Wip: Ultramarines -and skitarii of course-!

Hi!
I know that I should finish my Skitarii but recently are arrived a lot of new funny toys so I could not resist to try them.

I started to paint my first space marines with airbrush!

The work is not very simple: i spent a bit of time in understand how much water down the colours and the distance to paint.

I  decided to try the classical Ultramarine painting scheme but I really cannot stand the gold / blue scheme, so I decided to use metal instead of gold.

The result are quite interesting to be the first minis, and I want underline that the shadows are painted, not given by light!

Surely I should understand how much add light because after this, I suppose that a bit more could be better.

As you can see I did not resist to add some scratch and spot and I suppose I'll add also other weathering etc.

Clean the airbrush is very messy, I should improve it and also use a mask: a lot of colour is flying around you and smell it is not very fun, also if it is water based so not toxic!
After a day I remeber that I got this nice colour:

This could be a nice compromise between the classic gold and my metal: so I decided to use it -with other colours of course-, the only leadbelcher is not sufficient for them.

I know that those are not too much dgd, but this is my first airbrush job, I must learn the bases then I'll bend it!
The white gold gives a less tawdry looking to them - I do not like iper gold, if you remember my stormcast eternals LoL- and I really love those range of metals, but they are going to destroy your brush if you decide to use them.

The Skitarii is going a bit slowly but the rangers are finally finished- soon the showcase- the dominus and the pan-head robots (did not remenber the name) have almost finished base, here a partial finished army shoot!

 I can see the light out at the end of the tunnel!!!

What do you think?