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Seeing as i might start collecting and painting a Grey Knights army, i want a cool looking colour palette that isnt metallic. There are various tones of grey out there, but i just dont know. Any ideas on an "odd" paint scheme, but somehow still showing its Grey Knights after all, preferably with reference to pics of some kind would be very appreciated!

I went with off white trimmed in red;



Ashton

That looks very good. Nice crisp contrast as well. How did you paint the whites getting them so clean? Lotsa watered down layers of white, or found a good shortcut? I could also go with dark burnished gold for the metal parts and keep dark reds for cloaks, coats and seals etc.

Tjolle79 wrote:That looks very good. Nice crisp contrast as well. How did you paint the whites getting them so clean? Lotsa watered down layers of white, or found a good shortcut? I could also go with dark burnished gold for the metal parts and keep dark reds for cloaks, coats and seals etc.

The white looks great. Here's my take on a dark gold/bronze type:

perhaps black with gold and red for trim/accesories? that was going to be mine... then i started BA

I think a metallic black with either silver or gold lettering/trim could look very good. Granted that is metallic, but I've not seen it before.

Otherwise 'bone' armour with orange-ish lettering/trim might be okay. There's someone in the gallery has a sort of off-white/yellowish bone colour as the basic colour for his GK and they look good. cabn't remember who though, sorry.

Or perhaps a sort of 'ethereal' or ghostly green (pale-ish and not too bright). Someone on ebay had a unit of Mordrak and Ghost Knights done like that and they looked superb.

I did the white thing too, but I recently stripped all of my minis. time for a repaint. the termies were white and the knigfhts were boltgun drybrush, so I am redoing them all the same. I kept my one best painted white termie, because I can't bring myself to strip it. :`(

This was my intended colour scheme for my grey knights, still PIP, but I recently found a simpler and more elegant scheme that I'm going to use going forward. Still, here's what I started with.


What I've decided to go with though is very simple. Skull white primer, wash with gryphonne sepia, paint surface areas but not creases with dheneb stone, highlight with 50/50 mix of dheneb stone and skull white. Orange colours work great for accents like eyes, etc, and I'm still gonna do their force weapons in red/orange, but it's a much quicker paintjob than the pic I posted and still comes out looking neat. Will have to post pics once I have a couple models finished in this scheme.
*edit* I just realized you can't see the blade of his force weapon in this photo. But it's mechrite red on the thick part of the blade, macharius solar orange on the edge of the blade, then lightning and etc. working upwards through 75/25, 50/50, and 25/75 fiery orange and skull white, finally highlighted with skull white.

Still grey, but purple tint to the armor (not best lighting in photo) and then purple robes. I'm still painting the rest of the Draigowing, but they are looking really cool as an entire army in gray/purple.

This gives a blue NM grey:



The armour and sword blade was done using a targeted drybrush technique and started with a base coat of cold grey followed by a very light wash with black (3 parts water: 1 part ink). I then built the base up with progressively with wolf grey followed by ghost grey which where dry brushed on with a very small brush. I then painted a light blue ink glaze over the armour before lining the most extreme edges in white.