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I've acquired a Chaplain Dreadnought, which I will be using for a Venerable Dreadnought. I was thinking of painting it the normal Chaplain paint scheme, but like power armour model, does/should the G.K Chaplain Dreadnought have the shoulders painted in the chapter's colours?

You could certainly paint it that way if you wanted to, and I think it would make it fit nicely into your army. I don't know if there is any particular pattern to painting them, as i think those who can access them are somewhat limited.

It will probably also help you avoid any confusion about it being a venerable dread or specifically a chaplain dread.

Also get some pictures up when you finish, it's always nice to see.

There are no chapelain in the GK army AFAIK. But all the GK dreads are psykers thought.

On a completely codex point of view, the chapelain would be all black, with a silver shoulderguard.

Winter wrote:You could certainly paint it that way if you wanted to, and I think it would make it fit nicely into your army. I don't know if there is any particular pattern to painting them, as i think those who can access them are somewhat limited.

It will probably also help you avoid any confusion about it being a venerable dread or specifically a chaplain dread.

Also get some pictures up when you finish, it's always nice to see.

I've seen some of the Dreadnoughts pure black and others with chapter coloured shoulders and the rest black. I just wanted to do mine the correct away, if there was one

Will get some pictures up once it's done, need some inquisition symbols and would need to do the lava base on it as well .

Seb wrote:There are no chapelain in the GK army AFAIK. But all the GK dreads are psykers thought.

On a completely codex point of view, the chapelain would be all black, with a silver shoulderguard.

Lexicanium says there's Chaplains in G.K chapter, though extremely rare.

Cool about shoulder colours, I think that way is the way forward.

Fluff wise I would say that there would never be a GK Chaplain Dreadnought, as GK Chaplains and GK Dreads are both very very rare, so do what you want.

Personaly if I was painting it I would put the heraldry on one sholder and silver on the other, like other GKs, and paint the rest black like other chaplains.

I think heraldry on one shoulder is the way forward.

There are exactly 0 Chaplains within the Grey Knights.

That said...

If you want to paint it black, go for it. It could very well have been the illustrious Grandmaster <Insert Name Here>, the Black <Insert Weapon of Choice Here>.

You should paint it White.

Kanluwen wrote:There are exactly 0 Chaplains within the Grey Knights.

That said...

If you want to paint it black, go for it. It could very well have been the illustrious Grandmaster <Insert Name Here>, the Black <Insert Weapon of Choice Here>.

Lexi disagrees with you http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Grey_Knights#.T99QgxdI-8A

theQuanz wrote:You should paint it White.

White

mercer wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:There are exactly 0 Chaplains within the Grey Knights.

That said...

If you want to paint it black, go for it. It could very well have been the illustrious Grandmaster <Insert Name Here>, the Black <Insert Weapon of Choice Here>.

Lexi disagrees with you http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Grey_Knights#.T99QgxdI-8A

Lexicanum is citing one instance of where Chaplains have occurred: the "Grey Knights" novels by Ben Counter.

Outside of that one novel, they do not exist. There's a reason that Chaplains were not present in the Grey Knights or Daemonhunters codices, nor any other material on the Grey Knights.

However if you're set on something "special" for them...
A Brotherhood Champion.

That reason being they are extremely rare?

mercer wrote:That reason being they are extremely rare?

No, that reason being that Ben Counter was not very familiar with the Grey Knights' organizational methods and assumed that they were organized exactly the same as a normal Astartes Chapter.

There is no mention, at all, outside of those books of Grey Knight Chaplains. If it were something they would have wanted, there was plenty of time between the release of the Grey Knights novels and the Grey Knights codex that they could have been included.

A Brotherhood Champion or Grandmaster is going to be your best bet.

Chaplains are real!

Never!

Chaplains aren't real for the Grey Knights! Ever! Ever, ever, ever!

If you really want to do something with it though, I do suggest the Brotherhood Champion/Grandmaster route.

The reason being that the Brotherhood Champions serve a similar role as Chaplains. They don't do the whole "monitoring morale" bit that Chaplains do, but they serve as an inspirational example to their Battle Brothers.

i agree with kanluwen i have never heard of a grey knight chaplain and i know there are none in the codexs they are to pure to need one. the chaplains are sort of priests in the other chapters, they tend to the chapters spiritual needs.

the grey knights are all sort of warrior monks so have never needed that spiritual guide

mercer wrote:

theQuanz wrote:You should paint it White.

White

Yeah man, majority White = Purity
Then have gold trim/lettering where possible, and then do the shoulder pads with the Red/Black heraldry.