An update...

With pictures! Here are the two completed marines out of the 5th Company's II Squad (I Squad is command). They're the first real tests of refining my technique. As always, I'm disappointed with the pictures. The flash picks out every goddamn flaw and color gradation that is not visible to the naked eye under normal light. Sigh. I need a better photo and lighting setup so I can dispense with the flash entirely...


Here is the squad's veteran sergeant. I'm quite pleased with the way his head turned out, with the sergeant stripe over the red veteran color. His eyes turned out pretty good, too. I'm starting to do the color layering on them and on the plasma pistol sight. The highlighting on the knees, shoulders, and gorget are the main parts I did. I'm trying to be a little more subtle about it than the "extreme highlighting" style that does every damn panel line.

I need to work on highlighting black parts; the straight gray doesn’t really work. I don’t know if you can see it, but there’s some subtle red highlighting on the chainsword. The purity seals on the backpack are made from greenstuff, as is the crusader seal on his shoulder. I’m getting a little more confident with the junk. Or at least I hope I am since I’ll need it for my Chappy.


I think I overdid the highlighting on this marine's shoulder so I'll probably go back and touch it up a little bit. Not much else to say about him. I've also started using actual squad markings on this company's marines. I know, I'm in danger of going Codex! Well, I decided I wanted to keep track of these guys.

I've got some of the bits I need for my Chaplain. Unfortunately, GW decided to choose now to be out of templar sprues and I have no idea when they'll be back in stock. So I may need to order the Mark IV torsos I need separately. After that, it's just a matter of waiting 'til the Dark Angels stuff comes out so I put him together.