I said I'd share the Corsairs I knocked together these were mainly an exercise in just seeing what bits and pieces I could throw together and to see what looked cool for future endeavours, but there's a couple of ideas I've been thinking based on them.

Basically, these guys are a little more 'low-rent' than the Khaine's Ravens. While the latter are a veritable shadow-empire, these 5 are just a band of vagabonds scratching a living as mercenaries and guns-for-hire.

Felarch:


Wrack/Avenger


War-witch (I'm thinking she's a Wych who showed latent psychic powers, and only just managed to escape Commorragh with her life)


The Lovers (One thought I had is that when Eldar pair together they develop a deeper and deeper psychic bond, one effect of which is that they begin unconsciously mirroring each other's actions)


The whole gang

That's a fun looking bunch. Think The Lovers are my favorite.

All creatures great and small,
The Plague God made them all.
- Ancient Albian Proverb, popular among legionnaires of the XIV




We assume it must have been human once...




You will find, dearest friend, that all beings have their place in the universe. Naturally, humanity's is below ours. Is not the fact that we do not seek your extermination not proof of our benevolence?

Awesome!

Slobber gribble slurp...I mean thanks!



Oh, a couple of thoughts on this guy. While I do like the idea that of all the beings in the 40k universe it's only a twisted and diseased slenderman Herald that's advocating interspecies co-operation...he's still an Eldar. In this case 'co-operation' means treating humanity like pets rather than vermin

Made up four more dude(tte)s for my Outcast warband the survivors of those who followed Ilgaith into exile.





You…you have a child? Out here?



Many of us have. We live out here, with all that entails. Quite frankly, what choice did we have?





Where Ilgaith goes, we follow. It's not as if we could return without something to barter our freedom for anyway. I've heard what the Angvai do to deserters...



One of the things these guys have let me do is scratch an itch that I've been feeling for a while. It's a bit of a trope in war-settings that the worlds are completely devoid of children. Things usually take a step towards the gritty and the realistic if they do include them, which seems right up the INQ28-style street

It also gives a valuable little glimpse that the galaxy might not be 'only war'. Interwoven with the warfare and strife are countless billions of families just trying to survive in a wartorn dystopian future.

For these eldar it's especially poignant as eldar children are so few and far between. Discovering you're with child when you're a vat-born clone with a slim chance of survival would be a bedrock-solid reason to desert. Also, it's a little suggestion that there might be more to Outcasts than just eldar deciding they want a gap-year from the Path system. There are eldar living outside the safety of the craftworlds or Commorragh (through choice or necessity), surviving against the odds

Love the addition of the papoose. This band is turning out awesome. Real desperate feel to them, but not helpless.

That's good world building; it's a real and... not happy detail, but it's not cartoonishly dark just for the sake of being dark.

Hey man, just stoppin in after a bit. Everything looks incredible, after purchasing and starting on a sylvaneth army I have so much more appreciation for the brilliance of the conversions and bits you have put into your models. Truly incredible and inspiring.

Great additions to the warband dude, very grimdark stylings which suit them well.

Wow! This blog keeps getting better and better. I may have to steal some of your exodite conversion ideas. They're so good!

Thanks a million guys! Really glad you like them

I'm glad they've come across as desperate and grimdark (but not hammy grimdark). To add to that somewhat, the basis of these guys is a squad of (cloned) Guardians that decided to abscond. Guardians come in squads of 20. There are currently 5 (plus Maegwen). Life outside of a craftworld/webway realm is a tough place for Eldar that don't know what they're doing.

Still, there's life goes on, even for these folk, so there's little candle-lights in the darkness.

Sylvaneth army Gummi? Nice! They are drop-dead gorgeous models aren't they? Got any pics?

Steal away JeffyP! I'm flattered be sure to post them up here. Always like seeing what people come up with

More cool stuff. I really like the little nurgle beastie!

EDC

Thanks man I think I've decided he's going to be a familiar for the warband, which is rather fitting for the arrogant Eldar to take a human as a familiar

Ooh, that's a great idea for a another warband: some sort of massive slave trading vessel. Maybe akin to the Imperiums black ships: the Eldar run around finding psy active humans and sell them to the DE to use as experiments. Why not through together some slave traders?

Ooh nice idea I've been wanting to make some more DEldar warbands as I feel both them and the Craftworlders are a little under-represented.

I actually had the idea of slave-traders as one of my human factions. The idea for them is that they're the descendants of a crashed tithe-ship. Their original purpose has been warped over time into a sort of semi-religious slaving where they head out to collect their 'tithe' from the surrounding planets

Hey man just dropping by to say all your models are boss! You honestly have one of the most unique painting style and palette of seen on this site so far, and everything you make has such character. I don't even like eldar and you're making !e want to have a crack at some!

Also I'm robbing some ideas from your converted nurgle Astartes dude. I would not want to meet him down a back alley!

Thanks dude glad you like them. Definitely grab some Eldar there's so much more depth to them than most people think.

Steal away!

"No," the figure explained patiently, "you misunderstand. I hold no formal title. There is no governance or rulership among us Outcasts. 'The Nomad Prince' is little more than an epithet. Still, I suppose I am as close to a figurehead for my people as we have, if only due to provenance."




I hear that his house were once exodites, fleeing the Old Empire.

I hear they became lost along the way. Not physically lost, but 'lost' as a state of mind. They have been wandering ever since.




The Nomad Prince? Vainglorious navel-gazer. Does little more than tempt away the young and naive with fabulous myths of exploration. There is nought but a lonely death awaiting the Eldar out among the stars. I half expect that come the Rhana Dandra he'd spend his time philosophising rather than pick up his spear to fight.




Have you never stopped to wonder about this place? Why this particular reach of the webway is filled with sand? It's not sand, cousin, it's glass. You stand amid the ruins of Karaehe, the great glittering city. Miles upon miles of transparent towers, wondrous to behold. Shattered and ground to dust by the fell energies of the Fall.

You can still find bones in the sand, if you look.


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Oh, and something I forgot to mention. Since the Croneworlder one winged Vampire-Lord guy I've been looking to Fantasy for characters to mirror in the 40k universe, with a suitable grimdark twist. A lot of named characters in Fantasy have been changed into generic up-spec characters in the jump to AoS. This guy is based on the Fantasy Araloth, who in AoS has been turned into a character called a 'Nomad Prince'.



I've used bits of his kit in my Nomad Prince, and tried to mirror the pose with more Eldar bits as well. He's also called 'Araloth of the hooked Blade', so I thought it would be fitting to replace his eagle with the hooked claw I had spare from the Tenebrael Shard kit (especially as it mimicked the pose).

Lastly, the background for Araloth is that he was a bit of a coward until he came across an elf maiden being assaulted by a Slaaneshi daemon. He slew the daemon, and the maiden revealed herself as Lileath, stating she had a plan for him. Since then, he's been the bravest and most untiring champion of the wood elves.

In the universe of 40k...Lileath is dead. The Nomad Prince never had his pivotal moment. A lifetime of wandering as an outcast has expunged his cowardice by necessity, but he never developed the untiring desire to fight for his people. He simply wanders his own path through the ashes of his civilisation, earning the disdain of the warlike Angvai (who are quoted above).

That's good stuff. Great model. Fits the fluff you have set up and a credit to the inspiration. He really reads as a dark mirror of the original.

Thanks dude really glad you like him.

