With the next eldar codex being hopefully only 3-4 months away im going through the stuff i havent painted yet.
I used
kuler to tweak the base colours of iyanden scheme. I wanted yellow but not as much in the mid tones. I wanted a hint of orange or even a 'tau brown'
For this project i want to paint about 30 guardians, 3 warlocks, 3 heavy weapons platforms.
In the end i settled on VMC ochre brown as a good base colour. For darker panels id blend through to pure VMC german camo brown and fill recesses with combinations of VMC Burnt umber (and various amounts of chaos black).
Highlights would uniformly go to a desaturated yellow: VGC golden yellow (not a very rich yellow however it will work according to kuler and approximate matching of hex codes. Extreme highlights placed sparingly would be white.
The blue would be VGC ultramarine blue with a wash made from GW Kantor blue or possibly Drakenhof Nightshade (the asureman blue).
Other areas of the models would be VGC bonewhite with added german camo brown for shading.
Unlike my wraithguard foot list i have a goal to get 1000-1200 points painted by june. *not spend all year on a handful of models that kids keep picking up and dropping while i try to play a game*
So it was going to be tabletop quality most of the way through.
The guardians guns are just washed with 1 drop black + 3 drops Vallejo medium thinner + 1 drop water *im using this instead of the GW wash which has different qualities for blacklining.
To complement mostly guardians i did some of the old ranger/pathfinder models. I will probably tie them in closer to the iyanden scheme when iv'e done the rest of the guardians.
The warlock is a multi-army unit. I have my purple eldar favouring blue HQ's and characters. I want them to go with the iyanden too hopefully like blue jems in a see of orange/yellow/matte blue helmets.
The warlock has a higher paint job quality however i made a few mistakes because i was tired over the 3 painting sessions it took to complete. Most notable is the crystal spear which could have been done a bit neater. Then i flipping dropped it just after it was painted and had to rescue the tip which was going to peel.
So far i have done a few things that tie into the army theme:
10 guardians (current work)
2 warlocks (half finished)
6 pathfinders (finished in january)
3 warwalkers (test run colour scheme nov last year)
10 striking scorpions (brown scheme done last year)
Next target will be swooping hawks, support weapons platforms, warp hunter and extra falcon i have lying around. The idea is to have enough core stuff so i can swap in/out aspects warriors and stuff and try a lot more combos with the new codex when it arrives.
Stay tuned.