The Eldar

While I didn’t really play Eldar back in 2nd edition (the first time round), I pretty much used them as my main army for 4th - 7th edition, which means I ended up with quite a few models over the years. Going back to tidying and painting up old collections, I ended up starting to paint the Eldar up as the opposition to my Blood Angels.

For whatever reason, I started painting them up as Ulthwe - I’ve had quite a few Eldar armies over the years, though my first main one in 4th edition was Ulthwe (in the era of seer councils and the like). At the time, they had been painted in broadly the (at the time) current style - bone helmets, and somewhat muted colours. With the start of this reworked collection, I’ve tried to get a bit closer to that 2nd edition brightness.

You will probably see that not all of these models are 2nd edition ones - with various different editions of models creeping in - at some point, it would be nice to get all the old sculpts, but for now,  is nothing wrong with a lot of these newer ones. The scale changes a bit, but if we stay away from the most recent Eldar sculpts, the scale creep isn’t too bad.