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Even though i've been paint for a year and a bit now this is my first Ultramarine..!!

The marine looks very very nice!

Thats a first go?
WOW

(I would have thought, even though painting experience would help vastly painting anything, it would take a bit longer to perfect a new model/scheme so quickly...)

Wow that is amazing for your first go.

One word. Wow.

nice!!!
+1

that look very nice, well done

Nicely done! Paint is nice and crisp and clean.

How did you achieve that blue?
And seriously is that your first minni, because it is awesome?

Hi no its not my first mini it's the first ultramarine ive ever painted. I've been painting for just over a yr.!

Very nice!. Technical feedback: Do more stages in the blends, and try a little glaze medium in there - it'll help avoid the chalky / streaky look, as will having a touch less paint on your brush.
With the GS cape - you could have smoothed out the blemishes using a water-soluble putty (milliput is ace for this, and Vallejo do a dropper bottle with premixed surfacing putty in it) and a wet brush to smooth it on like clay... But again, not a bad job at all. And drill the pistol!

COOOL

Well done, painting blending and wash all look ace!
I have to say that the feet are bugging me though. Look at how they're facing in completely opposite directions, would anybody ever stand like that? I can see from the wip pic that you did a little cutting and chopping for a dynamic pose, next time just cut a little more and go for a more realistic stance.

Heresy!

Neither bald nor screaming!

Honestly, though, fantastic job, especially for a first go. Though a little bit of criticism on the cape... it looks, odd, near the backpack, a bit triangular if you will. It's not bad, it's just, weird. However, the paintjob is ace, and the cape doesn't detract any quality from the model whatsoever.

winterdyne wrote:Very nice!. Technical feedback: Do more stages in the blends, and try a little glaze medium in there - it'll help avoid the chalky / streaky look, as will having a touch less paint on your brush.
With the GS cape - you could have smoothed out the blemishes using a water-soluble putty (milliput is ace for this, and Vallejo do a dropper bottle with premixed surfacing putty in it) and a wet brush to smooth it on like clay... But again, not a bad job at all. And drill the pistol!

I did it like that as all the still photos frm the new ultramarines movie seemed to look that way thanks for your feed bck though


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Lint wrote:Well done, painting blending and wash all look ace!
I have to say that the feet are bugging me though. Look at how they're facing in completely opposite directions, would anybody ever stand like that? I can see from the wip pic that you did a little cutting and chopping for a dynamic pose, next time just cut a little more and go for a more realistic stance.

Yes but only the 1 leg is chopped the other leg is pointing only slighty to the right but i do get what ya trying to say thanks man for your comment

Great work!

tipios wrote:Great work!

Cheers man .! that chaos dread of yours is the coolist ive ever seen awesome wrk

I'd say this is definitely evidence of how an awesome camera really helps show off a paint job.

Henners91 wrote:I'd say this is definitely evidence of how an awesome camera really helps show off a paint job.

Believe it or not mate is was taken with the camera on my mobile phone. cheers for your comment.

I logged in just to say : dayam! good job man!

Your painting is really good, but your converting could use a little work. The green stuff cape is a little rough, and that Space Marine looks like he's trying to give his best cowboy impersonation with how his legs are spread.

Really nice. I've been painting for about a year too, but my models never come out that good. well done!

bullyboy76 wrote:

tipios wrote:Great work!

Cheers man .! that chaos dread of yours is the coolist ive ever seen awesome wrk

Thanks alot. I hope I can paint them to your standard soon practice practice

Brother SRM wrote:Your painting is really good, but your converting could use a little work. The green stuff cape is a little rough, and that Space Marine looks like he's trying to give his best cowboy impersonation with how his legs are spread.

I'm not on about my converting work. You'e only gotta go have a look at my other stuff to see i know how to convert i'm showing the paint job.. and as for the cape go take a close look at proper leather you will see its not smooth there are dips,bumps,bubbles in it at th end of the day its skn..

I like it, stomp those chaos termies lol.

I thought it looked i little like he wa about to kick the head of his base, because a spacemarine's base should be a chaos free zone, or did you mean to do something else entirely?

A red leather cape is certainly a novel idea, especially with a logo on it (a white base perhaps with the U marked off and then dyed would be how I'd do it). However, I suspect that they wouldn't give an Ultramarine a cape that had been dinged and scratched before he wore it into battle. Then again, maybe they touched up the cape with dye in between battles as part of their cleaning regime, like on shoes. I would suggest finding something with the leather texture in minature in order to press on the greenstuff in order to make it more obvious that it's not supposed to be cloth.

This is a relatively rough leather texture, using the back of your hand might work if it's not hairy, due to the tiny crisscrossing lines that make up human skin. However, that will mess up what's raised and what's not, obviously, so you might have to drybrush with a darker colour to get it to show up.



Back on-topic, I like the blue very much, I'm a big fan of the more subtle colour approach. The white logos on the cloak and the shoulder pad look like they could do with another coat and a bit more tidying up, you can see a colour difference between the middle of the U and it's borders.

As a side note, if you didn't want C&C on your work, this probably should have been in Showcase.