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Title: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on December 23, 2016, 08:53:14 AM
Hello from a newbie!

I've had a little project blog going over on Dakka and The Dark City for a little while, but this seemed like a cool community so thought I'd come share them over here too :)

I've recently come back to the hobby after many years of hiatus (spurred on by seeing just how awesome Cavalier's Corsairs are, among many others), but my army of choice always was (and always will be) Eldar of any sort.

So, without further adieu I'll get started on the armies!

Lets start with my old Eldar, painted many many years ago. I'll preface this with saying that while I find the modelling side of things comes naturally, lets say I'm a...reluctant...pai nter. It's getting there, but I've found it a bit of a steeper learning curve than chopping up bits of plastic and glueing them together in different ways...

Here's a little fluff background to my Craftworld:

Craftworld Angvellaith (contraction of Angau Vehk Agaith, meaning 'Doom of the Dread-Faced Ones', referring the mythical victory over one of the ancient enemies of the eldar).

The early days of craftworld Angvellaith were unremarkable. Leaving sometime during the middle of great exodus from the eldar homeworlds, it set off into the void alongside dozens and dozens of other craftworlds. For centuries, while others fell, the keen foresight of its seers and the might of its warhosts protected its citizens from the very worst the galaxy could offer. However, all skiens of fate appeared to converge in tragedy for the Angvai. Despite all their efforts, the rotting plague-ships of the Death Guard descended upon their home. Through valient effort and harrowing sacrifice, they repelled the foetid tide. However, like Iyanden their population was decimated. Listless and broken, they drifted through the void awaiting their death. However, all was not lost. Through the webway, a cry for help echoed out from the exodites of Selestini (my exodite world), who likewise were under assault from the followers of the Plaguefather. Throwing what was left of their warhosts into the fray, they managed to turn the tide against the children of Nurgle. This marked a turning point in the attitude of the Angvai. No longer were they content to fade away into obscurity.

In a great council, their eldest and wisest seers developed a radical plan. Through the susserus of their innumerable dead within the infinity matrix, the unborn god Ynnead had made his presence known, and the eldar of Angvellaith welcomed him. They struck a dark pact with their Commorite cousins, exchanging safe harbour in realspace and the industrial resources of their craftworld for access to the cloning vats of the Haemonculi. Through arcane and eldritch technomancy, they rebuilt their shattered warhosts.

Their Guardian forces are comprised entirely of cloned conscripts, who follow the unique Path of the Warborn. These forces are thrown against their enemies with no heed to their survival. If a Warborn survives their tour of duty, they are gifted a name and inducted into Craftworld society as a true citizen. If they fall in battle, add one more soul to the chorus.


First we've got a barebones Autarch made from bitz I had lying around. I liked the idea of a bare-wraithbone look so tried to go for that.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--G-hjIqXZ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lygnkk9dwkko9uzzsjtc.jpg)
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Then there's my Spiritseer which is one of my favourite models paint-wise. No great shakes, but I'm proud of it :)

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(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--x2BxpNRM--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/k29uv3xqckojtpqvc92o.jpg)
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Last of my favourite Craftworld Eldar are my Dark Reapers. While I like them a lot, I've decided that I want to repaint all my Aspect Warriors in Craftworld colours (with a couple of modifications) as I like the idea of a uniformly coloured army...

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Of the new batch, I've got a couple of Autarch ideas modelled. First off is a WYSIWYG Power Axe Autarch with Banshee Mask and Fusion Gun. Not quite happy with the Banshee Mask, but I do like the dynamism of the model :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--hZQDcqPk--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rpvn6iy0k0hgux6tkw1o.jpg)
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For my last one, does anyone remember the old 3rd ed. Craftworld Eldar codex supplement? I think it was the third 40k thing I ever read, after the 3rd ed. BRB and the 3rd ed. Eldar codex.

I remember being captivated by one of the special characters in there, Nuadhu Fireheart, a Wild Rider chief that fought from the back of a modified Viper. It's one of the images that really stuck in my mind. I've always liked the idea of Saim-Hann since then, and the image of wild tribal Eldar is probably what got me into making Exodites in the first place.

(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beastsofwar.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F07%2FNuadhu-Fireheart.jpg&hash=b12ab2c3611fc1902bab28fba7ef127f01f2c692)

Fast-forward a decade or so and I was having a conversation over on The Dark City forums about Corsairs and how their Void Dreamers couldn't take jetbikes. It occurred to me how odd the idea seemed of a Farseer casting fiendishly difficult psychic spells, where mucking up even slightly will cause a daemon to erupt from your brain, while piloting a jetbike at breakneck speeds across the battlefield.

Then, a lightbulb moment.

Isn't there those Harlequin bikes with a pilot and a rider?

