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Righty so i'm still fairly new to painting and I don't often get around to painting but I was happy enough with my captain to take some pictures and share.





Thanks for viewing

he isn't that bad! I like his pose ;D MELTA SHOT IN THA FACE BAM! AND NOW FEEL MY HAMMAH!

Be proud of him, he's good!

I like the highlighting across the power armour he comes across as really striking. The only thing I'd change is to make the combi melta pop a little more, right now it just comes across as shade of grey to me (just a personal taste though) The gold on the backpack also came out really good.

You make me feel bad.

The hammer pose is really striking, adds a feeling of charge.

Nice pose! Just gonna echo Mel here, but yeah, just reinforce some strong colors on the combi. Also, not to be a party-pooper, but the base cooooulllld use a little more work. W/e it's the model that counts and you've done a great job on that.

its a nice pose but it doesnt really have a focus point... reason for this is because you have a black face, a black cloak, a black and dark metal weapon and a dark colored powerhammer...

i'd personally add more highlights to the face to give him more character, and i would give the cape a different color to brake up all the dark colors... and maybe an extreme white edge highlight on the hammer to make that pop?

its really not bad but it lacks visual interest... nothing that is a major hard job to fix though

Actually the cloak is purple, the camera doesn't show it very well though. And any suggestions on how to make the base better?

how did you glue him to the base? plastic glue or superglue?
if its superglue (or anything els then plastic glue, get a knife inbetween his feet and the base and pry him off...
then get a cork mat and tear it to the size of your base. glue it to the base, paint it black, drybrush it with whatever colors you want and add some grass tufts... ill add some video's to clarify

how to make a base:



how to paint a base:



alternative way to make a base:



grass tufts:

If this is one of your first paint jobs, feel proud; its looking pretty good! Where'd you get the hammer; the Iron Hands set?

thechosen1 wrote:
If this is one of your first paint jobs, feel proud; its looking pretty good! Where'd you get the hammer; the Iron Hands set?

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440339a&prodId=prod1710026a

Nice work. Good pose and nice paintjob