Hello, here's a space marine head texture. The mapping was very hard, but I'm pleased with the result.

In-game:


Flat:

I don't like the bolts and the tubes, they look nice but try to remake the silver chrome? They don't fit the rest of the scratches and stuff... In short; More details to the silver parts

Reference (you posted) for bolts;

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs51/f/20...ardlynch77.jpg

More things;

The scratches doesn't look like scratches, they look like you just randomly accedently painted white strokes , try adding depth and the coloring going slightly inwards before it hits the silver metal.

Sharper edge shading would make it look more metallic too

difficult to make the mapping look right, marine helmets are flat, sphere's are not ideal =/
the tubes and side casing things could come up a bit, as could the eyes.

flat looks awesoem tho. and the texturing part is as good as always, youre sorta trademarking those scratch textures now

best spacemarine head I've seen i think . but still looks a bit strange

its realy nice
i had the same idea long time ago but i sux.
9.5/10

Blood Ravens are much more awesome then Ultra squad
9/10 just for wrong color scheme ;[

WWWWWWWWWRONG.!
ultramarines are the emporers personal squad.
blood ravens arent even a real squad. they were made up for dawn of war.
./correction

Is there a specific name for this shading your using

This is most likely the best result you can get on a sphere. Impressed as always Pate.

The tubes going to the mouth seem odd though. 9/10.

holy crap thats amazing head !! u should make a set.. that would be really nice and probably sell for a lot 20/10 man u always do good work.