They look great in the natural light, (Not something I say about smurfs often) The darker blue is very nice

For alternative heads have a look at maxmini steam knights heads some nice options that fit perfectly with the more ornate HH helms, I've put a couple on my ECs

http://www.maxmini.eu/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=60

By the way, the imperium is finished, Macragge will burn...

 

Thanks

I've seen those helms and I do like them especially the fourth one, but the problem is I may want to play with the army in my local GW store and they don't allow none GW pieces to be used :S

By the way, We March for Macragge!

 

I've constantly thought that a unit of Praetor Ultramarines would be fun to model. You've done a fairly good job with the helmets. Kinda hard to see. Sucks your store is kinda fanatical like that.

I'd have to do it with a whole mish-mash of expensive bits though, lol. MkV legs, modified MkVII torsos, etc.

I imagine eventually we'll see the Praetor helmets from Forge World (or at least what we assume are the Praetor helmets, since they've never actually been shown named as such). Seems like there's too much potential money there to not make them.

 

For decent pics, don't use flash. You want the light falling on the model from the same direction you're shooting (so no backlighting them).

And use natural light (take shots outside) if you've been painting in natural light, but not in direct sunlight. Try for a covered area.

If you've been painting in artificial light, use artificial light for the pics since they won't look their best under natural light.

 

I use a natural light bulb, so not sure whether it comes under natural life as technically it's artificial

Could I ask a question about bases, I got some bases from ebay, they are pavement looking with little ruined craters in it, atm I've painted it grey, given it a wash and a couple of dry brushes but it's not very prominent, does any one have any suggestions as to how I can improve them?

 

You're going to need to define "grey." And what color did you drybrush with?

For comparison, for my concrete barriers and such, I used Codex Grey (Dawnstone in the new range), wash with Badab Black and Devlan Mud (my concrete's dirty), light drybrush with Codex Grey, and highlight edges, chips, and the like with a 1:1 Codex Grey:Skull White.

 

Ah I try that then, thanks I started off with a dark grey, adeptus battlegrey in the old range, then washed it with nuln oil and then dry brushed it with codex/dawnstone but it's not very prominent.

 

Does anyone know what the common hair colour of the Ultramarines? Was it blonde? I'm painting my Eikos Lamiad at the moment and I'm not sure what colour to do his hair.

 

Ultras are usually Blonde or Brown Haired.

 

Here's my take on Eikos Lamiad