So, a little eBaying and rooting through the bitsbox and here we are! My jetbike Autarch!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ZKvuJXee--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bygja1xbdzezfttel60u.jpg)

Heat lances from a Talos represent the Fusion Gun, and that kickass glaive thing from Dire Avengers is the Power Spear :) he's now got a Windrider head BTW but I don't have pics!

I've got an idea for a Farseer as well, which should materialise at some point soon. Also, all of the new Eldar jetbike models are simply beautiful. Really capture the essence of sleek, alien speed that they should have.

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Next up, Corsairs...

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After seeing how awesome some of the Corsair conversions are out there, I knew I had to start a small force. However, I knew I'd never be able to afford all the excellent jetpacks offered by Forgeworld so I had to get a bit creative...

Turns out, after much trial and error, the little vanes from the underside of Dark Eldar Raiders and Ravagers fit perfectly into the slots in the back of Guardian torsos :) I rather like the way they look too (slightly slimmed down so less likely to get wedged in the corridor of a starship they're boarding...)

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Note: running Wych legs are fantastic little bits, big props to the designer who made them

Second only to Wych running legs, Scourge Wings are my favourite bit so naturally I had to work them in somehow:

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It's hard to see in pictures, but I washed the wings with Incubi Darkness mixed with glaze to give them a greenish shine like real-life Raven feathers, which led to the fluff for my Corsair band:


Khaine's Ravens
In Eldar myth, the ravens of Morai-Heg were the eyes and ears of the Crone goddess. During the Fall, Morai-Heg bid her ravens to fly with Khaine and peck at the eyes of Slaanesh during their titanic battle. Khaine's Ravens take after these birds of legend, spying on the forces of the Ruinous Powers, and conducting surgical strikes to take out their leaders.

Like Yriel, their Prince Morrathillian claims descent from the House of Ulthanash Raven-Friend. It is after this affectation that he has named his followers.


Here's an older pic of the force painted (pre-Scourge wings unfortunately). I don't have a recent one yet with the Void Dreamer, but as soon as I get enough of them painted I'll do another army shot.

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I also absolutely love the fluff behind Malevolents, so I had to make some :)

My thinking is that as their background is that they're Eldar driven mad by Slaanesh tugging at their souls, draining them dry slowly but surely, they would look more and more daemonic as the process draws to its close. It would certainly explain why all other Eldar are so scared of them at least.

Can you tell it was my first time ever painting faces? ;) I've touched them up since then, but I'm not wholly happy yet...

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Lastly, inspired by Cavalier's models I put together a couple of Balestrikes that are currently awaiting paint:

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Next up, Exodites!

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I've always liked the idea of Exodites, but for some reason I've always felt like what sparse background fluff has been given by GW doesn't quite fit with the feel of 40k. If they're actually 'Amish Space Elves' living a pre-industrial life, then they wouldn't last a second in today's galaxy! Similarly, the idea of a Feudal Eldar Knight-World never really spoke to me either. Not grimdark enough.

Something that did stick though was the term 'Technobarbarian'.

So, that's what I set out to make :)

First off, we've got my 'War Wyrd' counts-as Warlock. My idea (to make them a little more grimdark than 'dinosaur cowboy space-elves') was that Exodites are masters of fusing wraithbone with living tissue. Their Warlocks and Farseers actually grow their ghosthelms into their own skulls, offering permanent protection from the warp. Their wraithbone is also left to grow more naturally than craftworlders, resulting in a more twisted look.

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This chapette goes with these, my counts-as Guardians using Guardian, Glade Guard and Wildwood Rangers bits. The chap on the right is the heavy-weapons gunner...

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...for one of these!

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The grimdark idea I had for these was that rather than just training their dragons as beasts of burden, they embed wraithbone circuits into their nervous systems to provide direct psychic control of their beasts.

Speaking of beasts, my second Craftworld unit is a squad of Dragon Riders/Windriders.

I've never really taken to the use of Cold Ones as Jetbikes. They don't strike me as dynamic enough to fit the movement characteristics of a Jetbike. However, it occurred to me that Slaanesh's formative thoughts and concepts would be born from the Eldar. So, it stands to reason that the daemons that spring from her consciousness are based at least loosely on thing from the Eldar's history. So, with a bit of filing of the Slaaneshi iconography, I came up with these:

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One of the big questions about Exodites is how would they protect themselves from Slaanesh? The Dark Eldar hide in the webway and have their soul-vampirism thing, but that's uniquely Dark Eldar. The Craftworlders have their Spirit Stones, but given that those are harvested from the Eye of Terror I doubt Exodites would have the military might to gather them themselves. They also have the Path system to keep them on the straight and narrow, but again that's uniquely Craftworld.

