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So, currently building a GK army with a non standard paint scheme, so I thought I could update a thread with current WIP and realized minis - dearly hoping my paint-fu will improve over time!

Comments and advice on how to improve are most welcome!

First - Standard GKSS guy
I know he's red.



A full GKSS



A GKT + group shot





Purificators all have white helmets to differentiate them from GKSS



My infamous stormraven, with a pissed of crew member shooting at things



Coetaz and his big friend


A librarian - not very happy how he turned out...

So much red! I am a fan of any GK force that isn't silver so yours is pretty awesome, how are you doing your metals? The reason I ask is they look quite bright as in some pictures they seem quite flat.

you might not be the best painter, but the desing is awesome the color combination you used looks great, awesome looking termies. i love 'em.

Knightley wrote:So much red! I am a fan of any GK force that isn't silver so yours is pretty awesome, how are you doing your metals? The reason I ask is they look quite bright as in some pictures they seem quite flat.

One some, I used mithril silver / washed badab black, on some (only the dread and Coetaz I think) I used an Army Painter metal primer (darker, like boltgun metal approximatively) and elaborated on it (badab black mostly). On power weapons, mithril silver / asurmen blue wash.
I am still struggling to find a way to paint power weapons in a good way.

One thing I also need to do is drill bolter holes !


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serotol wrote:you might not be the best painter, but the desing is awesome the color combination you used looks great, awesome looking termies. i love 'em.

Thanks ! To GW credit, I used inspiration from a an offspin of the grey knights, called the exorcists, which main color is red.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Exorcists#.TyyZ1yPTbJw

A Dread Knight - photo quality is crap, I need to retake one.



Converted inquisitor. Grey as a main color was a stupid idea, he looks like a space wolf.

Update - no finished models though, only WIP. :(

Purifier justicar, still needs his base.


Primed model I use as a Justicar Thawn count-as:


Primes GKSS + First silver coat GKSS (you can see how the crispy red comes from, I am not that good) :(


WIP on terrain - will mostly use those when my vehicules blew up.


Rhino WIP - need a little more highlights but A LOT MORE weathering. It will be my first attempt at weathering - any tips / tricks appreciated!


Primed LRC.


Kinda need help here:


I am hesitating for the color scheme of my pals:
- Like the termis.
- Opposite (silver base, red scripts and shoulder lines)
- Black metal (I stole this one...)

Its great to see all the red instead of a sliver. Any chance you own a huge blood angels army that you didn't want to play any more? Or maybe you where a blood angels player in a past life? Either way its looking great. you might want to wash the whole model with a black or dark red wash, just to tone down the red a little. The really bright red is ok but i think it would like better if it was a little darker. maybe use the base prim red as the high light and give it some shadows. Might make it a little easier on the eyes.

Great job, keep it up and keep posting.

PapaPiggy wrote:Its great to see all the red instead of a sliver. Any chance you own a huge blood angels army that you didn't want to play any more? Or maybe you where a blood angels player in a past life? Either way its looking great. you might want to wash the whole model with a black or dark red wash, just to tone down the red a little. The really bright red is ok but i think it would like better if it was a little darker. maybe use the base prim red as the high light and give it some shadows. Might make it a little easier on the eyes.

Great job, keep it up and keep posting.

As a matter of fact, 15 years ago, I was an ultramarine guy.
Good point on the wash, but I also want my guys to look crisp, and I'm afraid a black wash would end up dirty.

Looking awesome Loving the idea!

Quick update !

Actually flocked the crater:


Received my FW order !!
1st plague marine with his chainaxe.

Hop hop hop !

Received my maxmini order, so I decided to build some funky inquisitors.

One with combi flamer / force sword. The other with NDH !

Chapterhouse LC and shoulder pads ordered !
(Those are for my CSM army though, but I may update some on here!)

Since Grey Knights deserves wothry adversaries, I finished assembling my FW Plague Marines.

TadaaaAAAA




This is also my first attempt at a dynamic pose... Not sure what to think of it.



C&C appreciated !

Ok, so I played a bit with everything this WE, and I ended up thinking about a cool yet easy/quick scheme to use on my CSM.

The idea is ti have everyone on a bone/ivory base, and having the armour borders painted in according color (blue for TS, green for PM and so on).
I ended up with this test model for TS.





