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cheers again. The wraithlord was one of the first big figs I did after getting back to painting and my first attempt at 'wet-blending' and magnetising. Thank the emperor for YouTube!! I loved painting the Harlies. Always like their lot. I had the orinigal figs way back in the day. For now no real plan...ish. (Actually all of the stuff from Chaos, to Mymeara, to the AdMech are all kinda tied up in some fluff I'm writing) I just buy and paint what I like

Anywhere that we could get a looksie at your fluff? I am massively into armies and collections that have their very own story to them.

Eventually 'yes'. At the minute it's in bits n bobs. Paragraphs, notes, characters backgrounds et al spread across numberous bits of paper, back of envelopes and in the 'notes' app on my ipad. It's all sorted and kinda in order in my head but......getting it actually down properlly...well..... I will be adding a bit to that AdMech dio I recently finished which tells how the Dominus came to have an ancient Castellax as his personal and constant companion. A much larger piece concerns the Freeblade Knight (which I really need to getting painting soon) and his connection to the Forgeworld from which the Dominus comes from.......I'll get there at some point

STUNNING work on those Harlies. Will have to push my Harlequin plans further up the queue...

Cheers Mymearan Still have 2 I need to finish up 'at some point' lol

Oohhhhh - haven't been in here in a while!!! Have some Harlie stuff still that's been kicking about for ages and really needs done. So this month they are getting the love!!!! 2 troupers that are halfish done and a second skyweaver that needs to be done too. So hopefully this month they'll get all finished up

Still have some harlie stuff to finish up and with the Death Masque box arriving I now have a VoidWeaver and Eldrad, Lord of the Robes too (Selling the troupers, death jester and skyweavers from the box - thread up in the swapshop forum for that)

I just finished putting Eldrad together and they weren't lying when they siad its the most intricate/complex/detailed etc etc fig they've ever made. He is a gorgeous sculpt but a right fiddly wee git to put together and in one area the instructions are grossly inadequate and don't tell you what you need to do.

It's to do with the robes and the back and how his staff fits in. The staff is according to the instructions, basically the last thing that gets glued on. But when I was getting it ready I noticed and odd little groove that didnt seem to fit onto anything on his robes



A closer inspection of the boy himself revealed an odd groove hidden away in the middle of and behind some of his robes



Super, lovely. And you can't just slide the shaft of the staff down into the hole as you 'd think. Oh no - it doesnt work that way!
What to do - well you need to find this place on the bottom of him where two parts of the cloak come together but arent glued. and then gently (wait till all the other gluing is cured or you pull the pieces off their fittings) prise then apart. The plastic has enough give for this.



then slide the shaft in (shuddup >< so it's now rattling about and cant fall out.



then slide the staff up so the groves align, lock and the hand fits to the end of the arm - viola!



In the instructions, none of this is even hinted at, let alone shown in a diagram or even a picture showing him from the back.
I'm painting the staff and his head seperatly so hopefully I'll be able to do all this again once he's painted.

Anywho - hope this helps folk as he really is an absolutely stunning figure and is going to look the bomb when totally finished

Cheers

Jan

Hmmmmm - A closer

Cheers for that, I've not built mine yet and that doubtless would have confounded me no end!

Had me scratching my head a bit too. I dont like finding grooves and ruts that make no sense!!!! careful inserting the staff shaft though, it's bendy but very slender and unlikely to snap

ive got like 30 hours into my eldrad atm when i read this post about the staff.... I freaked out. It just ends up you can clip the bottom and doesnt matter

scared the hell outa me tho...

lol. Aye you could clip the pommel thingy at the end off and just slide it in that too I guess.

Balls! Gonna be a pain to fix that on mine now :(

Looks trickier than it is. Just softly softly fixy fixy!!

Looking good (as always) Jan, very excited to see this project in the works!

Thanks for the tip about assembling Eldrad. I should start painting mine next week, and I also planned to paint the head and the staff separately.

It kind of reminds me how the shoulder cloak of the death jester goes on. I had painted everything before assembling, and had the hardest time putting that last bit of cloak on there (and I scratched some paint in the process…).

And awesome work on your harlies! What are you plans for Eldrad? I'm still hesitating over painting him like GW (with the colors of his craftworld), or going for a harlequin look (with diamonds on the cloak)…

 Januine wrote:
Looks trickier than it is. Just softly softly fixy fixy!!

I looked at the website and it's only apparent when you see the model in 360° view

Aye. The 360 on the site certainly helped.
Still thinking about colour scheme. I like the original colour scheme but I'm definitely going to change it a bit. Want to tie him into my own harlies a bit bit still keep something of his original scheme. I'll figure something out. May have a few subtle bits of motley showing in places but nowhere near as much as I've done on the players

Weather has finally shifted over here. Pretty much overnight it goes from hot and horribly humid to dry and cool. Korean weather - flick of a switch!! So they meant this morning I could break out the rattles and get loadsa stuff sprayed for the coming month. Eldrad is built and primed!!

Have you primed him grey, or is that Zenithal highlighting?

Zenithal. Primed him black then gave a blast of Corax while the black was still wet. Gonna really try and push the boat out on this fella if I can just decide on a colour scheme.

Cheers for the heads up on the construction issue as I have not got round to mine yet, odd that the instructions make no mention of it. There were a few things about Death Masque that seemed a bit rushed, the lack of Skyweaver instructions, the insert about 25mm bases for the Harlequins.

Ah gak happens. Aye sky weaver and troupe leader instructions were added in seperately. I'm selling mine anyway as I already have enough harlies. Lovely models though. Went for a Thai massage with Mrs Jan earlier and had an awesome idea for the outside of eldrads cloak. Just gotta figure how I'm gonna do it o.O

Hmm. Weird stuff about the Eldrad build. Especially that the instructions didn't mention anything...

EDC

I just built my Eldrad. I had a lot more mold lines that what I'm used to with GW plastics. Also, the numbering of the pieces was way off (different number on the instructions and on the sprue). Not really a problem for a special character on separate sprues, but it sure feels like the instructions were rushed in that death masque box.

Aye. Few of the numbers were mixed up and it seemed the instructions were 'cut to fit' just the one page.

Eldrad is all ready for paint now so well put himtonthe side till next month. For the now I need to get on with the last sky weaver which I should have done ages ago. It's all primed so no excuses. I start with the front faring/canopy/bit. Penciled in what I'm gonna do so the first stage is to get the base colour shaded and then onto the design so eventually it's gonna look like the second pic

Interesting to see how it looks at the pencilled-in stage, Januine.

The pencil lines will be totally covered by the baseocaot but it just serves to give me an idea of what im doing when it comes to the freeehand later

Can't wait to see your Eldrad, Jan. What sort of colours are you thinking about then?

Still thinking about the scheme......don't want to totally throw away the original scheme but do defintely want to put my own touch to it.....have a sweet wee idea/plan for his cloak but need to get the rest of him planned out first.....we'll see. Won't start him till Sept as he'll be my entry fro next month's painting comp. He really is a gorgeous sculpt