Chaplain / Grey Knight Librarian

[pie_masters]

I'm slowly working on getting an 8 for a submission and just finished painting my terminator chaplain. It's painted using a red & white colour scheme to match with my grey knights to act as a librarian, even though the plate armour is painted black (the model looks so much better in black than silver).

Could use your advice on how to get a higher rating as it looks like i'll be lucky to scrape a 6 atm :/

I've been focusing on thinning my paints a lot on this model compared to those in the past and getting the shadow and highlighting right.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/312990
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Just so you can see here's the last few submissions I've entered to compare to (they will all be in the same army):
http://www.coolminiornot.com/311325
http://www.coolminiornot.com/311291
http://www.coolminiornot.com/310626

 

[freakinacage]

I'd add more contrast to the lava, maybe thin the paint slightly more. Otherwise, it's definitely a step in the right direction

 

[supervike]

Actually, I think what the lava needs is for the rocks to have a reddish underglow.

But this is some very nice paint!

 

[pie_masters]

Thanks for the comments, the lava does have more contrast than shown in the photos, it could maybe be seen from a top down angle. I would really like to add a glow but I've only seen it done via airbrush and when I've tried it just looks messy like I missed the base and painted the rock. This is my best attempt at it: http://www.coolminiornot.com/311292 Any suggestions on how to get a good effect without an airbrush?

The thinning looks a lot better and you can't see any roughness in person like you could spot with my other work, but I noticed it looks a little rough on the skull and maybe the white areas in the photo so I'll keep working on that in the future but i'm a lot happier this time round!

Thanks for the tips!