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Looks brilliant, I am seeing a little Panda-influence, but looking nice.

You just can't help yourself with the sprue can you. "Just a metre or two I had lying around" Do you buy kits and throw away the models and just keep the sprue??

 Camkierhi wrote:
Looks brilliant, I am seeing a little Panda-influence, but looking nice.

Thanks Cam.
Yeah, I had actually planned this colour scheme (a reversal of the Ulthwé scheme) before Panda showed his Eldar, but I have little to no proof of this.

It's fine though, as I do tend to collect other people's colour schemes to add to my army, to look like The Scientist has brainwashed one of their fallen.
This is most apparent with my Tyranids, where when I have borrowed someone's scheme, I'll post a link to the model that inspired mine.

You just can't help yourself with the sprue can you. "Just a metre or two I had lying around" Do you buy kits and throw away the models and just keep the sprue??

lol. I have a reasonably sized collection of sprue from just the models I have shown here in this blog so far, as well as much sprue from my past in model aircraft (that until recently was only kept with an unconscious feeling that it would be useful one day)...

An eldar that keeps falling down guess he's a guardian cause he couldn't make it passed the physical fitness tests to join a specialist group .

I picked up some very small plasticard tile sheets, suitable for a FO bathroom tile job

Hmm.. that paint scheme. I like it.

If you get a dreamforge Eisenkern troop set, paint one in my scheme or so as that will then give you brainwashed Kruegerians, oh they would be so upset to think of such a sullying of fine Kruegerian elites doing the mindless minion thing.

Theophony wrote:An eldar that keeps falling down guess he's a guardian cause he couldn't make it passed the physical fitness tests to join a specialist group .

That, or the brainwashing didn't work out as well as it should...

dsteingass wrote:I picked up some very small plasticard tile sheets, suitable for a FO bathroom tile job

I get the feeling that you're hinting at something but I can't quite put my finger on it...

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten the toilets and they will get some love soon.

cormadepanda wrote:Hmm.. that paint scheme. I like it.

He He. Thanks Comrade.

shasolenzabi wrote:If you get a dreamforge Eisenkern troop set, paint one in my scheme or so as that will then give you brainwashed Kruegerians, oh they would be so upset to think of such a sullying of fine Kruegerian elites doing the mindless minion thing.

With such a recognisable paint scheme such as your's, I have already thought of that (but now I know what models they are). May be a while though, as I appear to have quite a queue of bare plastic building up...

No problems, and the color scheme would be base: castellan Green or similar shade of green, then the desert color splinter patches with the earthy/brown inner splinter patch like the old Bauhaus 1st ed Hussars I did. fabric in a dark adeptus gray shade.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
No problems, and the color scheme would be base: castellan Green or similar shade of green, then the desert color splinter patches with the earthy/brown inner splinter patch like the old Bauhaus 1st ed Hussars I did. fabric in a dark adeptus gray shade.

Ooo, colour scheme as well. I usually do it all by eye, but that will help. Ta.
While we're on the subject, how do your dreamforge Eisenkern troops differ from GW Cadians? Not that I'm adverse to buying from other companies, just that if I were for get the battleforce (as I seem to be collecting all the battleforces) would it be a huge jump to modify one and get the look?
I suppose I could just go and look at one of your pictures really, but call me lazy...

Well, if using Cadians, then the Khadrovian central theme is the uniform is battle gray with shadow gray and fortress grey patterns added, the lower troops wear plain castellan green flak armor and helms, the veterans get the splinter patches.


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Eisenkern are a bit taller than cadians but their hands are normal sized, not 1/35 scale hands for the over sized weapons, but they make for good IG platooners which I am making with the 40minis and the 3 teams of support heavy weapons. I need the FW book with the sabre platforms in it for the rules of a quad heavy stubber is needed, and the skyfire rules would also be used for it.

Right-y o. We'll see when I get there.

 Dr H wrote:
Right-y o. We'll see when I get there.

or we can see that Eldar's paint job.

 cormadepanda wrote:

 Dr H wrote:
Right-y o. We'll see when I get there.

or we can see that Eldar's paint job.

OK OK, here's another picture...

Haven't properly started on the black yet and the "bone" may still require the odd touch up yet.
He's a tricky one to photograph and I've had to fiddle a bit with the picture so you can actually see what I've been doing.

looks atm probably brighter in spots than in RL...i expect you autoadjusted the pic parameters a bit...
but i do like the shading of the bone colorerd parts!
also...the black looks promising... what will the blade be painted in? NMM? or an energy effect?

Nice, like the toning.

