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I think the ships look better with the highlight

Do you think a drybrush could have done the same effect for the sails? Or are those freehanded details?

They look good, and the extra effort is a good addition. But you're right there are some spots that could use a touch up here and there.

Yeah, whatever I do next I'll drybrush. It's just that drybrushing a
recessed location needs to be planned, and I had already done the color blocking.

So next time, definitely.

Yeah, doing the sails before everything else is what I would suggest next go around.

The last of my ships.

Love painting these. As mentioned in the thread, I want to take care of the sails first next
time as they are recessed and drybrushing will help the ribbing appear more naturally.

This blog makes me dizzy in a good way! But really Malfred that's fairly descriptive of the storm you took these forums by all those years ago

Thanks for sharing and please keep doing so!

Thanks migs. Too bad I don't cut things up and paint them up real good like
some of you guys on the forums. Best I can do is the ADG painting blog,
or Attention Deficit Gamer.

I wonder if I can edit this thread title.

So before I update with my images, here's a draft of another Work in Progress that's
been sitting on my desk until recently. I started this months ago, and then set it
aside until I had a Trukk. And then I set it aside until I had some more Boyz.

On a lark, I opened up the Trukk and put it together. Then I put more of the Boyz
together. And finally, I think I had my answer, as badly constructed as it was.

"How do you fit 10 Boyz in the back of a Trukk?"

Answer: You amputate.

As I built Shoota Boyz, I reserved some legs and some of the torsos for this
project. I think the math comes out to 23 Shoota Boyz, 2 with rokkits, 1 Nob
with power klaw and 1 10 man token for a Trukk built to field Boyz with Sluggaz.

So three boxes with a loss of maybe 4-7 models for the sake of a placeholder
token.

I've left the Crossbar off the trukk. I had planned to try to thread it through as
part of the mass of Boyz, but since I'd already started gluing the Boyz together
(quite literally) I found the weapon placements made it somewhat impossible to
pull off.

As you can see from the pics, I miscalculated some of my positioning, and
my visible Boyz now hover a bit. I think the coolness of glued Ork bodies will
somewhat offset the loss of verisimilitude.

Yeah, I'm liking the Eldar too. Nicely done. Cool ships too.

Some Boyz with their Mushroom (an Armorcast Terrain piece).

My Eldar Rangers.

I think I can field 20-30 of these, but these are my first of the newer sculpts. I was
pretty pleased with them, too, until I saw a similar scheme elsewhere on Dakka
recently that was done with much better quality. Maybe I try to pick alt schemes
because I can't paint the regular ones as well as others.



I haven't assembled any Guardians yet. I can't decide how to paint things that
both match my old Eldar scheme and something that resembles a Harlequin army. Some
people gave me good ideas (painting stage masks on Guardian helmets for one), but
the colors aren't there yet.

You have some incredible skills. I like the color scheme you have for those rangers.

The steam Buddha could make an interesting counts-as Eldar Avatar, after all, the Eldar are all mysterious and Buddhist-like, well, except for the wars and stuff... On a side note, Buddha is like a cross between Jesus and Santa Claus ^_^

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:You have some incredible skills. I like the color scheme you have for those rangers.

Thanks. I don't know about incredible. I'd say tabletop, especially when faced with some of the
stuff on these forums.

P4NC4K3 wrote:The steam Buddha could make an interesting counts-as Eldar Avatar, after all, the Eldar are all mysterious and Buddhist-like, well, except for the wars and stuff... On a side note, Buddha is like a cross between Jesus and Santa Claus ^_^

Whom would they sacrifice to get one, though? The Eldar who followed the path of the chef?

Nearly done posting my finished over vacation minis. Be back to works in progress within the week.

This is Lord Tyrant Xerxis. He just wants to play!

Some of my Eternal Guard.

Eventually I'll be able to run big blocks of these guys. End of the year, I'm guessing.

I love your eldar rangers they look all ghost like

where did you get that Lord Tyrant Xerxis?

I WANT ONE!

jamunition wrote:I love your eldar rangers they look all ghost like

Thanks. You should see some of my early days of Rangers. I simply painted them
different colors and they weren't very ghostlike at all. Godawful!

jamunition wrote:where did you get that Lord Tyrant Xerxis?

I WANT ONE!

Privateer Press's Hordes game, Skorne faction.

The last of my completed in 2008 stuff.

malfred wrote:

P4NC4K3 wrote:The steam Buddha could make an interesting counts-as Eldar Avatar, after all, the Eldar are all mysterious and Buddhist-like, well, except for the wars and stuff... On a side note, Buddha is like a cross between Jesus and Santa Claus ^_^

Whom would they sacrifice to get one, though? The Eldar who followed the path of the chef?

They could sacrifice cherry blossom, Buddhism frowns on actual sacrifice

P4NC4K3 wrote:

malfred wrote:

P4NC4K3 wrote:The steam Buddha could make an interesting counts-as Eldar Avatar, after all, the Eldar are all mysterious and Buddhist-like, well, except for the wars and stuff... On a side note, Buddha is like a cross between Jesus and Santa Claus ^_^

Whom would they sacrifice to get one, though? The Eldar who followed the path of the chef?

They could sacrifice cherry blossom, Buddhism frowns on actual sacrifice

W.W.F.B.D.

What Would Farseer Buddha Do?

never seem autumn wood elves before good job on them i'd be interested to see the army altogether, might tempt me to finish off my Wood Elf army

If you can stand awful bad poetry:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/The_Highborn_in_Question

The long term plan is to paint 10 Eternal Guard here and 10 Eternal Guard
there. At some point I might convert a bunch of plastic Eternal Guard out of
High Elves/Dark Elves/whatever. I think my target number will be 50-ish so
that I can run two blocks of 25 for giggles.

Here's how Jeremiah Kraye started out.

I really, really like the model right below your Warjack on the last post on the first page. It's not the neatest paintjob, sure, but something about it just looks awesome.

What model is it?

EDIT: For idiocy.

Dude with sword and dagger?

That's from Warmachine, Khador faction. Vladimir, The Dark Prince of Umbrey.

lovin the eldar rangers malfred! the blue you chose was perfect. keep up the great work!

How's the Uncharted Seas game? I've seen it at the Warstore's website and it looks neat (not to mention I've been curious to start a table-top naval game).

Also, I'm diggin' the High Elf stuff in general. The colors for your dragon princes work quite well (I take it that the metals are washed with Asurmen blue?).

LBursley wrote:lovin the eldar rangers malfred! the blue you chose was perfect. keep up the great work!

Thank you, but don't worry, they look far less impressive in person.

HFJor wrote:How's the Uncharted Seas game? I've seen it at the Warstore's website and it looks neat (not to mention I've been curious to start a table-top naval game).

Haven't played yet. Don't know when I'll get to play. I've been holing up to get
painting done so it's a bit of a stretch to get games going.

Also, I'm diggin' the High Elf stuff in general. The colors for your dragon princes work quite well (I take it that the metals are washed with Asurmen blue?).

Thank you. I was afraid that the green would be too much. The blue is a Vallejo ink, but
I'm guessing it's the same. I'm so lazy that I use it both for High Elf metal AND the robes.