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Wow...that is a lovely orange.

next one on the go.
(first shot taken at my desk, with my lamp on, next to the window and with the flash. Second shot in my bookcase, just with the flash - I always think that the colours come out a lot darker in my photos... need to find better lighting, clearly!)

So cool.So pretty.

don't cry Cam!

onwards and upwards : )

Very nice, Fin. Liking the red freehand on the base thing.

next one on the go. I can tell he's going to be tricky to take photos of because of the position of his arms...

That's beautiful! I love the banner. I'm not sure about the size of the blade on Trinity's base, but I think they look great (as all your stuff does).

funnily enough, that was the only blade/spiky thing that I don't make myself - it's from a Raider. I think if I remember rightly, I wanted something big enough that would mean Trin would have to be jumping over it... possibly lol

The banner was a very early idea, and not what I'd intended to do at all! I'd wanted to put a phoenix on it to tie the squad into my Craftworld, but the folds on the banner are so deep that a lot of the detail would be lost/make it look odd, so another plan was needed! I may chuck a DEldarish rune in the circle...

I'm really loving that orange, it looks amazing on the dark eldar.

What colors did you use for the orange suits by the way I'm curious.

Blazing Orange basecoat, then Golden Yellow highlight, followed by Sunburst Yellow and a final highlight of Sunburst with some white mixed in.

Some progress made on the latest DEldar, and he's coming along pretty well I guess. Looking at the shots - as ever, I seem to notice stuff on them rather than when the actual mini is right in front of me - the highlighting on the banner looks a bit patchy so I might go and smooth it out. I tried highlighting it in red like with my Craftworld Guardian armour, but it just looked a bit too out of place as I hadn't done that anywhere else, so I started again with grey, and it worked much better.

I also needed to do some black wash on the banner pole, but disaster! My Badab Black had just about dried up : (
Then I remembered I'd bought some more, and I have two full pots of the lovely stuff - hurrah!

Working on the swords at the moment, waiting for the Gryphs Sepia to dry, then I can go in with the highlights. I'm thinking purple swords to clash nicely with the yellow, but I'm not 100% decided yet.

So pretty. awesome as always.

 Camkierhi wrote:
So pretty. awesome as always.

I think Cam is saying what i'm thinking! 'Pretty Awesome!' that banner flag is really something else and looks cool on the model, I can see what you mean about taking decent shots with the arms like that but you've done well so far :-) and I think a really subtle purple would work on the blades too if you wanted an opinion? if not.... tough luck :-)

Good work Fin'. The flag is particularly nice.

Purple swords would definitely work.

Banner guy done : ) Slow and steady wins the race apparently...

[deletia]

Amazing. Honestly stunning.

thanks Cam, very much appreciated : )

Excellent job. You really do make these guys look astounding

And I've only just noticed the subtle overlap of colour you do on the bases, that works really well, but somehow hadn't registered until I saw the group shot.

er, yeah... I TOTALLY planned that monkeytroll... /nervous laugh

(I really didn't - happy accident!) ; )

Oh well, it's a good effect anyway

Just spent about 15 minutes looking through your stuff, seriously nice work and loads of improvement from your first posts [not that they weren't great too!] Also good to see a fellow teacher finding time to get some stuff painted. I find I get loads done over the holidays and then painting becomes very limited during term time, I'll keep chipping away at my Sisters, no rush!

Nice work Fin'. The purple swords look good.

thanks Dr H

Tell me about it tyrannosaurus, painting in term time is basically an extreme luxury. I'm so knackered when I get home that I wouldn't even attempt to pick up a brush because I know that whatever I did would be rubbish. Multiply that by about a thousand at this time of the year what with coursework marking and I know enough to not even bother. The weekends and the holidays cannot come soon enough!
Technically I have two more of the DEldar to do, but I'm tempted to have a bit of a break from them now that I have a sold squad of them...

So... Wood Elf release. I can't say I'm blown away, the releases just seem a bit too bland to me, although there's nothing I can quite put my finger on to identify something that's totally awful. I wanted some really beautiful Wardancers, in the same style as the Scourges - lots of movement and really pushing the plastic in what it's capable of doing. What have we got? Some fairly standard Eternal Guard, some guys with ridiculously huge blades (which is fine, because their hands and arms are equally huge), and some slightly dodgy deer and over the top riders... Do they focus group their designs? If not, they really need to because they need a bit of customer feedback and direction. (one of the rumours said that they were all in dynamic poses! Ha! Dynamic is not a word I'd use to describe what we have!)

I feel disappointed that some of the rumours haven't panned out. The idea of warhawk riders seems clever and interesting, and a new sculpt could have pushed that concept further. The owl-monster rumour was at best a long shot, I know, but it was a cool idea, and would have made the Warhammer Wood Elves into an even more distinct property, which is what GW seems to be pushing for isn't it? The masked Wardancer with claws would have been brilliant. Who comes up with these rumours? Some of the ideas are pretty cool and interesting, and I'd like to see models of them! Even some of the Eldar rumours that proved to be false were interesting.

I feel a bit of a traitor admitting that GW is boring me at the moment, where are the new concepts? I just remember the buzz around the Dark Eldar release, and it was really exciting and it drew you in... I wanted that for the Wood Elves! I can't remember when I was excited about a release that made me want to go into a store and get the miniatures. I haven't set foot in a GW store in almost year because there's no real need for me to.
I want leaping, tumbling plastic Wardancers! I want lithe Banshees, graceful Swooping Hawks and menacing Scorpions and Dragons! This is the thing, I want to throw my money at GW, if they bring out the products I want! Don't they want my cash?? At best, I'm vaguely thinking about buying some Dark Elf Witches with an idea of converting them into Wardancers...

rant over...

As a break from all the black and orange, I've resumed work on my Irillyth, and I've remembered that doing white is worse than doing yellow for sheer tedium! Consequently, slow progress, but progress nonetheless. I've done all the white I want to do for now on his body/head/shoulders, and I've blocked in the gems, but I need to go in and do their final highlight on them. I also need to do a couple more gems.
Also done most of the white on his weapon, but I could definitely beef some of it up in places. The crystals are just basecoated at the moment, and I'm not entirely sure how to highlight them... But he's getting there. Not sure about the lenses - I'm not very good at green generally and they're just not standing out very much, but I can't quite think what colour to do them - not red, that would be a bit too much.

Well, now you are just showing off, that is dreamilly beautiful, if the orange was hot this is seriously cool.

Really beautiful Eldar.

Why not a dark blue for the gems, it'd match the crystal in the weapon at any rate, otherwise I would go for a pale orange.

I really need to make time to try the watered down paint over white method of painting