Any idea how to make this better? I find him a little bit too plain, but I am torn between complexity and easy/coherent paint scheme.
Thoughts?

Nice work, keep it up!

Hop hop hop, regular marine !

Next up : plague marines.

What do you think about the pain scheme?

(ok ok, I know the paint job is quick and diry but hey, these are test models!)


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Ok.
I had a great idea. Like really great.

You need a specific pain scheme for paladins. At least I think you do. Just painting them like regular GKT with a book hanging over theirs heads don't do it for me.

So, I thought about a lot of option - like I was rambling on about: black paladins, white paladins and so on.

And I had th best idea ever: METALLIC RED PALADINS ! Just like my regular GKT, but with a meaner look. So I thought "Hey, what's the better way to do metallic red? Easy buddy: undercoat in metal (boltgun or something), and wash with read.

That.

Was.

A.

Mistake.

Behold.... THE PINK AVENGER !



So now, I really need a god idea for paladin. Since I had ivory covered with the CSM, why not ivory with red borders? But hey, that's my CSM main scheme!

Any brilliant ideas before I end up with a full Draigueen wing? (no offense, but that's not the look I want to give my army) :(

What wash are you using for that model? How many coats?

If you want a deeper red, try going for 75/25 Baal Red/Badab Black, and keep coating it. It'll probably take 2-3 coats, but it should turn around eventually, I would think. Its really easy to coat them with the Asurman Blue, but I haven't tried Red.

GL, I love the way the rest of the models have turned out so far.

Seb wrote:And I had th best idea ever: METALLIC RED PALADINS ! Just like my regular GKT, but with a meaner look. So I thought "Hey, what's the better way to do metallic red? Easy buddy: undercoat in metal (boltgun or something), and wash with red.

That.
Was.
A.
Mistake.
Behold.... THE PINK AVENGER !

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2012/2/27/334664_sm-fethed%20up.jpg

So now, I really need a god idea for paladin. Since I had ivory covered with the CSM, why not ivory with red borders? But hey, that's my CSM main scheme!
Any brilliant ideas before I end up with a full Draigueen wing? (no offense, but that's not the look I want to give my army) :(

Perhaps mix a drop or two of red wash into the Boltgun BEFORE you paint it? I'm hoping to buy some red metalic paint i found in a teacher supply catalog with my tax return.

Hologram wrote:What wash are you using for that model? How many coats?

If you want a deeper red, try going for 75/25 Baal Red/Badab Black, and keep coating it. It'll probably take 2-3 coats, but it should turn around eventually, I would think. Its really easy to coat them with the Asurman Blue, but I haven't tried Red.

GL, I love the way the rest of the models have turned out so far.

Baal red overboltgun undercoat. 1 coat.
I know that with the blue, they are good looking at the first coat... I'll try the 25/75 mix tonight !

Can you post a pic of the spray can your using for your red? I love it!

Garukadon wrote:Can you post a pic of the spray can your using for your red? I love it!

Hedging my bet on Army Painter Pure Red.

Hi Seb !
(bonjour, héhé)

For now, I have painted several models with "metallic colors", I mean painting a mini in silver and then wash it to taint the metal areas. I'm quite comfortable with this technic now, and I can give you 2 advices :
- one layer is definitely not enough. ^^
- if you can find some (or order it on a webstore) use ink first, and then Citadel washes. Inks contain more pigments, so they cover better.

I won't spam your topic with my images, but you can have a look at my gallery and/or my log you'll find several exemples of this technic.
I already painted purple, black, blue and red that way.

If you have any questions on how I did, let me know.


BTW, the tzeentch marine looks good, this ivory works pretty well with this strong blue.

Seb wrote:
First - Standard GKSS guy

In this picture is the highlighting (orange bits) all down the models left hand side caused by your camera, lighting or painting? If its your painting then I'm not sure I can advise you. If its the lighting then that would be a good palce to improve the miniature...

for your first attempt at a dynamic pose (ref plague marine) he needs to either be jumping more (and bring that axe down in both hands onto something) or the leg in the air needs to go tothe ground, unfortuantely that would require cutting / rejoining the leg which again I cannot advise you on although i'm sure some helpful person can point out a tutorial for it. Currently he's doing a Wil 'E' Coyote off a cliff.

