Chumley, can I ask what painting experience you have?
You've only been in the hobby for a few years, right?
Started age 8 with some old school kit, humbrol etc, 40K aged 11 to 16 on and off, but my painting style lacked quality.
I recall aged 16 starting to paint a deathwing terminator quite well, and feeling i was about to get good!
Then women, d rugs , alcohol , study, university all took precedent,
I got back into this for the painting initially , with a quick spell in 2004 for a few months, but then again a couple of years ago,
Just ran with it as you can see from my PLOG,
the first models i painted 2+ years back were the Empire Plastic Knights,
you can see my effort in the PLOG at the start,
i didn't know the difference between panthers and reiksguard , so the shields and heads are all mixed up, but the colours and blue and yellow - nordland ish...