Banish the daemon!! Grey Knights.

[the damned artificer]

Like many others I've been lurred into getting some of the rather fantastic new GK models. I also got myself an airbrush as a long time wish of mine and thought I'd try out some new tecniques. So here's a teaser of what the squad will look like, the armour is not done at all, only the sword is pretty much done.

I plan on experimenting with some OSL as well on these, as I've seen some great outcomes by others. And the very plain colourscheme makes a great contrast to the somewhat more extravagant look of the force weapons.

Hope you like it, there'll be more soon. And c&c are of course welcome.

[Nicho]

Nice work mate. What airbrush are you using? I'm just beginning to paint my gks too

[the damned artificer]

Thanks dude, I'm using a sparmax sp-35, a good standard airbrush I think
I'm looking forward to seeing your GK' with colour

[Breazer]

that looks very decent already

[zis]

The sword is looking great.

[the damned artificer]

some more progress on the GK I made seven bases today(One of which is shown on the below pics), five for the termies, one for a termie librarian and the last one for brother captain stern.

For some reason the metallics look really rough on these pictures, might be something with my camera which aren't the greatest, I'll take some better ones once they're all done with my little brothers Canon eos500d (I'll lure him over with a dinner bribe probably :P )

[the damned artificer]

[Gloryseeker]

that sword is AWESOME!!

[Steinhardt]

What are the bases?

[the damned artificer]

that sword is AWESOME!!

Thanks There'll be more of those

What are the bases?

The bases are scratch-built The rocks/ ruins are made from slates of plaster, which is an ideal material as it's really easy to manipulate

[the damned artificer]

Finally I've managed to get the whole squad to a point where it is worth photographing, they are still WIP as they need almost all of the detail done and a last highlight of silver on the last 4 of the squad. Hope you like them so far.

[Lebensform]

The reds are lovely.

[Simto]

Very well done, i love the dirty look and the bases look very cool!

[the damned artificer]

Tutorial Time !

Here's the tutorial for the swords as promised.
Don't be discouraged, it's actually really easy

1.You need:
-an Airbrush.
-Maskingtape.
-Black (I use vallejo black)
-White (I use valejo white)
-GW Hawk turquoise
-detail brush
-airbrush thinner (not shown on picture)



The semi advanced way:

2. The sword is basecoated with aerosol primer (Vallejo black primer in this case, but if you use white primer on your models this step is unnecessary ) as this is necessary to give the paint a good base to stick to and prevent it from peeling of when using the masking tap later on.


3. Now use the airbrush to lay the first layer of paint, which is the white. make sure that the blade of the sword is coated evenly with white. This may take a few layers.


4.Now mask half of the blade following the line in the middle of the blade. This is important to get the mirroring effect.


5. Now paint the botom and top part in Hawk turquoise with the airbrush, making sure to leave the middle section white. This is done by feathering the paint, meaning you start with a gentle layer of paint and build it up to a strong firm colour in each end leaving you with a nice fade effect.

[the damned artificer]

6. Remove the tape, and then you are left with this.


7.Now mask the painted sides, leaving the white ones exposed. Instead of doing two Hawk turquoise you only paint one in the centre of the blade. This makes the colours mirrored on th two halves.


8.Now repeat the previous steps, but in black and make sure to leave some of the hawk turquoise showing. Thats actually it.


Now if you want to, you can use the detail brush and edge highlight the blade in white and ad the diagonal lines to the hawk turquoise areas as I did on the first model in this plog.

The simple way:

1. Mask the white basecoated blade as before.


2. Instead of painting both ends in hawk turquoise, just paint one end.


3. Now paint the opposite site, but from the other end

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4. Finish by repeating with black and remember to leave the hawk turquoise showing.


Again you can choose to edge highlight the blade in white.

That's it, I hope you guys find it useful. Next tutorial will be for the bases

[Loki73]

very kool I saw a tutorial simmilar to this on you-tube. I cant wait to try it out

[castellanash]

I love and hate you right now... well the hate is mostly coming from my wallet.... looks like it is in fact air brush time.... I love the GK's good work

[the damned artificer]

very kool I saw a tutorial simmilar to this on you-tube. I cant wait to try it out

Yeah I have been seeing a lot of tutorials lately, I'll throw some links up of great ones too at some point. And make sure to share your results with us all when you get that far

I love and hate you right now... well the hate is mostly coming from my wallet.... looks like it is in fact air brush time.... I love the GK's good work

Thanks, and your wallet will hate you now, but an airvrush really is a great tool to have

[ephrael]

Do you mind me asking what kind of airbrush you are using. Brand,single or dual action, compressor etc. Every time I see this kind of amazing blending I think that it's time I took the plunge and bought one too.