My experimentation with Space Marines and the air brush!!! Part II

Here are some more pix! With tanks! What? Did Some one, say Tanks!!!!!!

Hmmm... me like! It all looks good, specially the tanks! Something bothered me... but I could not figure it out for a little while. Then I got it!

When you paint a vehicle, REMOVE (or cover) the details bitz, such as backpacks, ammo crates, boxes, etc. Paint the cammo on the tank and the botz separate. Then glue the bitz. Why? Because if we had a real tank that we paint cammo, we would do the same. All boxes and stuff we will put on the tank would be painted separate. Same goes with the 'drivers'. Easier to see in this pic...



You see those bags? They 'deserve' to be cammo (since they are so big), but they can't follow the pattern of the tank (after all, they get moved around). I know I'm being super picky (or petty?) but the work has GREAT potential!

My other suggestion (again with the details...) some of the 'colored' items seem to shinny. I know... the nature of the 'wash'. I suggest you drybrush them with the item base color (if light) to tone the shine off.

All in all... AMAZING work! Thanks for schooling me on the power of the air-brush!

No problem constructive criticism is always welcome! I was going to make them Dark Angels?????? But??? They do not fit the color scheme of my Ultra-Marines

Your scheme is AWESOME! By painting the shoulder pads Dark Angels Green and adding some iconography, you can put it off nice. This could be a specialized sub-Chapter that dedicates their existence hunting down the traitors on this region of space, in which desert planets are predominant.

These guys hae been on my back burner for years! I just dug them out to show pix of my minis! Plus I am working on my Imp's right now, and a have some Ultra Marines that need there final details to be complete! LIke I have said before I have been working on my 40 K minis off and on! But Death Squads and a few of you have Relit my passion for painting and to improve my techniques! And most of all fall back it to the world of 40 K!

For the EMPEROR!!!!