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I'm diggin that sail, more effor than I put into the galaxy designs I do, but still looks great.

As for the scions - I may or may not have a small force of scions that have yet to feel the grace of paint, might mix it up and do them white, maybe I'll need to get back to the good old P&M blog style

Thank you for the painting tutorial Faith! The sails look terrific. I'm wondering if I can adapt the technique you describe to an Eldar Wraith Knight...

I look forward to seeing more!

@Gummyofallbears: I'd love to see some Scions all painted up by you dude, white was going to be my other pick for a scheme for mine so if you do yours in white I can live vicariously through you and imagine what life would be like with the soup instead of the salad And if memeory serves it has been a while since your last update on your plog so it's about time too

@Meer_Cat: Actually funny story it was this style that I was adapting to my own wraithknight. It's a few pages back (page 16 of this plog) and I haven't finished him yet but I layered greys, creams and oranges on my WK to get a similar effect as this. I had finished the greys and creams (bone colour) when my wash had run into the greys and ruined them which prompted me to rage-quit painting him and move on to my Cronos instead. The plan was to use heavy drybrush of greys, creams and oranges to get a similar effect as I have on my sail but obviously not do the flecks of white part as I wasn't going to a nebula theme with him. It was an experiment to see if I could get a nice looking paint job using almost exclusively drybrushing on a smooth paneled model. If you do decide to try it out I'd love to see your results, feel free to drop a link in here as I love seeing other peoples projects and seeing them come to life.

Sail looks fantastic!! top work man

Thanks Jan appreciate it dude.

Nice tutorial for the sails. As promised it was simple but effective.

EDC

Great tutorial on the Raider sails.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks EDC and CB. These mini-tutorials are kinda fun to make so if anyone has anything I've done in the past that you'd like a tutorial for or if something piques your interest in the future don't hesitate to ask, I'm more than happy to do a breakdown with some pics if I can.

Hi Faith- I'm definitely reading through your whole thread/blog; I stumbled on your most recent work and really admired the coloring of the sails, and how straight-forward the technique was. I'll give a shout when I get started on the WK; I'm finishing up a 'counts as' Chimera Hanomag conversion at the moment (some WIP pics over on my thread).

Thanks man that tutorial's really helpful looks great too

I'm flattered you'd take the time to check the whole plog Meer_Cat, hopefully there's more in here that you'll like.

Thanks Ynneadwraith, glad you liked it.

Managed to get a decent amount of the raider done today. Still a lot to do but it's coming along. I'm already liking this one much more than my first raider. The sail is done, got the base colours on the weapons and have the highlighting on the hull as well as copper drybrush finished. Just gotta pick out details on the hull, wash the weapons, then paint my flower pattern. I'll finish off by getting the crew all painted up after the raider is done.

Looks great dude. I commend your commitment to all that edge highlighting.

EDC

Thanks EDC, yeah that much edge highlighting is not very fun to be honest but I'm getting faster at it so it's not as tedious as it was the first time I did it.

Tedious it might be but it's certainly working that looks excellent. Makes it look like a really rich midnight green which is perfect

Thank you very much Ynneadwraith. this edge highlighting is already looking a million times better than my first raider. Turns out there may be some truth behind this practice makes perfect thing.

Very cool ride. The sails are especially awesome.

Thank you youwashock, it's coming along pretty quickly now, I may have a finished raider to show off as early as tomorrow.

Looking sharp!

Lots of fiddly little bits on those boats, aren’t there? Sometimes I’m glad I just need to paint boxes.

Yeah if I have any complaints about playing a DE army it's that transportation is very difficult, so many outlying spiky bits that would be far too easy to snap off in most cases. My wyches make me nervous with their thin, hanging on by a chain, weapons but it's the raiders that frustrate me, such an odd shape to begin with then the sail adds height then you got the people hanging off the side... I contemplated not attaching the DE tagalongs but to be honest the raiders look kind of naked without them and I feel, especially for a Wych cult army like I'm attempting to make, that the people riding the Raiders are very thematic.

Spiky! Really like the sail, much like everyone else it seems . The edge highlighting on a DE vehicle really does take dedication and it's nice to see it done! Nothing like that on a Rhino, that's for sure!

Thank you very much JustaerinAtTheWall, glad you like it. I've just got the flowers to paint on the vehicle then I'm off to the crew, the finish line for this raider is in sight.

In what I'd consider record time I've managed to get the vehicle portion of the Raider done. Just got 4 crew members to paint then it'll be complete.

That's absolutely gorgeous, great job!

Makes me wanna convert a couple of Dark Eldar models for my Eldar

The petals trailing along the side are a nice touch.

Thank you very much PossumCraft and youwashock. I'd love to see some DE conversions for your force Possum, your other conversions came out so well I'd be most interested to see what you come up with. I'm quite partials to the trailing petals youwashock, I think it's a little extra like that that helps to tie in the disparate elements of my raiders, I'm glad you like it too.

Love the raider, I love the way that the galaxy plays off the cherry blossoms.

Wow that looks stunning! I also love the trailing petals in the wind. It imparts a sense of motion that fits a Raider down to a tee brilliant idea

Thanks Ynnead and Gummy, glad you guys like it.

Finished up my second Raider. Learned a lot after doing the first one and I feel this one came out much better. C&C appreciated.