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for fun
I love converting and scratchbuilding. Its an exercise for the imagination, eye and hand. Its what got me into this hobby. Im currently working on my CSM army and its good fun. I dont think a single fig in my army will be "out of the box". They will all have small tweaks or big changes. But you need some project on the side. And what is more different from CSM than Eldar? And different can be real fun.

for a challenge
Im not a huge fan of eldar. When I decided to start with 40k a couple of months ago I quickly decided that I wouldnt play eldar. Ive seen some awesome scratchbuilt revenant titans and beautiful eldar paintjobs. But you dont see that many eldar conversions. Everybody and their little brother is doing nurgle conversions. Just poke at some GS with a stick and youre done. But not eldar. And I like to convert so I didnt pick eldar for my team.

Then I found an old WD the other day in a toy store. Its from when the eldar codex and figs were being released. I thought Id buy it since it was cheap, I need to "catch up" on 40k and it had lots of lovely pics of eldar. I thought it could give me more insight into this colorfull race.

I quickly fell in love with the wraithlord figure. Its really nice. So nice that it deserves a much better pose! And some other tweaks... Maybe I should convert one? Now thats a challenge. If I can pull this off then I might be a newb to 40k not knowing the rules etc. But Ill surely be one step up on the ladder in the converters guild.

for sale
Thats actually the title on a pretty fun boardgame, but not what Im talking here. I do love the wraithlord fig but I dont play Eldar. One day I might but not atm. So I need my money back spent on materials for this project. Money I can spend on the next "for fun/challenge/sale"-project! So Im selling this baby ones its done. Im only converting it so you can paint it to fit your army.

nuff! On to pics!
Ive prepped the wraithlord so its ready to go under the knife (from now on Ill call the wraithlord WL for short. Ill be typing that a couple of times...). First though I need to figure out a few things. Lets start with pose. I want a dynamic pose. I like comic figures. They never just stand right up and down. I want this wraithlord to be in a battle stance. Im either thinking inspired by those green scorpion eldar guys, or the dancing female ones. Or FWs charging revenant...

(Well first Ill have to say that Ive been doing lots of thinking and researching by doin some quick concept sketches. Ive borrowd some pics from CMoN and elsewhere to doodle on)

If its gonna be a scorpio-guy then maybe dreadlocks too? Could be cool.


Even if its not getting dreads Im definately changing the position of the head, its size and the length of the upper body. Just slightly longer waist. Since the pose of my WL will be crouching a little the extra height wont be a big deal when it comes to TLOS.


Another idea for the head.


More sketches to come! Now I need your feedback. Tell me if your an eldar player or not. Since one of you will be the happy owner of this one day I need your opinions.

thanks for looking

that is such a killer idea, i hope you see it thorugh to the finish line!

wow, I don't play eldar but the moment I saw that second pic I thought it looked awesome, I suppose it would depend on how you are trying to fit it into an army, because the plume is very Dire Avenger-ish.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this because I've been considering trying to convert up a wraithlord myself and would like to see how easy(or far from it) it actually is.

Making him look like an Aspect Warrior is a very good idea because they are the ones resurected in a Phantomlord.

Not trying to derail your thread any here, but I thought I might pitch my Altansar Wraithlord in just because I thought I did okay with the pose.



The kits are insanely fun to work with. It's nearly an action figure.

Its fine jamsessionein to post a pic. Like your pose. Its got that chargin revenant feel to it. Nice scythe youve done there too. I want my WL to have a sword since I love swords but Im not sure if Im gonna make a new one or use the one in the kit. We will see. Once Ive nailed what sort of wl Im aming at I think itll be easier to decide on details like that.

And yea. Revenant. I like the head. Something like this perhaps?


or



c&c please!

And Drunkspleen. Have a look at GWs pages on converting a WL. All those poses are pretty simple to pull off.

My sketches on pose to come!

And Reecius, I hope to finish this too

xedric wrote:And Drunkspleen. Have a look at GWs pages on converting a WL. All those poses are pretty simple to pull off.

