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Squad of 5 Grey Knight Paladins. Please excuse the wonky barrel drilling, 'twas my first time.

(Scroll Down to see my comments on Glaze Medium as opposed to GW washes.)

Nice, very clean colours and lines. Bases are very attractive too. One thing I would suggest is a little more highlighting and lowlighting on the bulk of the metal and the force weapons. Overall, very nice indeed.

I love the scenic bases! Good work.

Nice work, just have to ask why the book is facing backwards on the other knight

I'm actually not a fan of hard edge highlighting. I may practice using some glaze medium and silver paints and doing it that way, but I'm really happy with where they are now.

very nice mate love the bases youve done

not bad nly the gold could use a devlan mud wash

I really like the glowing eyeslits.

really nice!

I would hit the gold scrollwork with another brown wash, it seems to be a little flat in some areas

It's funny that you mention the gold being flat, because I got the same comment on my Dreadknight, but in real life it's anything but flat. I use Vallejo Liquid Gold, an alcohol based gold paint, and it literally shines in real life. I've got a gryphonne sepia wash over it to tone it down a bit actually (the only "wash" I used on the models. The rest is glaze medium mixes.) I'm definitely not happy with most GW washes now, especially after switching to glaze medium based washing.

Gonna check out that liquid gold from Vallejo. Where do you happen to order it from?

Your models are very well painted. Nice clean lines. I was going to mention the wash in the gold, but since that's already been gone over no need to hash it up.

You got any links on the glaze medium you're talking about. Or maybe a quick tutorial?

I likenthese guys very nic and bright.

I like the eyeslits, and the nice clean blades you came up with. The only real criticism I have is that the SB muzzles are a bit uneven.

Very nice they look great.

I buy my Vallejo glaze medium at my local hobby shop: they have a great supply of all Vallejo paints, which are the paints I use. I find they thin better, have much more consistent coverage, color better, mix better, etc. They come in droppers so they don't dry out, you don't have to use the crappy pots from GW, etc.

Glaze medium is like clear gel. That's the best way I can describe it. You mix it with a paint color to create a wash, but a wash that has a gel consitency, instead of a water consistency like GW washes. This means that the glaze medium goes on extremely smooth and even, and isn't as adversely affected by gravity. It takes a lot longer to dry, but is worth it by far.

What I do is take glaze medium, and put a drop on a palette, then the paint color I want to wash with, and add it near the medium. I then mix the color into the glaze medium, a brush tip amount at a time, until my mixture is consistent. You then paint either like you're highlighting, or you paint like a wash. Because it's a gel, it goes on so much smoother. No pooling, no clumping. Because it dries so much slower, it's more more "pliable," meaning you can correct things, or shift the wash around, or smooth it out. With GW washes, you can easily get pools, or settling very quickly, which is near impossible to fix/correct. With glaze medium, you get a better wash effect (it dries to a smoother gradient) and you get much more control over your shadowing/highlights. It's actually easier to use than washes, and gives you more control/better results.

For example, the eyes on my Paladins are Vallejo Deep Sky Blue. You paint the eyes like normal, being careful to get them painted cleanly (you still have to be able to paint!). After they dry, I then made a mix of Vallejo Glaze Medium and Vallejo Royal blue. I'm estimating here, but I'd say it's probably 5:1 Vallejo Glaze Medium to Royal Blue. You could even say 10:1 and I wouldn't argue. Just make sure you stir it up on your palette until it's consistent. It will look like a blue translucent gel. I then dabbed that onto the Paladin eyes. Being a gel/paint like consitency, I had the control to do this, and it wasn't runny, so it didn't run off down the face or anything, it just sat there, filling in the tiny crevasses. I think the effect speaks for itself.

One look I'm kind of tired of is the "dirty" look that really means "I washed the hell out of this model." I'm guilty of it in the past as well, and I think it's a shortcut technique to cover bad/sloppy painting. I'm not talking about weathering, just the process of slopping a lot of wash on a model, and letting it do the majority of the work. It leaves the model looking like it was in an ash storm most of the time. That's why I went clean with these models, and switched to using the glaze medium after doing some practice on my dummy figures (go go AoBR Terminators!)

There are great tutorials on the web for using glaze medium, and you can do a lot with it besides just replacing washes. Remember, this will work with lighter shades of colors too, so you can "whitewash" with it, or lighten paint up in a wash-like fashion. All it takes is a little practice.

I use liquid gold too, stuff is nice, but I still hit the model with a semi dark brown wash and then drybrush gold again to give it more depth.

You're lucky, my custodes are so bright I can't even take a picture of them.. XD

Kuro, thanks for that tutorial. I'll be looking for both the glaze medium and the liquid gold. Unfortunately for me no one carries Vallejo locally. I've got to search around the interwebs for it.