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First off, I'm new here - so hi!

Okay, so here's something I've painted.

Don't get *too* used to it :p I'm a slow painted with a short attention span!

Although I am starting to kick this into gear to sell stuff on eBay. If you want to buy these marines, incidentally, give me a bell, and I'll direct you to the auction. But I'm not using this post to sell them.

It's the first thing I've painted (bar a few bases of 6mm tanks) for months, so be nice to me ^_^ Not my best work, and I've stopped a few stages short of what I could have done, but they're at a stage I'm happy to sell them on eBay at. All in all, I think they've scrubbed up quite nicely 

Let me know what you think!

 

Use HTML to post images on Dakka, or maybe the insert image button on the interface.

Ah, yes, I saw last night that the BB code hadn't worked, but the forum was being very slow, so I couldn't edit the post. I'll get onto it now, and take the pic links out, now you've kindly put them up

Thankyou!

Very nice, clean paint job there. I still can't get faces right...I end up with lazy eye syndrome on all of my models.

I can possibly help with that.

The way I do eyes is quite simple.

Assuming you use a black undercoat, get some white paint, and put 2 vertical white streaks in each eye. These don't have to be neat - go over the edges of the eye if you need to. As long as you seperate the two streaks by leaving some black for the iris/pupil, it's fine. This allows you to have the eyes looking wherever you want. Alternatively, paint the whole eye area white, and make one black line in each eye, making sure they match up.

Next stage, is go back with some black paint, and paint over the white which will inevitably be not where it's supposed to be. So if you got white on the cheeks etc, paint over it. It should leave you a very neat looking pair of eyes. From there, paint the face as normal. It's much easier to do eyes before the rest of the face.

I hope that made sense!