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Friday, May 27, 2011

Have a peek... - Grey Knight WIP

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This is the most completed of my models (other than the MM servitors aka Marines w/MMs) but obviously needs work on the stormbolter and halberd arm (like that mass of white...) but this is what the majority of my GK will look like heading into Event Horizon. Blue highlighted nicely and everything else colored in with the bases fully spiffed up. I'll hopefully get a chance to make the blades highlighted properly too but not too sure. All vehicles are set and half the infantry done currently and I have a cut off point of 5pm then family time. I'll try and get a really ugly mass photo before the day :P.

Oh and this model is converted, you don't get halberds like that with the GK. I've used an older arm and some greenstuff so it sits smoothly (obviously the halberd has been greenstuffed as well). I must say I have a love hate relationship with the PAGK sprus. On one hand you can make some amazing poses and on the other without some serious modelling work, those poses are very limited to mixing legs up with different arm combinations over a series multiple boxes. That and putting the arms together (I've not pinned them so I can take these guys apart later and paint them up 100% properly).

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Prometheus 101p · 726 weeks ago

I like the flames, I like the base. Gotta be honest though, don't love the color scheme, blue and the pinkish purple. Very clashy, very loud. Almost slanesshi.

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Atreides · 726 weeks ago

i am afraid i agree. great(!) looking model, shame about the colours :(

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Prometheus 101p · 726 weeks ago

Also, can I say that while I wouldn't like these colors on most armies (could work on eldar or slaneesh, not coincidently) they seem especially off on GK? I'm not one of those who says GK always have to be boltgun, but you have to keep in mind the character of the army. They are the staid, the stern, the holy. Their coloring needs to be similarly conservative.

I'm not trying to tear you down, it's obviously good work, but if it's still an option to change the color scheme, I would.

I'm sorta copying your flames idea for the bases of my purifiers. Did a few tests, it's looking ok, not great. =/ might need some advice on that.

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Autarch79 · 726 weeks ago

I disagree.

These are obviously not Grey Knights. Kirby is using the Grey Knights models to build his own chapter, which will use the Grey Knights codex. Whatever his chapter is, these colors fit that chapter. They don't have to be staid, stern and holy.

Nice bases Kirby - did you order those or make them?

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Prometheus 101p · 726 weeks ago

So I guess fluff stuff is one of those things that people's tastes vary on......but there is only one GK chapter. They're not even quite marines in normal sense (at least they didn't use to be, I dislike the degree to which they have become normal marines). They're actually one of the most unique, and defined, things in 40k. Sure, you can have whatever kinda aberrant blood angels derived chaprer you wish. GK though, are just GK. Unless you're using them to represent pre-heresy thousand sons or something (which would almost explain the colors.)

All this is separate from the fact I find the colors un-pleasing. Which is probably more important. (well, not my opinion specifically, but aesthetics overall)

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Squ1rrel · 726 weeks ago

yeah looks way too much just like a normal marine with that colour scheme. agies isnt conveyed at all.

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Vinsanity · 726 weeks ago

Love it :D Look forward to losing to your GK on weekend ;)

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Kirby 118p · 726 weeks ago

I'll say the colors look much better in person but it is certainly a scheme of love it or hate it. A scheme after my own personality really ;) .

In regards to why they are blue like my Marines, it's because they are part of the Chapter. Short story of fluff: my chapter's solar system got lost in warp storms. They came out. Inquisition investigated them which led to a GK Brotherhood 'checking' up on them regularly and they got caught together in another Warp Storm in the same region and when they reappeared the GK and Marines had sort of integrated. The GK and Marines were still separate but there was an obvious tie between them due to similar armor, exchanging of icons, etc.

Basically this is a story for me to paint my GK the same as my Marines because I enjoy the color scheme =D.

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Prometheus 101p · 726 weeks ago

Awww......I like you Kirby. You just have no taste.

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Kirby 118p · 726 weeks ago

The missus finds this offensive ;) .

And Autarch; the bases are resin from back-to-baseix but they don't make them anymore :( . Though I did add the frost and crystals myself.

I got a lot of compliments on the scheme even though it was only half done at the tournament and once again, it really is a love it or hate it scheme. Same with my Tyranids. On the tables with green it was really jarring though lol but on the ice tables...*drool*.