l0k1's eternal painting crusade. Alpha Legion CSM/Yme-Loc Eldar Updated 4/28/2019

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**Brother Payne**

Woah huuuuge amount of minis there! Congrats!

**l0k1**

Yeah it was a nice amount of models both in the diorama and the painting competition. A lot of our players weren't able to make it though.

Here is a link to some better photos of the diorama from the store's Facebook group

https://m.facebook.com/FantasticGame/albums/10154316403594248/?ref=m_notif¬if_t=group_activity

Here is a link to better photos of the painting competition entries

https://m.facebook.com/FantasticGame/albums/10154316462434248/

**l0k1**

With the painting competition over it's finally time to start my Eldar army!

**l0k1**

As I try to plug away at building my Eldar army I figured I'd post a list of my Eldar that need work. I'm going to doing a Guardian Warhost, no cheesy scatter bike seer council shenanigans. I'm going to try and build the 20 guardians, farseer, spiritseer, and battleforce then paint them just so there isn't a big gap between posts of unpainted models to painted ones. I also need to figure out how I want to base this army. I might just go with grey rocks with some flock, let me know what you guys think.

NIB
1 Farseer
1 Spiritseer
1 Wraith Knight
1 Eldar Battleforce (current one)
20 Guardians
5 Dire Avengers
5 Wraithguard
5 Wave Serpent
1 Crimson Hunter
1 Fire Prism
12 Fire Dragons
3 War Walkers
3 Vaul's Batteries

Used models that need painted or stripped and repainted
6 Fire Dragons
20ish Dire Avengers
1 Yriel
1 Asurmen
1 Crimson Hunter

For those that don't know, this is the color scheme I'll be trying to do

**Brother Payne**

That's a lot of infantry! Especially for an eldar army.

I'd be inclined to go for snow themed bases - think it would compliment their scheme nicely with the white face and cool gem tones. If you wanted a warmer feel then maybe use Blackfire Earth? Think that would work well with their helmets

**l0k1**

Yeah there is a decent amount of infantry, but whenever I build an army I build into apocalypse so that I can easily do multiple builds on the fly. I actually need to pick up more Fire Prisms, Wraithguard, Wraithlords, Swooping Hawks, and Warp Spiders lol.

I havent tried snow themed bases before. That could like really nice. Another option I had thought of was lava bases.

**evildrcheese**

Oo I like the grey and orange scheme for the Eldar. Looking forward to seeing more.

EDC

**l0k1**

@evildrcheese I really liked the scheme too. It's a scheme you don't see very often, it's eye catching, and white isn't a major part of it lmao.

Ok dakka users, I'm getting there on building my guys, I promise lol. Bloody Guardians are a pain to build and I think I got the boxes with the most flash on them. But I currently have 20 Guardians, 3 Heavy Weapons Platforms, 1 Farseer, and 1 Spiritseer built and ready to prime. I'm starting on the last batch of 10 Guardians, then I'll get my Vyper, Warwalkers, and Vaul's Battery for my Guardian Defender Warhost. Building has been slow since my buddies coerced me into playing Ark with them a couple of hours a week. So stay tuned!

On a side note, I traded the remnants of my Grey Knights to a buddy for his small Eldar force. He's also going to be buying me some more Swooping Hawks and Warp Siders to even up the trade. This adds the following to my "to be painted" pile

1 Wraithknight
2 Farseers
4 Warlocks
1 Illic Nightspear
25 Dire Avengers
6 Rangers
6 Swooping Hawks
6 Warp Spiders
+ whatever he picks up for me.

**Brother Payne**

Far out that's going to be a sizeable force!

**evildrcheese**

You won't be short of hobby stuff for a while then?!

EDC

**l0k1**

No joke! It happens every time I start an army. I tell myself "just buy a handful of stuff, build it, paint it, THEN get more", but then I somehow end up with 100+ models that need stripped, repaired, repainted, or just built and painted lol. In addition to my ever growing Eldar force, I'd estimate I still have 300ish CSM models that need done, plus a FW Angron, 1 Bastion, 3 Baneblades, and 2 Imperial Knights.......I need to start a sweat shop to get all of my models ready for painting lol

**Brother Payne**

l0k1 wrote:
No joke! It happens every time I start an army. I tell myself "just buy a handful of stuff, build it, paint it, THEN get more", but then I somehow end up with 100+ models that need stripped, repaired, repainted, or just built and painted lol. In addition to my ever growing Eldar force, I'd estimate I still have 300ish CSM models that need done, plus a FW Angron, 1 Bastion, 3 Baneblades, and 2 Imperial Knights.......I need to start a sweat shop to get all of my models ready for painting lol

I'll be the first to admit that I too have this problem

I think I might own more unbuilt/unpainted models than painted... And with 4000pts+ of completed DA and the same again of WHFB, that's saying something

Edit: and today I just bought more Warhounds

**l0k1**

Lol at least I'm not alone! Another problem I run into is that I start building/painting/playing an army, amass a huge force, then less than 50% of the way through painting I decide to trade it for something else lol. I'm really trying not to do that anymore and thus far have been successful, but there's always that voice in the back of my head saying "you should trade that army for another one that you can ally with your csm" or "that new codex is amazing, you should start that army".

