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well here are the first 5 csm conversions i have started painting c&c welcome

You seem to have a clear idea of what your guys shoud look like and you did it consistently across the squad. That's great.

However, please allow me to note a few points:
- Using the Dark Angel bathrobe models is a bit unexpected. Even if you use it (hey, it's your army, your choice!) you shouldn't be leaving the DA logo on the chest, you painted it black on one model.
- Colors are of course a matter or personal taste, but in my opinion the red is too dark and not contrasting wtih the pauldron colour very well. The Robes look a bit flat and could do with more shadows, shade should work well.
- You seem to have covered the whole model in satin or glossy varnish. The paints are matt out of the jar since many surfaces like cloth or skin looks plain weird with a glossy finish. In fact, if you have only the metal paint look a bit glossy, that is a great contrast to the maat skin (on the heads) and between the robe and armour. Some varnish applied to parts you want glossy also works great.
- I'm not sure the guys can move or could move at combat speeds. The power plant for the suit is in the backpack. ;-]

Everything "imho" of course, as it's a personal taste:

The green on the robes look a little heavy, too much contrast (and colour diversity) to the dark blue armour. But I must admit that robes are one of the more difficult areas to paint ...

Overall it's not that bad, I've seen much worse models. What I appreciate is that you paint very cleanly. The shoulder pads are nicely done I think

The coils on the Plasma weapons could also use some shading.


Definitely browse some tutorials in the internet about "Drybrushing", "Highlighting" and "Shading". (personally) I'm not the fan of drawing Lines on the Edges, but I love drybrushing to define edges and higher areas and shading to give the model a little depth. It works wonders and brings basic models that look like pre-painted D&D figures to a level of good-looking models

Could you post the images in the dakka gallery? Because photobucket is blocked at work.

thanks for the advice the power packs are being painted at the mo and not sure how i got the glossy look on the robes seen as i just used a wash on them, and i will probably go over the robes again to highlight

Washes frequently leave a slightly shiny finish, especially when used over a wide area.

I airbrushed some Flesh Hounds with Secret Weapon Dried Blood wash recently, and they looked glosse coated by the time I was done!

That said, I'm not really feeling the green wash on the white robes. May I suggest a pale green basecoat, a light green wash and then perhaps an ivory or white extreme edge highlight?