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Hey all I just recently have gotten back into 40k after a 7 year hiatis. Let me know how I can improve these as they are prety bad paint jobs.

Thinning your paint and washing with thrakka green or badab black would work wonders my friend Devlin mud for the brown though.

Jackyl63 wrote:Hey all I just recently have gotten back into 40k after a 7 year hiatis. Let me know how I can improve these as they are prety bad paint jobs.

Honestly, they're reasonably average paint-jobs at worst.

The biggest problem with them would appear to be the thick paint. Thinning your paint down with a little water as corpsesarefun mentioned would help considerably. Several thin layers give a much better result than one or two thick ones.

As a suggestion for the flames, to help blend them a little more... Try painting the entire flame with yellow, and then adding in the red with successive layers of thinned red ink (wash). It takes a little practice to get right, but once you get the knack of it is really quick and painless.

Hey thanks for the helpful comments. As I have been pinting I dip my brush in clean water and then lightly touch it to a paper towel, I then get my paint and apply the layer. It usually takes 3 layers, is that too much or is their a more affective way to water down the paint.

Best way is to paint with a pallet, rather than straight from the pot.

Dip some of the paint out onto the pallet (a ceramic tile, or an old plate works fine... or look up 'wet pallets' if you want to get really fancy) using the end of an old paintbrush. The add drops of water until it's a nice, smooth, runny consistency.

Adding a drop of dishwashing liquid is also a big help. Breaks the surface tension of the paint and allows it to spread better.