Cerastus knight castigator restoration project.

Hey folks,

I was able to pick up a knight castigator for cheaps from somebody who bought it off e-bay (he even suspected it was a recast). So I took it off his hand, promising it would receive some TLC.

It went from looking like this:

http://i.imgur.com/3ZJE0UV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/olGgk0S.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3TQA6b7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/h1W1iqP.jpg

To this (after some disassembly and an isopropanol and ethanol bath):

http://i.imgur.com/FZNfbC4.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/A9ziaPD.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/wyhNxPh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DLBglTV.jpg

I'll try to get some good pictures in a lightbox etc. from this model. It's my first titan size project of my own, so I'm a bit out of my comfortzone in terms of photography.

wow, that is amazing

Very nice renovation :)

That is fricking astonishing.

Amazing save!

http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-conten...d_clapping.gif

Thanks folks! I am pretty pleased with how it turned out as well... And the missus was very happy that I only had to spend $90 on that model too because of the bad state it was in... :D

Awesome save!

Beautiful, stunning knight!
I was wondering... does isopropanol + ethanol work for any resin? I bought an old model scorpion off ebay and was wondering what would be the best strategy to strip the paint.

Isopropanol is something I'd put my money on. Ethanol, not 100% sure. I bought some of that because the pharmacy was closed (they usually get me the technically pure isopropanol for a reasonable price)... But it did the trick too.

Safest approach is to just take a small bit of the model and test it while keeping a very close eye on it. But, isopronanol has yet to fail me and eat into anything but paint. I've gotten some insane amount of 100+ infantry guardsmen in plastic clean with that stuff in under 3 hours with minimal scrubbing needed... and the models themselves were unscathed.

A textbook case why I should read the text instead of just looking at the first photo.

Spectacular effort mate. I would never have believed a model like that could be rehabilitated so well! Don't suppose you have some more shots of the base? Even that looks magnificent.

Not yet... The photography (especially propper lighting) is a handfull for a model of this size. I might do a good photoshoot in the near future, but right now, I'm grading exams (being a teacher myself)... So I'm a bit locked up in my cave untill the start of the summer holidays here.