Greetings,

I collect alot of armies. I have a painted SM Army. ( The Lamenters ). A painted Necron army ( For my current Adepticon list ) Both can be seen on my Lamenter Blog. I also collect a lot of other armies as eventually I'd like to have options for when I game. Orks, Nids, some IG and Tau, and well as the start of a Chos SM ( Red Cosairs ). Still My next army will be Eldar.

What Models do I have? Several Wave Serpents, Several Vipers, Wraithknight, Guardians x10 w support battery. 5 Avengers. 6 jet bikes
What will I be getting in the future.. Wraithguard. Farseer, Warlocks and Crimson hunter, wraithlord and some Warp spiders.

Here is the first Wave Serpent.

It doesnt look like your pictures for your wave serpent linked/uploaded. Dont see anything.

Sorry you caught me while up loading.

Ah, now i see it. Looks fantastic. The colors play beautifully off each other. Im looking forward to seeing what else you do.

Thanks.. this is going to be half of a larger army. The color scheme will be the same except My primary color will be white, turquose secondary. My buddy in primary turquose and white as the secondary.

Next up a second Wave Serpent, then 2 vipers. followed by the WraithKnight.
Winter frees up some free time !! just have to stay warm.

Here is a pic of my my Friend's wraithknight.. Mine will be simular but reversed colors..

Wave Serpent looks good. Simple and clean.

Wraithknight looks too plastic-like. Missing highlights and shading.

Thanks Erik.. yeah we'll get there. We just got it painted for a local tourney. There is some but a kitchen counter pic not gonna show it. Some more work to be done for sure.

Beautiful work on the wave serpent SL.

The wave serpant looks good!
Are you painting with a brush or airbrush on that? Can't really tell with that picture.

I think the wraithknight needs some work but nothing a little detail and highlight work can't fix keep it coming!

Mainly Airbrushed. But a lot of detail stuff is brush painted. Thanks CBRM,

By Air Brush. All the white edges are blended a bit to brighten them by regular brush.

The turquoise is 3 shades. You can see it get progressively lighter in the top pic. Spines and gun turret most notable. I’ve been finding out you that the best results are when your color modulation is more extreme. I’ll get another chance on the second one.

I'll get another crack at the wraithKnight, Both my Friends and My own now that I'm getting a " feel" for the color.

Good to know your techniques and that you are still working on it.
I like white and blue always looks crisp when done right and I think the serpent looks great!

Defiantly post your other attempts will be good to see how it ends up

I look forward to your Critique. Turquoise and white are a great color pair.

 Erik_Morkai wrote:
Wave Serpent looks good. Simple and clean.

Wraithknight looks too plastic-like. Missing highlights and shading.

Yeah, I agree. Love the colors but will work better once you add the shading and highlights!


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Do you do your blacklining with the airbrush?

All by brush.

I'm gonna push my skills on the next WS. I've primed the Hull and painted the Turquoise but this time I gonna paint it grey and shade back to white. Not sure if I'll do front to back ( whiter in front ect.. ) or back to front. Thoughts?

Good looking colour scheme - as stated before, very clean.
Maybe better pictures would help us see your colour variations though.

Woah, Eldar! Didn't see that coming.

Thanks bubber, I actually thought the pictures were pretty good with the exception of the glare coming off the white. I still have a bit of drybrushing to do on it so I'll see if I can get a improved shot this week.

WM: I have lots of stuff to paint. I like to change out once in a while to keep me motivated. I been working with YB to get him moving. Like the color Pallet so much I was inspired to try something new.

Both Wave Serpents finished and Vipers



Some closer shots of the vipers. Looks like I need to clean up the front gems.

Very pretty. Nicely done!

I feel like the teal could use the panel lines the white part has.

Looking really nice. Good to see you've painted up some more stuff.
I would agree that maybe add the black panel lines to the teal blue colour or maybe just a dark blue. Overall your stuff is coming along nicely!

Thanks. Taking pictures always highlight all the things I overlooked or could clean up.

. In the meantime I'm working on assembling my Wraithknight.So in-between drying times I'll have time to go cleanup a few things

CBRM; An dark blue ink might do the trick.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
I feel like the teal could use the panel lines the white part has.

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I was thinking the same thing.

Looks similar to the colour scheme I'm doing for my Eldar. I'm doing the Mymeara craftworld so I'm doing lots of turquoise and white but I'm trying to blend in some green also, but not very easy when I don't use an airbrush.
Yours are looking good, I look forward to some more pictures.

Very nice. Excellent colour scheme.
I like the clean crisp look.
(I imagine Eldar would be a clean bunch)

The only thing I would do different, is to break up the panels by adding a darker colour into the panel gaps.
Look forward to seeing some more of your work.

Nice. Love the scheme
Might sound silly but how'd you do your white?

