Greetings Terrans, I hope you are all well! Just a short update post from me this week – it has been fairly slow going on the hobby front over the last couple of weeks – I am finding these Eldar quite time-consuming to paint! Still, I’ve been chipping away at them, and I managed another 5 elite Guardians:
This guy has a headswap, and blue pads to suggest a former Dire Avenger:
And another former Avenger:
This guy is a former Fire Dragon, and is converted with a snazzy power fist:
And another former Dragon:
And finally, this guy is a bit more melee focused with Shuriken Pistol & Power Sword… The green pads tie him back to a former life as a Striking Scorpion:
And here is the group to date – I think we’re just about up to about warband strength now!
And that’s it for now folks – more to follow, with some original RT04 next on the list.
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!
Greetings Terrans, quick post to formally kick off a lil’ Eldar project that has been, oh, 35 years in the making… ever since Jes Goodwin’s Aspect Warriors first appeared in WD125. The fully painted Aspect Warriors blew my mind when they landed in WD127 back in 1990, as did all the art work and fluff. I managed to get my hands on some, along with some other period Eldar minis, and 15-year-old me set to with limited skill but boundless enthusiasm. As a result, I had a load of badly and/or partially painted Eldar that have been unloved in a box for 35 years… It was that box that got me back into the hobby as an adult, but somehow I never got around to those poor unloved Space Elves… well, no more. I’ve stripped, built, based & primed all the troops, including quite a few conversions along the way. So far I only have one painted mini, but it’s a cool one – the as-yet unnamed Autarch:
She (I think?) is based on an old Eldar Guardian that I’ve also heard referred to as a proto-Dire Avenger. She’s a great mini, very well posed and balanced, all I’ve done is add some Swooping Hawk Exarch wings, and a fancy loin cloth… from a modern Slaaneshi kit of all things. With the wings, shuriken catapult and powersword, she certainly looks like she has trodden a few warrior paths!
I’ll be using purple and yellow for the primary colour scheme for a craftworld of my own design, (though like its Autarch, the craftworld is unnamed at this point). I’ve also used red as a spot colour, which might carry across the army, while the teal/blue is more of a direct nod to her time as a Swooping Hawk.
Anyway, I hope you folks like the direction this is heading – more to follow in the weeks to come, but first, I need to get Scynir’s warband completed!
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