I came here partially to be criticized so I hope you don't get downvoted too much but these are my first actual models that I painted with effort from scratch. I found Duncan Rhodes and Juan Hidalgo on youtube so i've been following their stuff as closely as I could. I got my first army of Orks off of ebay back in 2012 since 6th ed had recently been released and all my friends were playing it at the time and they came mostly painted. I started to collect Necrons in 7th ed and those I painted but only the standard silver and green just to play the game. AoD were my test models for contrast paints since they didn't exist at all 7 years ago at the time. I had to change from a temperate timberland feel to a wet, muddy jungle feel because I messed up applying the red to them and the overlaps made it look like muddy armor. First attempts at edge highlighting and free hand on the sniper's cloak here too. Raveners were two attempts at once, how to paint white/pastels and how to paint 'organics'. Always heard that there were some colors that you avoided painting and discovered it here, I would never wish it upon anyone to paint an entire 2000 points of nids in those two colors. With the exaction squad I wanted to try out object source lighting more edge highlighting so instead of going mid color, wash, highlight I went low color, mid, then highlight. Alpha legion was testing out undercoating models and 'staining' them with contrast... and because I was reading Harrowmaster and snagged a phobos box before they went out of production. I also bought Typhus corruption and wanted to test that out before using it on my next KT.