Painting Eldar Striking Scorpions

The Striking Scorpions are the masters of stealth and have chosen and mastered the Aspect path of the scorpion. The Scorpions are armed with Chainswords and shuriken pistols and are masters of both melee and ranged combat however their real skill lies in their abilities to conceal themselves. Scorpions strike swift and deadly from the shadows and disappear before enemies can strike back.


In this guide I will show you a step by step tutorial on how to paint Striking Scorpions.


1. As always we will begin by undercoating the models in Chaos Black.

2. We will now paint the armour with Dark Angels Green whilst leaving the face, hair and weapon chaos black.

3. After the armour has dried we will now drybrush the edges of the armour with Scorpion green to add a highlighted effect to the armour plates.

4. Certain raised parts of the armour such as at the feet, hands and shoulders we will highlight with Badmoon Yellow.

5. After the highlights have dried we will was the armour with Dark Angels Green to add a shadow effect to the recesses of the armour.

6. After we have finished the armour we will move onto the hair we will begin at the bottom of the hair we will drybrush the first section with Dwarf Bronze, before moving up to the next section which we will drybrush Badmoon Yellow, The top section of the hair will be left black and drybrushed with Fortress Grey.

7. Now we will highlight the faceplate with Fortress Grey and leave the recesses Chaos Black, The eyes we will paint Warlock Purple and add a tiny white dot.

8. Now we will paint the relics on the armour with Dwarf Bronze and the spikes of the Chainsword with Mithril Silver.

9. To add some extra detail we will carefully paint some diagonal yellow strips on the Chainsword.