I was trying to think of some other characters to make 'dark mirrors' of. I don't know a great deal about it as I was always more into 40k.

There's got to be some kickass Vampire Counts characters to work with alongside some elves

Very nice conversion dude, I'm in awe of how creative you are after making so many great models already.

May I recommend some of the AoS death characters, specifically the one that sees himself as a proud hero surrounded by noble knights, and having grand feasts, but is actually a twisted vampire surrounded by ghouls, and eating flesh and rotten meat?

Croneworlds would be good for that, I think.

Thanks I_F! Really glad you like them too many ideas is my problem! Tricky to whittle them down into stuff that will work and stuff that just doesn't...

That's a kickass idea Verviedi I like the idea of deluded perception, with twisted creatures viewing themselves as refined nobility. Would work nicely with Nurglite stuff too

Ooh, the next step for my Knight Worlders (apart from just painting them) is to create some antagonists. I wanted to do a play on the Brettonian 'Green Knight' guy, but as a Nurgle champion. Having a mixture of pageantry and decay would fit really nicely with that perhaps I could blend the two characters together somewhat...

I do so enjoy coming to this blog for the story telling and the fabulous conversions. Keep up the great work, and thanks for sharing.

You flatter me glad you like it!

The story-telling and conversion work is my favourite bits of making them, although I am warming to the painting now I think weathering agrees with me. Provided you've got the quantity of paint on your brush right (not too much) it basically rewards you for being slapdash and rushed which is right up my street

Funny you should mention AoS characters in 40k, I've just converted Festus into a 40k cultist and Krell into a Nurgle CSM chosen!

Gutrot Spume is also halfway through being turned into a warpsmith...

Haha nice! Are they up on your plog yet or awaiting paint

Nah awaiting paint - I've 60% finished painting a unit of slightly converted wraithblades, then I'll do my shadowseer and Eldrad (also both converted).

Then it'll be a quick break from Eldar to paint a bunch of cultists (including Festus!), some plague marines and the bloat drone, before back to Eldar to finish my 'vindicare' and probably some Kabalites...

I just find painting a very slow process versus building and converting. You seem to be pretty quick at both!

I can assure you painting doesn't feel quick! I've got a gradually expanding primered legion to contend with

Sweet! Looking forward to more eldar (and nurgle stuff later!). Keen to see your take on Eldrad. I had a go doing a bit of reposing on him myself but I have to admit I didn't like how it turned out so I've been cannibalising him for parts

Well, I spent this weekend doing a bit of a redux of all my old models after the weathering on my Outcasts, everyone else was looking a little...pristine which just won't do. It'll probably be completely unnoticeable in pictures, but they look much improved in the wraithbone, so to speak

Warning, this will probably be a bit image-heavy...















I also found some time to go and do a little touch-up on my Corsairs. Again, probably not really noticeable but a little weathering on the reds and golds, some deeper washes on the coats and some drybrushing and a heavy nuln oil wash on the feathers.














My two squads of Reavers are up next for a little weathering then my Malevolents, and there's another two squads, another Baron and 5 Balestrikes awaiting paint. If they don't have rules as of 8th I don't really care. The 7th Corsair codex was a masterpiece, so I'll just keep going on as if it's coming back...

I also had the idea to try the technique for weathering (basically the same as a rough drybrushed edge-highlight, but using a darker colour rather than a lighter one, and working upwards) with Blood for the Blood God on my Dark Eldar. I was originally thinking that it might be too much blood...but then I thought this is the Dark Eldar we're talking about. 'Too much blood' probably doesn't register anywhere near their concerns...
























Last, but by no means least, are my exodites again, just a little weathering to make the bone look a little older and the cloth a little dirtier. Reminded me just how damn proud of these I am it's also given me a little inspiration of how to move forward with these guys as a warband a little, so expect a couple more updates in future!

The extra weathering really helped add some depth to the models dude, I'd be very happy with the results. The blood use on your DE is a great choice, I normally fear about using too much blood as well but for DE it just seems to fit so perfectly. I especially like the archon in this fashion, the amount of blood and how it was applied coupled with the pose he's in really makes it look like he's standing out there literally being rained on in blood and soaking it all in, feeling his old body being invigorated by the spilled life-fluids of his foes. It's a very emotive model that greatly captures the running themes of the DE. He's by far my favourite for most improved model with these touch ups.

Thanks dude! I'm really glad you like them

I'm with you on the Archon being the one who's come out on top out of the whole exercise. I'm beyond chuffed with how he came out

I always imagine his model being in the middle of a deep inhale in the midst of the carnage, savouring the metallic tang of blood in his jaded olfactory nerves.

It actually stemmed from my own experience (in a non-psychopathic way, I promise...). I've got two main loves in my life, scifi (of which 40k is at the fore) and cars (primarily of the classic variety). The first time I went to Goodwood Festival of Speed I walked through the gates, heard the distant roar of 60s race engines, smelt the tang of uncatalysed race fuel blowing on the breeze and just drank it all in for a moment thinking 'yes...this is a place that I belong'.

That's how I imagine Dark Eldar feel amidst the carnage of a battlefield, and what I wanted to bring across with my Archon's model

That's an impressive body of work. Just a ton of cool models.

That description perfectly suits the DE on savouring the carnage. You truly are a wordsmith of exquisite skill.

Thanks Youwashock eventually I suppose I'll be able to make an army out of them

I'm glad you think so I_F I do try

Last update from the spate of hobbying I did on the weekend. Improved Thaegr with the same trick I used on the Hedge-Witch Maegwen of replacing the Glade Guard lower legs with Guardian legs to get him the proper height. It's also had the happy coincidence of fixing his pose slightly. Previously from some angles it looked like he was overbalancing and about to fall backwards, but not any more

Sadly, it's also come along with a demotion. He's no longer an Exodite Lord, but a warrior in Raodruin's retinue. However, that's freed me up somewhat to do some more exodite warriors to a similar level as him so expect some soon

Thaegr, Hart-Thorn, Son of Kurnous. Hound of the Hunt.




The great horned xeno looked down upon the emperor's faithful. Its form looked familiar enough to pass for human under the vastly expanded meaning used in the 41st millennium. It was the eyes that gave it away. No human had eyes like that. Staring into them, the guard realised just how alien the Eldar truly were.




"Long have we tolerated your presence in this place," the merciless creature toned. "Hunting your kind has proved remarkably enjoyable sport through the years. However, yet again your ignorance has provided the conduit for the Plaguefather to access our worlds. Regrettably, our sport must come to an end. Your presence here has outlived its entertainment."




I've also come up with a little fluff for Raodruin, playing on the idea of him being a Soul Drinker (a forgotten Eldar practice of consuming the souls of murder victims to replenish your vitality and increase your power), and a little of the ideas I've had for what precisely happens when you murder a race's warp-gods.



With no small amount of difficulty these days, Raodruin called up one of the souls of his victims from the hazy miasma swirling within him. Old, clouded, befuddled thing. One of his earliest hunts. Before the Fall, even. From what his own ruminating thought processes could decipher, the ancient murdered soul had once been somewhat of an expert in the matters of warp-Gods. Not that its word could be trusted. It was older than he was, and had experienced the slow gradual decline into general confusion that afflicted all stored souls of the Eldar.

