Dark Eldar Venom WIP

When the new Dark Eldar book landed I decided it was time to resurrect the army and start painting it. After a bit of testing I revised my old colour scheme and I started to paint one of my Venoms. Here are some pics of the little thing so far:

I'm probably going to paint the two gem-like thingy above the engine in gold too to add a bit more of the colour on the model

Here is it as seen from below. This is actually an older pic, the sections of the upper hull on the nose are painted in gold too, like they are on the upper surface

There is still a lot to do: paint the weapons, the pilot and the crew (I'm not sure about how many there are going to be), more work on the edge highlight on the green hull, the various trophies and so long and a whole lot of things to fix and clean up... I'm also going to try and put some tribal markings on the hull if I can manage to do that without ruining the whole thing ...

C&C really appreciated!

Vaul's wrath support battery: 3x Shadow Weaver - update 1

Hi guys!
I made some progress on the Shadow Veawers, the yellow bits are pretty much done on the batteries. In the end I will probably go in with some edge highlighting

Shadows and highlights are also complete on the gunners. Just some black lining left to do on some modes

I really like to known what you guys think on the shadows: are they too dark?

With the yellow bits done it's time to start on the blue ones, beginning with a dark grey base coat

I will have more updates in the following days as work progress on those big guns!

Eldar Hemlock Wraithfighter progress 6

Work continues on the Hemlock! With the yellow sections completed I moved on the black / blue ones. The first order of business was to mask all the painted area to protect them. It took me almost two hours to apply the masking tape, following the many curves of the Hemlock hull.

With the masking tape in place, I proceeded to apply thin layer after thin layer of Vallejo Model Color German Grey

When the German Grey was dry I proceeded to paint the blue areas following the same progression I used on my Wraithknight

Finally, after the blue paint was dry, I unpacked the model!

There are a few spot in witch the masking failed to protect the yellow areas but nothing major.

Next up: highlighting black!

Eldar Hemlock Wraithfighter progress 5

Yellow complete! Here is the Hemlock after the final highlight steps ...

.. and after I washed it with the midtone yellow to unify all the blendings

Next up: black (kinda)!

Eldar Hemlock Wraithfighter progress 4

Hi guys,
I made some progress on the Hemlock yesterday and tonight. After masking the already painted sections I covered the model in white primer.

Tonight I started on the yellow section of the hull. I'm using the same recipe I used on my Wraithknight so the first layer was a mix of Vallejo Model Air Ochre and Wood.

Then it was time for Golden Yellow. Here is a "before and after" kind of picture of the two yellow layers:

With the second layer complete it was time to clean the airbrush before calling it for tonight

Tomorrow I should be able to complete the last two highlight steps of my yellow recipe.

Eldar Wraithknight progress 9

Today I made good progress on the Wraithknight. Pretty much of the blue bits are done and I started to work on the gold ones. All the bits and piece are glued now, except the Suncannon barrel that is pinned

For the blue parts I used the following progression:

• German Panzer Grey primer
• a base coat of Vallejo Model Air (VMA from now on) Insigna Blue
• first highlight of VMA Blue Angels
• second highlight of VMA French Blue
• final highlight of VMA Light Sea Blue

Tomorrow I'll probably complete the last few blue bits that are still missing and move on to highlight the gold (I already started on the head). And from there I'll move to highlight the black areas.. Still sooooo many things to do!

Eldar Wraithknight progress 6

Quick update for tonight: I washed the model all over with a very diluted mix of Glaze Medium and Golden Yellow to unify all the blendings:

Here is the BigBoy with the white tack removed. I really like the Yellow / Black contrast

Tomorrow night I'll put a gloss coat on and after that it's touch up time!

Eldar Wraithknight progress 5

Hi guys!
I started painting the Wraightknight a couple of days ago and today I mostly completed the main airbrush work on the yellow parts. What is left to do is to apply a light wash of the main colour to tie all the blending together

The last highlight is not really that bright in real life but the wash will attenuate it a bit more

For those interested, here are a few pics of the steps I followed to paint the yellow armour

1) I primed all the relevant pieces with a white primer. Those that are going to be black (or blue) were primed with a dark grey primer (Vallejo German Panzer Grey)

2) All the "yellow" pieces received a base coat of a 1:1 mix of Vallejo Model AIR Wood and Ochre

3) I glued together the legs bits and the torso and arms bits

4) The black areas were masked to prevent over spay

5) The mid-tone colour was applied leaving the base coat visible in the shadow areas. I used Vallejo Model AIR Gold Yellow

6) The first highlight was done with Vallejo Game Color Bald Moon Yellow. And it look like that I forgot to take a picture of this step ...

7) The final highlight was done with a 1:1 mix of Bald Moon Yellow and Vallejo Model Color Pale Sand

Tomorrow I'm going to apply a wash of Gold Yellow to the whole model and after that I'm going to seal it with a couple of coats of gloss varnish.

Before starting to paint the Wraightknight I made a couple of test on this couple of Guinea pigs: