Grey Knights with Old school colour scheme!

[FF151]

Here is a pic of one of them, but ya really gotta check out the 3 minute 360degree HD vid I put up on youtube to appreciate how they look

 

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/2912/greyknight.jpg

 

 

Comments or tips are always welcomed! here or on youtube.

 

Cat/

[Firepower]

Does that one guy's shoulder say "Jedi Jim?" :)

 

Well, I like your weathering/soot style on the gun barrels. Overall though, it's a bit dark for my taste. Granted, I am assuming the dark gunmetal gray was what you were going for, but all of the colors look rather mute. A slightly brighter highlight or blending of the reds and a bit more love on the green eyes in particular may go a long way.

 

Something which is much more difficult but worth looking into: when writing actual lettering, it pays to go back and tighten up the width of the lines. This can become a royal pain in the ass, but the less the letters actually look like they were painted on, the cooler the effect. I've personally spent many hours laboring over some quarter centimeter long piece of parchment with a very fine brush making very, very fine detail corrections to make it look just right, and almost as often as not, I fail anyway :D Even if it is a bit thick in places, your lettering is worthy of praise though, seeing just how long the names were which you managed to cram onto those shoulders :tu:

[Nacho Wolf]

Damn, is that what they used to look like? Why the hell GW didnt keep them like that will perplex me for eternity

[carnosaur93]

ohh nice! back long ago i wanted to start collecting grayknights. and this is EXACTLY how i planned to paint them :lol:... so 1+ for ze awesome. and 1+ for ze nostalgia

[FF151]

Hey Guys,

 

Thanks for the great comments and tips. Yes I did notice some of the scrollwork was a little thick but felt that the effort it would take to thin them out just wouldn't be worth it as I still think these are a fairly high table top quality. Another thing to note is the colour correction on the video, in hand you can see some highlights that just don't show up too well on the vid, so if you like the vid pictures, understand they look even better in hand.

 

The darkened armour is the effect I was after and I agree with the previous posters, why the hell did they change it??

 

I appreciate all comments and will certainly pay more attention to the letters (btw, thanks for noting how long some of those names were! )

[Isiah]

Colour scheme looks stunning. What's the dark red precisely? - it's incredibly rich.

[FF151]

1) chaos black primed

2) mechrite red base

3) red gore

4) highlight with 1/2 red gore + 1/2 blood red

5) very very thin highlight of straight blood red.

 

Cheers, thanks for the comments guys,

 

Cat/

[UltimateJake]

Incredible color scheme and painting.