Eldar of Altansar, Fire prisms & painted heavy weapons.

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**Lt. Coldfire**

Damn that's a sweet looking wraithlord, well done!

**Eberious**

Cheers Lt. Coldfire.

Still waiting on some plastruct tube to do the dreadlocks, been a week and starting to get a little impatient

. So tonight I decided to finaly get the greenstuff ridges on the armour done. Been avoiding it as, well scared I'd feth it up, as it goes it turned out pretty good.

Will trim the greenstuff for sharper edges once it has cured.

C&C welcome,

**elfboy**

This gains a subsribe from me, some excellent conversion work happening here.

**Eberious**

Thanks elfboy.

Anyways, found out why it was taking so long to get my plastruct rod, they were on holidays. So while waiting for that to arrive, seeing a Eldar Autarch vyper jet bike in GD golden deamon I had to shamelessly make one out of available parts I have. Not as refined as his/hers one but I like it. Some work still to be done, fins, greenstuff tidy up. Looks messy, probably due to re-cycled models and I ain't awesome with the sculpting.

Its basicaly a fun project, and if cant use as intended special autarch on a big jetbike with heavy weapon, then its a fancy vyper jetbike, TL pults + heavy weapon. So can use as normal, but is slightly longer than a standard vyper jetbike, so gotta watch that placeing.

Controls, display screen.. etc. Can't really see it but done a handle swap to the CWE jetbike ones. Also big ass engine made from various parts.

Built in Shuriken Pults.

Main weapon location, magnetised for obvious reasons.

Weapons, and yes its a night spinner upgrade. If my gameing group let me, other than that its looks cool with it and doesn look over sized.

Now would really like some thoughts on this as stuck between have the eldar(male/female?)riding low or seated or standing up on the bike with a power weapon(spear) in the air in true Saim-Hann style(even though its not Saim-Hann) but feel my self leaning towards that play style at the moment.

C&C welcome please.

**Timonth**

Omg, that wrathlord is so awsome! I would love to see him have one hand around the edge of the platform, like he is actively looking for the Ork underneath. Like in Lord of the Rings, where the hobbits are under the root of the tree and the Nazgul stands above them, trying to smell them.

**Eberious**

Thanks Timonth, did do a blu-tak test of the pose mentioned and felt it lost to much of the mighty presence, that and was quite hard to get the Wl that low and look like he could squat that far.

But yeah, in my mind that would be an awesome pose, since the Wl is of the striking scorpion aspect.

Any thoughts on the bike, anyone?

**migsula**

Great start!!

You should find some of the new Dark Eldar as perfect conversion fodder to this theme.

Looking forward to more.

**Young_Logan**

These conversion are looking great, i'll be watching this thread

**VikingScott**

I am loving your wratihlord conversion. And I may have to steal the vyper idea.

**Eberious**

Thanks all,

@migsula, the DE stuff has certainly intrested me in getting some purely to convert into cwe. As you say, it should fit nicely with the theme of Altansar.

Just ordered a SS exarch biting blade to make into a staff weapon for the rider of the vyper. Game wise it will give me a slight boost, using it as a SS chainsword as per codex. That is if caught in CC, which isnt somthing I'd do willingly. Got caught in CC with an similar autarch on jetbike on tuesday and got owned by basic ork boyz.

**Iron Angel**

The Wraithlord is so full of awesome... Golden Demon stuff

(if you paint it very good

)

**Gavin Thorne**

I've been following this since you started and really like what I've been seeing here. If I had plastic lords instead of metal ones, I figure my conversions would be smoother. Here's some inspiration for a Dark Reaper Lord:

**Eberious**

Thanks both,

@Iron Angel, cheers , and thinking of a catachan green dulled down by a black wash, then a smokey black/grey colour for the main colour scheme. Then a nice deep red for the dreadlocks, dull yellow for the ridges and jewls I'm not sure on yet.

@Gavin Thorne, yeah seen that Wl floating around the interwebs, was palnning same kinda stance but have somthing in mind thjat I havent seen before. Might be that in the end it doesnt look good, but if it turns out what I've got in my head then should look fairly awesome imo anyways. And given Altansar is the homeworld of Maugan Ra and the DR aspect then and fairly effort filled conversion is required, so keep em peeled for that one. May even use the one in the back ground for it.