Shredder.. yeah you can do it without but it's a much quicker process with the AB. I'm still a novice so I'm still learning.

One of my friends is building and painting a Iybraesil army. Mine is as well but I have reversed the primary colors. so we'll be able to combine our armies to make a bigger faction that is gonna have a simular look and yet different when I play against him.


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Brother Payne wrote:
Nice. Love the scheme
Might sound silly but how'd you do your white?

Never silly. I start with a White primer, add a drop of black to get a lt grey ( very light .. like 4:1). then to this grey I add several drops of off white. Spraying on the raised seams and flat panels. I finish off with pure Off white. I should highlight in pure white but I think its already very bright as it is.

Hope that helps... oh and I'm using an air brush, so it's easy to go back and fix something.


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Canis wrote:
Very nice. Excellent colour scheme.
I like the clean crisp look.
(I imagine Eldar would be a clean bunch)

The only thing I would do different, is to break up the panels by adding a darker colour into the panel gaps.
Look forward to seeing some more of your work.

I agree. I do better painting crisp and neat (for me that is) rather than weathering.

As for the darker panel linings.. I getting that alot!

A wee quick wash would take care of that if you decide to do it, or even for a quick crisp & neat method, try a fine tipped pen. (Cheating I know, but can really help a panel stand out.)

The pen is a good Idea.. Since I've already sealed it. and I hate to " over spill the lines" and make it worse.

My pen of choice:
Edding 1880 Drawliner's.
The packet I got about 3 years ago, had 4 pens in it, that are still all going strong. (Although I will admit, I didn't paint for about 7 months) Life can be a bitch.
It has 4 different sizes, a 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 & 0.7.
If you only buy one, the 0.1 is obviously the most useful.

I think it looks great between panels on tanks etc.

A wee example, a Land Raider from my own Space Marine Chapter.




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Sorry about the picture quality, mobile phone..

Very nice. you should post more of your stuff in a gallery so we can view the cool stuf your doing or did! Very Impressive.

I will get to it, but as I am a newb to Dakka, I'm still getting up to speed & my Space Marines are a WIP.
I also need to get some better pics & get my finger out as I have 10 tanks/flyers to build & paint.....
Way too easy buying online.

I have a sizeable Tau force, but comparing the paint standard on them v my Marines, I'm thinking I may have to dig them out & make some improvements.

Tau Example: (Again sorry for poor pic)



My colour scheme was a Fire inspired dress design....
Opinions welcome.

 Solar_lion wrote:

Brother Payne wrote:
Nice. Love the scheme
Might sound silly but how'd you do your white?

Never silly. I start with a White primer, add a drop of black to get a lt grey ( very light .. like 4:1). then to this grey I add several drops of off white. Spraying on the raised seems and flt panels. I finish off with pure Off white. I should highlight in pure white but I think its already very bright as it is.

Hope that helps... oh and I'm using an air brush, so it's easy to go back and fit something.

Ah awesome.
I've been looking for a way to do a white sanguine for a while now, but I've had heaps of trouble finding a neutral white that I can shade whilst making it still look realistic (instead of having dark grey in the recesses) so this yells a lot.
Cheers


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Really like the tau too. Shame about the poor image quality but from what I can see of the stealth suits that are in focus the camo scheme looks pretty cool

An attempt to show off my Tau "Dress" Fire Inspired design again. (Although still a phone camera, sorry).



Should I keep or change?

Canis wrote:
An attempt to show off my Tau "Dress" Fire Inspired design again. (Although still a phone camera, sorry).

Spoiler:

Should I keep or change?

Hey man I like the scheme for this and your xv8's above.
I noticed you mentioned you are new here so you should post a thread in the painting and modeling section of all your Tau stuff
You will get some more advice from people there since this is someone elses Eldar thread so we dont want to get overloaded with other stuff.
You do have nice paint skills tho!
Just hit "Post Thread" and you'll be good to go hope that helps

Ta for the positive comments & advice.
Since only joining a few days ago, I have received some good feedback.
I will start my own soon, but gonna need to get some better pics 1st.
Was just worried that my standard wasn't up to the standards I have seen mostly on Dakka.



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Also, chiefbigredman , love ur profile pic.

Lookin good.

It's all a WIP. There are som great painters on Dakka, so you can get great advice. Most of us are tabletop painters we are getting beter by tapping all of that great advice.

Every couple of years I look back at my old stuff and say "I should repaint this" It reminds me of where I started.

This was some of my early work. pre 3rd Ed.


Anyway work continues on the Wraithknight build..

I like your old stuff. Very well done and very indicative of the period in which it was made.

The marine on the left actually won me the best painted army award at a tournament. ( a long time ago ).

He was my armies capt. with PF and Warp jump wargear ( card). He'd jump from vehicle to vehicle blowing it up and killing everyone inside. Probably the one figure I wouldn't repaint.