Yeah, the auto-adjust actually made the picture darker and I had already darkened it a bit before posting...
He's blended up to white so he does "glow" quite a bit under harsh lighting, so I'll have to do something ingenious for the final pictures to look ok. Maybe I should have used a light background... I'll do that next time...

Thanks.
The black is literally just black at the moment, but I think I may blend that up to a lighter grey to (kind of) match the bone.

Not thought about the sword yet. I'm not seeing it as a power weapon and I'm not really feeling the nmm thing (especially as I have plenty of nice metallic paints).
I have got a paint that you buff up to a shine once it's dry, but it does look kind of flat in photos...

Thanks Cam.

I am liking that paint job quite a bit! have a feeling he would feel at home in the Ctho craft world.

Use a blue on the high light of blacks, it will be pretty!

Thanks Comrade.
That's not a bad idea, I even have a blue/grey paint that would work well as one highlight layer.

Bone shading is nicely done!

Agreed the bone colors you used worked really well

dsteingass wrote:Bone shading is nicely done!

Thanks, although looking at the pictures below it could still be better...

Solar_lion wrote:Agreed the bone colors you used worked really well

Thank SL. I used a brown, a little black in the brown for the darkest recesses, then blended from that, through a sand-y colour, a "bone"/Oak colour to white.

So, using a lighter background does help the clarity of the pictures.
This however, shows the rough patches in my painting...

The black has now had some work, not sure what else I will do to it, but will see when I start adding other colours...
and ignore the light patch above his left eye, that's not painting, it's just the paint isn't quite dry yet...

The sword, "face" and dangly bits haven't been touched yet, only the helmet, belt and gun.
I don't normally do this kind of shading on black things, so what do we think?

Next I'll do a few of the other pieces and see how they sit with the bone and black.

Loving the tones Dr. H, he's looking all energetic like .

very good looking, doc!
what color will the face be then?...i bet that will be a tough decision...

I like the attempt at lighting it, but I think you went a touch to much shading on the helmet. That balance of dark black that people like, and light is hard to get. It looks good as it is, I am just being picky. He wants to jump on a ship across the bond and meet some friends I think

Viktor von Domm wrote:very good looking, doc!
what color will the face be then?...i bet that will be a tough decision...

Thanks.
Well actually, as I've always planned him as a reversal of #5 (see below), it will be black and is now I've added some shading.

cormadepanda wrote:I like the attempt at lighting it, but I think you went a touch to much shading on the helmet. That balance of dark black that people like, and light is hard to get. It looks good as it is, I am just being picky.

Thanks Comrade.
Yeah, I did think it looked a bit too grey from the front. That came about as when I was looking at the helmet for the shading I noticed that there is a "corner" and the sides and front of the helmet are "relatively" flat and so the sides would be much darker than the front with light from above. This meant that there is a reasonably sharp change from the sides to the front.
And the flat black "face" made it look all the more grey...

However, now that the "face" is painted with a slight gradient (I still want it to look darker than the rest of the helmet), I don't think it's as bad.
And, I made the area just above the face slightly darker so the front isn't as flat grey any more.

Here he is, next to #5 so you can see the reversed scheme. Better?

He wants to jump on a ship across the bond and meet some friends I think

The brainwashing and the little chip in his brain means he wants for nothing and wouldn't recognise his former friends...

Really looking great. Please don't get me wrong here, but helmet looks definitely grey. I am by no means any expert at all, but I think maybe you graduated it to much, On No.5 the black has a very slight edging going on and looks fantasticly black, where the new kid you have "blended" the toning in on the black and it looks very dark grey.

Please feel free to tell me to shut up and go away.

It absolutely rocks btw, he looks brilliant and way better than my efforts. And your toning on the body is just spectacular.

Thanks Cam.
That's not a problem, that is why I post and ask for opinions.

Dark grey I can live with, that's nearly black...
So long as the blending looks realistically like lighting and not painted on, then it's fine.

Number 5 on the other hand, was painted black and dry-brushed with grey (which is how I normally do black).

the reversed schemes explain a lot... after just reading and seeing the painted helmet i was a bit lost... somehow i expected something else for the face part... but now i am calm and understanding ...yeah... looks very good!
the blade however looks a bit bland still... maybe...maybe you could make it look a bit more like an elven sword from lord f the rigs with some golden embellishments?

Yeah, I just wanted to do the eyes before I painted the face.

Good good, thanks.

Ja, only just started work on the sword. Still thinking of what to do with the handle. But a gold squiggle along the blade is not a bad idea.

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i tried to find a good referrence pic but no such luck