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So this is one of the first minis i ever bought or painted. I dnt have many hobbyists in my area for criticism. So i was wondering if you kind folks at dakka could offer up any tips or advice.

Look really good for your first model mate :3 keep the good work up!

got base coats down with a wash looks good tbh better than what I ever did when i started painting about 1 year ago.

the photos are abit hard to see try taking photos with good light source, and a white background but from What i can see only thing I can really say you cuold improve on "from this photo"


is the sigial on the arm it looks like it sbeen drowned to much in wash and is almost black try re highlighting that part leaving the blackwwash in the deep recesses try doing that for the weapon and that aswell looking forward to some updates I've only been painting for 1 year and I think i'm doing on check my gallary out. Will monitor this thread for a reply from you :3


your stuffs looking great

Thank you sir, heres hopefully a few better shots andsome of my other models i did during the same time. Tried to have better lighting. Looking forward to your input.

they look really good man have you tried giving them some edge highlighting.. to make the minis pop abit more :3

Thats something ive tried before and could never get it to look right. Almost unnatural imo. I dunno... do you have any tips.

Sure do! best way I've been tought to do something like that is think of the colour you wanna work up to but pick a colour palet for example.

I want clean white skulls!

I'd get a creamy brown, rakarth flesh, Next white up, then white scar. For example tip the paint pots upside down and line them up and see if it looks like a natural progression in colour. if it does give it a crack!


this is just what I do. Another 5 people on this forum may tell you different witch is fine. Best advice is trial and error. Please feel free to send me a PM. If you have any more issues. As I try and help as many people as I can with the knowledge I have. And It's hard to keep track of 10 threads


best of luck mate.