This is how it looked on Saturday night. As you can see I've based all of the painted models, everything is off the spues and undercoated. Spore mines finished (apart from one escapee that needs basing.) But now its 2 days later. All my gene stealers are finished, and I've even done the bases. I'm much happier with the finish of the red on these. I think what i was doing wrong was failing to reset the red base colour after the shadow coat (Chestnut ink) I also managed to mix the right shade of pink for the highlights, and it has a real, dried gone off raw chicken look about it now, which I'm happy with. So all that was left was the remaining marines, which I think I had been putting this off as I was bothered as to how intricate they were. The first three I had done I took ages putting the base coat on, while letting some of the black show through. This time I decided to wet brush the blue on, that is, use a drybrushing technique with more paint on the brush. This left the concave detail black, but left a brighter blue color on the models. I'll have to black ink some of the detail back in, but it was much quicker for the batch painting I was wanting to do. My real life now needs to retake priority over my painting, so probably no updates for a while - but I've made some progress over the last week no doubt.