Ynneadwraith wrote:
Thanks guys you flatter me! All the bits and pieces are there on the original model, it's just hidden behind a boatload of swirly AoS gak (and a couple of odd stylistic posing decisions, like the Blue Peter 'and here's one I made earlier' rune in the right hand).

To be honest, you'd be 90% there with just three little changes that anyone can do.

1. Cut the leg off above the knee with a sharp knife (bread knife might work nicely as you can get a bit of a sawing motion going on). Spin it round 90 degrees towards her left and re-glue
2. Clip off the swirly gak below the arm, grip the arm at the shoulder and rotate the arm downwards (mine split the shoulder, but you can fill that up with GS or little plastic shavings and glue like I did because I'm a GS luddite).
3. Take your clippers and clip off the (her) left-hand corner of the neck stub along the length of the neck, which has the effect of rotating the head around so she's looking where she's pointing.

You might have some troubles with attaching the hair at that point, but a little GS might solve that neatly (or you might be lucky and the hair sort of falls into the right place).

Not as hard as it sounds just a little nerve-racking on a £20 model!


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Only a little update today. Weekends are for car work (or, in this case, block laying) and I've put off one too many things to get away with another evening of 40k :S

This little guy I'd half put together ages ago as a sort of test for another Autarch model. However, there's a little face on the Yncarne swirly stuff that's its own little separate bit you glue into the rest of the swirl. I thought it was a kickass bit, but couldn't think what to do with it at the time.

Then, I read in passing that the reason Altansar Eldar never show their faces is because they all look like exquisitely preserved corpses (it was Ynnead that protected them during their time in the warp, and apparently that has side-effects). Not only is that a kickass bit of fluff, but it also gave me a little lightbulb moment for the kickass floating face

So, here he is





I think I've decided on the name 'Idravain', an Altansari Autarch that acts as a bodyguard for my Ynnari Prophet (who I've decided will be called Khal'Fhirin, which means 'Herald of Truth').

Couple of thoughts on this guy.

First off is the whole prophet/bodyguard thing. Thinking about how the Eldar in general feel about symbolism, it would make sense that once the Ynnari split off into the webway to spread the word of Ynnead (during the final Gathering Storm book apparently), each little cell might gravitate towards a prophet/bodyguard model as a leadership structure. So, this guy's the reckless beatstick to Fhirin's reason

Second, I felt slightly like the Eldar got a bit of a free pass with Ynnead bringing them back from the dead. There has to be a catch. This is the 40k universe we're talking about. Don't trust a Death God bearing gifts as the saying goes

So, I thought what about each time you're reborn you come back...changed...slightly. A little like the Stormcasts. Each time you come back, you come back as slightly less you. By the look of this guy's face (which being Altansari wasn't exactly easy on the eyes to begin with), you might even come back slightly more daemonic too...

Oh, and now the Ynnari are out in the open, he doesn't feel the need to hid his half-dead daemonic-looking face. In fact, the fact that he looks bl**dy terrifying comes in quite handy as a bodyguard...