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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.

Eldar Army pt1

13 Thursday Nov 2025

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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!

Scynir redux pt.5 and done!

30 Thursday Oct 2025

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Greetings Terrans, I had a bit of a spurt of enthusiasm since my last post, and actually managed to get the last minis painted up for my OldHammer iteration of Scynir’s warband. Back when I first rolled up the warband in 2022, it was mostly Beastmen and a few humans, but I also allowed myself extra rolls following various games I played with the plastic incarnation. As a result, I got some pretty interesting followers to add, including the Chaos Dwarfs I transitioned to lead a few weeks ago. Here are the OldHammer iterations of some of the more weird and wonderful warband members, starting with these feathered beauties:

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These Harpies are from Foundry, and are really nice models and great fun to paint – not sure why one random has human lady legs, but hey, it’s all good. I used the hair and wings to display the warband colours of orange and blue, and I thought this was effective enough to not need extra blue from warpaint. I’m really pleased with how they turned out!

Next up is a trio of Skaven:

These guys are also from Foundry, but are much less fun to paint than the Harpies… I think the sculpts are a bit ropey, no lovely long ratty tails and they look a bit well-fed to me – I prefer my rat-men to be more gaunt and feral looking! But still, these ratbags do add some charm… and some range!

Finally, we have a big ol’ Minotaur, and what better job for such a big beefy boy than being a big beefy flag waverer!

Again, this one is another Foundry model, and he really is very nicely posed for some top-drawer flag wavery. I removed his right hand weapon & sculpted in the banner pole over some wire, while the finial was made from the Horror that donated its arms to Scynir. The main body was painted up as per the earlier Beastmen, including sexy warpaint to bring in some Tzeentchian blue. I really enjoyed painting the banner itself, but with hindsight, I wish I hadn’t put a hole in it!

And that’s it – warband complete for now. This group will form the pool of minis that I use to pick out my 600 point warband for the event in November – looking forward to it immensely!

Next on the painting table – Eldar…