Right, I'll kick off the pictures. This is a picture of the first model we painted (well I painted it), a Howling Banshee.

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As you can see, the main colours are red and black with blue trim on the gems (which took AGES to paint) and the eyes. We decided to paint the Banshee power swords Bleached Bone, as if they were made out of pure wraithbone. As Dream Thief mentioned, we haven't decided on how to do the bases yet, but we're thinking blasted ground so maybe gravel painted black or something similar.

I'll paint up more banshees and the Exarch tomorrow hopefully

- Demon in White

 

Looking good guys, really like the colour scheme. Makes a change from the bright, in-your-face Eldar schemes that can be often be considered common. Be sure to show us more when it's done, you already have yourselves one subscriber.

Pierced53

 

Thanks Pierced

Here's some of my first Dire Avenger. Mainly using this as a 'guinea pig' to get my colour scheme finalized. I really like the dark Eldar schemes myself (That's dark Eldar, not Dark eldar).

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I'm not sure about the Fiery colour sweep (red-yellow) on the plumes though. It looks awesome as a colour, but it just seems to give the models back some of the old eldar/harlequin colourfulness I'm specifically trying to avoid. What does LO think about that?

~ Lowell

 

I'm not sure about the Fiery colour sweep (red-yellow) on the plumes though. It looks awesome as a colour, but it just seems to give the models back some of the old eldar/harlequin colourfulness I'm specifically trying to avoid. What does LO think about that?

I think it looks fine - quite an impressive effect, actually! Maybe, if you're worried about it becoming overwhelming, only do it on the exarch (squad leader?) or on one or two models per unit.

But I think it looks fine.

EDIT: That Fire Prism has indeed come out nicely!

 

Here's some shots of the prism - I'm almost finished it, I just need to paint the turret driver now, and get it based properly (I put it on the plastic clear flying base with some blu-tac for the photos) - I'm putting them on large round bases with bolts because the imbalance of the models means they don't sit on the plastic ones right - and It also means I can take the base and turret off to transport it easily

I'm pretty damn happy with how this turned out. At first I thought there wouldn't be enough red on it, but it came out beautifully.

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~ Lowell

 

Thanks, I'm having a bit of a change of heart again, I'll probably leave it with the whole squad. Seeing as my army is going to suffer from lack of numbers, I figure I don't need to make anything look bland at all. It's meant to be an elite force, may as well paint to reflect that

~ L

 

I personally like the Dire Avenger headgear, I don't think it stands out too much and in a whole squad of them it'll be fine. I wouldn't change it.

DiW

 

Got some ideas for bases, seeing as It's something I thought was worth spending some time on rather than the usual flock or gravel and static grass. I want this army to look awesome, and I'm also keen to keep the colours running through everything, as I'm a little 'OCD' when it comes to things like that. I originally thought just adding some of my own industrial cement mixing sand (it has slightly more variance than modelling gravel, and it infinitely cheaper as I have several tonne-bags of it readily available) and painting it black, then drybrushing a few shades of gray onto it, resulting in the following -

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Then I had a thought, dating back to my interest in the hakanors' reavers, and a photo i can't quite remember seeing yesterday of a khornate army on a lava-based battlefield, so I was thinking of putting cracks in the ground by raising the gravel areas, and painting them similar to the way I did the lines of the armour on the prism. Anyone done this before or think it'd be awesome or not work? I'll have a practice one done later today regardless.

EDIT: Here's that idea in several stages of progression. First one is just the two layers of sand/gravel glued down, the second is the molten streams been painted, the third is the watered down black on the solid ground, and the last is after drybrushing grey, grey/white and white onto it. The last picture doesn't show the drybrushing very well sadly, and the colour seems more faded in it for some reason.

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~ Lowell

 

OK, I have some pictures of the first totally finished model. The Howling Banshee I posted earlier has been touched up, varnished and most importantly based, so we can now see a picture of how the lava bases look on the models. I'm very pleased with the way it turned out.

The first stage of the basing:

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The second stage, with the lava painted up properly

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The final product, with the gravel painted as well:

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From the back:

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I think the lava effect has come out really well and I can't wait to see how a whole army full of models like this looks. We are still working on the fluff reasons for the lava bases, but in the meantime I'm very pleased with our first model

~ Demon in White

 

We are still working on the fluff reasons for the lava bases, but in the meantime I'm very pleased with our first model

Isn't the Avatar said to split the very ground he walks upon, or something like that? It doesn't sound like you have one planned for your army, though, being a mechanised force.

They could be herelds or something. Anyway, I'm sure you'll come up with a better idea!

 

Ok wow love the fire prism first of all and the dual avatar fluff is immense !!!! have you considered some kind of buff rule for 2 avatars ?

 

These are looking good, guys.

1. Cockade on Dire Avenger: I agree. Leave it, as it isn't so in-your-face as you might think. It certainly is far enough away from the Harlequin-esque garishness not to fall into the category you've tried to avoid, but at the same time its brighter colour is necessary because of the relatively duller colours you've used (dark red and black) on the armour plates and helmets.

2. The bases are very well done. Conga rats!

3. The Fire Prism is excellent, particularly the prism itself. Are you going to put a gloss varnish on the facets, or just leave it 'as is'?

