<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "How to paint Grey Knights?"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net How to paint Grey Knights? GK models and was wondering how to best paint them; any tips?

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1) Prime them white
2) Paint boltgun metal
3) Highlight chainmail
4) Wash with badab black
5) re-touch highlights with chainmail
6) do extreme highlights with mitheral silver

Gold
1) Paint calathan brown
2) Paint burnished gold
3) Highlight chainmail
4) Give a very heavy wash of gyraphoon speia
5) Drybrush shining gold

Parchment
1) Base astronomicon grey
2) Layer bleached bone
3) wash with sepia

Purity Seals
1) Base black
2) Layer red gore
3) Highlight with blood red
4) Extreme highlight with blazing orange
5) Add a dot of white where the light reflects the most

NFW
1) Handle black and gold
2) Blade a a mix of black and leviathan purple
3) Add lightning with Ultramarines blue/ice blue mix
4) Build up lines with ice blue

Eyes
1) Ultramarines blue/ice blue mix
2)Build up with with ice blue
3) Add a dot of white.

This is how I plan to re-paint mine when I finally get round to it (darn, I'm such a slow painter). Everything but the armour is tried and tested methods, the armour is a prototype I've used on a piece of primed sprue.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2084610.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2084610.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights

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They came out better than my first attempt, but I'm still not that great, heh... I'm looking for the "slightly above table quality" with these.



Edit: I'd love some tips from more experienced people. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2587529.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2587529.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights?
One thing to consider is the use of a fine liner (0.5mm Black Gundam Fineliner to help the joints and armour plates and stick out and give some shadow.

Your painting is good and clean. You are 90% the devil is in the detail, with a little extra effort you will have a mini that is way better than table top quality.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2587607.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2587607.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights?
You're the second person to mention these Gundam markers. Where can I acquire one?

Speaking of which... Stand-In Dreadknight for playtesting.

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I just really really like Doms... I have a couple of Zakus as well...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2588532.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2588532.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights?
Hmm I am gonna have a look tommorow comparing the model with dreadknight in the GW store ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2588556.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2588556.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights?
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I want to paint my grey knights just like that!!!!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2588918.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2588918.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights? ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2589561.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2589561.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights? That Termie looks great.What grey did you use for him ? I ask because i am starting my own small force of GK in the next couple of weeks and both this mini and wizard12's paint list appeals to me equally.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2589622.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2589622.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights? GW Adeptus Battlegrey. I like it for the Grey Knight as it has a slight Bluish tint to it (which you can't really tell from this pic).]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2589660.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2589660.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights? GK.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2589678.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2589678.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights?
Sprayed Valspar silver enamel from Lowes, Painted gold, wash badab black. Then I did the weapon blade, red and white. Kinda dull overall but finished in under an hour.

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That looks great!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2591071.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2591071.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2591109.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2591109.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights?
I'm not knowledgeable about painting really, but I thought using enamels and acrylics together was bad for some reason?

Either way, who else uses spray paint for the basecoat, and what do you use? The more options here the better!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2594977.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2594977.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights?
Brennus43 wrote:Thanks! I appreciate the input!

You're the second person to mention these Gundam markers. Where can I acquire one?

Speaking of which... Stand-In Dreadknight for playtesting.



I pulled my calipers out, going off the pic on GWs site, its 3x the height of the pilot. With terminator being 1 3/8" tall (1.375") that makes the DK 4 1/8" (4.125) tall.

I also saw in one of the other GK threads that someone said it was 4 1/2" tall...which falls in line with my measurements of the pic.

Over 6 would be a bit out Id say, as its been determined that a Knight "titan" would be 6 inches tall in 40k scale. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2595301.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2595301.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights? FLGS. It was just for testing one of my lists, I'd rather put something silly on the base in a friendly game than just use an empty base.

I guess I never saw a problem with that, and most of the people had a good laugh at it (which was the point).]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2596241.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2596241.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights?
I'd really like to paint my GK a more dull grey but sadly, I already have some squads of PAGK and TAGK that are painted in the traditional way so I guess I'll just stick to that.

