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Here are the newest models from my second and a half army, Ordo Malleus drafted Imperial Guard:

WIP Guardsman


Badly-converted Sargent




Some more Guardsmen











Link to full gallery:

http://photobucket.com/albums/y264/erytried/40K%20Pictures/?start=0

Not the best work shown on this site, but not the worst. Any suggestions color or otherwise?

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The black is unpainted primer, right? Does it have that "grainy" look in real life? If so, it could use a quick coat of paint to clean it up.

Looks like most of the paint is just 1 layer on top of the primer. I can see your speed painting here, but adding a 2nd coat does not cost that much time. For example, the pouchs with the bubonic brown could really use a coat of Vomit Brown or Grave Yard Earth under it. Same with the gun. It needs either an under coat of Gun Metal or a black ink wash to back off the all shiney look.

On the up side, the Orange seems to be covering well. The 2nd pic "only a flesh wound" has good solid coverage over the black.

They look all dusty and stuff on the black.

I really like the color scheme, and you have managed to capture personality on their faces. Here are some suggestions for you otherwise:

1. Your spraypaint is clumping up. That is what is giving you the dusty look. That is affecting the rest of the paintjob in a bad way. Either use slightly watered down paint in liberal amounts to do your undercoat or try spraypainting somewhere where it is really dry and not too cold. Those are the factors that will cause your spraypaint to do that. Also, use testors model master spray instead of th GW stuff. I think that it is cheaper and it is definatly better. You can get it at any hobby store that sells models.

2. Take time to clean up your mold lines. Use an xacto knife blade to scrape the moldlines off of your minis. Scrape, don't cut.

3. As far as painting goes you are doing well. You have good control with edges and detail (great work on the ripped arm bits). The next step is learning how to highlight. Check out the tutorial on this site. Its really excellent and if you practice it you will be in good shape: http://www.jenova.dk/ -- check out the tutorials section of her site, especially the one on blending. There is a bit about layering highlights that you will benefit from.

Thanks. Yeah, these were speed painted. I have a ton to do, but I've just started taking more time doing them. I'll check out a different spray, and that tutorial is useful. Thanks, guys.

I don't often come to this part of the forum...it's nice to see some new stuff.

Are the cord from the magazine meant to represent helguns? If so, yours are a lot nicer looking than mine.

The ripped-off arm on the sergeant looks a little odd...is it meant to imply that he's got a little OM radical something or other going on, or is he supposed to be blinded by righteous faith to the complaints of his fleshy shell? Regardless, I think a single colour with a bit of a highlight would "flow" a little better. I'm guessing that's a bullet hole in his chest, too, oozing some kind of clear liquid. I'm more a fan of the traditional "dark red gory mess" approach to wounds. Throw on a little PVA glue beforehand and varnish afterhand and bob's your uncle.

The orange looks fluffy - suggests inmates removed from their prison to face a crueller sentence. I like your work on the faces and the guy with the knife over his gun is posed very well.

Tangentially, and not that you'd play with them much, but you could definitely greenstuff up a couple of Daemonhosts from spare Cadian bits and one or two random figures in your bits box. You could imagine an OM telling, say, a convicted rapist or something just to sit still, think dirty thoughts, and never mind the heirophants outside the pentagram chanting something about eating Eldar.