Friday, 1 December 2017

BLACK KNIGHT of NURNBURG (Monogram)

The Black Knight of Nurnburg is a re-re-re-release of a late 1950s kit, and is now presented by Monogram/Revell in 1:8 scale as part of a series of knight kits.

The basic paint is Alclad back undercoat, which is detailed with silver paint pen, and a Japanese gold paint fine tip pen. Then the whole thing is lightly oversprayed with a fine mist of Alclad black base coat again to make the silver and gold look like real engraved and embossed metal parts. It was also my first attempt at flesh tones and faces. I glossed in the eyes, and gave a satin finish to the hair.
The base in the kit is boring, so I added gesso and texture and moss and dirt and grasses.

It took a third place ribbon at the IPMS Ottawa December out-of-box contest.

UPDATE: This model placed first in the giant CAPCON biennial model contest on 28 September 2019 at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. (Collections - Theme (groups of 5 knights in armour))

Black Knight of Nurnburg

Black Knight of Nurnburg

Actual armour on display at the Cdn War Museum

Black Knight of Nurnburg

Black Knight of Nurnburg

Black Knight of Nurnburg

Black Knight of Nurnburg

Black Knight of Nurnburg

Black Knight of Nurnburg

Black Knight of Nurnburg

Black Knight of Nurnburg






Black Knight of Nurnburg



Black Knight of Nurnburg

This model placed first in the giant CAPCON biennial model contest on 28 September 2019 at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. (Collections - Theme (groups of 5 knights in armour))