Did the Wraithlord get a new kit with the latest eldar dex or am I just crazy? I was expecting alot more metal in the kit than that

jamsessionein wrote:Not trying to derail your thread any here, but I thought I might pitch my Altansar Wraithlord in just because I thought I did okay with the pose.



The kits are insanely fun to work with. It's nearly an action figure.

I love the wraithlord conversion

Drunkspleen wrote:Did the Wraithlord get a new kit with the latest eldar dex or am I just crazy? I was expecting alot more metal in the kit than that

Yup. New lovely kit. All plastic. Easy to carve up

So the promised pose sketches. Sorry that theyre just quick 40 second sketches, but its just the general idea I want on paper. This is the one Im thinking of doing atm.



Right arm raised and back ready to strike both from above and below. Also sword point forward ready to thrust. A straight thrust at the opponents right opening or a french thrust on the left side. Its a stance I like



To clear up which arm is which I color coded them Hope that helps convey my messy sketch. Now Im off to cut up legs and arm. Then the pinning shall commence!



c&c always appreciated!

Time for an update on this little project. Magnets have arrived so I wanna get the body done so I can start magnetize all the guns and stuff

First up is getting that pose. I cut both legs at the knees. I cut under the knee pad since I want to make a new bigger one thats coming up from the lower leg.

The legs are pinned at the knees and I green tacked the pose together to see if it works. I think it does The back foot is one of the bent feet. The front one is flat on the ground. A pose all my martial arts buddies would be proud of *grins*



Im waiting for my order of sculpey stuff (some light grey two part stuff that some awesome sculpter suggested) which Im gonna use to make a new head. In the meantime I thought Id fix the... what are they called on the back? Wingy-things? I dont want two like a normal wraithlord but one like a FW revenant titan.

So a little plastic and GS will make a bridge and on top of it one bigger fin-thing will be mounted. This is just to show the idea.





c&c is NEEDed & appreciated. Does it look alrite? Any and all suggestions, thoughts and crit is welcome.

looks good so far, only thing i dislike is the single fin, maybe making it a little larger, or cutting offthe corrigated piece where it is attatched.
also, not sure what you think, but it could be good fun to make a striking scorpion style wraithlord.

The fin thats in the photo isnt the one Ill be using. Its just there to show the idea of one fin on a bridge. Ill make a bigger fin with 5 fingers sticking out. No corrigation and a smaller base section (the part between the fingers and the corrugated part). Right now the smallest finger and the base is the same height which I dont like.

Great minds think alike JD, right?

Kick a$$ looking great so far keep this good work up

RL's not giving me any breaks lately. Finally have some time and Im hoping to finish the WL the coming couple of weeks.

Here's a bunch of photos showing the current state of things.






As you see Im working on making the new head from scratch. Im going for a revenant type head. Will also make some dreads and see if they fit.

Im also working on the bridge on the back (pretty much done) and the fin (not done).

The shoulder pads are getting some attention (not done yet) and the left one is removed so I can reposition it to allow the sword-arm to be posed as I plan.

And there will be some more details. Some gems will be removed and some will be biggerized and Im thinking thin vines on some parts.

My big problem is how to ship this beauty. As Ive said Im planning to sell it and hence the need to ship it. And since Im shipping it I dont want to glue it all together (Im currently only tacking it together) since then itll be a pain to pack and you cant be sure that itll arrive in one piece to the buyer. So Im currently planning to pin all joints but not glue them. Its just the back fin that Im not sure about. I would like to attach it to do some sculpting at the fins base, but if the fin is attached then its one thing Im afraid will snap in shipping. Any suggestions/thoughts??

As always: c&c is MUCH appreciated!

Incredible! Incredible.

But i would go with the one that looks like a titan.

Where are the wing missles bits from o_o?

also i love the crouching scorpion pose. anything else feels too "generic static drednought size pose"

Threadromancy-related Facepalm

Jamunition, please stop posting on old threads (Like that 3-year-old one!)

the dreads make me think of the Predator