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Hello folks! I'm going to create a corsair army, and since corsairs rarely use aspect warriors, i got the idea to convert them and use the aspect warriors stats into my new kind of soldiers in this "blog" ima upload some pics from my progress in creating my first Corsair army ever

I don't really have a background on my Corsair fleet, but soo far their fleet is consisting of a Flag ship Shadow class Cruiser named "Enigma".

(Note: im very new at converting and painting and stuffs, so don't be to harsh on me please :< )

The Fleet have an admiral (sadly enough no pic on him) who im naming Thanoloth of Enigma. I use Yriels rules when i field him.

The Fleet also need a Tactical seer. Iv'e made mine by bits from a High elf mage, a farseer and a Avenger exarch. Her name is Thirianna. What do you guys THINK?



Every army need a hero right? Thats why i made Grand champion Althwing! (used as Asurmen ingame). Made by some random eldar bits. What do you guys THINK?





Iv'e always thought that the normal Eldar Guardian defenders look lame, soo i kinda made my own one using darkeldar kabalite bits and eldar guardian bits. I hereby present:
The Corsair Guardians! (tip on better name?)





Here is the color scheme ima use on my fleet.





I really like the Avengers, but corsairs don't use them. So i made my own Dragonwarriors! From darkelfs and guardian + avenger boxes.



Iv'e started a new project (my friend thinks im crazy and don't like it at all). I want to play a new unique kind of striking scorpions. The scorpions are kinda stealthy and Sneaky so i thought abit. And got a wierd but very unique idea. Wraithconstucts! They look stealthy and sneaky and also kinda awsome according to me. im not so good at painting, but i did my best! What do you THINK?





Soo what do you guys think? If people are intrested id love to keep updating this WiP blog! and if you got some tip/ideas, id be glad to hear them!

Hey, Searth! Congrats starting the blog! Thrianna, from what I can see in the pics, looks really cool. Are you going to give her a purple cloak (to go with your Corsair colors)? Althwing looks good for the construct, but I'm not so sure about the colors. The black/red/white looks catchy, but I think the blue clashes a bit with the red. Chaging the red to the purple may work better - keeping all the other colors as is (just a suggestion). Corsair Guardians - a bit too spiky for my tastes. Why not simply call them your Defennders? The Dragonwarriors look super cool (I LOVE their cloaks), and I personally like the look of your Wraithconstructs. The Falcon looks good as well - but would you consider doing some shading on it? The colors look a bit bland. Your mods look really cool, and I applaud you on doing them (the mods are something that scare me away - think I'd only do them if I had lots of extra bits sitting around, which I do not have). I look forward to seeing your painting progression - which WILL happen! Remember I speak from experience here!

Your conversions look good mate. As a fellow Eldar player its always good to see new Eldar armies. I like the wraith constructs and the guardians. Maybe trim a few spikey bits off but other than that they look way better than the standard guardians. I made a banshee squad using converted Wychees so maybe you could consider that. In regards the colour scheme I'd agree with Makhoy that its best to try to keep your colour palete to 3 colours if possible to give a more unified look. Overall I'd like to see more. Keep going.

Makhoy wrote:Hey, Searth! Congrats starting the blog! Thrianna, from what I can see in the pics, looks really cool. Are you going to give her a purple cloak (to go with your Corsair colors)? Althwing looks good for the construct, but I'm not so sure about the colors. The black/red/white looks catchy, but I think the blue clashes a bit with the red. Chaging the red to the purple may work better - keeping all the other colors as is (just a suggestion). Corsair Guardians - a bit too spiky for my tastes. Why not simply call them your Defennders? The Dragonwarriors look super cool (I LOVE their cloaks), and I personally like the look of your Wraithconstructs. The Falcon looks good as well - but would you consider doing some shading on it? The colors look a bit bland. Your mods look really cool, and I applaud you on doing them (the mods are something that scare me away - think I'd only do them if I had lots of extra bits sitting around, which I do not have). I look forward to seeing your painting progression - which WILL happen! Remember I speak from experience here!

Thanks Makhoy! Yes my Tactical seer Thrianna will get a purple cloak (when i have the time to paint her *sigh*). Uhm i forgot to mention that Althwing will be repainted, used a diffrent scheme before . Defenders sounds like a good name for the guardian defenders, thanks! I like the spikes, rly shows that their not normal formal guardians, kinda like a new rebelish look to show that they are nolonger a part of the strict craftworlds. Uhm excuse my noobienes, but how do you shade?. It makes me happy that you like my conversions and ill post more pic on my progress!

Icarium wrote:Your conversions look good mate. As a fellow Eldar player its always good to see new Eldar armies. I like the wraith constructs and the guardians. Maybe trim a few spikey bits off but other than that they look way better than the standard guardians. I made a banshee squad using converted Wychees so maybe you could consider that. In regards the colour scheme I'd agree with Makhoy that its best to try to keep your colour palete to 3 colours if possible to give a more unified look. Overall I'd like to see more. Keep going.

Iv'e played eldar for quite some time, but my whole 10.000pts army was brutaly destroyed. Soo now i'm heading more for a corsair eldar army (since i have some bits hanging around). And im also going to specialise my army with some Jetbikes. We'll see if thats going to go well. Im getting kinda skilled with the eldar forces, won 13/14 recent matches. Eldar truly rocks when you learn to play them right Hmm can you send some pic of yer wych banshees, id love to se'em! Hm i'd consider adding a new color on my scheme, thanks for ur feedback!

