When you do bikers for the Shields of Avalon, you gotta replace the bikes with coconut wielding servitors!

A kitbash of the Lion could work really well for Arthur

Demi-Gryph knight pole-axed would make a good armament for more of king Arthur's bodyguards.

Just a heads up, the Green Knight in Arthurian lore was revealed to be Lord Bertilak, already a fantastic name, and he had appeared in legend with Sir Gawain.

Give Excalibur a rewatch and tell me an all gold Mordred wouldn't be a fantastic heretic splinter chapter lord.

"Trouble at the old mill?" Bet the Watcher in the dark didn't expect a kind of Spanish inquisition 😂😂😂😂😂

They are fictional. But there is established heraldry for the knights of the round table and King Arthur. Sure, its fantasy lore, but historical fantasy lore. Before becoming King, Arthurs heraldry was green field with two rampant dragons standing back to back. After becoming King, he used a blue field with 3 crowns one above the other. Though sometimes he also has a red field and the crowns are sometime in a triangular formation, or there has been multiple crowns before.

I think of Sir Perceval who had a seat at the round table that was magically reserved for him called the ‘Siege Perilous’, and I think that is a great name for a Dreadnough or some other vehicle - if you go down that route.

The yellow and deer antlers are bringing me some Robert Baratheon vibes..

One thing I'd love to see for another addition is Sir Bedivere. He's always been one of my favorite members of the Round Table and was basically King Arthur's closest Knight. In some legends he only has one arm, which could serve as a great excuse to give him a gleaming prosthetic, and there's also a myth where he catches a spear thrown by a giant and hurls it back at them, so giving him some manner of glaive could be a nice touch. Overall, I totally agree, Space Marine Knights are one of the best aesthetics, and its why I can't stop looking at the Grey Knights and Dark Angels ranges, even though I already have armies in the works, and the Grey Knight range is so damn old.

Hello. As you're going for a heraldic theme, it's important to note that the "rope" around the base of the antler crest is not actually a rope. It's called a "torse", and is actually two different coloured pieces of cloth braided together. Knights wore this to hid the join between the helmet and the crest. In heraldry, if you were designing a coat of arms, it is traditionally made of a colour and a "metal" (white/silver or yellow/gold), alternating. I mean, it's totally fine to paint it as a rope, modeller's choice. But if you want full authenticity it would be better as two colour twisted together. This goes for all you soon to be Bretonnian players with the release of The Old World.

He turned out awesome! The Knights Who Say Ni had antlers too.😂

I am also doing a knightly army at the moment. But they’re Stormcast Eternals and are a mix of the falcon knights of Lego castle and the templar or more accurately the crusade knights. I love how your paintjob looks and the kitbash is simple but really effective.

Love that sun. More knights! And now I have the image of a texture roller rolling through the city, making people stare after it in surprise in my head.

An interesting idea for a "Chapter Master Arthur" kitbash could be to use Black Templar Emperor's champion pieces

It looks awesome. I want to see something bigger painted up for the same chapter. A knightly dreadnought would be cool.

Sir Lance-a-little of the Vaguely Rounded Table praises the Sun and skewers heretics. 14/10 On a side note, how I dealt with a broken off weapon once: Took a tiny hand drill, drilled holes in the broken parts, insert a piece of a hypodermic needle coated in super glue. Stays fixed years after.

Lovely conversion, and army concept- was pleased to see the sun heraldry from Monty Python too!

I play dark angels, so happy to see em be painted by a pro!

I would have to suggest pinning the lance (often seen done by Pete the wargamer). Wonderful kitbash, I look forward to seeing more additions to this army!

What a creative conversion! Amazing work dude

The gatorade gremlin 😂😂😂

As a fantasy nut, I really, really like this custom chapter. All power to you, I can't wait to see what else you put together.

wow you nailed the heraldry, that's hilarious

TTT PLEASE let there be more bits with that little goblin from the begining

For me as a bretonnian but 40k loving warhammer fan, this army is heaven ❤

I want more of this! I wanna see more Arthurian characters kitbashed and painted up!

"Oh, you want me to paint some Dark Angels?" "Gatorade!"

Since they have taken Holy Grail as a historical work, you need Sir Not Appearing In This Film as a cherubim.

If you want to do something fun, Lancelot had a friend named Galehaut, a half giant Knight who once was a challenge to Arthur's rule. You could have a former Lieutenant of Lancelots who was injured, and now is Dreadnought bound, and who took the name Galehaut as he wished to serve alongside his former captain once more!

