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The grey Knights color scheme is armor free of paint. Besides snarky urge to not paint the Armour at all and say, "It says paint free right here!

I was thinking of doing the same to good Ole Nate Garro. It's such a cool model.


How's the best way to paint bare metal?

Oh, and if you could skip YouTube videos that would be great, the company has banned them here.

Thank you.

Grey Knights tend to have that bluish hue to their armour, so it depends if you want to go with that, or just with a more plain metal kinda look. The formula I use is for the bluish armour, which is a base coat of Grey Knights Steel, with a recess wash of Drakenhof Nightshade (possibly thinned a bit with medium, but that might not be neccessary), then the most prominent/highest areas carefully layered with Iron Hands Steel so the two colours blend into each other, and then edge highlighted with something like Runefang Steel, or Stormhost Silver. I'll probably also do a deeper recess shade of Nuln Oil at some point in that process, just to knock the blue back a bit, because it can be very strong with the Grey Knight Steel/Drakenhof combo if you're not careful.

I'm sure there are a million different formulas that give slightly different effects, though. Looking at the GW website, Garro's armour looks a lot more like plain iron, in which case I'd probably just basecoat with Leadbelcher or Iron Hands Steel, wash with Nuln Oil and layer back up to a slightly brighter silver.

Grey knights of this decade is studio painted more like a traditional fantasy age horse knight, so steel with a silver highlight. There are MANY ways to do this, just google how to paint a knight.

However first generation GK was painted with a blue tone to it, so you could always do that. Again many ways to do this, but this one is steps by steps and non video. https://taleofpainters.com/2017/08/tutorial-how-to-paint-grey-knights/

Last take is the oddball. You paint it as they are named, with a grey tone. They are rare to see so they tend to generate some raised eyebrows when they surface, you even have a hard time finding images of that on google.

I've seen the color scheme of Garro on 1 grey knight, once.

Would it work across vehicles and DKs?

I spray paint mine boltgun metal nuln oile brybrushe boltgun metal and then bright silver for the highlights.