My new 10th Edition 40k Chaos Knight Army begins!!

[@builder969channel6]

"Thankfully I own the local game store," that has got to be one of the biggest flexes in a mini painting video

[@v02max75]

And it wasn't "I own A local gaming store", it was " I own THE local gaming store" 😂

[@mateuszdabrowski7078]

yes XD

[@ClarissaMeyer]

That base is art! No idea about heraldry, but I love how you kept the "add-ons" clearly visible by keeping them close to their own, original paint schemes. Regardless of what Jen says: I want to see those other big ones!

[@ulimurch8781]

Great work! The sentient AI has taken over the machine spirit AND a Tau AI. I have three suggestions for it's heraldry: 1. Some perverted "Greater Good" Symbol, because the data indicates this "swarm" the Tau thing tries to reconnect to. 2. A creepy crawling beast as a "parasite" 3. A breaking egg, for the AI is in some new shell of sorts ... some servitors would easily been controlled to do the spraying ... 😊

[@swakage13x]

I am so glad I am not paying those kind of prices for that evergreen plastic Sheets I get mine from the lobby of hobby 3.99 USD instead of 20 or 15 Australian money

[@TabletopTime]

Thats pretty standard for Australians. Most hobby product is expensive, as im sure you've heard, GW prices, for example

[@gryphon3241]

Selfie Bucket 🤣😂🤣

[@Oirarana]

For the symbols and heraldry, I really like the idea of it being covered in warding symbols. The Dark Mechanicum may have stuck an Abominable Intelligence to a Knight frame, but they want to be absolutely sure that it's under their control, and have done everything they can to make sure that it doesn't break free. Does lend itself to some possible fun Evangelion-esque beserker 'breaking free' moments in the lore too.

[@luiscandelario5067]

I agree but making some of the sigils incorrect do to the drone's programming seeping into its design would work ...

[@AAhmou]

It's kinda fitting for the Dark Mechanicum to integrate one of those REALLY ancient monstrosities into a knight.

[@MasterTheik]

The Spindle Drones being protectors of the Blackstone Fortresses, several of which have been in chaos hands, could bring in the fun lore of this Spindle Drone having been corrupted by chaos before it was ever stuck onto the knight. As such having the Spindle Drone come up with its own heraldry in a mockery of the imperial houses sounds like a way cooler approach than just slapping on warding symbols.

[@yellheahtris]

That is one of the coolest models I've seen!! I'm such a sucker for things that resemble huge robots / animatronics, and the open back, claw, and cords/wires were so satisfying! I really love how you gradient with the stippling/feathering (excuse my poor terminology) you completely transformed that grey piece in a way that had me pause to just look and admire it! Also, your free hand is insane! This was an insanely cool paint job! Amazing job, Dave! Also, I just love the time cards on the bottom of the video. Theyre so fun!

[@Hellbreght]

For the heraldry maybe make hexagon patterns. This way it honors the blackstone fortress tiles and also the shape of the shield that the drone gives off.

[@respectfulevil9022]

gotta love how dave buys hobbying stuff from himself

[@recog3825]

I like the idea of an eye with a syringe instead of a vertically dilated pupil like the sons of horus have, tying it in with the 'augmented' feel of the model.

[@latenighthero41]

@3:38 I loved how you grabbed the can from the back. Like a true manager that saved their staff from having to not front the store like you told them.

[@iamplayingthis166]

I didn’t see the thumbnail because I clicked instantly so I am excited to see how the project turns out!

[@BooooClips]

What’s the construction in the backyard?

[@willowtreedb]

Would be so interested in you expanding out your Heritek Knight House with less chaos and more adoption of forbidden xenotech.

[@teshin626]

Let the dark Mechanicus Chaos Knights reign

[@sultekmavernon4808]

Every time I look at the knights in the videos of my favorite youtubers - I'm freaking out about how cool they are ... Maybe it's time to buy/make my own? Thank you for the video! Looking forward to more knights!

[@loveblues9633]

The production quality of this channel is absolutely insane and it seems like you guys create one of a kind miniatures every week. The video’s are nicely structured, it’s always interesting and entertaining to tune in. Definitely one of my favourite youtube channels.

[@jessicahawkins669]

One day, I’ll figure out where this mythical hobby store is! Kim sick of online online stores! Amazing work, Dave! The base is stunning, and I love the over all colour scheme you’ve got for this bad-ass. For chapter markings…I would suggest a generalised chaos marking. Can’t wait to see you and Jenn square off

[@totalNERD-eo7wx]

That trick with the cotton, I could totally see being used to make the Nightlord's lightning patterns.

