My Eldar Army (PIC heavy)

[zapunch]

Hey there, im zapunch and new to this forums XD
I love painting, and ive been playing 40k for 4 years (since i was 10).
I wanted to show people my new eldar army that im currently working on.
I might call the craftworld Icwefle (c is pronounced like a s). Resembling Ice Flames

My 2 nearly done jetbikes (out of 6)


My Wave serpent


1 of my falcons that's half painted

My farseer

1 of my war walkers

my fire dragons


I wanted to improve my freehand skills, that's why I tried doing a lot of free hand.
Sorry about picture quality, couldn't use the big camera that I wanted to use.
Hope you like!

[Hellbreaker]

I'd advice to avoid taking pictures with the light source from behind your models. It's silly hard to see if the (for example) Fire Dragons have black bodies or brass or whatever.

Other than that try to work on more even layers, some more shading and highlights. Might I recommend trying some washes?

[KrakenGenesi]

Hi there,

I really like your armies colours - and the free hand is nice as well

[Hive Carnithrope]

Welcome to the Hive

Well, that is some nice freehand work there. I can also see you have a grasp of spot colours - the red lights breaking up the solid blue. However, I think that a few of the men (the vehicles are fine) need a bit more colour, other than blue. Red looks good though even just a dark blue would work.

Also, maybe try a light brown wash and some drybrushing, just to bring out the detail.

I look forward to seeing more!

[zapunch]

Thanks, when you say light brown wash, do you mean for the fire dragons? The fire dragons I still need to do the gems (maybe green), and what color should my dire avengers be? I have 15 of them? But i still want to incorporate, the blue color.

[wolfracer]

Looks really good. I personally like armies without too many colours on them, but the colours they do have displayed well, which you've done with the aqua blue.

Perhaps you should look at getting an airbrush, large colour transitions on big flat surfaces are hard to make look nice and very time consuming with a brush. It's not so bad on smaller detailed models because any messiness is hidden by the detail. Just a thought.

[Hive Carnithrope]

Jun 2, 2012 1:03:32 GMT zapunch said:

Thanks, when you say light brown wash, do you mean for the fire dragons? The fire dragons I still need to do the gems (maybe green), and what color should my dire avengers be? I have 15 of them? But i still want to incorporate, the blue color.

Yup. The skimmers (I don't know much about Eldar)? Just a light brown (The new Devlan Mud equivalent) in the recesses then a drybrush with the original blue, then a drybrush with the blue slightly whitened and possible a further coat even lighter.

Not knowing much about Eldar, but the Dire Avengers (The infantry?) look good with the blue helmets, but maybe a yellow or just black? The black already looks pretty good. Paint the black as proper coats, instead of an undercoat, and add some spot colours.

Good luck! Remember, a spare model will always be helpful to experiment on! We have Gaunts - use the Eldar equivalent.