New to painting here's some pics of my ultramarines and space wolfs

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**hammerdave**

Let me know what you guys think

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Bjorn

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More Bjorn

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More..

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Land raider

**nwns**

If that's new to painting it's very very good

**hammerdave**

Leds inside

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nwns wrote:
If that's new to painting it's very very good

Maybe 4 or 5 months ago I started to play

**hammerdave**

Custom cast one off jet bike it's BS space marines don't get jet bike's

**hammerdave**

Venerable dreadnought one of the first things I painted

**hammerdave**

Backside

**Sneshy**

Stick with ultra marines or go chaos with Space wolves rules... Looks nice though very contraptiony and oiled

**evildrcheese**

Painted to a good standard.

I'm not sure about the skeleton hanging on the Jetbike though...or the dainty way the dread is holding the Eldar's head.

Otherwise, very cool.

D

**hammerdave**

Thanks guys I've been trying newer painting style with high lights and stuff just haven't had any luck

**The Division Of Joy**

Very good for someone just starting out dude!

I would say to try and cut back on the weathering, less is more always. And think about thining your paints to get a smoother finish. But it's very good.

**hammerdave**

I just have started to thin the paints and I've been try to do a high lighted look but have not had much luck I found a web page with some hints but can't duplicate it
http://thebrushbrothers.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html?m=1

**hammerdave**

Does anyone have any tips on highlights I can't seem to get an even look turns out more like stripes?

**hammerdave**

I have have been thinking of starting and orks army, are the hard to paint? Also who has some good tips/color scheme ideas?

**hammerdave**

More space marines

**hammerdave**

Techmarine

**the_scotsman**

hammerdave wrote:
Does anyone have any tips on highlights I can't seem to get an even look turns out more like stripes?

Here's a fun thing to try if you're looking for an even gradient (colors that slide into one another)

Pick out your highlight color and base color. Do your main base coat with "highlight" area and "base" area-say, if you were doing a terminator, the top part of his power fist would be highlight, the bottom would be base. That would give you that "striped " look-but we're not done yet.

Now, water down both colors pretty heavily. In the area between the highlight zone and base zone, out two stripes of watery paint side by side, quickly clean your brush and before they dry, using little up-down strokes mix the paint in the middle. This is called Wet Blending, and it's relatively quick and is great for Space Marines, who have all those annoying big wide areas like their arms, legs, helmets and kneecaps that are hard to edge-line like you've been doing.

**hammerdave**

the_scotsman wrote:
hammerdave wrote:
Does anyone have any tips on highlights I can't seem to get an even look turns out more like stripes?

Here's a fun thing to try if you're looking for an even gradient (colors that slide into one another)

Pick out your highlight color and base color. Do your main base coat with "highlight" area and "base" area-say, if you were doing a terminator, the top part of his power fist would be highlight, the bottom would be base. That would give you that "striped " look-but we're not done yet.

Now, water down both colors pretty heavily. In the area between the highlight zone and base zone, out two stripes of watery paint side by side, quickly clean your brush and before they dry, using little up-down strokes mix the paint in the middle. This is called Wet Blending, and it's relatively quick and is great for Space Marines, who have all those annoying big wide areas like their arms, legs, helmets and kneecaps that are hard to edge-line like you've been doing.

Thanks for the help I'll have to try that tonight

**hammerdave**

Just finished up Calgar