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Part of my next hobby project is taking a look at the Eldar faction, obviously the new jetbike kits make some of the ugliest old models in the game disappear but whilst I have always been in love with the concept of the Aspect Warriors alot of their sculpts feel very dated to me, especially the Warp Spiders. given that I have some spare time on my hand and the inclination to try and make something new and unique looking for this years armies on parade contest I have settled on making a functional aspect host and converting all of the aspects out of existing kits to make more dyanamic and hopefully better looking new versions of older models.

Thus far I have completed my test model Warp Spider:


And started work on my Swooping Hawk!


More to follow as the rest of my components arrive.

Wow. Awesome stuff. I really like the warpspider conversion! Keep it up!

You've definitely modernized the warriors, they both look incredibly sleek. I'm excited to see how they look with some paint on them.

Thanks guys, today being payday I've ordered the display board and scenery for my armies on parade entry aswell as the next batch of components for the growing eldar army. With some of the bits I had previously ordered coming in now I've got a touch more of both the Swooping Hawks and Warp Spiders done with components on the way to finish the first 11 of each. I'm also stocking up on bits for my Fire Dragons who will take cues from the dragonskin masks that the 30K Salamanders have to give them a touch more character. Todays WIP is the none too exciting, lots of part finished aspects:


Warp Spiders are awaiting a huge number of DE Shredders to run as their monofilament weaponry, everything is on order but coming from the US/UK bits sites so postage may take a while there, everyone has legs, torso and head and now three of the models are fully assembled. The basing theme is ruined city with some alien growth and this will become more apparent when painted and the display board is complete.


Swooping Hawks looking far less complete, obviously I can only use the bird wings from the Scourge kits so I get 3 complete swooping hawk torsos per kit, just waiting on the next few to arrive. The guns will be running the FW las weaponry from corsairs and the heads will come from the same conversion kits.

Awesome, I'm always a fan of your conversion work, and these are off to a promising start!

FETHIN STOLEN

What an awesome conversion!

I'd credit the original person who came up with the concept but tbh I saw it whilst browsing a while back and havent been able to find it since. It was by far the best method of creating Warp Spiders I'd seen in a long time so I had to borrow some elements of it. The Swooping hawks are part of my "no bit left behind" policy trying to use as much of the spares from the kits used in the Warp Spiders as possible (so shadow spectre legs).

Current plans are:

WARP SPIDERS:
DE Warrior Legs
Shadow Spectre Torso
DE/Scourge heads trimmed and with hair sculpted
Shredder Arms

SWOOPING HAWKS
Shadow Spectre Legs
Scourge Torso/Wings
Dire Avenger Arms
Corsair Lasblaster
Corsair Head

FIRE DRAGONS
Dire Avenger Legs (dragonscale tabard sculpted)
Dire Avenger Torso
Blaster/Arms
Shadow Spectre Heads (Sculpted dragonscale mask)

Firepike Conversion for Exarch

HOWLING BANSHEES will likely be made from Sisters of Slaughter with arms lent from various Harlequins and DE kits to give them the correct weaponry, though theyre not happening anytime soon

STRIKING SCORPIONS I really want to do but cant find a sufficiently similar armour pattern to use as a base, so any ideas here would be awesome.

SHINING SPEARS
Eldar Jetbike Base
Shadow Spectre Weapon converted to lance
Dire Avenger Head

First batch of Shredder arms for my Warp Spiders arrived (for those keeping track the arms from Australia arrived before the ones from the UK. Giving me 10 completed Warp Spiders and an 11th awaiting arms to make him an Exarch. Pretty happy with these thus far and will be trying out the FW clear airbrush red when painting them!

These Warp Spiders look incredible! Can't wait to see some paint on them!

The swooping hawks are coming along nicely.

Those are superb! I'm interested to hear your thoughts/see the results of these new FW painted.

Thanks guys, not directly related but whilst I wait on my paints order for the Eldar I had to try out the clear red from Forgeworld to see what it went on like. It was a bit of a rollercoaster for me since when I first applied it it looked a dream, all smooth and gradianted red (done over a metal gradient underlayer), then due to the watery consistency went a bit patchy. But with alot of patience and some patching up I'm pretty happy with how it looks.

As modelled by my World Eaters Lord (formerly Moritat)


Still WIP

So that was just pre-highlighted metallics and then the red over the top? Pretty impressive results! Nice conversion too!

Yup it was primed white (for no reason, I literally had one minis worth of primer left and it was white).

Painted in gunmetal (vallejo)
highlighted from above with chainmail (vallejo)
Edge highlighted with runefang steel (gw)
Nuln oil in recesses
Sprayed all over with Angron Red Clear (FW)
Touched up
Wet brush while drying to remove red from some edges for battle damage.


Essentially no highlighting has been done on the red whatsoever, it was all done prior to the red being applied.

Still waiting on paints for my Eldar so here's something else for the World Eaters that I got finished up today (still needs a base).



And the Lord alongside:

11th Warp Spider Assembled, this being the second Exarch. Armed with Spinerette Rifle.

I like those world eater paintjobs. And the exarch came out great.

Thanks, the bits for my 1500 point eldar list are arriving slowly so I can start looking at getting the list assembled. So far I have two of the shining spears converted:


Started work on my Farseer on Jetbike


And started converting up my Fire Dragons!


With plenty of kits still sitting on sprue and others in the post its gonna be a busy weekend of assembly and then onto painting.

With a lot of things in various stages of completion I've painted up my first Shining Spear!

Awesome! Love the scheme!

Thanks, keeping up momentum I'm now at 5 Shining Spear, 5 Windriders and a Vyper Painted.

More Pictures to come but here's a quick look at the Windriders:




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Proper photos to come in morning but swooping Hawks are now getting assembled!

Those jetbikes and Swooping Hawks are looking pretty sweet. I like the warm color scheme you've got going on.

Looking really great!

Can't wait to see the Spiders with some paint on them.

Also keen to see how you finish up the Fire Dragons. Personally I would have steered clear of the blasters, but i dont know what fusion gun options there are lying around on the internets...

Thanks guys, I'm aiming to get all things jetbike painted by Thursday since thats my first game with the army, at which point I'll start working on the Aspect paint jobs. This leaves me 4 jetbikes, 3 warlock jetbikes and a farseer on jetbike to paint still.

As promised a better picture of an assembled squad of swooping hawks, significantly larger than the GW standard but alot more dynamic.

Wow they look stunning.

Bit more progress, a few jetbikes done over the last few weeks or so, and the first painted squad of aspect warriors!



And a finished Wave Serpent

Yeah, the hawks look awesome.

Those hawks do look fantastic.

Super paintwork!

Soo.... I got distracted, the eldar are slowly chugging away getting painted but I got distracted by the impulse for Ork conversions, having played a guy with an imperial knight in his ork army that looked entirely too pristine for me I felt it my duty to manufacture something properly Orky to run as a Knight Warden. Presenting!

The Ork Waaagh-den Knight, known by Deff Maw to other Orks, named after the favoured squig of Gork for its immense size



A Feral Ork Morkanaut!


And with the release of Age of Sigmar, I like countless other hobbiest felt the need to convert the awesome chaos sculpts to 40K. And here are what I have so far:

Daemonkin Lord:


Daemonkin Aspiring Champion


Daemonkin Herald:


Tzeentch Sorceror:


And Khorne Terminator:


I'm using the torsos from the bezerkers to make True Scale Khorne Bezerkers, once they're assembled pictures will follow!