Greetings Terrans, I hope you all had a fabbo Christmas! I’ve managed to nab a bit of painting time & got a shove on for my remaining RT04 Eldar – nothing that I haven’t said on my last post, so this is just a bit of a photo dump.
First up, a duplicate of ‘Irbic Trueshot’:
Next, a pair of ‘Aedui Starborn’:
Next is ‘Commander Inghen Keentongue’:
And finally, ‘Belgae Strongwill’ (Pfnar pfnar 😊):
And that’s all the RT04s that I have! I’m low-key on the hunt for more – it would be nice to complete the set, but these seven will do for now:
Next on the bench – more late 80’s goodness with a handful of RTB06 Harlequins!! 🤡
Greetings Terrans, I hope you are well. A few weeks ago I shared my test model for a new army project – scratching a 35-year old itch to build and paint the OldHammer Eldar army of my teenage dreams. Well, finishing my Tzeentch warband gave me the perfect opportunity to kick that project off in earnest & get some more minis painted. However, before I share the photos, I want to set out a few ‘ground rules’ for the project:
1: I’m going with a Homebrew Craftworld rather than one of the established ones – I’ve settled on a purple/yellow colour scheme for Guardians from my (still) unnamed craft world. I’ll use purple as the main colour, and yellow on helmets and key armour pads, but I also had the idea of some Guardians being ex-Aspect Warriors & maybe carrying colours over from their former shrines, (just as a bit of fun & to add some variety).
2: Initially, I will focus on the minis I have stored in my lead pile – no new purchases until they are painted!
3: This includes my ASPECT WARRIORS!!! Including a homebrew shrine of Predator-esque warriors suitable for a possible ‘Tyrannid-Pyramid’ game next summer.
4: Once the lead pile is processed, I will add minis and attempt to round out collections – e.g. RT04/RT401 Space Elves, RT402 Space Elf Command, the RTB6 Harlequins, and so on. Looking forward to this!
5: Other ‘Elves in Space’ to be added as the fancy takes me – e.g. OG Dark Eldar, Ghost Warriors, Harlequins, and so on. Basically a mix and match approach to building out an eclectic combined Eldar force.
6: Old lead minis only, (obvs), but maybe some plastic vehicles as well – the current Wave Serpent/Falcon kit is pretty much unchanged since 1997 and would fit in nicely for example.
So that’s the loose framework for the project – now to some minis!
Firstly, just a re-show of the Craftworld Autarch – I’ve already shared this mini, but I reworked some of the details so I thought it worth reposting. I used Teal as the spot colour, and combined with the wings, this strongly ties this Autarch back to the Swooping hawk shrine, (but also hints of Dire Avenger and Howling Banshee in there with the weapon choice as well):
Next up, a flag waverer – a neat little conversion if I do say so myself. I’ve also used a dark blue spot colour here to suggest this Guardian is a former Dire Avenger:
Next we have a musician – Kelos Longfinger. This is actually a strip & repaint of a mini I first painted back in 2015(!!). I’ve used bone and white to tie this Guardian back to the Howling Banshee shrine – which also ties in with the idea of using sonics as a weapon:
Another strip & repaint, this champion – Cdr (demoted) ‘Avele Swifteye’ from back in 2016. This guy gets orange pads to link back to the Fire Dragons – I thought the armour and the mask details had vague dragon vibes as well, so I’m happy with this:
Finally, we have a heavy weapon platform and crew – I think the weapon & grav platform are from around1990, but the crew are a little older, (slight hand swap conversion on the dude with the hairdo). I’ve used a very darker purple here, tying these two back to the Dark Reaper shrine:
And here they all are as a group:
I hope you’re enjoying these updates and the direction of this project – more to follow!
Happy Monday folks, I’ve had a really poor week hobby-wise, with hardly any time for painting at all! But… I did manage to finish this guy, and I am rather pleased with the result:
He’s based on the old Titan Princeps Seniores, (thank you Ross!), tricked out with Skiitari/Sicarian arms and appendages. I intended for him to form part of the growing ‘Agentia Scrutator’ salvage team on my work bench, but I also wanted him to stand out a bit, either as a character or even as a lone agent. I just reversed the colour scheme to achieve this – a simple trick that seems to have worked. Here he is with the other tech ganger for comparison, (a good excuse for a slightly better photo of the first guy):
I also got slightly side tracked with the freebee AoS mini that came on the cover of last week’s White Dwarf… I got a bit obsessed with stuffing the body cavity with rods and cogs, but after a lot of huffing and puffing I ended up with this – the Tick-Tock man:
I have some ideas for this dude – I imagine that he is a creepy automaton that dwells deep in the sumps, some technological relic of a past age. Rarely seen by anyone who lives to tell the tale, he has become a mythical bogyman used to frighten children… but, (of course), the tales are true and the Tick-tock man is real, toiling away in the depths – but to what end?
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