Eldar Army pics

I had a couple requests to see the whole army that is painted so far.  So here they are.  In June, I finished the wave serpents and the falcon.  Since then, I started some work on the shining spears, but my eldar have gotten derailed by my wolves and Tyranids.  But mostly the wolves.

I also have about 30 old school Harlequins that I painted in high school.  They didn't make it for the family picture.

Here is also a close up shot of the falcon on the falcon. 

Painted Falcon

I bought this baby like 12 years ago, and finally got up the courage to paint it.  I have been pulling out my eldar again to finish a 3000 point army for an apocalypse game.  So I finished this falcon, and three Wave Serpents.  I am pleased with the freehand work, and wish I had left some room open on the wave serpents for more freehand work. I have gone with a bird motif on my eldar.  The revenant, autarch, and now the falcon have birds on them.  Kinda like the 70's firebird with the sweet eagle on the hood.  I think the eldar would have loved the 70's.

I got the design for the hawk off of a snowboard design that I liked.  Drew it on with pencil, and then started painting. It only took about 15 minutes total.  The key is to get a design you really like, and then get the pencil as close as possible.  Then the painting is easier.  The Geometric pattern I made up myself. 

You can see the yellow looks a little 'splotchy' on the turret.  I originaly stippled it blue with the rest of the tank, and then decided to paint it yellow afterward.  After a coat of white, yellow white mix, and then yellow, the darker blue bled up into the paint as a brown color.  I decided to leave it instead of painting twenty more yellow and white coats on.  Also, I used a fine tip sharpie to outline the falcon and the sun pattern but moved the lines to make them more symetrical.  The sharpie kept bleeding up through the white/beige too.  It took about 7 layers to finally cover it up. 

I have had a revelation on my magnetizing.  On larger pieces like the turret and chin mount, it is easier to put a magnet (6mm) on the tank, and then a piece of sheet metal on the weapon.  Two larger magnets end up either breaking the model when you get them close together, or pulling out of the model and sticking together.  I got the sheet metal from a dry-erase board my wife threw away.  The metal is very thin, and easy to cut and shape.  Works like a charm.

I have always liked the falcon model, and am excited to blow up some mon-keigh upstarts.

Space Wolves-half a pack

Here are the first Space Wolves.  Half a pack of Grey hunters.  I like how the colors came out.  I am excited to finish this pack and then paint a whole pack at a time.  That should speed up the painting time.  I am going to magnetize the melta gun so I can switch it out to a plasma gun or other change for future codex changes, and if I want to try something else in the squad.  Can't wait to try these guys out in a battle.

The picture above is the best representation of the actual colors.  I am frustrated by the different results I get with each picture.  I feel like taking pictures takes as much skill as painting! 

Tervigon Mark II WIP

Here is the finished modelled tervigon.  I like him overall, but as a design element, wish I had the spawning termagants coming out forward.  They don't look as fearsome coming out the back of the model.  Still have some painting to do, but happy so far with the progress.

Aric's Orks and Tau

I'm not sure if you've seen these guys yet or not. Man, I need to finish this stuff. I get 80-90% done and start messing with something else. Orks are sure fun to paint. That one with the peg leg has arms from some old ork character. I didn't like the model, but his arms were cool, so I put his arms on a regular "boy" torso and threw that on some peg legs and now he's one of my favorite models.

Mounted troops

 Aric here, Royce's little brother. He and I have been into this since about 1989. Back in the day I played Squats and he played Eldar. I currently have four armies, Templar, Tau, Orks, and a little Guard.

I've always really liked mounted troops ever since I saw Luke Skywalker and Han Solo on Ton Tons in "Empire Strikes Back" I don't think the tau scout would serve any purpose in a game, but the Marine could be a "counts as" bike mounted Captain. I would really like to do a full unit of the guardsmen though. I think the size works well. Any suggestions? They still need paint, mould lines cleaned, greenstuff, etc, but you get the general idea with the plast-i-tac holding their arms in place.

Space Wolves

OK, I am an official 40k player.  I have played 40k off and on since high school (1989) but have never had a space marine army.  After reading Chapter War, I decided that I understand Space Marines, and yes they are cool.  I have always liked the Space Wolf lore, but not always their models.  The new models are great.   I found a whole army on ebay that was already mostly assembled, but unpainted.  I bought the lot, and here they are. I am planning on magnetizing the razorback and predator, so I can try them out as rhinos or the heavier tanks.  I would like to make a thunderwolf cavalry unit, but will probably wait until I get these guys painted to start on them.  After reading the codex, I am excited to give these superhuman werewolves a try.

The original owner did a great job of assembling these guys.  There are metal space wolf shoulder pads, forgworld parts, and everyone is assembled great.  I am going to add a bunch of combo weapons and some more melta marines around.  He also had ALL the new characters.  It is a sweet army that was assembled very well.

So here is the first trial squad.  I primed them with a grey primer.  Then washed them with devlan mud.  Then I drybrushed them with a 3:1 mix of codex grey and a light blue.  I still have a lot of detailing to do, but like how they are coming along.