 Solar_lion wrote:
It's all a WIP. There are som great painters on Dakka, so you can get great advice. Most of us are tabletop painters we are getting beter by tapping all of that great advice.

Every couple of years I look back at my old stuff and say "I should repaint this" It reminds me of where I started.

This was some of my early work. pre 3rd Ed.


Anyway work continues on the Wraithknight build..

I'm gunna call ya on it. That's a AoBR dread, which was 5th edition. Which just means you've improved in a shorter time frame.

Allow me to clarify...The figures are that old. The dread was the first thing I painted when I got back into playing. In fact the ABoR was the first thing I brought. I pulled out my old stuff and thought paint it like the other stuff.

Little did I know the world has changed!

Ok.. after the many requests I black line the panels in the Turquoise.

A close up shot

Did the same panel Lining on the 2 Wave serpents

My WIP Wraithknight. I need to clean up some details and spray coat. Then finish the gems


Hope to have these done by weeks end. Then on to some Jetbikes.

Gotta admit... looks better.

Agreed, helps break up the wall o teal. Looks much more finished.

Much better!

Does look better, it completes them.
Job well done.

Thanks for the feed back!

I'd like to finish the WK. Details and weaponery this week.

Well that captain for the space marine looks fantastic.
I like the retro colour schemes like that

With the vipers they look a lot more finished with the lines in them.

For the WraithKnight what are your plans for gem colours? I like your eldar scheme and how your army is coming along looks better every time I see it, great stuff

 chiefbigredman wrote:
Well that captain for the space marine looks fantastic.
I like the retro colour schemes like that

With the vipers they look a lot more finished with the lines in them.

For the WraithKnight what are your plans for gem colours? I like your eldar scheme and how your army is coming along looks better every time I see it, great stuff

I have a large amount of older figures.. Remonstrant of back in the day when GW had wild paint schemes. camo and specific campaigns. See the old Badab war articles in the WD.

As for the gems I thought I’d either add a touch of green tint and gloss. Or leave them black with a high gloss.

Thanks. Future plans for now include 10 Jet bikes. 10 guardians and support battery, 5 Dire Avengers. Wraithguard, WraithLord and a Crimson Hunter.

Also Gonna fix the mold line on the Wk arms!!

You're going to be busy!

WOW!!! very nice paint job. its crisp, clean, and no globed up paint so keep it up!

Thanks for commenting LC. Glad you like.

Wow you have been a bit busy. Love em xx

Thanks Dee. Have taken a couple of weeks off for the holidays but time to move forward...

First up...
Finish the Wraithknight ( need it for a game on the 2nd ). X-mas brought me some Wraithguard and a Crimson hunter.

I need to finish the project in the works first. Jetbikes, Guardians and Support battery, 5 Avengers.

My weekend time is limited but hopefully I get some time.


FIrst Ever Dakka battle Report...

Necron and Eldar vs Marines. Big guns never tire so Heavies are scoring. Vanguard deployment. We go second. Not sure we played all the ruls correcly but at least we all made the same rule mistakes. ALso doing this from memory days later is tougher than one thinks.

What I remember was 4 tactical squads ( 1 combat squad’d) Centurions ( 2 Las/ Missile, 1 Grav+Amp) 5 man Dev’s ( 2 LS/ 1 Plas / 2 ML . Storm Raven (TL LC and MM )Scouts w ML. 3 of the 4 Tac were in Rhinos. 3 Landspeeders. HB/AC – AC/TML – AC/MM.

Scout deploy in center building. Rhino closest to us get to redeploy due to warlord trait. We bottle up behind the only cover. Wraithknight hold the objective and provides our opponent a obvious target. Our Objective is to stay as protected as possible till our turn two. Objectives are the red lines.


Their turn One

( pic from the opposite side of the table) Rhino Rush!! They pop smoke. Centurion move to get a better shot. Dev, scout and Centurions fire at wraith knight and cause three wounds!

Our Turn One

Farseer moves to shoot Rhino. I take a gamble and break cover with my Lord and wraiths. The Plan is the Farseer’s Lance pop open the Rhino allowing me to get into CC, saving me from the rapidfire bolter onslaught. Farseer Misses! ARg!!!! Wave serpent shoots at Centurions, but their 2+ save shrugs everything off! Wraithknight shoots the devastators and kills four. That helps!

Their Turn two

Everything of theirs comes in! Outflanking LS show up in my backfield. The Typhoon Launches kill 2 wraiths ( rolled two 1’s for saves ). Other LS deploys on the far table edge and targets the Wave serpent. Saves made. All the Rhinos dump their tac squads. Mass rapid fire into the Dlord. He fails only one Save and takes a wound. Lone dev LC misses Wraithknight. Commander shoots his only weapon capable of huting the Wraith knight and does nothing. Scout w ML also fails to hit. Centurions cause another Wraithknight wound! The second myside LS opens fire on the Warrior squad holding our back objective. Killing 2. Stormraven shoots at Wraithknight and fails to wound. WHEW! The far left tac squad assaults the wraiths and suffer 2 deaths.

