[AToFG 2014] Eldar and Dark Eldar allies final picture

Here are the family portraits of the entirety of my painting for the Tale of Four Gamers 2014 Painting Challenge:

[AToFG 2014] December painting Eldar Revenant Titan from Forge World

Here is my final set for the Tale of Four Gamers 2014 Painting Challenge:

The Eldar Revenant Titan from Forge World.

This was by far my most difficult mini to model and paint and I learned a lot. I would still like to tweek some details but the point of this painting challenge is to finish projects!!

November painting update: Epic Armageddon

For the month of November, I am taking a break from the Eldar Revenant Titan, for which all the airbrush work is basically done, to finish painting my Epic Space Wolf army. This army was started at least 10 years ago and I am finally getting around to finishing it thanks for the Epic Day. This is a fan held event in France which is taking place on Dec 6th. The idea is to play Epic with some special scenarios during that day. More information (in French) here.

As you can see, the change in scale is rather drastic and is also quite refreshing...

[AToFG 2014] October painting Eldar Wraightknight

After a joker used for September, here is my set for the month of October: the Eldar Wraightknight with most options magnetized. Sorry for the badly lit pictures.

Now there is 'just' one more model to finish this challenge...

[AToFG 2014] August painting Dark Eldar Wyches

Here is my set for the month of August in the Tale of Four Gamers painting challenge:
10 Dark Eldar Wyches

[AToFG 2014] July Painting Eldar and Dark Eldar Special Characters

Here are my four minis for the month of July:

-A special Eldar Ranger character
-An Eldar Spirite
-Ilic Nightspear
-A Dark Eldar Archon

Three more sets to go! (but not the smallest...)

[AToFG 2014] June Painting Eldar Wave Serpent and family portrait

Here is my June painting: an Eldar Wave Serpent sitting in my to-paint list since 2004. This is one of the great things with these painting challenges, it makes you finish your projects!!!

And here is the traditional family portrait after 6 months of painting challenge:

[AToFG 2014] May painting Eldar Hemlock Wraightfighter

Here was my painting set for the month of May: an Eldar Wraightfighter (beautiful model, even though it is seldom seen on the gaming tables at my club)

[AToFG 2014] April painting Forge World Eldar Avatar

Here is my set for the month of April: The Forge World Eldar Avatar

[AToFG 2014] March Painting Eldar Dire Avenger squad

Here is my March painting set for the Tale of Four Gamers Painting challenge : 

A squad of Eldar Dire Avengers with Exarch for 40K

[AtoFG 2014] February painting Eldar War Walker

Here is my February work for the Tale of Four Gamers Painting challenge. This is my smaller set of the challenge:

-set 9 : 1 Eldar Warwalker

[AToFG 2014] January painting Eldar Guardians unit

Here is my January work for the Tale of Four Gamers Painting challenge:

-Squad of 10 Eldar Guardians with Heavy weapon

[AToFG 2014] Test model

Here is the test model (2nd attempt). I like the flashy colors but painting yellow is rough. It is going to be a long year...

Working on the Eldar Revenant Titan

The big beast first got a nice warm bath with soapy water :

After a LOT of pinning, glueing, dry testing and great stuffing gaps, the model is ready to be undercoated white :

 I used magnets at the elbow joints and  in the canons for ease of painting and transportation:

A Tale of Four Gamers New Season : Eldar with Dark Eldar Allies 40K (Eldar Revenant Titan included!)

With this new year, I am starting a new Tale of Four Gamer challenge.

This time I will be painting an Eldar army with Dark Eldar allies. I purchased the models for this challenge between 2004 and 2013 and it is time they get some paint.

Here are the different sets for this challenge:

-set 1 : Squad of 10 guardians with heavy weapon
-set 2 : Squad of 10 dire avengers with exarch
-set 3 : Wave Serpent
-set 4 : Squad of 10 wyches with hekatrix (Dark eldar allies)
-set 5 : Hemlock wraith fighter
-set 6 : Wraightknight
-set 7 : Forge World Avatar with spear
-set 8 : Characters : 1 Spirit, 1 Ilic NightSpear, 1 special character Ranger, 1 Dark Eldar Dreadlord
-set 9 : 1 Eldar Warwalker
-set 10 : Forge World Eldar Revenant Titan

It is going to be a rough year!

Tutorial: Spring Bases

And here is the tutorial for the bases of my Spring themed Circle Orboros army.

The steps and material are the same as the tutorial for the Winter Bases that can be found here all the way through the Third Step included:

http://harald85hobbyblog.blogspot.fr/2013/08/tutorial-winter-bases.html

The only minor difference is that for the spring themed bases, I try to use a larger branch that I glue vertically to serve as a trunk for a bush:

This is what the base looks like without the rocks drybrushed:

•  Material needed for spring additions: 
• GW Static grass
• GF9 Clump foliage with a variety of greens
• Tuft flower beds from Army Painter 
• Tuft grass deep green from Army Painter

 
Here is a closer look at what the Army Painter tuft products look like. You can pluck them with tweezers and apply the plucked tuft with superglue:

• Fourth Step: Glue the static grass with the PVA glue. This serves as a base and gives an impression of generous grass and plants.

• Fifth and final step: Superglue clump foliage to the trunk, the branches. Then add the tuft tall grass and the flowers. Here are some pictures of the final result: 

Tutorial: Winter bases

Following a request from my gaming group, here is a tutorial for the winter bases I used in my Circle Orboros Winter themed army.

• Materials for base without the snow: First I use actual branches: 

Fish tank rocks: 

GW sand mix: 

And Hirst Arts blocks (not indispensable but looks cool): 

• First Step: I use PVA glue to glue the rocks, branches, broken blocks and sand: 

• Second Step: Once the PVA is dryed, I use superglue to fasten the rocks, branches and blocks a little better. Once the superglue is dry I wash the entire base with watered down PVA glue. This helps the sand stick a lot better. 

• Third Step: First I apply some watered down Games Workshop Scorched Brown paint on the sand and paint the branches in GW Scorched Brown: 

Once dry, I drybrush the branches with GW Bestial Brown and GW Dry Tyrant Skull (I highly recommend the GW Dry compounds for clean drybrushing). Finally I wash the branches with GW Badab Black and Devlan Mud.

The rocks are then painted in GW Foundation Adeptus Battlegrey, then drybrushed in GW Codex Grey and GW Skull White. 

• Material for snow effect: Here is what I used to create the snow effect: 
• White acrylic paint
• PVA glue
• Modeling snow

• Fourth Step: Create a paste with snow, PVA glue, acrylic paint and water with the consistency of toothpaste: 

Then apply this paste to the base and sprinkle with modeling snow before it dries. Let it dry fully before tapping off the excess snow:

Here is the final result: