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EDIT:
I've realised that this thread was pretty wrong. What I had up here has been moved to my User:Article homepage. This thread is meant to be for Painting and Modelling.

Derp.

But if any of you know of a way to combine wargaming with some physical endurance like Chess-Boxing then I am still all ears.

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Currently, I am going for a Ghost Themed Eldar Army.

Why Ghost Themed? Because it's simple. It's pretty much a basecoat and a wash. I just want to get some basic painting and basic sculpting skills down and get a simple, ascetically pleasing army on the table. Once I've got a core of stuff, I'll branch out to the complex stuff with different themes.

Baby steps.

On the bench I have:
- Wraithguard (... they are dead.)
- Warlocks/Farseers (they... speak to the dead...)
- Banshees (pretty close to the whole Ghost thing.)
- Rangers (... they are pretty ghost-like. I guess. Yeah, getting pretty contentious now.)
- Fire Dragons (I stand by this selection, when have the Fire Dragons ever survived a game?)
- Two Falcons, which I am hoping to magnetised so they can be fielded as either Wave Serpents or Falcons (or another Falcon Variant). But I'm mainly looking at Wave Serpents here. Otherwise I'd be fielding a literally-dead-on-first-turn Eldar Army. At least it gives me a chance to play around with freehand.

So, I need a motif. Just a plain little design feature to break up the monotony of Bleached Bone Everywhere. And I need to work out what to do with the extra bits like Gems, Pouches, Belts, Weapons...

Any suggestions for a motif would be greatly appreciated. Checkers don't really work for this, I'll keep that for another army. Musical scores and notes might work, there are a lot of Banshees. Do Ghosts sing? What about skulls? You can never have too many skulls in 40k. Or bones? Like the Halloween costume Donnie Darko wore? A Middle-Ages style Dance of Death woodcut/frieze is almost certainly beyond me, but maybe something along those lines?

What would work?

Well I imagine boxing would be a great way to determine tie breakers. Gives a new meaning to kill points, lol.



Anyhoo, get working on something and snap some pics!

Thanks Mega Dave.

I must be in Unless Mode (EDIT: USELESS MODE) at the moment. Hope this post works out correctly. Here's the test model, it's pretty much what I want to do.

I need to iron out:
A Motif/Design: Not checkers, middle-ages styled bones might be too Gothic and therefore too Legion of the Damned.
The Gems: Maybe black?
Weapons: Bronze, and maybe a design (?).
Pouches and Detail: Reckon just leave it the same colour as the body. Just heavier highlighting and shading.