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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack of Shadows" data-source="post: 2555195" data-attributes="member: 3276">Hey There,I'm going to take a guess and say that you basecoat in white. If you want to improve the sense of depth try basecoating with black. Any bright colour areas will need to be painted white first with a heavy drybrushing (what I call a wetbrushing) with good coverage on the top and not so good in the cracks and crevaces. You'll find it will make a HUGE difference in the detail of the model. Also if you miss a spot it just looks like shadow instead of a an obvious white spot. Another trick is don't paint right to the seem between colours. This will leave a bit of a black line that makes the two areas seem seperate rather than merged together.Faces are a little trickier, I generally coat with a darker fleshtone (Vallejo has some really good ones) and then drybrush a lighter tone on top highlighting the cheeks, nose and brow. On male models I generally don't do anything with the lips. But for female models you can go with just about any colour you want depending how exotic you want. In general, though, use darker shades of red.Your metalics are a little too solid. I use a drybrush of either Chainmail or Gunmetal on a black basecoat and then highlight the edges with silver. If you really want to get fancy you can find guides on how to do non-metalic metals but I find the process to be generally more time intensive than I like.For your finishes I would suggest you get a bottle of gloss varnish to coat the areas you want to be shiny and then use a matte spray varnish to seal the model. It's a matter of preference though. Personally I think gloss varnishes make the model look plastic.In general, if you want to see a marked improvement without being a great artist, basecoat in black and master drybrushing. If you can do these, and be reasonably neat, then anyone can paint a good looking model.Jack</blockquote>

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