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Hey bud

I am trying to go for the same look on my spinner weapons as you have on your spiders.

Do you remember the steps/colours you went through to achieve that nice yellow to red blend?

Thanks everybody! No new progress as yet, I've been away for work, and my most recent in-progress is still the High Elf Prince on Griffon that I'm trying to get done before the end of the month for the painting challenge.

 Da Boss wrote:
Just read through the entire blog, absolutely lovely painting. I love the story too - great that you are making the army of your dreams! Biel-Tan are definitely the best Eldar faction.

I certainly think so!

 Ekfud wrote:
The green is excellent - have been looking at revisiting my old (late 90s) collection with newer paints...
I was leaning towards the GW range before seeing this (Caliban green -> warboss -> moot green), which have the advantage of air + thicker options.

Have you had a chance to muck around with their current range - and is it pretty close to your vallejo build?

Unfortunately not - the only Citadel paints I use at the minute are the technicals. Looking at those colours online I think my Vallejo recipe is slightly more towards the yellow side of green and those Citadel paints have a bit more blue tint in them - but that could be massively off the mark just due to how my monitor is reproducing the colours.

 Argive wrote:
Hey bud

I am trying to go for the same look on my spinner weapons as you have on your spiders.

Do you remember the steps/colours you went through to achieve that nice yellow to red blend?

Now that's a good question. I honestly can't remember the exact paints I used, and I don't think I wrote down the recipe anywhere. Best guess from looking at the models and my paint racks is that the colour progression is something like (all VMC unless stated) Vermillion - Scarlet - Light Orange - Golden Yellow - Golden Yellow/VGC Dead White mix. I've got a half-painted Night Spinner turret on my painting bench, and that's probably the scheme I'll use to try to match the Warp Spiders.

Thanks!

Do you remember if you started with a white undercoat on the entire barrel?

Love everything I'm seeing here. Proper Biel Tan Eldar are far too rare.

I've been really quiet this last month. I've had a few things going on, but having painted a couple of non-eldar things for the painting challenge, and worked on a couple of bits for my Deathwatch, the Biel-Tan progress has been slow.

Argive wrote:Thanks!

Do you remember if you started with a white undercoat on the entire barrel?

Hey, sorry I missed this question. If it's still relevant at all, I primed these guys in a red auto primer. It was a bit more of a rusty sort of red, I probably painted the barrel a brigther red and then worked up to the oranges/yellows from there.

Elbows wrote:Love everything I'm seeing here. Proper Biel Tan Eldar are far too rare.

Cheers. Yeah, I don't see them all too often. It's nice to be one of the guys flying the flag for them, so to speak.

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Latest completed models - the Shadow Spectres and Irillyth. I'd waited for ages to pick these up, because the Exarch had been continuously out of stock on Forgeworld for what felt like a year. As soon as I spotted it was back earlier this year, I placed the order the same day. But, eager as I was to get my hands on them, I took my time over putting them together. It was a real pain to figure out where to put all the streamers/ribbons, and even then I only realised when I was most of the way through painting them that a couple of them have the beginnings of a streamer on their right arm that I was clearly supposed to attach one to, and didn't realise. Oops, well, it's barely noticeable...





What's on the painting bench at the minute? Well, I've got a Fire Prism/Night Spinner mostly finished. I was able to build both turrets (you get an entire prism/spinner turret left over from the Warp Hunter kit), I'm only lacking the cockpit window. I've also got the next batch of seer council at various stages of painting. I've not been actively going at those, it's been more putting a bit of paint on them here and there when I've got some leftover of a particular colour on my palette, but I might make an effort to finish them up. It can get a little depressing if the same models sit half-finished for too long.

