Eldar Fire Prism Grav Tank

Quaralane

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All right
Four years ago, I posted an OOB review of this kit with full intentions of it being next up in the queue at the time.
Well....that was four years ago.
Now, I'm finally building the Eldar Fire Prism Grav Tank from Games Workshop
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We start with a look at the sprues.
As with a good number of GW kits, the main body is standardized. In this case, using the body of the Falcon Grav Tank
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Then you get the sprues that let you turn this one into either a Fire Prism, or a Night Spinner
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Of course, this one will be from the same craftworld as my previous Wave Serpent build, so I needed some custom markings printed up
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Started with the turret cockpit.
Pilot's suit was painted in with black/dark grey
His gloves and hair were picked out with brown ink, and the details were painted in woith Vallejo Gunmetal Grey.
The cockpit tup was painted in with red, and the control panel done with Gunmetal and black with green and metallic light blue .
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For the "crystals," I chose to start with a coat of blue and green inks mixed with Future.
The larger focusing crystal was painted from the inside with this mix, followed by a coat of white to brighten it up
The firing crystal, not being hollow, was painted over with the blue/green/Future mixture and then drybrushed with white
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The pilot's cockpit was painted up basically the same way as the one for the turret
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Turret is mostly assembled, minus some of the parts for the crystals to aid in not having to mask them off.
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Assembly of the main body was fairly straight forward, although I did opt to use some of the optional parts.
Namely, the shuriken cannon, vector engines, and the star engines
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Main assembly complete, now awaiting masks for the canopies and primer
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Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgNbiub42OY
 
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Two now I have the link to your youtube chanel and I can explore it ;D

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All right, then
Time for an update with the Fire Prism build.

After masking off the canopies and turret mounting points, I gave the whole model a coat of flat black to act both as a primer, and the base color coat.
I inserted the focusing crystal in place, and glued up the 'cage' that goes around it
With that done, I went in with a brush, and the Vallejo grey primer and picked out both the panels I intended to paint red, as well as the gems that cover the surface
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Panels were then painted in with red, while the gems were picked out in either red or blue ink
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The bottom of the tank was drubrushed in silver to match my previous Wave Serpent build
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The engines and intakes were painted in with Vallejo gunmetal. This was followed by giving the engines a drybrush of copper and a black wash.
The intakes only recieved the black wash.

The weapons, and some of the detail sections were drybrushed with copper
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The model was given a cloat of gloss sealant, followed by placing the Altaithe crest decals in various places.
These were then sealed with a second coat of gloss.
The canopy masks were removed, and the turrent was glued into position on its support

Finished build pics:
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Shown with my previous Eldar Wave Serpent
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Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlFnGR-AKTI
 

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