Operation: Justicar Update 2

I've decided to go with a bit of a darker tone with my GK colors. The burnt umber oil wash left a worn look to the white paint that I think turned out well.

I've got to finish up the highlighting and touching up the details. They're coming along!

Operation: Justicar Update

Most of the basecoats went on last night. There wasn't enough paint on the models to justify a new pic though. I used a bone color from P3 in addition to an oil wash for the purity seal paper and the white on the shoulder pads. I'm also using VGC for most of the other base colors. I'm seeing how that looks after it dries overnight. I'll post an update pic tonight after I get all of the basecoats/initial washing done.

Operation:Juticar -- Build Pic

Here is the build for the first four Justicars in my Grey Knights army. The funnest conversion to do was by far the emperor's champion.

Operation: Justicar

So given the insane amount of cool bits that come in the new Grey Knights kits http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/landingArmy.jsp?catId=cat1140001&rootCatGameStyle= I've decided to make some pretty tricked out justicars for my army. Right now, I have made four. One for the interceptor squad and three other random guys (two with force swords, one with a daemon hammer). I've used an emporer's champion from the Black Templar line as the base model for the conversion for the strike squad justicar. I like the champ model, and the irony is great about Black Templar's not being the biggest fan of psychers.  I'll post pics tonight when I get home from work.

Must....Clean...Hobby...Desk

Today came the inevitable cleaning of the hobby desk after two straight months of projects... I'll try to get up some pics from the tourney from yesterday early this week.

Avatars of War Daemon Champion

Combined with the team tournament this weekend was a painting/conversion contest. I entered the avatars of war Daemon Champion.

First Foray into Grey Knights

I went to my FLGS yesterday and got a couple good games in. I didn't with either, but I learned something in each. How I'm running my GK currently is very effective against assault oriented armies, but struggles against long distance shooting armies. Here's what I ran:

HQ
Xenos Inquisitor, Conversion Beamer, servo skulls x3 -79
Crusader x4 servitor w/ hvy bolter x3 - 90
Xenos Inquisitor, Conversion Beamer, servo skulls x3-79
Crusader x4 servitor w/ hvy bolter x3 - 90

Elite
Purifier Squad x10 4x Incinerator 4x halberd, 1x Daemon hammer,
psybolt ammo, rhino (Psybolt ammo)-315
Vindicare Assassin- 130

Troops
Grey Knight Strike Squad 2x Psycannon 1x Daemon Hammer, Rhino (psybolt
ammo)- 275
Grey Knight Strike Squad 2x Psycannon 1x Daemon Hammer, Rhino(Psybolt ammo)- 275
Grey Knight Strike Squad 2x Psycannon , Rhino- 260



Heavy Support
Dreadnought 2x Twinlinked Autocannons, Psybolt Ammo- 135
Dreadnought 2x Twinlinked Autocannons, Psybolt Ammo- 135
Dreadnought 2x Twinlinked Autocannons, Psybolt Ammo- 135

1999

The S8 dakka dreads or "Psynoughts" as they are starting to be called are awesome. They can take down light tanks and tough troops with ease. This in conjunction with the conversion beamers on the inquisitors provide my long range shooting. Once the enemy gets within 24" the S7 Heavy 4 Rending psycannons come into play (and man do they like to play).

Like I said, this proved quite effective vs shorter range armies, however I struggled against a Tau player that had more long range shooting than I did. I'm thinking of putting in a couple of interceptor squads to hide behind the line of rhinos and then "shunt" 30 inches back to apply pressure (special thanks to The Brotha http://www.canabrothagetasix.com/ for the advice). I'll try these guys in the coming weeks with maybe the purifier squad split into two w/razorbacks...