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This is a Space Marine Chaplain which I recently painted. It is, most definitely, the best paintjob I have ever done.










This picture is a bit funky, actually. Since he's so shiny, the light reflected off the one side of his chest eagle and made it look as though that was the only side I'd highlighted...



He looks infinitely better in real life.

Once I was done with everything else, I glazed over his armor with several coats of Vallejo clear gloss. It makes it look like his armor is polished. Then I put a Badab Black wash over everything.

C&C?

Looks Good

Only things I can think of are:

1. possibly highlight the crozius with a layer of Burnished gold, and then wash it with devlan mud/ a wash of thinned Dark flesh. It will help the gold to pop a little more, right now (at least in your pics) it looks a bit...bland?

2. Paint the stormbolter shells. (unless you want em to stay black... )

3. You put those cool little lines of text on all of the purity seals, but his loincloth parchment thingy is still blank. Maybe add some there too for consistency?

Besides that, its looking great so far.

Don't say "Ever." You've not yet reached the apex of your skill. Keep improving, its the attitude that makes you get better.

This is good, so congratulations. I wouldn't mind a clearer photo though.

I like the way he looks.
he looks strong and mean.

Mn..I want to see this Best ever and comment on it but our stupid IP Filter blocks image hosting sites....except Dakka's of course! Throw them up on here and have everyone rate your work in the gallery!!

I really like it, definitely captures the dark nature of the chaplain and draws attention to his commendations. You should definitely put some work into his base to give him the finishing touches!

A few of the pictures are a bit fuzzy, but it looks like some real nice work.
how are you planning to base it?

I agree with the others, whats gonna go on the base?

Based him a few weeks ago. He has an urban style base, which I will attempt to photograph soon...

looking very nice indeed

Good work indeed!

you should highlight the edges with greys. just layer a dark gray all along the edges and then layer up to white

It looks better than anything i could do, granted thats not saying much but still it looks great.

Good work there, that is one of my favourite chaplain models