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Sooooo after lurking for what feels like an eternity on here, I finally got to making some pictures of the stuff I currently work on. Sadly I don't have more to show, since my stuff is all deposited at the gaming-club I attend several times a week....

So anyways, I always wanted my stuff to be critiqued by the pros, paints used are mostly some really cheap brand of stuff I found in a hardware store when I was really short on money. Stuff dries to a silklike-shimmer, and barely covers anything (wich is great for layering and being able to screw up over and over, while it's still not really visible^^).

Sorry for bad english, if it appears so, but I'm german, so there might be some stuff seeming odd to you guys



That's the right wing of the Falcon I'm working on, the center rune came from the DE-codex, the others are more or less self invented. Sadly, as you might see, theres little drops of black paint all over that thing, since I had it too close to where I was applying the basecolour for my other stuff.... :(
Top part, the glowing line following the wing, is in no way finished and seems to be far to thick for my liking, still work in progress



The Dragon, other wing of the Falcon. His wing will spread over the left side when you look at the falcon, i covered up the air-intake as to paint the wing on top. Neck and Head of the Dragon are more or less done, some minor mistakes, fire is almost done. The rest of the body will swirl over the front of the falcon, looping around the right air-intake.
Aimed for a kind off asian-style-dragon, since all the other stuff has been done by everyone and his grandmother. Runes on the lower left are in no way done.



Exodyte! I always wanted to have some, so I picked up some Highelve's-Chariots and converted Exodytes riding lions, since the "we-ride-dark-elves-raptors" has been done to much already. In normal games this guy and the others of his kind will be used as stormguardians. I never had any, and didn't want them to look just like guardians, so here you go. He's a kitbash of basically just the darkelves-corsairs sprew and the guardian-sprew. The other Exodytes (pics to follow) also incorporate parts of the highelves archers, the chariot-guys, darkeldar and so forth.



His backside, I enjoyed doing the scales on that thing and tried to keep them brown-ish while still having them be green... in a way to loosen up all of those colors and for it to not be simple brown all over.



One of my firedragon-exarchs. I own 2 squads of the very antique ones, and loved them! But I always wanted to field 3 squads, as well as having all the options available, so I got to pick up one of the newer squads and digged the models. Compared to the old ones, those have magnificent detail... and tower almost half a head higher than their older equivalents He's done for the most part, only thing that will get some major touch-up will be the extensions to the runes on his helmet.



His backside, nothing spectacular.




So, here it is, my first post



Critique and Comments would be highly appreciated!

hey, brillant work, gob smackingly good, have you got a picture of the whole tank?

Heyhey,

Models look very dusty, maybe the pic's maybe your paint effect.
Great work on all models.
Love the idea with the DE cape's worked out well.
Converting makes the model that little bit extra special.
Layering needs very liquid paint so your in luck.
To much layers can be messy, so watch out.

Good job on free hand dragon.
HIGH LIGHT IT PLEASE.
Now looks painted on poorly highlights will give the more real effect.

Overall great work


Greet typhoon

First time post. First time wow!!!!!

SamG123: thanks man! Yes I do, but it's in such an unfinished state, I'm rather ashamed of showing it...^^

Typhoon: Thanks, the dusty is in part due to the falcon really being dusty (...) [edit: and, for a big part, probably due to me being dumb enough to juse JPG for the pictures and then making them smaller (my dad's cam makes ridiculously huge pics), next pictures will be .png for good quality), the rest is due to the camera, the models should have a satin-like surface, though it doesn't really show on the pics.
I will sure go on highlighting that dragon, thanks, and to many layers can really be messy, you're right^^

model collector: lol thx^^



As for the Falcon... the filling up of the air-intake is in no way done or final, and as you might see: He had quite some layers of paint on himself before i got him, then i tried to get something yellow to work (i will, however, keep the yellow surrounding the right air-intake), before getting back to black + painting stuff on top. So, here's the whole falcon:






Thanks for the replys everyone!

That tank is looking great, and I love the red on your fire dragon.

looks really great so far

Stunning frehand and great work on that converted guardian.

I love the tank bro, lookin' great so far.

Very much liking the Falcon, Keep up the work!

WOW
Id hate having an army that pretty, because Id get mad any time something got blowd up

I love the runes on the tank, but the FDragon looks a bit too bland. I would work in a brighter red and then an orange over it. Though that is just my preference. Exodyte looks good, but the same can be said. Just brighten it up a bit, unless it is the camera toning down the colors or your preference.

em_en_oh_pee wrote:I love the runes on the tank, but the FDragon looks a bit too bland. I would work in a brighter red and then an orange over it. Though that is just my preference. Exodyte looks good, but the same can be said. Just brighten it up a bit, unless it is the camera toning down the colors or your preference.

In contrast to that I think the FD looks amazing. Cannot wait to see it finished.

Excellent work all around.

Great painting! Especially the runes on the grav tank!

I wish I could paint like that.

Anyway, those really are stunning eldar WIP's

welcome aNd great job!

