Sprue Whispering

So I heard once that a good artist knows when to finish an artwork. Well I guess I am either a dodgy artist or a pure hobbyist. My Knight Errant is finished, for the time being.  I guess all that is left is to clean up the base edge and maybe add a highlight to the sword edge. You see, I am a hobbyist, just can't leave things alone.

Almost complete on my Knight Errant.  Just some minor details left, like the laurel on the right shoulder pad and I have to finish his backpack, which was ready, but I decided to add an Iron Halo to it, to fit the rules. Should be finished next time I post about him.

My Knight Errant is nearing completion. Just a few pieces to tidy up. Not long now, more to come.

Given I now have Nathaniel Garro, This little fellow will now become my Knight Errant model. I have worked on the sword, the face and started work on the robes. More to come.

So I kind of hinted that my Garro might end up a bit of a generic Knight Errant, in favor of the real thing. Well you guessed it. I got my hands on the real "Nathaniel Garro". Things being what they are with me, I wasn't the biggest fan of how Libertas was a trailing after thought, so I repositioned the sword arm to take centre stage. The following picture is how I am currently thinking of positioning Garro, looking down Libertas' blade edge. What do you think?

Progress on my take of Garro continues.  Initially I wanted to paint him a Dark German Grey and highlight up, but looking back at the Forgeworld images and listening to the Audio books, it is more apparent that Garro runs in unadorned gunmetal armor.So I switched from a dark grey to the silvered look. Still more to come on this one. Maybe I will play him as a stock Knight Errant with stats from Book 6. Why not play him as Garro, you may ask ? Well that's because I might have the real one coming. Stay tuned.

So Forgeworld has already made their own version of Nathaniel Garro. All round it is a brilliant model, but when I was looking at it I thought I could match the pose of the model using some bitz I had laying about. Digging around I came up with this, below, as my first attempt. Garro did not have a beard, according to the fluff, so I might have to switch that out. I used a Phobos pattern Bolter instead of the Tigrus pattern Bolter. So maybe I will switch these out. More to come.