Our Turn two.

All 3 scythes come in . Only 1 squad of Jetbikes come in. One doom lines up all the centurions and makes them disappear. The second doom lines up the hovering Stormraven and hit it and the closest Rhino destroying it. The Night Scythe finishes off the StormRaven. The Wraiths and Dlord finish all but 1 tac marine whom runs. I don’t catch. Wraithnight shoot the 10 man tac squad and kill 5 The newly arrive JB shoot at the 5 man tac squad and only kill 2. After reanimating; the 4 man warrior squad takes a HP of the LS shooting at it. The WS doesn’t cause any hits on the Landspeeder. The Wraithguard deploy and shoot the scouts in the building killing 2.

Their turn three

Far table 5 man tac squad moves and shoots the waithguard causing no damage. Far side LS shoots the them as well and kills one. The remains of a tac squad rally automatically and unload into the Wraiths along with the 2 Landspeeders and kill 2 more wraiths. Rhinos move to block warrior squad from shooting the 1 HP LS. Commander take plama pistol shot at wrathKnight causing 1 wound. ( now 1 W remaining). 3 man Tac squad kill off 2 Jet bikes. Commanders squad assaults. Only he can harm but opts for a single killing attack and misses!

Our turn three

Vipers finally appear as do the 2nd Jetbike squad. Doom scythe ( the one that killed the centurions ) moves to attack the 2 LS. With Vipers kill off both! Night scythe move and kills lone dev. And drops of 2nd warrior squad to claim objective. Other doom kills of some tac marines and far table LS. Wraithguard kill 2 more scouts. Wraithknight and full JB squad shoot into the 3 man tac squad and fail to kill them. Dlord splits off from remaining wraith and each assaults ( 1 wraith vs. 1 marine) and both marines are killed as well as the lone Wraith (I must have taken a W somewhere ) Dlord easily kills the 3 man tac squad.

Their turn four

The commander still In assault with the Wraithknight fails to cause injury and loses 2.

Our turn four
Vipers kill off lone Rhino. Dlord Kills their commander.. Game Over

VP from what I remember…
Objectives: 2 captured, 2 contested ( 1 only just) 6pts us, 0 them
First blood 1 VP for us.
Commanders 2 VP for us.
Line Breaker 1 for us 1 for them
Kill points US: 3 Rhinos, 3 Landspeeders, 3 Tac squads, Centurions, Stormraven, Dev squad. 12 VP
Kill Points Them: Wraiths 1 VP

22 to 2

wat the point having tactical marines attacking the wraithknight? hes T8 they wont wound him and even with a krak nade its still a 6 lol

Brutally slaughter although im not very fond of weird alliances bettewn that stuff vs marines

Nice job guys. Looks like you're really getting used to working together.


@Galanur: They're practicing for Adepticon where there is (in essence) no alliance matrix. So anything goes alliance-wise.

Galanur wrote:
wat the point having tactical marines attacking the wraithknight? hes T8 they wont wound him and even with a krak nade its still a 6 lol

Quite true, thou if you look at the game progress . it wasn't in the original plan. there was a ton of shots trying to bring down the Wraithknight. With the amount of shots directed at him it's feasable that he shouldn't have been standing till the end. The other method is to keep him tied up as to allow your other units to work freely. The Tactical squads still have to roll a 6 to damage, but it's better than nothing. Once gone he still had LS and powerful commanders more than capable of taking out the lesser armored Eldar. and with enough shots force wounds to the Wraiths and Dlord. In fact after turn 1.5 we thought we were on the defensive and seriously in trouble. Luckly for reserves!

I've seen the Tac squad rush work and not work. Massive firepower from rapid fire bolters can overwealm even terminators. Eventually your gonna roll a 1! True it's not the Meta anymore and troops that aren't fast and can move at the last minute to contest or take objective are not as effective nor taken. IMO Marines in general are not a competitive army. Not withstanding the SR/ST list or Ravenwing list.

Still working on a good Eldar list for the team. Getting more of my force done allow me to keep playtesting new units. Incentive to paint!

I have taken a lot of time off click on my painting theed for more info

New game tonight. Getting to play some of my new units for the first time. Hopefully we'll have a new battle report.

Good luck!

Edited because I cannot quote things to save my life. I love the blog.

Thanks. it's been a fun Army to paint and play!

New Battle report. With changed up list.. Here you get to see Yellowbeards and I's opposite themed WK's .. Also the Dire avengers are dressed up in SM costumes!

Deployment. This is using the 2 WraithKnight list (2 heavy). Facing a Grey Knight Army. We get “Big guns never tire” and start with deploying on the short table ends. We opt to go second!

Marine turn 1: Rhinos move forward pop smoke. AutoCannon Dread and RazorBack Assault Cannon open up on the far Wraithknight. Causing 1 wound. Other AutoCannon Dread shoots at Destroyer lord and takes a wound.

Our Turn 1: Wraith/Destroyer lord stay put. Wraith Cannon WraithKnight blows up the 10 man rhino killing 2 Marines. WraithKnight with suncannon takes out a RazorBack forcing the libby out in the open. WaveSerpent shoots at Strike squad holding far objective killing 3. They run! Dire Avengers deploy to take objective.

Marine Turn 2: All sorts of psychic’s happen this turn (Foreboding, Prescience and ?) the Libby now re-rolls all To Hits/Wounds/Saves. StormRaven arrives from reserve. It’s MultiMelta and LaserCannon put another 2 wounds on the WraithKnight. It Huricane bolters shoot at Destroyer Lord/Wraiths and do nothing. Dreadknight teleports across table and incinerates 4 Dire avengers. One AutoCannon Dread shoots at the WraithKnight and the other at the Destroyer Lord with no effect. Libby joins the remnants of the 10 man strike squad. Remaining RazorBack shoots at WraithKnight as well.

Our Turn 2: Doom Scythe & 1 Night Scythe enter from reserve. Both target the Storm Raven and Blow it out of the sky, killing 7 marines. SunCannon WraithKnight takes out remaining Razorback. Jet Bikes enter table due to great rolling dice w/bladestorm get 2 more W on Dreadknight . Farseer shoots at DreadKnight and it makes its save. WaveSerpent take out 1 marine on far objective. WraithCannon Wraithknight shoots at Dreadknight and misses both. Destroyer Lord and Wraiths kill all but the Libby and one marine (w/hammer). They run!



Marine turn 3: Remaining 3 man squad from the destroyed StormRaven shoot at the wraiths killing one. Each AutoCannon dread targets a flyer. Penning the NightScythe but only gets a shaken result which it ignores due to “Living metal”. It misses the Doom. Remaining marine across the table move into cover and literally out of Line of Sight. 5 man Strike squad from recently destroyed RazorBack shoots and then charges SunCannon WraithKnight; losing 2 to Close Combat. Libby w/ Hammer and Marine w/Hammer charge WK. but Libby dies to overwatch and Marine fails charge range. Dreadknight destroys Wraithknight in Close Combat.

Our Turn 3. Remaining NightScythe fails to come in from reserve. 2nd Jet Bike squad comes in. Both Jet Bike squads and Farseer fire everything at Dreadknight finally killing it! Doom targets a Auto Cannon dread but it fails to Wound with the death ray and get a Immobilized result only. NightScythe has no target and proceeds to far objective to drop troops. SunCannon WraithKnight kills off 2 man squad (different from pic –sorry) Dlord and Wraiths take out far AutoCannon Dread (on other side of wall). It blows up causing a 2nd Wound on the Destroyer Lord!

Marine turn 4: Remaining Hammer marine hits SunCannon Wraithknight and instant Deaths him with Force weapon! Ouch! Immobilized Dread snapfires at NightScythe and misses.

Our turn 4: One bike squad each move to far objectives. NightScythe flies past objective and drops 6 warriors whom kill hidden marine. Doom scythe move to attack remaining foot marine and with death ray and a lot of 6’s destroy all of them. Destroyer Lord and wraiths jump on Immobilized dread and blow it up causing a Wound on a wraith.


Ended up with 4 objectives ( 12 pts). 2 Slay the Warlord (2 pts). Line breaker & First Blood (2 pts) 3 Heavys destroyed (3 pts) =19tps
Marines 2 Heavys Destroyed (2 pts)

It's been fun playing a new army and learning all the old and new rules.

So what is your's and Yello Beard's base's look like? I noticed that none of your models are based so far?

Since this is in painting and modeling I can't help it to say that your eldars cry for highlights on the teal parts! This is a clean but totally flat paintjob!

Thanks for the feedback.. I still struggle with going far enough with my AB color choices. I would love to have more time playing with the AB.

I love your Wraithknight. Your AB skills are amazing.

Currently I'm working on building and magnitizing 2 squads of Wraithguard.

I really like the effect that the pen does but it seems that it is only available in the UK/EU. Do you know of another brand that would be available in the US?

Canis wrote:
My pen of choice:
Edding 1880 Drawliner's.
The packet I got about 3 years ago, had 4 pens in it, that are still all going strong. (Although I will admit, I didn't paint for about 7 months) Life can be a bitch.
It has 4 different sizes, a 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 & 0.7.
If you only buy one, the 0.1 is obviously the most useful.

I think it looks great between panels on tanks etc.

A wee example, a Land Raider from my own Space Marine Chapter.





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Sorry about the picture quality, mobile phone..

I use the Micron brand. It's avaialble most places. I get mine at Hobby Lobby.

Still working on the Wraithguard. Magnitizing a set of 5. Their tiny limbs and sockets make the going slow.
In other news I ordered some Wraithlords. Should be a good additioned to my spirit leaning Army.

While waiting for other project to dry I got the urge to do something different ( other than drilling holes and placing magnets)
Crimson Hunter.. Couple things left to do .. some gems, A wee bit of streaks on the vents. I might try some Decals . Haven’t quite decided yet!
For these I didn't use my Micon pens as they were all too far gone. So I went back to painting the seams.. I miss my micron pen





I'm almost done with a 5 man Squad of Avengers. Soon I'll have a legit playable list.

Almost finished with the Wraithguard build. 2 Squads of 10. I decided not to magnitize the 2nd 5 as I mostly will be fielding these exclusivly with wraithcannons.

I also got 2 Wraithlords in transit. Should be a good addition to my spirit army.

Pics or it didn't happen!

Sure when they get painted. Here is a WIP...
Wraithguard in various loadouts. Magnetized to get 3 out of the 4 combinations. Still more drilling to do before I get some paint on them. Same body for all 3.

WIP on the Farseer on a bike.. I'll call him stumpy as the legs and torso are not quite a good match. Thou on the bike its not as noticeable.

In the pic no work has been done on the bike .. I'll get to it this weekend.



Work continues on the Wraithguard and new Wraithlords~

Great job on the Farseer SL. Should look great once the bike is finished.

Battle reports don't belong here.

That is some wonderful criticism, maybe go back to not commenting now.

His blog, he can put what he wants on it.

Now, now don't be so grumpy Whale Music, that privilege belongs to the sharp tongued Solar Lion .






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Actually, this thread probably is misplaced as the "P&M Blog" forum would be a better fit. But that is really up to either Solar Lion or the Mods, not us .

Anyways Sammoth, this is a true Blog that Solar Lion has going on in it and P&M Blogs tend to have more than just pictures of WIP in it. They tell more of story behind the person's army and that can include fluff and fun battle reports. Of course there will be a lot of attention on the painting and modeling aspect and this Blog certainly has that going on in spades!

Why is this not in blogs?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
His blog, he can put what he wants on it.

Here here

Thanks for all the comments... mostly on what should go where in the blog, but hey look who’s popular?.. who knew! ( sarcasm intended )

If the PM Mod could move this to the P&M Blog that would indeed be appropriate. Not sure how to contact one. As for the blog , I probably started it in the wrong location. As for the content, the point was to start a new army, learn some new techniques; painting , modeling and playing. I've been a diehard Marine player and it's been hard to break the mold! I plan to chronicle my Eldar experience here.. all of it. As always comments welcome.

Thanks for the comments on the Farseer. I actually finished him this weekend as well as 2 Wraithlords. I did manage to take pictures, namely of Yellowbeards and mines combines army ( same paint scheme, colors just in reverse ), But due to the cheap tripod I was using the camera hit the floor and now In need of repair. So I’ll be using my camera phone for a while. Hopefully it’s not a 400$ paperweight!

What’s next? I finished the magnetizing of the first 5 Wraithguard. They will be able to be played as Axe and Shield, Florentine or traditional wraithcannons. The second 5 will be straight wraithcannons. I cant’s see ever fielding 2 units of CC Wraithguard.

So far… I have on my own.. ( * indicates painting in Progress)

Farseer on bike
4 Jet bikes*
1 Wraithknight
2 units of wraithguard* + wave serpents
2 Wraithlords
2 vipers
5 Dire Avengers
1 Crimson Hunter
10 Guardians w/ WP*

With Yellowbeards units we add..

Farseer on bike*
10 more Jet bikes
1 Wraithknight
5 Dire Avengers*

SO what remains…. Need a Spiritseer for sure. An additional Wave serpent. Possible buys… A couple of war walkers and another Crimson Hunter. That should round out my Eldar experience and give me a good selection for interesting games. After that.. I'll start my Red Corsairs CSM Army blog ( hopefully in the right area!)

Anyway thanks for the comments and critique.

If you hit the little ! in a triangle, it will alert a mod. Easiest way to move. I done did it for you though.

Thanks,, that solves that with no Gunfire, car chases, strange women and dark alleys!

As mentioned earlier My camera is in the shop ( $150 fix - ouch. ) So the pictures are not very good and not with the best light.
Finished the Farseer on the jetbike. The stripes make the coweling look bird like. Not sure if I'll keep it or not. ( won't change it till after AC if I decided to do it)


2 Wraithlords without weapons.

Camera phone...~sigh~
Finished priming the first 5 wraithguard and have started painting. This will take forever!

Looking very nice. I like the green drapes on the wraithlords. Stripes on the bike look good SL, I think I'd keep them.

I'll most likely put some transfers on it or stripe it. It'll do for now.

I agree with Gits, I like it.

are the Waithlords on the right sized base?

 Miss Dee wrote:
are the Waithlords on the right sized base?

not.. good catch.. I just grabbed what I thought would fit. Since I part most of my kits. Will fix that.

YB Adepticon Army...


The Full Eldar Army to date...More on the way after Adepticon.


Off to AC. Look for a blog from our 2 team when we return.

Beautiful! Really stunning looking army!

Thanks. Very happy the way they turned out, both scheme and composition. I've got 10 Guardians w weapon platform, 10 wraithguard, 4 more bikes and an additional WS to finish.

Nice to have several armies to choose from.

After I finish the Eldar, I'll move to finish the remaining few Necron units then I'll start my CSM army. I was going to do them as Red Corsairs, but been thinking I'd paint them as Thousand suns. Any thoughts?

Guess it depends on what kind of modeling and stuff you want to focus on. RC are less demonic and mutated, nor really Chaos SM, more renegade. TS are full blown chaos god driven.

Thousand Sons.

Very nice Solar Lion!

Ok .. Jumping around form my Lamenters back to some Eldar. Why? First to keep my interest up.. 2ndly I have on the way another Eldar order.. A 2nd Wraithknight, a 2nd Crimson Hunter, and 3 War walkers. So.. I started on the additional 12 jet bikes I already had. I’ll post a pic thou they are just base coated ( so Git’s rule isn’t called on me) Of the 12, 2 I’ll bash as Warlocks. I think I’ve gotten a little better with the contrast turquoise color so I also wanna go back and do some more on the current figures as well. I’ve made up some squeeze bottles of the turquoise so I can blend with all the same colors.

Now not to mess the current stuff up!

So when all is said and done… My Eldar army will consist of....

Farseer on bike
10 Jet bikes 2 Warlocks
2 Wraithknight
2 units of wraithguard* + (2)wave serpents
2 Wraithlords
2 vipers
5 Dire Avengers + Wave Serpent
2 Crimson Hunter
10 Guardians w/ WP*
3 War Walkers

Proof of Bikes WIP

Got 9 Bikes done. However I misplaced some of the flying bases.. Looks like I'll be ordering some. Pic hopefully tomorrow.

Pic as promised. ( camera phone ). Better pic when all the bikes are done. Plan is to put some symbol on the cowling. Not finding anything I like . Gonna check out some RC car stuff for Ideas.



1 more normal biker to finish and 2 that I kitbashed as council. Currently this brings Yellowbeards and I bike total to 20 JB, 1 FS on bike and 2 Council.. 22 !
I'll probably get 3 more and fit them out with cannon so I have the option available.

Back to Wraithguard!

So many bikes! They do definitely need something on the cowl, its such a large empty spot.

Problem with the craftworld symbol is that it is white on the transfer sheet. I'm not hand painting it.. so looking for an alt.

Have you considered putting the transfer on and then using it as a guide to paint over it. Easier than free-handing it.

Or paint on a shape in the blue (circle, oval, etc...) and then put the transfer on that. Will look like a cut out then.

I was looking for a easy solution. The Icon is tiny.. not sure it'll look right. There has got to be something celtic out there.. I should look for something in the High Elf or wood Elf range.. humm

Bikes finished. 10 and 2 I converted as Seer Council. 6 man Seer Council led JB should be enough. 3 more bikes w/ SC and I'll be bike DONE!

Repainted the Farseer blade to match the new council weapons.

So I started on the Wraithguard theme. A lot more to do.


At least I can field a legit bound army now.. I have 3 HQ, 3 troops (2 with DT), 2 Fast and 2 heavy.

Farseer on bike - DONE
10 Jet bikes 2 Warlocks - DONE
3 JB w/ SC
2 Wraithknight - 1 DONE, 1 Purchased
2 units of wraithguard* - Built
2 Wave serpents - DONE
2 Wraithlords - DONE
2 vipers - DONE
5 Dire Avengers - DONE
Wave Serpent - Purchased
2 Crimson Hunter - 1 DONE, 1 Purchased
10 Guardians w/ WP - Built
3 War Walkers - Purchased

Needed - Spirit Seer
Possible later additions Warp Spiders, Fire dragons

Missing anything?

Awesome work, subscribed.

Very pretty SL! Those will look fantastic on the table!

Here is my painted collection to date
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Still have more on the unpainted list. 2-5 man wraithguard, another serpent.

Can I get a closer look at the Waithlords please Mr SL?

 Miss Dee wrote:
Can I get a closer look at the Waithlords please Mr SL?

Sure .. as soon as I re-base them.

That's a great looking little army you painted up there SL. Neat mix of figures that all look terrific together. Well done my friend. Can't wait to play them!

Thanks, Waiting the arrival of the 2nd Wraithknight, Crimson hunter and 3 war walkers. In the meantime I'll be working on the Lamenters. ( another 5 bikes )

And another nice army shot.

Good scheme, well done.

Thanks. I'll be adding a few more to this army as time goes. Options allowing me to try different tactics.

Got my 2nd wraithknight, CH and 3 war walkers last night.

Managed to build a single WW and the CH. I'm considering trying to pose the Wraithknight in a more dramatic pose. Hate to mess that up but it deserves a better pose.

Any suggestions?

CH?

Crimson Hunter - Flyer

Got some more stuff ordered...Update

Farseer on bike - DONE
10 Jet bikes 2 Warlocks - DONE
3 JB w/ SC - future purchase
2 Wraithknight - 1 DONE, 1 WIP
2 units of wraithguard* - Built
2 Wave serpents - DONE
2 Wraithlords - DONE
2 vipers - DONE
5 Dire Avengers - DONE
Wave Serpent - Purchased
2 Crimson Hunter - 1 DONE, 1 WIP
10 Guardians w/ WP - Built
3 War Walkers - Assembling

Newest purchases
3 weapon platforms
5 More avengers
5 Swooping Hawks

so far.. I'm up to about 2900 pts. That's more than I originally thought.

Started building the 2nd Wraithknight. Almost put the connection section for the torso to the hip section in backwords. New pose.. Pic's on Monday!

Ordered some weapons sprus so I can make all the load outs as well.

Wow, that's quite an addition.

Nice to have multiple options to play

Added another unit of Dire Avengers to purchased list.

I'm hoping to do some priming tonight. So maybe some pic tomorrow. Wraitknight, 3 War Walkers and Crimson Hunter are built. I'm going try something different with the Crimson Hunter. I don't want it to look identical to the last one.

You will be the master of your own craftworld very soon at this rate!

It's just something for yellowbeard to play.

Not much Eldar work since I started on the Orks.




Last game I played against the Elder I faced an Unbound Wraithhost list. It was YB and Git with 4 Imperial Knight s against a CSM and a Necron Decurion. Least to say we were snuffed out pretty quickly.
Since YB and I share an Eldar Army ( we are using the same craftworld theme so we can both pull from each other’s models ) I was looking at the units that were left over and wondered if I could put together an interesting list with what remained.

Just so happens that I had plenty of bikes and unfinished pieces to put a list together. Again this list wasn’t built for optimization but only on what I had available.

Farseer on bike w 3 scat bikes.
2x Warlocks on Bikes with 3 Scat bikes each.
2 vipers w BL HF

2nd attachment
Artaurch(?) on bike with 4 Scatbikes
10 dire avengers w/ WS with BL
Wraithlord w BL
Wraithknight
3 support batteries with Nightspinners

Should be fragile but could be fun.

With wraithlord and knight it shouldn't be too fragile. Should be murder vs. an infantry army.

I'll get to use the alt list tonight against YB wraithhost list. Hopefully whom ever my teammate is brings enough stopping power to fill in my deficiencies including anti air.

Ended up playing 2 vs 1 last night. Marine list and My alt Eldar vs. Grey Kights w/ 3 assassins and Imperial Knight allied with YB's Wraithhost. Good game. My Eldar performed marginally but hung in there enough for my Skyhammer list to pound home. Ending up winning with capturing all the objectives on the last turn. Hooray for fast traveling jetbikes. The assassin were insanely powerful but due to some lucky rolls I managed to avoid the initial pounding from them.

Considering I deployed first and was going for a initial Alpha strike. Hoping to get the WS popped and skyhammer the Wraithguard ( with all the D weapons ) They stole the Initiative and I was in turn Alpha strike'd back. I could do nothing but take all the psychic and shooting from our opponents. They managed to severely cripple my bike squads, kill my Farseer, almost kill my wraithnight. Terminators everywhere thus Instantaneously I was on the defensive. Luckily my Skyhammer dropped where i needed them to be and with my shooting managed to pop the WS with the Wraithguard with the Dscythes on my very last roll allowing me to grav them to oblivion. Grav squish their wraithknight as well. I managed to get into some assault though not many good soft targets to pick from. Other shooting finished off 1 of the 2 Dreadknights and left the other with 1 wound remaining. On the other side of the table the Imperial knight pretty much did what ever it wanted with no worries.

By the end of the game I managed to turbo boost to the objectives I didn't have to win the game. I think they were more interested in wiping me out than getting points. Lesson learned?

Sounds like a good game SL. Skyhammer with the speedy bikes would certainly be a potent combination.

Yep,, would have been interesting to see how it would have played out if we had gone a few more turns.

Eldar army are looking very nice Solar