From what he could understand of the incoherant ramblings, the hooks that bound warp-Gods to their mortals appeared to travel in both directions. Warp-Gods were reflections of the beings which created them, but they also embodied aspects of them. Remove one, and the hooks would leave ragged wounds in the consciousness of a race. They knew. Apparently the Eldar had tried it a few times on some of the vermin-species. It was amusing, in a way. Like breaking a wheel off a clockwork toy so it could only spin in circles.

Raodruin thought he could hazily remember himself, if remember was even the right word. He wasn't sure how many of his memories were his own and how many were the accreted thoughts of his victims bleeding through into his consciousness. The moment his Gods died, so had parts of his soul and the soul of every other Eldar in perpetuity. It had been horrendously painful on a level only a soul could feel. Yet, it was impossible to quantify what had been lost. In what way they were broken. Conspicuous only in its comparative absence. It was as if you were a spider, and some higher being had removed all but three of your legs. You hadn't the capacity to understand what had happened, nor the slightest possibility of regaining what was lost. All you knew is that you were struggling to escape, unstable and skittering desperately away. That's what the Eldar were now. Three-legged spiders scrabbling around among the other insects of the galaxy. There were Eldar for generations who had never even known they were missing something. Never known what might and majesty their collective soul was lacking.

Ynnead, however, proved intriguing. Could it be possible to replace what most could not see was missing? Did Raodruin even want whatever this...dead god...offered to plug the gap? Provided that was even the mechanism by which it functioned. On that matter the poor faded soul was no use whatsoever. Either that or he wasn't able to comprehend what it was saying with his own addled mind.

The guardian legs work great on him, the pose is dynamic and coupled with that axe it makes an elder model, usually thin and nimble, look dominating and larger than he probably is. A very cool trick to the eye I'd say.

Thanks dude I suppose it's a similar trick to Hoplites' head crests, giving them more visual bulk and making them larger than they appear. The horns, axe, shoulderpads and swarm of bugs probably serve that purpose

Worth remembering for future modelling projects!

Great stuff again Ynead, but that Talos conversion is creepy. Keep it coming, love your work.

Fantastic conversions Ynneadwraith. The background stories are a nice touch as well.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks a ton guys

Glad you like the Talos considering they're creepy to start with i'm very pleased!

Glad you like the fluff tok Cap

I originally planned to get my Storm Guardians painted, but the exodite bug's bitten me again...



Nuadhuin, Wrothspear, Son of Kurnous. Hound of the Hunt.





All Eldar, by dint of their heightened experience of the world, are vulnerable to the harrowing effects of warfare. The warriors of each eldar fragment must deal with this each time they descend into battle. Through meditative training and psychological dissociation, the Craftworld Eldar construct a 'War Mask' that can be donned and shed at will. The Dark Eldar revel in the slaughter, and need no protection. The Exodites, through wild rituals and psychotropic drugs descend into an animalistic state, embodying the feral predators that stalk their worlds. Their battles aren't fought like the careful orchestras of tacticians, or the grinding stalemates of attrition. Theirs is a feral fury, and a cunning borne of intelligent minds put to predatory purposes.





Once to awaken the wolves of Kurnous
Twice to sharpen the blade
Thrice to hearken the hunt to us
Where bloody murder be made



I've also come up with a bit of an idea for a 500pt (490pt) army for these (with models doing double-duty as INQ28 warbands and a 40k army). These Hounds of the Hunt will be counts-as Striking Scorpions. Raodruin will be a counts-as Visarch. Then I've got two squads of Hunters/Kabalites with Blasters, a squad of Howling Banshees and two Clawed Fiends (wait 'til you see what I've done for them!).

Might take a while if each model is as heavily converted as these guys, but 500pts isn't a terribly lofty goal so hopefully not too long

Very impressive work. I think for DE, too much blood is like too much dakka for orks. Something that can be strived for, but never achieved.

Love all the little fluff snippets. They really help bring everything to life.

That pose is perfect for him, it really does look like he's mid throw on that spear. Another great job dude.

Thanks guys!

I'm with you Nev it's like too many skulls for Khornates I'm starting to run out of fluff snippets for exodites :S better write some more!

That pose took a lot of farting about with a broom handle in real life! If you look at pictures of javelin throwers they're usually taking a run-up and look really odd, so I thought I'd go for a more graceful eldar-look for a spear throw. Turns out you can get a bit more power from a slow jog if you raise your knee and then rotate downwards so you sort of stamp into the ground as you throw (but your accuracy goes to pot a bit). Seems like it wouldn't be a problem for an eldar

Plus, it actually fit with the bits I had

Your dedication to the converting cause is amazing Ynneadwraith, doin that kinda work to get the pose right is exactly why your conversions come out with such believable personality.

Haha glad it's worth it must have looked more than a little strange to anyone looking on

They're Angvai I think, by the look of their banners. Belligerant warmongerers. In collusion with the cloners of the Dark Kin to bolster their forces, which has had a rather marked effect on their outlook. They maintain little of the reverance for Eldar life that other craftworlders hold. Why would you when you can just grow more? Be careful of them, cousin. Dangerous folk to associate with...or be within range of, come to think of it.







Deserters? If caught in the act they're shot on sight. Either that or sacrificed to wake the Avatar. Alas, there are enough of us who are…uneasy…with our treatment of our vat-born clones to mean that if we catch them after they've deserted it's a little less straight forwards. Usually, they're sent on suicide missions. Sometimes, if they come to us with something of value, they're pardoned, provided they continue to be useful. Either way, they have to prove that they are worth the life we have given them.







Yes, it's despicable, but what precisely would you have us do? Our world teetered on the brink. Unlike Iyanden, we weren't blessed with ranks upon ranks of wraith-shells with which to guard our survivors. Our pact with the Dark Kin has provided us with numbers, but numbers which are ill-suited to craftworld life. They must be forged anew in the crucible of war, taught stricture and discipline. Once they have proven themselves, they are granted citizenship, and all the safety the craftworld provides. The blood of a hundred thousand Eldar stains our hands, but a hundred thousand more survive because of us.





I suppose on some level they know that they are murderers. Why else would they adorn themselves with the bloody hand of Khaine?





Now I remember why I moved to painting models on a more individual basis! I'm just not cut out for batch-painting :S although saying that I'm dead proud of these guys that little bit of extra weathering really hits a sweet spot of what I was after with making Craftworlders look a little grittier than your usual clean-cut paint schemes (not that there's anything wrong with those mind, just not my style).

In a fit of masochism I've also decided to start naming my dudes on the back of their bases, purely because I really like the idea adds a great deal of immediately visible personality to a warband which for now I feel is worth the hand cramp!



It's also given me the opportunity to link in the fluff of my Outcasts with the Craftworld they were cast out from remember this bit of fluff?

Why did I desert? I'll tell you why. They didn't even give me a name. 'Warborn', is what they called me. One of thousands upon thousands, dragged from the vats of Commorragh, dressed in the uniform of Craftworld life and thrown into the meat-grinder of their pointless wars. I gave myself my name the day I deserted. Do you know what Ilgaith means? No longer faceless... - Ilgaith who Wanders

Well, I've followed that through



Next on the painting table is some more exodites which I can't wait to share. Got some rather creepy ideas for what just how grimdark the exodite world of Selesti has become...

Fantastic job on those storm guardians dude, the wych legs pair very nicely with the Guardian torsos. The weathering compliments your style very nicely. Kind of makes me want to start a small Corsair force...

Thanks dude!

