Everyone Should Have an Imperial Knight | Models and Memories Weekly #8 

If I had a nickel for every time I've thought about buying a Knight "just because" I could afford...a knight, just because.

been staring at a Imperial Knight for 4 months now ..... I finally now own a Imperial Knight

How to paint 101: "Guns be gun color, armor be armor color, boots be boot color, add a wash"

I love the idea of the knight. Its perfect for young players (aka the kid of your friend) to be part of a not so serious game. Thank you very much for the idea.

Goddamn the Rogue Knight concept is phenomenal. Sounds fun as hell.

Plot twist (plot extension?): Name your Mechwarrior inspired 'loaner' Knight "Mad Cat" and let it go to town on whatever is on the table.

Triggered when he called Phantom Menace. Hurt. Crushed.

that is indeed exactly how Finecast is done. they're metal molds modified to be used with resin.

I don't know what's a greater heresy; Episode 1 being Jay's favourite Star Wars or not liking Gundam (or similar) animes. Heresy I say, heresy!?!?!

The Imperial Knight is what got me into painting Warhammer 40k. It was also my very first model I got and painted, now there are another still in the box and two baby knights that are complete.

I know this is a year on, but if you shade/highlight in reverse (dark colors on the raised portions, near-white on the inside) that will go a long way for magical effects. Also if you use a bright silver drybrush in sporadic, random places then use speed paint/contrast or alcohol inks, especially transition from one color at the base to another color at the opposite end, that sells it really well

You are correct. Finecast only exists on models that were cast in metal before. They tried to change to a cheaper material without changing the molds. The extra gates were tacked on after the fact when finecast was a terrible failure and they tried to improve the flow of the resin by increasing the gates. The forgeworld models were created with the intention of being cast in resin so they work better as resin.

I feel you when it comes to "three-way" 40k, sice I have two close friends who are into the hobby and we always end up playing together at the same time. It's not fun to get ganged up on...

The term you were looking is “Spin Cast”. And yes, they spin cast resin models. Those are spin cast.

You need a jewellers saw frame. Get 2/0 or 1/0 blades. You can easily remove those awkward gates with that tool. Also useful for cutting metal.

Models and memories. My favourite RU-vid video of the week!

Absolutely agree. The Knight was an expensive purchase for me having gotten into the hobby very recently. But after learning a lot by painting some of my first minis along the way the model turned out way better than i thought it would have. The Knight is truly a model everyone needs. A true centerpiece even if you don't collect certain armies.

I'm getting my first knights during the gw anniversary event. I can't wait for the day!!

I feel you about the Necrons. I've only played Wolves and Our Martyred Lady but after reading "the infinite and the devine" I'm going to get me a Trazyn and Orikan set.

And in your "Storytime" segment, when you brought up the "Killing stuff is the fun part!" aspect made me remember one time I was facing off against an Eldar armor with my Space Marines... I had a Stormtalon doing it's thing, and he decided that it had enough fun, so tried taking it down, but wasn't having much luck. One of his final shots was a Fire Prism that really had not had much luck this game, but figured "Why not?".... and blew it out of the sky with one shot. The reactions was... well, a lot of surprise and some cheers on my friend's side. Mine was "Well. That happened." And it's moments like that, that I love tabletop gaming. :)

I appreciate that you always look like you're having the best time! It's a nice break from all the crappy stuff going on.

Your Necrons look amazing! Necrons are fiddly and a pain in the ass to assemble, your paint scheme makes it almost look worth it.

So glad yt finally had a good channel recommendation, as someone who is just now getting into the 40k tabletop scene these videos have been great to watch while painting my first models

I'm painting some black power armour at the moment. I start with a black base coat, drybrush it neutral grey, then spray a coat of Gunship (cool, dark) grey just transparent enough so you can still see the drybrushing. It's actualy more of a charcoal grey, but it looks black, and highlights the edges subtly. Oh, and I give it a wash of Nuln Oil too.

Just split a kit of Helverins/warglaives ($125AUD total from GW direct, Roughly $100 from an indie, so a split would be $62.50/$50AUD). Plus, you can use any spare bits to convert it to a wardog or moiraix, paint em up and have fun. Tip though, drybrushing is your friend. Just drybrush some leadbelcher, choose a colour for the shell, put some bronze or another metallic accent on there, shade and you're done. One of the easiest and most fun ways of getting into it.

I think I know a way to explain the Knight doing random things that don't make sense. You could say its one of those Freeblade Knights.

That painting part in the beginning couldn't be more relatable. Its always a challenge when you start practicing new techniques on expensive models that already have a beautiful basecoat and shade on them. But not all hobbies are created equal so don't let yourself get unmotivated. I'm starting to practice edge highlights now. As for blending I have no clue and plasma glowing effect gives me a hard time.

Killing units is really fun and I think a really good idea is to put together a small around 500 point army and have a game with no objectives you just fight and whoever has the mini standing wins

You had me at, "if you wanna have a 3 way."

I got an Imperial Knight in the mystery box last year. I wasn't in a rush to build it but you've inspired me.

