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those are some really nice and smooth highlights on the purple and gold. They put my efforts to shame! I vote for either the Shadowseer or Farseer

Great looking SC, Maharg. Good luck in the comp.

Any Eldar are fine by me, so I look forward to whichever you pick.

Excited to see which Eldar will get paint comp duty and nice Sequitor, really smooth work!

Those purple Nighthaunt look great on the sand bases.

The standard bearer has great shading and highlighting, in terms of really making the edges and depths stand out. I think the banner itself is very good, actually. Trouble is, why no purple?

Thanks for the comments everyone. I was pleased with the how the sequitor turned out, though they do take a while to paint and I'm falling a long way behind on the Stormcast part of the Mortal Realms collection. Going to have to focus on them a bit more to catch up.
I think you might have got to the bottom of my wood elf issues Fifty, no purple. Could be an interesting challenge to do a purple one and not have it look like a dark elf.
I've still not decided on which eldar to paint up, I've been distracted by some more tyranids. Going to try out the 40k crusade rules at the weekend and so need a 50 power army so seemed a good motivation to finish up some units to field a fully painted force. The contrast paints came out for these guys

and I had some half done models from my last try at nids so finished these off the pre contrast way

which takes me over the 100 model mark for the year

Purple Wood Elves sounds totally doable. New 'Nids look good. BC and AC styles don't seem to clash.

Good work on the Tyranids, as youwashock says they look hard to differentiate style wise at arms length. Great effort to get past 100 models too!

Congrats on reaching the triple digits milestone and that is a good looking tranid force, enjoy the crusade!

Good work finishing those Tyranids Maharg.

Cheers,

CB

Good work on the Tyranids, as youwashock says they look hard to differentiate style wise at arms length. Great effort to get past 100 models too!

Purple Wood Elves sounds totally doable. New 'Nids look good. BC and AC styles don't seem to clash.

Thanks, made some effort mixing up pots of contrast for the 'nids' skin and carapace to make sure they fitted in with the old models. Only problem is, once they run out I'm in trouble as I can't remember the mix...

Congrats on reaching the triple digits milestone and that is a good looking tranid force, enjoy the crusade!

Thanks Viterbi. The tyranids didn't enjoy their crusade outing, getting hammered by some Word Bearers. The little guys just couldn't hurt the marines (and this is without the second wound!) and died very quickly in return. Might do ok against non marines, but going to have to add some more heavy hitters to cope with marines though. Still, gives me some direction when expanding the force. Played a few more crusade games with a few armies, overall enjoying the smaller games.

Good work finishing those Tyranids Maharg.

Thanks Captain, it's good to finally have a small force painted up. Plenty more to go before the tyranid backlog is finished though

Not too much painting here the last couple of weeks. There are of course a couple more 'nids, this time a termagant, couple of genestealers and some things for the 'stealers to hide in


Other than that, I've been procrastinating on starting the Eldar as I'm not too sure how I want to do them. Only one week to decide on that and get something done now. Instead, I had a play with an old Necron warrior trying out some sponged battle damage,copper and OSL. Sponging looked ok on the shoulder pads but was too clumsy, particularly for the head. Useful tool for bigger surfaces but I'll have to try painting on chips next time. Pleased with the positioning of the OSL but I definitely need more practice with the getting the glazing the right consistency - this one looks more like blood in places, particulalrly as the thinning medium made it shiny




I started another necron for more practice, not too keen how it looks at the moment but hopefully more work on the greys will make it all fit in better

As it turns out, this Necron practice was well timed as this arrived in the post this week, providing yet more distraction from the Eldar

Couldn't resist getting an Intercessor built. I really like these models, big and imposing like a marine should be. Finally enough types of Primaris marine that I like to consider building a viable small force. Got most of the base colours and shading done

The eyes on the new Primaris are just popping. Like the Tyranid egg clusters, too.

Cool scheme for the Necrons, the OSL stuff looks tricky to get right. Part of it might be that the source is much brighter than the reflection. I know it’s supposed to be, but it could maybe do with a bit of the orange? The Verdigris and chipping look pretty spot on to me though.

What chapter will the Primaris be? He looks a bit like a dark Blood Angel, really cool so far!

Love the purple, really vibrant.

Nice derelict Necron, chipping looks great and the Oxide paint gives it a really old and worn look.

The eyes on the new Primaris are just popping. Like the Tyranid egg clusters, too.

Thanks Youwashock. The eyes are the only bit I've finished - need to be done early to save blue mishaps ruining finished helmet, I'm not usually neat enough to avoid mistakes!

Cool scheme for the Necrons, the OSL stuff looks tricky to get right. Part of it might be that the source is much brighter than the reflection. I know it’s supposed to be, but it could maybe do with a bit of the orange? The Verdigris and chipping look pretty spot on to me though.

What chapter will the Primaris be? He looks a bit like a dark Blood Angel, really cool so far!

Thanks Gobert. It was interesting to try the OSL - I did try adding some orange to the chest after I took the pictures and it did help a bit. I'm hoping to avoid this next time by going for a more orange light source so the glow isn't so similar to blood. Marine is going to be a blood angel, hopefully he'll look redder once the highlights go on

Love the purple, really vibrant

Thanks davetheblaster45, welcome to the blog

Nice derelict Necron, chipping looks great and the Oxide paint gives it a really old and worn look.

Thanks Viterbi. Think I'll try a little less chipping next time on the head but overall happy with how it came out.

The Eldar procrastination continued most of last week with a few more termagants painted and a handful of ghosts built



Finally, with the deadline looming, I managed to finish the Farseer. The Archon and Shadowseer will have to wait for another time




Thanks for looking

That Farseer is SLICK! Magnificent black.

Ohh, nice Farseer Maharg.

Cheers,

CB

Great updates! The necrons look really cool and the farseer is top notch. Nice and crispy!

Great work on the Farseer! Lovely crisp edge highlights and smooth ones on the cloak, neat work!

The Farseer cloak is perfectly blended, great work! Love the purple color accent on the other cloth.

Thanks all.

Got a few more bits painted up this week, first up the normal tyranid addition, this time a few hormagaunts


I also painted up some old chaos blood bowl models. I had half a team painted a few years ago but never got around to finishing them. I think I got a fairly good match between the old and new additions. The freshly painted models:

and with the older models


Still a few more models to be added, a couple of beastmen and a few star players, hopefully won't be another few years before they are done


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hmm, pictures look a little blurry here, odd as they don't look that bad in the gallery. Good enough for now though, will take more once the rest of the team is done

Really big fan of that classic look for the BB team.

Those Blood Bowl guys look great, they seem to fit in really well with their team mates too. The nids really work with Contrast, you’re really turning them over quickly now!

Great work on the Farseer. That cloak is beautiful and the gemstones really look neat.

Maharg,

5+ models a week is very good progress.

Cheers,

CB

Love the BB minis, they have a lot of character. They kind of remind me of something that could jump out of one of the early Discworld novels, when it was foremost an 80's fantasy parody.

Thanks for all the comments.
The contrast has been flowing here again, ghosts this time instead of the usual tyranids


And there is another set in progress


Hopefully I'll get these finished off quickly then I need to get on with this month's painting challenge. Theme is 'long war', frontrunners are currently a dreadnought and/or helbrute though that may well change for something smaller given we're half way through the month already

Sweet Farseer!

With Halloween on the way, you could say you are really getting into the "spirit" of things. They look great! Contrast is really pulling it's weight with these guys.

Nice ghosts there Maharg.

Cheers,

CB