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Hello friends,

Thinking about painting/playing some Eldar and wanted to hash out a scheme first.

I want something unique, and preferably a color I hadn't used large scale for an army before.

Purple came to mind. I found this pic on a website but can't determine which paints he/she used. Anyone know which paints would be best to recreate the scheme pictured below?

I use GW paints exclusively.

Pretty unhelpful, but that looks like the same effect I got using the old purple ink. Do you have the Citadel Paint app? There’s a recipe for dark purple on there.

I should imagine if you're after purple the standard Naggaroth Night, Xereus Purple, Genestealer Purple progression is what you'll be after. Druchii Violet is the standard shade for said progression. As hungryp said, the Citadel Paint app is pretty hot for this sort of thing.

From my experience working with purples, it is really hard to end up with a light, vibrant color after shading, if you start out with purple tones (even the lighter ones) as a base.
What I did for my purple tyranid skins was to start with a light grey base, purple wash it and then add the highlights on top of that.
That way you get a wider range of dark to light purple in a single step.