Each time I paint an army, I try and learn some new tricks that I can (hopefully) use later. The last army I painted was marines and I did a lot of weathering on the army. However, I don't believe that Dark Eldar should be weathered, they probably spend more time cleaning their armor, then they ever do fighting, and when they do appear, they come right out of the city to fight. It's like going to a party for them, and I'm sure they are going to want to be at their best.
So, this time I want to try and learn how to paint an army that usually takes me a year, in six months, because I would like to kick my tournament attendance to twice a year, as opposed to once a year. I'm looking at going to the GT in Dallas in April, or perhaps to the Kalm Before the Waaagh once it has a fixed date this year... and bringing the DE to one or both.
Now, to assist me, I will be picking a non complicted color scheme, and trying to work that color scheme up to a great level. My marines ended up being a split scheme, which is great, and unusual, but hard as hell to pull off.
So, first off, instead of doing a unit by unit as I did with my marines, I am doing the entire army as follows: Infantry, then Vehicles. About 50+ infantry at the moment, then focus on the 8 vehicles I want for my base army (5 raiders and 3 ravagers).
The infantry at this time are put together, based and base coated.
Step One: Over the next week I will pick a base color and use my airbrush to spray them that color.
Step Two: Go in with a darker wash and get in the recess of the armor of all the models.
Step Three: Highlight with straight Liche Purple (my base color is Liche purple and chaos black I think)
Step Three: Highlight with Liche Purple+ Something else... not sure what
Step Four: Highlight the very edges where armor meets with the second color
At this point I would figure that 60% of the model is finished. I'm not sure how I am going to handle the metal and other non purple parts, as I have not made a decision on any symbols etc.. on the army. I can tell you that I like the GW markings and intend on using those.
A few questions for anyone that reads this:
1. Do you think the Wytch Raiders would bear the symbol of their Wytch Cult? If so, would I then have an army of different marks, and would that take away from the army effect?
2. Are Incubi rather like Aspect Warriors, and the black with white helmets are their trademark look? If not, what if I painted them in inverse colors from the rest of the army. I haven't made a decision about my accent color yet, but they would be that color with purple as the accent color.
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I think the wytch raiders could potentially bear their own markings; In the book it talks about multiple kabals/cults banding together for a realspace raid. Also as an alternative you could use DE style runes and signify kabal raiders from wytch cult ones; maybe even have a diferent one on the heavy support ones. As far as your second question goes in the old style incubi they were described as always wearing black armor with white helmets regardless of kabal colors. With these new ones it makes no mention of it in the book and looking at some of the color schemes presented in the book I think they may have retconned the whole thing. Looking forward to seeing some new DE guys painted up on here.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mizzrym. I think I will stick to the old background, I rather like the idea that they are rather like aspect warriors with very certain ways of appearing. I'll also be putting different symbols on the models themselves. I have some photo's of the a Hekatrix through the process, I will try to throw one up this weekend.
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