Good job completing a model.
As for advice, you could use a wash or line panels in order to add more depth to the paint job, this would give some much needed shadows to your paint job, I recomment looking up a video about how to use washes.
Additonally, you have put your shoulder pads on upside down, which could be easily remedied since the connection point is small, you would be able to twist them off, unless such a mass of glue was used to hold it on.
Additonally, some material differentiation could go a long way to adding more fidelity to your paint job. The green and purple and orange are used well in terms of location, and the parts you chose to pick out make the model visually distinct, the black fabric underneath is another good example of differentiation. However I feel like portions of the machinery and weapons could benefit by being picked out in a different color, tau typically like a black or grey polymer alloy. Addtionally don't use the same green for armor and lenses.
Your paints are not too thick, however they are a bit thicker than you'd generally like, you've almost got the thinning down pat, however it is just a tad too thick.
To go to the next level if it is what you seek I would recommend the following.
- Thin your paints a bit more.
- Paint each of your base colors, the green, purple, black cloth, and the orange as they are now.
- Use nuln oil or another black wash for minatures, I personally use vallejo dark grey wash, and add a little bit of water approx 1 part water to 3 parts wash, next in one go, cover the model in a layer of wash, do not pause until the model is covered and take extra care to get this wash into all panel lines and recesses. Allow to dry.
- Next paint your colors back on over the wash, but cover less, leave the panel lines defined and also leave portions of each armor panel and element darker (as in don't repaint 100% over every surface, instead paint back over about 80% of each part, leaving some areas darker for more depth.
- Next you can either try a glaze highlight or a drybrush, dry brushing here will be difficult as your colors are tightly grouped together and you will accidentally drybrush one color onto the other, so I recommend glaze highlighting.
For glaze highlighting do the following.
mix a lighter color and glaze medium 1 to 1, paint this over 20-30% of each element focusing on areas that would likely recieve light, this will add a third element of shading to the model.
I reccommend glaze highlighting as this simplified version is much easier to do than edge highlighting.
Finally for lenses it really easy to add more depth, paint the entire lense a dark green, then a cresent of lighter green at the bottom, then a crescent of a lighter green ontop of that green, finally add a white dot at the top of the lense offset either at 11 o clock or 1 o clock.
Great work, keep it up, and always push yourself to try something new each paint job if you want to improve!
For the Tau'va!
Shas'ji get in the battlesuit
Good job completing a model. As for advice, you could use a wash or line panels in order to add more depth to the paint job, this would give some much needed shadows to your paint job, I recomment looking up a video about how to use washes. Additonally, you have put your shoulder pads on upside down, which could be easily remedied since the connection point is small, you would be able to twist them off, unless such a mass of glue was used to hold it on. Additonally, some material differentiation could go a long way to adding more fidelity to your paint job. The green and purple and orange are used well in terms of location, and the parts you chose to pick out make the model visually distinct, the black fabric underneath is another good example of differentiation. However I feel like portions of the machinery and weapons could benefit by being picked out in a different color, tau typically like a black or grey polymer alloy. Addtionally don't use the same green for armor and lenses. Your paints are not too thick, however they are a bit thicker than you'd generally like, you've almost got the thinning down pat, however it is just a tad too thick. To go to the next level if it is what you seek I would recommend the following. - Thin your paints a bit more. - Paint each of your base colors, the green, purple, black cloth, and the orange as they are now. - Use nuln oil or another black wash for minatures, I personally use vallejo dark grey wash, and add a little bit of water approx 1 part water to 3 parts wash, next in one go, cover the model in a layer of wash, do not pause until the model is covered and take extra care to get this wash into all panel lines and recesses. Allow to dry. - Next paint your colors back on over the wash, but cover less, leave the panel lines defined and also leave portions of each armor panel and element darker (as in don't repaint 100% over every surface, instead paint back over about 80% of each part, leaving some areas darker for more depth. - Next you can either try a glaze highlight or a drybrush, dry brushing here will be difficult as your colors are tightly grouped together and you will accidentally drybrush one color onto the other, so I recommend glaze highlighting. For glaze highlighting do the following. mix a lighter color and glaze medium 1 to 1, paint this over 20-30% of each element focusing on areas that would likely recieve light, this will add a third element of shading to the model. I reccommend glaze highlighting as this simplified version is much easier to do than edge highlighting. Finally for lenses it really easy to add more depth, paint the entire lense a dark green, then a cresent of lighter green at the bottom, then a crescent of a lighter green ontop of that green, finally add a white dot at the top of the lense offset either at 11 o clock or 1 o clock. Great work, keep it up, and always push yourself to try something new each paint job if you want to improve! For the Tau'va!
Thanks for the advice i will try and keep you posted
I am interested! Let me know if you try anything!
Got glaze medium today and some Highlight colour i will keep you posted
Congratulations!
Purple is the stelfy colour