Which metal colour do you use for your GK?

[mcpolle]

As the title says, which colour do you use for your GK, I have been trying out a few, but the ones I have been trying, Vallejo Air metallic, Gun grey, seems too bright:-(

And they do not make Boltgun metal any more, so which one to use, looking for a darker metal colour.

 

Cheers

 

Polle

[Reclusiarch Darius]

Base Leadbelcher is the closest you can come to it sadly :( Boltgun was god-tier back in the day, all of my old metal Knights are painted in it, as is my Dreadknight. 

[march10k]

I now basecoat leadbelcher, then paint on ironbreaker, leaving leadbelcher not just in, but also near, recesses, it's almost as good as blending...then highlight with some non-GW silver.

[Kenderleech]

I still have a dozen or so pots of mithril silver. I prime black and drybrush it on.

[Deet]

I start with black metal, then gunmetal, with a final highlight of steel. All Vallejo air colors. You can check my thread or blog if you want to see how that comes out.

[IndigoJack]

I don't have a good picture of a finished model, but here is one of my purifiers

 

http://i57.tinypic.com/1o9cea.jpg

 

I start with priming black, I air brush vellejo model air aluminum on, I then do a very thin (very, very thin) glaze of vallejo smoke with some blue wash in it (not much). Then I line it with blue wash with a bit of black in it (again, not much) and dry brush the whole thing with necron compound. Turns out like a tarnished steel (though it's hard to tell from the picture).

[treadhead]

abadon black base coat, leadbelcher drybrush, iron breaker drybrush and a final mithril (or whatever it's being called this year) silver drybrush

used to use chaos, boltgun, chainmail, mithril drybrushes

 

basically just layered it up leaving the darker tones in the recesses and highlighting with more mithril

 

annoyingly it does seem shinier using the new set

 

slightly off topic anyone know where you can find chestnut brown wash these days?

[thraxdown]

I'm a terrible painter but I mix half black and half leadbelcher for my grey knights. It comes out a little darker but looks pretty good I thing

[lt051]

Honestly I like runefang steel (think that's the name atleast), if it looks too bright you can wash it down with a watered down nuln oil. Also I'm a pretty unremarkable painter, so I like to keep it simple and repeatable. Base black, runefang, nuln oil is all most of my models get for their armor

[Hexagon Sun]

I use a black undercoat, then VMA gun followed by VMA steel. All washed with a thinned coat of nuln oil mixed with a drop of gloss varnish then highlighted or lightly drybrushed with steel again. You can see some WIP pictures on this blog post http://www.corehammer.com/oath-of-moment-grey-knights-part-1/ and more photos of my finished dreadknight in the link in my sig.

[FleshTearer5000]

These look great, can't beat some DA while you're there.

Leadbelcher with Ironbreaker and vallejo highlights goes good on my GKs

 

I use a black undercoat, then VMA gun followed by VMA steel. All washed with a thinned coat of nuln oil mixed with a drop of gloss varnish then highlighted or lightly drybrushed with steel again. You can see some WIP pictures on this blog post http://www.corehammer.com/oath-of-moment-grey-knights-part-1/ and more photos of my finished dreadknight in the link in my sig.

[Brovius]

I use Tamiya TS-42 light gunmetal over a black primer, then work up with a heavy drybrush of Leadbelcher to blend into the basecoat, then highlight with runefang(?), black wash and extreme edge highlight of Runefang again.

 

http://i.imgur.com/8RtRUjw.jpg

[Adeptus]

I use (all old names here, I can't remember what the new names are) Chainmail over a black primer, then I wash the whole model with black ink, then I block out the model (which means I paint it again, more carefully, leaving the ink in and around the crevices to create shadows and definition) with Chainmail again, then I highlight it with Mithril Silver.

 

This is how it usually looks:

 

http://i.imgur.com/kiLuq.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ktgbs.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gQZY0.jpg

[Brovius]

Wow, those models are beautiful, Adeptus! What's your process for the gold?

[Adeptus]

Wow, those models are beautiful, Adeptus! What's your process for the gold?

Thanks! I start with Shining gold, give it a wash of black ink, then block it out with Shining gold again so that the ink is only left in the crevices, then highlight with burnished gold. Easy but effective!

[Brovius]

Nice work, it looks almost like a non-metallic gold effect in the photos. To think I've been doing it the hard way by working up from bronze all these years!