3rd Second Ed Painting Challenge – Month 2 – Wraithguard

Warburton 40K, Eldar

For Month 2 of the Challenge I finished 5 classic wraithguard.

Not too much to say, I painted them the same way as the guardians. Except I did add a lot of transfers for the iconography. I think they turned out pretty well, overall.

Here is a link to the official write up on the c0wabunga! site.

Next month, Warp Spiders and Striking Scorpions…

18 thoughts on “3rd Second Ed Painting Challenge – Month 2 – Wraithguard”

  2. Yeah – I was forulating my reply in my head before I clicked into this post, and with apologies for echoing Suber almost verbatim:
    Wow! They really do look like something straight out of the 2nd edition rulebook or WD.
    Outstanding! I just spent a minute or two staring hard at the tiger stripes to work out if they were decals I didn’t remember.

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    • Thanks! Yes I think it keeps the heads as the main focal point with the eye then being drawn to the guns and loin cloths so I think it works well as an overall composition, even if I didn’t put that much thought into it until after they were painted! Glad you like them anyway. 🙂

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  7. Absolutely beautiful work you’ve done on these minis! Love all the patterns going down tje loincloth and the vibrant scheme, really feels like something out of 2nd or 3rd ed!

    If you don’t mind me asking, can you tell me some of the paints you used on these models (and what colour you primed them)? I have an eldar army that I haven’t gotten aroind to yet and you’ve inspired me to paint them up in a similar scheme, but im not the best at identifying paints.

    Thanks for your help! And once again, amazing work on the minis.

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    • Thanks! I achieved it as follows:

      Helmet: GW Flash Gitz Yellow, shaded with GW Contrast Iyanden Yellow and highlighted by adding white up to pure white.

      Blue: Base coat of GW Regal Blue watered down heavily with GW Guilliman Blue (an old wash, any blue ink would do). I used Enchanted Blue to base coat the armour plates and added white to highlight. I added the highlights on really garishly, then glazed heavily with blue ink to tone them down before doing a final edge highlight in thinned pure white.

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