I'd love to see your take on a Corsair force it's a lot easier than it seems to just mash Craftworld, Harlequin and Dark Eldar bits together and come out with something that looks really cool

While doing a Corsair force would be awesome I just simply don't have the time unfortunately. My poor DE force is barely getting finished at all right now and that project isn't where I want it to be yet.

Warborn - great metal band name or song name Totally robbing that

Great models again, and really like the fluff. Especially the way you have them broken up with pictures. Reads really well and a great narrative you've got going

More good stuff. Solid additions to the force and the lore.

Thanks guys!

@I_F Yeah I get the downsides of multiple projects especially when time's tight. Despite having 22 pages of project log and a pace that's actually surprised me a little I still don't have an even halfway functional army precisely because I'm doing about 8 at once managed to rationalise that one by saying that the 'project' itself is worldbuilding rather than army building

@Boundless Apparently I have a penchant for metal names 'buy Warborn now, the latest album by The Khaine's Ravens'

Should start a band if I had any ounce of musical talent

Glad you like the fluff too, and glad it's readable it's one of my favourite things about 40k, but even myself who loves it gets bogged down with some of the essays that people write. It's great for getting ideas crystallised, and I've done my fair share of War and Peace analogues, but it's not exactly a reader-friendly medium...

So I took a leaf out of the 40k codices themselves Show, don't tell. If you do tell, don't tell much. Give people a little flavour about what stuff's like and let them fill in the background with their own imaginations

Thanks Youwashock eventually there will be a 'force' for them to be part of

Selesti was once akin to any other maiden world, a lush and verdant paradise.

No longer.

The gifts of the Plaguefather had reaped their toll, and even after he had been expunged the exodites struggled to recover their shattered ecologies. Their last-ditch ploy to stem the foetid tide had collapsed their webway gates, dashing the hopes of outside aid. Desperate measures were taken to ensure their survival.



See those insects buzzing yonder? They are not flesh and blood, but little wraithbone constructs, flitting about like clockwork mayflies. Our ancestors sung them into being. Created to balance our stricken biome, to replace those vital functions that were lost, and to forge anew a world adapted to our desertified conditions.



In ancient days we were capable of giving life and intelligence almost an equal to our own. Those days have long since passed. These little clockwork constructs we can produce are little more than children's toys. They are not enough to maintain our world, or our people.

We rediscovered the great life-engines of our ancestors, lying dormant beneath the barren sands. We discovered that channelling our world-spirit through them would imbue them with life oncemore. We crafted new bodies for our departed souls, amalgams of flesh and wraithbone in reverance of our lost fauna. Upon death, we are reborn as the beasts of the wild, our minds shaped to suit.





So it is that we hunt our ancestors through our world. A despicable desecration of our dead, they say. They do not see the honour it brings the Horned God. For is not everything, even eldar, prey to something?



But the life-engines are fickle. We discovered their purpose was not to create a haven as we had once believed. Late we learnt that their purpose was to create a jewel to be viewed from afar, splendid in its ferocious beauty. It is not just prey that stalks our skeletal land. Predators lurk deep within its reaches. Rare is the eldar that can reach their minds now, so changed are they by the process.





Thought I'd have a go at a slightly different way of worldbuilding/showing new dudes I've made won't do it for everything, but offering little teasers of new models alongside fluff is definitely a fun way of telling a story here's the new models in a clearer set of pics

Thraoren, Huntfather, Son of Kurnous. Hound of the Hunt










Counts-as Striking Scorpion Exarch in 40k (I gather Biting Blades are in in 8th) or an exodite warrior in Inquisimunda/INQ28.

Exodite Hunters














Counts as Kabalite Warriors in 40k (needs a Blaster and a Sybarite seeing as they're free now), or ganger-equivalents for INQ28/Shadow War (if they ever release non-Wyches).

The Beast that was once Muirnuil








Counts-as Clawed Fiend in 40k (or Khymaerae/Ur-Ghul/Grotesque depending on how the mood takes me...)

And finally the Exodite Warhost of Selesti so far





Approaching an army! Just need to finish the squad of Hunters/Kabalite and add another, finish the squad of Hounds of the Hunt/Scorpions, do another Beast/Clawed Fiend and sort a squad of counts-as Howling Banshees

Hope you like the fluff too. I really wanted to turn up the grimdark with exodites but I was wondering how I might take it further than I already have. Inspired by the Thorne Moons stuff over on Iron Sleet where there's a whole ecology of twisted techno-biological humans, and the whole 'there are no wolves on Fenris' thing I thought 'what if Selesti is to all intents and purposes a dead world, or at least inches away from death, populated solely by Eldar and the weird clockwork wraithbone techno-biological creatures they've created in a desperate attempt to keep themselves alive?'. Things that blur the line between technological artefacts, biological beings and eldar themselves.

I'm currently weighing up whether there's any non-eldar life on Selesti at all. Whether the few animals left are treated with reverence and a source of status among the Lords of Selesti, or if basically everything is dead apart from the eldar and they've created (unintentionally twisted) techno-biological facsimiles to replace their ecosystem.

Another neat thought is that when they invade another planet they can effectively 'Selesti-form' it by setting up one of their life engines and a rudimentary infinity circuit. Even dead worlds would be fair game

Oh, it also means that every single one of them qualifies as a cannibal. Savage indeed...

Those things are adorable! Make some more!

Haha thanks man

I do plan on making a bit of a menagerie. They're really fun to make

I love those constructs. You have so many great ideas I need to steal...

Some fantastic fluff to accompany the new models, very unique and intriguing. I think you hit the nail on the head with the grimdark feel here, terrible living conditions, little to no hope of improvements, survival at any cost but just enough of a chance at a future to keep one moving forward to see what comes next. The force is growing very nicely too, great job.

Amazing as always. Just enough backstory. For some reason they remind me those little aliens from Men in Black that drink the coffee. They look mischievous!

All your stuff is great, but I think you need some heavy support. I think something like the Drycha Hamadreth might convert nicely into some sort of tank or heavy walker, just saying!

Just superb. Presentation, modeling, the whole bit. Love those little critters.

Thanks a ton guys! Really glad you like them

Steal away Inquisitor Bob it's always nice for people to see their ideas live on outside their own work, especially when people do their own takes on them

You've got it absolutely right there I_F the phrase 'just how far people are prepared to go to survive' is basically the motto of 40k as far as I'm concerned

Actually Boundless I do have a Drycha model knocking around that I sort of had a go at a while ago. I'm feeling an exodite dragon-construct coming along...

Glad you like the presentation side of things Youwashock it's definitely something I'll pick up at some point. If and when I get some scenery made I was thinking of trying to make some short comic-strip style things which would be great fun this was kind of a tester for an early stage of that

Rest assured there will be more critters, big and small

Why do you keep her blind? We know you have the means to heal her.



She is our seer. Our Lileathan Dreamer. Child of the Prophet-god. She is blind that she may see what others do not.





The maiden sighed deeply as the narcotic-laced haze began to take effect, so deep in fact that one might easily mistake it for relief. It was the saccade of her sightless eyes that gave it away as something deeper than a simple numbing stupor. But this time...this time something felt wrong.



Like a shot she bolted upright, whirling around in a frenetic dance. Her wheeling feet carved out three circles in the sand faster than her attendant crones could react.







The middle-crone howled an ear-splitting shriek, piercing the moment and snapping the dreamer girl from her trance. The Elder's spear swept across the earth, hastily breaking the fell sigil.



As the gathered crones attended to the collapsed dreamer-girl the Elder leant close, inspecting the broken symbols. In the centre of each pooled greening brackish water. It didn't take her prodigious interpretive skill to decypher what this omen portended. Written clear as day.



'Find the Godborn Lord,' the Elder croaked, 'the Hunt must be gathered. Tell him the Plaguefather returns to claim his due.'

You are really on a roll now. That group shot at the end is awesome. What a lineup. Looking forward to seeing the story progress.

Thanks man! I find I tend to half-paint a lot of stuff and then finish it all in one go so stuff tends to come in bursts alas these guys were the last of my half-painted batch so might be a little while til some more materialise, but hopefully not too long

Still, that's the basic core of the army the latest Crone is the exarch of a counts-as Howling Banshees squad. Then it's just filling stuff out and I'm good for 500pts

I also wanted to do some more background models like the little raptor-construct and the Lileathan Dreamer (although the latter could possibly double as a Warlock). Perhaps some more civilian-types to flesh out the tribe

All these ideas, not enough time!

This might be some of my favourite fluff you've written. The reasoning behind why she's kept blind was just so damn poetic it was beautiful. As for the models themselves they're awesome, I especially love how you painted her eyes and I can see from the model itself that she's blind. The faint reddish ring around her eyes tells of either damaged sight, recent tears or more likely both. Great job.

Thanks man! Really glad you like it both the fluff and the dreamer girl

I love the idea that the reddish ring isn't solely caused by her blindness but also tears. While seeing the future can be as much a curse as a blessing in a lot of universes, I can't imagine that the gift of prophesy in the 40k universe is a pleasant experience.

Necessary for survival absolutely, but pleasant? That I doubt...

The eyes themselves were dead simple really Pallid Wych Flesh dabbed with a Bloodletter wash and then picked out with Pallid Wych Flesh again. Nothing like a single milky eye to make someone look like a hard-case

Oh, and another thought I had a while ago about the 40k universe in general, relating to the blind seer girl. In general, the universe of 40k is a horrible awful place where pretty much everything is worse than the present day. However, in a couple of ways it's remarkably enlightened for a crapsack world*. As far as I can tell the Imperium seems to treat men and women equally poorly, so hey that's technically a bonus. Same with race. When faced with aliens that consume entire worlds wholesale suddenly one's country of origin doesn't matter so much.

The other thought I had is that there basically isn't such a thing as disability in the 40k universe. Think about it. Between 50 and 100% of any given army's models will technically be amputees, limbs replaced with bionics. Similarly Surdilaidh's blindness hardly seems to hinder her.

Not really sure where I was going with that, but hey. It's a neat thought

*http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsackWorld

Love that new seer model. The eyes are great too. Has a twang of ancient greek mythology as well. All seers that were blind could see into the future/next world as they weren't distracted by what's in front of them

Thanks man! Glad you like her that reminds me, must dig out my old books of Greek mythologies to see what inspiration I can find there

Oh, just thought I'd post a little WIP pic. First proper foray into GS! First one I'm happy sharing at least



Couple of test models to get used to fur and cloth and I'll be set I think

Great stuff. Love your "dark and strange" take on the eldar with the use of fantasy bits.


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The way you've made the tree things look sci fi is also excellent.

The collar's coming out good. Between that and the pose that guy's got some authority. For some reason also drawn to the guy lurking on the far left.

Thanks Kestral! Really glad you like them

Thanks Youwashock for the next attempt I'd like to try and make it look a little more unkempt, but for a Craftworlder I suppose neatness is fitting

The guy on the far left will actually be a test-piece for doing ragged cloth, and another attempt at porting over a fantasy character/concept to 40k his working title is 'The Wight King', so that should be really fun

Axe guy conversion is looking proper sick. Love the pose.

Thanks dude it's an idea I've been wanting to try out for ages, but only just got round to doing. Basically trying to inject a little more aesthetic differences to the big 5 craftworlds beyond just paint schemes. So Saim Hann that look tribal, Biel Tan that look militaristic (and now slightly homeless after the Fracture), Ulthwe bedecked with charms. Sort of liek this stunning pic of the Legions:



Because Lord knows I don't have enough projects already...

These new conversions look absolutely badass dude. The one on the right with the axe and the one on the far left are the two that have my interest the most, those poses are just deadly.

Absolutely beautiful. Your conversion work, painting skill, and narrative is excellent. I can almost envision a Witcher 3 or Dark Souls style game woth the aesthetic and, story you've put together.

Thanks a ton dude really glad you like them

I'd absolutely love a Witcher-style game set in the 40k universe. What a phenomenal idea the sort of idea behind these was to try and build a compelling setting for this particular sliver of the galaxy, so glad to hear that's working!

Also, I'd meant to save this guy for after my Biel Tan dude was finished as there's a little fluff piece of them together tying them into everyone else, but apparently I'm not a patient man so here's my latest little experiment

Osutharal, Kinsman of the Clans










First contact:

I always do love elves with axes.

Oh, yeah. That tattoo is money.

Thanks guys yeah i was dead chuffed with the tattoo. Wanted it to look vaguely polynesian but no idea if that comes across :S

Not sure if the red armour looks a little flat. My usual tactic of making things look grubby by doing a drybrush anti-highlight of Rhinox Hide doesn't seem to work as well on dark reds. Definitely looks better in person, but not as solid of a technique on reds.

What do people think?

Oh, and elves with axes are awesome

Very late to the party but loving catching up through the thread. Great conversions and I love the colour palette you've chosen, it compliments the models perfectly. Whats up next?

 Ynneadwraith wrote:
The middle-crone howled an ear-splitting shriek, piercing the moment and snapping the dreamer girl from her trance. The Elder's spear swept across the earth, hastily breaking the fell sigil.

^ From what is easily my favorite post of this space elf adventure you're on (the tree-bone critters one came close tho). Great conceptual combination of modeling and narrative, and super-digging the Croneworlders in general

- Salvage

Thanks Salvage! It's always interesting to see which things people like most also, if changing the title of threads didn't cause people confusion in finding things I'd definitely be changing it to 'Ynnead's Space Elf Adventure'

Glad you like them Regnak as for what's next I'm not sure!

Usually what happens is I have a neat idea for a character at work, and then seeing as I can't get cracking straight away I write up a little bit of fluff in a lunch break. Then, depending on how much I wind up liking each little fluff segment I bump the idea up the pecking order

Based on that, it's either a Biel Tan Exile or the chappy on the far left of the WIP pic above

Super badass dude, he's one deadly looking Eldar. Love the head tattoo, it came out great.

Thanks man! Glad you like him I've tidied up the head tattoo slightly (like the little bit where I slipped and it's touching his mouth) and trying out the white chipping/weathering which I haven't quite got the hang of yet but it has broken up the big block of red a little better

I've got my Biel Tan dude modelled now so I'll share the updates alongside him turns out doing cloth tabards is a little trickier than fur ruffs, but not too bad

And done!



And so they come, worming through the webway towards us. The other self-interested, drawn to events like moths to a flame. The Beltane, the Hanni. Curious who it is to see who these ripples of fate will affect.



Endil the Beltane, the Homeless, the Little-more-than-Corsair. Greetings.





Osutharal the Snake, the Wildling, the Barbarian. Good that you are here, the more we might understand these savage natives.









How may the humble Angvai be of assistance?

These two are part of another idea I had about expanding the aesthetic differences of the 'big 5' craftworlds beyond paintjob and army composition (because why have one project when you can have a dozen at the same time?).

