WELL,

Im giving very serious thought to starting an eldar army, an ulthwe one in particularly.

What my question is, asking people what their ideas are for alternative ulthwe schemes, maintaining a sinister theme, and fitting in with the general army picture.

My main problem with the existing one is i dont like the bone colour. So can you think of schemes that replace bone with something else?

Heres what im thinking:

-Black undercoat (grey highlights), red gore secondary colour for some armour plates, and a dark grey gun.

-VERY dark grey basecoat, w/highlights of some nature, midnight blue armour plates, ??gun colour??

-Black base colour, dark green armour plates, washed with green ink, grey gun.

Im kinda looking at a dark, stealthy, sinister sorta thing.
..............

but then again ive really got no idea what i want.

Thanks advance for your ideas,
S

I like the idea of dark grey and gore, that could look cool. Possibly think about adding GS loincloth things or something.

Just try a few test models basically. And possibly think of a third colour, id suggest green for that scheme, for the gems and stuff.

im with waargh, go with the black and red gore, but try to make the red gore darker with red gore as the highlight, would look very sinister.


jod

Red and Black would be cool.

traditonally its yellow or bone.....but yellow looks crap on them so dont do that

a dark red is the only other "ulthw'e"option, but i dont think it would look ulthw'e enough personally, there scheme is about contrast and you would need to put some bone or white in there anyway

ok,

if i put all the suggestions together ill be having the base armour a dark grey, the secondary colour is a red (gore??), with green gems (minor, minor additions), and having a bleached bone GS loincloth around them for a bit of unique-ness.

Hows that sound?

Also im still open to other ideas however different or weird.

Pink skin with pink armour and pink guns. Put onto pink bases. Pink gems.

Because Eldar are girls. Ggggiiiiiiirrrrrlllllllsssss.

Ahem.

I don't like the idea of the black and dark red colour scheme; it's too similar to the 'usual' Dark Eldar scheme that is used. You could reverse the red and green parts as mentioned above: Black armour, (very dark) green secondary and red gems/other bits. I like the idea of the loincloth. That would provide excellent contrast.

When I say to use dark green, I'm talking a few shades darker than GW Dark Angel Green.