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Yeah I can't get my colors to look that good and solid without the airbrush and even then sometimes. I am not a clean painter, I live vicariously through more talented souls who have that talent while I continue to plug away at my growing horde of gribblies

My trick on this one was to build it and paint it in sections. Spray painting the base grey on it really helped things along, too. What also helped was when I found out my Vallejo grey-green is an almost exact match to Tamiya's German Grey spray paint. Also, my various attempts to learn how to make and use glazes have taught me the necessity of really watering down my paints.

I got the Anaconda, the third Morat Vanguard, and my Shasvastii dipped today. I used a 1" width house paintbrush on all three and that actually worked really well. I think that from now on, I may have to start tracking those brushes down. They got the job done much easier and much faster than actually dipping the figures.

I know some people exclusively brush dip. Even with regular (though hopefully cheap) hobby brushes. I like my drill for now but I'll be using brushes a lot with scenery.

Can't wait to see the end results!

Yeah I also brush on washes

Indeedy. I tend to do focused washing in different colors, but even when I do full washes I brush it aaaaall on.

Nice work on metallics.

Thanks Sing.

Lately I've started washing in different colors rather than going all in with the same color. It tends to do a better job of adding depth, I've found.

So, over the weekend I finished up three things. 1)my Anaconda. 2)my Shasvastii. 3)my third Morat Vanguard.



I love how it turned out. It's kind of annoying that I'm only allowed to field a single Anaconda. If CB ever makes any more generic mercenary TAGS (and I hope they do), they'll probably get similar color schemes. I actually put decals onto it, but my camera for the most part wouldn't take a decent shot of them. I would've had the star and rescue arrows on the chest piece, but the ones I had were all too big.

The one picture of decals that did come out though, show the unit's call sign and number


And all of my mercenaries together.


I see this picture and realize I need some Druze. I'll definitely have to get that blister packed on with the Spitfire to hang out with them.

As mentioned, I finished my Shasvastii Gwailos with Spitfire. He's hard to photograph decently. Plus he leans way too far forward and has balance issues. And his base was a pain in the ass to do. Regardless, he makes me want to get some more Shasvastii. At least get some more Gwailos.


Lastly, at the FLGS over the weekend, I found that some guy had sold off an entire assembled, but mostly unpainted Eldar army. Prices were all really good, but I had to restrain myself and limit the purchases. So, I grabbed a set of 12 Banshees for $30 and a Farseer for $5. Tonight I started work on the Banshees and the Farseer.



I'd say he looks decent. I'll post the Banshee test figure once I clean her up a bit more.

I also had the misfortune of spilling a fairly new pot of black wash on myself and my table. Thankfully, none got on the floor, but I think my shorts are ruined now.

Everything looks great! Elder looks very nice. I need to get some more of those corpses to spice up my own photos!

This week's been off to a great start. My parents finally got a new dog. In October 2012, we had to put down our very old Boston Terrier Bud due to neurological issues. I've been trying for about half a year now to talk them into getting a new dog. My mom's been putting it off, but yesterday it finally happened. I went over to their place to see him tonight. He's pretty damn cute. He's a 1 year old Rat Terrier, and his name is Rat Man Do. How awesome is that? I'll attach a pic of him. He'll be keeping my old Kelpie company now. It was nice to see her playing with another dog again.

In miniature related news, I've started work on a rather large figure my brother picked up for my birthday. He still needs work though before I go posting him here. I also worked on my Banshees and my Chapterhouse Warp Stalkers. I whipped up a couple of test figures.



It's obviously a non-standard scheme for Aspect Warriors and I don't mind that. I think it turned out pretty decent. I need to figure out a different name for those Chapterhouse guys though. I don't like Warp Stalkers or whatever they're called and they're clearly not standard Banshees. I think Howling Wolves works well though.

My new Eldar look like they'll fit in well with my other Hojo troops.



Also, I finally got around to starting these guys.


Not too sure where to go from there though.

Nice work on the Anaconda. Have you finished the pilot yet?

Perhaps Kiki thinks the camera will steal her soul?

Thanks. I haven't even touched the pilot yet. I'm going to lay off of the Infinity for just a bit so I can work through some of these Eldar.

Kiki always looks worried.

Haha both dogs are rather cute I still prefer the Corgi though.

Nice looking eldar!

Agreed, every Kelpie I see looks somewhere between deeply concerned and slightly neurotic. Love em' though!

 Chemical Cutthroat wrote:
Agreed, every Kelpie I see looks somewhere between deeply concerned and slightly neurotic. Love em' though!

Are you around a lot of Kelpies?

I've finally gotten around to formatting those pics of my Hojo Clan Eldar. So, enjoy some more Eldar troops.

