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I just couldn't resist to paint some of the beautifull new Dark Eldar Jetbikes.
Still not sure which one looks better. Any opinions ?



Greets M@MAX

Looks good to me. I always like it when people go a different route to painting their armies then the normal cookie cutter

I think the Dark Eldar benefit most from high-contrast designs. So I like your dark reddish-brown one best (is that a mixed colour?) I think I would like the lighter one is the contrasting color was not white, but was something dark.

@Johira: The dark brown is just the Valejo equivalent of the GW Scroched brown.

I never thought of the dark contrast, I'll try it on my next bikes

I personally like the scheme on the left best, think they suit the darker colour better, however I prefer the riders scheme on the right one.

I like the redder scheme better but they both look nice.

I prefer the Dark Red/Brown scheme, but think the white should be replaced with further red because the white edges distracts me from the rest of the paintjob. If you paint more I'd really like to see them so please post pictures!

Red instead of white ? Not sure if that would work.

There wil definitly be more Dark Eldar, I just dont'tthink it will be anytime soon, have to do some stuff for my Nids before

M@MAX wrote:Red instead of white ? Not sure if that would work.

There wil definitly be more Dark Eldar, I just dont'tthink it will be anytime soon, have to do some stuff for my Nids before

Yeah the really dark red you have on the gloves of the rider, or alternatively the very dark green on the same model. I think they'd both look really good.

I like the one on the right just because it reminds me of desert raiders

The one on the left does it for me. As said before, high contrast suits the Dark Eldar very nicely.

I like the darker one, but I wouldn't paint the driver red and green. To many colors that way.

One thing you could try with the drivers: if you look closer, you can see that they wear some sort of full body suit with armor plates on it. Try painting them, the suit and the armor, in seperate colors. Maybe dark brown and red. I did something similar with my Eldar:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/99696.page

red highlights on a dark brown jetbike sounds like it's worth a try.