Randomly came along this channel looking at Dark Angels videos and I love it. I'd love to see you get a full 2000 point Arthur and his knights done. Especially if we get to see more of that amazing heraldry with the mustache. Sir Robin next, he quickly runs away runs away runs away.

Love it! Definitely would love to see more Arthurian inspired space marines. They are so much fun. I love 40k special conversion armies that take inspection from other media.

well dang, I was wondering about doing a conversion of the deathwing knights for my own custom chapter because I adore the shields and this showed me that it is possible and was fun to learn about your custom chapter. Love the ideas you have for it and can't wait to see more of it

Golden Coffee makes you more creative like Emperor. XD

Since Gawain is already there, it would be a great idea to add his brothers: Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth, all of whom had a seat at the Round Table. Im also excited to see how you would adopt the Grail story in 40k. Percival is the original Grail knight, but Galahad, a much more popular knight, actually found the Grail. Lancelot is also a Grail knight, but because of his relationship with Guinevere, he wasnt deemed worthy to find the Grail. Galahad and Lancelot also has a weird relationship 😅

I've been doing an Arthurian chapter myself, this series is giving me lots of good ideas for conversions

That yellow is amazingballz!! I love the throwback to the one, the only, King Arthur, that I would ever follow. Definitely need more knights.

The watcher in the dark mumbling about Gatorade was amazing

definitely, I would love to see more of this crazy knighty space marines ;)

Very nice project. I'm impatiently waiting for the sequel

I love the yellow and white! They lend unexpected nobility to this model. And the nod to the Monty Python classic is *chef kiss*

I love the ode to Monty Python!!!! Awesome little accessory!!! ❤😊❤

Antlers/horns not being worn by Bertilak the Green Knight feels wrong, so you gotta give him antlers when you make him! Amazing stuff once again.

This is so original and nice, keep going bro love to see the whole chapter when you done man

That shield heraldry is amazing! I was shocked that stuff like that can be done so well with free-hand, great job Dave.

Love the vid ,I find using a fine piece of thread & super glue helps strengthen it.

We need to see a full squad of these guys converted up 😊

This one turned out amazing! Love what you did

As someone still wrestling with NMM, I really liked how the gold turned out on this one. The color combination is a winner, too, as is referencing one of the funniest movies ever made! Good work!

Ever thought about giving Grandpa El’Johnson a lion pelt?

Wow! This is fantastic work man, please let me see more of the Sheilds, defo would love to see the whole lot. Thanks for making this video

This is such a cool idea for an army and I love the idea of using different heraldry and colours. I hope you do Sir Robin lol

The King Arthur's chapter is one of my favorite things in the channel :D Please keep doing them!

amazing conversion and paint job. Not sure I love the antlers but if they work for you than thats awesome. Great job!

I had trouble with the swords on my Paragon Warsuits snapping off during painting as well. I worked out that taking a short length of paperclip wire (no more than 4mm) and using it to pin it where it the break occurred worked a real treat in repairing things.

Cool conversion, and would definitely like to see more like this.

Lol Dave, loved the video, but what makes me need to comment is the paint-coffee. I regularly drink when glazing my pottery (don't do that, kiddos; it's unsafe! Do as I say, not as I do). Since glazes pre-purifucation-by-fire are toxic, lids are an absolute must. I recommend them for every artist that must dip brushes in any liquid. 😂

The antlers are also a nod to the Knights of Ni! He needs a little white picket fence on his base.

14:30 - Sounds like the perfect time to bust out the pin vise drill and paperclips 😉

loving the new shields of avelon minis you have been painting

You had me at the Watcher in the dark

love the drybrushing. would you make a tutorial to how you drybrush

In heraldic legend, Arthur's iconography consisted of three golden leopards, and later included a dragon. Monty Python got it surprisingly close, and ipso facto so did you!

Awesome job, well done Dave!. ❤

Never played Warhammer before but I love art and dnd and I love watching mini painting. Very good looking soldiers!

Loved it! Its a very fun and nice concept :D

Mordred: Black. Espionage, assasination and more covert/underhanded operations. Galahad: Purple. Ariel assault(jetpacks or flying vehicles) due to Galahad's purity, essentialy making him and his men "above" the rest. Tristan: Pure yellow. Cavalry bikes. Percival: Turquoise. Naval/Underwater missions? Queen Guinevere? Silver. Sisters of battle. Also, i'd love to see you make the rest of the knights as well as Arthur himself.

