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Old Eldar are the best kind of stuff.

Wow, I never knew there were Doom Miniatures. Those are so much fun. Bringing back great memories of being far too young for that sort of thing.

@elbows - Your rescued 2nd ed. Eldar are legendary. I especially love those Fire Dragons with white helmets. Nice and sharp and works so well.

Also...

Gork gave Rock and Roll to you!

 Gitkikka wrote:

 monkeytroll wrote:
Gitkikka - lovely collection of skaven bowlers...but no four armed mutant?

He eludes me, Monkeytroll, he eludes me. I did manage to acquire the last four variant poses since that picture (thrower, kicker, and two linemen) and will paint them up...someday (my work hasn't been affected by the quarantines at all, and I'm taking online MRI classes on top of that).

Very jealous of queen_annes_revenge's DOOM minis. If only I had the snap back in the 90s to buy them when I had the chance!

Yeah they cost an absolute packet now. think I paid about £40 for the baron of hell and 80 for the spider demon? wouldnt be doing that now! but they are cool as hell.

Bethesda got the molds from Reaper and were selling the set for $200. Not....TOO...horrible, but really more than I was prepared to pay at the time. Sadly, they've been out of stock for a while now.

Yeah I do remember a re-release, but I think they had all sold out when I was looking. I think you can pick up the mancubus for fairly reasonable prices, as he was re-released with doom 3 I think? so there are extra versions of him floating around.

This thread is quickly going to be full of the amazing early eldar sculpts!







I have a huge IG army, mostly OOP, so I'll just share some highlights:

Armorcast Shadowsword:


Original Hellhounds:


RT era Ogryn:


2nd edition Sentinels:


Kasrkin:


Inquisitorial Stormtroopers:


Finally, an original Vindicator repurposed for 30k:

Great stuff, Polonius. Love the Harlequins and Rangers.

My old metal haris are not painted well.

KInda wish I had some old metal rangers. Finecast is not doing them any favors as a unit. And the metals (like most classic eldar) have held up pretty well.

When I first got back into 40k I read a load of DA novels. Sgt Namaan was my favourite character, so I scoured Ebay for the model for months, but the few listings were crazy prices or missing his auspex.

When he came up on Made to Order I nearly pulled the trigger, but the cost was too much still, especially when you had to pay delivery too.

The night I decided against it, he popped up on ebay for half the price I'd seen. Result!

How about some fake retro White Dwarf style images?

Love those faux-WD pics. Totally on the mark.

Now that I have proper terrain and scenery I should re-do them...even need to buy the old foam bunker from Ziterdes, but shipping from Germany is obnoxious.

Tiny wrong base Avatar is here for yer kneecaps (metal one, early-mid 90's i think)

Metal eldar sure are popular. And understandably so.

Great collection of Harlies Polonious!

And that is perfect presentation Elbows

Man that old avatar ruled. I never really liked eldar but they had a few nice models!

This thread makes me want to amble out to the garage real, real bad.

Wakshaani wrote:
This thread makes me want to amble out to the garage real, real bad.

I’ve already got a lot of my old stuff photographed, so I just need to amble over to my gallery.

Wakshaani wrote:
This thread makes me want to amble out to the garage real, real bad.

I'll second that I think my even tinier Avatar and the cohort of diddy dreads are out there

 Elbows wrote:
How about some fake retro White Dwarf style images?

Love them! Made me feel all kinds of nostalgia feels.

I based mine on the old Avatar art from the codex with a burned out space marine at his feet. Classic iconic image.

 theCrowe wrote:

I based mine on the old Avatar art from the codex with a burned out space marine at his feet. Classic iconic image.

With them bringing back those iconic pieces in miniature form (Mephiston, Bile) we might finally get treated to a plastic centerpiece Avatar in this style.

Even I would be tempted if they did the Gibbons Avatar in plastic - as I don't much care for the Forgeworld one.

No base like a square base:


(I got him late 2nd, early 3rd, they had started making round bases at that point)

Nice, Nev. That guy with the tight mohawk, melta-gun and powerfist is one of my favorite old Eldar, and sword-pointer is the first GW model I ever painted.

Here's a pic of some more old Eldar.

I know some of these still exist in the fringes of the GW website...but 90's classic metal...is 90's classic metal:

What about this old buffer?



He looked slightly less than legendary back in the day.

 theCrowe wrote:
What about this old buffer?



He looked slightly less than legendary back in the day.

Scale creep is a thing.

Is it wrong that I’m thinking how awesome those wolves look, but Russ is just kinda “Meh"

I have these needing new colour, the scum will need doing again as one of my cats had knocked them from my desk chipping their fronts.

No one has dug their squats out for this thread? Where are you guys? I want some squats darn it...

edwardmyst wrote:
No one has dug their squats out for this thread? Where are you guys? I want some squats darn it...

Dude, the Tyranids ate them.