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Looks nice just out of curiousity do you always paint on a black primer and if so, why? Any special reason behind that?

p1per wrote:Looks nice just out of curiousity do you always paint on a black primer and if so, why? Any special reason behind that?

I am painting on both, black and white undercoat, depends on colour scheme. If there's lot of black and lots of deep shadows, I prefer black. But I don't think it's something highly important...

Some progress on Blood Angel Terminator - few things left, then several touchups and done...

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And new miniature on my desk - Sgt. Connot, Serpentian Heavy Infatry, Dark Nova Series, Andreaq Miniatures. Just testing resin copy of it before I start working on original bought in Ingolstadt. This copy isn't really good in details, some of then are unsharp, some are missing, But still got some fun painting it...

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So far so good, I might concider making stronger shadows. What do yiu think?

sea.man wrote:So far so good, I might concider making stronger shadows. What do yiu think?

Of course, this is just the beginning.

Some progress on Sgt. Connor - armour on his back. What I really hate about this mini is the bac with its clean lines, curves and surfaces, looks like an old timer car to me, not kind of space marine. So I've paintet that numbers on it to break the space apart a bit.

Not sure about that right now, but will see later. Need to finish upper part of the body now...

That's a nice idea to break up those big, clean surfaces.

In my opinion the lines between the different plates on his back are far too thick. I guess it will look much better if you are going to thin those close to a non visible, dark line.

Anyway, I bow your bravery painting such a huge "mini". Can't wait to see more progress.

I absolutelly agree with you, but too bad - those big thick lines are sculpted/carved into the surface Will see if I could hide or make them thinner somehow...

10tacles wrote:That's a nice idea to break up those big, clean surfaces.

In my opinion the lines between the different plates on his back are far too thick. I guess it will look much better if you are going to thin those close to a non visible, dark line.

Anyway, I bow your bravery painting such a huge "mini". Can't wait to see more progress.

Front view on armoured collar. Dark places on sides will be covered with shoulderpads...