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I have been debating this for awhile and I am not sure which is the more efficient/easy way of doing it. I have been watching online tutorials on painting eldar troops and some of the better painting tutorials show the model being assembled sans head and painted really well. I have been in the mindset that the gun arm and head should be separate for ease of painting.

So my question to eldar painters is this - is it feasible for someone with middle of the road painting skills to successfully paint eldar with the gun arms attached?

Bear in mind, I mainly paint Ulthwe colors for my Space Elves, and you have to have a brick for a paint brush to screw up black with bone highlights. With my latest batch of Guardians, I painted after attaching the gun arms, and before I attached the heads. I didn't have much choice with my OOP Wraithguard, though I also painted their heads before assembly.

For that hard to reach and detail area around the chest and gun arm, I use Raphael Kollinski 0 and 000 brushes. Don't spend painstaiking amounts of time on the details in those regions anyway, its not like they are gonna grab the eye from their concealed locations.

 solitaire_ wrote:
Bear in mind, I mainly paint Ulthwe colors for my Space Elves, and you have to have a brick for a paint brush to screw up black with bone highlights. With my latest batch of Guardians, I painted after attaching the gun arms, and before I attached the heads. I didn't have much choice with my OOP Wraithguard, though I also painted their heads before assembly.

For that hard to reach and detail area around the chest and gun arm, I use Raphael Kollinski 0 and 000 brushes. Don't spend painstaiking amounts of time on the details in those regions anyway, its not like they are gonna grab the eye from their concealed locations.

I was thinking it may be able to be done with straightforward themes like Ulthwe or even Biel Tan, which I am considering painting due to ts simplicity.

I am in the midst of setting up to convert up some eldar and have been looking at the models and wondering the same things.

Typically the gun arms are extremely close to the chest pieces and the collars on the torso make getting to the back of the head more difficult. Normally I have always been a modeller who assembles the whole model and then paints it. However I am really considering trying to perhaps pin the arms and then allow them to be disassembled for the painting stage.

Another reason I want to try it this way is that I never have and it could be a very useful experience. I would suggest trying both methods. im sure you will find pros and cons for both, but then atleast you have first hand experience of both ways and can decide which is best for you