Hobby: Eldar Support Platform

Happy to say that I've managed to finish my support platform and that means I've completed my first Troop choice!

I'll probably go on go paint up the next troops choice which is none other than the Dire Avengers, aspect warriors clad in blue.

Now, blue is a colour that I rarely paint as fantasy armies tend not to have that much blue. So it will be fun to paint a different colour. Unfortunately this means I'll need two pots of new paint.

Now this brings me to the hobby article. Games workshop paints have recently shifted to a more layered paint style. That means they now have more shades of colours for you, pretty much like the Vallejo paint systems where you have trillions of colours like the new retina screen displays. So you could find premixed tones of colour.

Kelvin, once pointed out that he will still stick to the old school way of mixing white to the original colour to create the highlight colour. I've recently enjoyed painting with the layered paints because its faster and more consistent to just plop paint from the paint pot, rather than mix them.

Having said that, it is expensive to own all the tones of colour (but I'm sure GW would like to differ on that thought), so my suggestion is to own two tones of colour and perhaps a shade or wash. You can create the final highlight from a drop of white to the lighter colour. This is good as you can also add more white to create a sharper highlight if the model has crisp sharp lines.

Anyhow, I post pics of my new paint job. The lighting is something I would like to work on as it's too harsh... But oh well...