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With 8th ed 40k rapidly approaching and a distinct lack of patience, I'm delving into Dark Eldar as my main 8th army (I'm liking the reveals so far). As always, I have trouble on colour schemes but did come across this gem:



But the catch is I have no idea which paints were used! The plan was originally to go bright and insectoid, but bone+black+spot colour (blue or pink, undecided) looks much better. If anyone can remember who painted these I'd appreciate it, or at least point me in the right direction with near-enough bone colours.

Haven't done them, kinda wanted to something similar at one point, so if anyone else has ideas, I'd like to hear too. That said, looking at it, I'd think something between a mustard yellow (main color of the pauldron back) and the old gw bleached bone or a similar faded yellow-brown as a base color, selective washing down to the brown, and highlighting and glazing up to the lights.

Probably a base of Zandri Dust shaded with Agrax earthshade then layered over with Ushabti Bone and highlighted with Screaming Skull.

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I learned from one of my gw masters. you need to do the following for bone and skulls: a base of baneblade brown then a layer of ushabti bone then shade it with agrax earthshade, bring back ushabti bone and highlight with screaming skull. not sure it will be the exact thing but you can try it, also cool scheme i might try it with my dark eldar

Thanks guys, going to try and get some work done on them soon (after assignment work, bleh)

I trawled all the way to the original blog source, but the site the tutorial was hosted on is dead. Sorry, can't help you :(