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Great updates. The avatar is coming along nicely. The seer looks great too, his base is well done.

More on the avatar. Only got the loin cloth, spear, bloody hand and a million gems to do. Started to get him glued together too.

That's looking awesome, so far!

Thank you mate!

Looking great!

That Avatar is Red Hot! (and makes me want to change my painting plan this month again)

 blockade23 wrote:
That Avatar is Red Hot! (and makes me want to change my painting plan this month again)

It’s an absolute joy to paint, a great refresh from all the little elves I’ve been doing and loads of fun. If you’ve got one, paint it!

He looks awesome so far!

Thanks everyone, update on the big man.

Last thing to do was the tabard, I wanted the avatar rune on it, there is no decal I could find for this, very sad.

My free hand is not good enough for the painting it so I went with a decal that was similar off the decal sheet with some extra bits of another version of the rune, and the swirly tail off a swim hann symbol and added them together, then I noticed two more lines so added them too. 6 pieces in total all stuck on.

Then I painted over it all and tidied it with some black to make the edges sharper. I like this cheating free and am happy with the result. Calling the whole model done too.

FUEGAN!

Couple of WIP shots. Not started the helmet yet but think I’ll do it black fading out to red at the edges like the old models.

The Avatar has turned out great. Nice work with the rune. Fuegan is off to an excellent start.

Finished Fuegan. Really pleased with how the old school helmet turned out. Group shot with his crew as well.


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Forgot tufts so added those quickly. Only got a 10 man swooping hawks squad then I’m officially at 2000 points. Group photos then.

Fuegan is looking really good.

Thanks, I wish they would release an eldar basing kit with those temple bits in. I’d be all over that.

Fuegan and the Avatar looks amazing. The decal for the Avatar was smart - the patchwork decals have come out well. Any advice for painting the Avatar? I've got one that will need some love at some point.

 Zambro wrote:
Fuegan and the Avatar looks amazing. The decal for the Avatar was smart - the patchwork decals have come out well. Any advice for painting the Avatar? I've got one that will need some love at some point.

I wish I’d kept the weapon hand as a subassembly, and wish I hadn’t bothered keeping all the chest straps as subassemblies.

It was really nice to paint though, I used Fluoro paints through the airbrush as my first steps and it was super simple. Red up to yellow. I watched a lot of videos of it being painted in prep. Luckily there are a lot because it’s a stunning mini.

Working inside out was the key. I painted all the deepest/brightest details first and worked out on the body getting darker.

Several Exalts from me Andykp.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you! Swooping hawks have been started and that will round off 2000 points but work has got I pin the way of fun again. Having a game on Sunday thiugh so should have an army shot then too.

Great looking updates. The army shot will look amazing i bet.

I had a bit of burn out after pushing to get this army ready for a battle, painted around 2000 points in a few months. Played The battle and didn’t pick up a brush again until today. A good few months off. Was going to paint something other than eldar but finished these off instead. Got the bug again.

Swooping hawks. 10. Next up 10 dark reapers.

Welcome back, a little time off is sometimes good just to rest and reinvigorate.
Fuegan and the avatar look amazing, that transfer rune came out really well and you would never know it was made of 6 pieces!
The swooping hawks look really good, very clean and neat!
Hope you manage a full army shot soon!

I’ll get on it soon, thanks for support, I find doing a hobby blog helps with the motivation too, defo need some time off but glad to be back on it.

On the desk I’ve got 10 dark reapers, 10 banshees and Jain Zar, and some harlequins which will be there own special challenge.

Early WIP on the dark reapers. Can’t wait to get the arms all glued on, hate sub assemblies.

Always love to see some Reapers. Harlequins and Jain Zar give a lot to look forward to.

Burgle has infected our house this weekend so less progress than I would’ve liked. Quick WIP.

Some great updates, the Swooping Hawks are really nice. Cool to see some variation with your Dark Reapers too!

Thanks. Should have them finished by tomorrow, been a good experiment in speed painting them, much quicker hen the fire dragons.

Dark reapers done, crap photo but I’m happy with them.

Quick Autarch painted up, happy with her armour, first time I’ve painted a character in the green armour and got to spend some time on it, not so happy with the power weapon might repaint it. Was thinking of some simple freehand on the back of the cloak too. Like just a line along the bottom but chickened out, might go back to the too when I’m feeling brave.

Going to collect an early release of the Corsairs box today too so should have some pics of that later as well. Dead excited.