Ultramarine Warhammer 40,000 figure

[Alan 45]

My eldest son got interested with this gaming thing for all of about 10 minuets and I bought him some figures and he asked to paint them but they just sat on my bench for about a year well today I got a bit bord with painting little figures so I decided while I was waiting for paint to dry I would give this little fellow a go

Now I've never painted anything like this and never new what colours to use , I new it was blue as the that was the colour on the box but not anything else so I just let rip

I painted his armour in humbrol 14 which is a gloss but the wash has took the shine off the backpack and weapons are all painted in Vallejo oily steel and so it the slight damage to the armour [ATTACH]83740.IPB[/ATTACH]

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[eddiesolo]

Look okay to me mate, they do have more colours depending on if they're chaos, space marines etc.

Si

[Alan 45]

Cheers mate I'll take a look at some my son has already picked me up on the colour of the eagle on his chest

It went something like this

" alright son how's school been and what do you think of this ?"

His reply

" it was ok dad , that looks good but the colours too dark and the eagle should be gold duh !"

Lol

[eddiesolo]

Yep, gold mate and the blue is lighter.

[Guest]

Looks fine to me!!

Mmm....I have an old "Mithril" figures from Lord of the Rings....maybe I follow you!!! This thread return me very nice memories

[Alan 45]

I'm thinking of getting a couple kits and do a little dio but I will paint it properly this time

[monica]

I think you did well on him,looks good to me,

there funny as i think they use bright colors for alot of them,

[Guest]

Looks fine to me

[Alan 45]

Cheers folks I'm glad you like it my son has some more so I might pinch a few and look up the colours and do them properly in between drying times see if they meet with his approval

[Guest]

Nice figure, I was never capable and (still am) of building and painting figures. I always find them quite hard in terms of washes, details and stuff like that. The flesh tones always annoyed me.

John

[Alan 45]

Faces are difficult john all I do is paint them flesh colour and then use a watered down orange or brown then just dry brush again with flesh , I have tried to do eyes and moustaches but I've had mixed results.

Detail is always difficult , I have a brush with about three hairs on it and I use a strong magnifier , I wipe most of the paint off to limit overspill but it takes a bit of time to do one little piece but the final result is worth it.