6500 Points of Fully-Painted Eldar

[relasine]

This weekend I finally finished off painting my Eldar army. While the Craftworld is obviously Alaitoc, I've built it up in a more balanced manner so I can take advantage of more than just Rangers/Pathfinders...

The armor was achieved by three stages of stippling from Regal Blue up to a 50/50 Ultramarine/Ice Blue with a Citadel Tank Brush. Time-saving warning! I primed the bottom section and top section of all the grav tanks separately (white on bottom, black on top), then painted them separately, and glued them together at the end. Made things go markedly faster and with much less cleanup.

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[relasine]

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[Gunzhard]

You are my hero... I love the bases.

[relasine]

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[relasine]

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[relasine]

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This brings me too 6507 points without formations. All told:

HQ
1 Avatar, 3 Autarchs (1 on Jetbike), 3 Farseers (1 on Jetbike), 5 Warlocks on Jetbikes
ELITE
10 Howling Banshees, 10 Striking Scorpions, 12 Fire Dragons
TROOPS
6 Guardian Jetbikes (2 w/ Shuriken Cannons), 30 Dire Avengers, 10 Pathfinders, 10 Wraithguard w/ Warlock
FAST ATTACK
16 Warp Spiders, 2 Vypers, 6 Swooping Hawks
HEAVY SUPPORT
3 Wraithlords, 2 Fire Prisms, 3 War Walkers, 1 Falcon Grav Tank
DEDICATED TRANSPORTS
4 Wave Serpents
LEGENDARY UNITS
1 Revenant Titan, 1 Nightwing Interceptor

Next project: 3000 points of Red Corsairs (Huron Blackheart, 5 Terminators, 1 Chaos Dreadnought, 39 Chaos Space Marines, 4 Rhinos, 10 Raptors, 2 Vindactors, 1 Predator, 1 Land Raider, 1 Traitor Hellhammer)

Here's a teaser...

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[Student Teacher]

Oh my! Thats a lot of space elfs!

Frickin awesome!

[terricon4]

Great paint job.
The color scheme does leave a bit to be desired on the wraithlords and jetbikes though. They seem a bit plain now.

[Arkaedin]

Awesome looking Eldar, love the scheme!

[Siquid]

very nice. I like the face on the avatar.. A couple of suggestions though? maybe make the snow on the avatars base look like its melting (squirt super glue on plastic wrap and brake off chunks after it dries) to show how hot he is, and perhaps a coat of pledge future shine on the window of your vehicles to make them less flat. I really like the bases, think you pulled the effect off well!

[RexScarlet]

Awesome! Yes, I like the bases as well! Great Job.

I need to paint just a little bit more so we can have a game...

Check my SM Company WIP post!

[relasine]

very nice. I like the face on the avatar.. A couple of suggestions though? maybe make the snow on the avatars base look like its melting (squirt super glue on plastic wrap and brake off chunks after it dries) to show how hot he is, and perhaps a coat of pledge future shine on the window of your vehicles to make them less flat. I really like the bases, think you pulled the effect off well!

You know, I was thinking of that very thing when I was basing the Avatar. I'll have to see what I can do...

[relasine]

Great paint job.
The color scheme does leave a bit to be desired on the wraithlords and jetbikes though. They seem a bit plain now.

The Wraithlords (like my Huron pic) are actually a bit flushed out by the light and do look a markedly better in person. The Jetbikes I will agree with you on. I struggled to work more of the bone into their scheme but just couldn't find something that I was pleased with, so I settled.

[Beef Nuggets]

The bases for the entire army..... OMG.

Insane. I could never see myself doing that!

[Arnihs]

wow thats a great looking army, would love to play you in an Apoc game ;)

[Bomma]

Very nice, love the titan.

B.

[thingol]

While I don't really care for Eldar myself, those are some seriously well-painted models. Nicely done.

[asmodai650]

I am saving this thread for future reference, because you completely inspired me. Great paint jobs, consistant through out the army, and great bases. I would throw down against this army any time.

[Dahli.Llama]

As a fellow Alaitoc Eldar player, I have to say those are some very nice models.

[oni]

That is an incredibly nice army you have there.

[MGRockwell]

Looks great.

I really like the stiple effect that you've done on the larger surfaces of the vehicles/jetbikes.

[Horus Aximand]

That's a very nice looking army. Very crisp and I love the bases.

My only nit-pick is that there doesn't seem to be much depth in some of the colours - it may just be the pictures, but the white on the Dire Avengers and bone on the Howling Banshees could do to have a little more shading to define it further.

Other then that, great work! Well done for painting all that Eldar

[the_great_gonzo]

Really impressive army there.

I think the purple gems compliment the blue armour perfectly. I'm loving the contrast between the blue and the bone on the larger models and I think the raised rocky bases are ace, especially with their "melting snow" appearance.

Are the bases resin or made by yourself???

Can't wait to see your Red Corsars!

[Evil-Termite]

You did a really good job painting all those up. I really like this army and I wish I could paint as well as you. Congrats on getting ALL of that painting done too. It must have taken a while.

[Honda]

That is an incredible amount of Eldar awesomeness. Shame that you're still xenos scum (joking), but kudos to you for completing this amazing army.

<though an army is never really done ;) )

[wittdooley]

Out of curiosity, how did you do your snow? I have trouble getting it to look that good. Thanks!

Sean

[relasine]

Are the bases resin or made by yourself???

I did the bases myself. It's cork that's been stacked, primed black, then drybrushed with dark and light grey. Then I applied clump foliage. Finally I added a 50/50 Woodland Scenics Snow/White Glue mixture for the snow effect. It's pretty easy all told and looks pretty good methinks; it just takes a little extra time.

Thanks for the nice words, gang. The Red Corsairs are on the way.

[Catzilla]

That is a very nicely done army! Thanks for sharing!

[VinceBlack]

Kudos on that paint job and the will to hang in there and get it done.

[Triple Threat]

Wow. Those are amazing! I wish I could paint that well. Also, I second the suggestion to "melt" the avatar's base.

[Robotfloyd]

I'm always impressed when I see an army of that size painted to a high standard and this time is no different! and with stellar bases to boot! Kudos to you! I hope my 2000 points of Red Corsairs turn out half as good

[Aceblitzkrieg]

I am officially Jealous!

[Wryth]

Dude! Thats a frakkin tonne of Eldar AND its all painted wow...

Well done seriously, it all looks really good, something to aspire too for my Eldar I guess;)

[LostInTheDark]

That really is some nice work

[vman]

I just crapped my pants when i looked at this thread

I am in the process of painting my eldar as i speak and yeh i have roughly the same amount of models included 2 revenants and 2 super heavy grav tanks + forgeworld avatar

How long did this take you to paint all up do you think?

[Vorlon]

Love the camo on the vehicles...splotches are deceptively hard to pull off =/

[person person]

Awesome

[relasine]

I just crapped my pants when i looked at this thread

I am in the process of painting my eldar as i speak and yeh i have roughly the same amount of models included 2 revenants and 2 super heavy grav tanks + forgeworld avatar

How long did this take you to paint all up do you think?

I purchased the army when 5th ed. came out and got about 2000 points painted within about 3 weeks. The rest has been painted on-and-off ever since. So, roughly about a year.