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Like many others I've been lurred into getting some of the rather fantastic new GK models. I also got myself an airbrush as a long time wish of mine and thought I'd try out some new tecniques. So here's a teaser of what the squad will look like, the armour is not done at all, only the sword is pretty much done.

I plan on experimenting with some OSL as well on these, as I've seen some great outcomes by others. And the very plain colourscheme makes a great contrast to the somewhat more extravagant look of the force weapons.

Hope you like it, there'll be more soon. And c&c are of course welcome.

some more progress on the GK I made seven bases today(One of which is shown on the below pics), five for the termies, one for a termie librarian and the last one for brother captain stern.

For some reason the metallics look really rough on these pictures, might be something with my camera which aren't the greatest, I'll take some better ones once they're all done with my little brothers Canon eos500d (I'll lure him over with a dinner bribe probably )

Real great work. Nice job with the airbrushing. will the purity seals be getting another round of highlighting?


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Also, nice OSL on the eyes. I feel a small dot of white in the middle would top it off nicely

This army is going to be wicked. Already you have surpassed the GW standard in terms of painting Grey Knights. Keep Up the Good work!

Addition: The blade on the force sword looks incredible, and like it's actually seen close combat. Outstanding!

very lovely my friend! The glow around the eyes is new to me and is very convincing!

Very shiny!

Nice work on the sword... love the little white hashes... nice touch!

I have a question about the OSL on the eyes. How does the light from the eyes bend around the eye socket and hit the outside of the helmet? Last thing I remember from physics class there was a theory that light traveled in a straight line...

;-)

TheChronoTrigger wrote:Real great work. Nice job with the airbrushing. will the purity seals be getting another round of highlighting?


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Also, nice OSL on the eyes. I feel a small dot of white in the middle would top it off nicely

Yeah most of the details will have more highlights and livery will be added to the seals as well

brother_zach wrote:This army is going to be wicked. Already you have surpassed the GW standard in terms of painting Grey Knights. Keep Up the Good work!

Addition: The blade on the force sword looks incredible, and like it's actually seen close combat. Outstanding!

Thanks a lot, I take that as a great compliment as I think GW have stepped up their painting the last few years (there was some real ugly armies rolling out from them a few years back, like the old khemri army looked so bad on non retouched pictures)

WarMill wrote:very lovely my friend! The glow around the eyes is new to me and is very convincing!

Very shiny!

Thanks, I went for drama instead ogf realism as the light wouldn't actually hit those areas, but I think it looks better that way

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice work on the sword... love the little white hashes... nice touch!

I have a question about the OSL on the eyes. How does the light from the eyes bend around the eye socket and hit the outside of the helmet? Last thing I remember from physics class there was a theory that light traveled in a straight line...

;-)

Thanks a lot, they're the first swords I've ever done in this style. About the eyes- Yeah I know the laws of physics is against me on this one, but it's just hard to compete with the powers of dramatic effect ;P hehe

Those Swords are great. How exactly are they done by the way?

Yaya, a new TDA project!!

The sword looks freaking sweet! Beautiful basing as usual. The red is really nice. Is that a red ink over the gold as well? Really gives it warmth.

The silver is nice, solid.

Could do with some text on the seals, and also im not too sure about the icon on the left shoulder pad, seems a bit plain.

Still, awesome, looking forward to more!!

Thanks guys

And don't worry, it's only about 80% done so still a WIP

for a tutorial to the swords, this is what I've used
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Zenithal_Airbrushing%2C_OSL_and_Snow_and_Ice_Tutorial%2C_subject_-_Grey_Knight

It's actually the first thing you see when you go to the dakka front page

Ahja, thought i recognised the technique!

Whats happenning with your IW then?

Well the IW's are still on, this is just a small side project that I'm doing and is more of a venture into new techniques and as such is only 7 man strong so far and without any serious thoughts of expanding... At least not yet ;D hehehe

Finally I've managed to get the whole squad to a point where it is worth photographing, they are still WIP as they need almost all of the detail done and a last highlight of silver on the last 4 of the squad. Hope you like them so far.

Swords and glowy eyes look great bud.

Thyre looking really smart.

Tutorial Time !

Here's the tutorial for the swords as promised.
Don't be discouraged, it's actually really easy

1.You need:
-an Airbrush.
-Maskingtape.
-Black (I use vallejo black)
-White (I use valejo white)
-GW Hawk turquoise
-detail brush
-airbrush thinner (not shown on picture)



The semi advanced way:

2. The sword is basecoated with aerosol primer (Vallejo black primer in this case, but if you use white primer on your models this step is unnecessary ) as this is necessary to give the paint a good base to stick to and prevent it from peeling of when using the masking tap later on.


3. Now use the airbrush to lay the first layer of paint, which is the white. make sure that the blade of the sword is coated evenly with white. This may take a few layers.


4.Now mask half of the blade following the line in the middle of the blade. This is important to get the mirroring effect.


5. Now paint the botom and top part in Hawk turquoise with the airbrush, making sure to leave the middle section white. This is done by feathering the paint, meaning you start with a gentle layer of paint and build it up to a strong firm colour in each end leaving you with a nice fade effect.


6. Remove the tape, and then you are left with this.


7.Now mask the painted sides, leaving the white ones exposed. Instead of doing two Hawk turquoise you only paint one in the centre of the blade. This makes the colours mirrored on th two halves.


8.Now repeat the previous steps, but in black and make sure to leave some of the hawk turquoise showing. Thats actually it.


Now if you want to, you can use the detail brush and edge highlight the blade in white and ad the diagonal lines to the hawk turquoise areas as I did on the first model in this plog.

The simple way:

1. Mask the white basecoated blade as before.


2. Instead of painting both ends in hawk turquoise, just paint one end.


3. Now paint the opposite site, but from the other end


4. Finish by repeating with black and remember to leave the hawk turquoise showing.


Again you can choose to edge highlight the blade in white.

That's it, I hope you guys find it useful. Next tutorial will be for the bases

JAW DROPPED!

As a grey knights newbie the pics on display are really helpful,thanks.

Really nice tutorial tda... thanks!

Great models and thanks for the tutorial. I'm going to have to try that on my knights

Thanks guys, I'm glad you like my work I'll try and pull myself together and do that base tut as well.