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If you grab it from eBay it's not so bad, but then you have to wait before you get it :S poor planning I say

One 10g bag will do thousands of models if you're just doing little tufts

Yeah even at GW prices I've only ever bought one tub of static grass and I can't even tell that it's been used (I've probably had it 10 years!)

Job this weekend - paint all the wraithbone on my wraithblades!

Aww yeah can't wait to see your Wraithblades done. They're such kickass models.

Now if only they would make plastic Aspects and I'd have basically all I ever wanted from a plastic Eldar range

 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Aww yeah can't wait to see your Wraithblades done. They're such kickass models.

Well, my next project will be an Eldar army (for 8th) and most of it will be wraith constructs, with a few bikes and tanks mixed in. In fact, i should go order them now...

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:

 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Aww yeah can't wait to see your Wraithblades done. They're such kickass models.

Well, my next project will be an Eldar army (for 8th) and most of it will be wraith constructs, with a few bikes and tanks mixed in. In fact, i should go order them now...

Aww yiss more eldar the better!

Especially a fluffy wraith-list rather than a cheese-list


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And done!



Few among the Craftworlds truly believe that there are Eldar still living in the Eye. Only in the babbling of the deranged and the rhetoric of doomsayers are the twisted playthings of She Who Thirsts mentioned with any kind of certainty.

Yet, here they stand, staining our world beneath their cursed feet.



"Curious, is it not, that where they tread crystals sprout from the ground. Crystals of the same design as those that form our soulstones. Are these eldar trapped beneath The Great Enemy's gaze subtly rebelling against their master, providing us with the means to escape Her grasp. Or, more worryingly, is this all part of Her plan? Are the soulstones we covet so highly our salvation, or a trap?" - Illythian the Doomsayer, Outcast of Ulthwe






I've also finished modelling my next two Croneworlders




I've fallen in love a little with how the whole colour scheme looks contrasting the pallid purpley skin with the deep right purple Eldar undersuit and the grey of the armour plates in typical Eldar-style block colour. It looks Slaaneshi, but unmistakably Eldar for these two, I've tried to keep a similar hint of Craftworld Eldar in the modelling to keep that connection, and it's actually got me rethinking Ylris (much though I love her design). I can't help but feel that she needs some Craftworld parts to make her unmistakeably Eldar too. Any ideas?

That basing looks good, man.

I like the mutated guy on the left. The grotesque claw and the archaic shield design work well together. Especially paired with the weird asymmetry of the $gender_unspecified with the whips on the right.

They'll look good paired together, and show off how the gods' blessings come from the same source but are never the same. sort of thing

Multi-arm-Whip-girl is a winner.

Great paintjob there dude, I dig it. The new Croneworlders look great too, I'm a huge sucker for multi-limbed humanoids so the whip-chick is a standout success to me but truly they both look great.

Thanks guys! Yeah I'm having great fun mucking about with various mutations I'm trying to keep them away from the obvious tentacles and crab claws, in the same way as the Blightdar mutate slightly differently to humans so do Croneworlders saying that, Slaanesh is an Eldar God so I'm sure there's space somewhere for them

What do you reckon? I've got some Daemonette champion claws knocking around. Give them a try?

It's absolutely worth a shot dude, I think the smaller claws would fit very nicely.

Can't hurt, I say.

Go for it.

You know one of the best things about my Croneworlders? Dead quick to paint








Also, had a go at a daemonette-clawed croneworlder



Tried to echo the frankly beautiful Juan Diaz daemonettes slightly not sure how much i've actually captured as mine doesn't look nearly sultry enough, but i'm still pleased

They all look great dude. My favourite is the one leaping with the overhand chop for sure! The claw works pretty good, I definitely see the Juan Diaz vibe on this one (that pose is almost identical to one of his). Great work.

Thanks dude yeah the overarm 2-hander lady I'm dead proud of

Yeah there was one particular daemonette I had in mind with that one, although looking at pics I think it's actually an amalgamation of two different ones.

I really hope they bring back the whole sultry look to daemonettes. I know I'd buy a kit if they did, rather than just the odd leg or two for these guys...

Oh, and a slightly better shot of the newest addition

loving the Croneworld stuff.

Thinking I want to steal your wraithbone = Sylvaneth tree stuff idea for an Exodite/Ynnari army, and had been thinking about a Treelord as the base for an Avatar of Khaine, but only just realised the size discrepancy. Do you think a Kurnoth Hunter would be a good place to start? and what could a Tree Lord work as? A Wraithlord?

The claw looks good. They are shaping up to be quite the sinister group.

Completely agree with Youwashok, very sinister looking. Dark Eldar are suppose to be the villains of 40k this is turning them up to eleven out of ten.

Thanks a ton guys! Really glad they're looking properly sinister. Might have to turn up the grimdark on my DEldar in that case!

@craggy go for it it's a really cool aesthetic. Looking forward to what you come up with for it

I'd say a Treelord would make an excellent Avatar (it's face and mouth in particular are very Avatar-like). It doesn't scale with the old metal Avatar, but it fits pretty well with the FW Avatar which I always thought was a better size. Plus, it's a distraction carnifex so the bigger the better

I think Kurnoth Hunters scale pretty nicely with Wraithguard. I know I've seen an excellent kitbash between the two

Looks cool. I have plans for a converted Wraithlord (stay tuned for that) and some of these things make me want to do a whole Croneworlder allied detachment.

