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How to paint Grey Knights

Every Grey Knights unit, and the colour schemes and paint lists other painters have published for them.

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Grey Knights colour palette

The paints a Grey Knights force is built from, by area and by role — base, shade, layer and highlight. A starting point for every unit below.

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Grey Knights signature colours

Beginner · 3 areas

Pale steel power armour polished bright, trimmed in daemon-slaying gold against the warp's corruption.

Power armour

Grey Knights Steel Citadel Base
Nuln Oil Citadel Shade
Ironbreaker Citadel Highlight

Trim

Auric Armour Gold Citadel Base
Agrax Earthshade Citadel Shade

Base

Astrogranite Citadel Base
Dawnstone Citadel Highlight

Units

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