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Okay so i've only been at this for about a month now (After a 10 year gap of not touching the hobby)
I've been experimenting with painting & building techniques of the past month to see what i could come up with. (You can check my other thread for my progress on this thread: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/682554.page#8501083)

So last saturday i wanted to try something a bit bigger and more ambitious than a standard Space Marine.
My intention was to get a normal Dreadnought as i didnt wanna commit to something like a Blood Angel/Space Wolves theme but it looked cool and i though i would try it.
Now. I said to myself in the shop that i would make up my own colour scheme...
As you can see below that didnt happen as i went along with pretty much a Blood Angels theme.





I really would appreciate your opinion on my work its the only way i'm gonna get better at it and next time i will use the advice i'm given to make it even better.

Phil

Not bad. It actually looks like it's been weathered.

Nice work!

Very nice couple comments:

The nuln oil wash on it gives it a nice oil splattered look.

If you are looking for a cleaner look, apply a coat of mephiston to the flat surfaces to clean it up.

If you want to add some cool looking scratches a very easy way is to add some lines (and some X criss cross lines) of thin dark brown to some areas and then highlight the bottom side of the scratches with a bright red. You can do the same with with odd shaped dents or bullet holes, just highlight the underside of them.

If you want to highlight the edges of the model, again use a bright red (evil sunz or wild rider red) and apply it to all the edges using the SIDE of your brush (this makes it super easy to catch the edges instead of trying to paint it with the tip of your brush)

Another easy weathering you can do is just drybrush a brown color (dust color or maybe reddy brown) onto the feet and lower legs - to make it look like it was walking across a dustly battlefield. If you do this make it a very very light dusting.


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Another cool effect you can do is make it look like there are inscriptions written on parts of the armor. With red, white letter ing looks good. For example, on his left shoulder start by writing a small B in white (starting paragraph has a large letter) and then using very small W and V squiggly lines make it look like very small white print - you pretty much just want to separate the words


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Also don't be afraid of transfers (one would look nice on his right leg plate) - to do them right coat the spot with Ardcoat to make a smooth surface. Then cut out the transfer and soak in water for 30 seconds then slide it onto the spot with a brush. After it dries paint the spot with Lahmian Medium to get rid of the shine and then paint the edges over with Chaos black to blend it back.

 chaosmarauder wrote:
Very nice couple comments:

The nuln oil wash on it gives it a nice oil splattered look.

If you are looking for a cleaner look, apply a coat of mephiston to the flat surfaces to clean it up.

If you want to add some cool looking scratches a very easy way is to add some lines (and some X criss cross lines) of thin dark brown to some areas and then highlight the bottom side of the scratches with a bright red. You can do the same with with odd shaped dents or bullet holes, just highlight the underside of them.

If you want to highlight the edges of the model, again use a bright red (evil sunz or wild rider red) and apply it to all the edges using the SIDE of your brush (this makes it super easy to catch the edges instead of trying to paint it with the tip of your brush)

Another easy weathering you can do is just drybrush a brown color (dust color or maybe reddy brown) onto the feet and lower legs - to make it look like it was walking across a dustly battlefield. If you do this make it a very very light dusting.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Another cool effect you can do is make it look like there are inscriptions written on parts of the armor. With red, white letter ing looks good. For example, on his left shoulder start by writing a small B in white (starting paragraph has a large letter) and then using very small W and V squiggly lines make it look like very small white print - you pretty much just want to separate the words


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Also don't be afraid of transfers (one would look nice on his right leg plate) - to do them right coat the spot with Ardcoat to make a smooth surface. Then cut out the transfer and soak in water for 30 seconds then slide it onto the spot with a brush. After it dries paint the spot with Lahmian Medium to get rid of the shine and then paint the edges over with Chaos black to blend it back.

Hi Dude

I felt like it would look better if it had a dirty look. I think my next Dreadnought i might give a more clean/off the line look.
I think i might experiment with damage effects on another model as honestly i'm not sure how to do them but i think they would look cool
I did highlight the edges using Evil Sun, i guess its just not obviously enough
I'm gonna play around today with making the feet and underside look dusty as the base is mostly grey with a little brown mixed in so i think it would look cool to give those parts a nice dusty look.
To be honest on the really fine details like writing/inscriptions and transfers they scare me as i dunno how to do it and i dont wanna mess up the model

I'll be making some changes today to the model to neaten it up and then post an update here

Cheers