Ooh nice! Looking forward to that

One of the things I like about Croneworlders is you can make them as evil as you like (or, rather, as opposed to other Eldar as you like).

They can be twisted playthings of Slaanesh who do her bidding as a sort of learned helplessness/stockholm syndrome thing like mine, or still (relatively) sane Eldar desperately hiding and trying to survive in the eye

You should definitely have a go they're really fun to make


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Static grass finally arrived!



The twisted herald moved its head ponderously side-to-side as it surveyed the ruined battlefield ahead, its tattered antlers lending inertia to its movements. Ragged were its breaths as it tasted the metallic tang of blood in the air. Its interest piqued by a scent lingering in the air it strode languidly through the corpses. Despite its mutations, it had lost none of the grace with which the Eldar are blessed. A characteristic thrown into sharp relief by the discordant metallic scrape of its blade dragging across the flagstones.

Reaching its quarry, it unfurled an elongated forearm towards the wounded Guardian below, caressing its spattered cheek. "You are not long for this world," the herald spoke, it's voice a deathbed whisper, so hoarse it was barely audible. "This need not be the end, my child. Come. Be with Mother Isha. She waits for you."




First attempt at weathering what do you think? I tried for a sort of osteoporosis style gradual decay of his wraithbone armour.

Heorulf, Astartes of the Death Guard is done too



Part of the background for him is that he's a first generation Terran-born Marine. As the Dusk Raiders were initially recruited from 'the warlike clans of Old Albia', so I figured it'd be fitting to give him an Anglo-Saxon name



I am slightly regretting doing the tentacles in red rather than green. I've done enough red on my other models, and green just feels more Nurgly. Too scared to do it though as with the thick gloss layer I'd probably lose all the detail repainting. Does the red look out of place?




The other thing I tried to do was paint his armour in the same scheme as the pre-Heresy Death Guard, but all beaten up, decayed and mutated. It never quite made sense to me for the Traitor Legions to flee to the eye, and then decide to spend their first days lovingly repainting their armour. Especially the Death Guard. Have a similar idea for a World Eater working on the bit of fluff that they never repainted their armour, they just haven't cleaned off the layers of dried blood



Lastly, I've got a bit of headcanon that the Chaos Gods didn't really just pop into existence in the form they are now. More that they were pre-existing unaligned or benevolent warp deities who were warped and twisted by the horrors and suffering unleashed during the descent of the 40k universe from 'tolerable' to 'grimdark'.

I reckon Nurgle began life as a fertility god. A god of the harvest. A god of the spring solstice and renewal following winter. Over the millennia, the horrific acts of the races of the early history of the 40k galaxy twisted him into the plagued nightmare he is today. However, little hints still show through of his origins. Wherever he touches the materium, life blossoms. Sure it's horrific and diseased, but it's life nonetheless. That's why the Blightdar have got little wells of foetid water welling up from beneath their feet, and the grass where that water touches is beginning to green again.

As part of a wider plot point, the desert worlds of Selesti where all of my Eldar (and my Knight Worlders and other dudes) are situated used to be verdant worlds. They were invaded by Nurgle and their ecologies irrevocably changed by his presence. Nurgle was eventually driven from the sector after much bloodshed, leaving desert worlds where life barely clung onto existence in his wake. However, the point being that it wasn't Nurgle's presence that caused the ecological collapse, but his absence. He's a fertility god. By driving him away, the lands fell into barren desert.

Little musings to keep me amused at work at any rate shot of the two together for anyone who made it through that particular ramble!

Haha, no sooner do I finish my Death Guard conversion I find out GW are making a new Plague Marine kit! Does look pretty sweet though



Do you think if I spend ages converting plastic Aspect Warriors and Incubi they'll do the same thing?

Dude you didn't see the Death Guard teaser video GW put out like 1 or two months ago? It had sneak peaks of all these models.

Lovely work on the cronewolders. Really dynamic conversions and the tones of the skin work really well.

Top job on the Nurgle stuff too.

EDC

@I_F Nope! Completely passed me by. I'm just waiting for the Slaanesh focus to roll around, although by then I'll probably have just finished an Emperor's Children truescale dude...

@EDC Thanks man! I'm enjoying doing things with some more unnatural-looking skintones, and having a go at different sorts of washes to give skin different hues. It's quite interesting how some of them interact with each other actually, especially things like greens and purples. Greens seem to make skin more alien and sickly, and then purple brings it back to looking a bit more human.

Very interesting...

The blightdar look amazing. The decaying wraithbone armour came out really well, and so did the fallen marine's tentacles. (Red is fine; looks great. Not everything has to be green.)

Thanks dude!

I suppose it could just be my innate desire to have pretty much everything only one shade of colour away from the rest of the model not sure why, but I always feel my models look weird if that's not the case. I'm fine with other people's models having higher contrast :S

It was these guys that sort of influenced the red on him. (spoilered as I'm at work an it'll flash up on my screen, so I might get questions it'd take a long time to explain).



Perhaps I should make a bit of a theme of having splashes of red in the rest of the warband. Not sure why, but the name for another dude has popped into my head as 'The Bloodworm', which is nicely evocative now I just need to think of a model to fit the name

Nurgle marine looks awesome. The red works just fine, especially as a throw-back to the Realm of Chaos days. The osteopored armor also looks quite cool.

That is a great old school image and sites exactly what I meant. :p

I love the models, and that head canon for Nurgle.... Very very cool. I like the idea that in some ways the cure for chaos is worse than the disease