really long time still looking good to finish though and only thing left to do is the rivets
i'm getting real close the only thing left is rivets and scale rivets are tricky
i used micro glass beads i started by drilling some small shallow holes in my pin vise and looked
through my beads they aren't one single uniform size so i had to scan and find matching sets
i used a toothpick to place super glue into the hole and then a wax pencil to carefully pick up
a bead and then press them into the glue it ain't easy but it's honest work and bam two
perfect armor plates but now to cast and mold them in a timely fashion with oyumaru of course this is
a thermoplastic toy from japan i soak them in hot water and this turns them into a soft squishy goo
that hardens in a rubber i pressed this stuff into the custom armor and it did a pretty good
job of giving me a mold i did this 8 times now this is speed casting i took some green stuff
and really shoved it in there i made my fingers sore pressing the putty really hard into the mold
to hopefully capture all the details but i won't know for sure until it's time to pull them out
i stuck in a u-shaped length of wire into my green stuff i didn't plan on this but i
just thought in the moment it might give me a great point to attach these from
with my green stuff now curing i could go right back to building this knight at this point i was
actually having a lot of fun my green stuff was curing my night was coming to life in less than
one day i will have a big dumb stomping robot to play with the knight classic might be the
best model games workshop has ever made i gotta confess though i think the knight castellan looks
like poop you know what pause let's get this hot take out of the way for a minute games workshop
struck gold with the imperial knight it looks amazing everything about it makes sense and it
perfectly blends 40k's gothic grim dark style with a believably robotically engineered body
it's perfect and then unfortunately games workshop had to go and top it and that is how we got the
knight castellan and i think it looks really bad it's just such a misstep it doesn't do anything
unique it's just a classic knight but a little bit bigger and better it kinda looks like a kit
bash with a normal knight but it doesn't feel real or believable it looks like someone had the
og knight and was told i don't know just make it look cooler but that's not how it works it should
have been its own thing like how all the titans have their own unique look based on what they do
it'd be like designing darth vader 2.0 and so you give him two lightsabers and twice the buttons
but you haven't actually done anything you've just cluttered up a great design oh the imperial
knight has a round reactor ball well the new knight is bigger so it needs two reactor balls
the og knight has some smoke stacks well knight 2 will have bigger rear smoke stacks owen the og
knight had four guns well the new knight is gonna have seven guns isn't it cooler yet guys whatever
it's fine because i'm not building the knight's erastus i'm building the real knight and it's
gonna be great however i was so lost and thought thinking about how much i don't like this harass
this night that i forgot how important it is to monitor my camera slider when it's in manual mode
all right let's see if this three hour detour was worth it now this is a little
ridiculous because i'm demanding perfection from a very imperfect method this is a three
dollar toy and some green stuff i shoved in there with my fingers but you never know um
every one of these flags turned out okay some are better than others but really every single one of
them has flaws so i decided to just go with it i don't have time to start over and they aren't bad
just not perfect hopefully a lot of the flaws will fix themselves when it comes time to paint them
i would love to try again with some uv cure resin that might have worked a little bit better and
faster than the green stuff as you might imagine shoving green stuff into a children's toy is an
imprecise science so i had to trim them up with a hobby knife and clean up the edges
but in the end i had 14 flags that i could live with and i am happy that i snuck some wire into
them because it'll make attaching them possible each shoulder gets seven flags so i started with
the ends and the middle this gave me something to look at then i filled in the sides with two more
flags each i used a drill to make my holes and the wire became pins it would take a hurricane
to tear these suckers off the night and it'll make my knight truly unique ah this is so cool
this is so cool ah this is so cool
oh
it's alive ah totally totally worth the extra like five hours it took man do those look slick
that took a while it was totally worth it for the super cool shoulders but if i hadn't done that it
would already be done being built and speaking of you don't need to watch me build the rest
of it so it'll be finished in three two one boom just like that it is done like magic don't don't
pay attention to that now unfortunately though this model comes with the game's workshop 170
millimeter big base and this thing kind of sucks it's thin plastic it's not particularly flat it
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my knight is looking glorious it's not a difficult kit to put together but it is
hundreds of parts and it gets even more complicated when you decide to magnetize it
which i suppose i could show you how to do real quick if you want to do exactly what
i did you'll need five three millimeter magnets and five six millimeter magnets
on the arms i shaved down the connections drilled a six millimeter hole and then shoved in my magnet
on the gun i glued in a piece of sprue to give myself a little shelf to stick the magnet onto
and then i glued it into place on the carapace gun and the shoulder gun i drilled a three millimeter
holes into the plastic this will give me just enough string so the guns don't wobble while
i'm playing this gave me access to most of the options in the box it's slow and tedious but i
suppose with models this expensive it's okay to spend a little bit of time perfecting them
i made myself some marks of where i want his feet to stand on this nice solid cobalt keep
170 millimeter oval base and began gluing down some pieces of pine bark to represent some cliffs
the wood does a good job of looking like scale rock but i also need to create some dirt now to
give this knight the epic base i want to i'm gonna have to put on a little bit of ground and to do
that i'm gonna use one of my favorite tools of all time you all know what it is say it with me now
crayola model magic soft squishy modeling material i took my crayola model magic soft
squishy modeling material and began gluing it down using super glue the clay is nice and light
and will make some nice dirt for the night's feet to sink into and i pressed the plastic behemoth
into the wet clay the satisfying squish reminded me a lot of the t-rex scene from jurassic park
once the model magic had a few hours to dry i spread wood glue all over my favorite sand
holder downer i sprinkle down some pebbles and then finish it off with some fine grain sand
i set aside the base to dry and while that was happening i had a decision to make what color
scheme was i going to go with this model is bigger which made the decision bigger and i had to decide
right now it's a 24 hour challenge i can't waste any time but i was facing decision paralysis
