Atreidai's Ulthewe Eldar

[Atreidai]

Cheers,

Below should be my completed Ulthewe Eldar. There aren't many of them, but they were the last army I started on before taking the last half decade away!

These models are my most recent work (if you look through my other stuff you will see the progression) and as such reflect my newest iteration of painting methodology. I call these guys "Base+2", that is to say base-coated with 2 layers of "detail" (in this case an inking and a dry-brushing/highlighting, which is pretty modus operandi for me)

The thought behind these fellows is that the regular army drones, the Guardians here, don't need a lot of detail. The focus of the unit is the champion, Warlock here. This champion is himself rather unimportant to the visual impression of the army as whole on the table, ergo whilst he is painted to a higher degree of "completeness" than his rank and files, he isn't too overly loaded with detail either.

This is my take on the division of "rank and file" and "elite" as merits their amount of time taken from my paining docket!

I will take the time (probably not this morning) to elucidate my painting methodology when I can find the appropriate sub-forum...or I might add it here who knows. Either way please make some notes on these guys for me!

Oh...and yes they aren't based yet....dunno what terrain I want them for just yet so I chose to regard them "finished" since i wont be painting the figures themselves any more. If I broke some unholy rule just smack me with the ruler already! (If you're good with that ruler I might have to break another rule...rowr!...LOL)

-D

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[Consadine]

Here's a tutorial on uploading and posting pictures. (http://www.astronomican.com/showthread.php?13357-Image-Upload-Tutorial)

These look really good. A highlight on the black with a dark grey would do them wonders. GW also has these paints called Foundation paints that cover really well; one is Dheneb Stone and is brilliant as a basecoat for bright colors when you prime black. Keeps the paint from getting thick.

[Skarfang]

Very nice, very tidy models indeed. Along with what Cons said about the black highlights, perhaps a wash on the white weaponry? Either Badab Black, or if that makes them too dark, perhaps Gryphonne Sepia?

[Atreidai]

Wow....considering most of my (still good) paints are the old-school GW paints (you know, white caps that never open easily...stickers (peeling off from the crap glue) with names like "White" and "Black"...you know the ones...right?...anyone?...) I will have to look into some of the newer stuff and see how to rip it off for my purposes!

Cons: Thankee for the posting bit. Being a Chef I hate cmputers anyway, and that also means I have no time to read anything except what is the most important (Login passwords etc...) between my technophobia and my SO's WoW habit...I just dont get on enough!

I felt I should also mention that there are all resprays by the by...the original artist was...shall we put it delicately..."liberal" with both his undercoating and what would normally pass for basecoating (but what was for him more a "bath"), so I lost a tonne of detail even starting (excuses, excuses...I know). These proved a few of my theories, however, regarding how armies look "on the table" (kinda like "in the wild"...only not so much) and I was trying to keep them overall as dead simple as possible (cooking for a living also leads to very little time for painting...)

You've not seen the last of me!

-D

[Atreidai]

Just tried to read that posting article at work...my head hurts...thanks, a lot, really...

::trots away for asprin::

-D

[Honsou]

If you are struggling with models that had large amounts of paint lathered on them (not uncommon if you're reworking models from the past or have picked something up of ebay) you might want to consider stripping them before respraying and repainting. There are alot of ways of doing this, but one popular method is using Simple Green (http://simplegreen.com/).

Other choices include Fair Power Spray, Mr.Muscle and many, many others! Point is, you grab yourself some of that, put it in a pot/tub big enough to fit the models you want to strip in there and let it rip- it'll need to sit for a few hours at least, usually 24hrs+ for most of them, and then give it a scrub with an old toothrbrush. Voila, you have yourself a mini without any paint on it.

[Atreidai]

Honsou: Thanks for that tip...I actually read about that here on the Forums exactly after posting that...LOL. (If you could follow that statement...you are too sober...)