After finishing the Qala Debdou project (Well, "finishing", you know... "finishing this stage of the Qala Debdou project". Or maybe "finishing the core stages of this stage of the project") I needed something really simple. Call it a palette cleanser, call it whatever. The simple pleasure of taking a single mini and painting it, from the beginning to the end. Start a project and closing it. So this was the perfect choice.
I had this Eldar Farseer for some quite long ago. It's the modern Eldrad Ulthran model, but I don't really have any plans of starting an Ulthwé army. However, I have this Biel Tan warrior, as white/green is a scheme I find pleasing, so I decided to go the same way with this one. Please let me introduce you Ellinderelion, Farseer of Biel Tan.
I made no conversion at all but just cutting the rear crest out. It was a little too much for me, and I think I've saved the poor guy a lot of neck pains.
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| What do you mean "over the top"? |
I couldn't just paint it plain white and green. This is undoubtly a singular character, and needed a little more ornament. I mean, it makes no sense to have such a mini with all those details and then painting the robes with plain colours. Not that I'm capable of doing complicated freehands, of course (besides, this was to have a relaxing experience!), so I made simple paterns with grey over white and white over green. Simple, but it adds something to the general impression.
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| Yes, of course I could have painted way more stuff there. I could, but I couldn't at the same time |
Of course I couldn't paint any metal on the mini, not even the bracelets, as it's all wraithbone. Maybe some golden colour would have looked nice (aesthetically speaking, just in chromatic terms), but it wouldn't have made sense. I tried to make a difference between white and bone, I hope it works.
As you can see I kept both the sword and the staff in bone colour. I didn't want the model to be a colour splash; less is more and keeping it sober was a conscious decision. A decision I immediately broke painting all those sprit stones! I didn't want to paint them all red, so I chose this RGB pattern. It adds some variety, I believe, and it still makes the model look decent, I hope.
Here you have my whole Eldar force:
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| Can this be the beginning of a Kill Team? |
I definitely have no plans of starting an Eldar army or whatever, but I enjoy these models, so I'm happy with these as they are. I don't see myself purchasing Guardians or anything else in the immediate future, so I'll just enjoy these.
This is it for today! I have another new project on the bench, but it still will take some time. I'll bring something however soon!
Cheers!
