Eldar army

[Arhalien]

That warp spider.... Please, send that into GW and get the to cast it
And the painting on, well, everything, is just incredible. Stunning, stunning stuff

[Dark Apostle]

I agree with everyone else - the firedragon and spider look really good, especially the glowing effect is really, really nice. But I think that the freehand on the spider carapace is a bit crude in comparisson with the rest of the painting, but maybe that will get sorted once you darken it a bit.
This thread is very insoiring, so keep it up. Looking forward to se Eldrad!

[The Laughing God]

HOW DO PEOPLE PAINT SO GOOD?

But really they are awesome,
the highlighting....the glowing effects,.......everything!

-The Laughing God-

[Hortwerth]

Thanks very much again!

As the time passes and I get a bit distance I have to agree on the WS freehand, Dark Apostle. It's possible that instead of darkening it I will totally repaint it, as I figured a way of doing faded patterns that's looking amazingly good and fun to make (for me at least). I tried it on Falcon yesterday.

And I finished Eldrad. I hope the client will like him as I'd hate to repaint the freehand on the cloak, but I know it's a departure from the scheme! I just couldn't resist! It's an Orion Nebulae, based on Hubble picture.









Please share your thoughts!

[Imus]

your work is awersome as always. The free hand on the cloak is amazing, i wouldn't even know to do something like that! Can i ask what paints you use and brushes?

if you client isn't happy with that cloak (model) i will personally find him/her and beat him to death with my windsor and newton series 7 brush for such heresy!

[The Judge]

Whatever this guys paying you, I'll double it.

My GOD this stuff makes me cry in shame.

ps. I recently purchased some of your Iron Brotherhood... excellent service, excellent models, cheers!

[Hortwerth]

Thanks guys!

I use standard cheap nylon brushes and standard GW paints with water.

Cheers Judge! Glad you like my work and the MAS shop didn't disappoint you!

[Novogord_Vivendi]

Drops on the ground just because of the exitement of those exellent figures.

[elvinltl]

Ermm, do you like paint for a living?

[Dark Apostle]

Ooooh, that freehand on eldrad's cloak is just fabulous. Or maybe nebulous...
Simply fantastic!

[Endemion]

This is just too good. The glow underneath the fire prism is amazing

[Darkseer]

You're a flash git and I hate you
just kidding

Wish I had the time to do this kind of stuff.

[MF3000]

OH MY DEAR GOD I THINK MY HEAD EXPLODED

Damn that client must be coughing up money for quality mini like that!

sj

[Luthien]

Perfect, right down to the last gemstone

[elvinltl]

How did you achieve the moonlight effect?

Do you first undercoast black, then go on the paint over a thin layer of really translucent grey, then highlight area around edges light grey before painting the edges white to give the shine?

[Miglo]

best eldar army

[titan136]

beautiful work, really like what you did with the cloak on the farseer.

[Hortwerth]

It appears that the client never really liked the Eldrad sculpt but he forgot to tell me so and as much as he likes the painting (but for the robe being too bright and the gloves changed to other colour) and adores the cloak, he'd like his sword/arm/staff/general pose changed.

So we agreed I will buy another Eldrad and one other Farseer and kitbash them into 1 model, and this one will go on eBay.

This made me take a lot of WIP pics today to avoid such situations.

So here they are:

WIP Death Jester:





He actually quite liked this model. Still needs a bit of work but won't change much.

Jain Zar:





I got no comment on her - I can only assume it's OK then.

[Arhalien]

Have a look at a conversion Razza did a while back if you need some inspiration for an Eldrad conversion; very simple but very good. I'll edit in a link in a minute.
edit: http://warseer.com/forums/m-p-t-gene...onversion.html

[Hortwerth]

Then it's Maugan Ra:



Again, no comment so far - which means he's not wrong up until this stage.

I repainted the Warp Spider backpack:







The client said he loves how he looks now. One for me finally!