Epic - Overgrown City

Been re-playing 'The Last of Us' recently, which has some beautifully realised post-apocalyptic near-future overgrown city settings, combined with recently seeing this Epic Eldar diorama > http://www.coolminiornot.com/366389 and this 10mm Dropzone commander board > http://i.imgur.com/GF5WQ.jpg
Has inspired me to have a bash at my own overgrown city board.

As usual my ambitions far outstretched both my abilities and my patience, but i think its a decent attempt, and I've left plenty of scope to improve and add more detail further down the line. (also, in the photos the paint is still wet and the water effects haven't set, but i was too impatient to shoot it)

During the process i took so snaps in a project log stylee, showing its initial design, then the addition of the details. I've made the trees removable to make it more gameplay friendly.

Also, there some glossy pics at the end depicting an imperial scout force seconds away from an eldar ambush among the ruins...

Eldar and Beaches

 A quick couple of snaps to show off the Eldar Warhost in its current painted form I've added;

Warp hunters, a Fire Prism, Dreadnoughts, Jet bikes and Viper jet bikes
on the painting table I've got the rest of my Spirit host, Scouts, Howling banshees, striking scorpions, dire avengers, fire dragons, warlocks, doom weavers and tempests and support weapons... so not much left to do!

I've kind of rush/half-arsed the painting recently and it shows, but its the only way i'll ever get through this pile of stuff and get my spare room back!

Also - completed some terrain pieces; Hills and a modular set of beach tiles

Anyhoo, here's the pics;

Eldar pose for photos as they secure the beach-head of the imperial city of Scarborough IV...

Space Crusade!

Not got any updates on painting - got a load of stuff on the bench in various stages, so will hopefully have something to show shortly!

In the meantime i've been distracted by board games...

had some friends over to play King of Tokyo and Forbidden island, and have been playing a bit of the Zombicide with my newly acquired Toxic City Mall expansion.

Also - just managed to tick something off my nostalgia bucket list and play Mission 1 from Space Crusade, not too shabby, although i got my ass kicked!

Arrghh! Dreadnaught!

Terrain, Basing and Imperial Guard

Hi,

Not painted much since the Phantom Titan, (finished, based photo below)

toying with a test pattern for my Imperial Guard - going with a Tallarn/Modern warfare desert look, think it will contrast well with the bright blues, yellows and greens of the other armies - only issue is they might be too hard to spot on my desert tiles!

Also, been making some terrain for Recycled bits - including Pizza bases, chocolate boxes, ink cartridges, polyfiller and some plastic plants things i picked up from a fake grass seat at a music festival (always on the hunt for bitz!)

Going to finish the big pieces off as an intact(!) research/science campus and the other one will be some sort of civilian space port. I've left enough room to maneuver between the buildings so should make for decent objectives/cover.

As for the craters, i'm pretty chuffed with them - probably about 10 minutes work each (excluding drying/setting time) so will definitely do more!

Epic Eldar Update 3

I'm in too deep!

Accidentally ended up with an absolute tonne of Eldar stuff, so now this portion of the project - which was to provide a small opposing force to fight against my Imperial chaps has now became a full blown craft world, that will probably be on equal points value with everything else combined!

Anyhoo, in light of this i'm going to try and step up the painting a bit, hopefully not at the sacrifice of quality, but who knows.

Completed the Phantom Titan (aside from basing) and a couple of units of aspect warriors, starting with the Swooping Hawks and the Dark Reapers.

Apologies for the lighting in the pictures - might need to invest in a light box or something, as almost all my painting/photography takes place at night.

Next up, jet bikes, lots of jet bikes...

Epic Eldar Update 2

I've managed to Source a load of old school tanks (Wave Serpents, Doom Weavers, Warp Hunters etc...) from the TacCmd Forums, so that has spurred me on to get the basic units of my Biel-Tan Eldar force finished.

Still no sign of the Phantom titan i 'won' on eBay, and can't find any Revenants for sale, but it should give me a bit more time to sort out the bulk of the army first.

A few pics below of the various units in different states, I'm giving the scouts a little bit of concealment with some mobile ruins/trees (a shrubbery?!) :)

More later...

Epic Eldar Update 1

The ball is rolling on these guys now...

Falcons done (nearly!)

Guardians nearly done too

Hopefully the Phantom Titan will turn up this week and i can make a start there, then its just a case of picking up the other units when i can.

Also - i may seem to be fickle in switching between projects, but i get bored so quickly i feel i need to work this way, although during this time i've changed my mind on my Imperial Guard colour scheme and i'm going to start again with a more desert-y style soon... well maybe not soon, but soonish!