Hologram wrote:

Garukadon wrote:Can you post a pic of the spray can your using for your red? I love it!

Hedging my bet on Army Painter Pure Red.

And...... no.

Here it is, acrylic paint found in an art store:



Sprayed very lightly over a very light white undercoat.


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Minus wrote:Hi Seb !
(bonjour, héhé)

For now, I have painted several models with "metallic colors", I mean painting a mini in silver and then wash it to taint the metal areas. I'm quite comfortable with this technic now, and I can give you 2 advices :
- one layer is definitely not enough. ^^
- if you can find some (or order it on a webstore) use ink first, and then Citadel washes. Inks contain more pigments, so they cover better.

I won't spam your topic with my images, but you can have a look at my gallery and/or my log you'll find several exemples of this technic.
I already painted purple, black, blue and red that way.

If you have any questions on how I did, let me know.


BTW, the tzeentch marine looks good, this ivory works pretty well with this strong blue.

Mais complètement bonjour !

The only red I found in your gallery was the Kan. Is that the technique you're refering too? It looks like solid red to me. :/
I'll try more coats of wash to see what I can get to. Cheers for the tip !



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c9805222 wrote:


In this picture is the highlighting (orange bits) all down the models left hand side caused by your camera, lighting or painting? If its your painting then I'm not sure I can advise you. If its the lighting then that would be a good palce to improve the miniature...

for your first attempt at a dynamic pose (ref plague marine) he needs to either be jumping more (and bring that axe down in both hands onto something) or the leg in the air needs to go tothe ground, unfortuantely that would require cutting / rejoining the leg which again I cannot advise you on although i'm sure some helpful person can point out a tutorial for it. Currently he's doing a Wil 'E' Coyote off a cliff.

Of course the highlight is produced by my camera.
I tend not to spend a lot of time on my regular guys. Nice trick I'll use for HQ though : taking very luminous pictures and use it for highlighting ! Cheers !

On the Nurgle jumpy guy, I am afraid I'll break more things that fix by touching him. The 2 handed axe is a good point though, that would add mementum - I know need to find a fitting arm !

That Thousand Son looks great. It's simple, clean, and completely fitting for the model. But I don't think it's going to work for the rest of the CSM units. It fits in with the motif of the Thousand Sons, but everyone else has such divergent schemes that trying to tie them all together with a common idea is going to be really hard.

The main hurdle being that your cosntant theme is such a large portion of their armor. If you were matching shoulderpads or had some other trick to tie the army together, that might work, but I don't think the scheme is going to transfer well to say... the Plague Marines. They can be really picky models when it comes to color choices.

Dude your stuff looks awsome, don't be down on yourself. With so many armies now days looking cookie cutter identical your stands out which is great. Keep it up the read works well, you should be proud of them. for thinking outside the box.

Mr. S Baldrick wrote:Dude your stuff looks awsome, don't be down on yourself. With so many armies now days looking cookie cutter identical your stands out which is great. Keep it up the read works well, you should be proud of them. for thinking outside the box.

/ego boost

Thanks a lot.

Speaking about outside the box :


White test paladin. Thoughts ?

(I'll try a ivory / deathwing one next)

I want to see the ivory deathwing paladin next please.

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:That Thousand Son looks great. It's simple, clean, and completely fitting for the model. But I don't think it's going to work for the rest of the CSM units. It fits in with the motif of the Thousand Sons, but everyone else has such divergent schemes that trying to tie them all together with a common idea is going to be really hard.

The main hurdle being that your cosntant theme is such a large portion of their armor. If you were matching shoulderpads or had some other trick to tie the army together, that might work, but I don't think the scheme is going to transfer well to say... the Plague Marines. They can be really picky models when it comes to color choices.

Thanks.
That's a tricky point you raise though. I am now compelled to make a test plague marine model... Problem being the FW models do not have clean shoulders, so I'm afraid the ivory looking shoulders will look crap. :(
Maybe trying a concept like ivory armour bursting into brown/green bulbous whatever.

Yeah... and that could work if that's what you're going for, I would try and find a color of decay that gives a nice contrast to the ivory. Maybe skip your typical green and grime and go for a sickly blue or water-logged corpse sort of coloring... maybe going as far as dark blue-black ichor leaking from the wounds and the like. Still distinctly nurgle, but different enough to be interesting and unique.