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Ok I wanted to do a quick 750pt army to keep me going till guard come out. So I decided on a Eldar Ulthwe list.

Here are my fist models, the rest of my army got delivered today so I have until 2nd May to finish it all

The bases are not done yet but will be a snow/winter theme

what other models are you going to get?
eldar vehicles are fantastic so i'd get some of them!

It all arrived today, im putting it together now

10 x guardians
10 x storm guardians + Warlock

6 x banshees

2 x war walkers

1 x wraithlord

1 x farseer

pics would b great

Very nice solid looking guardians.

Did you build up the bone colors per normal? (browns > bone > white)

I'm thinking that my Eldar will be Ulthwe when I finally get to them. It's a nice quick scheme thanks to the black armor...With plenty of chance for great freehand details.

Can't wait to see you press this force into service over such a short period of time ^_^!

Nice and clean with the paint there. And the snow is going to be a very nice contrast.

grey_death wrote:Very nice solid looking guardians.

Did you build up the bone colors per normal? (browns > bone > white)

I'm thinking that my Eldar will be Ulthwe when I finally get to them. It's a nice quick scheme thanks to the black armor...With plenty of chance for great freehand details.

Can't wait to see you press this force into service over such a short period of time ^_^!

Thanks, the bone is even quicker,

Bleached bone > sepia wash > bleached bone.

Im doing them in threes, i got 3 more done last night and stuck the wraith lord together (which took a lot longer than i thought it would!)

The grey high lighting is the bit that takes the time!

Im going for a good table top finish on them and im excited to see them all finished

I really haven't anything to ad exept this:

AWESOME PAINTJOB!

Are these just painted black with space wolves grey highlights?

They are sprayed black, the highlight is codex grey then washed with a black was to take the edge off the high light.

goffnob - Thanks

how do youget the wash so subtle with mine it just wipes away all detail!

I use it out of the pot but i wipe quite a bit away before I apply it to the model!

Lo.

i do the winter bases for all of my models and to me the simple and effective way to do it is:
before painted: put modeling sand and other decorations on and spray black,
painting: drybrush sand codex gray
flocking: put PVA glue in 1-2 places on the base and "dip" the base in the games workshop snow
hope this goes well


-SoL

Ta for the tip, but im experimenting with some different ideas at the moment

I got some snow flock from RtRM today and a death jester - god that is one cool model

Ok , update time!

Ive finished the Guardian squad and have stuck the Storm squad together. Ive decided to up the army size to 1500pts but i don't think i will get all that done by May - but you never know

Anyway here are the current pics. C&C welcome but please remember this is a table top standard army and the bases will all be done when the core troops are painted

Wow Eldar has changed a bit since the last time I painted them. That was.....almost 10 years ago lol

I like the scheme, simple, crisp, effective and strong.


Kudos.

I do bone the same way as you do. Although I highlight it with 25/75 skull white and bleached bone.

archont wrote:I like the scheme, simple, crisp, effective and strong.


Kudos.

Thanks for that, i want it to be strong and look clean on the table as a whole army.

Ive just assembled a war walker so ive almost got 750pts put together now

are you going to stop at 750?
if so why?

deadly chicken wrote:are you going to stop at 750?
if so why?

No you silly sausage! You didn't read my post did you?

Ive decided to up the army size to 1500pts but i don't think i will get all that done by May - but you never know

The remaining stuff to get to 1500 should (cross fingers) arrive today - it was meant to come yesterday but GW did not deliver to my FLGS

The next 750pts arrived today! Oh how i wish i was not working so much this weekend!

Here is a quick snap of the delivery

oooooooooooo
looking good

question are you going to give the aspect warriors the ulthwe colors or their own traditional colors?

first up i dont know anything about eldar models but i do know that you have a very nice simple paint scheme that works well, and will look even better with snow bases.

Also i think the trick to a good eldar army is the pose of the models. unlike orks and SM etc etc they have to be war like AND gracefull. poised to strike and i think you have acheived that very very well here.
great work and i look forward to seeing more

thanks

phill

and i Got my Black Reach.
we both curse RTRM's order according to the owner

gennadius wrote:question are you going to give the aspect warriors the ulthwe colors or their own traditional colors?

No they will be tradition colours.

However as i only have Dark Reapers and Banshees these are in black and bone colours anyway so they will blend with the army. The main colour will come from a troop of harlequins!

Thanks for the interest

SonsOfLoki wrote:and i Got my Black Reach.
we both curse RTRM's order according to the owner

He said its your fault, whenever you order its delayed

Phil - thanks for the comments on the posing

I'm sure these new boxes will look great once painted.

Ok small update time!

All my 750pts is not assembled and undercoated.

I played my first test game last night against marines.

Im pleased to say they won and well! By turn 3 it was all over. Admittedly he his drive his razorback towards by banshees and get out so next turn I charged them and wiped them all out!! In honor of this the helmet on the base will be painted in his colour scheme

Anyway here is a pic of the next finished squad.