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Hi!

It's taken me long enough but I finally finished my first fully painted and based squad.
Most of the models are sourced from the AOBR kit, I plan on replacing 3 of them with marines that have assault legs.
The Sergeant is sourced from the AOBR kit, I cut off his pointing hand and replaced it with a power sword which is actually a chainsword hand/grip with a power sword blade glued to it.

I learnt a lot in the course of painting this squad, I tried wet blending for the first time on the sergeants power sword, painted my first plasma weapons,
I tried painting skin for the first time and nutted out what I think is a solid painting process for pumping out the other 5000+ points.

In the pictures you will notice that a couple of the Space marines have a scratching effect applied to the shoulder pads where as the others don't.
I had great success with this technique when painting white BT shoulder pads & I thought it would really add some character to a Flesh Tearers SM considering the nature of the chapter but i'm not so sure about how it looks on a Black surface.
Does anyone think I should apply this scratch affect to all the models in my army, or should I give it a miss?
Asides from the pads I'm super happy with how the technique on the feet/legs turned out.

Any advice that could be given to improve my results would be much appreciated.