Dark Eldar Wyche Painting Tutorial

A couple of weeks ago I posted a link to a tutorial I wrote about painting a Dark Eldar Warrior quickly and effectively. This tutorial was hosted by Ron at From the Warp. You can read about it all here. At the end of the post I mentioned I might get the chance to post up a tutorial for a Wyche. Tonight I got the chance to snap some pics of the skin and hair step-by-steps.

The first thing you need to do when painting the Wyches is go through all the steps in the Dark Eldar Warrior tutorial (which I did for this example).

Once you have the initial steps completed, you can move onto the skin:

Step One - Paint the skin with Dheneb Stone

Step Two - Wash the skin with thinned Leviathan Purple

Step Three - Highlight with thinned Dheneb Stone

Step Four - Highlight with a 50/50 mix of Dheneb Stone and Skull White

Then, once you've done a quick correction with some black paint around the edges of the skin, you can move on to the hair:

Step One - basecoat with Scab Red

Step Two - highlight strands with a 50/50 mix of Scab Red and Blood Red

Step Three - highlight with a 75/25 mix of Blood Red/Solar Macharius Orange, then a wash of Devlan Mud.

And that's basically it. The final thing I did on this model was to paint the green cables on the model's shoulder and neck. I used the same colors as I did for the glowing eyes on the DE Warrior.

I hope you enjoyed this "next stage" for the Dark Eldar painting tutorials.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a very happy and toy soldier-filled New Year!

Cheers

Dave

PS. Don't forget, there's less than 24 hours to get your bids in on Alex's Emperor's Children army. This is the one that I converted for him back in February. Check out the auction here.

Not what it looks like...

Although it might seem that I've been slacking a bit in the last few weeks, that's not quite the case. I've been doing quite a bit of painting, but haven't had much of a chance to take photos. I've also been putting together things for other blogs.

When I made my "Hobby Cornucopia" post back in October I listed a bunch of things that I'd be working on for this blog. The only one that I hadn't posted as of last Wednesday was the collaborative post with Ron from From The Warp. I put together a quick tutorial on how I would paint my Dark Eldar, if I were going to do such a thing (which I'm not). You can see this tutorial over at From The Warp, here.

I've also just finished off a quick post over on our 8th Edition Challenge blog. Check it out here.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to paint up some more Empire soldiers over the weekend, and take some more photos, for more substantial blog posts next week.

In the meantime, check out the posts mentioned above, and send in your entries for the Steel Legion Army List Competition.

Cheers

Dave