Just your friendly neighborhood spider-Pheonix Lord
Painted up Lhykis for a friend, what an awesome model to paint! Fun enough to seriously make me consider getting an Eldar army.
Now, did I need to make every oval surface look like a spirit stone? Well, no, obviously. Did I? For a model as cool as this, yes.
Let me know what you think!
General painting methodology below:
Base lava: wet blend red to white
Basing: cork with lava texture paint, dry brushed blue.
Base stone: incubi darkness, drybrushed nurgle green. Bottom dry brushed red/orange for lava glow.
Green: Thunderbird blue (AP) over a white to black zenithal. Drybrushed nurgle green.
Pink: purple alchemy (AP), dry brushed lilac edge highlights.
Black: black templar contrast (GW), dry brushed Grey highlights.
Sword: wet blend dark grey to white in a pattern. Then glaze multiple times with blood red (AP). Dry brush all edges whitish orange edge highlight.
Warp explosion: paint dark blue, then put successive lighter shades on the top and bottom edges, each using less coverage until you hit pure white
Eyes/guns: dry brush red and orange highlights, wet blend from red to yellow
Hair: Krooxigor scales contrast (GW) over zenithal, dry brushed with different lighter shades
Spirit stones: pick a Base color, mix paint so you have a shade up and down (minimum 3 colors, but big gems required 4 or 5). Hit bottom of gem with darkest color, go brighter as you climb up the gem. Touch top tip of gem with a bit of black, put a white dot inside the black. Cover whole gem in 'ardcoat (GW).