Painting Progress Aug

Hey all just popping it to show how some of my progress I have made to the list of WIP. This last week I've managed to finish the Hawks and that one Dire Avenger so I can field a unit of 10 without an Exarch.

1x Dire Avenger
5x Wraith guard (scythe)

4x Swooping hawks
6x Swooping Hawks
5x Dire Avenger
1x Dark Reaper Exarch with EML
1x Spiritseer (conversion)

I've got a tournament coming up in September (Preferred Enemies) with a few custom mission and it even has a side board. It is 1000pts made up of a 750pt core + (2x 250pt).

I'll keep you informed closer to the date on the missions and on my list.

Painting Progress: Swooping Hawk

coolminiornot

So I started working on painting my Swooping hawks I've always wanted to have the wings rainbow kind of like the above pic from coolminiornot.  I ended up just gluing the wings on as all my drill bits couldn't seem to drill into the model very well and magnets weren't strong enough when they were small enough to be hidden.

Painting Progress July

Hey all I've been a bit slack with the Painting progress posts but I'll try catch you guys up.

At the end of May I had the following to be done.

1x Wraith knight
1x Dire Avenger
5x Wraith guard (scythe)

I managed to get the Wraith knight done to a table top quality. I'm quiet proud of how it ended up. With the Wraith knight being my first huge and expensive kit I didn't want to make any mistakes that couldn't be undone so I took my time doing the magnets and positioning it.

With July mostly done I'll just add to the list some things I've started.

1x Wraith knight

1x Dire Avenger
5x Wraith guard (scythe)

10x Swooping hawks

40k board terrain matching

So after painting my canal I decided that my board was a bit too much brighter then my other terrain.

After posting on terragenesis I was given some advice of using watered down black to make it darker.

So here are some pics of my progress this weekend.

The wash I made in a ratio of 5-1 water to paint.

The first corner

Eldar 1850pts list

Hey all I was wanting to get a 1850pts list painted by the end of the year that I thought would be enjoyable to play so this is my list so far. I've played one game with it and have some thoughts on how to optimize and change it a bit. For now tho i'll keep using it at least until I finish painting the units I want to sub in.

40k Canal/waterway Part4

So here I've sprayed the foam/Bridges black and I was halfway through drybrushing the terrain with the dark gray paint.

40k Canal/waterway Part3

So after a very long break from this project, I decided I needed to at least get it painted so this past weekend I went out bought some Matt Black spray paint and did some painting. 

Wraith knight WIP6

Gosh sorry guys that its been awhile since I posted. I'm not dead here is my progress I've made with the Knight. Hope you enjoy.

Wraith knight WIP4

40kartwork

On the road to Completion for my knight and hopefully soon I'll have the rest of my paint list finalized. 

Wraith knight sneak peak

I've made some progress on my Wraith knight so Will be posting some pics of him in the next few hours so stay tuned for that its my first attempt and building and magnetizing such a big model so I'm quite proud of how it came out. Next step is painting it Wish me luck.

May Painting Challenge

I might not have gotten my painting challenge done completely but I did complete my Guardians and the Striking scorpions. I've managed to make some progress with my Knight .

Wraith Guard Bases upgrade

Just a shout out to skulkers-surprise. I had shown these when I had first made them but since Malduran was wanting to correct the base size on his Wraith Guard on his latest painting challenge.

April Paint Challenge

Got some of my Painting challenge done I've decided to shorten the list a little to just be the most urgent for next month. I'm glad the serpents are table top ready but there are a few little extras I want to do to them, If I have time.

   

1x Wraith knight *will take a while*
4x 8x Guardians
2x Wave serpents
1x Farseer *removed for later*
1x Falcon
1x Dire Avenger
5x Wraith guard (scythe)
2x Wraith lords *removed for later*
5x Wraith guard (D Weapons) *removed for later*
5x Striking scorpions
Extra
1x Warwalker
Weapons

Dread fleet: Shadewraith

taleofpainters.blogspot.com

So I started work on the Shadewraith from the Dreadfleet game last week. It wasn't as hard as I first thought it would be. I had a look online for a bit of inspiration of how to paint the ship, I came across taleofpainters blog posts about Dreadfleet and really liked the look he went for.

Mordheim Troll

Hey guys sorry I havn't posted in a while just kinda lost the energy and got distracted, but once again i'll try keep things coming for my trusty followers. I've been busy painting stuff so then next couple posts will be a catch up of the last couple of weeks.

I was wanting to put a troll in my Mordheim warband so wanted to get him painted but I didn't have a GW 40mm square base so I left him for a while but the need to paint him became too strong. I decided to make one from scratch using plasticard and ice cream sticks.

Dreadfleet game

So an Online retailer here in SA has been trying to get rid of their stock of Dreadfleet. From what I've seen and probably Gw's sales show that the internet highly dislikes this game.
So far I can't see why (I haven't played yet), the quality of the models, book and box are excellent as expected.

Canal terrain Progress: bridges 2

So I did some more work on the bridges this weekend. Adding some finishing touches to the edges of the railings. The cuts aren't as neat as I wanted but are close enough and it just proves how important measuring and planning is.

Update to Painted army

What you get if you google "painting Eldar artwork"

So I was looking through the old post on the blog to get ideas for what to write about and I came across my Painted models post and just wanted to give you guys a catch up on what I had gotten done since then. I surprised myself I had forgotten I had even made the list.
So in 3 months I have done the following

Quick Self adhesive drywall tape test

The pic below is what I was trying to go for (with regards to the meshed flooring). This is my attempt to get the same effect. As Daniel Grundy said in a comment before.

Cannal terrain progress pipes/sewer entrance

Using a Pill container to make a sewer entrance.I cut the lid and bottom of the container off and smoothed off any edges. I then used the Self adhesive dry wall tape to add the bars. I put drops of super glue to secure the mesh down.