Here is the current work-in-progress - 2 squads of Grey Knight Paladins led by Draigo. So far they are in various stages of highlighting. In the very back you'll notice one poor fellow who will need to be completely stripped as he was the test subject. The goal of my methods are to produce good looking miniatures in timely manner. Far too often do we see unpainted or primed armies that with a few hours here and there could look fantastic.

 

My goal was to avoid all metallic look that the majority of Grey Knights adorn. At the same time, going for a non-metallic metal scheme is very time consuming and requires much experience to do the models justice. Such being the case, I chose a layered dry brushing scheme for my GK's. Benefits of this method:

• Quick and painless! (Great if you are painting infantry heavy armies)
• Easy to fix! (This style is very forgiving if you mess up, you can make the corrections over the mistake)
• Through imperfection comes beauty! (You'll want party of the figure to look rough as it adds depth and realism)

 My Technique involves applying thin layers of paint on top of one another while brightening up the colour as well. The greys in these knights was achieves by applying the following Games Workshop paints:

• Thick layer of Charadon Granite over the black primer
• Dry brush Adeptus Battlegrey
• Very light dry brush of Codex Grey to add shadow and make edges pop
• Finally highlight edges with Fortress Grey

 The weapons were done in a similar fashion.

• The base colours were Skull White and Necron Abyss. If you look in the above picture youll notice the halberd blade is split into a top half and bottom half. On the top left side, the base was Necron Abyss and the right side had a base of skull white (that's why is goes from darker to lighter horizontally). The bottom side of the blade had the colours reversed (lighter to darker).
• I then washed the entire blade with Asurmen Blue.
• Once the wash had dried, I apply a very light dry brush of Skull White, the hairs of the brush caused the blade to look like it had little cracks all over it (this is how I added a lightning/energy look to the weapon).
• Finally a light wash of Asurmen Blue was applied again to cover the little Skull White lightning marks from the previous step.

Remaining items: Daemon hammers, Psycannons, Facial highlighting, Basing, Other detailing.