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khaine the betrayer wrote:I'm kinda lazy

you are lazy and:
- don't read the notice suggesting using RIMG when your image turns out to be too large
- expect people not to be lazy and comment on your works

oh my, that's a crazy world we live in...

Here are some pictures of the warcaster Sorcha from teh game Warmachine and a Dark ELdar Raider. Feel free to absolutly tear them apart.
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One tip, try watering down your paints... a lot.

I got my hands on some snow paste but after giving it a try it turned out to be quite ugly as can be seen on the base of the archer

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nevermind the snow now, better try to thin your paints and paint carefully.

as for snow - go to CofC main site and check the new tutorial on making snow bases

I think you'd do well to try and sort out your basic painting techniques first. Here are a few suggestions. These are aimed at helping you produce good quality tabletop miniatures. If/when you decide to enter competitions, you will find these may not cut it.

1. Thin your paint down a little. I'd suggest 2 parts paint to 1 part water. You'll need 2 coats of this to go on smoothly over a white or grey undercoat, and for particularly transparant colours like white and yellow possibly a third.

2. To avoid a silly number of layers over a black undercoat, mix the colour your want to end up with 1:1 with white and paint that as your first coat, then put two coats of the colour you actually want. This will give you back the coverage you need with thinned paint.

3. Focus on painting inside the lines. Below is a photo from the original Citadel "How to Paint Citadel Miniatures" book. This is no actual highlighting or shading (the photography implies a bit on the gold but ignore it), it's just neat, smooth basecoats.


Above photo (c) Games Workshop, used without permission

Once you have mastered Step 3, you can look at two techniques - drybrushing and washing - to add some highlights and shadows.

For drybrushing, the Citadel "How To Paint Citadel Tanks" has probably the best drybrushing article I've seen in a commerical book recently (visit your FLGS and have a read of it).

As for washes I'd suggest looking on the internet for an article or two, although look for the ones that show you have to use the pre-mixed washes as opposed to making them up yourself to begin with.

Putting it all together? I wrote a basic article a while back entitled "Speedpainting with Washes" which shows the results of a these simple techniques. You can find that by clicking the link above.

Hope this helps you out.

voyager's post is basically what we keep repeating all the time. if you're a beginner, take one step at a time. learn the basics, then add more complicated techniques. don't rush, noone paints like a pro from the beginning.