Time passes, skills improve, people grow better, aaand paint dries!

So, my models have been so far a bit... meh, right? I figured I'd go back to them, when I had decided on the Bloodmaws, to do some fine-detailing. This was also after I'd checked out Games Workshop's painting tutorials, so I had learned quite a lot, from only those 4-5 videos...

Other than that, I noticed some interesting things in the paint jars... A lot of people reccommend a palette. And here's the reason why:

That's dried paint, scraped off from the inner edges of the lid. Now, before I adopted the palette, I used the lip, and scraped off excess paint onto the edge of the jar. That excess pain accumulated, and when you closed the lid, it started drying there... There will always be some small amounts of dry-age, but by using a palette you reduce it by quite a lot.

Also, watering down your paint, just a little bit, can do wonders. Here's an example of a Grey Hunter with a slightly watered down white, and a Blood Claw, whose white has NOT been watered down. On the left, two brush-fills of white on the palette, and a brush once dipped in water. On the right, just dry paint.

Other than that, let's jump into the models, and how I've touched up on them! As a note here, the Grey Hunters had nothing to "touch up on", as I watched the tutorials while painting them.

Wolf Guard Terminators

Before, no wash, no finer detailing, no company shoulder-markings.

After, applied some shader (Agrax Earthshade) to the faces, painted the shoulders white in wait for the Bloodmaw company-symbol transfers. Oh, and the leader's hair/beard got a re-do as well.

Blood Claws

Before...

And after. Applied shader in the faces, detailed their backpacks with Balthazar Gold, painted their left shoulders white, and fixed their red/yellow pack-marking on their right shoulder. I also drybrushed the plasma pistol in the same way I did the plasma gun on the Grey Hunters.

Krom Dragongaze

Before, he had his shoulders still in bone-white, his axe didn't have any highlights, and his detailings were a bit dull...

Final product! Drybrushed the axe with white, giving those upper edges a little sheen, painting the details with Gehenna's Gold, to differentiate him from the other troops, who have the more bronze-like Balthazar Gold!