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Very neat E, nice use of a hellhound you did not want.

M.

Hey diesel7270 (not meaning to afend you)
good on you sir to surve your country!

I appreciate it, Hazzer. We've got a lot of veterans on this forum, including ones from The United Kingdom. And while my journey in the army was miserable and I would never go back, I do have some good memories and grew up a lot in that time.

cool!

So after a few matches with my Eldar, my last one a decisive win, I think I am beginning to see the way Eldar work, and I think I like it...

Necrons were a pretty narrow army. Are. Are narrow. What I mean is, with one vehicle, no troop transports, and only a handful of unit an wargear options, you pretty much only do one thing with them: move, shoot, and stay out of assault. There is no orchestrated strategies. Well, not much. Your whole goal is to keep losses minimal, increase your likelihood of rezzing, and keep as many shots firing as possible. And thanks to lack of codex updates, try to keep your few anti-tank units alive as long as possible.

With Eldar, though they are physically weak against marines, have so many offensive and defensive options. Even with just one squad and their wargear. Initiative 5 on almost every unit means you already have a major advantage. Most have fleet but are still pretty handy with their catapults. Farseer powers are amazing.

So on an annihilation game, I prioritized easy kill points and severe threats. Everything else I just had to minimize wounds from. And for that, I went to ground a good amount. But with a firepike dropping a LR, a wraithlord keeping a small detatchment on the run,and out-of-sight guardians continually firing scatter lasers at guardsman squads... I kept surgically elminating one unit at a time, and every other unused unit I sent to better defenses rather than harass units for a wound or two.

I even kept a 50% strength fire dragon squad hidden at the very back of the board out of LOS the entire game, just to keep out an easy kill point. Another squad of fire dragons disembarked an immobilized wave serpent to melta a LR to death, took enough wounds to just leave the exarch left, and I just walked back and put him in the crippled wave serpent again just to prevent him from dying. And by the end of the game, they were both still alive.

All in all, it was immaculate. It wasn't about winning from sheer obliterating firepower. It was the extreme satisfaction from seeing a plan come together. Holy cow, that was fun.

Sounds like a well played game diesel, and a well earned victory.

Good work diesel! It`s always nice when plans comes together right before your eyes.Now you have the option to do that and you kinda have an idea of what I see when I play. you are no longer held down by the tyranids who fight in hourds or the necrons who have no diversity in abilities and equipment.See I knew you would like eldar.So i need an opinion from you brother.Im thinking about changing my eldar paint scheme.Instead of the gold spartanish look. well i was watching "tron" and i think i can do up a paintjob like that.what do you think? be honest...

I haven't seen the sequel but the original would look good if you could do it right. If you want the glowing effect, you would need to learn how to start using a wet pallet for blending colors. I haven't done anything like that yet. I would say definitely give it a shot, but just try getting it down with one - that way you can tell if it will work out the way you want before you do all of them.

Here are some links to some tron-like paint schemes for Eldar and Dark Eldar.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2011/2/2/180457_sm-Dark%2520Eldar,%2520Raider,%2520Raider%2520WIP.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/330485.page&usg=__vAtBEEuUlya05hffe4LX-5eMULk=&h=450&w=600&sz=40&hl=en&start=11&zoom=1&tbnid=2Y1slfY6YyIhAM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&ei=XnGQTfbdL8WDtgfAkKmICQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtron%2Beldar%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D869%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/111/298191696_81a8082986_o.jpg&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/johnmort/298191696/&usg=__H82OjO6SyxPNRaAb9Rs_j54iF8Y=&h=864&w=1152&sz=282&hl=en&start=2&zoom=1&tbnid=wdQdjUeu0rdIQM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&ei=XnGQTfbdL8WDtgfAkKmICQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtron%2Beldar%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D869%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1

Im glad you like your new army Diesel

Wow ive just spent days popping back and foward reading this thread and its awesome!

I felt bad for you when the first army you ever picked was neckrons lol, a bit of a handycap.

