the last couple of days have seen me returning to the painting table after a 6 year hiatus (much to my shame...). I sold my original BA army to fund a ring for the lady in my life and never got serious about painting another army until this most recent BA release gave me another itch to scratch.
I have never used a shade/wash before mostly due to the amount of work, patience/skill/technique it required. I decided that this would be the best army I will have ever painted and went about learning how to shade and highlight. Putting all of that into practice was a bit painstaking at first, but I've found my groove and the results, while not professional by any stretch, are very much to my liking.
The best part is that this would appear to be the most difficult part of painting a BA assault marine. This is also most of the red (oh man I am sick of painting red at the moment...) and I now get to look forward to using other colors which is a relief and a much needed break.