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My first figure, painted in a custom color scheme, please comment!

Cool. Welcome to the hobby. You might have to try some more blending on the blades.

I'm not real good at blending and such...


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I made 2 of these threads on accident, feth

you should contact a MOD for the double threads, if they havent noticed yet.


Anyways, Nice work, better than my first figurine.

try watering down your paint a little. will make blending alot easier

Nice work, definately better than my first attempts at painting .

I take it that's you first forum thread too...
My first figure was a blue ultramarine with gold trim...
Online painting tutorials help a lot, I direct you to The Painting Corps http://thepaintingcorps.blogspot.com/.

Very nice figure indeed, especially for you first one.

I remember my first figure *sigh*

Prawnkus wrote:I'm not real good at blending and such...

It's your first mini, you still don't know if you are good or not ^^

For example, the red/dark claw. If you thin your paints more, and use more layers of different colours, the result will be smoother. But of course more layers take more time. Most times getting good results doesn't depend on how good you think you are, but in how much time you can spend in painting a mini.

That's a nice start.

Welcome!

Ya, thats pretty damn good for a first try. I mean, really good. Definitely read some painting tutorials, those will help you out ALOT. Hell even reading some advanced ones you will pick up things from them. Good luck

I think the carapace needs a new color to compliment the chitin. Bone usually looks really good with green. You could even give it like a red wash for a very strange and new affect.

Reminds Me of a Pepper...
Hive Fleet Jalapeno!

Thanks! I never thought i'd get such a good reaction to it.

That's pretty good actually!

I like the natural looking colour scheme.

Blending is a good technique to learn but if you do a lot of Gaunts it is a bit of a waste of time IMO, better to save it for the larger creatures.

Looks good to me!

Looks damn good to me. You don't even want to see my first painted model!

Right on, good job! i like it