1st model painted after 4 years...go gentle (Tempestus Scion)

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**Inky**

Meet Dave, member of the 420th (hurr) Hyperion Jackals

Taken with my phone camera (as I said, I only just got back into the hobby)

C&c really welcome

(I suffer from srsly Shaky Hands Syndrome :c)

**Seb**

Look good, but hard to give specific comments since the picture is out of focus.

**lav25gunner**

What model did you use? It looks so much nicer than a Cadian IG.

It's difficult to give you good c&c because of the picture quality, but a few things come to mind. First is the the mouth. It looks yellow. Is that supposed to be a beard? If it is, I would get rid of it.
The second issue is the boots. I don't know if you missed some spots or if it's meant to be damage/scratches. I would use brown or metal to show damage/scratches instead of black. I would also do similar damage/scratches to the chest and arm armor.
Lastly, just to give it a little more color (right now it looks yellow, black and red) I would paint the scope on the gun either green or blue, the grenade on his chest green and the emblem on his hat white or gold.
Overall, a very, very nice model and paint job.What do you plan to do with the base?

**Inky**

lav25gunner wrote:
What model did you use? It looks so much nicer than a Cadian IG.

It's difficult to give you good c&c because of the picture quality, but a few things come to mind. First is the the mouth. It looks yellow. Is that supposed to be a beard? If it is, I would get rid of it.
The second issue is the boots. I don't know if you missed some spots or if it's meant to be damage/scratches. I would use brown or metal to show damage/scratches instead of black. I would also do similar damage/scratches to the chest and arm armor.
Lastly, just to give it a little more color (right now it looks yellow, black and red) I would paint the scope on the gun either green or blue, the grenade on his chest green and the emblem on his hat white or gold.
Overall, a very, very nice model and paint job.What do you plan to do with the base?

It's a Scion (one of the new ones, I had a moment of weakness and bought a box...or 2....) and how would I improve pic quality? the Camera I use is my iPhone, and I have NO idea on how to take pictues well.

The mouth's meant to be a beard (I promise, it looks clearer in reality and since uploading this picture I touched it up a tad) and yeah, I realised how badly i buggered up the boots now :s
Cheers for the colour comment, I'm thinking to paint scope V.light blue (fits in with plasma in rest of squad)

Cheers for feedback!

And about basing, I'm going to be honest, I have no idea how to! I completely forgot when I was making them, but future minis from this army will basically be badlands style sand and rubble

**Barksdale**

You should really clean up the base rim, and finish it up. Honestly, I can't really see anything because the pic is blurry. From what I can tell, it looks a little sloppy and rushed. First things first though, you really need a clearer pic. Here's a video from from this thread.

**Hotrod**

Like the others said, the photo is out of focus, so it's hard to give concrete advice. However, from what I can tell, the colour scheme is really lovely, and you've done a fantastic job with the weathering. I actually like how you're not overdoing the colour, it gives the model a more grim-like appearance.

One thing that I would recommend is painting the lens on the weapon like you would a gem, and then adding a touch of glossy varnish on it. That way, it shines and looks like an actual lens, rather than just a blotch of red.

Anyway, very nice model, especially for not having painted in 4 years! Definitely does the model more justice than the turquoise colour GW uses to show them off.

**shingouki**

From what i can see,you have done a great job.More pics please

**Inky**

shingouki wrote:
From what i can see,you have done a great job.More pics please

Touched it up (hurr) and took another photo

(The grenade's clean now, I finished him when I had a supreme hangover, so there's bits and bobs I forgot to do.)

**tau tse tung**

I really like the face, i'm always afraid to even start my guys due to the eyes

**MetalOxide**

It is looking pretty cool.

**Link3n**

For your first model in 4 years, this is fantastic. Love the gun especially, the mustard yellow and weathering is great.

**ghostmaker**

I like the color platte you chose man. Very cool. good job considering it's ben a bit keep up the work !

**lav25gunner**

That sand/gravel looks a little too big, I would look for finer sand. Also, it's a good idea to paint the plastic base first before gluing sand to it so you won't see any black showing through underneath. I'm not crazy about the sand/gravel color. I realize that it matches the armor and that's the whole purpose of wearing camouflage, but I think it matches too much. I would do a light brown base and then do a very light drybrush of the yellow.

**Barksdale**

Okay mate, that pic is better. He's looking good. I'm not a fan of the purple beret though. Any particular reason you chose purple?

**Quarterdime**

The pic quality is so low it's hard to say anything... but I can tell you that you need to put more on a lens than just red. In fact, you can see how Phil Kelly does it now that GW has actually started releasing painting demonstration videos.

**Inky**

Beret's purple for 3 main, and super important reasons which I totally did not make up just before painting it.
1) Forget about this point
2) See point 1
3) I honestly don't know, a mixture of me liking purpley mauve colours and it contrasts with rest of model (and fits in with the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club thing I've got going)

**Quarterdime**

skip to 7:55 for the lenses

**Inky**

Yeah,I kept the lense on the shoulder-thing and Hellgun red, but the aiming reticule is now a bright blue with a dab of 'ardcoat to make it shiny.