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Background
So I have a been working towards 500 points of Eldar to start an escalation league in September and I want this to be a beautiful army (as opposed to an OP army). I have used the

I have basically completed (might do a bit more touchups still) a squad of jetbikes and have done most of the work on some Fire Dragons. The central motif is made with anarchy stencils and is supposed to look like a black hole. The army are intended to be a the eldar equivellent of a hive gang rather than a craftworld (hence the 1 human jetbike rider).

I also want to work on my freehand with this army.

Question
My latest purchase is the eldar battleforce, I have magnetised and base coated the waveserpent (See pic below) including the black hole motif. I don't like the cockpit, it looks frosted up and doesn't really go with the rest of my army. I am looking for suggestions on how I can proceede in terms of colours to make it fit in a bit better.

I also am having an issue with the fire dragons, I wanted their legs and guns to have sort of blue flames licking up their legs and down the guns but it really hasn't worked too well.

I have photoshoped a couple of options for the waveserpent to look at what I will pick out and the potential colours.

Well I decided that red looked ok as the offset colour and it has worked out pretty nicely.

I agree with the red. It creates a great contrast. Also, amazing work on the free hand

Thanks, hoping this eldar army will be good opportunity to improve my freehand and airbrushing skills.

For the rose I looked at rose tattoos, it seems like human skin being as difuse as it is, the techniques of where to put the colour and the limit to the scale of detail (at least with my mediochre skills) is similar.

I'd love to be able to do detail like this!:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/360728?browseid=9878915

But I think I have a long way to go heh.

I think a better transition between the barbed wire and plant stems would look great, as would a rose or flower on the barbed wire - perhaps a metal one? Maybe in blue?