"Once it's painted, it'll always be painted," is one of those lovely understated bits of common sense that make your videos a joy to watch (and I actually do learn things from them too as someone who is not a beginner painter). Thanks mate!
When I ran out of Contrast primer I tried AP skeleton bone Primer for a unit of guardsmen. Worked like a charm with Contrast. Seema like you are getting a smoth finish with that as well.
That’s a cracking model and paint job. Really striking colours, great effect. I could imagine using this guy as a captain or second mate in Stargrave or similar.
Fantastic teaching video. Thanks so much! I am not about to start an eldar army but I have a few laying around and this has inspired me to try painting some.
these have always been SO daunting to me like i had written off playing eldar because of how scary one would be to paint but as usual you did it fantastically! i now have 80 imperial guard fully painted just waiting to be sprayed with varnish and based and then ill do 20 more and have 100 !!!! i am so proud of myself its taken months but im so happy! woohooo! i owe it to you! thank you so much sonic!
As others have said, it's a daunting miniature and a difficult faction to paint - but you made it look easy (even though we know it wasn't!) Has encouraged me to take a stab at painting a complex character just for fun sometime, just to brighten up my own hobby shelf
Hi Sonic. Just got myself the new Aeldari Guardians set to go along with the Craftworlds set. A good tip for the jewels, is to base them with a gold paint. Then hit the jewel stone with some silver or leadbelcher,and then add your chosen colour. It really makes it pop. Contrast colours look great on top of the silver based jewels. Try it out on a test model. Let me know what you think. Kindest regards Ian
That is a surprisingly good-looking miniature (and the "surprisingly" has much more to do with my personal taste, and not a ding to your skill ;) ), well done! You're almost tempting me to consider picking up some (this one and some more) for perhaps Stargrave...
The Eldar are certainly a range which would fit the 'elegant, mysterious alien' angle in Stargrave quite well, though I don't think I could bring myself to paint more of them straight away. 😂
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I mean, it'd have to be a medium-term project, at LEAST (and it's not as if I'm short on projects...). But the Farseer would certainly fit as a Mystic.
Thank you so, so much for this video, for the paint list, and especially the video-timestamp subdivisions (I do think the main one could be broken up further, if I may suggest - 2:11 - face; 3:22 - eyes; 3:54 - blade; 4:20 - inner robe; 4:53 - front garment; 5:53 - rear robe; 7:11 - black belts and pouches; 7:51 - gold details; 9:21 - tidying up with white; 9:32 - helmet again; 10:20 - Agrax earthshading; 10:54 - strap and pouch; 11:20 - shading pink robe; 11:51 - pink highlight; 12:31 - red highlight; 13:09 - orange highlight; 13:34 - gold highlight; 14:12 - gems; 14:42 - gem highlight; 15:26 - white gem sparkles; 16:03 - grey base; 16:19 - gold base). This is a gorgeous paint job.
The trouble with such specific timestamps is that adding them to the description takes up character space - including so many would leave me with little room to include the paints at all!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thank you for responding, I really appreciate it! :) In that case, I hope my comment also helps, because your paint job is amazing and more people deserve to benefit from it.
Such a great instructional video! Hearing the exasperation in your voice has convinced me that painting up some eldar with all their gems would be an absolutely terrible idea for me, no matter how great the models look 😄
Great tutorial ! Thank You for sharing ! Maybe now I can attempt to paint my " Monty Python Spanish Inquisition figures " 😣 Got them a few years back but was hesitant to build them because of the red/cardinal cloaks . Hope you have a great week. Cheers, Tony
The thing I find most daunting about Eldar is how their helms are often a starkly different colour from the rest of them...it’s such a hard contrast that it looks wrong to me somehow and I have no clue how to deal with that
you can make a video where you apply all basic colors, and then really brush the entire model with vallejo ivory dry, so you do not have to put edge accents with the brush. ps: with fabric you use this technique constantly, how dähre this technique times also on armored plates and other to apply ... ?
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio In my defense I just had kidney surgery and was still zooted out on pain killers, Wasn't enough Agrax though. Need that large tank brush dipped in the stuff.
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