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Just got done a Riptide:

Very nice! The base looks great as does the damage on the suit and the OSL.

Bloody hell...I think I just had a Tau-gasm

nice job man!

Good stuff, the brick wall isnt really my taste and i'd have chosen a different colour for te gun OSL but nicely executed all round

Never understand how people can do such tiny rust/chipped paint details. I see no brush strokes on the DOT of bare metal, how the crap did you do that?

Its an effect that adds way more character to a model and can be added on after you have fully painted your army so it doesnt force you to take eons to field a painted army.

wow that's amazing!

I especially like the battle damage, the lighting on the gun and the scenic base.

Nice work!

Impressive.
I feel it could benefit from a bit more colour breakup.
Some more gun metal on the Ion cannon and a bit more skull white/bleached bone on suit body.
That's one of the better bases I've seen in some time.

Beautiful green and battle damage. Nice work all around.

Nicely done! That battle damage speaks for itself!

Well done! It looks great.

That looks fantastic, that thing is huge! And here's me wondering whether my conversion was going to be too big XD
I really like the terrain and hidden Pathfinder you've added to the base, it really gives it a lot of character.

Thanks to everyone that likes it. as for the breaking up the model more I can see that. At first the head wasn't even white and it didnt look right so I had to change that.

Im thinking of doing a tutorial on hairspray technique. Would anyone like to see that?

Love the green/white combo. The red of the brick wall really balances the whole look.

Oooh, I LIKE the color scheme!

I like the color scheme and the battle damage is very well done. The brick wall on the base sticks out to me, though. I think the idea is cool, but the texture on the wall seems very flat compared to the model. Some more washing and/or highlighting there would help a lot IMO.

Wow!! Really nice.

Best riptide I've seen! Well done!

Very nice!

@tppytel I agree the brick wall is a little blah. It was based then highlighted twice then pigments, oil wash, highlighted again and it just came out like that, I got frustrated. Now sitting back and thinking i should have did more highlights on the bricks and probably made some of the bricks a diffrent color.

Thanks to everyone who like this, I have 9 crisis suits coming along with farsight and 6 broadsides on my list I have to paint.

I love the colour scheme and the base, and the fantastic weathering and shading. I do have a bit of criticism about the OSL though - but bear in mind I'm a crap painter and I've never even tried OSL, so this isn't feedback about your artistic skill or anything, just pointing out something that may not have occurred to you is all. You see, you have a blue glow around a the gun barrels, but the barrels themselves are just black holes in the gun. So where is the glow coming from if there's no light coming from inside the barrels? It's very strange when you really look at it, these black holes surrounded by a blue glow. I think filling the barrels almost up to the muzzle and painting the inside white/lighter blue would have worked better with the OSL, sort of like there's a glowing ball of energy barely contained inside the gun, or something like that.

I do agree with you. when painting osl this comes up a lot if it is a hole where the light is coming from. there isn't much you can do about this inless you do what you said and fill in the gun to a point you can see a little blast coming out. also if I had more light you could see the inside of the gun is alsonpainted blue.

Very cool.

Nice. I really like the green.

The great big, bright red wall at his feet is a little distracting, though... it draws the eye more than the muted green does. I would recommend dirtying it up a little.. It's great for adding character to the model, but shouldn't be the first thing you see.

@insaniak Thanks for the advice ill make sure to dull down the bricks on the rest of the army.

Wow! Love the green color scheme