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So the second phase of my deathwatch army is ready for primer. Ever since I first saw the new grey knight plastics I knew I wanted to get my hands on a box.

The first thing I built was the chapter champion and 3 honor guard. The guard with the banner has auxiliary grenade launcher. I also added bolters to the other guard and the champion.

The second phase was making a suitable count as for chapter master Pedro Cantor. He’s pretty cheap when you compare him to a kitted out vanilla chapter master and he makes sternguard scoring, which is basically going to be the mainstay of the army. I gave him one of the new grey knight storm bolters to counts as "dorn's arrow" and a powerfist. I added a servo skull with an iron halo; I wanted the skull to look like it was plugged into the chapter master's head. I also gave him the devestator sgt's style backpack with all the cool optical stuff on it, I wanted him to look like a bad ass tactical genius look.

Next up I got a little crazy with some magnets and made 3 models with a little variance. The first model would just be a standard deathwatch marine (sternguard in this case) so I gave him an auspex in his left hand and mag'd his right arm so he could switch between having a combi-melta to a combi-plasma or bolt pistol to indicate he's a sgt.

The second model I wanted to look halfway between a captain and a librarian. Obviously he's lacking a psychic hood so he's more towards being a captain but he holds a force weapon/relic blade real good.

The third model I'm really stoked on. He's got the cool forgeworld robo leg, a powerfist, a badass techno backpack with mad optics and his choice of quite a few different weapons depending on if I run him as just a sgt or captain. Anyway, they should be primed very soon and then the painting can begin.

Here's what my army looks like so far.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-7463-9305_Deathwatch.html

Very nice!
Those new GK kits fit the Deathwatch role very nicely
I look forward to more.
BTW, would you happen to have some larger images of the painted ones?
EDIT: *chuckle* using the provided link helped

Thanks
Klaus

These look really good! loving where they're going! can't wait to see more from you.

Thanks for the kind words gents

Here's some more I forgot to post, the grey knight flamer thing makes a good heavy flamer.

Epic! Really digging the conversions and kit bashing. I had considered doing a similar army themed with Deathwatch but ended up doing a GK army instead.

Painting really makes them awesome as well, look so good!

The GK kits are the perfect starting point for them, I can even see some of the GK rules working pretty well for count as.