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Hello everyone! Last week i was given oportunity to paint krieg death rider commissar in terrible condition. There was a lot of fixing, resculpting almost half of his front right leg and whats worse i ve never painted horse before so this was my first attempt and i like how it came in some areas like neck muscles, but im not satisfied with rest of his body. However goal while painting was achieving table top quality as this was painted for friend of mine who asked me if i could paint this guy for him so i left it like it turned out. Let me know what do you think and if you are interested i ve made a short showcase video, link below pictures.



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Pretty damn good!

One of the back legs looks kind of broken in the second pic

Looks great good job good work!

For table top quality this is certainly not bad. However the brown lacks definition and even just something simple as washing these areas with some brown wash will improve the looks of it a lot I think.
Also due to the uniformity of color I find it hard to determine what color the horse actually has and where the armor plates stop and the horse starts.

Johnny-Crass wrote:One of the back legs looks kind of broken in the second pic

Actualy i received model in terrible condition and was trying to fix it as best as im able to, for example i had to resculpt half of one of his legs and do a lot of fixing on him. However i failed to catch everything:-/

Fiddler6291: thanks for a tips but i dont have good experience with washing large areas. And i must confess i ve been lacking another kind of brown while painting in my paint rack(resuplied just yesterday so it ll not happen ever again). Armor on horse head was done with vma gold, washed by gryphon sephia and base color of horse body is light brown, receses washed with devlan mud. You are right they are simillar but i dont want to make models more contrasting on purpose, but im partialy color blind so maybe it looks different under "normal" eyes, maybe its coused by level adjusting in photoshop as i had to relly on auto levels feature as i cant really see tone of colors;-) However you are right, its basic table top quality, but im working hard to improve with next piece!;-)