W40K: Eldar Biel Tan Guardian Sample

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My oldest son will be painting his first full army (we hope) and he choose to do the Eldar Biel Tan.  For his 8th Grade graduation party I purchased him a 1500 point army and he also added a few units himself.

We decided to try and pick a simple color scheme for him since this is really his first time that he will be painting detail.  I have had him do base coats for me before, but nothing like this.

With the Biel Tan we'll start with Games Workshop White Primer for our base coats, and for the Vehicles I decided to purchase The Army Painters Green.  The plan, keep it simple.  I'm sure I'll be helping him as needed.

This morning I decided to paint up one of his Guardian men as a sample for him to follow, plus I was curious how the Vallejo Pale Wash was going to look like, I've never used Vallejo Washes before.  Honestly I thought the wash would have been just a bit darker, but it will be alright for him.

Here is the sample Guardian (minus the matte spray), hopefully he'll be able to duplicate them.

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Painting Points: 1

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W40K: Eldar Fire Prism

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This past Saturday I purchased the new Eldar Fire Prism kit as part of my son's 8th Grade graduation present.  Well last night he decided to open the box and he noticed that the clear sprue that has the canopies and the Fire Prism Crystals were missing.

This is the second time I had something miss-packaged from Games Workshop (the first time I was shorted some Termagants and has some Hormagaunts instead), but this is the first time I had called GW about it.

I waited until this morning when GW Customer Service was open (9:30 AM CST) and placed my call.  John from Customer Service had answered my call.  I explained to him we just purchased the new Fire Prism this past Saturday at Empire Games in Mesa, AZ and I was missing the clear plastic sprue.  John looked in their system to see if they just had the sprue.  They did not have it listed as a separate catalog item and he said they would just have to send me a new Fire Prism kit.  I said great and John proceeded to take all my information.  He says I should have the new kit within a week.  Let's just hope it has the clear plastic sprue.

Besides placing an order with GW, this is the first time I really had to call for Customer Support.  I just want to say that my experience with them was excellent.  We all hear stories about bad customer service, it was far from that with my call today.

So now that leaves me with a Fire Prism without any clear plastic pieces.  The nice thing about the new Fire Prism kit is that you can also make the new Night Spinner vehicle from the same kit.  The Night Spinner does not use the plastic crystals, but it does use the canopies.  I figure I'll go ahead and model the kit as a Night Spinner and make some of my own canopies out of "green stuff".  I know I'll have to paint the canopies instead of being clear, but it is a free model and I am not going to complain.

My son is working on this army himself, but I am helping him built the vehicles.  I'll be sure to add some pictures of his Eldar army here on my blog, and you'll also be able to follow his progress on his blog "Eye of Vulkan".

Once the new kit comes in from GW, I'll be sure and comment on this post letting everyone know if the plastic sprue did arrive in the new kit.  Let's keep our fingers crossed.

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