Evil Dave's Epic Eldar - Army Shots

[fred]

The Phoenix needed a bit of touch up after a failed attempt of actual flight from being left on the top of my car. One's still going to need a bit of putty and I'm going to have to figure out how to make a tail fin tip for another. Anyway, the black is done. On to the gems and weapons this week. Hopefully the orange the week after that.

Ouch!

Could you do some kind of press mould to fix the missing tail fin?

[Evil Dave]

That's plan B. Plan A is getting a piece of similar thickness plasticard, carving it out and glueing it on. It's a small part of the fun, 2mm at most. Too small and unsupported for putty.

[fred]

Or leave it and call it battle damage

[Evil Dave]

Battle damage!?!?! On Eldar? Inconceivable!

I finished up the weapons and cockpits and got halfway through touching up and shading the orange on the Phoenix. Hoping to finish that next week and move on to their highlights.

[Evil Dave]

I was hoping to finish the Phoenix last night but with friends coming over for dinner tonight the "other domestic duties as assigned" clause in my relationship was activated. Maybe I'll get to them this Sunday or next Tuesday. Either way, I'm looking forward to being done with them. It's time for something else. I did manage to get the first highlight done on most of them. Two still need a little work.



I know it's time for something else because I've been wanting to work on something else. I did cheat a little bit and built a Phantom, as well as a Revenant. Their weapons are magnetised. The last Phantom is going to involve a bit more cutting in pinning as I'm hoping to put it in a running position.

[fred]

Cool, the orange flyers are looking very nice.

And looking forward to seeing the progress of the big stompy ones!

[Elbows]

Everything in this thread continues to be absolutely ace.

[Evil Dave]

Thanks guys.

The Phoenix are all finished up, I got the highlights done throughout the week and also did the engine exhaust. I added a little bit of blue and white edging on engines themselves, it's not overly noticeable though.





I magnetised the weapons in the Revenant, I need to convert up its Sonic Lances next and get going on the other three.



The second Phantom is mostly together now as well. I just need to add shoulders and finishing magnetising its weapons too.

[Evil Dave]

I started on the objectives with the hopes of finishing them before Cold Wars next weekend. The Wraithgate is all painted up, the others need most of the bone paints still. After something Maashes Caisteal said I spit up my three objectives into four. Now I can just swap out the Wraithgate when needed, rather than having to swap it with one of my opponents.





I also got a few coats of red down on the Avatar. Hoping to have him done for Adepticon.

[Suber]

Everything is so beautiful

[Jagannath]

Really fantastic - this thread is ace.

[Elbows]

Yep, every time I see this thread I want to play epic.  Then I realize it'd be a large undertaking and nobody around here plays.  Shame.

[Evil Dave]

Thabks guys. Where abouts are you located, elbows?

[fred]

Great work Dave (again!)

Yep, every time I see this thread I want to play epic.  Then I realize it'd be a large undertaking and nobody around here plays.  Shame.

Epic armies are pretty quick to put together and paint. They also are pretty forgiving of an initial spray in the main colour, wash and dry brush then basing. Giving you something playable pretty quickly. You can then go back to add detail - which is well worth doing. Then you can attempt to take things to the level Dave gets. 

[Jagannath]

Yep, every time I see this thread I want to play epic.  Then I realize it'd be a large undertaking and nobody around here plays.  Shame.

What Fred says is true, there's also Horizon Wars which I play a lot of - that works really well with 7-15 odd models, so much smaller 'scale' than Epic. It's more 'hard sci-fi' than Epic, but there's a few sets of fan rules etc that address that.

Anyway, moar orange Eldar!