Eldar/Dark Eldar Colour Combo

secretpaintgeek

New member
Hi all,
Am starting to work on 2 seperate forces of Eldar, one dark one vanilla, and would like the 2 forces to be able to be combined as allies for bigger games. Both forces will focus on mobility with all troops in transports or being jump infantry. Eldar force will be themed around Jain Zar leading a small force and the dark eldar will be themed around the wych cults so lots of wyches in venoms supported by beastmasters and scourges.
Now here is the problem, I want both armys to have a common ground in he paint scheme. Recently watched a show called Ergo Proxy and really like the muted colour schemes with lots of neutral colours
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Here are a few images i just dragged up from a google search to give you a idea of the style.
Now Eldar are easy enough to do in this scheme, im thinking using the brown/grey/green from the first image for the main areas on the Eldar and the black/blue/turquoise from the second image for the dark eldar. Do you think that The Orange from the 3rd pic would work as the tie in colour for both forces?
I never normally plan things out like this before i start but am trying to take a more structured approach to help me in my painting and keeping a shedule.
Any input and advice would be greatly appreciated.

SPG
 

marjedi

New member
Hi all,
Am starting to work on 2 seperate forces of Eldar, one dark one vanilla, and would like the 2 forces to be able to be combined as allies for bigger games. Both forces will focus on mobility with all troops in transports or being jump infantry. Eldar force will be themed around Jain Zar leading a small force and the dark eldar will be themed around the wych cults so lots of wyches in venoms supported by beastmasters and scourges.
Now here is the problem, I want both armys to have a common ground in he paint scheme. Recently watched a show called Ergo Proxy and really like the muted colour schemes with lots of neutral colours
View attachment 19444View attachment 19445View attachment 19446
Here are a few images i just dragged up from a google search to give you a idea of the style.
Now Eldar are easy enough to do in this scheme, im thinking using the brown/grey/green from the first image for the main areas on the Eldar and the black/blue/turquoise from the second image for the dark eldar. Do you think that The Orange from the 3rd pic would work as the tie in colour for both forces?
I never normally plan things out like this before i start but am trying to take a more structured approach to help me in my painting and keeping a shedule.
Any input and advice would be greatly appreciated.

SPG

Nice idea.

I would do a muted black/grey/blue on most of both the dark and crafworld eldar. Add Orange details on the dark eldar and Turquise details on the crafworld eldar.
 

secretpaintgeek

New member
I like that! Keeps it uniform and still keeps the division. Maybe push the colour saturation higher on the dark eldar and keep it muted for the craftworld fellas?
 

Einion

New member
secretpaintgeek said:
Now Eldar are easy enough to do in this scheme, im thinking using the brown/grey/green from the first image

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Where do you see green?


marjedi said:
I would do a muted black/grey/blue on most of both the dark and crafworld eldar. Add Orange details on the dark eldar and Turquise details on the crafworld eldar.
I like that idea :good:

Einion
 

Dragonsreach

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Staff member
Liking the concept of the colour schemes.

(Damnit another Anime to add to the list I can't watch when Fran's home. She can't stand anime worse luck!)
 

Zab

New member
The orange and turquoise could be carried across both forces as simple osl on waystones, eye lenses and weapons. It would keep everything very dark and muted and be set of spot colours you could control the saturation on to force the mood of each squad.
 

secretpaintgeek

New member
Cheers fellas.
I'll get going on it over the weekend and see if i can borrow a camera to get ome wips up.

Dragonsreach: Ergo proxy was a pretty good one, make an excuse to send fran out!
 
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