Firedrake Cordova

Just an FYI, the current line of Shade paints use Contrast Medium as their base (the older versions in the bigger 24ml pots used a different base). If you heavily thin a Contrast paint, it can make a good wash (Basilicanum Grey is a good candidate, thinned about ~7:1). Also, some of the Contrast paints are rather flat, but heavily pigmented - Imperial Fist is a very flat yellow, that can be used to gain coverage, for example.

He looks great! What happened with the banner must be very frustrating.

They're all great, but I especially like the duel dioramas With the Palanite vehicle, you're right - in one of the Warhammer Crime novels (I want to say Grim Repast of Wraithbone Phoenix, but that might be wrong), they discuss the Sanctioners using something akin to a Rhino/Chimera cross, so I imagine they'll have some other things, too.

They look good, although it's a shame the images aren't bigger. If the Infernus marine needs a chapter icon, can I suggest Salamanders? Not that I'm biased or anything ...

I like that you're giving them all background. You're off to a good start. Can I ask what colour you're using for the light "silver" metallics? (e.g. Zauriel's sword) The reason for asking is that it looks like you're having some coverage issues - I'm wondering if it would be helpful to mixing some Leadbelcher in to increase coverage, and then going over it again with the lighter silver to get a solid coat.

He looks great!

That is quite the lucky eBay find!

The other option is to mix the Shade paint 1:1 with Contrast Medium, which will make it gravitate towards the recesses a bit more, although it will reduce the strength of it (so you may need 2 coats). When you're happy with your brush control and ability to pick out small details, you can come back and add in highlights (by building up brush control by applying base coats on more models, and then coming back to the first models and adding highlights, it should hopefully be less annoying as you're likely to make fewer mistakes).

Titus is pretty rude, isn't he? The Broodlord just wants to perch on his pipe and play with his Space Marine helmet squeaky toy, and Titus goes and tries to chop him up ... how inconsiderate On a more serious note, it's a nice duel diorama

It's useful to see errors in the image from the camera (i.e. missed bits or paint on the wrong bits), but I'm firmly of the point of view that if I can't then see the issue highlighted without optical aids, it doesn't matter.

I imagine it feels a bit like painting the Forth Bridge. (I once painted a 2nd Ed Rhino with a size 4 or 5 brush - that was bad enough, so you have my sympathies!)

I like the addition of the cloak (the old sniper scouts were always my favourites)

Nice work - the cloak on the eliminator came out really nice

The grimy surface, chipped paint (e.g. on the cannon barrel), and camo are all really nicely done The dreadnought trim looks good, too, although I can imagine it was a pain to do with all of the rivets and triangles ...

I really like the homage to the old command squad sergeant