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Hello everyone I am new to both 40K and painting miniatures. This is my first attempt at painting. I am just looking for any tips or ideas of how to make them look a little more polished. I have also read the term tabletop quality.I assume this term just means good enough to play. If so do these meet that standard. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

In my opinion these look good! Better than my first attempts Good job!

Brilliant work for your fist models

And definitely decent tabletop standard, especially the freehand.
The only things I can critique are the harsh highlights (a personal thing, they're good, and by all means don't change it, I just prefer models with a more natural look) and the mold lines.

these are very nice for your first go, well done. everyone will mention the mold lines, i think, other than that you have some very clean work here.

These are really good for it being your first time! Keep up the good work. Yeah like everyone said. The mold lines but other than that. They look awesome

Table top standard is a purely subjective term. However, most people agree on a three colour minimum excluding primer.
These minis more than meet the criteria, in fact for a first attempt they're pretty good.
However I do have some constructive criticism. As already mentioned, the mold lines detract from the overall quality of thework. These can be easily removed by scraping them away with a sharp blade. Other than that, the paint looks a little thick, thinning them down with water or another water based medium will give you a much smoother result.
That said they are much better than my first attempts, and with practice you will improve quickly. Well done dude and welcome to the hobby.

I agree with everything said before. Clean them up a little more before painting and thin your paint a little and they are spot on!

Now table top quality is nothing bad, it just is the quality you are willing to paint a whole mess of models at which may get dinged and scratched in play. An army done to 'table top quality' is a hundred times better than a bare army with one or two super high quality painted pieces.

I want to thank everyone for their input. I see the mould lines people are talking about. I will have to clean those up on the next ones. Also i do need to thin paints. Sometimes I get lazy and just think whats the harm. But yea i will definitely start thinning more paint.

They look pretty nice to me, especially for a first attempt. I'm currently building my first minis and haven't even got to the painting phase yet, so I know how you feel.

This guy did a pretty nice Salamanders tutorial that you may be able to pick up some pointers on too. Keep truckin!

Hold on while I go and throw my miniatures in the trash

I absolutely love the highlight work! Keep that up!!!

Mold lines make baby pandas cry so be sure to have them cleaned up!

But these are great models!

Nice job for a first attempt.

 SQRT(-2) wrote:
I agree with everything said before. Clean them up a little more before painting and thin your paint a little and they are spot on!

Now table top quality is nothing bad, it just is the quality you are willing to paint a whole mess of models at which may get dinged and scratched in play. An army done to 'table top quality' is a hundred times better than a bare army with one or two super high quality painted pieces.

That's me in a nutshell. I'm such a slow painter and a perfectionist that I can't possibly bulk paint and sacrifice the quality of my paintjobs. However, I also like playing, and don't want to have to wait several weeks before I can try my new toy.

Wow dude, great work for your first attempt. I'm a horrible painter so 90% of my army ends up half painted or primed for months on end. Only suggestion I would make that hasn't been said so far is to check out Vallejo Paints. Huge variety of colors that are very close to GW paints, but thinner and easier to handle. Significantly cheaper too =p