As well as having problems airbrushing my Land Raider, I had similar issues with my MKIIb Land Raider.
And my Inquisitor Repressor.
Tag: grey knights
Sometimes you get it wrong…
I had started to paint the basecoat of my Grey Knights Land Raider using a normal brush. I decided that I would try using Citadel’s spray gun to base coat the rest of the Land Raider. However due to thinning the paint too much I didn’t get the result I hoped for. As you can see it didn’t work out too well.
From this angle it looks better, but’s that only because this was the area I had originally done part of the basecoat of by brush.
You can see in this close-up how the thinned paint ran from the flat surface.
Think it’s time to get a proper airbrush with a proper compressor. However give the GW Spray Gun its due, it got me thinking about airbrushing over just brush painting.
Though this is a Grey Knights Land Raider, I decided early on with this force that the majority of the armoured vehicles would be a sandy desert colour. I used Citadel Foundation Paint, Tausept Ochre as the basecoat.
See the full workbench feature on this Land Raider.
They come from the skies…
The Grey Knights are about to descend upon us….
We are about to see the imminent release of the new Grey Knights from Games Workshop and on the GW website is a real taste of what we can expect in this revamping of the Grey Knights. The models are now available to pre-order.
As well as lots of new plastic models, the main difference is the change in emphasis from Daemonhunters to Grey Knights in the new Codex. Previously the focus of the older Codex was with the Inquisition and entourage, with the Grey Knights very much there, but their role was supporting an Inquisitor. From the rumours and recently released pictures, what we will see in this new Codex is the focus now been on the Grey Knights. This Codex is about the Grey Knights and their weapons of war.
As expected the Stormraven is a key part of any Grey Knights force, but we also see some new and interesting models, particularly the Nemsis Dreadknight.
Its powerful weaponry will happily tear through any enemy army, both at range and in assault.
As a 4-Wound Monstrous Creature with the same save as a Terminator armour, the Nemesis Dreadknight’s adamantium-alloy skeleton also lends it incredible durability.
I like it and I don’t like it… probably something I need to see in the flesh (plastic) to see what it really is like. Reminds me of the older Eldar War Walker model.
These new releases may be the impetus I need to finish my own Grey Knights force.
Grey Knights Titan
This wonderful Grey Knights Titan was part of a excellent demonstration game at GamesDay 2008. What might surprise you is that the model is made from cardboard.
Stormraven, not just for the Blood Angels
Well if this photograph of the back of the Stormraven box is real then the Blood Angels are not the only Space Marines that can use the Stormraven.
As you can see the box has a Grey Knights painted version with lascannons.
Now to be honest I have never been one to follow GW’s doctrine to the letter, if I like a model and want to use it in a particular way then I will (and usually I will ask my opponent’s permission too). If you like the model, I would say buy it and paint it in the colour of your chapter (or legion). Yes it may be “problematic” if you wanted to use it in a tournament, but for me gaming it about gaming and not competitions. Just because a rulebook says that I can’t use a model, doesn’t mean that I can’t use that model. The Warhammer 40K universe is very big and despite the Inquisition, I am sure that in some depths of the universe there are Space Marine chapters and Imperial Guard units using stuff that according to doctrine they shouldn’t. Where needs must and all that.
Actually if you go far enough back in time you can find in old copies of White Dwarf Imperial Guard units using Land Speeders and Rhinos – that was in the days when GW made very few plastic kits and there was no Forge World. So it made sense for all the forces of the Imperium to use the scarce plastic kits available. Alas today where we are awash with plastic kits, GW can now make kits for single chapters that “can’t” be used by others.
So, if you want to use the Stormraven for your Imperial Guard or your chapter of Space Marines, then go ahead and do so. You’re not going to kill the fluff if you do.
Thinking though that one of these Stormravens would make a nice Inquisitorial transport for my Inquisitor – and we know that they would have access to them…
Grey Knight in Terminator Armour
A 3-up of a Inquisitor Grey Knight in Terminator Armour from the display cabinets at GamesDay 2009.
Update: looking more like a one off Grey Knight figure.
Grey Knights Land Raider
Having given the Land Raider a black undercoat I started the basecoat.
Though this is a Grey Knights Land Raider, I decided early on with this force that the majority of the armoured vehicles would be a sandy desert colour.
I used Citadel Foundation Paint, Tausept Ochre as the basecoat.
See the full workbench feature on this Land Raider.
Grey Knights Razorback basecoat
If you have looked at my Grey Knights Landspeeder you will realise that I am attempting to paint a Grey Knights force which goes beyond the listings in the DaemonHunters Codex. What I am trying to do is to create a Grey Knights force (using the Space Marine Codex) and then using a DaemonHunters force as allies.
Having constructed my Razorback and added Grey Knights iconography I gave the model a black undercoat. The next stage was the basecoat and for that I am using the Tausept Ochre Foundation Paint as a basecoat. So why is it brown? I blogged about this back in 2007.
Slowly getting there.
See the full workbench feature on my Grey Knights Razorback.
Grey Knights MkIIb Land Raider
Having given the Land Raider Mark IIb a black undercoat I started the basecoat.
Though this is a Grey Knights Land Raider, I decided early on with this force that the majority of the armoured vehicles would be a sandy desert colour.
I used Citadel Foundation Paint, Tausept Ochre as the basecoat.
Now I made a mistake, you get a set of doors and I (foolishly) asked them to replace the supplied eagle doors with Grey Knights Land Raider doors. Now what I didn’t realise was that the side doors on the sponson are not the same size as the Land Raider doors, but are in fact the same size as Rhino side doors. So the Grey Knight doors are too big!
See the full workbench feature on this Mark IIb Land Raider.
Grey Knights Dreadnought
Nice Grey Knights Dreadnought entered into the GamesDay 2006 Golden Demon awards.
Makes me realise that I ought to be painting mine. In the meantime why not have a look at the gallery of Grey Knights Dreadnoughts.
There are plenty of rumours and the odd picture that shows we should see some new releases for the Grey Knights at some point in the next few years. I suspect we will see plastic Grey Knights, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see a plastic Grey Knights Dreadnought too.