Still lots to work at. I still keep meaning to get around to painting my Scorpion, the remaining two Wraithknights, and more metal aspects. I've also got a surplus of wraithguard/wraithlords from foolishly caving in and buying the Apocalypse box, so I ought to work through some more of those. I had really been looking forward to Jain Zar and the new banshees, but I wasn't about to buy the Phoenix Rising box - I've got enough Falcons and Vypers and didn't want the Dark Eldar half. So I'll wait for them to see a separate release before I pick any up - it's not like I don't already have too much stuff to work on.

Painted total is approaching 6k points, but the total models in the collection is more like 13k... a lot of painting still to do!

Hey man. Nice you did the shadow specters.
I still have mine sitting in a box. Should really get on them.

Did you use contrast at all on these ?

Really like the blue fade and highlight, makes them pop hella good.

Lovely models. They look good with the green cloth to tie them in with the Craftworld.

I have always felt that Irillyth (sp?) was not far enough removed visually from the regular Spectres. He has always struck me as a jazzed-up Exarch rather than a Phoenix Lord.

Good to see new work from you. Looking forward to more wonderful green Eldar.

Nice work Bellerophon.

Cheers,

CB

Lovely looking Spectres, love the effect you've gotten on the rocks too, very nice contrast with their armour.

Nicely done, and excellent work on those sandstone rocks!

Back again! Thanks for the comments everybody, I appreciate them.

I've been busy working on the third phase of my Ridiculous Seer Council. To the point where I have now finished every generic foot Farseer, Warlock and Spiritseer that has ever been released - at least as far as I know. Phew! Took a fair bit of ebay trawling to gather them all.

Seer Council Phase 3:


Warlocks Through the Ages:


The Spiritseers:


Farseers Through the Ages:


Ridiculous Seer Council - Phases 1, 2 and 3 Assembled. I love seeing this many together!


And I'm still not finished. I've got a couple of the skyrunners to do, another of the new plastic spiritseer, and I want to say... 4? of the plastic foot farseer. So, there is a fair bit of kitbashing in my future to create a bunch more unique plastic seers to see just how far I can continue to expand this utterly ridiculous seer council. Just because I can.

EDIT: Just realised I didn't even put the Bonesinger in that photo. Heh, I'll have to remember to include it next time once I've done the kitbashes...

Next will be my first Fire Prism, I've just got the canopies to finish. It's been sat like that for a week or two actually, I need to get that finished. I've also picked up a couple more Falcons. Amusingly, the fact that I didn't need more Falcons (or Vypers) was one of the reasons that I skipped Blood of the Phoenix, and yet when I saw how cheaply people were selling the new-on-sprue Falcons on ebay I couldn't resist picking up two. I'm very tempted to try to convert/kitbash one into a Firestorm, just for the fun of it.

Seerific! Quite a sight, all those Space Elf wizards in one place.

Wow man! Great going.Thats a serious seer council! The white on the warlock heads is hella smooth! I always find trying to do white in small areas end up chalky :(

Man I need to get my ass in gear and get paintin! Putting the rest of us to shame.

That's the kind of council I want! Awesome job on all of them!

Bellerophon,

A crazy sized Seer Council there.

Cheers,

CB

Quite the council . I have to say, the first farseer (the one pointing with sword sheathed on his back) is the archetypical farseer for me.

That is awesome!

I really want to put our Seer Councils down on the table next to each other at some point. Maybe one day at Warhammer World.

By the way, you really ought to include a Forgeworld Wraithseer in your army to complete the full set of Eldar Psykers. (And possibly consider converting the plastic and metal Eldrads)

Thanks everybody!

Argive wrote:The white on the warlock heads is hella smooth! I always find trying to do white in small areas end up chalky :(

I've got no particular secret there really, it's just layered up through light grey to two or three coats of thinned Army Painter Gorgon Hide.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Quite the council . I have to say, the first farseer (the one pointing with sword sheathed on his back) is the archetypical farseer for me.

It's completely classic. Different to the others, and yet still looks fitting alongside them.

Fifty wrote:That is awesome!

