Well, If I'm going to be using this with the Alaitoc list, then I'm going to need some Rangers. So here's either a Ranger Warhost and a War Walker Troupe, or two Ranger Warhosts with War Walkers:


I'm quite happy with these, especially the legs on the War Walkers.

Probably some Grav-tanks next, although I might get distracted and paint some Pathfinders, Striking Scorpions, or more Rangers instead.

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Hmm. I've just painted up three Fire Prisms and they're providing me with a bit of a puzzler. Unlike Forge World's resin grav-vehicles, which have a nice flat bottom to the crew compartment and sit nicely on the table, the metal grav-tanks from Citadel don't really have any flat surfaces on the underside. So I've got metal models that are all knobbly on the bottom, which means they are inevitably going to end up all scuffed and chipped.

One solution would be to put them on bases, but if I put the Fire Prisms and Night Spinners on bases then it's going to look odd if I don't put the other vehicles on them too (especially any Firestorms or Falcons that are in the same formation as the FPs). And I'm a bit reluctant to base all my grav-vehicles for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because I'm lazy, and basing up 48 vehicles strikes me as quite a lot of work (especially since I'm not 100% certain what's the best way to do it). And secondly because I don't have enough spare bases, so it would mean more expense, which I could really do without at the moment.

So I'm not sure what to do. Do I try doing some bases, or do I just accept that the bottoms of my Fire Prisms and Night Spinners are going to look a mess?

Actually, while typing this, another option occurred to me: varnish. So far I've been using Citadel's 'Purity Seal' satin spray varnish, which only offers fairly limited protection. But I could see about getting some tougher polyurethane varnish instead, which might be enough to protect the underside. Would still cost, but would at least be less trouble than basing nearly fifty vehicles.

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Great rangers and walkers!!

On the vehicles, well the traditional thing seems to be to base grav tanks, but if not - well you don't see the bottoms of them anyway I guess  

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I bought an extra set of FW Firestorms just so I could remove the turret and replace it with the turret from the Fire Prisms.

That way all of the grav tanks match!    ...sorta

Edit: And really kick-ass Walkers and Rangers!

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"You'll never understand how much watching other people's pain gets me off, hearing their screams and knowing that I have the power of a god." -Velvet Acid Christ

Of course, you'd still have variation between type one hulls on the Falcons and type two hulls with the fins at the back on the Firestorms and Fire Prisms. But they would be closer than otherwise. If money were no object, I might have done something similar, but that isn't the case, unfortunately.

Anyway, I now have a full Swords of Vaul troupe painted, plus a Firestom to swap in if required:


I painted the FPs in two lots of three, and half way through each batch I was feeling fairly disheartened and certain they were going to come out looking terrible, but in the end my fears were unfounded. They're still baseless for now; I'm going to try some hard acrylic varnish for the undersides and if that doesn't work then I'll probably try doing some bases.

I've also painted up another wave serpent to replace the one with the broken shield generator, but since it looks just the same as the others I didn't bother getting a photo.

Thanks everyone for all the complements so far. Coming next: Pathfinders.

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I don't know if you have this brand in the country you live, but in the US we have a brand of sealant called Krylon.

I picked some up from an arts and crafts store because it was cheap and I wanted something to protect my terrain.

First I used its gloss varnish and then used its matte varnish. Everything came out really well and a plus side to it is that normally matte varnish will dull and change the color of metallics, (I know you don't have any in the Eldar army you're doing now, but..) but with spraying them first in the gloss then the matte it protected the color from changing.

The sealant looks pretty heavy-duty (strong) so it could be what you're looking for in sealing the bottom of your Fire Prisms.

And nice work on the Swords of Vaul. Man you're really tearing through those Eldar!

I get my shipment of FW Eldar (and other stuff) on Monday. It feels like X-mas!!  

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"You'll never understand how much watching other people's pain gets me off, hearing their screams and knowing that I have the power of a god." -Velvet Acid Christ

I'll have to keep an eye out for this Krylon. For now I'm planning to try some stuff my father's got that he thinks would probably do the trick.

Meanwhile, here are some Pathfinders:


While I was doing the bases, I vaguely considered painting the models and base all the same, so they would look like they were really well camouflaged, but I decided against it. I also considered putting some splodges of green on the cloaks, but decided that at this scale it would be hard to get that to look good, so I didn't bother.


It's quite scary actually. If I keep it up at this rate, I'll have 4,000 points painted in about another two weeks.

It helps that I'm between jobs at the moment, so I have a lot more free time than usual. I'll slow down a lot once I start working again.

