Eldar Progress Guardians Heavy Weapons

Guardian Heavy Weapons

OK sorry for the poor pic.  My SD card for my DSLR is not reading in my computer I have ordered a replacement well a couple for/when this happens again I will have a back up.

Anyways I finished these yesterday and wanted to put up some pics of them.  I am currently working on the Guardians somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 of them to finish up I only have a few more steps left to go I hope to have them done on Saturday so I can pick up the next batch from my friend.

I thought doing the gems would drive me nuts but their is a rhythm to it that works out OK.  Mostly its having the right brush for the color that your putting down.  Some are better than others these look pretty good IMO for a table top quality.  Yellow is a pain in the ass to work with I had to put down multiple coats to get coverage and now it is looking a little thick. 

In future updates I plan to switch to putting down Iyandan yellow or another high density color before going to yellow I hope that will help it look nicer.

More pics to follow in the next couple of days.

Imperial Guard Missile Launchers and Heavy Bolters Completed

 

9 Missile Launcher Teams

9 Heavy Bolter Teams

WOW! this is awesome I have completed my latest painting goal it was rough towards the end I'm tierd of painting these guys but I managed to paint all 60 heave weapon teams in the last week.  I am pretty proude of the progress I made as this army has been sitting on shelves for well over a year thant I put it away to drag my Space Marine army out so I could paint that I got as far as my Assault Marines being painted and a few others but they are now collecting dust and not being painted.

So counting these guys as 3 models per base as 2 guys and 1 gun that brings the tally up to about 435 models in about a Month.  I probably have annother hundred or so various infantry like Karskin, Battle Psykers, misc command elements.  Than I have the vehicles...  But before I do that I have my friends Eldar army to paint I will start with his Guardians he was happy with the test batch so will be moving on to the rest of them.

Until the next update which will be showing even more guardains that get painted up.  I might do a few pics of all the IG infantry first though *shrug* who knows.  I might even do a video of it.

Imperial Guard Mortar Teams Metal Cadians

10 Mortar Teams

Very surprisingly I was able to get these all painted up yesterday stained and based even.  I was expecting this to take at least 2 days to get done but I am pretty happy that only leaves the Missile Launcher teams and the Heavy Bolters teams to finish up and my Heavy Weapons teams will be done.  I'm going to try and finish those up by end of day tomorrow so we shall see.

I did get a cheap notebook from best buy going to go bick it in about half an hour so looking forward to that.  I will beable to have my Cannon Camera mobile if everything works out as planned.

Imperial Guard Auto Cannon Teams (Painted)

 

Imperial Guard 16 Auto Cannon Teams

Well earlier this week I had a slow start but still managed to get these guys done I hope to start on my Mortar Teams tonight.  I only have 10 of them which is still 30 models.  So just past the half way point on the heavy weapons teams 32 of 60 painted. 

 

Once I am done with my heavy weapon teams I will either start painting on my friends Eldar army or start working on the tanks I have.  Before I do that though I might paint up my Commissar's I plan to use them to push my painting up a notch and do some black lining on them.  We will see.

 

 

Until later in the week when I have the Mortar teams done.

 

 



 

A Slow Couple of Days

 

 



So I have had a slow couple of days I did get started on the Auto Cannon teams and for see finishing them tomorrow.  I've had some trouble sleeping the last couple of days so haven't been painting before work I hope to get back into the swing of things tomorrow as I will be going to bed soon. 
I think all I have left to do on the Auto-Cannon teams is to paint the black, touch up the green, paint the helmets, apply wash and base.  

Oh the above pic is something my friend was showing me in photoshop and illustrator what he showed me so far has helped me a lot on the quality of my picture taking.  I plan on doing a video of my IG soon but I think I will hold off until I get the HWT's finished so might be a week or two.  Also I need to put my DVD player back in my computer so I can have a CD player to install the video editing software.

The first 10 of 95 Guardians

 

The test models.

Here are the first 10 guardians.  I started painting sometime after 11am today and its now 5:30pm so I figure I probably spent 3 and half hours to 4 hours on them.

Step 1: paint the weapons and face mask Ivory

Step 2: pain the helmets ivory/yellow 50/50

Step 3: paint all the gems black

Step 4: was the mini in a strong shade

Step 5: paint the red for the gems and eyes

Step 6: paint the tops of the gems ivory (could of used white but didn't blend as well and another color to have out)

Step 7: paint the bases a slate grey

Step 8: paint the ring of the base black

Step 9: base the minis in a snow mixture of glue and snow top off with some dry snow to give that fresh snow feeling.

only 85 guardians (including guns to go). 

I'm done with this project for the rest of the week unless my friend comes over and lets me know to proceed or not.  I will continue on the Heavy Weapon teams tomorrow.

Las Cannon Teams & Eldar Commission

16 Metal Cadian Las Cannon Teams

So the first of my Heavy Weapon teams are now done.  These are 16 Las Cannon Teams If you look on the left side of the pic you will see that thier are 4 guys just standing thier unfourtuantly these are stand in (no pun intended) for when I can get some more of the approprate guys for this army.  I will start working on the auto cannon teams next however I did start a commision project of panting my friends eldar army for him to a table top quality. 

 

 

10 Eldar Guardains as recieved.



 

Here is a copy of the list of models that I will be painting with a few notes on them.

 

2 Falcons, off bases, primed and base coated blue
1 Wave Serpent, primed and base coated blue
3 Wave Serpents, painted a red scheme in need of repainting to Iyanden
3 Vipers - primed, in need of some assembly
2 War walkers base coated blue
4 War Walkers, 3 painted in wrong scheme, one primed, all in need of some assembly
4 Wraith Lords, 2 Primed, 2 painted wrong scheme
2 fire prism kits, unbuilt on sprue
6 Artillery platforms , 3 Dcannon, 3 Nightspinner
Jet bike seer council of 7, needs considerable cleanup by me
7 jet bikes primed
6 jet bikes base coated blue and some paint in scheme
5 bright lances, primed, in need of some assebly (bases are done)
20 Harliqin, including various characters (new sculpts)
All of the various aspect Princes primed save Mugen Ra who is painted
Avatar , primed
Autarch w/power weapon and wings, primed in need of some assembly
Eldrad, primed
Prince Yriel, primed
12 primed swooping hawks, including exarchs
5 bare metal swooping hawks
50 Guardians primed blue
29 guardians primed either black or painted the wrong colors and needing to be redone
20 Dire Avengers, stripped, not primed, needing some assembly
2 Dire Avenger exarchs
26 Howling Banshee's including exarchs, primed, in need of some assembly
15 Reapers w/exarchs, primed
12 Warlocks/Farseers - 6 primed, 6 bare metal, some assembly needed
6 Warp Spyders (2 are exarchs), stripped
8 Guardian platforms, primed

Already Painted Models

Mugen Ra
11 Guardians
Warlock
17 Striking Scorpions (3 are exarchs)
7 Dire Avengers (2 are exarchs)
12 Warp Spyders (2 are exarchs)
5 Pathfinders
12 Fire Dragons (2 are exarchs)

 

 

So as you can see from the list it is extensive I will do the guardians first including the weapon platforms so on the initial check I have about 95 of them.  I am hopeing to get these done fairly quickly I think the next thing should be the jet bikes.  Or we will see what happens. 

I will do up 10 as a test to see how they look.  If that doesnt take too long today I think I will start on the Auto-Cannon teams.