Chicodon's Eldar Project Log....

[chicodon]

Introduction

Ill be starting a eldar army soon, itll be based around a 2000pt list then buy other things to expand the flexibility of the army...

Golden rule for this army!! - normaly my past armys always lead to masses of plastic unpainted goo... So i created the rule Cant buy anything else untill everythings in the army at that moment is painted!!!

List:

Not bought
Not Built
Primed
Painted
Bases Done
Finished

Farseer
10x Howling Banshees
6x Fire Dragons
2x Guardian Defender
8x Guardians Defenders
30x Dire Avengers
2x Wave Serpant
2x Falcons
4x Vyper Jetbikes

Painting

The army will be all urban based but the colour scheme like all eldar dosent fit the surrounding...

Heres a picture to Illustrate the scheme...



And another for the tanks



The blue on the tanks will have the wabe theme i posted in the thread "what do you think..."

Though these pics have no highlights you get the jist of the scheme...
and also just to clarify the colours on the guardian are slightly lighter than what i hope to have on them.

This is how i hope to achieve it:

Primary colour -
Dark Rich Blue:
Regal Blue
Regal Blue / Enchanted Blue 1:2
Regal Blue / Enchanted Blue 1:1
Blue Ink / Water 1:3 3 Washes
Enchanted Blue
Enchanted Blue / ice blue 1:1
Ice Blue / Skull White 2:1

Secondary colour -
Rich Red:
Dark Flesh
Scab red
Red Gore
Brown Ink / Red Ink / Water 1:2:6
Blood Red

Trim Colour -
Grey:
Chaos Black / Shadow Grey 1:1
Chaos Black / Shadow Grey / Commando kahki 1:1:1
Chaos Black / Shadow Grey / Commando kahki 1:1:2
Black Ink / Water 1:3 2 Washes
Chaos Black / Shadow Grey / Commando kahki / Bleached Bone 1:1:2:1

Gems & Eyes -
Dark green:
Dark Angels Green
Dark Angels Green / Snot Green 1:2
Snot Green
Snot Green / Golden Yellow 2:1
Black Ink / Water 1:3
White Dot
Acrylic Varnish

Vents,Pipes -
Chaos Black
Chaos Black / Codex Grey 2:1
Codex Grey / Chaos Black 3:1
Black Ink / Water 2:1


I know this sounds complicated but ive got 8 weeks to do the guardians so ill take my time and make them fantastic!

Bases

The bases will be plasticard tiled tiles to rubble...

Similar to this and i will be hoping to get lots of double layer bases



Over and Out

[F4113N]

good luck!
now post some pic
sounds good, if a bit colorful.... maybe somthing a bit more neutral than red?

[chicodon]

Nah i like the red, eldar bright and eye catching style will post soom pic within the next four weeks if i pass my exams maybe earlier

[McMullet]

Golden rule for this army!! - normaly my past armys always lead to masses of plastic unpainted goo... So i created the rule Cant buy anything else untill everythings in the army at that moment is painted!!!

Good man! It works, too. For a while, anyway...

The red does look a bit off, but then I always find red/blue schemes look worse on paper than in the flesh (plastic). Do a test model at the very least, it may well turn out nice.

[chicodon]

Yeah but since all i can buy at the mo is guardians that also helps... then ill just wait for the new stuff... hmm are the falcons / wave serps getting a revamp ?

[McMullet]

Hahaha, new Wave Serpent indeed! The current one is what, a year old? And the poor eldar players waited umpteen years for it to come out.

I'd check the rumour forums for uinfo about what'll be redone, but I'm pretty sure Wave Serpents are safe.

[chicodon]

Mwah I might a serpy as well then

[Scorpio]

Good golden rule....NOW GIVE US PICS!!!!

-Scorpio

[chicodon]

LITTLE UPDATE: Bases



Like i said the base will be Urban, this is my first try so far and im quite pleased with them once i get some razor wire ill add a bit to them...

Unluckly i ran out of glue so i have to wait untill tommorow before i can make anymore

Hopefully sometime next week ill buy some guardians and paint up the first squad

Comments welcome

[Brush your teeth]

good luck with the project, although i think ill wait until i see a model until i comment on it. the bases look great though

[chicodon]

Long awaited update:

Bought my first batch of guardians yeaturday first squad of 10 made and primed... Ye gods theyve got a lot of parts Bloody annoying building another 45 of them is not a very nice thought

Anyways will updates with some pics after i get the first one done

Over and out

[chicodon]

Another Update:

When the internet was down i got some modeling down and a built a base for a Wave Serpant/Falcon... I took my time painting it an im really happy with the outcome of it, Its a scene of two guardmen checking a bomb site and one sees the ws/f and just stares and its frozen scared while his comrade looks at him in utter confusion..

Anyways here are some pics,

Above View, not much to say...


Pic of two guardsmen...


Close up of Speechless Guardsman


...and his cofused friend

[chicodon]

And my favortie pic of all Blown up Ultrasmurf!!!!!!!!


Bare in mind this was my first go at eyes so they arnt that good...

Now i must start the guardians

P.s. could you rate the pics are they good quality ?

Over and out

[chicodon]

Update:

Finished a guardian and what youve been waiting for pics...
Ive tweaked the scheme due to the models differences to the diagram and i think its come out quite well...

[chicodon]

and a final pic of the base...



sorry for it being too bright

Comments please

[Gaz]

Nice, I'm going to have to pilfer that gun colour when I get my army up and running

[chicodon]

Lol i gave up using dry brusing a while ago but on the gun i think it finishs the model off quite nicely

[Gaz]

Lol i gave up using dry brusing a while ago but on the gun i think it finishs the model off quite nicely

Well I've never seen it done like that before, and since the weapons are made from wrathbone its certainly appropriate

[Deadite]

Slight side-bar... there are lots of rumors spreading that Guardians will be utterly nerfed and generally a bad choice in future Eldar armies with the upcoming Codex. They'll be good as ablative shields for 1-2 weapons platforms and that's about it. You might do well to bitz order some of the Dire Avenger heads and turn the guardians into Dire Avengers before you're stuck with 45 worthless models. Just thinking you might want to trim the fat from your project is all.

[The boyz]

Wow great job on the base for your Wave serpent Chicodon. I love the dismembered Space marine, that looks very cool. The guardian is looking very nice too. I really like the colour scheme, very colourful. The red areas of the armour look very nice.