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I did some marbling on the wings and temple area. I think it turned out interesting. Thoughts and suggestions?

I like it! Very original. Nice job.

The marbling effect is really great, it just "fits" with Dark Angels IMO. Not sure I would have done the glass like that myself but otherwise I really like it!

interesting effect. how'd you do it?

Looks like I'm looking into a green swimming pool. Pretty neat

 racta wrote:
Looks like I'm looking into a green swimming pool.

I thought the same thing - the pattern looks a lot like light reflected off of rippling water - which also means that it doesn't look particularly like marble. To really drive home the point, I think you need three things: First, a more consistent direction to the veins. Veins wander, mind you, sometimes in flowing curves and sometimes in jagged lines, but always in vaguely the same direction. Second, adding an accent color. It's far from uncommon to see more than one color in a piece of marble's veins and, more importantly, a color outside of the green spectrum would reinforce the fact that this isn't some odd texture or energy effect. Lastly, I'd suggest more prominent mottling of the main color. The soft and relatively subtle transitions almost seem like a trick of light, not a physical property of the material. Sponging on two or three shades of green with decent contrast would likely help identify it as a stone with various inclusions. If you want a tutorial, Romaine over on Beasts of War did a series of videos on a gargoyle that delved relatively deeply into painting a green marble. I'd recommend checking it out.

More generally, I think the DA bling on the fuselage is a tad over the top, but I love the angel on the tail. To each their own.

I honestly like the green water effect more than the marble on others. Seems ridiculous to put marble or stone on wings.

Im honestly more interested in the lava terrain lol. but very well done awesome marble effect though i agree with above about the practicality (lol in 40k?).

I like it, it looks really good, and it's different- bonus!

How'd you get your base to look like that? What did you do? Liking the base as well .

Love it, looks great. Keep up the good work man

I'm not a fan of the glass, but the marbling is really lovely. Green marble isn't something you see very often either, which makes it really stand out.

Nice wings baby!!!

The base and wing are very nice, great job.

The concept is great and original. I'm going to have to learn how to 'marble' up my models.....