The original ghosts in a shell stride onto the blog today. Locked within their spirit stones and inserted into Wraith construct frames, the souls of long lost Asuryani go to war once more armed with devastating warp based weaponry. I’ll share my take on these tireless warriors with stunning photography as well as advice on assembling and painting them.

As I mentioned last week with my Wraithlord, I really like the 90s scheme for Wraith constructs. Painting the Wraithguard in that colour way to match my Wraithlord was an easy choice. Just like the Wraithlord, I choose to remove any red form the scheme which was basically there entire weapon on the 90s version. For my modern interpretation I decided on a black weapon frame with bone coloured cowling. The pod on the rear of the Wraithcannon was painted yellow to just help break the shapes up a little and stop the weapon blending into the arms.

The Wraithguard plastic set, can make an alternative close combat squad called Wraithblades. The Wraithblades have forearm mounted shields and blades, these spare parts are perfect to decorate your bases with so your models are walking through cool little Aeldari ruins.

When assembling your Wraithguard it’s definitely easier to leave the arms off and painting them separately, that way your brush can easily reach the chest area and the backside of the weapon. I also left the loin cloths off and airbrushed a basecoat of yellow, just to speed things up a bit. My colour scheme is a bit frustrating, it’s nearly 50:50 bone and black, so it’s a toss up between a white undercoat and a black undercoat. I went with white undercoat because it’s easier to paint black over bone, than it is to paint bone over black.

How to Paint Aeldari Wraithguard

You can use my Wraithlord paint recipe to paint Wraithguard. You can use the recipe of the Ghostglaive sword to paint the close combat weapons of the Wraithblades too. There’s not much detail on these Wraith models, they don’t take that long to paint. Because there are no textures or fine details there isn’t anywhere to do quick and easy dry brushing, I find mistakes show up more on cleaner sculpts, so I end up having to slow down a bit and paint more carefully. I think they really lend themselves to clean and tidy paint jobs, but that’s just my opinion. There is no right or wrong way to express yourself artistically with your own models.

That’s another unit added to my 2025 40k army project. I’m really enjoying the diversity of units. Everything is different and a new fun challenge to paint. I’m closing in on my 1000pt target so watch this space.