Been playing PnP RPG's for a few years now and always used miniatures, however with Deathwatch this is the first time i have wanted to actually create one from scratch.

I must stress i have never played 40k TT so have no prior experience of building painting space marines but have always wanted to (just never had a good enough reason).

I decided to go for a Blood Angels Apothecary as i love the idea of the Blood Angels and also feel apothecarys (ies?) sometimes get a bit left out (even though i think they'd make an awesome character).

Looked around and found some sites that do space marine, deathwatch & apothecary bits (including eGay). Then i looked at a few images from both the core rulebook as well as peoples photo's where they've used deathwatch miniatures in the table top game, to get an idea of how i wanted to paint it.

Pictures are below and, i think for a 1st attempt, i've done pretty darn well. But, as i may well be playing Deathwatch for forseeable future i will no doubt be building more minis and any tips or advice on how i can improve any areas would be much appreciated.

Also i wanted him to have been a Blood Angel Death Company Apothecary hence the red cross on his knee.

As a side note, the white parts are not lumpy white paint but actually lightly ink-washed to look a bit grubby (lightness of pictures to blame).

Like it, may need to borrow your paints... Just got my mini!

Pretty good, a few tips.

To paint white you should start painting grey and then build up to lighter greys untin you reach white as a highlight.

For the metalic parts like the DW shoulder pad and arm a black wash and a then a dry brush with the same metalic collor would give it depth. (Wash is when you thin down your paint a lot it then paint will dry on the recess creating shadows, Drybrush is when you clean you brush on a paper towel until just little paint is left and brush it over the high parts of the miniature to create highlights)

For the black parts you could lightly drybrush the edges grey.

That looks soooo much better than the first space marine I ever painted that it's not even funny. Great job! I'm jealous.

Brother Apothocary Liandri Jaeger... appologies for low resoloution.

More vertical angle to get better perspective on the weathering used on the white areas.

Background!

www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp