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Yeah, I agree. They are popular for good reason. In the past I've had Iron Warriors, Dark Angels (both over 5k points) and Black Templars all during 3rd edition.

Last time I had an Eldar army was during 2nd edition. One of my pals reminded me if this and some if the rules recently. I had totally forgotten that Eldar were in fact my first 40k army.

Who knew?

Interesting about them being your first army; do you sniff the scent of nostalgia yet?

Check your Inbox, by the way.

And... Ultrasmurfs? Well, not quiet to my taste, but if that's your thing, then... I suppose it'll be interesting to see what you can come up with.

Well, i completed the 2 Grav-Tanks from earlier to about 90% complete (same as all the others) and have moved on to the Howling Banshees. I decided to mount these onto resin cast bases i bought online. They are urban themed but i'll be adding grass and doing some weathering on the girders etc to help them blend in with the rest of the army. I really enjoyed prepping the HB's for some reason and i'm looking forward to painting them as i like the concept of the minis in general. I just need to figure out the shades of grey i'm going to use for the armour.

I also prepped and undercoated yet another Wave Serpent and a Fire Prism (the 3rd) and thats all my grav-tanks off the shelf and built now ( thats now 6x wave serpents / 3x fire prisms / 2x falcons).

You'll also see I've prepped and undercoated 5 Dire Avengers (incl Exarch) and 4 more Striking Scorpions. I've made these guys up so i can field some more options which will help with a couple of 2k pts lists I want to try in the future.


All in all I've got a fair bit to be cracking on with over the next week or so and i should have more painting time during the week now as well as still getting some family time (in other words i won't get nagged by the Mrs as all the DIY/decorating is done!). I've also made a start on the Avatar. I'll post up WIP pics of it later.


As i mentioned earlier I'm planning on building a Jetseer Council from scratch. The thing is i can't figure out if i want to do exactly that or model Harlequins on jetbikes and make them 'counts as' with the Farseer being a Shadowseer etc etc. What do you guys reckon?

Harlies on Jetbikes could be very interesting to Paint, and would certainly 'pop' more on the Tabletop, or in a Display Cabinet, than a normal Seer Council. I think they could be really interesting to see, so they have my vote.

Lennysmash wrote:Haha, fair enough. Just be careful, unlike a lot of new people to the hobby though I began on the noble path of the Eldar Warrior, then one day I began to paint my SM from my starter kit, and now my Eldar are relegated to cupboards, carrier bags and carry cases. Be warned the SM army is a heady drug my friend,

I went the opposite way.

Starting back with Space marines then realising my true calling from RT days and picking Eldar up when their 4th Edition codex was released.

Since then my BT army hasn't received much love at all.

Looking forward to the tag team Vet Sgt Ezekiel. I run Footdar so I recon we'd get the best of both worlds in our combined force.

That would be good.

What do you use in a standard all comers 1500 pt Footdar list?

I tend to run:
Farseer with doom and fortune (I prefer Eldrad when I have the points to spare)
Avatar
Outflanking scorpians
10 Dire avengers
5 Pathfinders
2 squads of guardians with EML + Warlock with embolden.
3 War walkers with shuricans that also outflank
2 Wraithlords with EML and bright lance

Definitely go with:
Avatar and lots and lots of guardians, fearless guardians is crazy good, thats what my bro runs and its a super pain to get rid of those, meanwhile he shreds me with guided dual scatter laser war walkers and EML from gurdian platforms.

I am loving the way your tanks turn out! That shading is perfect!!!

I can't wait to see your Council on Jetbikes. I'd prefer the classic look to converted Harlies, but that's just me

I know I'm not the first to say this, but your tanks are AMAZING! The blending looks really good. I play alaitoc too, and I always use a stipeling effect, which looks pretty cool but messy compared to yours.

Thanks guys! I'll post up a how-to for the airbrushing as its very easy to do. Hopefully it'll encourage some of you who are thinking about getting an airbrush in the future.

I'll need to have a think about the jetbike HQ. I like the idea of creating my own Seer Council on bikes but I also like the idea of converting the new DE jetbikes to Harlequin bikers.

I might do both! I'm aiming to have a JetSeer council done for xmas in any case.

I haven't done much this week as i've been under the weather and busy at work. A week best forgotten really. I hate having to work when i'm feeling ill. I'll be back to work on the army this week though.

Nice Blog sir.

I'm in the process of trying out my brad new airbrush - or have been for 6 months.

Thanks for inspiration!

Indeed, awsome work. Lots of inspiration for when I get re-started in a couple of months.

very impressive.. if I can find another Tau to tag team with, I'd be happy to face off against the Eldar!

troy_tempest wrote:very impressive.. if I can find another Tau to tag team with, I'd be happy to face off against the Eldar!

Sounds like a plan

*Tags in* Do you accept non WYSIWYG opponents?

(I dont mean using a brick as a hammerhead, but my stuff is 2nd hand and I never got to arm my suits and tanks in the way I wanted. Specifically my Tanks/Transports have drones when they should have SMS and they may not have the upgrades on them and some of my suits will have the wrong weapons/no upgrade)

Yeah, as long as we know what's what I'm fine with that.

I take it you're on the Face Book Warhammer 40k for Glaswegians also?

Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:Yeah, as long as we know what's what I'm fine with that.

I take it you're on the Face Book Warhammer 40k for Glaswegians also?

Indeed so ma man. I'm Francis. And Yes I will make it very clear what is what and try my best to make it simple, no one likes a cheat, ruins the night.

Not the biggest fan of airbrushed armies, but your grav-tanks look sweet.

Just a quick update for now chaps.....

I've completed a 5 man Dire Avenger squad to run as a DAVU for a Falcon. I added more silver metal colouring to these ones and prefer it so I'll be doing the previously painted ones the same.

I'm about 90% on the 3rd Fire Prism and Wave Serpent no 6. I'm going to try out some ideas for them to spice them up a bit. If it works out I'll apply the same effects to the rest of the fleet. More on this soon........

Thats a really nice consistantly well painted army there!

Any army pics yet? Would be great to see it all together.

Thanks!

Its funny you mention that as i was thinking of doing an army shot. I've assembled almost 4000pts worth now with most of it painted. I think I'll take a big pic once i've finished the vehicles properly and painted the HB's and Seer council.

Wave Serpent number six? Sounds awesome

I approve of your collecting ways.

Ta !

There's another 2 pencilled in for the future too!

JetSeer Council first though. Not sure whether to wait and see if GW release the new Eldar Jetbikes first or just convert using the current (?) jetbikes.

If i wait that long I'll probably do a Saim-Hann army based around jetbikes. Yum.


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So, the grav count so far is:

6 Wave Serpents
3 Fire Prisms
2 Falcons

Once the other 2 WS are done that'll be a total of 13 in an army of 4000pts. Unlucky for some.

Tonight I have been working on my Wave Serpent and Fire prism focussing on getting an effect i like down on the Serpent. Its still very much a WIP i just wanted to see what you folks think.

I've gone for green as an accent colour to show the energy field at work and still goes with the overall blue. I'll be doing the black painted gem bits in the hull in blue-violet purple which'll also go with the overall scheme.

I'll be picking out more details with metallics and adding transfers last. That'll pretty much wrap up the scheme for the grav tanks. It shouldn't take me too long to apply this to all the tanks.

the green effects are stunning

Can you do a tutorial for the gems?

Yeah, will do. I've only recently sussed them out myself!

I'll do one for the upcoming purple gens on the WS above.


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I think this link describes the gems painting well :

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=&pageMode=multi&categoryId=400035§ion=&pIndex=1&aId=1100010&start=2

Working from the dark colour up with 50% water (i prefer flow improver) and 50% paint you should work the brush from the dark part leaving the majority of the paint where it'lll be lightest. Wherever you lift the brush off is where the most paint will be left. It'll take a few coats to get it solid but if you keep the thin paint when you gradually go lighter it blends better as the paint/water mix is transparent. it'll take 3 stages (minimum) of highlights built up this way getting light towards the bottom edge of the gem.

The key things to note are leaving a black area at the highest part, leaving a black outline round the entire gem and a thin (lightest shade) highlight line going round the lightest sections right next to the black outline.

And here's with the purple gems.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do gems and purple seems to be quite tricky!

I'll have to re-do a few of them but at least i know the colours work now.

Quick update.

Gems are done. i went for red gems for the weapons. Purple for the hull and green for the WS energy field emitter thingies.

Just need to do the last of the metallics and highlight the browns. Pretty happy with the results.