Week 1 update

Update time!

Well this week I have started on 2 units and got 1 transport finished.

Of the units I started I have begun to paint a 10 man unit of Dire Avengers and a 7 man Shadow Specters squad (including Phoenix Lord).

The Specters I always imagined being ghostly in appearance and floating menacingly around the battlefield.  The old GW LOTR army of the dead always came into mind, so I set out to make them appear as ghostly illusions.

This is pretty much the second coat of paint they had had, base-coated gray then heavily washed with black and then green washes.

Next up with these guys I think is to bring out the detail with some nice contrasting colours.

(At the time of the photo I was still applying the green wash to the weapons)

All my Eldar will be using snow themed bases which at the moment is a mix of the citadel texture paint and woodland scenics soft flake snow.

Which i am quite happy with for now.

The dire avengers still need a lot of work, but I manged to get the main amour colour to the tone I wanted and started on the helmets and crests.

I cant remember what colour blue was used to base coat these as it was so long ago, but it has been toned down with 2-3 blue washes which i think after highlighting will look very dark and almost sinister, compared to the normally brighter blue Avengers, which fits in with the feel I am trying to get across with my Altansar army.

Now for the wave serpent, this is the first of three transports for my army.  I was stuck for a while deciding which craftworld it would be painted up for.  The aspect warriors and wraith units are from my Altansar, with the tanks, bikers war walkers etc being from my Saim Hann.

In the end i decided on a compromise, the deep red of Altansar with the black marking from the Saim Hann.

As you can see the pictures are getting better as I get sued to this whole blog thing, stay tuned for the next update, and the next 40k fight club!