Grey Knights

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    02 Mar 2026
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Personal Grey Knights Scheme

Base Coat

  1. Black prime
  2. Sir Coates Silver airbrush layer
  3. Dark Blue Tone airbrush from below for shadows
  4. Mithril Zenithal airbrush highlights
  5. Retributor Armour for aegis text and some armor trim pieces
  6. Trooper White for blank shoulder pad, narthecium; helmets of purifiers
  7. Evil Sunz Scarlet and Shieldwall Blue for any tech panels on wrist computers or other tech things
  8. Khorne Red for book covers, heavy weapon casings, melee weapon handles, and some tubings
  9. Triumphant Navy for any tubing not made Khorne Red , as well as eye lenses
  10. Death Reaper for storm bolter casings, grenades, and reliquary box doors
  11. Skeleton Legion for pages of books, tabards, and bones
  12. Gal Vorbak Red for purity seal wax
  13. Pale Sand for purity seal cloth
  14. Mournfang Brown for leather pouches
  15. Brass Scorpion for weapon trim and book details
  16. Black Templar for exposed under suit

Highlight

  1. Wazdakka Red on non-heraldry Khorne Red
  2. Bold Titanium White highlights for white helmets, narthecium
  3. Pale Sand for tabards, book pages, bones
  4. Gorthor Brown on leather pouches
  5. Retributor Armour for Brass Scorpion weapon and book details, light highlight
  6. Mithril on Retributor Armour text and trim, light highlight
  7. Sir Coates Silver edge highlights on Death Reaper weapon casings
  8. Crystal Blue eye lens highlights
  9. Bold Titanium White dots for eye lenses, within Crystal Blue
  10. Matt Black lines to imitate text on books, banners

Wash and Shade

  1. Agrax Earthshade all over excluding heraldry
  2. Apothecary White recess shade on white shoulder pads, helmets, narthecium

Interceptor gem on powerpack

  1. Death Reaper base coat
  2. Genestealer Purple in 1:1 ratio with Death Reaper for bottom half of gemstone, leaving edges of Death Reaper still showing
  3. Genestealer Purple highlight within the region painted previously, as well as a small dot in the upper half of the gem
  4. Bold Titanium White dot highlight on both purple regions
  5. Magos Purple shade over whole gem

Posts on Interceptor Power Packs

  1. Retributor Armour for rings on posts
  2. Genestealer Purple along posts and in-between rings
  3. Druchii Violet covering all of the posts, including rings

Power Swords/Blades

  1. Crystal Blue base
  2. Build up a gradient in opposite directions from middle of blade to extremes of blade by glazing in the following order:
  3. Regal Blue 1:1 Crystal Blue
  4. Regal Blue further from center
  5. Triumphant Navy 1:1 Regal Blue even further from center
  6. Triumphant Navy even further from center
  7. Matt Black in very small amounts at very ends of gradients
  8. Now do the same but building to brighter colors, in the opposite directions of the dark gradients:
  9. Crystal Blue 1:1 Shieldwall Blue from center to extremes
  10. Shieldwall Blue further from center
  11. Shieldwall Blue 1:1 Trooper White even further from center
  12. Trooper White dot at very ends of gradients
  13. Bold Titanium White edge highlights along blade edges and fullers, small slashes from fuller to edge as desired
Citadel Painting System 14
Base 4
  • Gal Vorbak Red
  • Khorne Red
  • Mournfang Brown
  • Retributor Armour
Shade 2
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Druchii Violet
Layer 5
  • Brass Scorpion
  • Evil Sunz Scarlet
  • Genestealer Purple
  • Gorthor Brown
  • Wazdakka Red
Contrast 3
  • Apothecary White
  • Black Templar
  • Magos Purple
Monument Hobbies Pro Acryl
Base 1
  • 001 Bold Titanium White
The Army Painter Warpaints Fanatic 8
Acrylic 6
  • Crystal Blue
  • Matt Black
  • Pale Sand
  • Regal Blue
  • Shieldwall Blue
  • Triumphant Navy
Metallic 1
  • Mithril
Wash 1
  • Dark Blue Tone
Two Thin Coats 4
Shade 1
  • Sir Coates Silver
Midtone 2
  • Death Reaper
  • Skeleton Legion
Highlight 1
  • Trooper White
Vallejo Surface Primer
Base 1
  • 70.602 Black
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