Eldar: Windrider Jetbikes

Ah, Jetbikes.  How I dislike your plain and dowdy sculpts.  But how effective thou art on the battlefield. Eldar Jetbikes are now widely viewed as one of the best Troops choices within Warhammer 40K, due to their mobility and their rending weapons.

I used the same colour scheme for the Jetbikes as for the Guardians (and the Rangers, too, I suppose!), going for a muted, almost Dark Eldar-esque dark green, with bone-coloured accoutrements (and Jetbike!)

Initially, I washed the carapaces of the Jetbikes in my Ultimate Essential Agrax Earthshade, but for once it didn't do the models any justice.  Rather than picking out details and adding depth to the model, across the flat surfaces it just gave an appearance of grubbiness and grime - not very Eldar-like!  And so, I opted for a clean, crisp finish instead.

Eldar: Guardians

Beyond the forces of the Imperium, and the foul servants of Chaos, I've also dabbled in some Xenos armies, and here's one of them: the Eldar of the Dras Camion Craftworld.

Ever since I was about twelve years old, I wanted to do an Eldar army with this colour scheme. One of my earliest attempts was to paint an Eldar Swooping Hawk, but unfortunately, I think I not only used enamel paint (rather than acrylic), but waaaaaaay to much of it, too - turning it into an amorphous blob.

Here's a heavy weapons platform, to give the Guardians a bit of much-needed OOMPH on the battlefield.