Eldar army man part 2!

Being the bad boy of army mans painting is not all fun and games; I have problems just like all other non-bad-boy army man painters out there. My most pressing problem at the moment is that I am a terrible sleeper. I am unable to accomplish on a regular basis what even infants are capable of: falling asleep. I failed once again this morning to bludgeon my consciousness into... uh... unconsciousness, so in true bad-boy fashion, I decided to take up my paints and army mans and give you, the loyal reader, some more pictures to look at. Behold:

For those of you keeping track, the eyes were done in Enchanted Blue with just a dot of Ice Blue in the middle. The gemstones were done with Mechrite Red and highlighted with Blood Red. Edging of the armor plates was done with Codex Grey and the base of the figure is Bestial Brown.

A few lessons learned from this little session:

• When highlighting a black basecoat, I think that keeping the highlights as small as possible looks better - you want to define the edges of the armor plates/fingers/backpack aerials/whatever, but you don't want to distract too much from the pure black.
• Along the same lines, when you highlight something with white, try to keep those highlights small as well - the white is just an accent.
• Don't paint when you haven't slept because your vision is going to be blurry and your paint job is going to look like crap. You think you're being productive because you're using your awake time to paint instead of lie in bed and stare at the ceiling, but really all you're doing is making errors that you'll have to spend time cleaning up during your next army man painting session.

I can't wait to look at these pics later and see what I need to fix. On the plus side, at least my closeup photography skills are getting better.

ARMY MANS!

*UPDATE*

By overwhelming demand, here's a shot of the guardian (along with his mortal enemy) from a bit further away.