I really want to put our Seer Councils down on the table next to each other at some point. Maybe one day at Warhammer World.

By the way, you really ought to include a Forgeworld Wraithseer in your army to complete the full set of Eldar Psykers. (And possibly consider converting the plastic and metal Eldrads)

That would be very cool indeed. I'm still not finished though! Good point on the Wraithseer, I hadn't especially thought of getting one, but it's definitely now on my radar for completeness. I'd thought of converting some Eldrads, like you said, and the kitbashes with my other new-on-sprue plastics... See how many more I can do.

Finished the FIre Prism that I was promising last time round. It's the first grav tank that I've worked on since picking up my airbrush. I think the contrast between the middle of the panels and the highlights isn't quite as much as my previous hand-brushed grav tanks, but I think it still came out well. I've started work on another Falcon where I might try to get a bit better match to the others. I've also started another squad of Fire Dragons, and I think it's really about time I started on my Scorpion, or another Wraithknight...

Nice man!

Are the vines stencilled or did you freehand them ?

Could be because you mentioned it, but the green does seem a little subdued. Still marvelously clean, and that lovely blue is the star of the show anyway.

Thanks guys. I think the reason there's a bit less contrast in the green is that my brush highlights on my older tanks were a bit more precise. The airbrush ones are smoother, and spread out a bit more, so there's less of the really dark green still showing.

I've started working on the Scorpion, decided to enter it into this month's open round on the painting challenge. Still a very long way from finished, but I've got the green done and pretty pleased with it. I don't normally post WIPs, but couldn't resist this one!

That Scorpion is a beast! Not sure if it’s the lighting but the edge highlights look brighter to me

So pretty.

Impressive!

Cheers guys, I like those reactions!

I've finished the Scorpion, been working at it pretty constantly, such a nice model and I really wanted to get it finished. After the last WIP, I finished off the white on the underside, and did the runes and vines. The vines were as per usual, though I did try to make them a bit denser than I'd done on some of my other recent vehicles. The runes I used the larger transfers, but once they were on I wasn't entirely satisfied with how they looked and resolved to paint over them with the golden version of the Biel-Tan rune that I've painted a few times before. It took a little while but I think it was worth it. Let's start with a nice big remotely-hosted image, then a bunch of clickable gallery links:














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And having finished the Scorpion, I was itching to see how the army looked with the Scorpion right in the middle of it. I've updated my spreadsheet that I've been using to keep track of the host, and this lot comes to about 7200 points - or at least it did before the latest Chapter Approved, I haven't updated my points cost lists yet. Even after all this painting I've got about 6K worth of stuff still to paint, apparently!

Again, a nice big remotely hosted image, then some gallery links:







There's more pictures of the army and the Scorpion in my gallery.

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What's next? It might be the new year before I post anything else now. I've got another 10 Fire Dragons and another Falcon most of the way through painting, so they'll be the next finished models.

After that, I've got too many priorities! I'd like to:
- Keep working at my stash of metal Aspects (got more Fire Dragons, Striking Scorpions and Warp Spiders to do)
- Do the 4th Ed Army Box Autarch
- Paint my other two Wraithknights (the only models in that Detolf that aren't painted yet, now that the Scorpion's done)
- Do some more wraiths, just because I've got 20 more Wraithguard and 3 more Wraithlords on sprue
- Do some vypers, because I haven't done any yet.

And that's not even taking into account wanting to work on things for other armies! I've got some Imperial Knights I haven't touched yet, the new Sisters of Battle box, some unbuilt stuff for my Salamanders and my Deathwatch, a handful of Harlequins and a consistent urge to get into full 40k scale Titans, both Eldar and Imperial... So, plenty of painting to do.

Wow! That’s beyond words!and you’re only just last half way done

That is impressive, to say the least.

Glorious. There isn't an army in 40K that can rival Eldar when properly painted and assembled in force.

Beautiful army! Thanks for sharing this Bellerophon.