Red Vior\'la Tau scheme - opinions desperately needed!

[emopainterguy]

I think the color scheme you\'ve used for the last couple pictures is absolutely perfect. I love it, the reds look fantastic. Great job.

 

[Thecadian]

ditto above.these lates ones are spot on great stuff

 

[demonherald]

very nice indeed and a couple of things that will help me with what problems to sort with my photography..

 

[MPJ]

Nice use of reds for sure. My only two areas to improve would be:

The base which IMHO needs a little darker in the recess (perhaps a brown ink wash to start with) and perhaps one more layer of highlight

The red on the guns which doesn\'t quite seem to match the red on the armor (and it should). The red on the guns looks darker than the armor and initially I thought this to be perhaps because it was either painted over black on the gun and white on the armor OR not as many layers of red were used on the gun. Now I\'m thinking (after viewing the additional pictures that the smaller surface areas of red on the gun have finer highlights (as they technically should) than the larger surface areas of the armor. I would say you could/should overhighlight the reds on the gun to compensate and bring it up to visually matching the armor, a little trick on the eyes.

Anyway, that\'s just my two cents. Really these are excellent paint jobs and will make for a very nice looking army.

 

[Boyd]

Bloody great colour scheme! (pun unintentional). I\'m not that keen on the bases though, two stones, three stones..they\'re too similar.

 

[Thecadian]

yeah try some mediam stones smaller then the rocks on your bases and put these on instead of the big ones.it will balance it out better