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Eldar Warlock II

I had finished this Warlock before the Vargheist, but just now took some photos.

Vampire Counts Vargheist

 Lots of painting has been done lately.  My issue right now is just getting them photographed and put up here.  As you can see, some Vampire Counts have been seeing the painting table.

Tomb Kings Necrosphinx

I'm still alive and I actually painted something.

Eldar Asurmen

The next in line here in my macro re-shoots is my Asurmen.  This one is a bit different from the others.  I put in some extra work to raise the models painting standard a bit and bring it inline with some of the more recent Eldar models I've painted.

Eldar Farseer (New Pics)

Here's another new picture post of a previously finished model.  This time It's one of my Alaitoc Farseers. 

When I first posted this guy, I went for a more stylized approach in using terrain and other Seers behind him.  It have a cool effect and all, but it didn't really let the model shine.

Eldar Swooping Hawks (New Pics)

I got my macro tubes in the mail today.  I thought I would update some pics of my older stuff.

Harlequin Voidweaver

So I took a month or so off from painting and such.  It was a much needed break really.  The Harlies definitely are nice to have mostly done, but the pace was a bit crazy for me.  

[WIP] Harlequin Voidweaver

I've been getting some work done on the Voidweaver.  I am really enjoying this process with the model in pieces.

I've finally found some more motivation to finish my Harlequins, new Eldar!  I am so psyched about the new models.  Expect a lot of Jetbikes in my future.

Eldar Dire Avengers

There are only a few random vehicles that remain unpainted in the to do pile.  Unfortunately, I still have a very large amount of foot models that need to be painted.  To help with possible Serpent Spam I decided to work on some 5 man Avenger squads.  I have 20 of the plastic Dire Avengers which I bought when they were released.  Fortunately for me, that was before the massive price hike they underwent when the new Codex dropped.  At $7 an Avenger, that is just ridiculous.

I've also decided to work on some Rangers/Pathfinders.  I finally started to feel bad that I have so many Alaitoc models painted, but not a single Scout, the unit that defines my Craftworld. I have one finished and another two in the works.  I am also working on some weapon crewmen as well.  I'll get some preview pics up within the next couple days.

Left on the shelf are around 80 foot models, a few vehicles, an Avatar, and 5 OOP Wraithlords.

On the paint job front these guys were fairly straightforward.  They were predominately coated in Ultramarines Blue (Altdorf Guard), then heavily drybrushed with white, then glazed with blue.  After some black-lining it was finished.  I wanted a nice blue armor in traditional Dire Avenger style, but differentiated enough from my Guardians.  Their yellow was done in the same style as my Craftworld models for a nice tie-in.  Fairly standardized metal, wraithbone, and gems.  The most time consuming aspect was all the black-lining.  Nothing is more nerve-racking than black-lining between a color and white.  The margin of error is not forgiving.  

Eldar Alaitoc War Walker (Updated)

Ignoring the fact that the base looks super wonky, due to post production, I think this guy came out rather well.  This is my second completed War Walker, but the previous one was painted in an older scheme and style.  Fortunately, it should not take too much effort to update it to the standard of this one.  I have a 3rd one in the base-coating stage, which on these is the most time consuming.  This is the first model I've finished lately that is actually in my 1850 list.  The motivation was not looking like a scrub with a fully painted army minus my War Walkers.

Another difference with this is the choice of weapons.  These Brightlances aren't glued on and are rather modular.  I am planning to bit out some additional weapon holders for different arming options.  In reality I changed up to Brightlances over Scatter Lasers due to the rest of the army's composition.  With having 3 Wave Serpents spamming Str. 6/7 shots, having 6 more Scat-lasers seemed overkill.  The 6 Brightlances help bulk up my anti-tank and pull some pressure off the Fire Prisms.  

Eldar Alaitoc Lynx Super Heavy Tank

As you can see I finished the Lynx today.  I cannot convey how much I love this model.  It's a great mix between the big super heavies like the Cobras and Scorpions and the smaller Falcon chassis tanks.  I decided to go with the Pulsar over the Sonic Lance.  I have the lance barrel plus power pack for the back so if a swap in needed in the future it wont be too difficult.

The scheme is standard, but with some minor changes.  The front stripes are the same as my Scorpion II, but I decided to do some different back stripes.  I though that this model looks so much more different than anything else I have.  Well not hugely different, but when it comes to Eldar aesthetics any changes are big.  

Getting a flight base on this beast was a bit difficult.  In standard Forge World fashion they designed the thing to use a standard GW flight base.  Of course that is wildly impractical and wouldn't even work once, let alone multiple uses.  I used a similar technique that I did on my Scorpion, but used the GW flight base instead of making one out of hardboard.  So far so good.

Eldar Alaitoc Warp Hunter

I finally finished my Warp Hunter.  I did the vast majority of this model in the several days after I got it in the mail.  I got distracted with my other 8 other projects, but finally did the last bit late last night.  Sadly in the last week I only needed to highlight the engines and do the D-Canon barrel.   

As for the the painting of the tank, it's my standard Alaitoc scheme.  For the most part it was a bit easier than the other style tanks due to the lack of a turret.  Really the most difficult choice was the D-Cannon barrel.  I debated keeping it white, but that wouldn't really mesh with the other models in the army.  

Last night I also got hot and heavy on my Lynx.  It is coming along really well now and might see completion soon.

Eldar Alaitoc Falcon

I really wish Falcons were more viable these days, but their halcyon days of 4th edition are a distant memory.  Even with these drawbacks I would imagine a lot of Eldar players are like me and have at least one of these guys hanging around.  In the days of Wave Serpent spam and the much better mono-purpose Fire Prism, the Falcon is the least viable tank in the book.

Even with all that, I still felt the need to paint one up.  With the majority of my play army finished, grinding out the lesser used models are slowly becoming a higher priority.  It's painted in my standard tank scheme with the colors and stripe placement.  I didn't really feel the need nor desire to go above and beyond on this guy.

I have two Forgeworld projects on the table these days.  The Warp Hunter is very close to the finish line, whereas the Lynx is just in the preliminary base coat stage. 

Eldar Alaitoc Fire Prism (OOP)

I finally pushed through and finished my second Fire Prism.  Now this is the older OOP version and find nothing positive about it over the current style beyond providing some variation.  It's my standard Alaitoc scheme with nothing really new going on.

I did finally get my desktop back up and running with Photoshop and all that.  That combined with my new light box has really helped my picture production.

I have a Falcon that is just about finished.  There is also the gaggle of Jetbikes that need to be finished.  Maybe when some of that is cleared I start on the Dire Avengers.  I have 3 War Walkers that need to be started.

Skaven Stromvermin Command

The command for my 40 strong Stormvermin unit.  This unit was the first real big fantasy unit that I started individually highlighting the model.  You wont find any drybrushing on these guys.

Vampire Counts Grave Guard Command

It only took me 5 years after they were primed to get around to my Grave Guard.  I have a unit of 20 of these guys.  This is just the command to give an idea of what the whole unit looks like.

Vampire Counts Heroes

These are my Vlad and Krell models.  The Vlad is an older paint job that I updated a bit and added a few things to. The Krell so far is my only Finecast model.  After all the work I had to put into him the only real advantage to me for Finecast is the lighter weight.  All in all not a fan of Finecast so far.