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As im waiting for my Cadian Battleforce to come, damn it being out of stock at Waylandgames, the paints i ordered to paint them came, and seeing a random unpainted space marine, inspiration struck.

Now, im not the best painter in the world... but i assume this is somewhat near tabletop standard.

Discuss

I see broken links......

by that i mean broken pics....

Oh fudge... give me a minute

Fix'd

He looks like he got into a fight with twin bottles of Mustard and Ketchup

Good clean paintjob though. Very weathered looking.

Nice job

Death Gear wrote:Nice job

Why not tell him why you think so? Looking through your post count, "Nice Job" seems to be about 7/10 of what you put on the first page alone...

Tell people why you think it's a 'Nice job' and actually make the post count for something.

as you can probably tell, my one problem is those damn eye lenses, i tried to do a spec of white to make it look like a reflection but it went uneven

Use a 0.05 mm dried pen. And Camo marines! Hell yeah!

It doesn't look too far off in terms of alignment. When you think about it, if the light is hitting the face from the front but off to one side, that one side is going to have a reflection closer to the front while the slightly obscured lens will have it's reflection slightly further back. The image on the obscured side will also be somewhat smaller because it's further away from the angle of the light.

So the lenses came out quite well to be honest

@ Peanut - aaahhhh... nice tip.


im gonna spray over my space wolf tactical squad and paint 10 of these guys i think. Though i don't went them all to look the same so i might put the green in different places and give them different markings and whatnot. I like the idea that they're a ragtag bunch of forgotten space marines, and i don't care how much fluff i break in the process

He's not tabletop quality until he's based!!!! I'LL KILL YOU!!

You and what army!

(I say blatantly ignoring the fact we're on a warhammer forum and you probably have hundreds of little plastic men who want to shoot me up)

love the shin armour, looks awesome

that bit was suprisingly easy, did a basecoat of khemri brown, drybrush of commando khaki, then took my fine detail brush, put a tiny bit of blood red on and did quick flicks

metallifan wrote:

Death Gear wrote:Nice job

Why not tell him why you think so? Looking through your post count, "Nice Job" seems to be about 7/10 of what you put on the first page alone...

Tell people why you think it's a 'Nice job' and actually make the post count for something.

Didn't you know it's all about the post count?! RAWR! POST COUNT!!!!! Silly metallifan...

Pretty good for tabletop standard. Generally not fond of camo schemes, since it is very hard to do a realistic representation at this scale. Not sure I get what's going on with the shins, though. The brown/red streaks are meant to be blood or rust, maybe?

the_Armyman wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Death Gear wrote:Nice job

Why not tell him why you think so? Looking through your post count, "Nice Job" seems to be about 7/10 of what you put on the first page alone...

Tell people why you think it's a 'Nice job' and actually make the post count for something.

Didn't you know it's all about the post count?! RAWR! POST COUNT!!!!! Silly metallifan...

Pretty good for tabletop standard. Generally not fond of camo schemes, since it is very hard to do a realistic representation at this scale. Not sure I get what's going on with the shins, though. The brown/red streaks are meant to be blood or rust, maybe?

oh no, thats just to look cool

A thought for the eyes you could perhaps add a darker red wash. Then with a lil black added to that wash do a thin was around the edge. perhaps water it down a bit. It's an easy alternative to highlighing the eyes.

Just finished my Sergeant with power-fist, ill post some pics in a minute




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As promised here are the pics:







I think he turned out OK, but not as good as the other marine, im not very good with doing faces.

I wanted to give him a more battle-worn look so i did a light dry brush of bolt-gun metal to make it look like the paint had eroded away a little bit. And as i can't do faces so good i added a few little green camo strikes and some cuts and nicks.

Also, i added the red to make him stand out a little bit from the rest of the marines, this is in charge


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no comments?

Don't worry i'm here to help sorry kinda live in a different time zone so replies are delayed

What you should do first to him is apply a weak wash so that it sinks into the recesses without affecting the rest of the model. (i make my own washes. A bit of black, water n a little bit of varnish so that the wash settles better )

i'd redo the red on the gun and other parts you've painting red, or perhaps use the colour wheel to choose a colour that is more matched with the dark green.

*looks up what colours he'd use*

I'd would use either a purple, lighter green or a few different shades of brown.

After neatning everything up you can then work on the battle damage.

so chips in the armour get a old frayed brush to dab black areas on the armour, then fill in the middle of the dabs a little with the black. Then dab in the same manner, boltgun metal, then highlight that with chainmail.

Use the same process with scratches and chips using a thin detail brush.

If you want a little rust. just water down some Fiery Orange and apply it to the edges.

As for the face. Drybrushing is the easiest way to go.

Now the basecoat affects the overall look and feel of the flesh. I usually use red, but sometimes brown.

Start with a red, then slowly bring up the highlights on it by adding a little bit of Bleached Bone each time to the flesh mix.

Pick a colour for the hair and start with a base colour, then just a lil Bleached bone to that n highlight. Done all but the eyes.

Eyes aren't my strong suit because i haven't had to do human eyes as much through out the past 7 years. You can read turtorials on eyes in the dakka dakka articles section

Hope this helps

I still have some bits to do, weathering and highlights, but overall i don't think it looks bad, im happy with the skin colour, its just doing eyes, my hands aren't steady enough. And the red is supposed to stick out, to show that he's in charge, i feel it gives him a bit of authority

Yeah i'd just do the red a little cleaner first of and not just dry brush a heap of boltgun metal over the top that's all

To steady your hands put your wrists together then paint this should stop any shaking

It was supposed to look like the red had worn away after years of 'breaking faces' i applied it a little thick however