That's a cool concept for a conversion army. I'd love to see the whole army done! 😁

I want to see the entire chapter of king Arthur's Knights! this is such a fun Idea! The whole concept woks and your execution of it is good as well! it fits in a similar way to bloodborne and the sisters of battle.

So strangely enough, I started working on a chapter I've called The Fists of Avalon. But I went full into some of the weird Arthurian legends. The subsector is a series of Feudal worlds stuck within the Brocéliande Nebula, that blocks Vox communications so the Mechanicus avoids it. The subsector lies on the western most edge of the Imperium and defends the narrow Warp Corridor against Orks, Dark Mechanicus, and Traitor threats. I am going to start working on an Ork combat patrol that acts as the narrative foil of my Feudal Guard (who are chapter serfs of the Fists that serve their Space Marine lords and help defend the subsector), the Warband of Morkdred, which I am going to use AoS Orruks to make some heavily armored Orks with.

Sir Marrock was a knight who got rolled into the Arthurian mythos, most noted for his ability to turn into a wolf. Maybe another assault company/ biker captain as a sort of 'Master of the Hounds', use some Space Wolf bits and a hunting dog/ wolf?

Super cool model, good job!

Absolutely want to see more Knights of Avalon!

If you’re still having trouble getting the lance to stay glued, I recently started pinning those kind of things, but in stead of a metal pin, using plastic glue and a piece of sprue trimmed to act as a pin and it ends up a lot stronger.

Grey knights gotta get this same treatment! The new deathwing are awesome.

The emblem was the best part, I love it! x,D

Gotta love medieval x 40k

This gives me some awesome inspiration for the Howling Griffons kill team I'm planning. Great stuff!

the white and gold normally comes with a splash of red in Arthurian lore, as it harks back to the red dragon that profised the comming of Arther, in Nennius's Historia Brittonum. the white and gold comes from the golden dragon on a white banner that was suposidly king Uthers (Arthers farther) banner

Gosh this looks so incredible!

Dave is SO Aussie: "I then paint the purity seal in a CAR KEY"

This is very similar to what I'm doing with my Emperor's Spears. Great video. You seem to be really enjoying this project. Kudos and a big hello from Yorkshire ❤️

It broke at the handle because the lance was essentially acting as a lever, meaning a slight bend would be multiplied on the fulcrum point.

If you can get your hands on the King Arthur Pendragon RPG from Chaosium, they have the Mallory heraldry in the book. White with red cross (the Crusader cross) was Galahad. Arthur's is three gold crowns on a field of blue.

For breaks like that I use a small drill bit to drill into each end. I then use a small piece of metal (usually a paperclip) and glue it into one end with superglue. I then put a little superglue into the hole on the other end with plastic glue on the edges on each part. I then join the parts, only takes a few seconds to hold and gets you a very solid connection. I have never had a part pinned that way break.

powerlance would be an excellent weapon for a biker or jump pack marine, painting looks good

the Britannin helmet in there is sweet looking!

I love the idea that your Knights of Avalon found an ancient VHS of Monty Python's Holy Grail and thought it was a genuine relic depicting King Arthur

A fun idea could be a company called "Seekers of the Grail" -- Its wizened Captain Percival / Parzival and the promising new Lieutenant Galahad -- on an eternal crusade in search of relics!

I built a Space Marine Order based on Bretonians with the helmets, shields, lances, etc. like you did. Was my first Space Marines projects over 20 years ago and I restated it 2 years ago or so and now, Bretonian Bitz are available again without having to give a kidney for 5 parts...

Hi there! Great video as usual! There is one thing I cannot leave be on your paint scheme of this model: those "ropes" on head and around the antlers would not be actually ropes on a knigt, but two pieces of cloth in heraldic colour of the knight, called Torse

😂 the Sun I love it so much.

love to see more of this and the Sa'kura Tau

Ah, so cool. Love it. Such fun!

I think everyone should agree. We need the Black Knight as a venerated drednought. He deserved it.

A spot UV resin will fix that lance right up. good to see the shields back and growing strong.

I've been wanting to make a black templar army using bretonian helmets to make them actually look like crusaders but I was scared that I'd have to take off too much of the head dress, this video has shown me it's possible.

Similar background I have for my custom marine chapter, but based it around a primaris founding chapter that came to the rescue of a knight world and to honour the household the adapted their colours of grey and red and set their fortress monastrey and recruitment in the system

Love love love love LOVE IT!!!!!!

I’ve honestly really been waiting for the Shields of Avalon to make a come back, lucky me I guess! Great conversion as usual!