Power from Paint: Seeing Red

Greetings Hobby Fans! Time for another thrilling installment in the Power from Paint series where I slooowly work my through some Dark Eldar Reinforcements.

I had grand plans for this article to show off some pictures from the Kill Team event I ran at our club's open gaming day this weekend, but all my snaps were rubbish! Everything I took was essentially in shadow which is fine if you are an actual Dark Eldar but a bit of let down if you want to see anything.

So lets talk hobby instead. I realised this evening that I don't think I'd shown any of my painted Dark Eldar for reference. Let's correct that:

Haemonculus; this guy was my Warlord for a long time!

So this is a fairly unusual colour palette for Dark Eldar; lots of brown, red and purple with bronze/copper metallics.

Kabalite Warriors from the Cult of the Sand Viper

I want my Reaver Jet Bikes to run a similar scheme. I've started with AP Wood Brown spray (as seen when playing with magnets last time):

Yep, that's brown.

And I've spent an hour or two slapping some base colour on:

Red ones go faster apparently

So a lovely dark red for the canopies (GW red gore), with a fairly splodgy edge highlight (Hot Orange?); the highlights look OK on the 3' rule so not too worried about those.

Also started working on the metallic colourings on the fins; (GW Warplock Bronze, then Hashut Copper, finally adding Chainmail highlights). Decided that the Copper was too close to the AP Brown, so I will be adding some red to the fins to break the blocks up.

 And of course this is batch painting, so I've been working on the whole dozen:

Happy with the progress!

I think I'll need to pick up the pace though; I've got a lot to paint before the Mayhem tournament.

Until next time!