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I'd like to see everyone's best painted model in your own opinion. If you have multiple ones please post them all.
I just want to see how much better you guys are at painting than me. I'm pretty bad.

I'll go first. See as I made this tread.
Black Templars Plasmagunner

Not great, but I'm proud of him. It's the first time I've tried highlighting.

OK, I'm pretty proud of this guy!

He looks very good. The grey is nice and even and he looks like he has seen a few battles, but not in the often seen very overdone way. You have found a good balance between clean and used. And the helmet on the belt is a nice touch. Great mini!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/199600.page
nearly the same

Thanks for your comments. I went for a hard, gritty look.

I can do better than this, but not much. I am a way better sculptor.

snorkle wrote:
Not great, but I'm proud of him. It's the first time I've tried highlighting.

Here's the trick to edge-lining armor. Paint the grey on the edges as you've done and then, very carefully go back over it with black paint and smooth out any 'blobs' you accidentally painted on while edging.

In general, the thinner the edge-lining is the better it looks.


And I am going to lock this thread since there is a nearly identical one out there (check the link posted above in this thread to find it).