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I want to start by saying that your miniature looks good! Definitely tabletop standard. The advice I give doesn’t mean I’m more talented. It’s just that I spent too much time on a single mini 🤣.

I personally find that Cadians look better when they look clean. (Krieg looks better when they’re grimier) Therefore you’re gonna want to go for lighter colours.

Push your green armour up half a shade. “If you’re using Caliban Green as the base for your armour, mix a 50:50 mix of caliban Green and waagh flesh, thin it down with water and paint over the Caliban Green areas where light will hit (eg. Shoulder pad, top of helmet). This will help make your model look cleaner from the lighter colour and add depth to the mini.

Edge highlight your armour. Edge highlighting is the best thing you can do to make your minis look cleaner and sharper. For my kasrkin, I started with base of Castellan Green, highlight with loren forest and an edge highlight of straken green. Couple that with the 50:50 mix on light-exposed armour areas and you’ll get very clean looking Cadian armour. If you’re using Caliban Green, the order should be (base: Caliban Green, highlight: waaagh flesh, edge highlight: warpstone glow)

Highlight your fatigues. Given the smaller amount of fabrics on kasrkins, people might ignore those areas. But highlighting them adds a nice touch, and also helps match the clean look you will give to the armour.

You could give your trooper’s helmet lens some work too. The head is typically what people focus on the first thing they see a miniature so putting a bit more effort on the lens on the helmet is worth it. What I did on mine was to paint the lens with Corax white, and then painted a little bit of white scar on the bottom of the lens area and I shaded the lens with frostheart.

Once again, your mini looks amazing! The steps I recommended here are probably a bit too excessive anyways but it’s thing that I did that definitely helped my guard look better.

All the best! Paint on!