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Hello dakka! I just posted a chaos cultist I'm almost finished painting, its the 3rd model I've painted and the 2nd I would consider close to done. I have over 100 of these cultists and would like everyones opinion on this style for them (with varying colors once my new paints arrive) or if you all feel something else fits the cultists better or that I'm messing up something fluff wise as I dont have the csm codex yet. Please give me any advice, tips, or tricks you all have to improve this model and maybe that I can carry over to the others I have to do. This took me a few hours so also any tips on speed painting would be wonderful. It is not based as I have no flocking materials here but will be done as soon as I get back to the U.S. and have access to them. Please, all criticism and advice is more than welcome! Link to the gallery is here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-66704-31418_Chaos%20Cultist.html

The easiest way to improve them would be a brown wash, then you can add highlights if you want to do more work

Those colors are bright. I think gargantuan's right about the brown wash, man. But like all your Dark Eldar I've seen, your painting looks great. At least compared to mine.

thank you both, yea I was considering brown wash I want to change the color of that round thing on his back too, yellow doesnt look good with that shade of red. maybe metalic gold with black retainer straps? Not looking forward to the remaining 100+ at all

100 + is gonna suck. I am mostly done with 30 and it has seemed to take forever. To improve speed, i primed white and am doing bright colors, then washing. Highlighting 100 minis is beyond my patience. The skin tone I chose was just a heavy wash of ogryn flesh over the white primer and it looks pretty nice. I left some of the leather bits white and a wash of delvan mud makes them look khaki. Anyways, thats how id suggest doing it, good luck with your horde.