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i have one silly question.

Do you paint your whole craftworld the same color scheme or do you paint aspect warriors in original colors? Like Striking Scorpions green and yellow


thank you

Well, I personally 'panit' my Aspect Warriors in their normal colours to make them stand out from the rest of the army. Most Eldar players at my FLGS 'pain' their Eldar like that.

Thanx

I paint my aspects in 'aspect colours' but generally find a detail on them to tie in to the rest of the army (ribbon, sash, etc) and paint that one of the colours of my army.

When I did my guardians I choose to stick with the scheme the rest of my army has (As well as keeping everyone female)

While its not much of a contrast from the rest of my army the farseer ends up bring the most change and color.

Sorry camera sucks right now.

My army is painted pretty much entirely craftworld colours (Yme Locish), but each aspect stands out by having its own aspect colours somewhere on it.

*Banshees still have bone armour, but craftworld hair and sashes (plus details)
*DAs have blue chest armour, craftworld bodysuits and mohawks
*FDs are pretty much Yme Loc colours anyway
*Haven't done my Spiders yet, but will be mainly aspect colours.

I think the aspects should stand out, it fits the fluff that way. Apart from my DAs, who I pretend have a shrine on the Yme Locish craftdorwl

Everything Ulthwe colors, although the Exarchs are in their normal colors.
Looks pretty good, makes the Exarchs stand out.

Guardians and vehicles are craftworld colours, aspect warriors are standard GW aspect colours.

Eldar are nice in that they have a fairly consistent design aesthetic in the way the models are build, so you can be fairly creative with your painting and still have them look coherent. I've seen armies that are mostly all the same scheme (with small details marking an aspect), and I've seen armies that have their aspects all unique (with small details tying them into the army as a whole). The 3rd Edition Eldar Codex shows a few examples of this.

My own Eldar use the "different schemes for each aspect" idea, with the armor's undersuit being consistent across all models. IMO this ties them together fairly well, but I'm in the middle of a repaint and I've not played a game in several years so I've not seen them together in a long time.

I also, when possible, include a red aspect on the base to add extra coherency. When I last played a lot my most common opponent was a Blood Angels player, so that's why they frequently get to be dead on my bases.

Here are some pics:

Nice conversion on the Necron C'Tan

Keep the aspects in their "normal" colours. I think it adds colour to my Ulthwe army.

View it here www.modelsnottoys.co.uk