Very nice indeed. keep us posted!
/Martin

one work. WOW. Keep up the great work

Thank you all very much for the kind welcoming and friendly replies
I didn't get anything done on the Falcon since the greenstuff is currently drying, got done with the helmets of all the firedragons.

em_en_oh_pee: I did the Exarch in a darker colour on purpose, he's supposed to be older, more battle-hardened, more sinister etc. The regular firedragons will be in a much brighter red, I promise ^^


So, here's 3 of the 7 bikes I'm working on (the other 4 don't have anything on them but the basecolour and then highlighted the nose-part where the paintings on these 3 are, so they're just basecoated and unworthy of pictures )


strangely I can't see that one in the preview of this post... well it's not done, the white-rais originating from the "ying-yang-sun" need touch ups, the yellow is in no way satisfying.



This one is more or less done with the Front, I already did some testing on the wings... I like it^^ The white lines between the symbolicstuff on the top doesn't show in real, I have no idea why it comes out so strongly in the photograph, but I gues I'll have to touch up those as well.



That one will be very simple, just some glyphs added to the black / white lines, those lines straightened out and I'm done



Next step will be the Pilots

Everything looks great! As one of the afore-mentioned "dark elf on cold ones" exodite players, your conversion is a nice change. I too used the dark elf corsair cloaks, but for my exodite warlock squad.

I think the paint jobs are ace... the bone/brown color of the exodite storm guardian is very nice - I like the green scales over brown on the cloak in particular - and the fire dragon has a kind of smouldering-ash effect that I find very appealing. Highlighting or brightening the red would ruin that effect and I discourage you from doing so.

Your freehand is great, considerably better than my own and I love the runes and the dragon on the falcon. I would have stripped the previous color from the falcon before painting over it though.

Outstanding work!

Keep us posted.

Wow. Very nicely done. I need to work on my freehanding. :p

simply incredible.

Wow and that right there is why I can't play Eldar because to do them well you have to be a great painter like yourself well done.

Ah, makes sense. The Exarch would need to stand out, so darker works. The Bikes I am not keen on, but I have unrealistic standards:



Not mine, but wow.

Wow that bike is ridiculously good!

Unfortunately I'm not too good of a modeller and therefore can't model structures like that on my miniatures - i paint them! ^^


There'll probably be something tonight, some of my Harlequins if I get some done by tonight

*doublepost* lol

I got some work done on my harlequins, namely the first 4 whom I finished tonigh basically, although sadly, due to being used on the tabletop prior to being done / coated, there's some spots where the paint came off -.-'

That's the harlequins:


I liked him, sinister, nice, awesome model - the "vanilla-style" ---> how they painted him in the 'dex, was almost perfect, so I barely changed a thing there, except for decorating the gunbarrel a little bit



I loved him! That robe over his head, the masque on his belt, everything, awesome model and fun to do - especially bringing green and red together really smoothly.




Okay those two are only normal harlequins, but I liked the flashy colors and the whole dynamic energy within those models. I'm still unsure wether or not to try doing a checkers-style one, since 1) everyone does that and b) it's alot harder than simply doing one color and then some ornamental stuff on top^^


And the next two exodites I'll be painting. The left one lacks a certain something, and although you can't see it from this perspective (and I'm too lazy to take another picture, you'll see when he's painted / I correct it) his neck is far too long. The other one though with the sun-glasses-guardian-helmet and the lionfurcoat plus darkeldar splinterpistol and corsair arm with blade - I love him, and look forward to painting him^^




Critique and Comments are, as always, more than welcome!

Sweet! love the Eldar with the lionfurcoat.

What did you use for that furcoat and lionhead?

It's a simple kitbash using stuff out of the high-elves chariot ^^

There will be some more pics tonight, if I get done with the yellow area on the Falcon :-/ hopefully^^

Hey everyone ^^

Got some more Firedragons done, 2 to go - and I'm not quite sure what to paint on their helmets / armours.


Got any ideas for the ornamentics to do? Feel free to add a few comments, I need some Ideas to keep every armour distinctive and individual ^^


All of them are basically black / red / white / Metal in some way or the other, although I did alter the kombination on the armour to keep them different while still looking like belonging together. The Tabards are a very cold contrast to the otherwise warm and dark red stuff on them, so they break up the wall of red quite nicely, I believe.



Critique welcome

edit: Lol, the attachments didn't quite like me... -.-'


Okay here goes:

1) The exarch you already know

2) The first Dragon, instead of layering while mixing in more and more red into the black basecolour i thinned down the red paint immensely and then applied more and more - got a kind of glow like effect. Sadly, the ornamentals on the Helmet are not as visible as I'dve liked, the bronze-tone isn't too suited, i believe.

3). Second Dragon, simple black to red layering / mixing (sry, I have no clue about the vocabulary belonging to certain techniques, I simply do stuff, no matter what books say / not reading anything about it). The ornamentals got a tribal look, wich i like. As with all of them I tried to catch the image of perfectionist warriors with a lot of freetime and skill, thus surely individualising their armours.

4) last two pics are two perspectives on my yingyang-Dragon. Went with a metal - to - red colour for the armour, liked the yingyang alot, easy to paint stuff, quick and efficient.

like the use of fantasy parts