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I thought I'd share the first of a Guardian squad with you for some appraisals!







I'm quite pleased with how he turned out, although a close camera shot reveals a little too much of the flaws in my opinion! Always the self critic, but I'm very happy with this fella.

Comment away!

The squad grows!

Oh man that looks sweet! Is this for the tabletop or showcase?

Ooh nice

I think the base needs a little something to go with the model.

Very nice! Good use of colours and the whole thing blends very well.

Nice crisp job, nice relationship between weapon/helmet and body color, and excellent choice of basing, perfect for the color scheme. Like it.

Praise granted. I don't do 40k anymore but I still love eldar.

That is a very nice model! Great sheme and great execution, kudos!

But I think the base needs some flock!

I'm likin that guardian. Great use of the greys in the wash areas. Every thing is really really smooth looking! Luv's it!

I like the color pallete that you used for this. I agree that the base looks a little to simple but that's a tastes thing, not everyone likes a busy base.

Awesome! Love it looks awesome!

Thanks for all your kind comments.

 PandaMango141 wrote:
Oh man that looks sweet! Is this for the tabletop or showcase?

This is just for tabletop, but I try to give each miniature the same level of attention. It's the perfectionist in me!

 MrMerlin wrote:
But I think the base needs some flock!

I think I'll pick up some darker grass to put on the base. I used the same base scheme for my Space Marines, but because a marine is chunkier than an Eldar it looked a little better on them. I'll see what the whole squad looks like together first, but I think the comments about the base here are probably right.


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I've started work on the next few Guardians in this squad. I'm quite a slow and ponderous painter, which I find quite frustrating at times, so I've only managed to do the turquoise armour on one Guardian.

I'm beginning to feel a little despondent about it at the moment though. It's really just because the miniatures are at an early stage so look pretty shoody. (Don't everyone's though when a few early stages are painted?)

Anyways, I'm sure I felt the same about the above miniature at this stage as well. The curse of self-doubt!

Ah well, buck up cowboy!

Love when people put detail into basic troopers.

Been a little busy of late, but I've finished two more Guardians and edited the original post with some new photos.

I think they look very striking! nice work.

Very clean work. The only thing I would do at this point is paint or ink wash the base. The visible crystalline structure of the bare sand throws off the scale of the mini. Painting and highlighting or even just ink washing the base would tie the scale together better.

Peredyne wrote:
Very clean work. The only thing I would do at this point is paint or ink wash the base. The visible crystalline structure of the bare sand throws off the scale of the mini. Painting and highlighting or even just ink washing the base would tie the scale together better.

The sand is actually painted! It's based coat with Bestial Brown and then overbrushed with Bubonic Brown and Bleached Bone.

The bases look better then the photos make them look. That said I may put some brownish grass on as well. I think green grass will be too much of a contrast to the rest of the colour scheme.

Very clean and smooth, I like the scheme.

Looks very good. Do keep feeding us more

 Trondheim wrote:
Looks very good. Do keep feeding us more

I second this, more please!

God I love the Iybraesil colour scheme. Really, really well painted, good job!

Thanks for all the kind comments peeps

I'm something of a slow painter, I think, but I'll keep posting more once I finish them. I only paint two at a time since the amount blue on them drives me crazy if I try to do more at once!

I like the spirit stones on them