Dire Avengers (basic)


Dire Avenger (badass)

I know this guy is probably not game legal, but I don't really care. He looks cool.

My whopping TWO Guardians


These guys were from the "cheapie" pack of 4 mono-pose guys. The other two from the set were used to try out camo patterns that didn't turn out so well. These guys were done to see which scheme I'd prefer for the basic troops as their standard colors. I'm leaning more towards the one on the right.

They look good Barzam

Just started skimming through this thread ^^ nice work.
I don't know much about Eldar, but why don't you mix the basic troop colours up? I wouldn't know if Eldar have another view on uniforms than IG :p

I think he's painting them up like some kind of uhh... period Asiatic army of some kind? Or maybe something else, there's a theme in there somewhere, but it's beyond my realm of experience.

They do look nice

Yeah, like I said, I was basing them of Takeda Shingen. His guys are usually depicted wearing red and black armor. The Exarch was supposed to have the Takeda clan crest on his sashimono, but due to someone's error, he wound up with Hojo's crest. The Eldar were 40k's original space samurai anyway, so it seemed fitting to base my own Eldar on a samurai clan.

No I meant, between the two colour schemes you made on the two guys out of the pack of 4 ^^ Why don't you mix your troops up with those two schemes? Because I can imagine an IG army taking the same colours because they wear uniforms, but I don't know about uniforms in eldar armies
And I wouldn't know if mixing up similar colour schemes could be cool or would look odd :/

I'm not too sure about that either. Most people paint their Eldar armies up pretty uniformly, from what I've seen. I may do the Guardians with a bit more individuality. As long as they retain the main colors of black, red, and bit of bone, and brass, I don't really care if they all match up. We'll see how the mood strikes me whenever I eventually get to that point.

I absolutely love the new Morat miniature style, but there are a few of the older ones I do like - this one especially!

Very nice job with all of the minis! The Anaconda looks fantastic, I love the colour scheme you have used for it.

Actually chief, at least last time I played, the Dire Avenger Exarch IS totally legal that way. You can give him two shuriken catapults, and the Bladestorm ability (or whatever it is called) and he's basically a crazy bullet-hell shuriken shooting machine gun.

I love the scheme.

Really? I can use them like that? Huh.

Thanks for the kind words, guys.

This week hasn't been productive at all. I've been having some issues with insomnia and it's been getting me stressed out. About all I managed to do this week as complete a couple more Banshees. I'll post more pics of them when I get one of their Exarchs done.

Today and yesterday though, I actually was productive! I got a few things done, or at least close to done.

I got the first of my retro Crimson Fists done. His insignia decal didn't want to sit right though no matter what I did with it.


I got my G1 Plague painted. All he needs now is his basing.


And I finally started working on one of my Unity Council powered armor troops. I actually did more work after the photo was taken and he's nearly finished. I just need to finish up painting his base.

Wow... what is that last guy again? That miniature looks all kinds of awesome. Though I'm a sucker for any sort of rotary weapon.

The retro guy looks good. A little bright for Crimson Fists, but I can't remember if they were brighter back then or not. He's a little blast from the past.

Cool stuff all 'round.

 Chemical Cutthroat wrote:
Wow... what is that last guy again? That miniature looks all kinds of awesome. Though I'm a sucker for any sort of rotary weapon.

The retro guy looks good. A little bright for Crimson Fists, but I can't remember if they were brighter back then or not. He's a little blast from the past.

The Crimson Fist seems dark enough for me.

The power armor is an AJAX Power Suit for the Unity Council faction in Afterlife, which is being done by Anvil Industry.
http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/
The figures I got were part of their recent Kickstarter. No rules yet, but they should be coming before too long. They just put out some great looking attack dogs that I'm going to have to pick up, too.

Also, I went ahead and completed that AJAX.


and a shot so the markings are visible.


That UC Marine on the right was just finished last night, too. And I forgot to mention, I magnetized the arms on the AJAX, so when I get to them, I'll be able to swap out the arms to give him different loadouts.

That looks badass. I really like those miniatures, and the paint job looks great chief.

Those are spiffy, and well painted. I could see folk using them as not-terminators and not-guardsmen for sure. Or for their intended purpose, that's always a thing

Good stuff.

About the Crimson Fist decal... there is no nice way to say this, but decals pretty much suck when applied to curved surfaces. So, you're going to have to paint the insignia on if you want it to look really nice.

Had to smile when I saw the beaky though. Takes me back to the good old days of RT/2nd ed.

I used to have a bottle of this varnish-like stuff that your could paint over decals and it would 'suck them up' for lack of a better term, and really stick em' to curved surfaces. Sort of like those easter egg sleeves that you dip in hot water and they conform around the egg.

I can't for th elife of me remember what the stuff is called. I'll have to poke around in my brain-files some more.