Rider torso, will be using DA parts mostly, mainly cause I have them in supply and and love the models.

Finished the modeling on the bike for now unless I decide to add anything further, Added in these shots are the fins and ariel at the back mounted on the engine and the targeter array on the main vyper front section.

**Grakmar**

The Wraithlord is looking awesome! I can't wait to see it all painted up.

I also really like the eyes on Maugen Ra's shoulder skulls. They look really sinister.

**Eberious**

Thanks Grakmar, with the WL now very close to being finished painting shall comence very soon. Been fairly good, havent strayed to much with this army(yet), as usualy build lots, half paint somthing then build more. Leaving a mass of halfpainted/unpainted models.

Update: I think I'm finished modeling, unless I spot somthing tonight when I get home. But pics of the probably finished Wl, looking back that took me a while(lots of stops and starts and waiting around).

Tried to get the dreads in a swings motion as if the WL has just turned quickly to face the way its facing.

And the Vyper bike Autarch cc weapon, might be a tad big for the rider but plan on beefing up the Autarch anyways.

C&C welcome.

**Eberious**

No comments, oh well

Been thinking that the DA exarch helmet is to common or generic, so tried a Banshee helmet.

Thoughts, comments.

Might carve up the DA head make it a little more ...well somthing different from the stright foward DA head.

C&C please.

**Pennywise**

Your conversions are great. I think you should use the banshee head, it looks good. These will look great painted.

**Grakmar**

Pennywise wrote:Your conversions are great. I think you should use the banshee head, it looks good. These will look great painted.

I was actually thinking the opposite. The DA head makes him look all call and collected, like a general should. The Banshee makes him look rather wild. That can work if that's the feel of your whole army, more piratey and less disciplined, but I prefer the DA head.

**Pennywise**

Yeah the DA head could be ok, but I don't think the banshee head looks wild it looks good on that model.

**Eberious**

Well I'll start with I had the whole post ready to post, and I had multiple tabs open. I then close the dakka one losing the whole lot. SO that was deeply annoying and at work so can't let the

out.

Okay, so its been some time since the last update and I apologise to anyone following with interest. Been deep in the midst of my Black Templar army revival and side projects WIP's. So with a local GW competition happening and deadline is 1st december I needed a mounted model. Was going to do a converted BT biker, but with inspiration lacking probably because I wanted to something else other than a SM and my planned conversion not really looking as planned, I turned to the path of the Altansar CW. Still wanting a converted model to paint and enter I'm going to use the Vyper jetbike I have. Don't see many Eldar at the shop, cabinets mostly filled with SM.

So, with the deadline approaching I'll pick this lot up where I left off. The Wraith Lord is basically completed but cannot get decent pics to do it justice, so that model will be along shortly after the jet bike is done. I've also got my test Falcon done. But again waiting for some decent lighting, as the colour scheme is fairly dark itself.

anyways, enough gabber, here's some pics. One change to the hand held weapon, I thought the scorpion sword didnt really fit the intended HQ aspect of the model. So now has a spear.

and a brand new shiny base. With me I like to make bases with the foe I usually fight against.

I plan on using a airbrush for the first time to paint it, so I'll probably paint the base first until my mate(who owns the airbrush) gets over to mine.

**Mephistoles1**

I really like the orcs around the bases. really gives the models character. The wraithlord poses look cool and I like the inverted extended wings on the viper.

**Dastardly Dave**

Oh wow. Loving the sculpted gore on that orc... Blech...

Anyway, looking forward to seeing more of this, it's pretty good stuff!

**Urien_Rakarth**

Wow, This looks pretty incredilbe! Subscribed and exalted!

**Eberious**

Thanks very much all,

Got the base painted last night, in one go. The colours are a little darker in real life than in these pics.

My camera has a problem with red, it seems to pick up a lot of the red and somehow manages to make it seem way brighter and more "plastic" looking if you know what I mean.

Excuses aside, here's the main colour scheme that will be applied to all craft and foot troops.

