Model Swap Month - Eldar Warlock

This April was FC40k's first model swap. Our armies decided to declare a temporary truce and conduct a cultural exchange to better understand our Galactic adversaries. So with an attempt at diplomacy, each participant nominated a model to another player for painting. No vehicles, no Marines, just a single model to paint up with the intent of matching the army of the player donating the model. I drew Cerebrus' Eldar and he nominated a metal Warlock model for me to paint up to match his Iyanden craftworld colors.

Actually, my very first game of 40k was against Eldar. I was using my friends Marines against another newbie playing a loner Eldar army. We probably had 200 points each and no idea what to do. It probably took us 2 hours to play 3 turns. After the game, I had decided I had fun crushing his squishy Space Elves to buy my own army. I remember going to a local game store and ordering my Tau Battleforce. The sales guy warned me several times to not start 40k with Tau. He highly recommended to buy Eldar if I didn't want Marines. I promptly ignored him and got my Tau. So I ended up with an army even more squishy.

Morrey the Warlock visits the Tau

I could not even find a reference for this model on Game's Workshop website. I assume it is out of production. So for my first Eldar, I think it came out OK. Bright colors are a bit unforgiving. I can appreciate Cerberus' army even more now knowing how hard it is to get all that yellow to look good.

Being a sneaky Eldar player like he his, Cerberus also requested help getting some of his Harlequins painted. I agreed to paint up one of his killer clowns for extra credit. 

Jezebel the Harliquin Teaches the Tau Killer Dance Moves

I was fun to go through my rarely used brighter paints for this model. I think it turned out OK. Unlike the Warlock, this model was Finecast.

Hopefully these models will integrate back into his army with an new appreciation for the Greater Good!