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Hello everyone here on Dakka. I am very easily distracted by shiny things that don't fit in the army and i recently was looking in dark elves. Currently i "play" chaos deamons for 40k but i'm also looking into Dark elves/WoC for fantasy. I say "play" because i never really played a battle yet . I was just wondering, how hard a dark elves/WoC to paint for a newbie painter. It looks rather challenging to me to make the dark elves look awesome and i'm not really familiar with painting plated armors and stuff. So how newbie friendly are these armies and would i be able to make them look nifty as a newbie painter . Thanks in advance for the advice/feedback

Even I can paint Warriors of Chaos alright. Me, of all people! :O I'm also planning to start Dark Elves, btw, but well.. Those shouldn't be too hard either.


Aye, I'm a horrible painter.. buuuut.. it's not hard to do. For the armor, I simply did a basecoat-wash (in my case thinned down red paint), and all the other parts can be painted in a quite simple way, too. All I used were basecoats, drybrushes and washes.



That's one of my Marauders, painted using the same techniques, though applied a bit differently.

They look good enough from the 'gaming' distance

I'd say WoC are easier than dark elves to paint, but if you find a good easy to do schemes, you could probably make any army nifty.

I play WoC and High Elves for Fantasy, and Dark Angels and Chaos Space Marines for 40k.

Of all these, I think the WoC army has been the easiest to paint. The models for the most part are simple and straight forward. You can come up with some really cool color schemes that will be easy and quick to paint.

Just do a google image search for Warriors of Chaos. You will find a TON of inspirational pictures of peoples armies.

Thank you guys for the replies. I shall start attempting to finish my chaos warriors and then maybe move on to a batch of dark elf corsairs or something to see which ones turn out beter. From there i guess i should start looking into what is actually more fun to play