Ive recently started orks and find their painting tedious at the best of times lol.

But i served in the british army and only left recently i just wish i met more gamers like you guys there.

Good luck with the future guys, i hope your necrons get a better codex next time lol.

It's been a whole since I've posted anything new, so here's a sneak preview to show you what I've been working on! None of these are done, but you can get a general idea of how it;s going to look.

Everything yellow I had to basecoat the bejesus out of them with an airbrush. Yellows and whites are very difficult colors to work with.

EDIT: I'm also going to try to get started again in taking photos of games I have with my group in South Carolina.

EDIT 2: Considering how huge this post is getting, and how many newcomers read the entirety of the thread, I have edited my very first post to introduce newcomers to it.

@ Diesel:
1) It's good that you've found a local group, and that you like your latest army. Perhaps it's time to update your sig?
2) The paintjob is good; it like the speckled effect on the blue and green. It does a good job of breaking up the larger spaces and being more appealing to the eyes. However, I have a beef with the yellow on the vehicle. It looks good on the wraithlord, but in my opinion, sticks out too much on an otherwise camouflage-y tank. Perhaps painting a red, or black, like danger indicators into the grooves would help? Then again, it's your army, and your decision. The yellow looks good elsewhere in your amry, and I like what I see.
EDIT: just read your new intro. Good job, and I'm glad to hear that you've found so much in this hobby. Keep it up!

@E:
A tron paintjob would be hard to pull off, but if you could, WOW! I think you could, just some general tips:
- You'll want to use a glossy black on the final coat, with a flat fluorescent ( or luminescent, if they make it for models...) for the neon colors, so that they armor seems shiny, with light seeping through.
-Read a few tutorials here on dakka on how to do directional lighting. While it would be impossible to do this on all your troops, it would look very good on a few centerpieces. Basically, directional lighting is the effect of using varying shades of paint to make something look like it's glowing, or giving off light. For example, it works great with torches, in the hands of fantasy models. Whatever you decide on, I look forward to seeing it.

Paint is looking good Diesel.

Micahphone, when you mention danger indicators, do you mean black and yellow striping? Because I could paint the recessing in the air intake vents black to give it that affect without having to scrub the whole part.
EDIT: that's actually exactly what you meant, huh?

Otherwise, I do get your drift... yellow is an accent I decided I wanted primary on heavy energy weapons like starcannons and brightlances (you've seen those), but it is awfully bold on the air intakes. Perhaps black recesses with red vent slits? Hmmm....

My primary focus currently is getting the artillery team done that Melissa got me for Christmas. I try to prioritize one model so that I make an effort to get it done. Currently my biggest issue with the artillery platform is getting it mounted on the base. It's weight makes it very difficult to solidly dry, and it's wide body makes it easy for it to pry itself off in handling.

The striping effect is what I meant, yes. painting the recessing is exactly what I meant, and I'd suggest it. Load up the tip of your brush and put a dot at the top of the trench, and let it drip down, collecting it at the bottom. Repeat as needed, then lightly brush yellow over the top so that any black spillover is covered, while not getting any yellow into the trenches.

In a hurry but here is my newest piece. A sniper and spotter kill team.gotta go to work l8er....

Dude, I love those Elysian heads!

And your new camo scheme is, as usual, totally awesome.

Have you done any terrain lately?

Camo is great, but the base needs something so that the camo has something to blend into. Perhaps a few tufts of grass, or you could give a wash of Devlan Mirac-er, Mud. You wouldn't wear arctic camo to the jungle, just as jungle camo probably wouldn't help out much in an urban wasteland-y theme. I personally like static grass; it has worked well for me.

This is such a cool thread.

Here's some new pics of my finished Heavy Weapons Platform (except for the other two guns, which will be done in a day or two). They turret rotates and the guns are interchangable!

I like your base and your color scheme. If the gun swivels and is interchangeable, then you sir and a wizard of modeling. The Eldar player's I've known have cursed their weapon platforms for being horrible hunks of metal.

