I’m doing my Chaos in a lot of browns.
The power armor is usually Rhinox Hide, which is what I’m going to do the body of the Heldrake in. The intricate parts will be Mournfang Brown and Steel Legion Drab.
Screamer Pink for icons and such, I mainly do Slannesh.
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I can’t help but think it’s my photography fail, as I just got another compliment on that captain yesterday, when I was at the local game store and actually got to log some table time against a local Dark Angels player.
But I want to do a custom Chapter. With my choices on name, color, symbol, et cetera. 
Any ideas for your own chapter?
Well, yeah. I want a chapter symbol that I can easily freehand, and an emphasis on heavy weaponry (with an eye towards fielding a Master of the Forge with a Conversion Beamer, if I can kitbash the beamer..) so I settled on a thunderbolt symbol, and the rest has fallen into place thusly :
Parent Chapter : Salamanders
Symbol : Thunderbolt
Colors : Orange and either White or Black
Name : Sons of Thunder, or Thunder Lords, or Thunderbolts.
Or Thunder Heads.
Any idea of how that scheme will be arranged? Like orange body and black/white helmet and aquila? Have you considered maybe a little green thrown in as a tribute to their parent chapter?
Be sure to post a pic of your first guys in the new scheme.
Green + Orange makes my head hurt. I was thinking Orange on the main armor bits, with black/white trim, symbols, and aquila.
IMHO these look pretty good, and better than 99% of what I painted when I was in the hobby. Really sweet bases!
That said, I don’t think they look up to competition level. The faces are the weakest part to my judgement, with very little (or very subtle) shading and highlighting.
Just keep at it. You are new to the hobby and it takes time to get good at it. I used to love painting orks / orcs because there is a lot of exposed flesh to highlight. It’s good practice.
So something like this doesn’t do it for you?
No, I’m not new to painting - I think I’ve got 15 years in painting. 
And the photos don’t really show off the faces well at all.
Plus there’s the fact that some people go for exaggerated highlights to make a figure stand out, whereas I think it makes them look garish and cartoonish. So, especially on flesh, I work more subtly.
You know, that’s not bad, but except for that middle figure - it’s as close to red / drab green as it is orange/green.
Orange / Green are the colors of Arthur Curry of Atlantis, and I am not planning to nickname my chapter the Aquamarines.
Okay, the people at CoolMiniOrNot are straight-up trolling me. Got some great pictures of my SM Captain, posted them up - and now it’s scoring lower.
I don’t want to sound conceited, but if this is a 5 :
Then the scale is fucked.
Finally got my Wraithguard photographed and posted:
A group shot with the Farseer.
Those are great. I’m still working on my Iyanden Wraiths. Almost done with the first 5, but they are the old models. I’m going to turn the new models into 5 wraith blades with axes.
Very nice, Hypno! Love the bases.
I just finished an alternate Tac Sergeant and a magnetized weapon trooper, and started on my Dreadnought.
Now I just have to get the rest of my eldar photographed for ebay.
It’s a little annoying that they don’t all have the same basing since they represent minis done years apart just for fun.
It can be tough selling minis for an army because they don’t match what the buyer already has. I hope to get around this since all my eldar are either squads of aspect warriors (and exarch) or harlequins that don’t have to match a craftworld. Even the farseer and wraithguard can be their own scheme without having to conform to a specific army.
Any tips for listing a few squads of eldar on ebay?
No ebay tips to offer, but I’ve been hanging out on irc.griefplay.net, in #wh40k - some of the folks there are pretty savvy, might be able to offer advice.
The Dreadnought’s coming along faster than I thought it would, really, considering it’s my first one and I’m having to make all the color choices along the way…
Nice all-round shots of my previous sergeant, with better clarit :
My newly completed sergeant :
Well, I got confirmation from the folks at CoolMiniOrNot - their scale and my scale are so far off of one another that the site’s pretty much useless to me. It’s geared towards display painters, so the ‘average’ tabletop quality miniature seems to be around a 3. Lesson learned!
Got my Dreadnought done, yeah! Except basing and sealing. But it turned out great!
Very nice! I like the battle damaged and chipped paint.
