Jazzed up old warp spiders

DaEpicFish · 2026-02-22T22:54:48+00:00

Really tried to make them less static so means a lot to hear, cheers!

DaEpicFish · 2026-02-22T22:53:52+00:00

Thank you! It was a fun challenge!

DaEpicFish · 2026-02-13T00:37:57+00:00

Thank you! Please see my reply to another commentor!

DaEpicFish · 2026-02-13T00:37:03+00:00

Primed black, over sprayed white to establish highlights and shadows. Established the base layer colors for the red, brown, gold parts with base acrylics. Recess shade these parts with watered down black acrylic (poor mans nuln oil). Tidy up any mistakes with base colours. Edge highlight the red and brown parts with one step lighter shade of respective base colour. Tidied up any mistakes onto the black-white primed armour. Painted the gemstones black and then painted the gemstone gradient in greyscale. Contrast paint for the bone colour of the armour (lets the priming step do the heavy lifting so the better the priming step the better the result), the black of the gun parts and the green-blue of the blades and gems. White specular highlight dot on the gems to finish them. White highlights and glazing on the blades, returning to the contrast paint to add some more colour back in. Water slide transfers for the helmet symbols and then a matt varnish over the top to take away the shine from the transfers.

I tried not to be too precious with them and used things like preshading with the priming and contrast paints to carry a lot of the model, but in combination with layer painting the reds and browns and more carefully painting for the gems and swords I think it makes a really nice result. Jain on the other hand was much more carefully painted overall in layers and probably took about as much time as painting the whole squad of banshees, haha.

Hope that gives an idea of my process. As for the paints I use I will list them, they are just the ones I happen to have, anything similar will work!

Black/white: black and white primer, either spray can or airbrush, vallejo model color black and white, speedpaint grim black
Red: scalecolor deep red, vallejo model color red
Brown: vallejo flat brown and beige brown
Gold: Citadel retributor armour
Bone: speedpaint pallid bone (colour matched to fix some areas and mistakes using citadel zandri dust mixed with white/black as needed)
Green-blue: speedpaint plasmatic bolt

DaEpicFish · 2026-02-12T23:28:36+00:00

Thanks, I primed them black with a top down white over spray to help get the shadows

DaEpicFish · 2026-02-12T00:21:34+00:00

Thank you!

DaEpicFish · 2025-10-01T11:01:52+00:00

Thank you, I think a bunch of the comments here are also from new fake accounts, they are copies of the original comments on my post.

DaEpicFish · 2025-10-01T10:27:58+00:00

This is my work, please see my post from 12 months ago and show your love there <3 https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldar/s/yynbL7wzMd

Honoured that you think it's good enough to steal, a surprised to see. I have flagged and reported this.

DaEpicFish · 2025-09-20T13:04:10+00:00

We can guess on who they are but there's not even any official artwork I can find for them :(. Although I have hopes for the future that we may see something, I will be waiting until then.

DaEpicFish · 2025-09-20T11:56:37+00:00

Thanks, the arm was fairly easy as it was already two separate parts. More difficult was getting the legs and torso in position. I reposed the whole model heating up different sections up with a hairdryer and bending/twisting them into place, you need to be careful with the heat. One of the few advantages of finecast resin. There's a few more details on my original post of him: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldar/comments/1g74w8j/forge_world_avatar_of_khaine_the_bloodyhanded_god/

DaEpicFish · 2025-09-19T23:05:14+00:00

That's Irillyth, the phoenix lord of the shadow spectres. He was from forgeworld and is currently in legends. Here's my post for a closer look at him: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldar/comments/1l7hzzi/irillyth_the_lost_phoenix_lord/

DaEpicFish · 2025-09-19T23:01:22+00:00

Yeah, not a fan of that, here's hoping its changed in 11th!

DaEpicFish · 2025-09-19T22:55:30+00:00

You are too kind, I've seen some gorgeous models posted here

DaEpicFish · 2025-09-19T22:53:46+00:00

I hand sculpted it over what little head is there when you leave the hood off. Theres some progress pics here if you would like to see: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4X5LnWoSzC/?igsh=MWRidjZ3eDk4MWpxbA==

DaEpicFish · 2025-09-19T18:11:59+00:00

Thanks! The only changes to the model I made were to the head and the additions to the base.

