Something
as the miniswap 2014 is stuff that gives me something new to paint and to
break existing paint structures. I am busy painting away at Ogres for some time
now and before that it were dwarves for years. The occasional other model comes
by, but it is difficult to paint something completely different since it will
not fit your army or game system you are working with. The miniswap is the
ideal event to do just that and even have it a bit of a surprise to see what
model it will be.
A painting
challange for myself is nice but is also very interesting to see what your
“opponent” will paint and how he paints it. What is his choice for paint scheme
and how will his paint techniques work out.
All in all
a great event to participate in. For me I sent in an Ogre Butcher. It was an
old model I had lying around for some time now, it came from a collection I
bought in 1 go and needed to be repainted. I stripped the paint and sent in the
model. I am paired with @NigelSBartlett and he sent me an Eldar Farseer. It
couldn’t be a model farther away from my safe paint environment of Ogres and
Dwarfs. Not only another army but also another game entirely (still GW though).
I painted some tyranids maybe 15 years ago but that was it for me painting
Warhammer 40K stuff. The Eldar are something I’ve played against, but that was
also 15 years ago and the closest I got to the elder. Now I was holding a
farseer! Great model, nice and sleek, Elfy (also big contrast with my Ogres and
Dwarfs).
Now is the
time to come up with a paint scheme. I actually did some research on Eldar in
general, color schemes and craftworlds. In the end I settled for blue/turquoise
with white and brass accents. The cloak is something screaming for a nice
painting on it, so I will have a go at painting a nice big wave on it with a
small wave trail along the edges.
Plan in
place, start painting! Progress was a bit slow due to some holidays here and
there, but suffice to say I finished the Farseer. A nice paint project and in
the end the base gave me to most problems, creative wise. It is a readymade
base that comes with the model. Discussed with Nigel that snow fits the army.
Therefore a stone to be painted and some snow to be added but nothing much more
then that really. I must say with the white snow and the white in the model it
fits the complete picture nicely.