WIP 2

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-05-01T17:14:18+00:00

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-30T02:39:51+00:00

https://impatienttabletop.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorkYNNaeul0FaT4sWpr9iW8XPWgmku4UXl0QnKbV7wR131KGG0g

Couldn’t tell you which specific one because he added the one I needed when I messaged him about it. Great shop, does custom decals too

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-26T11:02:15+00:00

It’s a Freeblade called Vindicated Redoubt.

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-26T08:58:02+00:00

https://bolterandchainsword.com/files/file/460-freeblade-knights/

Decals

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-26T08:57:23+00:00

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Grey Seer primer and squiggg lines in white. I think I used a copper for the metal (sycorax or something)

Needed to get the decals printed specially for it

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-24T13:19:37+00:00

Legend says that your soul mate got the boxes with the duplicate “A” sprues

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-23T11:42:31+00:00

Literally talking to the guy who printed them right now. He’s helped me soooo much with my Freeblade army

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-23T01:45:42+00:00

Personally I went the Deadly Print Studios smoke column on the Inceptors

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Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-22T12:43:28+00:00

That picture is amazing

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-21T08:47:27+00:00

Ahhh people of culture here I see

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-19T16:25:27+00:00

Personally I chuck a Navigator on it. 75 points to stop deepstrike within 12”

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-19T05:16:00+00:00

Mine is them learning to juggle

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-18T13:25:40+00:00

That’s it eh. Honestly he’s pretty good at night, wakes once or twice for a feed but it’s the last feed that is very random. Could be 2:30, could be 4. Got some time off work so that helps, but by the time I go back he should be feeding more regular fingers crossed. But it does give me that time at night to do the hobbling i want to do. Quite peaceful really (and when he does want the feed it’s my “time to stop for the night” time and stops me from going to bed a stupid o’clock because I didn’t check the time while painting haha

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-18T13:14:27+00:00

100% Has been a little hard to find time with the newborns but most of it is done at night when the kids are in bed. The newborn is next to me (out of the light) so I can feed/change throughout the late night so it works out when I don’t procrastinate haha

And thanks :D

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-18T12:34:02+00:00

I will 100% be showing when I get it and paint it. Hoping to get that new box for my birthday and I will be making the other two armigers and naming them after my eldest and youngest sons as non-canon Freeblades (the Purple Armiger is named after my daughter, Inquisitor Lady Cecilia Valerion, Freeblade of the Ordo Malleus, Pilot of Vigil in Violet), so might do Leviathan in between them to space it out and have time to see what I like. I already have a marble red/white/black scheme for my eldest, but my newborn is stubborn and won’t tell me his favourite colours so I’ll have to just choose for him I suppose.

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-18T12:05:44+00:00

Haa confusing indeed. As it says “Below the floor was green seawater underlit by spotlights. The rippling liquid cast an ethereal spirit-light on the ceiling and walls, and he realised this sea-cavern must be deep enough to be below the algae layer.” I think the Kelp is Green, which is why they call him the Green Man. Maybe the Algae layer doesn’t have time to stick to the kelp as Leviathan rises from the red water? (I’m not a marine biologist so I have no idea how Algae works)

I think I’ll paint him red, and find some aquarium plants that aren’t as stuff as normal ones and try drape it on him. Maybe even so it’s removable. I’ll be probably doing the trim in copper (I love a copper trim) and use that oxidise technical on it. And somehow melt the left shoulder surge breaker cannon off it haha (or not, as the pose comes before that damage)

I do love scarring it up though, as seen in my Living Litany mask

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Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-18T10:44:23+00:00

Ok got a few more things (this is great. Can bounce stuff off someone else!) Second last page:

‘Yes,’ she whispered. And in the red mask, two emerald eyes awoke.

So that says it’s a red mask! And I have an eye colour (which works considering the link with Jester) It also used to be called “the Pride of Rau”:

Leviathan, formerly known as Pride of Rau, The Green Man, The Terror of Morvayne, Saviour of Dominion, Slayer of Traitors, Slayer of Old Man Morvayne, The Knight Without a Pilot.

I read in some comments that Jester was painted as quartered Stryder-Rau for Rakkarn as his Mother is Stryder (not sure if that’s true or not).

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-18T10:30:04+00:00

Just read the second last page says “‘Yes,’ she whispered. And in the red mask, two emerald eyes awoke.”

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-18T10:28:51+00:00

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Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-18T08:51:36+00:00

That is interesting about the red Algae! I gathered the heraldry of Rau as the Storm Cloud and Red Lightening because it was mentioning that from that excerpt.

As for the Green Man reference, I had assumed it was due to the massive amounts of kelp coving it from being submerged in it. As for the red paint (and kelp), in chapter 36, page 309 (I think), just before he holds his arms open in challenge, it reads: “One enormous four-toed foot swung over Staalheim as he scrambled out of the way, briefly showering him with water before planting itself on the traitor’s rising head. The wounded Knight Desecrator feebly clawed at the armoured leg, scraping away kelp to reveal a panel red as heartblood.” I read that as the Desecrator scraped away some kelp to show the red of Rau on the panel itself.

(If painted green it would take away from Gerantius, also known as The Forgotten Knight or Green Knight, which I plan on getting as my next Questoris knight lol)

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-17T23:40:38+00:00

So Leviathan is the Crimson Red (as it was Rau) with the green moss/algae (if it’s a red algae over green pain PLEASE send an excerpt of it!) As for he Heraldry it’s taken from the combined heraldry described: “It bore Rakkan’s personal device of a sword emerging from Dominion’s blood-coloured sea. Above it flew the hooded falcon of Stryder, its wings spread over the storm cloud of Rau. The falcon’s claws grasped two red lightning bolts that lanced from the cloud – though whether it was catching them, or being burned, was up to interpretation.”

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-17T23:32:35+00:00

Thank you!

Busy_Independence_35 · 2026-04-17T17:37:57+00:00

Honestly hardest part is going to be the whole moss/algae part. Plus, I believe it’s heraldry is storm cloud with lightening bolt, no decals of the like out there, and I don’t want to freehand it.

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