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Next up are some Night Spinners:


That's it for metal Grav-tanks for now. Next up will be some Striking Scorpions, then hopefully some (resin) Falcon Grav-tanks. But worryingly, my Falcons still haven't arrived from Forge World (they were out of stock when I ordered them). So if they don't show up soon, I'll have to do some nightwings instead. But unless they show up fairly soon it's going to be a real nuisance, as I had 4,000 points planned out to paint and it had 9 of them in it.


Are there any Falcons therein?

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There were Falcons in the order (3 packs) but they are on back-order, as well as a Vampire Hunter.  

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"You'll never understand how much watching other people's pain gets me off, hearing their screams and knowing that I have the power of a god." -Velvet Acid Christ

Last night I painted up these Striking Scorpions.


There are enough for a Troupe of six, with Exarch and Autarch as options that can be swapped in as needed. If they want transport, though, they'll have to work something out with the Dire Avengers, at least until I can paint a few more Wave Serpents.

Next up would have been some Falcons, but they're still on back order from Forge World. I'm considering cancelling the order and getting some of the metal ones from GW instead. They may not look quite as good, but they're not bad, less brittle (albeit more likely to chip), and would be likely to arrive while I've still got this momentum going. In the meantime, it'll probably be a squadron of Nightwings next.

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On to something the Eldar do rather well. Air superiority, as provided by a squadron of Nightwing interceptors:


These are lovely sculpts; I'm not certain I've done them justice, but they'll do. They might have benefited from slightly more thorough cleaning up around the edges before I started to paint them (these are Forge World models, after all), but I guess it's too late to worry about that now.

I spoke to Forge World about the back-ordered Falcons, and it sounds like there's a good chance they'll be here within the next couple of weeks, so I've decided not to cancel the order just yet. Aside from being slightly nicer models, there's also the fact that, including postage, 15 FW falcons come to £38.36, whereas for the same money I could only get 9 from GW (£33.40 incl. postage, and £37.40 if I want them to get here in any reasonable time). If they're not here by the end of February, I will have to think again.

Which means that I don't have much left to paint that's actually here from the 4,000 points I had planned. Four more rangers today, then Revenants on Friday.

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Nice work all around.  I really like the color scheme.

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Painted the rest of my Rangers on Thursday, but since they're much the same as the others I won't bother taking a photo until they have some Falcons to ride in. Yesterday, meanwhile, I tackled the Revenant titans.

One of the units that attracted me to the Eldar army was the Revenant titan. Titans with jup packs just seemed to epitomise Eldar cheekiness. Plus the models are gorgeous. When painting an army it's always very tempting to rush in and paint the most exciting models â€â€

EDIT: The original version of this post got horribly mangled due to board glitches. It originally had this photo in it:

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Those are some sexy Revenants Axel! Wonderful paint job, simple, clean, and very effective.

I have a question concerning the toe of the Revenant. I don't have mine yet so I don't know how I'm going to attach it to a base.

I prefer to use the "flat titan bases" instead of the ones with the higher lip(40K style) like yours.

Do you think the Revenants can be pinned well enough through the foot so that I can secure it to a flat base?

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"You'll never understand how much watching other people's pain gets me off, hearing their screams and knowing that I have the power of a god." -Velvet Acid Christ

Getting a pin into the foot shouldn't be a problem. It's pretty narrow,but not so narrow that you couldn't get a piece of rod inside as long as you were careful.

Would you be burying the pin in some putty (presumably a hard one like Milliput) on the base if you took this approach? I can't see how it would work otherwise; there isn't enough of the base itself to sink a pin into. If so, you could just bury the plug (the one that's supposed to go into a hole in the top of the base) in putty instead. That said, adding a pin would probably be good for strengthening the joint anyway. I suspect it's only a matter of time before my titans fatigue and snap at the base, in which case I'll have to see about pinning them in place myself. Good though it may look, the point where the toe meets the base is a fairly obvious weak spot.


To be honest, all else being equal I think I do, too. If I'd been aware of the BotFA bases earlier, I might have tried to keep everything on 2mm-thick bases rather than having a mix of 2, 3 and 4mm (the ordinary 25mm 40k bases are 3mm thick, but the larger bases, like the ones that come with the Revenants, are 4). But by the time I'd realised I could get them, I already had 12 Jetbike stands glued onto 3mm-thick 40k bases with poly cement, and since getting them off again would have been a nightmare, I decided not to worry about it. And it did at least save me having to worry about getting the Revenants onto a thin titan base.

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