The way I paint them now is by undercoating black and then, using a drybrush, overbrush them Boltgun Metal, then drybrush them Mythril Silver. I do all the details after that - the gold bits I have been doing tin bitz then drybrushing over with shining gold and washing with gryphone sepia. The parchments are based Kommando Kakhi and then highlighted with bleached bone. I always like to add a dark wash to them once they are done to avoid them looking too clean. The overbrushing/drybrushing means I can get them painted very quickly and because I have undercoated them black, I don't need to worry too much about creating shadows either.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2598495.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2598495.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights? you can boltgun the minis or mix in blue ink into it etc.

I prefer my GKs to actually be "grey".
That means...

Armour:
Prime black
apply dark grey (mix of black and white, nothing else)
highlite by adding white (its that simple, no need for fancy colours)

Gold:
Base with scorched brown
Hilite with golden yellow and white

Gold2: (yes I use three different golds for the sake of variation)
base with scorched brown
highlite with beubonic brown and white

Gold3: (my favorite)
base with sneakebite leather with a small amount of black mixed to it
highlite with golden yellow and white (mostly white)

Red:
Base with mixture of gore red and DA green
Highlite with blood red and orange and white

Those are the main colurs.

Some examples of what these colours will look like:











I´ll make a tutorial when I get my hands on the new minis.


]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2598564.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2598564.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights? @Pyriel: You're going to make a tutorial! Awesome.

As far as how did I paint them in the past?



Note this was before GW washes

1) The armour and sword blade was done using a 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) though now you could use Babad Black Wash. 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.
2) The gold gilding was done by first painting a base coat of Brassy Brass followed by glorious gold. I then washed the area with a 1:1 ratio of brown ink and water (Devlan Mud). I then drybrushed glorious gold followed by a Chestnut glaze (Gryphan Sepia ). If, I did this over, I would change it up and instead go with a base coat of 1:1 of Glorious Gold and Charred Brown. Then build it up with Glorious Gold followed by a wash of devlan mud. Then Polished Gold followed up with a light highlight of a 1:1 mix of polished gold and silver. Lastly the combo will be washed with gryphonne sepia.
3) The Red Heraldry and seals were based coated in Gory red and the edges lined with bloody red which was then finished of with a red ink glaze.
4) The parchment was done with a base of beasty brown that was built up with progressively lighter highlights mixing beasty brown and bleached bone, with a final highlight being bleached bone. Writing was painted on using black but in going forward, I would probably use charred brown.
5) The gun casing was based black and then highlighted with sombre grey. The most prominent edges were then lined with wolf grey.

Also, if I had to do this over again, I would skip the drybrushing and instead just use a thin layered technique (my painting skills have gotten better over the years )]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2598726.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2598726.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights? spray this http://shop.warlordgames.co.uk/plate-mail-metal-colour-primer-spray-35-p.asp
do bronze/gold bits
wash black
done.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2598809.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2598809.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2599237.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2599237.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights?


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jgemrich wrote:Here is my version.

Sprayed Valspar silver enamel from Lowes, Painted gold, wash badab black. Then I did the weapon blade, red and white. Kinda dull overall but finished in under an hour.



I'm digging this scheme the most I think. Not a fan of using non-gw paints but I may consider a test model to alter my perceptions.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2601020.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2601020.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights?
NecronLord3 wrote:I'm digging this scheme the most I think. Not a fan of using non-gw paints but I may consider a test model to alter my perceptions.

considering GW paint is awful compared to the price and quality of other companies out there those "perceptions" should of been altered LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG ago.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2601556.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2601556.page GMT How to paint Grey Knights? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2603510.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2603510.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights? get a metal model, wash it, then paint the details. fill in the piping with black and if you did the wash right you'll still have a metal sheen with decent defenition.
For the new plastic ones you do the above, but then gloss it with a layer of "water effects"
this will give you the same nice shiny bare metal look for a minimum of effort.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2604868.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2604868.page GMT Re:How to paint Grey Knights?
dbsamurai wrote:If you want to get them on the table fast and still look pretty good you could do this:
get a metal model, wash it, then paint the details. fill in the piping with black and if you did the wash right you'll still have a metal sheen with decent defenition.
For the new plastic ones you do the above, but then gloss it with a layer of "water effects"
this will give you the same nice shiny bare metal look for a minimum of effort.


do you have any models glossed with water effects? I was under the impression this wouldnt work!

(would love to make some metallic-y mechanite red with just a coat overtop of the red!)]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2606950.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/326034/2606950.page GMT