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Well I thought I would pluck up the courage and show some of my painting, I have never painted models of any kind before so be kind in you comments!!!












I have loads more to paint, but these were my first.

Ellis

Check it dude, for your first try you can paint decently well. grats!
holymoley you can even base well!
Are you trolling, sir? lots of firs timers I have seen aren't this good!

very nice job, especially for a first try. my first attempt years ago was hideous to look at.

For a beginner, you have included many advanced concepts such as highlighting, weathering and good basing.

Already incorporating these and understanding them will mean you should advance along the learning curve a good deal faster.

I think you've done a great job of solid table top standard marines.

I think you've been let down on only one thing from where I'm sitting and that's your red helmet marine, due to his eyes. My advice for this is to go for a completely different shade of red for the helm, take the helm down into darker reds (scab red, perhaps mixed with scorched brown for the recesses and raise the eyes into a bit more orange to define them both.

But well done overall sir!

Very kind of you all, thanks for the advice on the eyes, I wasnt happy with it myself, so will come back to this one and try to work on them, I must say though I find small detail really hard to do, i suffer from Fibromyalgia, which causes me terrible pain in all my limbs, especially my hands, Im constantly have to wear morphine patches for the pain, but yet I get immense pleasure from painting these and of course its a whole new way for my son and I to enjoy playing games, as running around with a football is no longer viable.

Ellis

Great start IMHO. It's easy to be critical of your own work especially when the only comparrison to hand is the Eavy Metal stuff on the box. Keep at it

quite good for first minitures

alot better than my first try,you are very good for just starting.

Definatly a good job for your first effort. I would suggest trying to keep your paint thinned out a little bit with some water. It helps to keep the surfaces smoother. Keep practicing you'll be pro in no time.

Better than some of my existing UM (trust me, I don't even highlight them)

Eh....I don't really believe you. That captain is better than a lot of stuff I painted when I was at your level...Then again, I had almost no paint at my disposal at that time....Ah well. Good work!

Thats some nice white, much better than I paint. but then again, I suck as painting.
That is a nice space marine commander! Are you using washes? They can really add depth and detail

Very good effort, especially for a first try. Way better than the first things I painted.

Ive been using washes very limited really at the moment, until I get other things down a bit better I will try experimenting a bit more with washes.

Ellis

That's a nice paint job for a first timer, well done you!

My eldar army features one unit of dire avengers which where the first minature of any kind that i've ever painted (about 4 years ago) and another unit of dire avengers which i painted about 3 weeks ago. It's really weird to see the big difference in quality but good to see how much i've improved over the past years.

I like the devastators.

I think your dreads are really sharp looking. Keep up the good work.

Great Job! Your skills will only get better from here
Look forward to seeing more

nice work man, im impressed

this is nice stuff for a first timer! I like that you commited to finishing the bases also, thats something many noobs overlook. I think you have great potential in your painting future. As you gain more exp, your eyes and lens will be more defined, you will also figure out techniques that will help you along the way. Good attempts at highlighting too. Now for your first piece of criticism: start thinning down your paints when you apply color to a model. Eventually your eye will catch this, but that will definately improve the look of your models. Yeah, it sucks to apply several coats of color to the model, becomes redundant and I dont know anyone who enjoys it, but the result will give you a very smooth look to the marines. Great work, look foward to more!

Very nice and as element206 sayd thin down the paint a bit. and maybe but that might just be me (anal!) that i cover very part of the model i saw som of the picer missing the last end of tubbs not green and what not but overall very very good one wana have a look at how i been working tru the last 8 ish mounths from the same start as you to now.

then chek this out http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=270587

A really good start - my first models were a total mess. You may want to thin down your paints a little but otherwise it's just practice

Here are a few more ive done, on our new game board we just finished
1st is my bargain from ebay £5 and they were in a right mess, stripped them back and re did them.


Next my 1st scout squad.


Command Squad with Black Reach Captain


Then the Rhino with a Black Reach Tactical Squad


Sue the cat approves of the new game board!!



Ellis

Man, I love your ultra's.
You are 100x better than I was when I first started painting, and for first time models, you nailed tons of important details.

Also, cute cat.

Not only are your first models really good you go and improve your skills in a very short period of time, the bikers look awesome. Also thumbs up on your rather handsome cat. I remember our Mogg used to sleep on my dads railway, i think it's something about flock/static grass for cats, that or they enjoy feeling like godzilla...

That's pretty fantastic for anyones first try. Looks better then my stuff and I've been painting since (insert funny historical reference point).

Very good work! looking forward to see more!

Wow!
That is really good. i ave been painting for like a half a year and dont paint that good. i hate you! jk
great job really

I think you've done very well for your first attempt. I think you did a very good job on the bases, I think good bases makes a model look complete and you'v started off on solid ground.

Oh.. and I love the second company, so two thumbs up! haha

You have a great looking first army. Keep up the painting!