Painting Quality - Your Opinion Appreciated

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**Ceaser_88**

Hey everyone - I'd really appreciate your opinion on how well my painting is coming along. Please provide your thoughts and any tips you may have for improvement

**ScootyPuffJunior**

No pictures, mate.

The easiest thing to do is upload your pictures to the Dakka gallery.

**Ceaser_88**

lol, minor technical glitch here - tried to upload the images from my iPad and something didn't quite work, moving to PC - please standby

**Apower101**

The blue armour looks great, very neat. The bases are also nice. The only qualm I have with them is that the shoulder guards, guns, gold, and the fur/faces are a bit flat. Try using a wash or two and then coming back and highlighting them.

Also, as a matter of personal preference, you could try weathering them. A couple of chips on their lower armour, soot on the gun barrels, weathering pigments, etc. But this is up to you. I find that this brings the models to life.

I think they are very good already, and would be proud to own an army painted to that standard.

**ScootyPuffJunior**

I agree, they look quite nice but the shoulder pads are a little flat.

Good work so far!

**Ceaser_88**

Wow, thanks for the positive feedback - tbh I was nervous as to what to expect

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and often burn out after spending too much time looking at Golden Daemon entries (it's taken me over a year to paint one squad of Grey Hunters, because I keep leaving it and coming back)

I'll take your feedback on board.

**monders**

That is some neat, clean brush work. Top stuff.

**Tigurius**

That's head and shoulders over the vast, vast majority of tabletop.

You should be proud of your work there. Yeah, some areas are a little flat as above. But nice work!

You could have a small army in 5 years time at this rate!

**Cult of Slaanesh**

It kinda has a hint of the old style of painting models to me, which gives them a nice charm to me. Lol

**Peregrine**

Ceaser_88 wrote:
spending too much time looking at Golden Daemon entries

Just remember while you're doing this that GD models are painted by the top 0.0000001% of painters and take countless hours of effort to get everything perfect. They aren't anywhere near a realistic standard for gaming pieces that have to be finished at a reasonable rate.

As for your painting quality, you've reached basic tabletop level. Everything seems to be cleanly painted (this is much rarer than you might think!), but it's all just flat colors. From here you want to start working on shading/weathering/etc to add some depth and character to the models. Or, if your goal is to have a gaming army, work on producing models like this at a faster pace so that you can finish your whole army before 15th edition.

**Ceaser_88**

Lol Peregrine/Tigurius - you nailed it. 'It' being my greatest problem - I want to get a good number of units painted in a reasonable time frame (although i don't have anyone to play with, it'd just be nice to display them), but if I can't up the efficiency I'll be eating pre-chewed food by the time I'm done. Really appreciate the positive feedback on this board.

**ScootyPuffJunior**

Ceaser_88 wrote:
Lol Peregrine/Tigurius - you nailed it. 'It' being my greatest problem - I want to get a good number of units painted in a reasonable time frame (although i don't have anyone to play with, it'd just be nice to display them), but if I can't up the efficiency I'll be eating pre-chewed food by the time I'm done. Really appreciate the positive feedback on this board.

Everybody paints at their own pace.

Left to my own devices, I'm an incredibly slow painter. My personal collection of finished models pales in comparison to my never-ending stack of uncompleted models. I have the ability to move faster, usually if I am doing a commission for someone. I completed a Stormtalon for a client in less than 4 days; my own Stormtalon, which I bought the day it was released, is still incomplete.

Unless you are trying to get something done for a competition or tournament, take you time and enjoy painting. Use that time to push yourself to try new techniques and refine your style.

**insaniak**

Yup, nice solid work so far.

**Paradigm**

Excellent work, and welcome to Dakka!

These are easily tabletop standard, follow the advice others have given and you'll have a great army in the works!

**Maxim C. Gatling**

I agree with most of the other posters. Some parts seem a little flat. Need more "pop". They look..."almost finished".

Apart from that, it's a very clean, well executed paint-job. As far as tabletop quality goes, I'd give it a solid "7" meaning WAY better than most efforts.

And your photography is very good.

**Ceaser_88**

Thanks again everyone. I'm currently painting some Wolf Gaurd Terminators, which has taught me a lot about shading. It's a great hobby; you think you understand a concept, until one day you're working along and an epiphany drops, and one more piece of the puzzle falls into place. This also makes looking at other peoples work more interesting, because you can appreciate the skill involved in the finished work.

Btw Scootypuff - love the Stormtalon on your blog

once i get these Termies painted (ETA 2030), I'm going to get into airbrushing and take a crack at a Predator tank