Bejewelled Eldar Rangers

Aaaand we're right back again - this time, I hope, for good!

With 10th edition 40k around the corner I have now successfully failed to play a single game of 9th. That sounds depressing, and it is. However, after visiting Warhammer Fest this year I am more inspired than ever to get into regular painting and finally get an army completely, 100% painted. Hopefully that army will be my Eldar.

I have no idea if Troops are even required anymore, but I've been working on two units of rangers for a long, long time and I've finally finished them. Best of all, I've got a basing scheme for the whole army!

I'm also toying with a new way to display models - video. It's such a pain trying to get photographs of entire units (because I haven't learnt how to image stack to make everything in focus) so - drumroll please - in all their motion picture glory, I present my Eldar rangers!

First time taking video and since I already had my DSLR out I just used that. I think next time I'll try out the GoPro, see what the difference is like. In any case, it wouldn't be complete without a few select shots.

As you can see, I made life hard for myself by painting everything that could be a gem as a gem (a big part of why these models took so long). I just can't seem to stop! At least it makes them stand out from most other armies you'll see on the table.

I currently have some shining spears on my painting table, but before you see them there'll be a dive into disease as I show of some Nurgle models I've completed in the recent past (and just got round to photographing).

Until next time, happy painting!

Aaaaaand we're back. Again.

No, this blog just won't stay dead. I never really stop painting, I just slow down as life gets in the way. And, actually, life is very busy right now, so I'm not confident that we're back back. There'll probably be another hiatus after this, but I couldn't resist sharing my Ork Warboss!

This model was another experiment in airbrushing, oils, and applying paint with texture. While it was very quick to do (compared to my usual speed, anyway), I found an extra hour or two to add fine details like the squig's eyes, the beaten, checkered pattern, and the hazard lines. I don't know if orks generally have hazard lines, but I like to imagine that some mek somewhere noticed a lot of Imperial explosives had yellow and black stripes on them and concluded that these were the source of the weapon's power. I'd really love to see the faces on the tech-priests when they calculated how much extra explosive energy ork missiles with hazard lines painted on them put out compared to regular, unpainted missiles. (As well as their realization that the regular missiles are essentially a handful of tin cans welded together, with the one at the end beaten into a pointy shape.)

Anyway, hope you like him. Until next time, happy painting!

Ghosties Part 3: Chainrasps

Of course I picked up the first issue of the Mortal Realms magazine. Don't particularly like Stormcast and don't collect age of sigmar in general, but absolutely picked up some ghosts and sigmarines for three quid because who wouldn't?

Anyway, continuing my project refining my ethereal colour scheme, here's my oil paint and metal scheme as seen on a Chainrasp Horde.

To give you an idea of how the scheme works on an army level, here's a shot of all the units painted in this scheme as they sit in my cabinet.

I'm now very confident in how I'll apply this scheme to my wraiths. One small change I will make is to keep more of the green hue in the shadows, but obviously for these guys I couldn't make that change without making them substantially different from the glaivewraiths and spirit host already painted.

With the testing finished, next step is to break out the wraiths themselves!

Until then, happy painting!