That\'s exactly what I\'m saying. Paint several models with nothing but careful application of base colours. Nothing more, just the basics. Focus on getting that as neat as possible.
Once you have improved your brush control, you can go back to them and start to work at shading and highlighting those base colours, but before you do, you need the solid, smooth basework done first.
It might sound a bit boring, but it\'s the first step to getting better.
And I hope you don\'t feel like I\'ve set out on a mission to just rip you apart here, but you have stated some very lofty goals, and the only way you are going to get anywhere near to them (in my opinion at least) is through frank, honest and hopefully constructive criticism.
If you had just come on as a standard noob showing off your work I\'d have been nicer, but as you\'re trying to be the youngest Slayer Sword winner ever, the gloves have to come off somewhat with regards to how I view your efforts!
Keep at it though. And using John Blanche as inspiration is certainly not a bad thing as far as GD success. If you could boil his style and influences into a very well painted entry then you\'d put yourself well in the judges favour. He pretty much epitomises the GW world and background in his works, and that\'s what a GD winning entry is all about.
