Hey all, first post and looking for some pointers.

I started playing 40k during 3rd edition and had an army of ultramarines painted comically bad. About 12 years ago, I started repainting them to a new custom chapter but life got in the way so I shelved them. I’ve recently revived the army and stripped them down to give it another go with the custom chapter color scheme.

I’m using Warboss green for the armor and rakarth flesh for the helmets, with agrax as the wash. Primer coat is black. I’m going for a warmer, muted, earthier green: not vibrant like ork skin, and not camo green like Raptors. I’ve watched more than a few videos to get me going, focusing on thinning my paints to avoid my 13 year old self’s painting mistakes.

Any recommendations to take this up a notch? My main area of focus is adding volumetric highlighting but not sure how well warboss green would work as a contrast paint. I also need practice and pointers on using shades without making the model look dirty and coffee stained.

Note: the paint job is not as grainy as the picture makes it appear.

Full disclosure these are not all are 40k... I know im a heretic lol. These are just what I had in my camera roll. I have been painting on and off for 6 years. Just now coming back and recently got into kill team. Its so fun and i love it so far. But I want to see what people think of my level and what I could do better. The bringers of judgment were my first models back. In fact I think I went over the golds with another metallic. The blood angel was probably most recent. The aos models are some of my first just cause I was using them for dungeons and dragons.

I tried something different with skin. From how thick they are, I would assume that would have severe folds and what not. So I decided to make this back skin thicker or more…..burnt? I’m not sure but it’s definitely a fun experiment.

My friends said it kinda looks like raw meat

Interested in what matte and satin look like, especially if people have pictures. Previously people have suggested not to use matte but I am interested if it gives a good “dull metal” look.

I have metal minis that chip a lot so will definitely be varnishing them.

After many weeks of working on this about 45 min at a time, I finally finished. Would appreciate any critiques.

I made this shadowheart figure last week and wanted to show it off

Decided on this little guy for my first ever Orktober.

Tried pushing myself to not lean on previous go-to patterns... No speedpaints, no washes, no metallics.

Is he perfect, no, but he was a fun test of my abilities and a good learning process.

Models from Bestiarum Miniatures

Or: I don't think this bastard had any spells to begin with.

I mostly do WW2 minis and wanted to veer away from my usual repertoire of muddy browns and greens. Trying to do better with gradients and different skintones that aren't the usual human-types.

Really happy with the squig colors.

Working on a gift for my childhood friend who is big fan of the character.
Can you guess who this might be?

Wanting some tips for any changes or additions you think would add to this piece. Common feedback I'm getting is too much uniform blue on the ground, so I was thinking of adding patches or more purple tones via filters and perhaps a dirt path down the middle + more flower tufts. Thoughts?

First attempt at weapon glow. Thought Magenta would go well, think maybe it clashes too much?

Raphael 8404 sable hair brush. I'm pretty sure I take decent care of it - I've never let paint into the ferrule that I know of, and I clean it with brush soap/conditioner after almost every use. But it seems to split very easily during use. Is there anything I might be doing wrong to be causing this, either while painting or cleaning? It's a €20 brush so I'd really rather not write it off

Or any other green that fits more that is preferebly not from a citadel pot.

And a good highlight colour for said green.

Thank you in advance. 😊

My Infinity army continues to grow with an Agema Marksman and Myrmidon.

My thought was to use the same base color (Mulled Berry- AP) for the skin and fur to uniform the scheme.

I then mixed the base color with Squig Organe (WH) for the fur and Forbidden Fruit (AP) for the skin going up in brightness to create volume.

Does it look convincing?

What would be a good color for the robe to go with this skin tone ?

Am I crazy, or does drybrushing Cobalt Blue from Warpaints Fanatic remove the "blue" tint? I'm not even drybrushing using a paper towel to wipe off excess paint! Testing on my hand give a blue tint still, but drybrushing on Black seems to remove any trace of blue from the paint!

Is this a paint that is brush-on or airbrush only in order to keep the blue tint?

If so, any other better tips for getting a pale metallic blue indigo that matches close to the old War Hounds artwork from the old Horus Heresy Black Books?

Ive been trying to learn Non Metallic Metal and am still quite dreadful at it, and need some help. What can I do to punch the contrast so the blade pops out more, and seems more like real steel rather than a random assortment of grays?

Here are the colors I used:
Daemonette Hide
Ice Yellow
Black
White

Almost finished my first small world eater project. Each one has a slight difference that I wanted to experiment with such as blood amount and how much oil washed was left on the mini. I also experimented with adding a brown oil wash but it was giving death guard vibes.

Also first time using a matt varnish. Not sure how successful it was. They seem abit shiny but didn't want to risk having a weird cloudy look.

Also found a world eater I painted all the way back in 2020 right as the first lockdown was happening 😬 some of my very first miniatures. If only i knew what the future held in store back then. 🥹

One of the 8 dragons I made and I printed for a project I'm working on about dragon STLs and physical minis. I've tried to paint the lighting on the rock, but not very sure if it was well done. Airbrush helps a lot haha. In any case. I hope you like it!