So, I was thinking that their sheer distance from the Eye of Terror, plus the psychic shielding from their World Spirits would give them some nominal protection from the predations of Slaanesh. However, the'd need a way of regulating their society.

Thinking about the history of the Exodites, their great journey was led primarily by religious zealots. Since then, my thinking is that (like the rest of the 40k universe) since then they're technologically and socially regressed into barbarism.

How would a socially barbaric religious culture deal with unwanted behaviour/individuals?

Looking at our own history, the answer is with Witch Hunts!

So, that gave me the idea for my next unit :) counts-as Striking Scorpions

Cult of Kurnous
Although their god is long-dead, the Cult of Kurnous still follows the creed of the father of the eldar. In civilian life, this order of hunters polices the population for behaviour that would invite the attention of She-Who-Thirsts. If an exodite breaks the strictures of their world a wild hunt is called, and there is nowhere to hide from the Hounds of Kurnous.

Although not heavily armoured, they possess formidable defences. Swarms of spites follow them wherever they go and can intercept a significant amount of incoming fire. In combat, they also lash out at their foes stinging and searing with psychically charged barbs and fangs.


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(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Kfa1n_zR--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ilpfu2y4mmtplxmlf3zb.jpg)
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I'm really pleased with how these guys turned out. Really wild looking :) plus, their fluff echoes the Wild Hunts from Fantasy Wood Elves which fits very nicely with their Wild Rider heads :)

Thinking on from that, I thought that there would likely be a lot more religious influence in Exodite society, so set about making a couple more 'God Cult' units.

The next ones are my 'Cult of Ynnead' (counts-as Wracks)

Cult of Ynnead
The Cult of Ynnead is a relatively new cult that has developed among the guard of the wayshrines where slain exodites are interred into the World Spirit. Their silent order spends the majority of its time plumbed into their world spirit, deep in the barrows of the wayshrines. If interlopers stumble upon a wayshrine, the figures ensconced in alcoves rise from their dreaming like Draugr, ready to defend their resting dead.

The training acolytes undertake is especially gruelling, and their pre-battle rituals involve ingesting copious amounts of the Eldar combat drug 'Painbringer' (purchased from the Dark Kin, along with their ranged weaponry). This increases their resistance to physical injury manifold, but reduces their mobility. Due to this, acolytes of the Cult of Ynnead are called 'Walkers' after their purposeful stride across the battlefield.


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Last of my God Cults that I've made so far is my Son of Asuryan (counts-as Autarch), the Lords and Masters of the Exodite clans. They are descendants of the high priests of Asuryan that led the exodus, and rule to this day.

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Moving on from the Craftworld units, I've got a couple of counts-as Dark Eldar units as well. First off, my absolute favourite conversions: Exodite Hunters (counts-as Kabalite Warriors).

Hunters
Operating in close-knit bands and living a semi-nomadic lifestyle they prowl their worlds and their local webway vicinity, mercilessly hunting down interlopers before they can notify their superiors of the riches of the exodite's home planet. Their weapons fire shards of wraithbone at their targets which, once lodged in place, grow exponentially towards the electrical signals that eminate from organs such as the brain and heart, swiftly bringing death to their foes.


The idea behind them is that they're as close to a standing army as the Exodites have, and are given the lion's share of traded Soulstones so they can venture away from their worlds without feeling Slaanesh tugging at their souls...


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But, what's a self-respecting Kabalite without his Raider?

Enter the Exodite Hunting Skiff :) with a rather prominent trophy from their exploits of course...

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Next up we've got my counts-as Grotesques, and the kickass models that finally persuaded me to part with my hard-earned to start this army up again.

Sylphs
As each exodite life is so precious, the War Wyrds will go to extreme lengths to save mortally wounded eldar frequently replacing lost limbs with wraithbone equivalents. In extreme cases, very little of the original eldar remains. These near-resurrected eldar are known as Sylphs, and are formidable with their new wraithbone bodies.


The other Dark Eldar unit that really lends itself to Exodites is Beastmasters. As some of the earliest models I ever bought were Lizardmen, I had to use some of the OOP Jungle Swarms as Razorwing Flocks:

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Also...couldn't resist making an Eldar flying on a Terradon as a second Beastsinger...

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However, to use Dark Eldar units in the army I'd need an HQ, so I came up with the Daughter of Khaine (counts-as Succubus).

The fluff is that due to the distance between the exodite worlds and the epicentre of the fall, only smaller shards of Khaine fell onto the maiden worlds. These shards formed ornate and archaic suits or armour that, when donned by a sacrificial exodite, imbues them with a portion of Khaine's martial prowess :) however, once the armour is worn, the exodite may never remove it. They become a living embodiment of khaine until the day they fall in battle, or the fire of Khaine's wrath consumes them and burns out their soul.

Basically a mini Avatar!

