http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net This post is sort of one of those ones where I am putting a bunch of stuff in the same post because I don't want to post 3 times haha plus its fun to show some of the stuff I am working on now and in the past.

So first off I need some advice on painting jewels.
I can't seem to get jewels right. I can't paint them where they actually look shiny even after looking up multiple tutorials and stuff I just can't get that right look.
I have this eldar jetbike from WAAAAAY back in the day like when I was 13 or 14 years old that I found unassembled in the box at my house from when I painted lotr and a dark eldar jetbike (picture is on here for fun haha.

So anyways here is the images of 2 different colours of stones. I just wanted some different colours to see how they look.
I started with a dark, then went lighter, then lightest then a white dot. Any help would be awesome I just can't get this right.
P.S MY LIGHT SETUP WAS BROKEN TODAY SO LIGHTING ISN'T THE BEST







Next up is some of the Tau stuff I have done lately, I haven't painted up my army I had 2 XV8's painted but I think I want them to match the rest of my firewarriors and stealth suits wih the classic Tau colours.
I also painted my Piranha a while back in a green and black scheme which I am doing with my hammerhead which is 1/4 painted so far.



Now here is what the other 2 XV8's look like right now (I have 9 XV8's total) The paint job is a little rough was the first time I tried highlighting





Here is the Piranha and an XV25 stealth suit that I did for the whole group of them with camo turning off/on




This image you can't see the grey on the black because the lighting wasn't the best but in the next image you can see the black isn't straight black because I wanted it to look like they were blending into shadows/rocks or something



NOW for my FIRST 40K MODEL EVER!!!!!

This is an dark eldar jetbike I made and check out the SICK BASE hahaha









This base is garbaaaawjjjjee idk what I was thinking...well I was 13 so I probably wasn't hahahaha

Any comments or ways to improve are always appreciated - good or bad comments/critique is always good ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/565193/6286793.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/565193/6286793.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/565193/6286893.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/565193/6286893.page GMT I think the blue one looks better too personally but it is hard to tell since the blue stands out more on the red. I think it might be because of the very dark green I used as the base for the green as well. I might try a bright green gem.

Oh and I just realized I painted that one Tau suit (classic Tau colours) without magnetizing I don't know what happened there must have grabbed the wrong model darn will have to magnetize then retouch the paint haha]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/565193/6294082.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/565193/6294082.page GMT