Chairman_woo Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 So after years of being put off by a lack of modeling options/freedom GW has finally facilitated indulging my long standing facination with Grey knights and while I'm at it inject a little Iluminati background fluff (also a long standing facination) via the inquisitor, and possibly also the librarian tho there are some issues to work around there as I shall try to discuss later (specificaly any GK being posessed by a greater deamon in the first place). For now I'm thinking of something along the lines of this at 2000pts to begin with. 1xLibrarian 5xPaladins 10x Terminator 10x Strike squad 1x Inquisitor & shooty henchmen 1x Vindicare 1x Psyfleman 1x Dreadknight Seems like a nice fluffly mix of units droping out of deepstrike to support an inquisitor, I'll post a propper army list at somepoint in the future. Anyway on to the models: So far I have 5 Paladins and a Dreadknight on the go, hopefully I'll have them more or less done by the end of the month so I can pick up some strikesquad and terminator boxes to get started on the troops. http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Wooknight2/IMAG0126.jpg?t=1303297972 Some of the arms and torsos got swaped around after that pic as you will see in the following photos (I cant help myself, if something isn't quite right to me about the pose my models tend to get riped apart and re assembled). http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Wooknight2/IMAG0118.jpg?t=1303298134 For more information on how I re positioned the Dreadknight I direct you to my thread Here 1st stage is to paint them all over in Chainmail, followed by a medium wash of asurmen blue http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Paladins/hdr_00012_0.jpg?t=1303298346 http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Paladins/hdr_00013_0.jpg?t=1303298346 Next Stage is to drubrush the armour plates with chainmail, followed by some Mithrill silver on the more exposed surfaces. (the one on the left below has only had chainmail, the one on the right has had the mithrill silver too) http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Paladins/hdr_00010_0.jpg?t=1303298513 Group shot http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Paladins/hdr_00009_0.jpg?t=1303298569 Here's the squad after they have all had a full drybrush http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Paladins/hdr_00018_0.jpg?t=1303298645 http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Paladins/hdr_00017_0.jpg?t=1303298645 http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Paladins/hdr_00016_0.jpg?t=1303298645 http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Paladins/hdr_00008_0.jpg?t=1303298645 Better Pic http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Paladins/hdr_00002_0.jpg?t=1303298693 More on the Gold etc. Later.... The Dreadknight is basicaly the same painting proscess but the "working parts" were simply painted chainmail, edge highlighted with mithrill and washed generously with badab black. http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Wooknight2/hdr_00003_0.jpg?t=1303298878 After Drybrush http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Wooknight2/hdr_00007_0.jpg?t=1303298919 As he stands now, the gold looks crap because its unfinished and the silver looks soooooooo much better once you do the final mithrill silver edge highlight, which I usually leave untill last, but in this case have started (but far from finished) the silver highlight on this last couple pics just to see how it looked (only on the head and upper/top of the DK body). He also had a head swap, I didn't dislike the previous head, but In a fit of madness one night I decided the apothecary helmet would look better & more practical with its fishbowl lenses. The red is more or less done and is started the final gold highlight on the heavy incinerator, again just to see how it would look so the rest of the gold still looks a bit dull/bronzy compared to the finished effect. http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Wooknight2/hdr_00024_1.jpg?t=1303299450 http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/chairman_woo/Grey%20Knights/Wooknight2/hdr_00025_0.jpg?t=1303299591 HDR photography FTW! ^ More to come as it gets done, I'll try to go over the other bits of painting and or fluff as I go on if people are interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Lavis Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Some ace looking models you got there, love the pose on the dreadknight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Lost Soldier Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Looking very nice so far. Loving the Dreadknight. Any ideas what you will be doing for bases? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlemanloser Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Awesome colours! That's exactly what I'm trying for my guys, but my drybrushing sucks. :) So far, I've only painted two (one without the last Chainmail drybrush), and not particularily happy with them. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dublindawg Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 I will be following this same process once I get to the painting stage of my knights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Master Caloth Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 the models look great, but i see a couple areas where you have one problem... the bane of plastics... MOLD LINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The big one is the Paladin's Psylinser. But you can see some of the connection points where the storm bolters came off the sprue as well... Great on the paint tho, extremely impressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 At the risk of being totally off-topic: Did anyone else expect to see doves or is it just me? :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianjc Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Great pose on the dreadknight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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