Monthly Vow: April

Pledge what you plan to achieve below and your achievement shall be forever immortalised in TDC's patent pending, Commorragh purple! (TM)

Also dont forget that you can earn 3 points from completing your vow for the Slave Games

Spellcheck:- KOW skeletons & Zombies. Convert Branchwych
Count Adhemar:- Visarch & Yvraine
Marrath:- 7 Scourges
Anarchistscourge:- venom, 3 reavers, Autarch and 10 kabalites.
Zektabi:- Raider & 2 venoms

Well let's get to this ball rolling. I pledge to paint my zombie and skeleton horde bases for KOW, finish converting my Branchwych for my bog Sylvaneth and finish the weapon swaps on my 8 space wolf grey slayers

I'm going to do the Visarch and Yvraine, as I completely failed to do so last month.

Me too, finish painting 7 Scourges

For some reason I'm absolutely all over the place with the Visarch. I'm painting stuff in the wrong order, changing my mind over colours and generally making hard work of it. I've changed my mind/screwed up the painting of his sword so much that I'm going to have to strip it and start again! Fortunately it's not glued on yet!

For me i'm planning on getting my ynnari done for the first 500pt stage of an escalation. So it will be a venom, 3 reavers, Autarch and hopefully 10 kabalites.
However i may segway and get my 3 grotesques painted that were converted from ogryns as i love them. Also vow to get pictures up on my brand new project log

Paint second raider to completion and start both venoms

Visarch finally done. Although when uploading the pictures I noticed a splodge of red paint on the armour so that will need touching up.

Yvraine is coming along nicely and should be finished shortly. Quick WIP of her faithful Gyrinx, Cringer aka Battlekitten.

How have I missed this?

Your Visarch looks amazing Count it'll come as no surprise I'm sure, but I adore the bone coloured armour. It works really nicely with the rich purple and electric blue as well.

Thank you! I like the official red colour scheme but as a collector of KDK and Blood Angels, as well as Skorne (for Hordes) I just couldn't face painting another red army!

So my April vow is coming along quite well, i only have my venom left to finish (currently based incubi darkness). I also did actually finish of my grotesques all of which can be seen in my project log.

Count Adhemar wrote:

Visarch finally done. Although when uploading the pictures I noticed a splodge of red paint on the armour so that will need touching up.

Wow, I love this color scheme! It looks so noble.

Count Adhemar wrote:

Thank you! I like the official red colour scheme but as a collector of KDK and Blood Angels, as well as Skorne (for Hordes) I just couldn't face painting another red army!

Hah, that makes a lot of sense I'm kinda looking forward to painting my Croneworlders as a bit of a break from the earth tones, red and gold that I do everything in...

Plus, I always thought that red was a little odd of a colour to paint an Eldar Death Cult it. Doesn't seem to fit. I know some cultures associate different colours with death than us westerners (Japan and white is the prime example), but I can't even find a particular reference to red being associated with death ~(or even rebirth) anywhere in the Eldar background. It just seems to me that they just thought 'yeah, red's a neat colour' and did that. It's about as imaginative as 'The Shrine of the Scarlet Incubi'.

Sometimes I wish I could score a job as an Eldar fluff/imagination consultant...

Bog sylvaneth dryads complete. check out my log in distractions for more pics

I failed.
Again.
I blame work and the thrice damned Scourge bat-wings.
Redid them twice, now each looks different, still not sure what to do with them...

Just managed to get my vow done, which is the majority of my 500pt force in my project log.
Here are the latest addition, my 15 year old kabalites

Yvraine done!

Nice! I like how you've painted her skin tone as if it's glowing with the same energy as the Yncarne nice touch

Yeah, I really like the skin tone, and the paint job overall is top notch. Really nice shading on the dress. Also, I didn't mention it before, but I thought your Visarch paintjob was amazing. I really like the bone armour look!

I do have 1 small criticism though. Nothing to do with your actual paintjob, but for some reason that sash Yvraine is wearing just seems a bit flat. I can tell you've shaded it, and so it isn't a problem of technique. I think that it's the colour itself sort of not jiving well with the purple of the dress.

I noticed that it appears to be the same red colour you used on the visarch's midsection, where it works well and looks good because it contrasts well with white, but against the purple backdrop it looks much more dull.

It still looks good. If it were me, I'd probably just try to make the red a bit more vibrant. But if it were me, my model would either still be unpainted, or look like crap because I'm an awful painter, so you win there!

Count, now they both look great! My fave has to be yvraine. Love the trailing dress