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:

Eldar Jetbike conversion WIP

Hi guys & gals!

The BigBoy assembly is completed finally and he is currently taking a bubble bath to get ready for priming. In the end I swapped the hands and he now look much better with the open hand on the shield arm and the closed fist on the Suncannon arm

While the Wraithknight is getting ready for painting I'd like to share another Eldar project I'm working with: a Jetbike conversion.

I really don't like the current (and very old) Harley-style bike and so I came up with a new version based on a mix of the old Eldar kit and the "new" Dark Eldar Reaver

As you can see I also converted a finecast Warlock to be my test raider: I think that Warlocks are going to be pretty useful to Jetbike units with the new Codex :)

The bike canopy is pointing a bit downward to keep the bike to look like too "high" like in the older model when the engine pods where hanging quite a bit lower than the canopy itself. For this reason I moved the Shuriken Catapults under the engine pods. The Shuriken Cannon upgrade will also be placed under one of the pods.

The Warlock is sitting straight on the bike (because he is a Old Wise Man) but for the Guardians (and maybe Shining Spears: they look quite nice in the new Codex) I plan to have them leaning forward like the current Dark Eldar Reaver pilots

Here are some pics of the bike without it's raider

What do you guys think?

Eldar Wraithknight progress 4

Cheers guys!
I'm pretty much done with this big boy! I pinned both arms and the chest/body/hips pieces to get the final pose and I'm pretty much happy with hot it turned out in the end. Just a couple of bits to gap-fill and I'm done!

The only thing I'm not 100% OK with are the hands: should I put the closed fist on the Suncannon arm and the open one on the shield arm?

Eldar Wraithknight progress 3

Almost there!

Today I filled and cleaned all the gaps in the legs and all the various pieces of the torso armour. What a day! ...

Also I worked on the base and pinned to feet to it after filling them with Milliput. A pin was also added to reinforce the hip joint before gluing the upper legs

Hopefully tomorrow I will complete the assembly stage. And after that I'll move to some paint scheme tests :)


UPDATE: just to show you guys the little sword that come with the kit ...

It is almost as long as the new Hemlock WraithFighter hull or a Dark Edar Ravager / Raider!