It also gives me an opportunity to flesh out how my homebrew craftworld interacts with others, which boils down to insults, disdain and the shadow of a deep-rooted inferiority complex. Basically I read up on how the Spartans treated everyone they ever met and applied that to my belligerent, bellicose, short-tempered eldar

I love that axe guy! His tattoos are amazing, and its a great way to use those awesome wraith guard axes (I built my guys with blasters and kinda regret it).

Thanks man! Yeah those axes (and swords) are awesome. Last box of wraithguard i think i must have bought just before wraithblades were a thing :S

They're a little oversized for regular dudes, but in the world of heroic scale they just about work

Right! I need some input I think.

Much though I really like Osutharal, he hasn't quite captured what I was after for a Saim Hann Wild Rider. Perhaps the fur ruff isn't unkempt enough, but he's lacking a bit of the 'wild and barbaric' look that I was hoping for.

So, how do I go about fixing that? Someone on the INQ28 boards mentioned replacing his pointing finger with a hand holding a severed head which sounds like a kickass idea

I was also thinking of clipping some of the little teeth charms off a Space Wolf torso and dotting them around, and maybe a topknot of some sort...

What do you think? Any other ideas?

Topknot? Maybe a bigger cloak?

Yeah topknot I was thinking would be a good idea everyone loves a topknot. Well, every eldar does anyway. Honestly I think at least 50% of the bare eldar heads have some form of topknot. Must be why this one looks incomplete without one!

Basically I'm trying to pitch his barbaric backwardness somewhere between 'wears a fur coat' and 'wears the skulls of animals as helmets'. A happy medium between the two would be perfect

I think a long tattered cloak would look good on him. I like the teeth charms idea, if you have anything else that looks like a trophy that could work too

I like the idea of charms and other trophies. i am less sold on the topknot*, i actually think the bare head looks better for this sort of look

*ok maybe i'm just not sold on topknots in general, for anyone, but that's my own taste

Have you considered a hunting bird, like an eldar equivalent to a falcon? His outstretched hand would be an easy fix, and could certainly add to a barbaric / hunter-gatherer feel

Oh, that's a good idea, i vote bird now! i know that the kairic acolyte kits have a nice odd looking bird that could be a fun base for conversions too

Good ideas guys!

I am partial to a topknot myself, and I do think it would add a bit more height to him which would be welcome, but I am also pretty fond of the bald head (that's why I chose that head rather than a topknot one to begin with). I think I'll see if I can trial something first before I go scratching any paint off...

I like the idea of a hunting bird I've actually got one of the Kairic Acolyte birds but it's huge! Would completely outbalance the rest of the mini, but would be perfect for a standalone model that's part of his retinue methinks

My first thought was actually long tattered cloak, but the long tattered cloak thing was a look I'd ascribed to my Biel Tan guys (seeing as I wanted them to look like they'd had a rough time, being refugees). Wanted to make each craftworld look really distinct. I have however found one of the little fur pelts from the Chaos Marauders kit in my bitzbox (the lowest one in the pic) which might do nicely as a bit of a half-cloak thing:



If I don't use those ideas with this particular guy I do plan on expanding each craftworld retinue out to at least 3,maybe 6 people so it's all good ideas in the mixing pot for those

You craft amazing models and amazing stories to go with them; it's a joy to read your blog

I recommend more charms (SW-esque), and perhaps a pelt over something or other. More tattoos, maybe? The barbarian aesthetic is a bit hard to not overdo.

Kurnost wrote:
You craft amazing models and amazing stories to go with them; it's a joy to read your blog

Thanks dude! Really glad you like them

 Verviedi wrote:
I recommend more charms (SW-esque), and perhaps a pelt over something or other. More tattoos, maybe? The barbarian aesthetic is a bit hard to not overdo.

Yeah overdoing it was what I was worried about. I wanted him to stand next to my other craftworlders and for people to think 'this guy looks like a barbarian', and then put him next to my exodites and have people think 'actually...you know what he looks positively civilised'. So a balance of barbarism, rather than full-on Conan the Technobarbarian

I think the idea of ading one charm at a time, and then adding a pelt or two gradually until he's looking suitably uncouth is the way forwards. Shall post him up when I've had a crack at that

Well, haven't touched Osutharal yet but I have been busy



To put it simply, he's no prophet…he's a warlord. He cares not for the salvation of the eldar. In truth I cannot fathom his motives. As far as I can scry his sole aim is to tear his enemies asunder. A blunt instrument by which Ynnead enacts her will.







I have travelled there once, to the derelict palace of the Wight King. The flickering hulk of a dead craftworld adrift in the void, shrouded in nebulae. I don't know of its name, nor its true location. Only that the forces he has amassed are terrible indeed. Ranks upon ranks of his barrow-wights. Terrifying and glorious to behold.





30 years ago to the day a lone figure staggered through the empty ghost-halls of Iyanden, swatting at the whispers of the dead seeping through the walls around him.

"Hear me Dead God," he howled through the tears. "My life, my soul in eternal servitude. I am yours to command. This I offer you. With but one condition...you bring her back."









I've had the idea for the Wight King for ages but only just got round to making him stemmed from the whole porting characters from Fantasy/AoS over to 40k with a twist, and then I saw this kickass model and thought 'I need that'



Next issue was that I'd run out of plastic robes and suchlike and the GS capes were a little hard to master. However, a very helpful chap over on the INQ28 boards pointed me towards this tutorial for making them out of tissue paper and it worked brilliantly (I did coat them in superglue once they'd dried to give some extra stiffness): http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/286080-tutorial-capes-made-from-tissue/

I've also had the Yvraine model knocking around from my Triumvirate that I'd half-cannibalised and didn't really know what to do with until I saw this drop-dead gorgeous Null-assassin model by a chap called Exanimus:



Finally triggered an idea! My Wight King needs a Corpse Bride

That helped tie together a whole host of neat things it ties into the idea that Ynnari keep gravitating to a prophet/guardian model in a sort of instinctive symbolism thing after Yvraine and the Visarch. It also gives the Wight King a solid-gold reason to pledge his soul to the eldritch god of the dead

Another thing it does is the first step along a bit of a worldbuilding idea I had. Basically each of my little INQ28 warbands that are taking their first fumbling steps into the Scar are backed up by more powerful factions behind them with motives entirely their own (not necessarily supportive of the motives of their compatriots). So, like the beginnings of WW1 the scrapping arguments of little polities rope in their bigger and more powerful friends until tensions fray and war erupts



The last thing these guys do is finally give me something that shows off just what I was aiming for with the Ynnari paint scheme (shown off best when contrasted with my Dark Eldar):



They're the ghosts of living eldar

Busy, indeed. I knew I liked the look of that guy for a reason. Awesome character. His Yvraine is also a fabulous model. The wight host looks great. Like serial killer Wraithguard. Good stuff. As a complete aside I think I am in love with that null-maiden. Lovely inspiration.

Insane conversions man, that Yvraine especially is gorgeous in a twisted way.

The contrast with your Dark Eldar really helps sell the whole thing. They'd look great as an allied force together on the field, if you ever decided to do that.

Goes to show you how a consistent style of painting can sometimes trump even very disparate colour schemes. Really impressive work.

