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Lovely, old, eldar, metal... Nothing there I don't like.

Craftworld Ynn-Bydos

Ynn-Bydos craftworld is strategically important and politically influential amongst the Aeldari despite its relatively modest size due to its status as a crossroads between Iyanden and Biel-Tan craftworlds. Ynn-Bydos maintains one of the largest direct, permanent webway gates to Iyanden, capable of conducting fleet-size movements of forces and war materiel on a massive scale. It is also the primary realspace nexus for several webway routes linking Iyanden and other craftworlds to Biel-Tan.

Ynn-Bydos has fought many times alongside both craftworlds and suffered significant losses of its own in the tragedies each of these primary Craftworlds suffered. It does not require a Farseer's foresight to recognise that the loss of either of these great craftworlds would lead with inevitable certainty to the destruction of Ynn-Bydos but a short time later. Nor is it lost on the Farseers of Iyanden and Biel-Tan that the fall of Ynn-Bydos would, at best, all but sever their connection to each other and, at worst, leave their own craft open to attack.

Ynn-Bydos is a twin-hulled craftworld, and the inhabitants of Ynn-Bydos mirror this dual nature and tend towards one of two extremes. The majority are of a sombre and fatalistic disposition. They share a grim recognition that the time of the Eldar is waning and that they are, at best, in the autumn of their species' time. A significant minority reject this philosophy and fight to regain ascendancy over lesser races such as the Mon-Keigh. Many of this latter group have fought as members of the Bloody Hands of Khaine, a particularly fanatical group of Eldar pirates who ferociously fight to protect, cleanse and purify Maiden Worlds of the taint of invaders.

Fifty,

I actually rated a few of your old Eldar without even thinking who had painted them a few days back. You have brought them back to life and I am especially impressed with the Dreadnought and how you have take the old static pose and made it dynamic.

Cheers,

CB

Another squad on the way...

Oooh, gloriously retro.

There are over 30, maybe over 40 people playing in a joint London/Hastings slow grow Ascension campaign, with the London folks travelling down to Hastings for six events. Four of us are using Eldar, and three of us are sticking to retro models. All three of us are using the same original Farseer model. Also, all of us are using different Craftworlds, and we all have different painting styles. I am, as a result, loving it. I really hope we can all gight together at some stage.

 Fifty wrote:
There are over 30, maybe over 40 people playing in a joint London/Hastings slow grow Ascension campaign, with the London folks travelling down to Hastings for six events. Four of us are using Eldar, and three of us are sticking to retro models. All three of us are using the same original Farseer model. Also, all of us are using different Craftworlds, and we all have different painting styles. I am, as a result, loving it. I really hope we can all gight together at some stage.

Wow, nice. Do you know mabrothrax? He's old school classic nurgle (and squats, occasionally), and lives/works in Bexhill. Sounds like his kind of scene!

Especially loving that dual-wielder.

 inmygravenimage wrote:

 Fifty wrote:
There are over 30, maybe over 40 people playing in a joint London/Hastings slow grow Ascension campaign, with the London folks travelling down to Hastings for six events. Four of us are using Eldar, and three of us are sticking to retro models. All three of us are using the same original Farseer model. Also, all of us are using different Craftworlds, and we all have different painting styles. I am, as a result, loving it. I really hope we can all gight together at some stage.

Wow, nice. Do you know mabrothrax? He's old school classic nurgle (and squats, occasionally), and lives/works in Bexhill. Sounds like his kind of scene!

I don't think so, as I am one of the London half, not the Hastings half, but point him towards HATEstings. https://www.facebook.com/hatestings/

HATE is the Hackney Area Tabletop Enthusiasts. One of our founders, and easily our LOUDEST member, moved to Hastings and started HATEstings. Hastings Area Tabletop Enthusiasts, obviously. I think HATEstings has an existence as both (a section of) a shop and as a club, so might be useful to him in more ways than one.

 monkeytroll wrote:
Especially loving that dual-wielder.

I had cut up a couple of plastic meltaguns to make the metal lasguns fellas into melta-gunners, and decided to use the remains of the meltaguns by adding the very tip of the lasgun to them. Then I decided they looked like kinda cool large pistols. So yeah, I like him too

Pistolero is a definite winner, with his guns and his mullet-hawk. I love these old Guardians, especially the ones without helmets. Great 80's hair. Marvelous idea with the meltas, too.

Fifty,

I think I have two or three of those Storm Guardians if you want them. Although they have had the power sword replaced by a chainsword.

A forever fan of the old metal Eldar.

Cheers,

CB

Two or three of them would be really useful actually, as it would push me towards the full squad size I want. I've got another eight on the WIP table at the moment, with photos to follow soon.

I worry that it would not be worth the postage from Canada though :( Let me know how much it would be though, as I guess they'd be fairly light and I could just Paypal you, or send you something you'd find useful in return.

So many good memories of those figures...

I decided it was time to re-organise my paints. They have become a complete mess over the last year or so...

Somehow I missed the photo of all my modern layer paints. It is an equal sized pile to the modern base paints.

Original Citadel paintsReplacement original Citadel paints and a couple of second wave paints3rd wave Citadel paints4th wave Citadel paintsSome random bits I foundVallejo game and model coloursShades and glazesMy modern base paints. I forgot to take a photo of an equal number of layer paintsRandom Flames of War, Vallejo washes, P3 yellow and some Army Painter grey

 Fifty wrote:
Two or three of them would be really useful actually, as it would push me towards the full squad size I want. I've got another eight on the WIP table at the moment, with photos to follow soon.

