Raven Guard Test

[Strata]

For a short while now i've had a small bug that's been bothering me to paint something black. I've ended up, mostly though fluff settling on the Raven Guard being the prime test legion. So i went ahead and i fished out an old unpainted marine that i had sitting around. While i would have liked to use a less.. ornimented one, i had to make due with what was available to me at the time.  I would like to get some ideas, mostly to the black armour, if anything could be added to make it better. And i am more so going for Forgeworlds method of painting, where not everything is popped out with edge highlighting.

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/12/21/845265_sm-T1.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/12/21/845266_sm-T2.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/12/21/845267_sm-T3.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/12/21/845268_sm-T4.JPG

[Race Bannon]

Nice! More please :yes:

[Claws and Effect]

For Raven Guard, I like to just leave the black....well, black.

 

There's something in the fluff to the effect of their armor absorbing light rather than reflecting it.

[Strata]

Nice! More please :yes:

I'd love to show off some more, but unfortunately I don't have any right now. Though I do have some mk 4 I was holding onto for another project. Maybe I should reperpous them.

 

For Raven Guard, I like to just leave the black....well, black.

There's something in the fluff to the effect of their armor absorbing light rather than reflecting it.

I do want the idea to be that they look black, but I can't help but find that just leaving it as a black Basecoat looks unfinished, even with other details blocked in.