[@Frozenkoldfury]

Okay, Dave, hear me out: You don't know wether Warding symbols or personal heraldry us appropriate? BOTH. Markings keep appearing on the Knight, markings that the Dark Mechanicum do not know and did not apply themselves. In an effort to curtail whatever is causing these markings to appear, the Magi in charge of keeping this Knight in check have begun to apply Sorcerous Wards to the armour. It has slowed the appearance of the markings down, but it has not stopped them entirely...

[@GalianMode]

That marbling effect tip 😙👌

[@isuariidra5942]

As an idea for symbols and heraldry, you could use the chain heraldry of your traitor guard and every couple of links add a teal line over one of the chains or paint it in teal. This would tie it in to the rest of your traitor forces, as well as giving a subtle yet respectful nod to their Alpha Legion allies/patrons/battle buddies. The chain markings could also act as a disguise for the warding symbols, which in themselves could be a disguise for binary code, with the chains as zeros and the teal lines as ones. Or you could use a real/physical chain and paint every other link teal and attach icons and battle trophies along it, using astarte's shoulder pads from different chapters or heraldry from different knight houses it has defeated over the millennia.

[@Iizavampire2]

Don't own an airbrush but that wool effect of almost leaving lightning scarring is so damn cool I might have to finally make the jump to getting one, trying to build up a Imperial knight army and the idea of them basically being giant lightning rods on a storm ridden world just sounds too good to be true.

[@jajsem1109]

I love, that Jenn is in the store to watch it, so Dave can play with models. :D

[@cinderheart2720]

I'm thinking both warding sigils to contain the abominable intelligence, but also prayers and markings celebrating it, appeasements to keep their war machine happy.

[@AlphariusXX426]

Maybe some glowing hieroglyphic green cymbals on the red and the Head of the knight is coding itself into the body of the knight

[@ekilnotpoven]

wait a minute thats heresy

[@tiberiumnp8030]

Hah, I did very similar base for my Castellan last winter. Cork trench, coffee stirrers and sand bags 😅

[@SirCrabtor]

for the symbols i reckon a mix of warding and maybe a spindle drone head with the house swords as sort of legs

[@yvindSelbek]

Insane - as always! You guys rock! :)

[@cjtheanimator3390]

For the heraldry I think two cherubs displaying the battle honours/ kills of the knight

[@kyeg]

The knights former name may look cool some where on one of the shoulders

[@Frog_Enigma]

this turned out immaculate

[@harbl99]

Watching Dave assemble the trench base for his Chaos Kuh-nigut and all I can think is "I could really go for some ginger biscuits right now."

[@RyanEdwardsVA]

Awesome stuff. And YES build out your other knights like this! Hell yeah!

[@dominicbrenninkmeijer2293]

I have watched your channel since inception. I must say you as a painter have developed sooo much. It joys me to see your work come to live so much! Thank you for the amazing content! Would love to see a video showcasing your finished traitor guard!!

[@Fallout-pv5lr]

Looks absolutely fantasitc, keep up the good work guys!

[@hunterjoyce3580]

Yes more chaos knights

[@satire__]

I'd say the drone asking for stuff to be painted onto it, in my opinion that gives it a more intense heretical aura then wardings, because is the whole point of the dark Mechanicus doing what Admech Won't?

[@microforgeminis]

I for one would like to see a tshirt with Dave’s face on it saying “ya wooly dauber!”

[@Nigelius]

Since Dark Mechanicum don’t have a strong presence in 40K (for now), I’d say follow loyalist Mechanicus iconography but corrupt it. So spiky gears, the name of the forgeworld, the millennia it was corrupted, hazard symbols and some chaos runes. Edit: As a chaos knight player, Dave c’mon, DO IT! Just round out things with some war dogs. Big knights are looking good for 10th but you need dogs for board coverage. You’ll likely out-kill but under score with too many big boys!

[@neonsamurai5637]

Id like to see more videos about their shop

[@Rose-hz4fq]

... was that a miniature battery powered air compressor on your airbrush? Fuckin awesome lol, sweet build too!!!!!!!!!!!

[@palmer4615]

When is the battle report? Tau vs knights? 😊 Oh, and the abomination should have more warnings and wardings from där mechanicum on it. Meaby from chatgpt? Because AI is dangerous even to DM.

[@lordllewellynofdarkdelight2613]

Excellent knight Lore! Holy abomination! That's magnificent! Please oh please build the Moiraxes with your mind and talent!

[@dependent-ability8631]

very nice

[@crapparc]

I never really looked at the Knight kits, but I really like how you can tell it's made by the Adeptus Mechanicus just like the Sentinels are. The legs really gave it away for me. Also, when you're undercoating at 5:00, is that the crate where you keep Jazza when he's not behaving?

[@the_guitarcade]

The conversion work on this knight is so cool that the awesomeness that is the basing may go unremarked upon for most of its life, so I just wanted to point out how cool that is, and inform you that I'm stealing the idea. For heraldry, Dark Mechanicum and stuff from the Blackstone Fortress would be cool. Stuff to a Chaos god, or chaos undivided seems like it would be weird, and wouldn't quite fit.

[@Goaliex117]

You have made the error of placing your corrugated sheets in the wrong direction. If orientated like you have them, the sheets would flex and bow in the center under the pressure of the earth behind it.

[@magnusmillerwilson]

Heraldry: What about something organic? Like some kind of technovirus kind of thing from The Warp that has ebbed its way like a skin infection up along it? Make it like a circuit board pattern, or something else though so it is a blend of heraldry and Warp-organic nastiness.

[@mrfancypants3423]

maybe the Drone has influenced the Pilot into having the Dark Mechanicus paint blackstone symbols on those free armour panels???

[@monsterofvalhalla3397]

Like number 666... 😈 Ill take that. Epic build and paint... 🤘 Oh and 100% on the Knight army idea

[@lemcrossview5358]

As I'm in the process of building my own Slaanesh devoted chaos knights, I am eager to see your traitor house grow and flourish under the dark mechanicum. Please treat those Moirax's right!

[@Olingova]

Amazing stuff, really loving the love given to the basing work

[@graefx]

Im wondering if it would be too busy to do both. The alien intellegence trying to fully assert control over the Knight with its own markings while the Dark Mechanicum haphazardly applies sigils to keep it under control

[@codystephenson4413]

I think caution/ hazard stripes of the armored tips of the claw . And maybe some of the panels have the camouflage glowing cloak pattern from the eliminators; but instead of it being a texture or background color have it be a mix of spindle drone esthetics and Sakura Sept markings . To tie in the 2 main Ai/ tech that now run the construct

[@aegishjalmur123]

Awesomeeee

[@Flomo1991]

In the video is a tool to remove the enamels. Could someone give me a advice how to get this "cotton balls"? I'm from Germany and can't find it in any store. I would be happy about a link or a name for finding this tool. Greetings from Germany Flo

[@MisterTingles]

mixture of cogs and chaos stars for the markings? maybe an eight-pronged cog with thorns wreathed around it like barbed wire 🤟 to make it extra 90s metal and also reflect the unholy marrying of mechanical and biological parts

[@OmegablueWolf]

i know its been 11 days but: Alpha Legion Hydra some where on the Knight would be pretty great even if its peeking out from some other bit of hearldry, also maybe kill markers of Knight heads or something ?

[@Geeklord1999]

Super excited to see Murray`s tyrranids in the near future, it will be amazing to see. Also, I'd be over the moon to see two knights accompany that heretical beauty. When it comes to sigils, maybe the heretical dark mechanicum has embraced the intelligence in the titan as an embodiement of the machine god and started covering it in wards at it's request? They could be misinterpreting orders to set it free, or maybe the spindle drone is covering itself in markings to signal to other drones that is is among them, as a form of self identification. Definitely lean into the xenotech for those markings for that extra heretical touch!

[@gregsmw]

id go with the idea that the knight itself has absolutly no care for symbols at all, perhaps put some wardings on it that have since faded and chipped away as the AI hasnt maintained them, and has prevented people from getting close to refresh them or maybe unfinished warding symbols, the AI took control faster then they expected it to and turned on them before they could finish the protective prayers IMO 40k CSM would likely have little to no care about fighting beside an abominable intelligence, to them its just another daemon, so its alphalegion allies treat the AI as one of their own, but the dark mech who first created it are spurned and driven away now that the AI has control

[@23Gaunt]

It could be possible to combine the warding symbols and heraldry together. The story could be that in the beginning the knight was decorated with heraldic pride but after years of the drone being installed, the heraldry started to morph to fit the drone's personal taste (i.e. the wards themselves). So, some symbols would represent the house while others would show signs of radically shifting or altering their appearance as a result of the drone's corrupting influence.

[@SteamTitan]

Really curious to see what you guys would do with sister aligned Armigers. Thinking bout getting some myself and left curious what you would do

[@Hobbyrepubliken]

Warning stuff for sure. Take inspiration from the theoretical Hieroglyphs from millenia nuclear waste storage sites.

[@dexxa123]

If you guys are keen I have a warhound titan unbuilt in a box for 10years lol been watching u guys recently getting back into the hobby I'm also from Sydney hit me up if u guys are keen!

