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Thanks !

Vallejo Magic blue basecoat/midtone and Imperial blue for shading. There's lots of very vivid shades in the Vallejo range as well as GW equivalents.

The only downside with them is that the paint seperates on the pallet. i can live with it though as the paint is in dropper bottle which is way better than the GW ones.

I'm looking forward to starting my Farseer / Warlock HQ. It'll take a while to paint but it'll showcase my best painting to date (to see where I'm at ability wise more than anything).

I'm very impressed with the airbrush work on the falcons - Keep it up!

I also remember seeing a .pdf document for using "zenital" highlights on Ultramarine Sternguard with an airbrush not so long ago. Here's the link to the Dakka Tutorial page:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/291554.page

It's something that you could try out, me thinks.

dey look great .
and ist my favo craftworld

Thanks guys lots more to come......


Thats the shading done on the Wraithlords. The pics don't do them justice. i've yet to put a paintbrush near them.

I also managed to prep and prime my Farseer/Warlock HQ unit too. I'l basecoat them this week and finish the Wraithlords and some final touch ups on the Falcons.

EDIT: BETTER PICS UP !

The way the light "reflects" off the wraithbone makes them look incredibly realistic. It's almost as if they're life-size scale!

Keep it rollin'!

EDIT: Don't forget the second "f" in "off" folks!

Realism is something I aim for with mini's but its hard with Eldar as GW always paints them kind of cartoony, but....

I also didn't want to go the military modellers style like I will for my 2nd Army (BA) so I found myself going for a happy medium.

Getting rid of the bright yellows and bone colours helps. So does taking the piss with the blue blending ! I've still been keeping it 'real' though with exhaust stains etc.

I took pics of the Wraithlords at the basecoat stage with a powerful light from above at various angles (front/side/rear). Then I blew them up on my computer screen and used them as a guide to shadow with. Zenithal highlighting the hard way!

This is looking fantastic. It's really helping me to see where you put the highlights and seeing it done with an airbrush may even inspire me to tackle my grav tanks that are sitting there instead of just the foot troopers!

Scherdy, you're triggering my anatidaephobia.

OP, this is amazing. I'm McLoving the richness of this, and the blending is out of sight.

you have a very nice and clean workspace , i like that
cool airbrushing... have to try that out myself

Lol, anytime you want to repaint mine just feel free. seriously though, how much did your airbrush cost you?

Thanks for the kind words guys.

THESE ARE ALL AWESOME ESSPECIALY THE RANGERS AND FALCONS!!!!!

Lynx0193 wrote:Lol, anytime you want to repaint mine just feel free. seriously though, how much did your airbrush cost you?

I bought an Iwata Eclipse and Iwata jet compressor as a set for about £200 from memory. Iwata also do a good brush for detail work which I might also buy for doing minis as it has a finer needle and a limiter that you can adjust to control the paint flow you can apply. It's called high performance B and is worth a look at.

There seems to be a fair amount of second hand airbrushes on the go but I wouldn't buy a used compressor personally as the warranty might be invalid after the first user.

The first wraithlord is in an awesome pose. it's like he's saying "gimme props, home dawg"

These all look phenomenal. Great work, can't wait to see wht you do with the Wraithlords.

Great work so far. I've used an airbrush, but mainly as a basecoat for vehicles. This thread's gotten me interested in learning to mask off areas of the tank for highlights. You've gotten a great start, looking forward to more.

Thanks guys, more on its way soon

Well, a busy week this week but I got the Wraithlords pretty much done.

I'm not 100% happy with them, mainly minor details and having to correct stuff then messing it up a few times. Ho hum, the way it goes sometimes.... They are certainly table top worthy and the end goal is for an Apocalypse sized force anyhoo.

I've basecoated my Seer council too so i'll do them bit by bit over the next couple of weeks. Its onto Dire Avengers and the 2nd Guardian squad this week ,however i may put off painting one of them to do a Striking Scorpion squad to give me some time off the blue paint! I'm also considering doing a Baal Predator for the BoLS competition for 21st of May. That'll no doubt kick off my BA WIP

More soon.....

That looks so fething amazing its not even funny! Seriously, you've got some mad skills with an airbrush!

So very cool

Beautifully done so far.

Thanks guys.

I think I'll go back to them at a later date and make some of the bumps into red gemstones.

I think the sword needs a bit more work also and i was originally going to make the brown upper half of the blade bleached bone. The metal could also do with a NMM technique using metallics too.

Update: I decided to work on Striking Scorpion next to get a break form the blue. I'll post pics up tomorrow night.

As a side note , I've abandoned my plans to build a BA army and I've decided to do a Raptors army AND Death Korps of Kreig Armoured Unit over the coming months. My reasoning behind this is simple; I want to work on a force for Apocalypse which is the opposite in style and look to my Eldar. This'll keep things fresh and means i can go between projects. There'll also be a strong military modelling painting and conversion process making the most of weathering, detail and realism.

It'll be a month or so before i start the 2nd army so I'd better get cracking to finish a decent sized playable Alaitoc army

That blue on the WLs looks unreal. I could totally see it on a battlefield, slaying the enemies of the Eldar, and doing it in style
Can't wait to see your next pictures! Great stuff man!

holy crap if i ever had to play you i wouldn't get as far as deployment, i would pack my army away in shame for soiling the same table as those D:!

Thanks guys!!

Been a bit busy this week but the Striking scorpions are ready for paint. Should get some pics up in the next day or two.....

Work begins on the Striking Scorpions and Farseer/Warlock unit.

Scorpions: Vallejo Model Air Russian Green was airbrushed on as a base coat and Beasty Brown for the base (as per all the armies bases). Black basecoats brushed on normally.
Psykers: Vallejo blue basecoat was sprayed on as per the rest of the blue basecoats in the army, bases done in the same brown and black brushed on normally.

From opening the packet and prepping/assembling to this stage took 3 hours work for both units.

As I use a certain colour for the Scorpions I'll do the Psykers basecoats for that colour at the same time. I won't do any blending etc yet though but concentrate instead on the Scorpions squad to get them finished for tomorrow night.

More soon

Is it going to be a regular striking scorpion schme?

I'm going to tone down the original scheme you normally see in the codex etc.

More drab colouring and less of the bright colours. They're supposed to be stealthy and stick to the shadows so I'm going to play on this aspect (ahem). Hopefully they'll look a bit more unrefined and brutal which as aspect warriors go they are the most heavily armoured and nasty.

Well, after a busy week or so I've finally managed to finish the Striking Scorpion squad. They're actually a bit more drab/olive green than in the pics but its the best one I can get for now.

Tomorrow I'm going to start on the Farseer and Warlocks HQ. During next week I'll also build up and start work on the Dire Avengers and another Guardian squad, I'll also build and prep my FW Avatar. My aim is to get all 3 units (Seer Council, Dire Avengers and Guardians) done by the end of June. I reckon that'll be easy to achieve but realistic. My motivation is the fact I'm looking forward to painting the Avatar.

I'll also be buying a few wave Serpents and at least one of the new Fire Prism kits (i'll be modifying the FPrisms as the are a bit long in the barrel dept. for my tastes). Time for more airbrushing.....

A few people posted threads asking questions about my technique for painting the Falcons so if there's enough interest I'd be happy to do a more comprehensive how-to.