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Sneaky Chameleon Skink





Western Canada

So I'm starting into an Eldar army and I was wondering if there is any fluffy paint customization for the Aspect warriors? I've found a colour scheme that I like but is the craftworld represented on the Aspect warriors? Or do Fire Dragons from Alatioc look exactly like Fire Dragons from Biel-Tan

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There are variations from shrine to shrine. So they won't even look the same on the same craftworld.
   
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Boskydell, IL

The Aspect Warriors take their colors from their Shrines. Many Craftworlds have multiple shrines, and I believe many shrines have 'branches' on multiple Craftworlds (although don't quote me on that second point).

So get crazy with it.

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Thank you for answering, that's what I thought but I couldn't find anything to confirm.

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I always like to do my Aspect Warriors in a contrasting scheme to the rest of my Eldar army, but you could totally paint them in tandem with the rest of the units if that suited you. One thing I did was paint my Crimson hunter a familar mottled blue to match my Alaitoc-inspired army, but added some additional red detailing on some panels to match to the crimson part of the aspect.

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do how you want with them, but fluff wise the shrines are beyond the craftworld and follow their own color schemes I liked to make mine fit more with the shrine than the craftworld myself, but tis up to you. I would usually find an element or two that i could do in craft world colors for my aspects. for instance the loin cloth on fire dragons or decorations on warp spiders. my banshees I did use more craftworld colors just because I didn't like doing white and the blue came out well on them, they were also the first aspect i painted when i started eldar. I'd probably do them in white now. The first eldar codex laid down some color guidelines, but also said they would vary from world to world and shrine to shrine, even within the same shrine if it was a large one, so they really left it open, later dex's simplified it.

in general aspects tend towards the following schemes from what i recall:
Banshee - white or bone over black with red trim (2nd edition), but often trim seen in other colors (later)
Scorpion- predominately green, often with a contrasting color helm or markings in 2nd, later more just green and brown
spider- red and black, sometimes some white plus other colors
avengers - darker blue bodies and white or yellow helmets and contrasting crest
dragons- red and orange, often with bronze
reapers- black or dark blue bodies and often white heads
hawks- white or grey with blue trim or light blue with white or yellow seem popular colors, sky colors
spears- white, there were never enough of these fielded to see much pattern but blue trim seemed popular
crimson hunters- reds
spectres- guessing most people will stick with the greys


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