Well I am at it again, never seem to have the time to drop by and update this. But progress has been slow and I have been busy. The major painting achievements have been to paint the inside of the house. My Wife decided she needed a change and five rooms a corridor and three feature walls later it is done. Happy Wife and then I got some piece and quiet to get some small scale painting done.
First of all I have continued with the Eldar and managed to knock off the unit of Howling Banshees. This is what they looked like before I started the revamping process...
Not sure what I was going for all those years ago, but they never quite looked finished. I do like the Purple hair and Green tabards as the tie in to the Craftworld colours so that was going to remain.
And this is how they ended up:
Not totally happy with how the blades ended up, I used an ink and should have thinned it more as it really ended up pooling in a much rougher way than I had anticipated.
But much happier with the armour and think the purple and green work well as a whole.
I quite like this version of the Howling Banshees, but I never liked how 'heavy' the Exarch looks compared to her squad.
A shot of the Banshees and Dragons, I think they are quite 'traditional' Aspect schemes and pop nicely.
Next up is a squad of Dire Avengers, in all the years I have collected my Eldar, I have never actually painted a squad of these guys, I always just relied on massed Guardians, but this army will be getting two squads of them. So no before pictures for these guys, but I will be sticking to the blue and white as is traditional. Thinking green guns and purple mohawks to tie into the Craftworld though...
The other painting progress is I have FINALLY finished the Spartan Assault Tank for the Death Guard I have been doing for a friend. It is the last model of the army (I will get an army shot when I get a moment) and has been sitting collecting dust for far too long, so I pulled my proverbial finger out and finished it off.
It's a massive model and I tried to add some gribbly elements to tie it into the modern
40k Deathguard Aesthetic.
A lot of parts were donated from the extra bits from the Mortarion kit.
It's a pity you can't actually jam a Terminator in here.....
All the doors and weapons are movable still (hence why that side door has a gap...)
It's dirty, it's grimy and thank god it is finished.
Originally I had a resin version of this tank to do and it's what kicked the motivation out of me as the kit was absolutely terrible. It was taking so much effort to assemble it and when I heard a plastic version was on the way I spoke to my mate and we shelved the resin one, waiting for the plastic. I had sculpted a lot of the detail onto the resin one already so I got the chisel out and carved them off and transferred them onto the plastic.
Everyone needs tentacles.
The three vehicles of the army, a Plaguecrawler, Spartan and humble Rhino.
I also have a distraction I may paint as for Christmas I got the Battletech: A Game of Armoured Combat with its 8 Battlemechs, I am thinking of dividing them into two Lances and painting them for two different Houses. Anyone have any thoughts of schemes?
Thanks for reading.