The goal is to do some semi-pro photoshooting of this whole army soon - but yes, the paintscheme isn't anything anybody would be impressed with up close. However, I feel the pictures do convey the same sense that the model does on the tabletop - which is my goal - and the owner is quite a fussy guy and he's happy, so they can't be that bad. The close up of An'ggrath gives you a better look at the actual detailed quality of the paintjob (they are all pretty much the same)
However, I do like to champion the point that there are really good options in painting styles / techniques to make armies look really good, really fast! It breaks my heart to see so many novices busting their balls getting sloppy results and ending up with mismatched, half-finished units and no army even after years in the hobby... generally because they are trying to follow some 'Eavy Metal expectation while staring that the model up close under a sharp light!
After all, for us gamers it is better to have a large, way cool army on the table top than a single nice model on the shelf!
Of course, there is more to the hobby than just a tabletop finish, but my experience is that those who paint their first army, get hooked to paint their second army even better, or to do that one special unit even better, or to compete in Golden Daemon with their next general model, and so on... it's like you need to help people out of the block in order to get them up and running... but now I'm ranting...
That being said, like I mention to Zac in a PM - I love hobbying and keen on learning more about fine scale modeling and getting better results... so I'm exposing myself to more critique and I read and consider comments and criticisms very carefully because I need the challenge to raise my game to not just "Way cool" but "that's amazing" - or at least I hope to get there with practice!
