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When a year ago I took my Mishima Warzone army out of the closet to use them as proxies for 40K I decided to use the eldar codex as the closest one avaible. So far I have refrained from using official GW minis because:

1) I don´t like the helmets
2) The eldar are a pure sci fi army and I like the samurais in space look that warzone had.

But alas, due to the dearth of samurai-in-space minis avaible and the coming of the 5thed I have started converting some guardians into additional troops to boost my units.

1st some images of my support units, this is a paper model of a hovercraft in between a Vyper and a Falcon in size. I´ll use it as a Vyper and if I can rescale the pdf I´ll make a few more to count as a Falcon.

M.

Now the HW plataforms, I made this with small changes from a 20mm flak gun kit. Much better IMHO than the GW ones that I have around in my bits box.

And last for today the wip on the guardians. The heads are PigIron, the guns and backpack Hasslefree. I don´t know if I´ll sculpt/convert a katana for them or if I´ll use an IG chainsword.

M.

You may want to consider some of the Infinity Minis if you are looking for something along those lines.

Infinity? never heard about them not once and not especially the cool mechas

M.

You should adjust the settings on your camera. It looks like you have it set to panorama or something. You should look for a little button with a flower on it. Cool idea though, just see if you can get better pictures.

Cool heavy weapon platforms.

The guardian- That looks like a really nice concept... from what I can see.

If you have a spare moment, might you try another shot of that again, please? Those are really blurry.

As requested a couple new and improved shots. I´m working now with GS for the final mini I need to add a little bit more around the neck and work on the second arm.

M.

first thing I thought of was Urban war Triads, then I see you're way ahead of me.

Their retainer models might be good for guardians. their Dragonflys would be Swooping Hawks. Even better if you can get some Void Archangels.

Props again on the counts as army, always a fan of those. I like the PigIron heads on the guardian bodies, looks nice and sci-fi without the pointy lil' eldar heads.

Sleazy has some good ideas on counts as substitutions, and I'm interested in what other Warzone stuff you've got in the army already.

- Salvage

Urban Mammoth are selling the Void Archangels repacked!


now I think about it either the Triad Shogun or Void Bird of Prey would make awesome Wraithlords









there are variants with different weaponry too

sleazy wrote:

Thats like a space ogre ninja, which is pretty much 12 flavors of awesome!

I´m using Infinity TAGs as wraithlords. More battlefield flavor than the Urbanwar sumotori.

M.

Nice work! And the gun positions don't look too silly at all. Way to be a good example of counts-as collecting.

Man I love all those Pig Iron heads. I'm going to go order a few kolony rebel head sprues as soon as payday rolls around.

The mold lines on the weapons are not so hot, but easily dealt with. Might be better if you do that before sculpting, though.

cool work but some people might have a problem with the whole "majority must be GW thing"

Those people would either be GW store employees or the most massive tools in the universe. That rule applies to GW events, not pick-up games. Anyone who tried to pull that stuff at a game night might as well tattoo "Asshat" across their forehead.

Savnock wrote: Anyone who tried to pull that stuff at a game night might as well tattoo "Asshat" across their forehead.

If only we could find some to enforce that, I'd take up Tattooing

My camera is back so expect somenew photos about the status of my army soon.

M.

After playing around with the camera I made 2 good photos of the finished Storm Guardians, the sword is missing and the paint is WiP because I think I´ll fool around a little bit with the schemes.
The third picture is a not very good shot of my cupboard of sin showing my whole non-eldar eldars a cookie to the person that can id the most minis.

The backpacks are also stylin'. I must admit to beig skeptical whenever anyone tries to drastically alter a Jes Goodwin mini- but you've puled it off well.

looks awesome, very original. i recommend getting some Mongoose Publishing 'Starship Troopers' models. they are warhammer bases and are like a cross with humans and eldar in the model form. i think you would like them. anyway keep it up : )