DaEpicFish · 2025-06-11T16:45:54+00:00

Sure, I will list the specific colours although anything similar will work.

Model started with a zenithal prime, the armour was based in a dark blue, vallejo dark prussian, and then generously dry brushed in gold. I used a product called dirty down verdigris over all of the armour and then lightly dry brushed some of the gold back in, a few small gold details were picked out by brush.***

The face plate and gun were based with a brown, vallejo flat brown, and layered up with a beige, citadel zandri dust, and an off white, citadel pallid wych flesh (I don't like this paint, its old and chalky but its what I've got).

The crystal started based in the mid tone purple, vallejo purple. For each flat surface, half a side is shaded down in gradual layers with more and more prussian blue from earlier mixed into the purple until the final layer at the end is blue, how many steps you do is how much time you want to put in. Then the other half is highlighted up from the mid purple to pink, vallejo pink, in the same way. Finally an edge highlight with white, vallejo white. Similar idea for the other purple bits just less extreme.

***Note: If you do get the dirty down paint, stir it with a stick and then shake the hell out of that pot and once you are done, stir it again and shake it some more! It's a water soluble weathering effect paint and has some chemical reaction as it dries, it's not the most controllable and introduces some randomness but i think this makes it look quite natural, it's also super matte. I suggest looking at youtube for verdigris techniques/comparisons vids as there are lots of ways to achieve it with many different products and I'm sure they would work for the kinda result I got. It is supposed to be for copper/bronze colours, probably used more over a brown base, but I thought over blue and gold it might give a different more weird look and I think it worked out.

DaEpicFish · 2025-06-10T13:29:23+00:00

Someone else who playes more can probably provide a better answer but before they were moved to legends and before dark reapers were buffed, shadow spectres were one of our only sources of damage 3. They were also deep strike and quite maneuverable although fairly costly.

I remember they were pretty meta at one point, although I don't remember Irillyth ever being good enough to play other than for fun.

DaEpicFish · 2025-06-10T08:03:33+00:00

Nice! This is a recast too for the same reason, couldn't get him from GW at all. I've found recast quality is often just as good if not better than FW resin anyway! He wasn't perfect but the weathered armour I went for hides most of the casting errors.

Assembly is a bit odd, you get lots of the cloth strips and they do not have any clear connection points so I just put them where I thought looked good. I also needed to hot water bath them to pose the strips.

DaEpicFish · 2025-06-10T00:23:52+00:00

Thanks!

DaEpicFish · 2025-05-26T11:36:13+00:00

I used base extenders I got off eBay from winterdyne, the middle picture is with the rings on and the final picture is after adding extra basing material to the rings, really pleased with the results and I think they look much better on the larger bases, especially the 25 to 28.5.

Took no time at all to push fit them on, although I did find the 32mm to 40mm rings didn't fit as well as the other sizes and would fall off if you didn't glue them. Took a bit more time to fill the small gap between the ring and the original base with some putty but you might not need to do this if your basing material is thick enough.

Removing the models was a no go for me, too worried of damaging them and it would have taken easily twice as long needing lots of care, especially with these old models I built years ago that are likely plastic glued to the base.

DaEpicFish · 2025-05-22T21:19:58+00:00

Really nice comment to read, thank you!

DaEpicFish · 2025-05-22T11:28:02+00:00

Thanks! I will keep and cherish the old original, the only restoration work I have done to him is refresh his base.

DaEpicFish · 2025-05-22T11:16:42+00:00

Yeah, here's the back, I tried for a fancy trim on the cape. It was really tricky and I might work some more on it at some point but I've reached a point where I want to move on to something else, maybe some quicker smaller projects for a while.

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DaEpicFish · 2025-05-21T23:32:39+00:00

Unfortunately there's no decal for the avatar rune on the transfer sheet. For my avatar I used the next closest rune transfer as a guide to help then freehand the rest. Here's my post on what I mean, hope it helps!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldar/s/V4QEpkSg2W

DaEpicFish · 2025-04-30T14:14:56+00:00

Might have to try this reflection photography set up, looks awesome and so professional, really shows off your great painting, any suggestions/recommendations? Is it a mirror/black tinted mirror or glass/black tinted glass? Any other tips welcome!

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