Thanks guys! Really glad you like them

I absolutely love that Null-maiden as well. One of those moments where you kick yourself because you didn't think of it first still, absolutely happy with my version too. 'Gorgeous in a twisted kind of way' is perfect

You've hit the nail on the head with what I was hoping would work on these guys. Different colour schemes, but using a consistent palette between all of them (vary shades of tans, browns, gold/bronze metallics and reds) and giving each faction a strong internal consistency would hopefully tie them together.

The only ones that don't quite fit into that as well as I'd like are my Corsairs, but I'm rather fond of the black/red/gold colour scheme so that's here to stay

Actually, thinking about it the idea of keeping consistency of colours isn't anything particularly special to what I'm up to everyone does it with all of their armies

That Wight King dude is amazing. Really intimidating pose. First thing I thought of was Cloud from FF7

Thanks man glad you like him.

Yeah the pose and honking great sword are pretty Cloud-like

Great job! Those ynnari are some of your best work, and that's really saying something. The paint job is great, altough it could use another highlight on the masks to make them stand out.

These are the first Ynnari that I really got aesthetically, thanks to that muted-as-feth color scheme and menacing faceless / tall vibe. Previously Ynnari have just looked like a mashup of Eldar models done for gamey purposes (which I assume most Ynnari forces on the table are, quite frankly), but yours have a real focus and life to them. Plus they do look very striking against their other space elf brethren (which also goes for said brethren!)

- Salvage

Thanks guys! Glad you like them

One more highlight on the visors would be a good idea yeah i'm slightly wary of painting over the skull-shadow on the Wight King though as i've just managed to get it perfect! Easy to miss on first glance, but once you spot it that's all you can see

I'm with you on the depiction of other Ynnari too. While i like the visuals of the Visarch that sort of blend all of the various eldar aesthetics together, the whole 'just take regular dudes and paint them red' struck me as missing a trick.

The sheer potential in the phrase 'Eldar Death Cult' shouldn't be squandered with nothing but a paint job to differentiate them

I have seen some people do cool stuff with the whole blended aesthetic too, but that was sort of what Corsairs look like so I wanted to do something different

Update!

What?! Are you insane?! I've met some truly unhinged eldar in this fair city…but this. This puts them all to shame. Consume the soul of a Bloodthirster? Cure your thirst? Utter insanity. I will have no part in it.



What do you mean it worked...







Just what the hell are you...



Had another idea around the whole winged vampire lord model I like so much following the whole idea of porting AoS/Fantasy characters/concepts into the 40k universe I was reading up about Abhorash, the progenitor Blood Dragon vampire who slew a dragon, drank its blood and cured his thirst.

With Dark Eldar being basically soul-vampires, I thought 'what if a Dark Eldar was insane enough to try and consume the soul of a daemon and try and cure their thirst'. What if, against all odds, it worked. It would have to be a Khornate daemon given their patron's rivalry. It would have to be a Bloodthirster, otherwise everyone would have tried it (and it's more fitting to the Fantasy legend).

Definitely see it as an example of 'Gone Horribly Right' though. Containing that much volatile, alien and intelligent energy within oneself would be produce some significant and mutable side-effects. Plus, it opens up the door to being influenced by the Blood God. A whisper in the ear, an inexplicable urge.

And so it is that a third Ruinous Power gains an unwitting agent within the Eldar...

My two Blood Dragons side-by-side mirrored and opposed.



All I need now is a name. Abhorax? Abhoraish?

:| That's not an AoS thing, that's a proper Warhammer Fantasy thing. :| :| #iswearimnotagrognard

But anyway, it's an interesting idea. Not sure how it wouldn't just end up with straight-up possession though...

Make Tzeetchdar a thing!!

My mistake! Forgot all the good characters come from Fantasy

That was sort of the idea. One bonkers DEldar coming up with the idea of consuming a Bloodthirster's soul. Everyone else just nopes out, thinking that it's a direct route to possession and the worst idea since the god of sex parties.

Against all expectation...it works, and this just freaks everyone out even more.

In the Fantasy legend it portrays Abhorash as being someone of incredibly strong will and conviction. Perhaps his 40k equivalent has similar strength of will which allowed him to retain some semblance of agency. I don't see it as an easy task though. More a constant struggle with a supremely powerful, malignant and intelligent entity that now shares your body and really rathers it didn't...

Add that to the idea that you'd have no idea which of your thoughts and actions were your own and it's definitely a case of Gone Horribly Right

Hell, there's always the possibility that it didn't work at all, he has been straight-up possessed, and the daemon is simply letting him believe he's managing to keep control for its own nefarious purposes.

Consuming the souls of daemons. Not even once kids


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 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
Make Tzeetchdar a thing!!

I really want to! I was thinking it would be neat if each of the Chaos Gods (and each of the extant Eldar ones) each had their own roped-in/unwitting/involuntary agents and pawns that they've brought together to try and influence the events that are unfolding with my exodites rejoining the galaxy at large (sort of similar to how the Greek Gods played games with mortal champions).

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Slaanesh has her Croneworlders, sent to claim what's hers by birthright.

Nurgle has his Blightdar, sent to bring them into the fold (it's the planets he's really after, but he hasn't told the Blightdar that).

Khorne has the Blood Dragon, sent to ensure slaanesh doesn't succeed in the bloodiest manner possible.

Ynnead has the Wight King, hers by infernal bargain, and the Prophet who actually believes in the Dead God.

Khaine has the Young King, sent to save the eldar (but viewed through the mindset of a psychopathic murder-god).

Then there are my Craftworld Eldar (and their Commorrite and Corsair associates), who through hubris and desperation think they as mortals can play at the games of the Gods.

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Need to think of something for Tzeentch though. For some reason he's the one I've been having the most difficulty coming up with motivations for. Slaanesh is obvious, Khorne is there just to stop Slaanesh and Nurgle previously held the region so wants it back.

Without shoehorning in some ancient piece of knowledge that exists solely to gain Tzeentch's attention I'm not sure how to work him in.

Oh, and Harlequins. The Laughing God needs his representatives. Perhaps I should do it so each faction has a Harlequin guiding them along, even if their aims are conflicting. Seems like a good way of suggeating that there's some greater plot afoot and the Harlequins are orchestrating something no-one's cottoned onto yet. Always thought they were slippery bastards...

Very cool man, I love what you did with the one leg, a well executed conversion.

Your work here is awesome!

I'm seeing Soul Reaver, I'm seeing Gargoyles, I'm seeing old school vampires.

I'm seeing only good things. I very much like the paint on the wing. It's raw and visceral. Fitting.

Abharessk? Abhorainn?

Thanks guys!

The idea behind the one mutated leg (and the wing/horn/eye is that he's sort of mutating from one side to the other. Sort of like Prince of Persia: Two Thrones where the sand-infection is gradually encroaching on the rest of his body.

I was also thinking that the mutation is a little more volatile in nature. Basically when Abhoressk (thanks Youwashock!) loses focus a little, intentionally or unintentionally, his form sort of vomits forth its mutated form from within and he has to wrest control back. Useful in an unreliable gak-scary shapeshifty way, but each time he loses concentration the mutation encroaches further...

Oh, and the mutation is probably more intelligent than you are and hates you.

Glad you like the paint on the wing Youwashock raw is precisely what I was after there. Sort of a mix between inflamed skin and khornate daemon.

Oh man I'd forgotten about Soul Reaver (and the Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain games). Fantastic games, ideas and worldbuilding in those tons of inspiration to draw on...

