First new project of 2017! Well in fact it's actually an old one....an incredibly old one. The Eavier Metal Facebook group is currently running a competition for models that were sculpted over 20 years ago. I have a few in my collection, but one in particular immediately jumped out. I've had an old metal Eldar Asurmen model (No finecast for me thank you!) since my first days collecting miniatures. I did some hideous paintjob on it (sadly no photos around!) and it survived in a drawer until I picked the hobby up again. It was one of the first models I tried to paint in my second stint of the hobby after I'd stripped off the far too thick old paint. I never did finish it though. This competition (which thankfully allows started models) seems like the perfect opportunity to see how far I've come in the last 4 years and see if I can rescue this model and finally finish him.
So let's start with where I left him, warning this may not be pretty...
So first up I started trying to neaten the blending on the white/whiteblue armour plates. Increasing the contrast on the upper body areas that were lacking it and neatening the lower plates. I also started fixing the helmet plume, using VMC Dark Prussian Blue towards the recesses to improve the contrast.