any idea what this eldar model is

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**Kozaan**

I recently got some older Eldar guardians off ebay and two of these came with them any idea what they are and what weapons they have?
please pardon my stupidity I am really new to 40k

**Ifurita**

It's the first version of a missile launcher

**Kozaan**

thanks you very much

any idea what kind of gun this is

**malfred**

Lasgun.

You of course will counts-as shuricatapult.

**Destrado**

1st edition eldar FTW! I loved the old Guardian models. especially the plastic ones with lasg... shuriken catapults! They were quite nice to paint and assemble. Too bad they only had one pose...

**syr8766**

Yep, Guardian w/lasgun for number 2. Number 1 I think is some other las-weapon, not an ML.

In fact, he shows up in the 1988 catalog, and is listed in the 1989 (fall) catalog as carrying a lascannon:
http://solegends.com/citcat88/4301eldar-01.jpg
http://solegends.com/citcat89autumn/c89aut-071519-1-02.htm

Stuff of Legends is a good place to start for any of these searches.

**Kozaan**

thanks everyone

**mattyboy22**

malfred wrote:Lasgun.

You of course will counts-as shuricatapult.

Ha, I remember when they changed over from guardians with las-guns to guardians with shuricatapults. They had a little article saying that although they looked like imperial las-guns, they were misidentified by the imperium and these guns were in fact shuricatapults. I assumed that's what you were referring to...

**chromedog**

Yeah, that first one is a guardian with a "lascannon" - from back when eldar could actually have them.

Ironically, since the guardian heavy weapon these days is only a 'marker', and one of the crew is assumed to be carrying it, they can quite happily be used as a guardian with a brightlance.

**odinsgrandson**

mattyboy22 wrote:
malfred wrote:Lasgun.

You of course will counts-as shuricatapult.

Ha, I remember when they changed over from guardians with las-guns to guardians with shuricatapults. They had a little article saying that although they looked like imperial las-guns, they were misidentified by the imperium and these guns were in fact shuricatapults. I assumed that's what you were referring to...

Oh yeah. That was so funny. I remember back when they first switched off from everyone using the same wargear list to separate ones. They actually had weapons rules for things that no one could use.

It was great!

The lascannon ought to become a bright lance, sure. Next, you should try to find some of the space marines with Shurikan Catipults.

**Hellfury**

The first eldar model is from space crusade expansion "eldar attack".

**xenite**

I was looking through the catalog, and ran across a really old Chaos model that I used to love. It is a chaos renegade (chaos marine) on a palanquin with a shuriken catapult.

The shuricats used to be weapons that were widely available, but still the trademark weapon of Eldar Pirates. Sigh... I miss the RT days.

**xenite**

Hellfury wrote:The first eldar model is from space crusade expansion "eldar attack".

I believe that its a metal Eldar from 1st ed. The weapon was a las-cannon. You can see this model in Rouge Trader. I do remember the 'Eldar Attack' minis, there was a cool one with a shuriken cannon!

**xenite**

http://usuarios.lycos.es/baharrtainn/warhammer40k/catalogo/eldar2.jpg

The meltagun guy is pretty crazy looking

**chromedog**

The other 'meltagun' eldar guardian was a 'standard bearer' (remember when all armies had them?) and more 'normal' looking.

These are from back in the day when models had names, as well as numbers.

**timd**

Yes, its a 1st edition Eldar las cannon. There is a figure in similar armor carrying a missile launcher held vertically.

Both figs are shown in the bottom right corner:
http://www.solegends.com/citcat88/4301eldar.htm

tim

**Mannahnin**

I have the guy with the missile launcher held over the shoulder. Good times.