Evil Dave's Epic Eldar - Army Shots

[waitwhat]

I'm still thinking on the War Hawk and Land Train cars also in the article. Any thoughts for a Squat looking Void Shield generator?

Yay squats incoming!

I've got the same problem with the land train and i couldn't land on much better than the classic hoth shield generators in this case created as a couple of pairs of domed actual shields cut in half.

[Evil Dave]

I forgot that GW released one, I'll probably try to boil it down to its component shapes.

[Evil Dave]

I did the black on a dozen more tank hulls, and started on most of the first highlight on all 18. These are going to be my Falcons, Fire Prisms and Night Spinners. I'm converting turrets for all of them, and looking to magnetize the Falcons and Fire Prisms.



The end goal here is a Saim-Hann army for Fall In!, it's a lot of painting and converting though so we'll see how I do.

[Ockman]

Great work, magnetized turrets will be ace!

[Evil Dave]

Thanks. Ya, they should be useful and will save me from painting even more grav tanks.

Painting black always seems to take the longest, right up until I start painting orange... Anyway, first black highlight is done and the second has been started (outside edges and air intakes). Once I finish that I just have the corner and point highlights for it.

[Evil Dave]

I finished the second highlight on the black this week but didn't get much more painting in beyond that. I'd like to finish the black next week and start on the Shuriken Catapults. While I'm painting them I'm also going to paint my newly converted Void Spinner barrels and finally get those finished up.



I'm hoping that the Vypers will get the fan treatment at somepoint, until that happens though I'll need a stand in. I cleaned, primed and basecoated these guys this week as well.
                               


Finally, a gold start to the person who figures out what these are for.
                               

[fred]

Barbed wire

Flying stands

I really want a gold start!

[Evil Dave]

Ork Pole Dancing brigade, no gold star! They're for my Spears, hoping to spray their basecoat over the weekend.

The last time the Void Spinners saw paint was July of last year, and I've finally got arround to making and painting the barrels for them. I wasn't a fan of the lack of detail on the Specialist Games versions so I used some Forge World Night Spinner barrels instead. Thanks to the close-up there's some cleanup I have to do on a few of them still, but I hope to finish them up with the Shuriken Catapults on the Falcon hulls.



Speaking of, I finished the black and started on the blue weapons. Those should finish up next week, then it's on to the engines and cockpit glass. Then a whole lot of orange...

[Evil Dave]

I haven't updated in awhile as I've been renovating our downstairs bathroom. As that's been wrapping up I've been getting some more time to paint 6mm stuff again. I've completed the cockpit glass, weapons and engines on the Falcon hulls. Now comes the long slog through the orange.


                               


One hull got the first highlight. I edge highlight most of the tank, then go back and to the outside/higher edges with a lighter orange. After that I do the sharper corners lighter and finally put a dot of my lightest color right at the corner.
                               

                               

[Suber]

Impressive, to say the very least. I love this thread .

[von Lucky]

I'm not a fan of orange, but I love this thread too.

[Evil Dave]

Thanks guys.

Nearly done with the orange, I just need to give the back row the last two highlights. After that it's rocks, base edges, gloss coat, decals, dullcote and grass. That should be doable over the weekend or early next week.



I'm still working on the turrets for these. While I finish getting those ready for paint I'll likely see about Jetbikes or Vypers.
                               

                               

[Evil Dave]

I finished the painting on the Falcon hulls this week, and got them all gloss and dull coted up. Once I get a few more things done I'll do the grass tufts all in one go. I need to finish up making the turrets for these so they look presentable for Fall In!








I also started on my Wild Rider conversion. Thoughts? He'll also be getting stabilizing fins and a back pennant. I used the head and sword of a Harlequin, filed off the mask and put on a Chaos Cultist's face on over it.




This is my Jetbike Autarch/Wild Rider Chief conversion. She'll have the same fins and pennants as well. I used a Banshee head and right arm, and made the axe head out of a Farseer's Singing Spear. Both of these will be getting some putty.



Finally, it was really nice to speed through some units after slogging through the 18 Falcons hulls for so long. I finished the black and weapons on my Vypers this week, as well as the decals. I hope to finish them the gems and orange next week.

[von Lucky]

Seeing those conversions: you're a bigger madman than I thought.

[Cat]

Oooh, very nice colour scheme on those!