Xenith's Xenos - Harlequins!

[Xenith]

 

2023 goals!

On 1/9/2023 at 11:21 AM, Xenith said:

130pts - 10 metal rogue trader Dire Avengers - Avengers have been the star of every gae I've played, and are a bargain at 130pts for 10. I want at least another 2 units. 

130pts - 10 plastic dire avengers. 

200pts - 5x Wraithguard with D-Cannons - as I don't have any at all

100pts - 1x Wraithlord - I dont have a painted one. 

110pts - 2x Warwalkers to give me a full unit

280pts - The Avatar - this guy can't sit in a box for another year...

76pts - 4 more rogue trader Striking Scorpions to finish the unit

+1x Spiritseer

 

33 models and 1026pts total. 

 

I failed miserably to get many eldar painted. As expected, preparing for a 30k event in may took up the start of my year, and then Leviathan got in the way over the summer so I didn't get much done on the old Eldar - aside from the Wraithguard. Their reputation in 10th also didn't enthuse me about building and playing with them, so 10th has been tyranids only for me so far! These items will remain on my 2024 to do list, maybe minus the war walkers as they cannot be taken in units of 3 now...

 

Edited January 4, 2024 by Xenith

[Xenith]

Welp, been a while, but I've pulled the trigger and ordered the Eldar Codex and some dice - I love army dice anyway, but with these being bright orange, they match my Eldar perfectly, so it was hard to resist.

 

I'm a bit down on nids at the moment despite being...ok...but the army seems pretty one dimensional - it's ok if you're playing in tournaments and have 3 exocrines and 80 - 120 gaunts, but for the average player, the units still seem lacklustre, very much if my opponent can kill me, they win, if they can't I win, as opposed to actually doing a lot of damage. Maybe I just need to play more! 

[ZeroWolf]

To be fair, I completely understand that with nids. There's fun to be had but only if you do it in limited ways. I've only played a handful of games with mine and it wasn't fantastic (then GW lowered the points and I no longer had a 1000pts). Still love them but in battles now, it's Necrons or my UM

[Xenith]

Enthused by the new Eldar codex, I've painted up another harlequin to go with the two I have:

 

The top one was primed white with red contrast used to make the diamond pattern. The blue/purple one and the green/yellow were done years ago as trial schemes - I almost painted them all in the green/yellow scheme. 

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Those checked patterns are not easy ...

[ZeroWolf]

Superb work, especially on the checkers! 

[Xenith]

Thanks both! The checks on the blue one were done with thinned black paint, while the yellow and the red one were using a micron pen, so a little cheating, but worth it in the end for the relative ease of doing so! 

[ZeroWolf]

12 hours ago, Xenith said:

Thanks both! The checks on the blue one were done with thinned black paint, while the yellow and the red one were using a micron pen, so a little cheating, but worth it in the end for the relative ease of doing so! 

Think smarter not harder works 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Cheating is paying someone to paint it and passing it off as your own.  Using a better suited tool is most definitely not cheating. 

 

BTW, I'm surprised you used contrast for some of them - I would have thought a very runny pigment would be very difficult for precise work like this, where you most definitely want the paint to stay in one precise place.

[Firedrake Cordova]

15 hours ago, Dr_Ruminahui said:

I would have thought a very runny pigment would be very difficult for precise work like this, where you most definitely want the paint to stay in one precise place.

Contrast paints are highly pigmented and flow off the brush easily. As long as you don't have too much on the brush, you can control it pretty well (like the old inks from the 1990s).