ETL VI +++Grey Knights Outpost+++

[Joukernaut]

Udate!!

All the power armour is base coated leadbelcher, washed with null oil, dry brushed iron breaker, dry brushed rune fang steel, dry brushed necron compound, then glazed with a very thin Guilliman glaze. So far I'm not too unhappy with the results. I'm debating wether I should go back and do another layer of the glaze to intensify the blue.

Unfortunately my phone camera is clogged with dust. Next time I'll try to use my regular camera.

Here's all the squads:

On to the details!!!

[Danarc]

Maybe the light is a little strange and it doesn’t help, but I like the way you made the silver. It seems like old middle age armour. Very nice.

[Kriegsmacht]

Your Knights looks great.

 

Not to be an ass since you did a great job painting them but in the last pic is that a mold line on the front knights helmet or is that suppose to be there?

[Joukernaut]

Nope, that is a mould line unfortunately, I noticed it myself as well  .

It looks like I was lazy scraping them and unfortunately dry brushing is not very forgiving for mould lines.

This is the first time I've dry brushed marines. I layer my ultramarines, but it takes forever so I figured I'd try something different for the grey knights.

[Captain Semper]

This is so impressive man - all those GKs together! Keep walking! :)

 

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[Kriegsmacht]

@Joukernaut They still look great. I know what you mean though about not noticing things. After putting basecoats down on metal miniatures I realize i forgot to scrap off on piece of those stringy metal things. Can be annoying. lol

[skinomyteeth]

Go Joukernaut! That dry-brushing is really great - but I guess it would after doing it on so many models  It's made me think about doing a final dry-brush highlight - which I wasn't going to do initially.

I have started a soft dark wash of the knights which has gone ok after an initial few where I was a bit heavy handed - i am now carefully shading select recesses with the smallest detail brush possible. My blue shading of the swords didn't go well. It made the crisp grey/white look become a bit comic-book, so I'm going to repaint the 4 test swords. No biggy but for some reason it feels like a set-back as my 'vision' didn't work and I was really keen. I guess the airbrush layering went better than I could have hoped and all additions are starting to 'ruin' the subtle smooth matt look.

 

Great work Joukernaut. Keep it going!

[Captain Semper]

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ETL VI - WEEK 7 UPDATE

[skinomyteeth]

Shading, the balls-up blue sword hilts and test basing.

[Icosiel]

Damn! I've just learned of this! As a new player, I wish I'd paid attention to this earlier! I have so many Grey Knights that I am painting.

Oh well. Next year!

[Captain Semper]

Well done skin! :tu: This is a tremendous task you have undertaken! 

 

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ETL VI - WEEK 8 UPDATE

[Captain Semper]

C'mon guys - lets see some progress!

 

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[skinomyteeth]

Ok, here goes - these 12 are shaded --- 8 left to shade

Then all 20 need to be dry brushed (head and chest only) then based in martian ironcrust.

This shading took ages as I had to cleanly hit the recesses with a super small brush --- shading the entire mini ruins the airbrush layers and the soft grey colour. Going forwards I think that I might try and shade before the final 2 coats of airbrush - but it may not work: gotta test it.

[skinomyteeth]

Just to show the difference between non-shaded vs shaded:

Shading in it's full glory:

This is my test dry brush highlighting vs shaded only mini

Not sure it works with this bright white, may do 2 layers - a light grey then a very soft white.

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ETL VI - WEEK 9 UPDATE

[Joukernaut]

Vacation starting today!

Starting tomorrow, I’m painting every evening! I should be able to make some good progress on the greyknights.

Updates soon to follow.

Nice work skinonmyteeth, the shading is definately worth it and so is the additional drybrush. They look great!

[Captain Semper]

Great, that's the spirit! :tu:

 

Remember we're on Week 10 already! ;)

 

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ETL VI - WEEK 10 UPDATE

[skinomyteeth]

Joukernaut! You're back. Thank you. Followed your lead on the dry-brushing. It looks good but detracted from my aim, which was to have the warp-charged sripts on the armour stand out (I'll show that below).

Time for an update:

this morning, all 20 finally shaded. Phew. Took ages and was quite stressful. Glad it's done.

First 4 done!!! Here I tried dry-brushing highlights - looks OK, but something was not right about it. Based with martian ironcrust. Really love that textured basing. Was a little too bright so I washed with a darker colour.

So I did a test - dry brushed the warp-charged writing and compared to the first round of models. Liked it much better so decided to drop the general dry-brush.

The second four - really happy with how they turned-out.

So here we go:

First eight done - 12 more to go...

[skinomyteeth]

Another update - final 12 done today!

Here we go: all 20

And here they are in their squads

Phew. Exhausted... but happy.

[Joukernaut]

I’m not sure how to upload pics from my cellphone, so no pictures yet, but I’ve been making good progress on blocking colours so far.

I’ve done a basecoat of gold, blue, white and most of the reds, it’s starting to look like an army.

Still over a week of holiday to go

[skinomyteeth]

Keep going! Good luck. Post some of the interim pics too once you get back.