Rogue Trader/2nd ed. Eldar Army pt7

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Greetings Terrans, and Happy February! I’ve got a bunch of Eldar goodies to share today, starting with Thatcher’s least favorite Aspect, the Striking Scorpions:

These guys were really nice to paint with a pretty classic colour scheme looking as fresh now as it did in the 90s.

I also painted this conversion:

This is a solitary member of a homebrew Aspect shrine, the ‘Silent Headsmen’ or Shaedra-Torrith. I envisage this shrine as being a rare offshoot of the Striking Scorpions that revel in the hunt and the claiming of trophy skulls… Painted in gritty tones, with an attempt at some OSL, this guy is intended to be used as a Predator analogue in a planned ‘Tyranid Pyramid’ game in the summer – basically Aliens v Predator v Colonial Marines in 40k. Should be amazeballs if it happens!

Finally, I have a couple of Howling Banshees – I love these minis, and I think adding purple to the colour scheme works particularly well. One of them had her hand butchered by a younger me, so a bit of surgery and a weapon swap was required:

So, that’s me halfway through my stash of Aspect Warriors – time for a group shot?

Lovely :-)

Anyhoo, that’s all for this post, I hope you’ve enjoyed this wee update. Hawks on the table next – the Aspect that are most intimidating from a painting perspective… Wish me luck!

Rogue Trader/2nd ed. Eldar Army pt6

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Greetings Terrans, just a quick post from me today – managed to get a squad of five Dire Avengers painted up:

These are the original Dire Avengers, mono-posed when they first came out in WD127 back in 1990. These are absolute classic Jes Goodwin sculpts, incredible for the period, and I think the fact that Aspect Warriors are largely unchanged 36 years later speaks volumes about the quality of the design work.

I stuck with the classic blue/bone armour, with yellow used to tie the shrine back to the Craftworld and a bit of red for interest. Not too much else to say about these guys really – 5 identical sculpts painted identically!

Next up, a spot of green…

Rogue Trader/2nd ed. Eldar Army pt5

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Greetings Terrans, and may your next orbit of Sol be pleasant and fruitful. I have another bit of progress to report on my growing Eldar army – as promised, I used the holiday to crank out small group of RTB06 Harlequins. I have been holding on to these guys since the late 80’s, so good to finally get them painted properly! I found the sculpts to be pretty decent for the most part – quite delicate and complicated for the period, though a few do have badly misaligned faces, (on the vertical axis front-to-back due to mould slip), though luckily you can’t really see that unless you are looking head on. Paint-wise I treated each as an individual as per the original concept of Eldar Harlequins, rather than the more uniformed approach used by modern studio painters. Here they are, front and back:

And a final group shot:

And that’s it for this post, time to get stuck in to the Aspect Warriors. Stay tuned!