Hi!
I had hoped to be able to show my first completed Deathworld palm trees today but they are taking a lot longer to dry than expected (I suspect I added a bit too much water first to the glue and then the paint like a noob). Instead I thought I'd post up a few inspirational old school Eldar photos that I've found whilst perusing the interwebs.
First up, there's some classic Eldar armies from 1st/2nd edition from the pages of White Dwarf:
I suspect that folks love Eldar because you can really go to town with colour choices though...
Next up, there's the army centre pieces, the Dreadnoughts and War Walkers:
I love the dark blue and white combination but shudder to think about how to get such a smooth finish but the contrasting colours look fantastic, especially with the many sigils and runes!
Aspect Warriors! I love the darker finish on some of these chaps as it gives them a more aggressive, sinister look to them which is rather different from the more usual dayglow style of Aspect Warriors.
As with my other 40k stuff, I plan on shoehorning everything into my own version of The Imperium and having perused one or two other rulesets over the last couple of days, I have loads of ideas on how I can put together some interesting warbands so I'll need to see how I get on with this first batch and flesh out my existing stuff as I'm painfully aware that I've got lots of odd figures but nothing much to mesh them together into cohesive forces yet.
As it's just been announced that the lockdown is going to be running until at least mid February, I suspect I'll have a bit of time to get on to bulking out forces a bit but in the meantime, All the best!
Fantastic pictures! I too remember being blown away by those in the 90s. I love how small the armies are, too. I still think that the metal eldar were some of the best they ever made. Sadly I gave mine away, but I've still got the dreadnoughts. I'll have to give them another go...
ReplyDeleteThere's something really pleasing about those old paint schemes. Despite them not being as technically done with all manner of modern techniques or airbrushing, they really shine.
DeleteYou are pushing the rogue trader eldar pirates I base coated and haven't touched since further up the project list with each post...
ReplyDeleteMwa ha ha! So many tempting projects! I seem to keep going off on a fresh tangent which is keeping me entertained but never making much progress with any specific project.
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