Diamonds pattern challenge

Painting requires all sort of skills, and here is one which pretty much only space elves fans acquire, painting diamond patterns!
So I want to see what you are made of, get out of your comfort zone and show us your best diamond patterns.

Does it have to be diamonds, or will any type of check pattern be acceptable?

Paul / Golgfag1

I've played about with stripes and (sort of) checks on orcs before ...



But on close inspection it's all a bit wonky.



I always blame the fact that I am never painting one figure carefully, but always seem to be working on 20 - 50 figures to a deadline.

^Padre

There's a quality all its own to quantity. And they look great at table distance. None of my stripes and checks would bear inspection with a magnifying class well, I suspect. That's really quite impressive, particularly alltogether like that.