Continuing the Iyanden Eldar

Continuing to catch up on a few more projects, I finished painting the plastic contingent of Aeronautica planes for my Iyanden Eldar. But of course there is even more stuff to this project! I also worked on some more bits for the Aeronautica Space Marines as well as some High Elves from Middle-earth.

Pict 1731: Aeronautica Imperialis Iyanden Eldar Phoenix Bombers, Nightwings

The remaining plastic aircraft painted up quite fast. Even with the main yellow colour requiring several passes of glaze for me to be happy with. Again, I am blown away by the detail the designers put into these small miniatures.

Pict 1732: Aeronautica Imperialis Iyanden Eldar Ground Assets and Vampires (WIP)

Pict 1733: Aeronautica Imperialis Iyanden Eldar Bases (WIP)

Speaking of aircraft – turnes out the Vampires are huge! They will be the capstone to the project alongside the official ground assets and targets. I also build two more targets from some Eldar bits and a push mold of the Webway Gate's base plate to have enough to play the missions from the Companion booklet.
Also, as you might have seen with the first few pictures, I started to work on the hexagonal bases for the Eldar. I'm not to sure of the colours (the brown parts are the basis for a red gradient) but we'll see how they turn out.

Pict 1734: Aeronautica Imperialis Blood Angels Ground Assets (WIP)

Once I have finished the Eldar, I will want to go back to the Space Marines. Sticking some additional Tacticals on these bases only occured to me after basecoating but I think they should paint up fine nonetheless. Besides these Ground Assets there are still three more Xiphons waiting for a coat of paint. I could build two more targets as well, but I think I will simply use the Forward Operating bases from last year.

Pict 1735: Glorfindel, High Elf Banner Bearer and Elrond (WIP)

Lastly there are even more High Elves for the Rivendell army: The plastic Elrond and his banner bearer as well as the beautiful ForgeWorld Glorfindel. I don't really need them to play the army since I already painted versions of both characters. And I'm really happy to paint these amazing miniatures now that I am really comfortable with the colour scheme and potential short cuts I did not know about at the start of the year.