Painting Progression

Here is a photo of miniatures of progression from beginning to most recent finished Blood Angels. From the previous post I spoke about how Jawaballs How-To videos helped me improve my technique, well I thought I would show you the improvement.

You can see that the far left miniature is just a bare bones basic coat with no real detail. He is apart of my first blood angels tactical squad I ever painted. The second is with an assault squad I painted immediately after the frist tactical squad. My skills improved a little but not that much.

The real first notice of detail is in the 3rd miniature. I started to watch Jawaballs videos and began using washes "GW washes :(". The 4th miniature was also an improvement as I became more experienced with painting the finer details of space marines (which we all know can be a complete hell).

Lord Dante was the first test of my skills. I was determined to have him be the best looking model on the table. Even against other players. I spent hours working on him and began to understand layering and shading that much more. How to get the exact color you want with you miniature and the proper use of shading.

My Sanguinary guard model was the first mass production use of my Lord Dante techniques. I used the same process that jawaballs teaches with dante for my sanguinary guard. I got faster and better. I still feel Lord Dante is my best painted miniature but this is a time improvement.

Lastly, is the awesome thunder hammer death company blood angel. He was an idea for a small conversion I saw on pintrest (yea was a google search for conversion ideas). I hit the finer details and not having to do layering and was very quick at it by this point. He is by far one of the coolest models I have. When I play people they are complementarity about this one marine, as he is unquie and finely painted.

I hope you see what practice and determination can do for even the most novice of painters. I will post a miniature showcase with my Power Weapon Death Company Squad tomorrow. So stay tuned and you can comment on how things look and possibly give ideas to improve.

Commander Andrews