[BFG] a BIG ELDAR project for the Gothiccomp !

[dicnar]

Hi. Just a teaser pic of a really big project i' ve been making for years. I finally menage to put it together and hope to finish scratchbuilding & painting to enter Gothicomp 2012.

[Stormwind]

Ooh colour me excited - I love the corsair Eldar models, and really hope to get some on eBay sometime, but warmaster comes first at the minute. = )

[phil-o-mat]

let me guess: the corsair in the front is NOT the project.

[Lex]

I thought I saw a pussycat.......

oops no. it isa craftworld !

[dicnar]

Yes and yes  Here's some more pics of the scrachbuild. It literary waited years while i collected various parts than can be used. When i saw few craftworld models, including the one in planet killer magazine i always thought they all looked to much like a submarine while I always imagined the craftworld to be like in John Blanches ilustration. More like a scrambled mess of shapes and structures. That makes it look more "alien" and not made by puny humans   So i tried to follow this theme also a list of "Eldar terrain tips"  by ironhands.com was very help full. I hope to finish just to enter Gothiccomp 2012 but it depends on few thing . I got to have instant mould  to duplicate some tiny cities for the details. If not there's always next year  . Oh, the craftworld suppose to be Iyanden, like my craftworld fleet, because I always wanted to re-create the battle with hive fleet kraken.

John Blanches ilustration.

[AndrewChristlieb]

When i saw few craftworld models, including the one in planet killer magazine i always thought they all looked to much like a submarine

lol every craftworld model ive seen has been built using the Seaquest model

[Lex]

That is an impressive array of waterpistols and other "kinky"stuff that you have brought together ! 

Are you going to "coat" the outerlayer in places to facilitate deltailing and painting  ??

[dicnar]

That is an impressive array of waterpistols and other "kinky"stuff that you have brought together ! 

Are you going to "coat" the outerlayer in places to facilitate deltailing and painting  ??

Hmm i don't know if I understand correctly but i say: Yes. I'm going to coat it, but nothing fancy just some spray paint under layer, the rest will be painted with airbrush, details will be painted by hand . But it's still a long way to first paint layer. Meanwhile some progress on the overall shape.








 

[Lex]

What I meant is that the plastic you used for various parts of the model is sometimes prone to resist painting, without preparing it.

I know for a fact that most spraypaint will have trouble creating a functional layer too, at least one which wont peel away.

[dicnar]

 Well i had this problem once with some proxy tyranid spores but when one spray failed the other one worked just fine. There's always acrylic paint and a brush if something would be really paint -repelant.

[harec]

 I may build also my own this winter, but It will be Saint-Han  .

I´m not sure if your were thinking in doing it but try to add towers and cities,

You just need evergreen sticks
 

[dicnar]

I may build also my own this winter, but It will be Saint-Han  .

I´m not sure if your were thinking in doing it but try to add towers and cities,

You just need evergreen sticks

Well actually I was thinking a lot about what to use as cities. I And I ended buying an OOP "Spacefleet" game for models that would be perfect for it. Also i have quite a collection of various eldarish bits, like cocktail glass markers that would be perfect for representing spires 

here's a pic of an old gothic cruiser with perfect city structure, not my pic.