E.

 

These are looking good, guys.

1. Cockade on Dire Avenger: I agree. Leave it, as it isn't so in-your-face as you might think. It certainly is far enough away from the Harlequin-esque garishness not to fall into the category you've tried to avoid, but at the same time its brighter colour is necessary because of the relatively duller colours you've used (dark red and black) on the armour plates and helmets.

2. The bases are very well done. Conga rats!

3. The Fire Prism is excellent, particularly the prism itself. Are you going to put a gloss varnish on the facets, or just leave it 'as is'?

E.

I think we're going to leave the Dire Avenger as it is, it's not as imposing as we first thought and in a whole squad of them it'll be fine. Thanks about the bases, I'm really happy with the way they came out.

As to the Prism, no I don't believe we're gloss varnishing it, we are going to give it a coat of matt varnish as we do with everything but neither of us particularly like the look of gloss varnish so no. With the Prism, the main thing left to do is the base - we're going to attach it to a Dreadnought base with a bolt and nuts so we can dismantle it easily for carrying.

- Demon in White

 

Nice to see you 2 working together, with me it was always open krieg with my sibling.

As to the models, i like em, nice feral twist on the usually less wild eldar.

 

Nice work guys! I really love the red / yellow on the gaps on the fire prisum keep it up!

 

We have another finished vehicle (A wave Serpent with TL Bright Lances), a second unfinished Lance Serpent, a half-salvaged second Prism that looks like it was glued and painted by a 6 year old, and a semi-assembled second unit of avengers now.

Humble apologies for the delay, pics will be up shortly

~ Lowell

 

Humble apologies for the delay, pics will be up shortly

~ Lowell

Lookin' forward to those pics!

 

Ok then, I'll gettem up in the next hour or so seeing as someone asked already

~ L

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And here's some shots of the finished Serpent (Although I just realised the weapons still need inks/drybrushes) -

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And NOW I just noticed the spirit stones still need painting blue.

I don't know if either of us mentioned already, but we're planning on leaving all the Vehicle windows off. To me they just look a little too cheap and tacky, and of course I want to be able to show off the painted drivers properly as well.

~ L

 

I don't know if either of us mentioned already, but we're planning on leaving all the Vehicle windows off. To me they just look a little too cheap and tacky, and of course I want to be able to show off the painted drivers properly as well.

~ L

Especially considering we spent about 3 hours just on the pilots, and anyway we can't put the windows on because one of them got broken

Well, the first Farseer, Anghavan, is currently being painted, so I'll get some finished pics up in the next couple of days. He is extensively converted using a Bonesinger as a base and I'm extremely pleased with the way he's turning out. The other Farseer, Aneath, is a female one which Dream Thief has taken responsibility for, unfortunately he is currently away so we shall have to wait and see on that one.

~ DiW

 

the vehicles are awesome. I am not a fan of Aspect warriors painted in army colours and not in Aspect shrine Colours, but the Prism and the Serpent are very very interesting.

Great work keep it up!

 

I personally think painting Aspects in their default colours gives the army too much variance and detracts from the look as a whole. Plus it means everyone has the same-looking units, which I totally disagree with. Also, we decided from the start that our army would be different from what you usually see in Eldar armies i.e. lots of bright colours, and the Aspects are all horribly bright colours. All that aside, there's always the fact that we hate the colours anyway

EDIT: Thanks, by the way

~ DiW

 

OK, here are the first pictures of the Farseer WIP. Bear in mind, however, that it really is a WIP picture: the painting's really messy ATM but I'm not going to correct any mistakes until all of them have been made so as to save time. Also, the paint is a tad thick in places and the detail a little obscured, but not too much so as to be in your face and I'm hoping the highlighting will go a long way to making it look a lot better and give it back the depth it lost. For the record, I couldn't have made it any thinner, I guess that's just what happens when you strip the paint off one too many times. However, I'm hoping it won't be noticable when the whole thing's complete. By the way, this was mainly on Dream Thief's request, as he hasn't seen any pictures of the new Farseer yet. Please don't judge my painting skills by this picture, I promise you that it will look a million times better by the time I'm finished

Oh, and it's only the body.

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~ Demon in White

EDIT: Looking at it now, actually, I don't know what I'm fretting about with the paint being thick: it's just a couple of places where the paint looks thick but it's actually because there's mistakes with the highlighting which I promise will be rectified ASAP.

 

Really cool stuff from the both of you!

keep it coming


+ rep!

 

Thanks Arachnid!

~ Demon in White

 

Well I have to say I ain't too keen on the black on the wave serpent as it don't look highlighted, but you know what who the hell cares that lava effect thing you got going on there is bloody awesome and more than makes up for it, keep it coming lads

Damien

 

Well no, the black isn't highlighted, but that was because we wanted a clear matt black effect and the places we could have highlighted it are painted with the lava.

Thanks though!

~ DiW

 

yeh I figured that was the reasoning behind it, I am just anal when it comes to painting black mate don't mind me

Damien

 

Haha alright

Analwut?

~ Demon in White

 

is this the one I did background for, or do all of your craftworld names sound alike?

 

Yeah, it's the one you did the background for, thanks mate

~ L

 

my work lives on! huzzah!

you're welcome, btw