dark eldar

[mot666]

hiya all. first post on bols. recently uploaded a bunch of pics for another forum, thought i'd share the love. feedback/comments welcome and encoraged.

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some eldar i painted in my youth. (2nd ed)

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[mot666]

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[mot666]

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you can see the colours better in the flash shots. it was overcast and late afternoon when i took most of these. i went with it because i liked the bleak lighting/bland background and im still learning the camera, flash shots up close are tricky, minnies usually come up looking like glowing ghosts.

[mot666]

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got some great poses off the back to basix bases...

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[mot666]

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i feel urien needs something more... i dunno what.

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[mot666]

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crusin...

after seeing these fliks again and again over the past week since ive taken them i see little touch ups needed here and there. theres detailing and washes and such still to be added but appart from that mostly finished. and the bright orange markings im going to add. im waiting till i get a good number of models nearing that stage so i can think about what sort of patterns im going to decorate with, for consistancy and sake of batch painting style(which is what this is). and as always sanity's sake.

was gonna add fire and ice patterns to archons cloak. and a tat to lilith's backside. and maybe red to sargent archons head.

whaduyas think?

[DrLove42]

All look really good. Just need better photos.

The quins and the DE IC's in particular are fantastic

[mot666]

cheers bruv! using my dads old 5mp camera, a hybrid type thing that looks more like a traditional camera. the flash is broken, you have to hold it open. using it is an artform in itself, or a fluke. still does great shots tho... sometimes. i may spend a day, in the middle of the day, reshooting. im rarely awake at that time tho! ;)

[bethor]

Overall some great looking minis.

1 possible critique: the flesh on some of your characters looks a little human. I like the more cold dead looking flesh on your warriors/wyches. You might give them another drybrush with a cooler highlight color.

Again, good looking minis!

[mot666]

damned if if didnt just completely forget half of them.

the chars were done virtually the day they were released in the shop, not much thought went into them. i understand what you mean, i thought the same... i think it works for urien, but i dont really wanna touch lillith. maybe a bit of a white wash. the current flesh scheme on the troopers came along later.

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[mot666]

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Currently my army is known as >THE KABAL RAINING BULLETS< ...brOOtal...

[mot666]

got my citadel spraygun working again yesterday. thats gonna make my life easy. i got it for my 350 model nid army and it was fail like fail is. so now it works. made my 3 razorwings purple as well as the tops of 3 venoms. used enough paint to hit the first bar on the bottle. talk about efficient.

finaly got some grass tufts. added to wych unit. i like.

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heres my army in all its WIP glory...

http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m637/seresmot/3532.jpg

plus recent megaforz addition...

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[mot666]

one of my wyches:

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"Whoooop.Whoooooop.Whooooop.Whoooooop!"

[Sinsinatus]

Impressive collection of decadence and depravity. You should do up a board ala "Armies on Parade" style when you get done.

[mot666]

nothing feeds an archons withered heart like a few well placed words. :D

thats actually one of the many things on my to do list. that particular item has been there since my 2nd ed eldar army. the display board got chopped up into more scenery. it was only polystyrene. these days my hammertime to-do list is actually kinda scary... been thinking about it recently.

[Meph]

Flippin' ell! How many points is that horde? :D

[mot666]

will be 8000+ when my tantalus and reaper get here. it might be that now, i havent played, hence added up my list in about 6months. had some alround downtime there for a while. chronic fatigue is killer.

my nids easily hit 12-13 thousand points. we're haveing an apoc saturday next week at the local, i think i'll be using both(!)... so i'll probably know then if you really need numbers ;) rest easy.. not all by myself; we're getting the young folk more acustomed to big games so i'll have a minion or two and proabably be supplying minnies for both sides.

[mot666]

got some wip 'over the top' razorwing bases for ya's. some kind of group caption for the the three like '*multiple thermo-nuclear devices detected captn... explosion immenent... can we >not< investigate this one?*'

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theres going to be fire and smoke on the black tree to the far right

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caption: 'bobs taking too long... oh shhhhhhh!'

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'bob'

[mot666]

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not so clear under stealers foot and blutac 3rd nuke triggered by stealer caught up in the kill... caption: 'bet you didnt see this comming.... OOOPS!?'


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some flicks of my nice newly sprayed razors. was gonna start painting em - got distracted by 40k battle accessories and trees had been saving for a rainy day(raining right now ironicly!) ...turned into sudden brainstorm of needs dead dude... needs reason dudes dead,,, needs more... becomes out of control nuculear crisis... go figure.

appart from some landscaping, pose alteration, gun swapping and greenstuffing im gonna do area effect lighting on the three nukes. a couple of firsts for me. beggining with the dioramic base itself.

[mot666]

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highlights nearing completion.

[kadeton]

Hot damn, I love that Razorwing. Looks like something out of Tron. The white highlights somehow really conjure up a sense of crawling energy all over it.

[mot666]

Hot damn, I love that Razorwing. Looks like something out of Tron. The white highlights somehow really conjure up a sense of crawling energy all over it.

:D

[eldargal]

A decent sized raiding force, I look forward to seeing your tantalus. Not enough painted tantaluses around.:)

[mot666]

A decent sized raiding force, I look forward to seeing your tantalus. Not enough painted tantaluses around.:)

i gots my tantalus and reaper today. omfg... must be nearing 10 hours preping them by now. so much scraping sanding picking.

[mot666]

the to be painted list ever grows

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[mot666]

some wip bases for my razorwing squadron and tantalus

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[mot666]

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[mot666]

wip reaper

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