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Painted in 3 days

And the odd model for the bunch of my watchers who actually watch me for this sort of things.
Yes decided to paint a Crimson hunter for my tiny Iybraesil eldar army that largely is just to support my Tau army...

Fluff wise well... for some reason the Tau of the 125th barracudas Combat evaluation unit seem to be very friendly with the eldar from Iybraesil, especially with a battlegroup lead by the Farseer Aerie Darcia (nicknamed the skydragons). It is unusual for such inter-species harmony in the chaos that is 40K but the two battlegroups are often seen operating together with a degree of tactical integration that suggests a very strong alliance. It is unusual though that Aerie's battlegroup only seems to fight with the 125th and no other tau unit with that level of freindlyness and the two have had a long bloody campaign against orks, guards, marines, crazy khornate marines and the tyranids from the leviathan fleet.

The Light of Dawn is a relatively recent addition to the Skydragons, and curiously isn't often deployed as they seem to prefer to leave air defense to the tau's quad-guns and broadsides....

I just HAD to finish this model cause it IMO the most pretty model released by GW to date.... sure in game it's about as survivable as an ork dakkajet and isn't considered particularly competitive in the face of wave-serpent spamming, but it's a very sleek and pretty flyer (not like the tau flyers *#$% ) so at the very least it's a great display piece.... I may figure how to use it properly someday but it involves using an altarch....

Painting itself was quite simple really. Just blue, then stroke ice blue, underside went to white, highlight the outlines, paint black in recesses, paint gems, paint white decals and thingies and done. very simple actually. This brings my eldar army's total painted count to 5 (a farseer, a wraithlord, a fire prism, a dire avenger and this)... and I should finish the rangers soon -__- but noooo I goof off and paint something that's not really essential but pretty.

Description
Painted in 3 days

And the odd model for the bunch of my watchers who actually watch me for this sort of things.
Yes decided to paint a Crimson hunter for my tiny Iybraesil eldar army that largely is just to support my Tau army...

Fluff wise well... for some reason the Tau of the 125th barracudas Combat evaluation unit seem to be very friendly with the eldar from Iybraesil, especially with a battlegroup lead by the Farseer Aerie Darcia (nicknamed the skydragons). It is unusual for such inter-species harmony in the chaos that is 40K but the two battlegroups are often seen operating together with a degree of tactical integration that suggests a very strong alliance. It is unusual though that Aerie's battlegroup only seems to fight with the 125th and no other tau unit with that level of freindlyness and the two have had a long bloody campaign against orks, guards, marines, crazy khornate marines and the tyranids from the leviathan fleet.

The Light of Dawn is a relatively recent addition to the Skydragons, and curiously isn't often deployed as they seem to prefer to leave air defense to the tau's quad-guns and broadsides....

I just HAD to finish this model cause it IMO the most pretty model released by GW to date.... sure in game it's about as survivable as an ork dakkajet and isn't considered particularly competitive in the face of wave-serpent spamming, but it's a very sleek and pretty flyer (not like the tau flyers *#$% ) so at the very least it's a great display piece.... I may figure how to use it properly someday but it involves using an altarch....

Painting itself was quite simple really. Just blue, then stroke ice blue, underside went to white, highlight the outlines, paint black in recesses, paint gems, paint white decals and thingies and done. very simple actually. This brings my eldar army's total painted count to 5 (a farseer, a wraithlord, a fire prism, a dire avenger and this)... and I should finish the rangers soon -__- but noooo I goof off and paint something that's not really essential but pretty.