Everything you've posted is of tabletop quality or above, but if you wanted to do some extra work on this gun platform, just for kicks, I would suggest messing around a little with directional lighting on the slits that are colored blue on the gun, as if they were glowing with energy, waiting to be released.

It wasn't hard. on the "neck" there are two studs: one at the bottom where it meets the platform, and one where it meets the weapon. I simply clipped and filed these down, and replaced them with 3x1mm magnets. Now, the front-heavy guns would sag, though stay attached. So I set them up for pinning, leaving a pin glued into each weapon, and a loose hole in the swivel for the pin to go into and be easily pulled back out to change weapons. This way, it would not slip around at the fulcrum of the magnets and sag at the front.

Directional lighting is something I have not tackled yet, and that's mostly because I think it is currently out of my leauge. What you see above is the extent of my painting knowledge, and it took two weeks to paint these.

One thing I am considering is barbed wire on the weapon base, just to use it because I already have it. Granted, it's not Eldar tech, but my guys almost always fight imperium.

Well, the model looks great, and if you can pin and magnetize that well, kudos to you. I'll try and find a barbed wire tutorial-there's a really good one here on dakka.

EDIT: here it is; it is the best barbed wire tutorial I've ever seen.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/314348.page

E! Check out a company called Verlinden Productions. They make all kinds of terrain and accessories for WW2 that would be great for your IG's urban wasteland. I just picked up a Nazi pillbox with a mounted "assault cannon" and the building is made out of...plaster? It's like limestone rock or whatever matrial.

EDIT AGAIN: It's actually ceramic.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Verlinden-1-35-German-WWII-Bunker-Gun-Section-2599-/180529154620

but they also have all kinds of awesome stuff, like cases of rations, bullet hole decals for glass, amm boxes, mortar shells, backs and packs for vehicle mounting, bulk shell casings, bricks, cobblestone, AA guns, mesh fences, barbed wire, and even modern warfare crap. I'm talking hundreds of products that are relatively cheap. They've got anything you can think of when it comes to WW2-Modern terrain, scenery and bvehicles. Here's a product listing from an online vendor:

http://www.bnamodelworld.com/verlinden-productions?page=1

I played against Witch Hinters with Eldar last night. I was doing great at dropping their vehicles, but their 10-sister bolter/heavy flamer squads just tore through my infantry. In the end he tabled me in turn 4.

I guess that's what I get for using footdar.

The D-Cannon is fantastic, though. I forgot it had two of those shots! Holy cow!

And fire dragons are excellent and tearing through armor, even without the 2D6 melta at half range.

EDIT: I would have taken pictures, but the table had hardly any terrain and was rather bland.

Well, here's my Farseer so far. I have no finished the basing, as you can tell, and haven't done some finer details like glossing the gems, but this is it for the most part.

The farseer is looking sick, diesel. If you're up for a painting challenge, I would dare you to paint a simple pattern into the white trim of the kilt-thing that the farseer is wearing.

Also, this might just be the picture, but the helmet looks a little too bold to me. Perhaps a wash over the top?

I like what you've done with the blades, and (once again) if you're up for a challenge, check out this tutorial.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/301897.page

While you certainly don't need a complex lightning design like the pictures in there, a simpler one would still look amazing on a psyker.

I did wash the helmet. Perhaps I should wash it again. I also forgot to wash the arms, but that has been taken care of. Now I am working on the warlocks. But I tell you, if you are satisfied with the farseer, then I shall stay the course with the warlocks. I am going to go the same-ish route but with more green to make them match up with the craftworld scheme and to set them apart from the farseer on a table.

You are a very good painter; I am no where close to the work you can do. I like how the farseer turned out, I just think the helmet needs another wash or two (I'm sorry, but I'm not sure how much each wash will darken it), but other than that, he/she/it looks phenomenal! Stay the course, but always make HQ #1 the boldest, so go for the green tones on the warlocks.

EDIT: After taking a second look, the helmet is fine. Leave it be, and paint those warlocks.

Great thread, loved reading everything page, never got board