[@AzraelThanatos]

You know, with various things for sigils, one thing that might be different is to go with a more battle hungry type of alliance between the crew and whatever the Abominable Intelligence is at this point, going with kill markings...possibly even of allies and the like along with enemies. It's not exactly khornate in the not caring from where the blood spills, but the kind of thing that wants to be the alpha predator type. Something like the titans from the Monster-verse where this is the kind of thing that might be on its way to rule by being the baddest of the bunch

[@ovan2190]

I think making some runes that look like veins wrapping around some panels would look cool. Like a mixture of the mechanicum preventing the spindle drone from completely taking over the knight

[@TheSteve_42]

Could we please see all of your armies all lined up? With all the models you've painted over the last few years? The Sakura Tau, Sisters of battle, mud lads and such? Please? 🙂

[@tiedyedbeard3439]

Not 100% sure if this would be lore friendly but I imagine the dark mechnicus having a sort of quasi business like relationship with the rouge ai. So the ai does the bidding of the mechnicus but in exchange they have to find and adorn trophies onto its body for all its battles. Every odd or rare piece of tech that this abomination has fought should be a fixed to it even if the tech in question no longer functions.

[@mattbussard2436]

Funny you mention the varnish smells like coconut. I use a Rust-Oleum flat coat,and I'm convinced it reeks of artificial banana 🤣

[@jacksond420]

Dave this is a cracker, well done mate

[@fateazura6768]

How is the portable airbrush and compressor? I've been wanting to get something as an entry, while also trying to keep in mind what little space I have for a big bulky one.

[@masonball1621]

I think dark mechanicum markings warning that this night's kind of cuckoo for cocoa puffs would probably be better than the alternative

[@morganspringer2740]

I feel like a couple strings of glowing binary code could look cool on the armour, like a mathematical version of binding/warding runes

[@sneakyarcher12]

For symbols I instantly imagained a demonic robot skull, if that makes sense? With lots of chaotic scripture below it.

[@ReverendPONT]

Definitely warding symbols all over it and slap the Hydra on it somewhere for allegiance to the Alpha Legion.

[@Angellord2k5]

man! so so good! serious flex! super job AND great fluff piece for the back story. Lol im ready to read the book.

[@NoOne-nm4ng]

PLEASE MAKE MORE!!! Chaos knights are simply the best.

[@oldex6564]

This is probably too late now but for the markings I think you need to go back to your lore and ask yourself if its allies are ok that it's been taken over by a spindle drone or if they're trying, secretly or overtly, to drive it out of its host. Are they trying to contain it within that body? Could it spread to other knights?

[@dinoturtel8572]

A chain symbol or something could work because the household might sort of want to flex in their heraldry that they are controlling an abominable intelligence.

[@warpwingminis]

Maybe some glowing purple xeno patterns or glyphs to show the spindle drones influence burning out of the core

[@DTHMR08]

My chaos knights are House Atrax too! As a fellow Dave, I approve Dave!

[@devontucker2809]

You know it would have been cool if the marble look to the knight was like vains of purple glowing chaos fluid but that may be to much for it

[@benjackson8731]

Go for warding symbols. this feels like a massive melting pot of things that dont want to be together, so having something trying to keep it all together could look cool

[@thecrimsonchapperling4154]

As much as I hate word bearers if you did a techno chaos lines of stuff going down the panels matrix style it would be pretty awesome

[@alexbeck6127]

Why not the Alpha Legion, Hydra? It could be a logical lead give what you said in the vid.

[@pugempire7483]

i think the soul of the machine was corrupted by khorne because those claws look very pointy

[@wombora]

In my head dave only joined tabletop time only to make sure all supplies will be bought from his shop ;p

[@davequaschnick2559]

ever time someone says praying to the emperor I want him to wake up so bad. He would smite humanity into nothing.

[@ericvaughn2617]

I think it would be fun if your hearldry were qr codes that linked to the page(s) where the knight is sold.

[@apinakapinastorba]

That spindle drone head is truly creepy, awesome knight model.

[@justinchristopher8974]

Do it Dave.....embrace the corruption of the dark gods.

[@sgtgomezproduction]

Maybe you could freehand a space marine head to show its killed a entire Primaris strike force?

[@KazeTheCursedOne]

What about the eight pointed star of chaos but instead of the arrows pointing outwards they point inwards?

[@BENBOI_1]

What is a selfie bucket?!

[@Aquana19]

I guess it's the "camera stand" for selfie filming 😂

[@darrylhilbig6459]

Are you guys losing your backyard? Looks like construction work going on next door.

[@jakubdrabent8158]

Am I the only person who caught Jen saying it as "Emprah"? Just a thing that made me laugh

[@thewarp2396]

that marbling affect is awesome, might have to get an airbrush just so I can replicate it on a model

[@Verocyie]

You should do daemonic script that the dark mecha use to bind the spindle to their will