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I recently started my 2nd army when I picked up some GK models as tournament prize support. Long story short, I decided to paint them similar to police/swat. The army concept is a force permanently assigned to police a troubled hive city that is too valuable to just annihilate via exterminatus. So they patrol the hive city for heretics and small daemonic incursions. They need to be highly mobile (OMG call 911!) and versatile to handle all threats.

Anyways, here are my test models and first ventures away from my Nids. It's my first time doing power armor and whites, so I know there's room for improvement. I've been using a wet palette technique, but I'm still learning. I haven't decided on bases yet, but I'm thinking urban rubble. I just want enough contrast so that the colors of the models don't match the base too closely. Any input on basing ideas is appreciated!

Librarian



Terminator Justicar


Strike Knights




All the marines are painted black and white to resemble police with blue eyes and red lights on their foreheads to resemble flashers. They have metallic arms and legs to keep some GK appearance. Swords are shaded from black to red to yellow and white to look different from the codex NFW's.

Death Cult Assassin


My henchmen will be the SWAT team whereas the marines are police. I hope to convert cadians to all the appropriate henchmen types to create a look of unity within the unit. Their power weapons will be shaded in blues to contrast with the marine's reds.

I like the models, but the fluff doesn't make a lot of sense.

That's allright. I like to think outside the box.

I like it. I find when painting whites I do maybe 4 or 5 coats of highly watered down white. It is really slow process but it turns out a consistently good result. Looking nice though. Keep it up.

Yeah that's what I've been doing. My first set of models I had primed black as I anticipated more metallics on the models. The more white I added, the more I liked them. My next set of models will be primed white which should make those portions easier.

Gotcha. That should help heaps I would imagine. Personally I like the fluff. You should go for it. If you don't really like the fluff but paint it anyway to be more "realistic" to the 40k universe I find that it can make it hard to keep with. If you enjoy it and like the fluff, then just do it I say.

Good paint jobs, also look into these:

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Adeptus_Arbites

That Librarian is some of the best painting I have seen in a while, consider me a fan!

A Black Ram wrote:Good paint jobs, also look into these:

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Adeptus_Arbites

Cool, thanks for the link. I'm not up on all the different organizations of the imperium as I've been working on the hive fleet for my whole 40k career. Maybe I can model a squad as Arbites.

Here are some recently painted models.

Inquisitor


Strike knight w/ hammer


Strike knight


Group shot of painted models

They look pretty good.
Really nice scheme

I love the librarian's hood. Very well blended.

Excellent painting. The color scheme is unique, I don't recall seeing Grey Knights painted outside of the typical scheme before.

This week I'm finishing up my ISWAT storm raven designed as a blending of police cruiser and SWAT truck.





I also repainted the force weapons on my knights to be brighter and added some OSL glow on their armor from the weapons.

Storm Raven looks outstanding. The highlights and the drybrush make the ship look almost real.

Really good looking. The storm raven is amazing. My only criticism is that the IG sergeant head is notoriously large and silly looking, you might want to look into 3rd party heads for further death cultist conversions.

I adore your painting. The strong, warm white coupled with the dark metallic/black is striking and VERY well executed. However, it absolutely MURDERS me that you don't drill your barrels or base these models. Those two things will literally make your models look 10 times better, impressive considering how good they look!

I love those effects on that storm raven! I have to admit after months of seeing beautiful ravens, I think i like them a bit more than I did before

Brother SRM wrote:I adore your painting. The strong, warm white coupled with the dark metallic/black is striking and VERY well executed. However, it absolutely MURDERS me that you don't drill your barrels or base these models. Those two things will literally make your models look 10 times better, impressive considering how good they look!

Sorry to let you down man. Maybe some day I will drill the barrels.

I'm still deciding on the bases but don't worry, they'll get done soon enough. There's actually a cool Kill Team tournament coming up that's requiring finished models and I really want these guys to be ready. My main concern is finding an urban rubble color scheme that meshes well with the blacks, whites, and greys without the model getting lost. Still open to suggestions!

A Black Ram wrote:Good paint jobs, also look into these:

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Adeptus_Arbites

This.

Wow thats so cool and unique.

Your also a very talented painter, my favorite part is the blue you bring out on the loincloth.

Loving the swords on your models dude! beautifully done!

I really do love Grey Knights, they are just awesome models in general.

hyv3mynd wrote:

I feel like this guy is trying to poke at that pesky spider that always crawls into the corner of the ceiling...

Other than that I really like the paint scheme, especially the OSL you went back and added to them. Keep it up!

Thanks lol. I modeled several of the knights to look like they're fighting large daemons (or spiders).

Th weathering on this stormraven is just fantastic.

Added some bases from Battle Ready Figs this week. Some look pretty dark in the pics but they're brighter in person.

Very nice, you have made that very dark metal work fantastically.

Loving the OSL, looks mint. I've actually never seen it done with red and you have made it look perfect!

James

Great job.