i need a couple of good colors and a metallic accent and then it hit me my d30 the dice i will
use to count down the wounds remaining for this night has a very nice palette some pink and purple
and gold should make for a very interesting night these are not colors i work with much or ever
purple was the color of royalty back then what could possibly be more fitting for a nightly night
at hour 17 into this project i primed the night black it is crazy how long it took to actually
build this thing but painting it should be faster i blasted the model with black primer and suddenly
a plastic bottle kit turned into a metal death machine from the world of warhammer and you know
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we also have merch linked in the description i took some white primer and strategically sprayed
it in the middle of each panel to give my armor some value i'm getting my highlights and shadows
done early pre-shading is a technique that i see a lot out in the wild but besides the xenothel prime
i don't take advantage of it very often i don't really paint vehicles very often so this is a nice
project of discovery so i've got a little over five hours left and you might be thinking yourself
jay it took you 16 hours to get this far what on earth makes you think you can finish in five but
i bet i can i'm doing pretty much only pre-shading and i think that is going to save me tons of time
because i'll only have to paint each part of the night once also i'm way faster at painting than i
am at building i dry brushed white over my armor panels to pick out the edges and all the little
rivets the armor was looking slick but really the night is two steps the metal body and the armor
panels and let's get the easy and fun step out of the way first his rockin bod i made the mistake
last time of using too many metallics so this time i'll use hardly any but it'll end up looking even
more metallic i sprayed on some layers of gray paint blue paint and magenta paint and then used
a damp paper towel to dab it off this gave my metal a lot of nice subtlety and it was really
easy to do the only time i touched a brush was to use a big old dry brush to quickly apply lots
of water to rehydrate my paint ah this is so much fun it's not even like building a model kit this
brings me right back to high school when i used to be working on all sorts of props and cosplays just
getting things dirty making a big old mess doing a little bird degrees doing a little weathering
for some reason big old models can sometimes paint up easier than little models once i was
finished all i wanted to do was paint 10 more night bodies it was so simple and so much fun
just messing around with paints and then a single silver dry brushing to bring it all
together and give it a metallic sheen loved it now on to the tedious stuff
let me try to explain myself a little bit so this is my carapace and it's looking
sharp the airbrushing gave me my highlights and shadows and the dry brushing gave me my
edge highlights and it also accented every single one of these little rivets basically it's perfect
as is if i wanted to be a black and white night but i wanted to have a little color so i'm going
to be making myself up a whole bunch of glazes using army painter speed paints because they
go on super duper smooth and i'm going gonna be putting these over everything and that should just
tint everything the exact color i want it to be and i shouldn't have to do any more painting
it should just be glazes and done and hopefully it'll look exactly as good as it looks right now
just in color i poured myself some high of dweller purple and purple alchemy and mixed
them about fifty percent with speed paint medium then i made up a golden metallic mixture by using
a few drops of silver paint a couple drops of orange ink and some blending medium and flow aid
i spread the speed paint over the armor and the gold paint over the trim this let my undercoat
shine through my logic is brushwork slows down a paint job but with everything getting only
one coat of paint it was working out to be a relatively speedy paint job i finished all
the armor panels in about an hour i worked and i worked and i worked and i worked but as the clock
ticked by and my eyes were getting weaker and my hands were getting blurrier i kept finding
more and more small details to work on and those added up my glazing experiment went pretty well i
got about 75 percent of what i was after i need a little more experience with the army painter speed
paints before i really really can get the look i was after but i have a prediction i'm gonna
have this night finished at exactly 23 hours one hour ahead of schedule i'm in a really good spot
and i'm really tired if i did another night i could really knock it out in
record time and i like nights a whole army is looking more and more attractive
food for thought but it's still looking like i will finish this night in exactly 24 hours
i am in a very night mood and this is the night that i painted five years ago and there's nothing
really wrong with it but let me explain all the flaws so that i can compare this to how awesome
the new knight is on this guy i definitely did not bring the colors up enough on all of his armor and
metal bits i did not do enough contrast it's all gunmetal with about one or two coats of wash and i
don't think i even gave it a dry brushing which i definitely should have and really his armor is the
biggest failing it looks kind of neat but i really should have brought that red way higher right now
it goes from a dark dark red up to a dark red and i think i could have brought that color value up
way higher really get those colors saturated but i learned a lot painting this guy and i was able
to take a lot of the experiences i made on this and apply it to the new model this model ah i'm
so happy it's so cool i love it so much i did not think when i opened up that box that i was gonna
go with pink and purple for the color scheme but i really really like it it's very unique
it'll look very unique in my collection because my collection does not have a lot of pink and purple
but i really really like it it turned out super snazzy his shoulders are my favorite thing in the
world i think i was able to do a pretty good job of keeping my colors nice and saturated
i think if i could do it over again i might even have diluted my armpit speed paints even more just
to try to get a little bit more of that white undercoat to shine through maybe i could have
even tried airbrushing it on that would have been a fun experiment maybe on the next night i'll have
to give that a try but i super duper love how this turned out i absolutely love it the metal worked
really nice the armor worked really really nice i got all of the weapon options i wanted on there
i'll probably end up building the power fist that's the only one i didn't build this time but
i'll get around to it don't worry ah it is just it is just a mountain of a model and i cannot wait
to get it in games i will definitely get this night into some games but i don't
know if i'll be making a full night army at least not in the near future
i think the destiny of this beast will be as a loner model if someone is showing
some interest in 40k or wants to tag along to a game i'll just hand them the knight
it keeps the rules simple it's only one mile to deal with and it has enough firepower and titanic
feet to really do some damage i think knights are a great addition to any hobby collection