Dreadnought WIP

So I have been busy with school and staining trim for the house so I haven't gotten nearly as much done as I would have liked to this week.

However I was able to get some work on one of my heavy support dreadnoughts this week.

At this point I have a majority of the armor complete, I am still thinking I need to bring some red into the core of the model, but I haven't decided. After that I will be focusing on painting the parchment and other details.

I am still trying to determine why the pictures are yellower than I would like. Near as I can figure it has to do with the white balance and I think the light box I am using has too strong on light bulbs.

Coteaz

So I have been thinking that I want to do more of inquisitorial force than a pure grey knights force. As a result I was going to need Coteaz. Now I am not a huge fan of the model, not to mention it is CrapCast so I decided to convert one.

As I looked around for color schemes that I liked I happened on this post on From the Warp and these posts from Dice and Brush

Combining the two of them I was able to settle on my scheme for the Knights of the Covenant.

Here is my counts as Coteaz

I have not finished his base at the moment. I am planning on doing a rusted deck for the base.

The list I am planning for the first 500pts of my gaming group's league next week is:

Coteaz

2x 3 man Warrior Acolytes with LP/CCW Razorback with TL Heavy Bolter PsyAmmo

2x Dreadnought with 2 TLAC with PsyAmmo

I'll keep you posted as I go.

My Dilemma

With my gaming group starting an escalation league I am faced with a hard choice. See I have 2500ish points of various marines painted but I have never been pleased with the way they came out.

So on one hand:

1. I don't like the color scheme
2. I don't like the fact that the scheme isn't consistent across all of my marines
3. I d on't like how dark the models are
4. I d on't like that the Soul Drinker fluff prevents certain more imperial icons.
5. The custom shoulder pads never seems the same size as normal shoulder pads
6. The custom rhino doors and front plates have numerous casting imperfections

And on the other hand:

1. They are painted and based
2. It would be a large effort to strip and repaint them

So I have decided to strip down all of my existing marines, in stages, and repaint them.