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 Hellebore wrote:
I think the reason they look even more plain than a marine is that they are wearing bodysuits with armoured plates over the top, so there's not much differentiation on them.

Marines at least have separate segments and the flex joints that can be different colours.

The best you could do I think is painting the unfersuit and plates different colours.

You could do shoulder pads as different colours as well as back vanes.

Shoulder pads with different colours look good IMHO, not the undersuit though. Take a look at Necromunda Van Saars, which have a very similar kind of armour. They're painted in two colours and they look awful (also IMHO), while they look great in just one colour. Kabalite warriors and wyches have one colour armour bodies as well, a few details with a second colour but unlike eldar even their helmets match the armour colour. The eldar in blue, white and yellow that was posted before looks like a japanese cartoon, it makes my eyes bleed.

I think one colour armour like the aeldari ones is the opposite of dull job as those thin highlights on the armour are pretty difficult to do properly.

 Blackie wrote:
The eldar in blue, white and yellow that was posted before looks like a japanese cartoon, it makes my eyes bleed.

Uh yeah, I think that's intentional....

That's not even the worst you can come up with:

Technically the paintjobs are flawless, but as already said, they tend to go with basic schemes that gives any given army/chapter/craftworld a defined look, no doubt requested by the GW overlords. I tend to copy the paint schemes as I have poor imagination and usually regret it when I try to do something 'different'.
I do like it when they post some of the alternate schemes in White Dwarf. Eavy metal let loose can be amazing

For some of my aspect warriors I do different colors for the undersuit (hawks, spiders, dragons), but others I just do a mono-color paint job (DA, Banshees, also guardians).



I’ve got no consistancy, but I think the extra layer of color helps out the models.

 Huron black heart wrote:

Eavy metal let loose can be amazing

Why are they still called Eavy Metal when most of the range is plastic now?

 Arschbombe wrote:

 Huron black heart wrote:

Eavy metal let loose can be amazing

Why are they still called Eavy Metal when most of the range is plastic now?

Lol, fair point, I guess some names just work. We all know who they are when we say eavy metal

I had assumed the metal part was due to the musical genre, or the term meaning cool.

I wanna share too!

 DivineVisitor wrote:
I wanna share too!

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I actually had a double take seeing your paint job. You're real good, my man.

 DivineVisitor wrote:
I wanna share too!

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I like your twist on the Avatar pose, makes way more sense than the official one.

TheBestBucketHead wrote:

 DivineVisitor wrote:
I wanna share too!

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I actually had a double take seeing your paint job. You're real good, my man.

Taa, there's probaably still work i can do on them and im still touching things up here and there. Need to highlight the black and thinking on panel lining the Gravtanks.

nou wrote:

 DivineVisitor wrote:
I wanna share too!

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I like your twist on the Avatar pose, makes way more sense than the official one.

Thanks i never liked the idea of the Avatar throwing his weapon away so decided to re-adjust things, mostly with hot water for the pose and a bit of green stuffing on the arm/hand.

Just to go back to my original point the paint jobs on the new eldar characters are much more exciting, more vibrant or something. Or maybe it’s just the way they are photographed.

I don’t know but I thought they looked really good

mrFickle wrote:
Just to go back to my original point the paint jobs on the new eldar characters are much more exciting, more vibrant or something. Or maybe it’s just the way they are photographed.

I don’t know but I thought they looked really good

There are color variations on them (mind you, that variations do not mean two shades of the same colour, but splitting a single colour from the triad into many analogous ones), there are counterpoints, there are metallics for added specular variations and generally they go beyond mandatory three colors. They are still painted with only basic GW techniques, just the palette and assigning this palette to the model is more complex and interesting.

Eldar models have lots of smooth, rounded surfaces that cry out for volume-based lighting approaches that GW just doesn't do. This is why GW-painted Eldar look bland. It's also why you hardly ever see full armies of spectacular Eldar, because doing that much volume-based lighting takes forever and almost nobody has the patience for it.

GW-style painting only works well on models with lots of detail and sharp angles to break up sight lines and distract from the lack of shadow-based contrast.

yukishiro1 wrote:
Eldar models have lots of smooth, rounded surfaces that cry out for volume-based lighting approaches that GW just doesn't do. This is why GW-painted Eldar look bland. It's also why you hardly ever see full armies of spectacular Eldar, because doing that much volume-based lighting takes forever and almost nobody has the patience for it.

GW-style painting only works well on models with lots of detail and sharp angles to break up sight lines and distract from the lack of shadow-based contrast.

You can do more, but it’s not the style on the troops it’s the lack of colour or detail.

mrFickle wrote:
Just to go back to my original point the paint jobs on the new eldar characters are much more exciting, more vibrant or something. Or maybe it’s just the way they are photographed.

I don’t know but I thought they looked really good

I'm not seeing it personally. Especially the yellow one, it looks plain as. They didn't even bother breaking the yellow up with a blue carapace or something to show the iyanden colours. It's just this washed out plain yellow.

I find most body suit painting GW does on eldar boring and plain because it treats the plates and the bodysuit as one thing and doesn't differentiate them in any way.

Treat them like imperial models for their colour palette - you'd have a black bodyglove and metal plates on top. That would actually look pretty striking.

Does anyone think the faces of the new dark reapers look like jack o lanterns

mrFickle wrote:
Does anyone think the faces of the new dark reapers look like jack o lanterns

They always have.