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

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**l0k1**

Alpha Legion Obliterators ready for battle!

**craggy**

Loving the Alpha Legion armour, and those Terminator flesh bits. Your Eldar are pretty darn nice too. Looking forward to seeing more of them.

**l0k1**

Thanks! Alpha Legion are a lot of fun to paint and look great. Once I get caught up on the CSM I want to get done (ie Cultists, Berzerkers, and Noise Marines), I'll probably bounce back to Eldar, but may do some fun stuff like a Heldrake or a squad of combi plasma terminators. It all depends on what I have primed and ready lol. Would anyone like to see anything specific?

**l0k1**

Hey guys! I started work on a handful of Cultists. I still have some base coats that need done before I do a wash, then some quick highlights. Part of me really wants to do some Blue and Green to match my Alpha Legion, but I haven't figured out if I will or not yet. Unfortunately, I'm working over all week so progress on this handful will be a little slower than I'd like.

**Master Azalle**

great work on the Mutilators! I've always been a little daunted by chaos, just because of all the extra gribly bits that comes along with Chaos worship.

Looks great though! Well done on the blue green armor

**l0k1**

Thanks! The extra gribbly bits are what make chaos fun, interesting to paint, and add a lot of character that don't get on loyalist marines.

**l0k1**

Hey guys! Got another update on the group of Cultists I've been working on. Finally got all of the base coats done, did a wash, and some highlights. I still have a few things to highlight, so not quite done yet.

**Master Azalle**

I like the use of the same colors in the Alpha Legions armor as the robes on your cultists. Ties the army together nicely.

**l0k1**

Yeah, it definitely does. Now that I'm done with my week of 12hr shifts I finally got the squad of Cultists done. I'll take care of the bases another time, but for now I'm happy with them. Tell me what you think

**l0k1**

Hi everyone! I have another 14 cultists with their base coats and washes done.

**Ynneadwraith**

I'm liking the ragtag mishmash of Alpha Legion colours. Ties them in while keeping them looking irregular

**l0k1**

Thanks that's what I was going for. A normal well trained and equipped army is uniform, but cultists I figured they'd just grab whatever was blue or green to show their allegiance.

**ZergSmasher**

Those cultists look great! I'm building myself an Alpha Legion army myself, so I may steal your idea on how to do the cultists. The only cultists I painted were back in the days of Khorne Daemonkin, so I did the same thing with red, black and gray (varied the scheme using the same three colors). I've got lots more needing paint.

**l0k1**

Thanks! The only problem I had was having to go back over the squad multiple times because I forgot little things like a tube being red cuz it wasn't red on another guy lol.

**l0k1**

Hey guys! Finished another batch of Cultists. Unfortunately, 1 got ruined by the ard coat (kinda looks like he jumped into a bunch of melted marshmallows). Either the pot was bad or I let it sit too long or something. Also in the spirit of Thanksgiving being next week I'm starting on an Alpha Legion Helturkey, I mean Heldrake, that's been kicking around my 'to do box'. I doubt I'll be able to finish it before Thanksgiving, but I'll do my best. Stay tuned!

**l0k1**

Some more work on the Heldrake. The Glaze technique isn't translating quite as well as I had hoped, most likely due to the larger flat surface areas.

**ZergSmasher**

That's a cool effect on that Heldrake. Maybe I missed it in an earlier post or something, but how'd you get it to look that way? I might steal the idea for my regular Alpha Legion infantry.

**l0k1**

Thanks! The effect is really easy. I base coated the armor with Runefang Steel (or the brightest metallic silver you use), then did 3 coats with Gulliman Blue glaze, then 2 coats with Waywatcher Green glaze. Make sure to let each coat fully dry before doing the next. The number of coats you'll need depends on how much you thin down the glazes really.

**l0k1**

Got some of the metal trim done tonight. Have I ever mentioned that the Heldrake is a pain in the ass to paint? Really wish I had partially built it, painted it, then finished assembly lol. Oh well, with the metal trim done (At least on the top half), its starting to look pretty sweet.

**l0k1**

*l0k1 uses necromancy*
*It was effective*

Hey out there, the release of Shadowspear and the new CSM models have gotten me painting again. I've been working mostly on my Eldar lately and have posted 2 models in the showcase section, but figured I should just necro this blog. Anyway, here are some things I've completed.

**youwashock**

Love Eldar. Love your Eldar. Nice to see more of them.

**l0k1**

Thanks! I think I'll do a group shot of all the painted Eldar I have soon. I'm almost done with a squad of Guardians, so more Yme-loc are coming!

**Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll**

Those are some beautiful glass effects! Nicely done!

**l0k1**

Thanks! I was able to get to the game store for a game and decided to do a group shot of all my painted Eldar.

P.S. Don't mind the red Farseer. I painted him up a while back for a charity auction at the FLGS and by happenstance he found his way back to me lol.

**youwashock**

Most impressive. I do love an army pic.

**l0k1**

A squad of Yme-loc Guardians done. I'm running into an issue with white dots forming after doing a layer of Ard Coat and Lahmian Medium. I assume I'm over doing it with those. Anyone know what it could be? I also started base coats on 3 Vaul Support Batteries.

**l0k1**

Here's a WIP pic of my Support Batteries I've started. I'll hopefully be spot washing and beginning on highlights tonight.

**l0k1**

Support Battery is ready to open fire on the enemies of the craftworld.

**l0k1**

Started working on another Farseer and some Warlocks. Base coats and washes are done.

**l0k1**

Farseer and Warlocks are finished and based! As a side note, I think I'm finished using 'Ard Coat and Lahmian Medium on my models. For whatever reason it leave white spots and cracks on the models and ruins the paint job. I've greatly reduced the amount of both that I use on my models and gave the Ard Coat about an hour to dry and it still cracks.