i’ve only painted a hand ful – for mine I did a series of drybrushing in this order, tons of dark grey, dark purple, light purple, then a touch of pink – muted with a purple wash. Then pick ok areas like a shoulder pad / head and painted this a cyan/green colour. Power weapons / guns a very intense green with source lighting applied to the model.

but for some good inspirational have a quick scan through the GW flickr pool
http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?w=1606491%40N21&m=pool&q=dark+eldar

Ones I’ve seen on the net that impressed me was a guy that had gone for white/red which was very different!

but on the Flickr, a guy called Arion Spydis did some nice minis, the venmon that I think was displayed on the GW site is pretty cool.

Here are a few that I like to give some inspiration

not sure what his/her realname is; but LuckyNo.5 is their Flickr name.
It’s pretty awesome isn’t it – really like the source lighting from the backpack – let alone the wings.

what are your thoughts colour wise? I think camouflage would work a treat thou

Like this???

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Dry brush the whole model dark grey, then light grey, then black wash. Once dry use a grey that is just above the lightest colour, enough to provide a contrast – but without being to intense, then just simple create random shapes across the whole model. If you water down this colour just enough so it sticks without running – then this will allow some of the shading to come through

Once this is done, then add the colours – just make sure you have a steady handy ! But if you keep it the head/cloth – then it should be easy to do; if you make a mistake and go into the black, then just quickly use a fresh brush with water to remove it.

do a test model first – see how it turns out; if you bought a raider and haven’t used the clinging on minis – use one of thoses to test it out

good luck!

and post your results here dude

sorry none that I’m aware off, sure there will be – there are a few on YouTube, but they might tend to go towards the default scheme, black, perfect highlight lines etc.

Perhaps we should ask the BOW team to do a generic ‘how to paint’ camouflage, as really the same rules apply if its IG, Tau – just a change of colours.

Just a heads up fellas. We have a camo painting tip in the can @beerogre can fill us in on when its due to go live.

Its an urban camo scheme for a 3 Colours Up Tip (So Backstage) and the results are very nice.

We’ll be looking at camo in more detail at a later date again too.

cheers guys