I just picked up my first knight and it’s so much fun painting so from that aspect I can only recommend it

Imperial Knights are one of those models I would really like to build and paint. But I don't even play 40k, so justifying the price tag is difficult.

Been waiting for you to talk about the knight that has been looming in the background!

Its not imperial, but I got a wraith knight at the start of covid. Saving that for once I've finished all my guardian's, rangers, aspect warrior's and HQ's. One More HQ and a box of rangers and guardians left. Looking forwards to the test. Going to try to magnetize its weapon options. 💪 EDIT: YOOOOOO! I LOVE the idea of having a friend wingman as the knight! Me and my two best buds all play dnd. But only me and one of them play WHAoS/WH40K. This is the perfect gateway for our other brotha to get involved. He loves gunpla and Gundam as well. Thank you so much for this inspiration. 😅

I’m definitely going to get one or a few of the knights you’ve convinced me. 👍👍

Sir .... You sound really convincing ...... a knight it will be !! Thanks !!

I received a pretty large army of old-school marines from a friend who was retiring from tabletop gaming, and with it came a built Knight Errant.. I haven't been able to decide what to do with it, but painting it it's own scheme and having it as a stand-alone one-model-army sounds pretty sweet. :o

They kinda got me back into Warhammer, I was in the mood to get back into model kits and wanted something cool. I ended up buying a Knight Valiant, a Chaos Knight, both Armiger types and a Adeptus Titanicus Warbringer. Since I wanted to kitbash a bunch of stuff together. Now I have a ton of sprues and need to find a proper plan to get started. :D

I made the “mistake” of buying the 2 knight and terrain box ... you’re absolutely right, the knights make a great loaner/starter army for folks thinking about getting into the hobby... now I have 4 big knights, 5 little ones, and one really big one ... with a couple of Forgeworld ones on the way...

I think that is a 4th edition Legion of the Damned model. The 2nd edition ones are even smaller and the captain doesn't have any kind of banner pole. Also the proportions are far more cartoony on the original 2nd edition models.

What a coincidence, i just finished painting my knight

I currently have 17 knights. Yes, 17 tiny knights for Adeptus Titanicus. I can almost field a full household.

I'm likely getting some knights when the new Admech book comes out. I just want to see what I can use with my army.

I like to collect knights but the way I have them is that they are kinda like a coalition of various knight houses and freeblades. Meaning they are all different colors with different symbols weapons etc. The way I insure that I get a lot of variety is I buy off ebay and everyone paints them differently, its so fun lining them all up and looking at the different techniques used by each person I have bought from

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I've wanted a knight for a while but I don't have the storage space for a large unit.

For magic effects like that, i just paint it white and wash it in coelia greenshade, and call it done.

Cerastus Knights are a must have. The lancer was a dream to put together.

Only just bought the elite two player set Saturday, guess I'm buying a knight, I'm sold

If u take an paint on pads grey primer black shade white highligh than lightly go over with airbrush an using black but not heavy. You want the colors under to show an u will get a nice gradation.

Been cooking up a slaanesh knight concept based on the glutos orscullion from AOS

You keep expecting a laugh track or audience cheering after the live studio audience line haha

I absolutely agree : everyone should have... "one". The trouble is that if you have a 3d printer you can't simply stop at just "one". Im sitting here assembling number 16 and I'm running out of space!

3+ player warhammer for our group is essentially splitting up into team 1 and 2, balanced by points. One night we played a 3k 5player game. 1 side had 3 people with 1k pt armies, the other was 2 people with 1500pt armies

give colourshift paints a go on the birds. :) it looks awesome and it will take colour washes after to boost colours.

just bought a knight, i dont play warhammer or own any other warhammer models except some tyranid and tau i bought 13 years ago. its just a great looking display piece

Wow your necrons look amazing. I also have orange weapons on mine. Have you done any videos on their stuff?

For any players wanting a fun 3 player setup; My friends and I did a 2 v 1 in which if the 1 is defeated the 2 then fight each other. What’s great is that the 2 players are then very conscientious and wary of throwing everything they got or their best units at the singular opponent because they know what comes after “You should send in your Banshees and my Assault Intercessors will be right behind you..” I was 2,000 points of Daemons vs their separate 1,000 points of Eldar and Space Marines.

Epic job on the overlord

I wanna get some Necron characters for my army but I’m turned off by finecast based on a couple of space marine characters I purchase previously. I’m going to hold out until my Necron army is done in hopes GW reproduces them in plastic (Imotekh, Trayyn, Nemesor, and Vanguard Oberon). One can only hope.

Of course I am recommended this video after I put in the purchase for a Knight 2 nights ago

Do you have a tutorial for the metal marine's molten axe? If so, I'd watch the heck out of it.

Damn, just had it in my hand in my local GW store, but decided to wait...

I've been planning on getting an Imperial Knight but I don't really have the funds at the moment

April of this year I bought two dominus class knights (Castelan and Valiant) one questoris class (Canis Rex) and a box of armigar warglaves and Helverans. So far I have managed to put together one helveran. And the pile of shame grows larger. 😔

A silver tear appearing now I'm cryin', I'm gonna have an imperial knight in my mind, Yes I'm going imperial knight in my mind, (I can't afford them shits!!!)