Excuse my bad spelling and grammar, but im realy tired atm

Searth wrote:Thanks Makhoy! Yes my Tactical seer Thrianna will get a purple cloak (when i have the time to paint her *sigh*). Uhm i forgot to mention that Althwing will be repainted, used a diffrent scheme before . Defenders sounds like a good name for the guardian defenders, thanks! I like the spikes, rly shows that their not normal formal guardians, kinda like a new rebelish look to show that they are nolonger a part of the strict craftworlds. Uhm excuse my noobienes, but how do you shade?. It makes me happy that you like my conversions and ill post more pic on my progress!

Oh good! Something you're actually a noob about (after all the PM's helping my gaming over the past few months)! You've seen my blog, and how I do my shading. I usually will use a darker shade within the same color family (if possible) to do the darker shading; some folks like to dry brush but I tend to like wet blending. If you decide to do this on your Falcon, I'd recommend you do dry brushing of a lighter shade - I use Vallejo's Offwhite a lot to lighten the shade ever so slightly so that it gives a hint of a color change. I tend to put it on the areas that normally look lighter when under a light source, which helps to give the minis more depth when lit from the front/side. You can see some of the shading on the last Serpent I did (check my P&M blog). I think that your spikey guys remind me of Dark Eldar, a group which I abhor because of their fluff. It's a personal thing; my guess is that most viewers will find them super cool. One thing I'm curious about. Plain Guardians tend to be uber squishy - if you're going to use them as strict Guardians, how will you be fielding them?

Makhoy wrote:
Oh good! Something you're actually a noob about (after all the PM's helping my gaming over the past few months)! You've seen my blog, and how I do my shading. I usually will use a darker shade within the same color family (if possible) to do the darker shading; some folks like to dry brush but I tend to like wet blending. If you decide to do this on your Falcon, I'd recommend you do dry brushing of a lighter shade - I use Vallejo's Offwhite a lot to lighten the shade ever so slightly so that it gives a hint of a color change. I tend to put it on the areas that normally look lighter when under a light source, which helps to give the minis more depth when lit from the front/side. You can see some of the shading on the last Serpent I did (check my P&M blog). I think that your spikey guys remind me of Dark Eldar, a group which I abhor because of their fluff. It's a personal thing; my guess is that most viewers will find them super cool. One thing I'm curious about. Plain Guardians tend to be uber squishy - if you're going to use them as strict Guardians, how will you be fielding them?

Aw, your flattering me x), Uhm Ill check ur blog again! Darkeldar are truly evil, but they can cooperate with my corsair when their trying to archive the same goal such as Raiding and stuffs.

Uhm, Normal guardian defenders are a good cheap way to get a objective holding "Assault heavy wep". They die pretty fast, but they work as a wall between the enemy and my objective. And they can give good flexible firesupport with and without the farseers Reroll powers. They work very well for me on the field and i try to have a squad of them with me everytime i play. (in a serpent ofc).

Ok guys, here is an update! i have added a new color to my scheme. What do you guys think?

I like, I like! Nice decision, Searth! :-D

Thanks Makhoy, ill apply it to my other tanks

Loving the conversions! The dragonwarriors are brilliant. Keep it up.

Thanks susejo239!

Iv'e bought myself a Vyper and here is the result:



I'll post some pic on my fleet Admiral to





My total army is up to:
6 Jetbikes, 1 Falcon, 2 Wave serpents, 10 Guardian defenders, 10 Avengers, 2 Farseers, 1 Admiral (yriel), 1 Vyper, 5 warpspiders and 2 scorpions. My army will be restored in it's former glory!

Very cool admiral!The paintscheme is nice and crisp, too.

Thanks mate!


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Builded my own Corsair Captain (autarch). What do you guys think?





Some updated pic on my Admiral. i gave him a hellblade (bloodletters powersword). prolly need some fluff for that, but will do later! Also started painting him. What do you guys think?

Hiya, Searth! The hellblade looks VERY much like a Howling Banshee executioner. Maybe you can say that the Admiral got his from Jain Zar? As for your captain, it seems a little odd seeing him on a horse. Would this give him movement similar to a Jetbike? How would you work out the fluff for that one? Looks cool so far, though! Keep up the geat work. :-D

Hi, The hellblade is actually on his back. But sure, the fluff för his spear (Spear of twiligt or whatever yriels spear is called) sounds good

When i get home from England ima update with some stuffs i got from forgeworld. im in Nottingham so i visited GW head quarters warhammer world with my GF. it WAS AWSOME!! I spent around 400 brittish Pounds there (GBP).

I'll update on sunday! Hope people still follows my blog!

Thanks for posting on my blolg about the stuff you got at GW - links were great. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with all of it. Happy painting, friend!

Here is a pic on my warphunter i got from Warhammer world in nottingham. The model look awsome!



Started to greenstuff/glue my Scorpion superheavy tank! The resin is really annoying to work with! But it's worth it

Searth, I'm looking forward to seeing these painted up. What are the stats on these vehicles? I'm gonna have to start winning the lottery if I'm going to keep up with you now (Forge World goodies)!

Played a 2000 game against a space marine army today. Tested the Warp hunter. It totally rocks!

game ended with me having 11 killpoints and my enemy 0 = Win

The rules for the scorpion is:

armor 12, 12, 10 with 3 structure points with a titan holo field.
Having a twin linked pulsar (str D, ap 2 heavy 2, large blast.) obligerate most things

And also a hull mounted scatterlaser/brightlance for example.

The warphunter fire a large blast with Ap 2 that wound everything on 2+. against vehicles it glances on 2-4 and penetrate on 5+.

Oh, I'll have to get me one of those! Sick! Get it painted quick, Searth! ;-D

Played a 5000pts Apocalypse game today with my IG mate. I totally smashed him to the ground Will post some pic and result when i have time

Do it soon, do it soon! I wanna seeeeeeeee!