And all the squats at a recent tournie

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Love the objective marker!

D.

And the Squat force is looking impressive.

D.

having (briefly!) seen your squats "in the flesh" I'd say they're looking pretty good, a very classic colour scheme, and they stand out on the tabletop

if you're in the market for some constructive feedback, may I suggest you experiment a little with thinning your paints down? it can be hard to get the consistency right at first, but 2-3 thin layers are much nicer than a single thicker layer, especially with tricky colours like white and yellow which tend to show up brush strokes and are very unforgiving!

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How very dare you!!!! ;-)

That's a top tip, thanks. I've been experimenting using glaze to thin paints in the later stages, i'm assuming you mean just watering then down at the start?

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And another objective

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aye, watering them down to begin with, GW paints especially need lots of watering down, having almost exclusively switched to formula P3 myself over the last few years, I went back to GW charadon granite and the stuff was like toothpaste.... try adding a few drops of water to a few brushes of paint and experimenting, you don't want it so runny it acts like an ink and flows everywhere, but you want to avoid things like brush strokes drying into the paint, a very rough guide I use for P3 which are quite a bit thinner than GW paints, is ~3 parts paint to 1 part water, you may need a bit more for GW, but it's worth just having a play and seeing what works best for you you can also pre-thin them in the pots which has the double advantage of reducing the chance of them drying out on you as GW paints are wont to do...

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Hi!

Sweet!

Primarch

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Latest update, some infantry and thunderer reinforcements. Also experimenting with some Vallejo colours which do seem to apply much more evenly than GW paints. Trying to build up depth with several layers of drybrush blue and white. Pretty pleased with how the flack jackets on the old plastic models have turned out. Also managed to get some ok hair tones on the beards which is every squat painter's goal in life!
[img]http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160228/8dc9c778a157635c06c570f69346095b.jpg[/img]

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Plus some rather rushed eldar bikes from a few months ago [img]http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160228/abada1eb29a0ccc9db8ad7e9279bb57b.jpg[/img]

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Looking good. =)

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cool!

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Soa question for the forums. Painting up a thousand sons army. Should the shields on these models be blue or yellow - you can see a test yellow base coat on a model on the far right. What do all you expert painters think?


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Well, I'm hardly an 'expert painter', but I think the yellow looks better. Breaks up the blue a bit and adds some contrast.

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Hi!

Nice!

Primarch

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