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So a friend of mine got me to start playing 40k. This is my first attempt at painting.... anything...
Comments and helpful advice are welcome!

Not bad. Looks a bit flat because there isn't any shading. Good for a first attempt though. Try using washes and highlighting, it will improve the look massively.
The first mini is only the tip of the iceberg my friend. Lol. Soon you'll be hooked.

I've seen much worse first minis than that. You colored inside the lines, at least - and that's the foundation of everything else. Like tomcat said, the next step is to learn some shading and highlighting techniques to give the mini more depth. Be warned that black is a hard color to get right, though. Your first attempts at highlighting the black parts probably won't come out so well.

As you continue to paint, you'll also want to find a way to take better photos so that people can see your work clearly. You don't need a fancy setup to do this, just a little preparation. At it's simplest, put the mini (standing up) on a blank sheet of paper and have another sheet handy. Shine a good strong light directly on it from the front. Set your camera to macro or close-up mode, place it on the table right in front of the mini, test the focus, and set it for a timer shot. While the timer is counting down, grab that extra sheet of paper and hold it in place behind the mini. That's far from an optimal photo setup, but it will get you good enough shots for people to accurately comment on your painting.

Keep painting, and have fun!

A good start, nice and clean looking. Start experimenting with shades and highlights and you should be on your way to great looking models.

Well thanks for the advice everyone. The camera is an issue but I'll try to get better shots. I'll try some highlighting tomorrow and I'll post a picture of that. I deffinatly need all the advice I can get lol. I've still got a whole army to paint.

Also! I know its hard to tell, but at the advice of a friend I've also magnetized all the weapons and slots. I'm actually kinda proud of myself on that front lol.

Try thinner coats of the metal and do several coats. it is hard to tell but it looks like the cockpit lining is patchy. Any other angled shots?

UI also echo the sentiment that a wash would help add shadows and depth.

All in all a great starting point Would love to see more!

Black can be a right pain to get looking good. I always start with a dark grey, then wash heavily with black. Gives you a much better look as you get a bit more shading and highlighing than just painting flat black (and it is not very much more effort than just painting black).

I think the brown bits are brass? They really love to have either earthshade or sepia washes on them to give them a lot more depth. Earthshade for older brass, and sepia for newer, more highly machined brass.

Silver parts love to have a light black wash on them just to give them a little bit more depth.

Looking good OP.

Looks better than my first mini, both in color selection and in technique.

You've got the basic skill of putting the paint where you want it to go down pat. Now you just need to do some research on where to put what color paint to get the results you want.

Black is actually a hard color to start with because if you don't do it right, it just looks like a black primed model.
Right now it looks like a Work In Progress (WIP) because of the black armor. You need to do edge highlights on black to make it look painted.
Also unless you're doing silver, whenever you paint metals, first paint the area brown.
Washes won't really help give depth to black armor, but it'll help the copper. Just make sure you dab it on and not brush it on like paint. Remember that you want some of the wash to collect and pool in certain areas and NOT have a flat even coat. So I would try to let it collect around the missiles (?) but not on the flat parts like legs and torso.

These last few posts Ive read one here really made sence. I'm going to post more pictures of my progress when I get the rest of the paints I've ordered.

Again. Thanks for all the advice.