Trying to get a stencil of the Altansar rune cut out, thus far proving to be some what difficult. Might have to use transfers, which I really don't want to. The only other way I could see this working is to apply the masking tape to the model with the rune drawn on, then cut it out on the model. But since this will make score lines(even if careful ) I cant think of another way. I must point out that this is my first run with an airbrush and the masking tape decal application.

If anyone can suggest or link a good easy way of doing the masking tape design, please let me know.

C&C welcome,

**Urien_Rakarth**

Wow. That all looks pretty awesome. Love the sceme for the Vyper (I thnk

) Base looks great too!

**Tyranid Horde**

Subscribed! I love your work, I look forward to more! The Wraithlord is my favourite!

**Eberious**

Thanks very much both,

@ Urien_Rakarth, its either a counts as vyper or Autarch on jetbike.

So the painting competition was pretty good. First time I enetered(no prise as such) just a fun thing. The deadline came and it was a tie in votes, deadline extended 24hrs. Walked into the shop and lots of voting and still another tie. Came down to 3 guys, 2 voted one each, just to tie it again and the last voted for the ork that was there,

so lost by 1 vote.

Anyways a some what of a large update here. Managed to get good light this morning at 8am to take pics. So without further rambling from me.

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08863.jpg

In the end I free handed the Altansar rune on the front of the bike and helmet of the rider. And it just hit me that I need some under shots to show the main weapon area. At work so that will be added later.

The warithlord

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08868.jpg
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08867.jpg

and current work on the next Wraithlord. Now, the idea that I did have was to cover areas with bone, a rib cage, spine etc . I may still do the spine but the rest of the idea didn't look good at all. So here's what I have so far. Was going to use the Maugan Ra backpack part mounted on the WL back but failed to look good. Wanting to use it and have the feel carried of the CW. So I decided to make the sword into a Quandao type weapon.

Was worried that the butt end would be to heavy as its metal. But the magnet holds good.
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08860.jpg

And work so far on the legs.

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08855.jpg

C&c welcome.

**Urien_Rakarth**

CHESUS CRAHST! That's incredible. The blending, free-hand, colours, modelling. GORGEOUS. OMG Can't wait to see more!

**mars2024**

Really awesome pose and paint. Love the Jetseer too! Really great work.

**Eberious**

Thanks very much both,

Been busy reviving the next lot of models with the new WL completed as well.

First up, the newest WL, all load out options are available thanks to magnets. The Quandao weapon I had to change, the metal end bit was just to heavy and while it didn't fall off the arm it swung around into the wrong place and was generally getting on my nerves. Few gaps in/on the base have come to light with these pics, so consider them filled.

2nd WL, reposed. Its the old one seen in previous pics on this thread. Again weapons magnetised, although on both the arm mounted flamers are fixed, I play against orks, why would I want anything else.

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08885_zps1c9b8813.jpg
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08887_zps1ff830de.jpg

http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08889_zpsa46397c7.jpg

Both Wl have the dark reaper rune greenstuffed on the back.

Some Dire avengers, nothing specail really just recently stuck together.
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08891_zpsad168e1e.jpg

A effort to revive what vypers I could find. Enough for 2 squads. Why effort, it took 2 days and a ton of searching through my house in all my older 40k stuff to find all the damn bits. I also wanted to add the WL fins look I have running throughout this army somewhere. Ended up looking best on the very top back of the gunner turret. Vyper turrets also all magnetised.

All done and ready for a new layer of paint.

Side profile to see the fin better.
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08897_zpsbdb5bd37.jpg

Bases, not to exciting.
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08899_zpsf4b7df59.jpg
base of note, long dead chaos SM.
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a559/EberiousEldar/DSC08901_zps0e46ba1f.jpg

Also worked on some objectives markers, magnetised my metal dark reaper exarch tp swap ML for tempest. Found all bits to my fire dragons and dark reapers. Also repaired a skimmer type thing I made some time ago. All this being slowly done waiting for the fricken rain to stop so I can prime the damn things.

Quick question, I have a wave serpent in the works as well. Delayed by the fact I can't find all the bits and need to bits order in the complete turret and energy 'spines'. The questions is, with the 'spines' things on the front would you consider them not being on the model "modelling for advantage" being able to fit between tighter places or would you be happy with large gem stones acting as the energy generators. My gaming largely consists of being at home, but looking to start down the local GW group.