Finaly i have one! time to build and paint

Just enjoying my work break, then this clips hits... 15:55

Have to admit even though I only just got back into 40k and already bought WAAYYYY too many blood angels, there was a bigass knight on sale in a local store for £75 and I kinda regret not getting it. I kinda need a Baneblade too even though it's not a space marine tank. That said for giant mechs also kinda tempted for Tau.

Have some imperial knights one day i wanna repaint em but my best memories I have had with em is when knight canis I had just got him and he couldn't do anything but when he died due to melee with custodies he killed 5 out of the 6 near him and I was happy and in that same battle last man standing was his custodies leader who he tried to charge me and I blasted away with my other knight then my last great memory was when my castellian blew up with max distance and wiped some of my guys but alot of my freinds troops and I was able to with the game by getting to the objectives

I agree with you on Forgeworld. Aren't their models like over a decade old now? I am debating a titanicus Warbringer only because it's my fav Titan and that way I can say I own one. Same for the Warmaster even tho Titanicus is the only option for it

Hey Jay, so because I'm an impulsive buyer, I now own a Warmaster Iconoclast Heavy Battle Titan. Is there an equivalent in 40k I can substitute it as, or is it doomed to be relegated as a display piece? Would you recommend I homebrew rules for it, and only use it in casual games with friends?

A few comments on an excellent video! Firsr and foremost, goddamit Jay, you made me want an Imperial Knight! Stupid sexy giant robots... Secondly, I'm so glad I missed the fine cast era, I think there was rumblings about it as I went on hiatus, but I fail to see what advantages it brings. Plastic is king. (Also the final series of battles in Phantom Menace are pretty wizard)

magical effects: How I do it; reverse the paint. Darker paint goes on the highlight. It makes it seem like, the magical effect is glowing.

When you said knight wardens came out when you were in highschool I started wondering how young you were, then you said phantom menace was your favourite and it all made sense.

I literally just started on this hobby to help with my metal health, I didn’t know anything more about 40 k other than what the guys in my unit would tell me. I went out and bought this as my first project, should I have started with a smaller set? TIA

The problem with getting knights is, I have one, and I want another but I don’t know if I get the Questoris pack, the armigers or the chaos variant for shenanigans

Gimmicky, yes, and their gimmick is shooting massive guns and stomping on people. The best possible gimmick.

I recently finished my own knight. I bought one when they first came out and had a lot less options. Knights have been around for a long time. Ever since the first edition of Epic in the early 90's. I don't really see them as a playable army in 40k but they do make great lords of war for any imperial army. I had the same experience with metal models lately, which is weird since many of my models are metal and I've worked with it for over a decade, it just feels awkward working with it now just feels weird. I'm sure those ork kommandoes will turn out to be ok though. I do agree with you about the fine cast. Wtf was that about, aside from heavily fluxuating metal prices. The proces was insanely bad, not that fw resin was much better... ...I have a valkyrie that needed at least two tubes of putty to fill the gaps and an Eldar titan that needed a lot of hot water to solve the 'limp dick' effect on the guns. For those prices I expect perfection and have been very disappointed at almost every turn. GW plastics rule though, even if prices might go up due to stupid brexit. As a final remark: if you really like mech suits, start a Tau army.

I’m tempted to get one and Kitbash the Knight to have been looted by Orks

Nice MST3k reference there. :)

I'm glad I finally know how to have a 3-way, I've been trying for years and turns out all I needed was a dreadnaught 😉 I'm in baby!

EpnsOfBattle: everyone should have a Knight Me an intellectual with 9 baneblades: "and who decided that"

For me its a knight alongside my renegade soace marines just love the wandering knight houses the ones who not associated with chaos 9r the imperiam i decided my renegade soace marine grouo who act like mercineries would be allied with a renegade knight house

Yeah, as a beginning Necrons player, I'm really turned away by the idea of finecast. I thought about getting Imotekh, but that was until I learned he was resin.

I play Thousand Sons , should I buy chaos knight or Magnus?

i AGREE WITH THE TITLE

I starting make and painting models for 2022 I so going to buy my self a knight as a cap stone

i gave in and started an imperial knight army i have a dominus , canis rex , 2 warglaives and 2 helverins im currently saving up for a lancer

I dont need a knight, I dont need it, I dont need it, I NEED IT!!!!!

I know you meant Chaos Knight friend 😁

Are the magnets used 6x2mm or 6x1mm?

The phantom menace was your favourite? Are used insane??

Finecast isn't going to be a thing much longer? Do you know something we don't?

Ork stompa counts?

“YOU WERE THE CHOSEN”

They were added as an army fairly recently but they have been part of warhammer lore for so long. And in the lore they pre-date the unification wars.....

Jar Jar binx is the coolest Star wars character.

Getting through aspect warrior finecast can test anyone's patience.

Imperial knights custodes and salamanders share the number 1 spot for me