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Rogue Trader/2nd ed. Eldar Army pt3

22 Monday Dec 2025

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Greetings Terrans, time for another wee dip of the toe into my latest project – a proper old school Eldar army. Not gonna lie, progress has been very slow since my last post – I have been chipping away at the lead pile and got seven old RT04 models base coated, but they were taking ages so I decided to push 2 through to completion prior to Christmas. Now, a bit of history for you. the RT04 range go all the way back to 1988, and were part of an initial run of 12 of ‘Space Elf’ models designed by Jes Goodwin. They are very much the blueprint for all the amazing Eldar that Jes worked on in the years that followed, but without the clean refinement that quickly came to typify the range. As such, the RT04 minis are a bit… well, wibbly for Eldar… Also, back in those days, (because of the low model count), every mini was named – the guy with the Melta gun is ‘Capt. Aetolia Lightfoot’, while the lasgun dude is ‘Irbic Trueshot’. Here they are:

When these came out, Space Elves were pretty much space pirates known for their funky insectoid armour, exotic weaponry, and alien helmet stripes. I always envisage using the RT04s as Corsairs in my own project, and I wanted them to be true to the period rather than have them look like super-clean Craftworlders. Ultimately, while this army will become a rag-tag group of Craftworlders, Corsairs, Aspect Warriors and Harlequins as it grows, I do want the Corsairs to look at least affiliated with the Craftworld… with that in mind, I tested out a darker purple for the main armour and included the weird striping on the yellow areas. While the blending on the dark purple could’ve been better, I’m actually pretty happy with how they turned out. Here they are with a Craftworlder to show the similarity:

Anyway, that’s it for this post – I’ll be getting some time to paint over the Christmas break, and I’m aiming to get the rest of my Corsairs done & maybe get started on some Aspect Warriors!

Have a great Christmas & roll on 2026.

Scynir Redux

12 Friday Sep 2025

Posted by in BOYL, OldHammer

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Greetings Terrans, last week I mentioned a project to create a 600 point WFB 3rd ed warband for an OldHammer event in November – a Norsca adventure as rival warbands compete to push their claim for the recently vacated crown of the Kingdom of Arsenduvnaewar. I decided to use this as an opportunity to do something that I have been planning for a while – paint up a lead version of my Tzeench Realm of Chaos warband, with Scynir at the head. The reason for me doing this is that even though I really like the warband as is, I’m much more likely to play an OldHammer game these days, and doing so with modern plastics just doesn’t sit right with me. Stylistically, the warband is going to look and feel very different – lacking the technical excellence of modern GW minis, but hopefully full of 80’s/90’s RoC charm. Most of the minis will be from Foundry, but with a bit of GW and others sprinkled in there for good measure.

So, every good warband should start with the leader, and in this case, I already had my leader defined – a Human champion with the Gift of Magic and Overgrown Hands. I also had the colour scheme worked out, thanks to my original version of Scynir, so really it was just a case of sourcing bits & making it happen! I used an old lead elf mage for the body, while the arms were donated from a Horror – pretty much how I approached the plastic version! The long hair of the elf hides any telltale elven ears, while the body is androgynous enough to work as a female human… I also added a small Familiar to balance out the base a bit, and this is what I ended up with:

Painting was pretty straight forward. I went with pink/yellow for the mutated hands rather than the blue/green of the original, but otherwise I used broadly the same orange/blue scheme as the original, (the blue came out a bit darker, but it’s close enough). Here they are together:

So that’s it for now folks, more to come as I start adding followers.

Realm of Warcry; Chapter 4 – Beginnings

18 Monday Nov 2024

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Greetings Terrans, I trust this finds you well. I’ve been looking forward to putting this post out because it marks the beginning of the end of my Realm of Warcry project… well, sort of.

So far, Chapter 1 has been focused on Tzeentch, and Chapter 2 on Nurgle. Both of those warbands have been expanded, and are both pretty decent sized forces by now. Most recently, I launched Chapter 3, dedicated to Slaanesh, and I certainly have more planned for that warband, but I couldn’t resist kicking off Chapter 4 in parallel… obviously, this one will be dedicated to Khorne.

So, as with all the other Warbands, this one started with a randomly generated champion and 4 rolls on the follower’s table in the Realm of Chaos books… and that’s where things started to get pretty weird…

For the Champion, I rolled a highly unlikely Lizard Man, and his ‘gifts’ were a missing limb, an extra eye, and Chaos Armour. His followers were no less unusual, with 2 Ogres, 11 Humans, 4 Hobgoblins and 5 Snotlings… yeah, Snotlings of Khorne! (I’m already reimagining the pump-wagon idea crossed with a Juggernaut of Khorne… Bloodling Pumpanaut anyone?). I haven’t built the followers as yet, so that will give me something to work on over winter, but I did build the Champ & got him undercoated before the weather turned. Here he is, K’horanak Dark-Star, Champion of Khorne:

He’s based on the newish ‘Seraphon Saurus Scar-Veteran on Aggradon’, who has quite a nice ‘come at me bro’ pose going on. I added some chunky Chaos armour, and I think the legs came from the old Possessed kit (with a slight toe-swap and a tactical rock to get the balance right). The right arm got given a whopping great mace from the Slaves to Darkness kit I think, and I modelled the left arm to be amputated but growing back, (because Lizards?), to reflect the missing limb ‘gift’. That little chaos badge on the right pauldron is his extra eye gift, but I’ve just realised that I forgot to paint it realistically! Don’t worry, I’ll get that fixed :-)

I went back and forth with black, grey and red for the scales and flesh, while the armour is a 3 part affair of steel, bronze and metallic red. The red was thinned Flesh Tearers Red over a gold basecoat if anyone is curious!

And that’s it for now folks, but I do have one last pic that I have really been looking forward to taking – the 4 Champions together!

I’m somewhat annoyed that Scynir is facing the wrong way, but meh – Tzeentch.