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I have not painted a figure in about 10 years, and even back then I wasn't very good. I'm planning a 1500 pt army which I hope will be a good starting block and give me lots of options to go for in the future.

So without further talkig: Heres an image of my first mini in 10 years i think.... So if there are any tips for painting better please share






I still lack alot but hopefully will get better with time

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Looking good, it is nice to get the dust off of those painting skills. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3693047.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3693047.page GMT Re:Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years
The reason is if you doing it white then that's really a bad choice for painting death company marines.

If its black and then you are going over parts in white to paint the other colours (I can see white round these parts) then you may want to take a different approach.

I'd say give them a nice even undercoat of black spray primer first, as you're in the UK you will want to do this in a garage this time of year or use paint on primer like Vallejo's Black surface primer its a saviour when its cold and wet outside.

Once you've done that you need to build up your colours via different shades from black. i.e. start with dark browns for the ropes and work up to a lighter colour and grey for the eagle wings up to white, same idea with the red.

Remember to thin you're paint with water and do it gradually. It will take longer but will give you a better effect in the long run.

For the first mini in ten years though you're already off to a good start ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3694274.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3694274.page GMT Re:Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years
When thinning your paint, How much water are you using because this is still something that I don't quite know how to get right as so far i am either too thick or way too thin as far as i can tell.

I am indeed using white on parts that i need to be lighter I was mainly testing this idea on this guy to see how well that worked but it wasn't that great. I have now started on Astorath the grim and Am trying it as you have suggested with darker colours working up to the lighter ones. Found this to work well testing this on his back back insignia got a really nice looking white using several varying layers starting with deneb eventually getting upto skull white. Heres what astorath looks like so far I know I still have a long way to go.


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Astorath is looking very nice, you can see a huge difference compared to your first mini.

keep up the excellent work, looking forward to seeing him finished.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3712230.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3712230.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3713185.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3713185.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years
you will probs notice the 2 diff shades of black on the shoulders i tried to highlight the edges but it failed and looked horrid, Any advice about this like the best colour to use and tips for painting it to look right.


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A few suggestions if you have GW washes I'd go over all the red parts including the claws with (Edit: Baal Red) to make the colour look deeper, it will blend the transition on the claws as well.

Now black can be a pain to get right if you're looking at adding highlights. This may seem odd but if I'm going to paint a mini black I never actually paint it totally black.

The Death Company marine that I painted below is a black undercoat and then I painted it with a 75% black 25% mix of Dark Blue. I then highlighted any edges in Charadon Granite and then again after in a Fortress Grey.



Ignore the odd pose he goes in the claw of my chaos dread

The other quicker way is to just highlight the black with Charadon Granite and the give it a black wash. That's what I did for the below weapon you can see the grey on the weapons combat accessory it looks very subtle but gives a good effect.



I don't actually use GW paints but have listed the nearest translation.


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As for drilling my barrels I will pickup a pin-drill next time I get paid.

EDIT: cheers for the positive words on the dread am happy with it and like seeing that you guys agree.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3722224.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3722224.page GMT Re:Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years
Black will darken them Red will enhance them, they will look great trust me ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3722561.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3722561.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years gotta order a couple of minis so will get some more washes.

On a side note I found some other warhammer, 2x boar riders and a goblin batallion. So Will be playing around with them too

Edit: My dog went metal last nigh and knocked my desk sending astorath flying his axe is broken now so will be trying to fix that... greenstuff time i think ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3723885.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3723885.page GMT Re:Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years
I hope it was a clean brake.

I'd really recommend pinning it together if its metal, if its finecast you should be ok just super glueing it as it creates a really strong bond with finecast.
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ordered a couple more bits for the army today in the form of Lemartes and a sanguinary priest. Also ordered new bases for all the minis but they wont arrive till mid way through jan so going to try finish as much of the men before then]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3731987.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3731987.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years
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nereme wrote:Felt a bit bad I haven't included any pics for a few days so got a small ammount of work done this morning before i went to work. Doing a test mini for a shading and higlighting tip i was given. here it is so far after I did the first few layers on the red detail this morning.