Shame on you for buying models before the rest of your stuff is painted lol!

**Brother Payne**

l0k1 wrote:
I'm really trying not to do that anymore and thus far have been successful, but there's always that voice in the back of my head saying "you should trade that army for another one that you can ally with your csm" or "that new codex is amazing, you should start that army".

Didnt you just trade GK for more Eldar...?

**l0k1**

Shhh that's different!

I had already quit Grey Knights, and was just filtering everything I had left into Eldar.

**l0k1**

Hey everyone! It's been a few days so I figured I'd drop by and post an update.

I've been furiously trying to build as many Eldar models as possible this week. I currently have 1 Farseer, 1 Spiritseer, 30 Guardians, 3 Heavy Weapons Platforms, 1 Vyper, 3 War Walkers, and 1 Vaul's Battery assembled and ready to be primed. I have next Friday off so my plan is to finish the other 2 Vaul's Batteries, and maybe a Wave Serpent or two, then prime everything on Friday. So stay tuned.

**l0k1**

****Update****

I finally got everything primed and will start painting this coming Sunday! Check back for WIP pics!

**l0k1**

***update***

1st squad of guardians getting their base coats

**l0k1**

So after a lot of on again/off again breaks I'm back! Thanks to my flgs running an insane 50% off all pre 8th edition 40k models, and the release of the Death Guard codex I've been bitten by the building/painting bug again. Here are some pics of the stuff I've done and I'm working on.

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And for some chaos!

And my current work in progress an Alpha Legion daemon prince of Khorne

**l0k1**

A squad of Khorne Berzerkers done and I started work on a custom Nurgle Daemon Prince. The base for the khorne daemon prince is almost done.

**l0k1**

The Khorne daemon prince is finished. Work has begun on the Nurgle daemon prince.

**Ynneadwraith**

Love those Yme-Loc Eldar

not a scheme you see often but it works really well

**l0k1**

Thanks. Yeah I really like the look of the Yme-Loc, I'm hoping they get their own trait in the codex.

I'm currently debating on how I want to the armor for this daemon prince. Half of me wants to do the alpha legion scheme, the other half says to do death guard. What does everyone think?

**l0k1**

My custom Nurgle Daemon Prince is finished. It looks good to me, but feels like it's missing something.

**l0k1**

I started working on a squad of Obliterators and a Dark Apostle. Got the armor done and the skin started with Bugmans Glow and a wash of Reikland Fleshshade.

**Ynneadwraith**

Aah so that's what Bugman's Glow is for. I've got a pot from an eBay paint haul but haven't worked out what to do with it yet. Didn't think of washing it for ruddy skintones.

Now if you can find a use for Kindleflame then I'm set

Death Guard Daemon Prince is looking great by the way, and I'm liking the opalescent Alpha Legion armour

**l0k1**

Yeah Bugmans Glow is a good base for building up skintones. Reikland Fleshade adds that natural shadow look. I need to go back and hit the stretched flesh areas on the Obliterators with some purple wash to give it more of a bruised look.

Kindleflame can be drybrushed along edges of orange or bright red for a highlight.

Thanks! I might need to go back and do a little bit more with the green glaze to get a some more green in the armor.

**Ynneadwraith**

Aah that would explain it. Never really do bright colours

Purple washed bruising would look great on the Obliterators

great idea. I've also found that a combination of Bloodletter washes and Carroberg Crimson washes does a really nice job of making skin look really sore which might suit them well too

**l0k1**

Well today was the last day of my local shop's 50% off 40k sale. The total damage is as follows

1 Magnus
1 AoS Nurgle Daemons starter
1 box of Plaguebearers
1 box of Plague Drones
1 Herald of Nurgle
1 Kharn (new sculpt)
1 box of CSM Terminators
1 Wave Serpent
1 Trumvirate of Ynnead
3 boxes of snap together cultists
4 brushes
About 15 or so paints
Also prepaid for the new Eldar codex

Grand total ended up being about $380ish, AoS stuff had an additional mark down, and there is usually 10% stuff in-store.

**l0k1**

Alpha Legion Dark Apostle is done!