Poppy fields

I picked up some plastic poppies from the model train store today. Boy are those petals small! After some fiddling with tweezers and puddles of plastic cement, they were assembled.

To get a - hopefully - good bond with the base, I punched holes into them with my trusty milk can puncturer and glued the stems in there.

I'll let the result settle in a bit and look at it in daylight tomorrow. At most I'll add a bit more green or more poppies to each base. My aim isn't a happy field like on the packs in the back, but individual flowers showing life and hope in the otherwise dead and barren base. 

Considering that the models are yellow, blue and white, using poppies with their green and red on the grey rubble bases seems a good idea. Also, the poppy as the flower of wartime rembrance is fitting for the Iyanden wraith-warhost being a shadow of the craftworld's former glory.

Imperial Knight WIP

My Imperial Knight kit isn't fully built or painted yet while other players have got theirs all done.

My hope was that the Codex would allow for Knighs allied with Chaos.  Considering that fluffwise that exists it wasn't really too far out. Maybe GW will sell us a supplement, a Chaos Knight Codex or Forgeworld will add experimental rules to a Chaos conversion kit. Who knows...

So, in lieu of any clear direction, I'll build the base Knight and tinker with magnets as usual, but refrain from finishing up with faction specific stuff. I might just go for a nice mechanicum or freeblade look if news are too long coming, buy we'll see.

I used a different point for the hip joint than I saw in the WD and online since I didn't like a fragile,  wobbly or deteriorating connection between the dome on the hips and the torso. So I put a magnet pair between hips and that dome.
To do that I had to put a piece of plasticard in the dome to hold the magnet. I cut a circle with scissors from 2mm thick plasticard and drilled a small hole in the center. Then I mounted the disc in my Dremel using the cutting disc shank and screw. In a lathe like fashion I then sanded the disc round and to the exact dimensions needed. I used two 6mm×6mm rod magnets for this.