Grey Knights - Grand Master Mordrak and his Ghostly Retinue

[JetfireUK]

Hi Folks,

Here is my HQ for my Grey Knights - Grand Master Mordrak and his Ghostly Knight retinue. Please excuse the photos - I can't get Windows Live Photo Gallery to do what it should do.

I'm pretty pleased how these turned out in the end. Mordrak was easy compared to trying to get the monotones right on the Ghostly Knights themselves. The hardest thing was to decide what the colour should the Ghostly Knights be - I chose Hawk Turquise as it's a colour I rarely use and was partly inspired by the Banshee from last month's White Dwarf. The swords were probably the hardest thing to decide upon - the limited colour palette wouldn't have worked to replicate the effect on my standard Grey Knights. I ended up doing a rather washed out green just to hint that these are no longer weapons but a part of the ethereal form of the Ghostly Knights.

I know that some folk will find my interpretation a little like Marmite (either a love or hate thing) but I'm happy that I tried something a little different for me and (more importantly) learned a thing or two. Thanks to those of you who helped give advice and criticism during the painting process.

 

[TrystanGST]

I do like the monotone ghostly grey. I'm not as keen on the monotone green, which looks (to me) like that glow in the dark paint people used as kids. But I definitely applaud the bravery to try something different.

 

[jcichon]

I actually really like it! The blending is smooth and your lines are neat and clean. Really nice work

 

[Hasdrubal]

Looks simple, must be a pain to get to. Very convincing, well done sir! The face of your Modrak is also standing out, nice one.

 

[JetfireUK]

Cheers guys. This has been my first attempt to move away from the 'GW' official colours so it was a bit of challenge to work out how to paint a ghostly terminator! It certainly took longer to paint the ghostly knights compared to Mordrak. Still I learnt a lot from this and I'm keen to learn more about blending so I can use it on 'ordinary' figures in the future.

 

[webmax]

Great idea !!!

 

[supervike]

The ghostly effect does work! Very smooth.

 

[Torn blue sky]

Two things, firstly, I thought that was Vikey. That avatar gets me EVERY time! Secondly, nice job! Blending's nice and soft on the ghostly termies, their blades could be more diversely shaded though. It looks pretty monotone and brings them down a bit =(