WIP -Honor Company, 1st post

[TokenArtGuy]

Hello,

This is my first post here, though I\'ve been snooping around the forums for about 6 years. My 40K gamer buddy finally got me motivated to get off my rear and get some painting done. I decided to go with a space marine army due to the large number of plastics and constant additions to their model range. The idea of an Ultramarines Honor company sounded really good to me, as I often get worn out on painting the same old color scheme. Each squad is donated from a different Ultramarines successor chapter because they can\'t send an entire company to the field. Anyhow, here are some pics of what I\'m working on:

I think that the Ultramarine is close to done for me, I keep seeing things to fix all the time, but then I have to remind myself... he\'s just a basic bolter guy.

The Omega marine on the end is to show that I pin the arms to check posing, and so that I don\'t have a bunch of armless marines running around.

I have a question that I hope someone can answer:
I thin my paints with either the Future Floor wax and the Magic Wash recipe (not at the same time). The floor wax is brutal on my brushes, does anyone know how to keep it from gumming up my brushes? The wax works better for some things.

I\'d also like to apologise for the image quality, I\'m not a fantastic photographer and my camera doesn\'t have any macro settings. Well, and I was too lazy to setup my lightbox for these photos before running off to work. I\'ll try and get a better photography setup soon.

Thanks for any comments and/or suggestions.

-Mark

 

[DaN]

Welcome to the boards and well done first off for doing such good work on some difficult colours (White, yellow and red)

In particular the yellow, which I find the most problematic of the three.

They look pretty spanky for RaF troops, and I know exactly what you mean about getting bored of painting the same scheme over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and... lol

Looking good - have a look through some of the articles about photography.

 

[TokenArtGuy]

DaN your comment on the yellow is quite correct. I am thinking that the yellow needs to be washed out so that it is much more pale. This should add a lot more contrast.

I will take a look at the photography section and attempt to do better pictures in the future, thanks for the tip. However, I think that your comment on my white looking good is a little premature . I\'ve been wrestling with that color for a while now, and it definitely needs to be cleaned up.

I will post new, hopefully better, pictures as soon as I have the chance.

Another question: How do I change the image for my avatar, whenever I go into the edit profile of the user control panel and pick a different image out of the pull down nothing updates. Better yet, how do I upload my own avatar?

Thank you for the comment, I definitely appreciate any input I can get.

 

[TokenArtGuy]

Ok, I setup my light tent and took some better pictures last night. The Ultramarine has been coated with some gloss and then matte varnish.

Here are some better pics of the basic Ultramarine bolter guy.

This guy needs a boatload of work, the white primer that I was using left a bunch of bumps on the model . I sprayed a few other models with a different strategy and got better results later. I don\'t like where the model is going right now and could use some help with him. Posing is the result of gravity and not final.

Anyhow, comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Warzone1320]

They look pretty good, specially that ultra-marine, only thing i would suggest (dont know if its the lightin) is a couple of glazes on the rigth leg to make it look more like the helmet.

 

[TokenArtGuy]

I\'ll see what I can do. I hope to get some work done on these fellas this week.