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Hello. I am really hoping someone would be willing to help me. I have several thousand points worth of eldar that I'd like to paint. I want them to look like the cover of the ia xenos book. Like they just traveled 10000 miles through ice and blizzards to kill you. I enjoy the bone colours as well as the mymeara style icy blue but way less green?
I'm hoping someone could channel their inner bob ross and help me make a paint by numbers style checklist to painting the models to look like that. I have regular brushes as well as an air brush and whatever colours I need.
I can’t help with the paint by number but there is definitely some airbrushing going on in those photos, infact the mor with look at the first one the more I think it’s all airbrushing.
I think you will have to do some experiments.
If you want an icy frosty look Green Stuff World have a frost liquid that makes little icicles form where you drop it
You want cold colours which as I'm sure you can tell from the photos are going to be blue heavy. For your dark tones I would suggest incubi darkness and Kantor blue. I would mix these with a colour like temple guard blue to get mid tones, then work down through pure temple guard blue to a pure white.
mrFickle wrote: I can’t help with the paint by number but there is definitely some airbrushing going on in those photos, infact the mor with look at the first one the more I think it’s all airbrushing.
I think you will have to do some experiments.
If you want an icy frosty look Green Stuff World have a frost liquid that makes little icicles form where you drop it
Oh thanks I'll take a look at those icicles.
I'm smart enough to know theres a proper process but dumb enough not to know what it is.
It's good that you have an airbrush, since that will help you achive the goal here. Painting bigger surfaces smooth in light colours with brushes is a major pain - or joy if you do pull it off. With an airbrush however, it's easy.
I recommend that you pick a bunch of test models, whatever models really. It doesn't matter if they are Eldar or even GW. Best something with organic, i.e. round shapes, to echo the Eldar shapes. Use those models as your test subjects while you refine your method to painting these models.
In general, you want to prime the model black, then apply a zenital highlight with white primer or white ink. Then apply the blue and green colors of your choice thinned down for transparency over that. Watch out, some of the sea blue paints do contain white pigments and have extreme coverage, which you don't want here.
You can get yourself inspired regarding specific colors to use with the videos below:
Heresy World Eaters/Emperors Children 
