Painting Squad Sequitus

That was a long time coming. So moving on from last time, i got a lot of positive feedback regarding my painting, exactly the kind of tips i was looking for too. The best one probably has to do with inking itself. Painting a monochrome (heh) army like the grey knights ( or, actually, i guess most marine chapters) inking is a pretty big deal. Particularly when you have good sculpts like the Grey Knight terminators.

So, this is what i did with my terminators that will come to form Squad sequitus, whose main task is to deep striking in and provide fire support, with the blessed stormbolter and the sanctified bolts of the psycannon. The justicar is a particularly skilled prognosticar in the making, and as such makes use of inquisitor Coteaz ready pool of ...willing, rogue psykers, who in their own hampered way, serve the inquisitors means with their leashed minds.

I started with air-brushing the entire model, a good tip i got was to keep the air brush nozzle at a 45-degree angle, so as to get a good base where the raised edges get the most paint, and thusly looks better on the table. So i'll get on that for my next squad.

 The Nest part is probably my favorite all time use of an airbrush. I painted the force weapons white. And then airbrushed with vallejos "model air" blue angel colour gently on the tip.

This is something that i figure you pick up as you go along. But i was pretty happy with the intial results. I the applied some white highligting along the edge of all halberds ( just to try it out). The force weapons have always been something of a quandry for me, i've tried freehanding it before (with a white background, black lightning bolts, and a blue wash over that) and it looks decent at a distance, but up close it just looks too cluttered, and this was a great way to get it done.

Now after filling in with colours. I wound up with these as a finished product

Again, the camera work is....crappy. At best. But this one is a pretty decent one i think, i purchased a new details brush to get all the rosettes and sigills with a red background, gold edges, and silver highlights. All inquisitorial marks were painted in gold. with hightened silver edges. All the storm bolters and special weapons are black, with mithril silver details, and leadbelcher clips and barrels.

All purity seals were made in darkred. And the liber malificariums (Books on their chests with the prayers of the faithfull, to keep the daemons that prey on mankind at bay) got red edges, with white pages and silver highlighting.

If i was in any position to offer any tips in painting Grey knight terminators, then that tip would be to dry brush all the "engravings" in gold, it really makes the shoulders and elbow joints "pop"

Overall, i was pretty happy with these guys, and they served with distinction in the match i played this week.

So there we go. Inking is pretty boss-hog when it comes to doing "Gris chevaliers". And i got very happy with details. So i figure i'm at least improving some when it comes to painting. I'll probably offer some amateurish opinions regarding Grey knights in the psychic phase later this week.

'til then. Keep painting.