Well, all I can say is that the 20 hours really does show, it's a terrific model! guardian too

I decided to give my squadleader a more badass looking weapon.
Now I like the model much better, will paint him soon.
Very Samurai like, but I think it fits.



In our campaign I field him as a striking scorpion exarch, so I'll use the rules for the biting blade used two-handed.

This is awesome. Hell, I might play Eldar if I had cool models that that.

Glad you like em.

It was an easy conversion using parts from the storm guardian box plus some wire and putty.

The versatility of the plastic guardian models is amazing, the hands and limbs can easily be repositioned, backpacks and weapons modified etc!
Get some plasticcard, modelling putty and a sharp knife and start converting!

Eldar don't have to look like fairies, they have as much badass potential as space marines!

Cheers
Bernhard

Did some more painting...

behold my wraithguard!!


I feel that this model would look much better with some runes or ornaments of some sort on his head and the cloth, but I'm not good at making up such things.

I have also finished another guardian and am currently painting the first of my converted models, the banshee aspirant. At this pace I'll have a fully painted squad in three or four month

Excellent model - with great painting - the gems all catch the same light (something I always forget about). A single rune ont he forehead of the wratihguard is all that is needed to set it off - it could then be the squad symbol/rune.

Worth the effort I think

Cheers Laney

My daughter JUST asked me to close my mouth.

AMAZING! Great GEMS! You are The Man of the hour! Remember to base it... WOW!!!! Great guy!!! Even for Eldar! hehehe...

GREAT LOOKING MINI! The bone effect, jewels, everything done to PERFECTION!

Also remember to not base it on that base. You need the next bigger base because wraithguard are considered Large.

Dysturbed: LOL! You are RIGHT! I'm such a dork...

Citizen_Khaine: May I suggest a removable base if you also have a 40k army?

Thank you all for the comments!

I will consider a rune for his head, but first I want to paint all the rest of my models!

I'm having mixed feelings about the gems on the wraithguard.
Initially, I wanted to paint the gems a very pale yellow, because I thought it would blend better with the bone colour.
I tried it for two hours on a test model and could not achieve the tone I wanted to have, so in the end I did them in red.
When I finished it, my thoughts were that I completely botched up the undead look of the model. Too much blingbling for a ghost warrior!

But I'm getting used to the look of it now, it is contrastful and matches the colourscheme of the rest. And I primed it yesterday anyway.

About the base:
I will do the bases all at once, when I painted some more models, sand and maybe some static grass, just the essentials.
I'm not a fan of adding tons of stuff to bases (my personal taste), sometimes it looks good, sometimes it doesn't.

I don't plan to give this guy a larger base, see no sense in it, to be honest. Sure, rulewise it's a large model, but that's represented by it's height.
For the game mechanics a larger base hardly ever makes a difference. Sometimes you could maybe move the model where it could not be moved with a larger base, but I won't take advantage of that.

Maybe I'll add a removable plasticard circle under it's base at some point just for the few occations where it matters.

Cheers
Bernhard

The removable base idea is a good one (maybe magnetised if you get the time). On the gems - I personally think they are perfect because they tie in to the rest of your squad so well - however for an 'undead' look did you consider green gems (with a gentle touch of OSL on key spots) to create an undead feel. Plus, if you felt really creative you could paint a pale eldar face within the rune to represent the soul of the eldar (just an idea )

Cool eldar - who'd have thought it!

I have considered green gems, tried some on the test model, but I had only light greens at my hands (scorpion green and snot green) , so I decided against it.

What's OSL btw?

Cool idea about the eldar face in a rune, but I'm not very good at painting such details, maybe I'll try something like this later.
Right now my aim is to get my squad finished. When I've done that, there's my lunar wolves project waiting!

OSL stands for object source lighting. In other words adding the glow from something to the surroundings - for example the glow of a fire brand onto the clothes of the character wearing it.

I've done one or two semi successful efforts - and I plan to do more in the future.

Dysturbed>> Very OT now, but your new DS banner is f**king awesome!!!