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Been working on this for about a week thus far, see more at the blog below:

http://warhammer40korks.blogspot.com/

The whole model is sharp and neat looking.

But white seems sort of chalky so it stands out.

I agree with luna on the white but overall it looks very nice.

The white "chalky" look is a result of using some watered down codex grey around the should pads. It looks better in person under natural light. I may clean that up, the only issue then is there is a very bright light grey outline. Ill give it a try...

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http://warhammer40korks.blogspot.com/2009/08/tactica-raven-guard.html

Your skin is too dark. Raven Guard are known to be very pale and having black hair like Corax. Not that big of a deal, but something to bare in mind. A lot of elf flesh highlights are your friend.

Not to mention black eyes too.

But all of these 'mutations' surface later in the Marine's life.

So, maybe these Ravenguard aren't 'old' enough yet?

Anyway, nice looking models from one of my favorite chapters.

And, I think the white looks rather nice. Not too thick, as often happens when people paint white.

Overall - excellent!

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a different "take" on doing a "BA-like assaulty list" is to use 'counts-as' and build a BA-list painted as RG.

something I'm toying with for 1500:
Dante
Corbulo
Honor Guard (5) w/ jump packs, melta x2, melta bombs x2,
HQ 480

Death Company x7 w/ jump packs
Veteran Assault Squad x5 w/ melta x2 and melta bombs x1
Veteran Assault Squad x5 w/ melta x2 and melta bombs x1
Elite 385

Assault Squad +(5) w/ power fist
Assault Squad +(5) w/ power fist
Assault Squad +(5) w/ power fist
Assault Squad +(5) w/o jump packs in rhino
troop 635

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Yeh, the thing im going through the most challenge with is painting the raven guard symbol. Not the easiest one to paint WELL... Ive posted some new photos on the blog too.

As for the symbol, I was able to craft a good looking symbol out of green stuff, however without a mold It just taks too much time to make them uniform. I was thinking of getting decals made, anyone ever try that? I know its difficult for RG given the symbol is white...

Your Thoughts?


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As for the white skin, I did dry brush some more bleached bone over it to brighten up the tone. And for the white helmet/PF, ive made my mistakes in the past when painting with white... I actually did about 5-6 very very thin layers of white drybrush to achieve a thin coat. sometimes white is caked on and it looks like a marshmallow fists. I found white and yellow are colors you have to be careful with.

just incase anyone was interested, i actually stripped all these models down with simple green, worked like a charm (especially on GW paints).

ultra vulkan wrote:As for the symbol, I was able to craft a good looking symbol out of green stuff, however without a mold It just taks too much time to make them uniform. I was thinking of getting decals made, anyone ever try that? I know its difficult for RG given the symbol is white...

Your Thoughts?

BOLS has a Raven Gaurd decal sheet design here.

the_Armyman wrote:

ultra vulkan wrote:As for the symbol, I was able to craft a good looking symbol out of green stuff, however without a mold It just taks too much time to make them uniform. I was thinking of getting decals made, anyone ever try that? I know its difficult for RG given the symbol is white...

Your Thoughts?

BOLS has a Raven Gaurd decal sheet design here.

I AM SAVED...My Raven Guard army....so much pain painting bad free hands..... My hero!

I had some success free painting the chapter symbol. I was surprised, just took some practice... see pics in blog...

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