I worry that it would not be worth the postage from Canada though :( Let me know how much it would be though, as I guess they'd be fairly light and I could just Paypal you, or send you something you'd find useful in return.

I will find them and send you a photo. Surface mail to the UK takes a long time, but is not bad if it is for lighter lots.

Cheers,

CB

I didn't like the pose on one of the guys, so I re-did him completely...

Then I did eight more guys for this unit. I didn't exactly stick to the regulation loadouts...




Two in particular required quite a lot of work - some pistol rangers who had had both hands lopped off by a previous owner. I am very pleased with how they turned out.

I made two more fusion gunners so that I can run two squads of eight with special weapons if I want.

And a squad of eight using even older models. I have enough more models to double the size of the unit below, but it is lots of duplicates, so I might not do it.


And finally, five rangers. Again, I have lots of these guys, so I will eventually do at least five more, and probably a lot more.

https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2018/10/22/978716_md-Eldar%2C%20Guardians%2C%20Storm%20Guardians%2C%20Ynn-bydos.jpg

Nice kitbashing!

Great work! Some really nice conversions to classic minis.

Thanks Gits. It is really nice to have you drop in and comment so often.

And thanks to you too Dreadclaw. I reckon they only just count as conversions, but a few of them had pinning and greenstuff work, so just about qualify, in my opinion!

Craftworld Ynn-bydos
Craftworld Ynn-bydos has a large number of Aspect Shrines but, like many craftworlds, is frequently forced to deploy its citizenry in to combat. When this happens, they almost invariably deploy alongside a powerful spirit host of many wraith constructs. Whilst many of the Ynn-bydosi Asuryani arm themselves with the traditional shuriken catapult, there are also those who use weapons they were trained with in their past lives as Aspect Warriors, and they inspire others to a more violent approach to warfare too. There are even those who wear a red glove on their left-hand, marking them as former members of the Bloody Hands of Khaine.

Fifty,

Nice to see someone else working on reviving old Eldar models.

Cheers,

CB

The kitbashing is great, and I was impressed by all the bits you have. Then I noticed that you have quite a historical collection of GW paints and I realized you've been at this a lot longer than I have!

I should work on a Craftworld background as well, some sort of old-school Alaitoc offshoot or something. I can see how your fluff work adds to the army.

Captain Brown wrote:
Fifty,

Nice to see someone else working on reviving old Eldar models.

Cheers,

CB

And two more on the way

 CaptainWaffle wrote:
The kitbashing is great, and I was impressed by all the bits you have. Then I noticed that you have quite a historical collection of GW paints and I realized you've been at this a lot longer than I have!

I should work on a Craftworld background as well, some sort of old-school Alaitoc offshoot or something. I can see how your fluff work adds to the army.

Thanks I started back in '88 and played until '96 so I have a lot of models from that era, including lots I painted as a teenager. (At some point I will post pics of my Dire Avenger exarch and my Maugan Ra). I then stopped until about 2008, when I picked up a brush again, and started playing again a year or two after that. There was a bit of an eBay golden age circa 2010-2013 when it was possible to get some fatastic large and varied job lots. I picked up a few such bargains and it means I have lots of random bits. I am trying to use some of them up now though! I really admire/envy people like the guy who writes the magpie and old lead blog who can see how a lot of bits will go well together and do some really impressive bashes/conversions, but I think I can make some decent things happen with random bits too.

I think a background helps me decide on quirks that make the paint job more interesting. For example, lots of the Storm Guardians (and maybe Rangers) will have red left hands, which is a sign that they once belonged to the Bloody Hands of Khaine. I know most of what I want to know about them, but won't actually write any of their background until I do a bit more painting of some actual current members. I find that starting to paint also leads back into the background in a circular process. The other thing I urgently need to do is decide names for my Farseer and Wraithlord. Maybe even my Wraithguard, though that might be overkill.

This is great, and it's nice to see your era (88-96) is identical to mine I love that you're not precious about classic figs.

Love the guy with the massive chainsword , who said Eldar don’t overcompensate . As others have said I’m glad to see the old models given new life.

That's some retro Eldar work going on there. Haven't seen any of those old-school rangers in person since about 2005.

I've made progress, but nothing quite worth a new photo.

Instead, I have some pics of some models I painted back in the early 90s when I was about 14 or 15 years old. I was very happy with both of these models when I painted them and am not ashamed to put them on the table still now. I'll actually be using the exarch tomorrow night.

Maugan ra could probably do with rebasing, but I don't really want to. I have two unpainted ones of him, so I'll eventually do a new version plus a statue version for a terrain piece.



If I remember rightly, this exarch matches one in the first Eldar codex 'eavy metal pages. I started rebasing him about 6 years ago, but then he went into the loft for ages. He probably needs rebasing again, but then he wouldn't match the rest of my Avengers, so I will probably leave him as is.

Two of my favorite models. Ever. Nice to see your take on them.

Have always loved the Maugan Ra figure.

Seeing the Phoenix Lords keeps reminding me that I need to make my own Court. The stuff you did at 14/15 puts what I was able to do at that age to shame haha!

 Fifty wrote:
If I remember rightly, this exarch matches one in the first Eldar codex 'eavy metal pages.

Page 41 of the first Codex...back when Shuriken Catapults still shot 24 inches.

Cheers,

CB