Looks really well man,

Glad to see you on dakka ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3734443.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3734443.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3735019.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3735019.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years
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The red could use some depth though, it looks a little flat. Try washing it with Baal Red and then Badab Black. That's what I do with my Reds, it works a treat.
Also the white and bone areas look a little bit blotchy, try thinning down the paint a bit. I need to practice what I preach as I am a straight from the pot painter. After that a wash will bring out the definition.
I also don't like it when the soft armour isn't painted, but that sometimes comes down to personal taste.
Although he is in the WIP stage, so you were probably going to do that all anyway, right?

I do like him though, and all your Death Company, and that is why I am Subscribing.
I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3747292.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3747292.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years
And I do have some baal read wash that i will use but im going to put a few more layers of blood red on first, as I do thin my paints to im doing it in layers to make sure the colour takes properly.

Well i have 3 boxes of marines already and need to paint all except 2 of them, This mornign Lemartes and a Sanguinary priest arrived so will be starting on them too.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3747322.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3747322.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years WIP pics can be deceiving and I can see what you mean by the layering of red to make sure the colour takes properly.
And I too had a whole lot of stuff arrive this morning, it's so exciting opening up a package of hobby goodness especially when you have been waiting for it for over a month. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3747360.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3747360.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years WIP so keep in mind i still have a few bits to do on him. Also he will have a jump pack I just have to finish that before he gets it.

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The helmet and shoulder pads took forever to get white as starting from a black basecoat it need so many layers of paint ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3766087.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/3766087.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years
still the early stage all i have done so far is prime and paint the overall model i started on the red areas yesterday night so all the purity seals, guns, death company markings and the blood gems. Hopefully tonight will work on the parchment, crests and such that needs to be white

Excuse the poses I have resin bases on the way for when they're finished



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Here's a rough picture of Lemartes as he currently is will post more pics of the rest of the guys i completed later.

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Keep up the good work it looks great.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/4011957.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/4011957.page GMT Death Company Project - first time painting in 10 years
heres 3 of my finished DC marines on their new bases which i finished yesterday

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Started painting the white parts inc the helmetless guys head.



Heres what i got upto.

I still cant do eyes to save my life so this guy looks rubbish, am happy with the skin tones and hair colour











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I have never painted orks before and wanted to try it for a while now. Started off with the warboss as I do really like the model.

Let me know what you think of him and offer up any tips you can on how i can improve.

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Many of you will remember my ork warboss, He is from the wonderful Assault on Black Reach Box I added an "Iron Gob" to Him to make him slightly more imposing



My Challenge is to do with him in a way, and it is as follows:

I have 3 weeks till the middle of may - the 17th to be precise To paint the remaining orks from the box set.

Now this challenge won't be easy Its a large amount of troops and not a lot of time, I will be doing an assembly line method and painting groups of them at once to try get it done faster, Now I know the quality wont be wonderful as it will be a speed painting job for table top gaming except for the HQ and main guys as I will be painting them separately to the challenge I have

The models I have to paint as part of the challenge are as follows:

20x Ork Boyz

5x Ork Nobz

3x Ork Defcopters

The other stuff I have that isn't part of the 3 week challenge are as follows:

Big Mek With KFF

Painboy and Grot Orderly

Ghazgkhull Thrakka

I'm not doing these guys with the main force because I want them to be finished to the best of my ability and speed painting wont do that,

Now as I said the challenge is to get the Box built up and painted in 3 weeks to a table top standard, Which i'm confident I can do, After that I will go back to make them even better once my painting skills get better, I want to be able to do the ork checkerboard pattern on some of them and add other little bits of detail at some point.

So for now I'm off will be priming all the troops and other parts tonight/tomorrow morning.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/4190286.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/417673/4190286.page GMT