Blood omen... oh man the memories built in there. Anything inspired by those masterpieces is going to be amazing. Loving the lore in this man, the description for how his mutation works is awesome. And I wouldn't take the mutation hating you personally, being khorne it probably hates everyone.

 Inevitable_Faith wrote:
Blood omen... oh man the memories built in there. Anything inspired by those masterpieces is going to be amazing. Loving the lore in this man, the description for how his mutation works is awesome. And I wouldn't take the mutation hating you personally, being khorne it probably hates everyone.

Yeah I've just been re-reading the storylines for those games and the memories are flooding back brilliant edifices of imagination

Good point a Bloodthirster being the literal embodiment of the concept of Hate probably precludes it from hating the Blood Dragon any more than it would anyone else

Hey Ynneadwraith, have you heard about the Nurgle-corrupted Eldar mentioned in Codex: Death Guard yet? I have quoted it below for your convenience:

Awesome! Somewhat exonerated in having chaos-tainted eldar. Not that anyone's actually had a problem with them to be honest, rule of cool and all

I've been thinking about a big of a re-paint for my Blightdar actually (not grimy enough) so I could tie it into that not sure about the red, low contrast and all, but having an off-white base colour would really showcase all the icky washes.

Ooh! If Malariel is an ex-Saim Hann dude then that'd be the perfect way to tie in my actual Saim Hann dude Osutharal he's been hunting down his former kinsmen and followed them here.

I love new fluff snippets!

Oh, I've also got an update! This guy's been 99% built for ages but I've been waiting for a Harlequin's Caress to come in stock on bits sites. Finally got bored of waiting and just ordered a Harly kit (£15 for one bit!). Sure i'll use the rest though

Alileath felt for the presence of the seer, reaching out with her psychic senses. From high above the seer appeared as a placid lake, barely a ripple disturbing its cool surfaces. Familiar. The Path of the Seer required utmost concentration. Damnation awaited those who wavered. However, this time curiosity got the better of her. She leant in closer, desiring to look beneath the surface. Instantly she wished he hadn't. Roiling, seething rage howled beneath the placid surface. Loss, anger, desperation. Wailing around and around and around doing nought but gather momentum. Sweet mother Isha. What kind of mind could hammer that into submission. Alileath couldn't decide whether to be reassured or terrified that such a mind was leading the Angvai.





'Bellatheral' they call him. 'Warmaker'. Never had a name been more fitting.





Bellatheral stalked the ruined battlefield. Around him his warriors fought and fell. The might of the mon keigh filth was strong here, but he couldn't stop now. After all they'd been through, after all they'd lost. To give up now would be unthinkable. They must prevail.





An axe-wielding brute charged towards him, shrieking its litanies and chants. As their gaze met Bellatheral momentarily shunted all of his grief, all of his loss, all of his anger directly into the poor primitive's brain. His moment of catharsis was rather marred by bits of the unfortunate creature striking his armour.

Perhaps some day he'll have transferred the very last drop and the momentary tranquillity would last forever, but as yet that well had proven bottomless.

Another sweet character appears.

I like that pose a lot. He looks like an old West gunslinger.

"Draw, mon-keigh."

That is a really badass Farseer. Wow. Could you tell us how you converted that up?

Thanks guys! You're right he does look like a gunslinger bit unfair though. Can't help but think that the Farseer would blow the poor mon keigh's brains out before he even touched the trigger. Just like the eldar to stack the deck

The conversion didn't actually use that many extra bits. The right hand is a Harlequin's Caress, the base is from the High Elf Mage I think (but you can use other stuff) and the holstered sword is from the Eldrad kit.

The actual work was in rejigging around the bits of the Farseer model so he's standing upright, clipping off the sleeves and repositioning them pointing downwards, and bending the fingers slightly so they're a little clenched rather than the typically eldar overextension

Bit nerve-wracking chopping up a character model, but it's actually quite tricky to wreck stuff beyond repair so don't let that stop you!

Really like his background too. Conversion is pretty seamless - great work!

Gorgeous conversion work, as always. I really like the kind of storm Guardians too.

Thanks guys it's been great fun coming up with angry-marines eldar also, I was quite fond of the idea that if you transfer the depth of anger and grief an eldar can feel into a human their head explodes

The Storm Guardians are one of those dead simple kitbashes that look much better than their simple conversion has any right to they're just Wych legs, Guardian torsos and Harlequin weapons but they work really nicely

I love the pose of your farseer! Looks ace brother, well done!

Thanks dude yeah I'm chuffed with how he turned out.

I had an idea of trying to make it look like some of the gravel and sand beneath his feet was floating up with eldritch power but lord knows how I'd manage that without the modelling looking obvious...

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS YET?!



THE BONESINGER'S COMING BACK!!!!

What?! Awesome! I've always wanted one of those but managed to miss the window and they're ludicrously expensive second hand.

That and I love the winged and Banshee-masked Autarch. Another favourite I never managed to pick up. Had an idea of trying to cast his head in resin as it's such a cool bit...

If the price is right GW's going to be getting yet more of my money

I wonder if they'll be metal or Finecast...

Tzeentch and Hrlequins should go together like death and taxes. Plots within plots within plots. But is Tzeentch using the Harlequin or is it vice versa?

I would love to see an avatar of The Laughing God converted out of the Deceiver.


Abhoranash?

Mmm yeah they do go together really nicely Plots within plots within plots. I like that

A Laughing God Avatar would be so damn cool especially made from The Deceiver (I've got a bit of headcanon that Cegorach is the eldar's manifested racial memory of The Deceiver during the War in Heaven, so the parallels would be neat).

Actually, I think I've got an old Deceiver metal model knocking around. Shall see if I can find it

Just now found this blog, and I must say: really nice conversions page after page!

Especially like the dynamic poses you got going for pretty much all of the models. And that farseer is very badass!

Thanks man! Really glad you like them

I haven't given up on this thread either, just focusing on the Iron Sleet Invitational at the moment be plenty of eldar to come once that's sorted

Wow! Over a year since I last posted anything in this thread. However, the Blackstone Fortress ranger model has enticed me back to making something eldar.

First order of the day is to 'de-pinup' her pose. I can see what they were going for with the stock pose, but I tend to prefer stuff that's more gritty and realistic to the more bombastic regular 40k stuff. My golden rule is that each model should look like someone's taken a snapshot while it's going through some other motion in its day-to-day life. The only people who get a 'strike a pose/try to look heroic' pose are those whose character fits it (Imperial nobles work, as would Night Lords given their predisposition towards theatricality).

Here's what I came up with









I don't usually post WIPs, but it might be a while before she sees paint. Hope you like her!

Great work on the posing, much better.

Finally! Been waiting for this thread to pop up again

Anyway, really well done. Looks a lot more realistic.
Did you get just this model or the whole box?

Your pose modification definitely looks better. I think "pin up" is fine, but I don't think the stock pose is even "pin up" at all. It's just bland and looks like it was done solely to fit a flat, single mold (even if it comes in more than one bit). Hopefully yours sees paint sooner than later!

Cooool. I'm with CapWaffles. Paint soon.

Great reposing... i'm a fan of the original mini but this is also very nice.

FTL

I love the model for BSF but the pose for it was as depressing to see as the DE archon pose. This is an absolute improvement over the stock pose. I completely agree with you about getting your models to look like they're in a snapshot of their daily life on the battlefield. Great work, can't wait to see some paint on it.

I agree the pose is an improvement - I thought the original was a bit weak when I saw it.