Okay, I knew it had been a "while" but I didn't realize it had been many months.
Good grief. Hobby ADD.
Anyway, I really,
really need to take pics of these guys. Yriel is almost done, and Maugan Ra is looking pretty bony. Dark Reapers are dark. (That sounds like a lolcat, doesn't it. loleldar?)
The sad fact is the more Eldar I paint the more I want to do my own army. I even broke down and bought a single Wraithguard model. He sits alone on the shelf, unassembled and silver. Honestly, I have a hard time seeing myself playing Eldar... I can't make 3+ saves, let alone actually have some
tactics that keep fragile T3 guys alive. Maybe that's why I picked a Wraithguard as my first model.... hmmmm. No Iyandan army though... I'm painting him Biel Tan. I just can't resist thorny vines, I guess.
Soo..... by the end of this week I should have some pics! Really!
As to the build-it-fight-it competition, I got
smoked. Eldrad rocks, but when your opponent has a full tactical squad of marines, starts < 24" from you and uses his Librarian to teleport the whole squad right in front of your face and rapid fire you down to ZERO models at the beginning of turn 1 then you don't really have much of a fighting chance.
The most interesting battle was the third one, where the last two models of the game were Eldrad and a Space Marine Commander in terminator armor with a thunder hammer. We went round after round, Eldrad slowly eating away at the commanders wounds, while barely making his invulnerable save against the instant death hammer. In the end, with one wound remainging, the marine landed with the hammer and splattered poor Eldrad across the cardboard terrain. Epic.
These guys are done except for static grass. Man that is a lousy photo.... everything is darker in person and the whites aren't so washed out. They're Reaper "linen white" which matches the box pic pretty well.
The gamma on this photo is all wacky. He's really got more bone color in him than pure white. Also the cloth is much darker in person. Aaaanyway, another "by the book" scheme that is turning out good.
Yriel is nearly there. I had a moment of stupidity when I did the eye of Isha on the banner with inverted yellow/black. Oops. Basecoat with Iyandan Darksun and try again.
Well, once again I can't find my camera. Seriously, this is getting old. All the same I couldn't let a WIP photo get neglected after having put so much work into these guys. They're looking pretty good. Eldrad has been finished for ages, but Maugan Ra and Yriel are finally approaching that stage. Come to think of it I should have photographed Eldrad's cool free hand on his back.
