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Hello everyone. These are my first painted 40k miniatures. I'm open to all critics and suggestions. I want to improve as an artist. I bought the raiders of commoragh and attempted to paint my warriors in the kabal of the flayed skull. I have a terrible time achieving the smooth straight highlights in the book but I keep trying. I look foreward to your advice.

It might be just the image but the paint coats look rather grainy. if it is, thinning your paint with a little water and doing multiple thinned coats should help smooth the roughness out.

They do look pretty good considering its your first attempt and they are definitely table top worthy.
Nice work on the edging. every time i try to edge my hands decide they have Parkinson disease.

Very nice work!

Roguetrader1 wrote:
It might be just the image but the paint coats look rather grainy. if it is, thinning your paint with a little water and doing multiple thinned coats should help smooth the roughness out. .

I also have the same impression. It could also come from the primer.

Also, warriors from the kabal of the flayed skull usually have bone-colord accents on their armors. Usually a bone kneepad, sometimes a shoulderpad. And a bone helmet for sybarites and trueborns.

first off, they are really quite nice considering they're your first painted minis

getting the kind of nice smooth, fine, edge highlighting you see on the box examples or whatever, really takes a lot of practice to get the hang of...that said, from the look of your edge highlights, I suspect you are either not thinning your paint, or just not thinning it enough...mix some water and/or lahmian medium in with your paint, so that your paint has a consistency more like cooking oil (runny, but not too "watery")...and only get enough on your brush to make it just damp, not wet....that should make it much easier for you to keep control, and get nice smooth, subtle highlights, building up multiple layers to make the colour stronger, rather than one thick, hard line...but in any case, just keep practising and working at it...you're definitely off to a good start