Sunday 11 May 2014

Eldar?

Ok, it’s been a while….

I could bore you with what's happened during my hiatus but ain't nobody got time for that, so I’ll just get straight into it.

Eldar.

I didn't want to go down the typical Eldar channels as Aspect Warrior colour schemes bore me to tears, so I developed some fluff in order to allow me to paint my army up without being restricted to goddamn blue Dire Avengers. In a nutshell, an Exodite world is attacked by an Imperial Fleet, a deserted Craftworld drifts into the system, the Exodites then use the Craftworld to repel the attackers but the humans launch a salvo of Anti-Plant missiles to render the planet uninhabitable, forcing the Exodites to become permanent residents of the Craftworld, blah blah blah.

If I feel brave enough I’ll post it up here one day.

So, the first thing for your eyeballs is the Avatar.



I was disappointed that GW didn't make a new model when they did the new Eldar Codex, the current model is pants and, as awesome as the FW model is I couldn't find one on eBay and I couldn't stretch to £60 to get one direct. Thank god for the Dark Elf Cauldron of Blood, got one cheap, used the statue, job done. I was worried that it looked a bit static, but it still looks better than the proper model.

Painting it was a ball-ache, and I'm still not entirely happy with it, the look I was going for was a blackened iron effect, as if the Avatar had been repeatedly heated up and cooled over thousands of years. I mixed in some weathering powders to the paints to try and give it a pitted and warped effect. Did I pull it off? Nope. Totally unhappy with the blade as well but quite chuffed with the bloody hand though, at least that's something I suppose!



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More to follow, more regularly.....

6 comments:

  1. Welcome home, brother. You've nailed this - it looks boss!

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  2. love the paint job, for the pose, not exactly static due to feet position. The facial expression plus arms outstretched, if anything it look like its gesture expresses "come at me bro!" =P
    the gore is damn nicely done too!

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  3. I actually like the worn iron look. I think the gore should be a bit more on the model though. Maybe a bit of splatter? I can't imagine he'd plunge his first into someones chest, and just have a bit of blood on his hand. But hey, eldar trickery :). Nicely done regardless.

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  4. Cheers Tony!

    Jessica, Tony said exactly the same thing about the pose!

    I agree totally Greg, needs more splatter, I'll add some over the weekend. More gore is good gore....

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  5. Tom, you might not have gotten the look you're after, but that model looks sweet. Yes, far better than the regular stock model.

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  6. This is possibly the best return to the blogosphere you could have hoped for, dude!

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