Whoo! I actually finished a starweaver. I am sorry I have posted anything in the last month but between thanks giving, finishing up projects and finals I haven't had much time. I know the lighting is bad. I have my first match on sunday and I am hoping to get some pics there.

I am mostly done with the star weaver and sky weaver hulls. I am very pleased with the purple and jade. Now trying to incorporate my gold and silver into it. I still need to work on my troupes. Then I need to get all the crew for my starweavers and skyweavers. I feel like I have done a lot but I still have a ton of work. I want to finish them by Dec and move on to my dark eldar part of the army.

My small bedroom didn't even have a desk but I bought a cheap folding table with chair for $20 from target. I then covered the whole thing with drawer liner, to keep paint from spilling on it.

I just have a lot of work to do assembling everything.


Here are my current painting starweavers. I am going to go for a similar scheme but unfortunately they are going to need to be stripped.

Here I am trying out vallejo model fluorescent paints. They are a huge paint to work with. There are only 5 colors, orange, yellow, green, blue and magenta. They are extremely transparent, you have to paint them over white and build a thick layer. This can be a problem as you can get paint pooling without realizing it because you don't know how much paint you have actually applied. I messed up a few times but overall the effect is nice. They do change color when mixing them so when magenta, the strongest of the colors, goes over blue, you get a very nice purple. The blues in the picture look a little dark, but really they are pretty light.


Next I started masking out the harlequin pattern. I used a pre-cut vinyl mask from Fallout hobbies. The sheets are pretty expensive at $10-15 a pop but they saved me so much time. When I first tried this I used painters tape. The diamonds were lopsided, they were not consistently the same size, the corners would tear, the tack from the tape out wear out easily. These are fantastic. I would never be able to cut diamonds of the smallest size and I think they are really looking great. Buying those saved me about 5 hours of work and a headache. In my original design my patters were pretty uniform, this time I wanted to make it more random and the light is more scattered like from a shattered prism.





I really love the fallout hobbies mask and the way that the different sized diamonds look. The randomness of the patter makes each starweaver look unique. My next step is to paint some planets and then spray the model black.

So one of my big problems with working with rainbows and galaxies is finding a fitting color scheme for the troupes. I think I have figured out how to tie everything together. I am going to paint the galaxy background purple and teal, split down the middle. The right half will be teal and the left will be purple. I can then translate that into diamonds on my models. I can then tie in the fluorescent rainbow in the model's hair and ribbons. Fallour Hobbies make the smallest diamond pattern an infantry size. I will try that to see if I can use my airbrush, if not, free hand it will have to be. For the bases I am thinking something darker but with glowing crystals coming out of the ground. I will make a mock up and post it when I can.

Here is a picture of the purple/teal galaxy idea:
Here is my first skyweaver I wanted to try out. Not sure if I should how I like the purple and teal as is.

So I have a super crazy idea of basing the models on cards. I have seen a few people who base their harlequins on cards and dice and various board game items. It is a unique look as it kinda breaks the fourth wall, but it kinda makes sense in a way. I like the idea of my harlequins shadowseer and death jester causing hallucinations that make the opponent go insane. No those are not really giant cards, they are just you going crazy. I have a technique of transferring images onto plastic and I think that these tarot arcana from personal look very fitting for my harlequins. Base my shadowseers on the wizard and hierophant, or my solitaire on death and the hermit. Sound pretty interesting but maybe won't translate too well to the game.