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I've since painted her but I'm not really happy at all how it's turned out. I'll do a bit more touch-up and see how it goes :S

Penultimately, following on from the Lizardmen Pteradactyl model I had to do something with the kickass Scourge bat wings. Enter Exodite Terradons!

Terradons
While all exodites are culturally regressed compared to other eldar, some bloodlines have devolved yet further. Using technomancy retained through the generations, they significantly alter their bodies and live more animalistic lives than even their fellow exodites. On leathery wings they soar through the jungle canopies and clifftop crags of the maiden worlds. The increased effort of true powered flight necessitates a carnivorous diet, and kindreds of these winged hunters prey on the animals of their home territories.

However, their hunting grounds are not restricted to just their worlds. Often they strike out through the webway, seeking the challenge of hunting the primitive Mon-Keigh or the brutish Orkead. With haywire lances they cripple the vehicles of their quarry, and with heat lances and poisoned weaponry they cut down their foes, carrying trophies from the hunt back to their lairs.


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And finally! The centrepeice of the army. The one thing no Exodite army is complete without...

A Carnosaur!

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I've settled on it being a Talos. Partially because it's not quite tall enough to be a Wraithknight, and partly due to philosophical reasons (why has Apocalypse corrupted my skirmish-level infantry game?).

So, i chopped up a Talos tail, mashed together some Hellion legs with a Wych torso and the weapon arms from a Raider and got this dude :)

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Lord knows what he's aiming at, but he seems happy enough. Joining him is the Beastsinger bonded to the beast, made from a Raider hanger-on, a Dark Elf Corsair cloak, a Wych head and a Sylvaneth Tree Revenant arm :)

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Next up, Croneworld Eldar...

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Right, so at the moment this army's completely at the concept/ideas stage :) I know the idea of Chaos Eldar is usually pretty skub, but hopefully the ideas I've come up with justify it a little and don't tread on any toes lore-wise :)

The concept is that a very few of the Eldar who survived past the initial birth-scream of Slaanesh revelled in the destruction of their race and gave themselves completely and willingly to her service (either that or they're a few of the most dedicated and depraved pleasure-cultists who even in her first few moments managed to impress the Prince of Pleasure and were resurrected as favoured pets).

These few corrupted Eldar are formidable psykers, exploring the full potential of their power augmented by the ruinous powers, unfettered by the wards that Farseers use to hide from She-Who-Thirsts.

To give it a completely different flavour to Craftworlders, Exodites or the True Kin I thought I'd use the Chaos Daemons codex to represent them (with a little added from CSM).

Right, so the first aspect of Croneworld culture is the Cronelord.

Cronelord

Fluff: Cronelords are the lords and masters of their daemonic Crone Worlds. These few corrupted Eldar are formidable psykers, exploring the full potential of their power augmented by the ruinous powers, unfettered by the wards that Farseers use to hide from She-Who-Thirsts.

Counts As: Fateweaver/Lord of Change (immensely powerful psyker)

Modelling ideas: big base for a small, eldar-sized model. Minimal armour, maybe just robes. Floating up in the air, with wings like this:

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The second aspect of Croneworld culture is the mortal minions :) the descendants of the most depraved pleasure cults who are let live as pure amusement for Slaanesh. There are a couple of units I've come up with for these.

Pleasure Cultists

Fluff: The remains of the most dedicated pleasure cultists of the old Eldar Empire. Spared by Slaanesh they live still on a few worlds at the old core of the Eldar empire. Obsessed beyond the point of madness with depraved pleasure and martial splendour they live their immortal lives in constant revelry and slaughter.

Honing their combat skills to perfection they hurl themselves at the ranks of their enemies, rending flesh and armour alike with blades wreathed in fell warp energies.

Counts-As: Daemonettes (T3 and minimal armour, plus WS5 fits the idea of perfectionist CC Eldar)

Modelling ideas: The good staple Wych legs (love the dynamism), with Dark Elf Corsair front torsos and OOP Dark Elf Spearmen heads to make them look Eldar, but distinctly different to Craftworlders, Exodites and True Kin. Dark Elf Doomfire Warlock weapons look crooked and warped enough as well. Throw in some Daemonette arms and heads every now and then and voila!

Aethervessels

Fluff: Considered a gift bestowed by their Crone Lord, some Croneworld Cultists are formed into living conduits for the energies of the warp. These hapless individuals unleash great blasts of eldritch energy, annihilating their foes.

Understandably this has a detrimental effect on their martial skills, constantly battling to hold their beings intact as fell energies pour through them into the material world.

Counts-As: Pink Horrors

Modelling ideas: Maybe High Elf archer legs. Doomfire Warlock masks. If the torso from Doomfire Warlocks works I'll use that. If not any suggestions for a bare elf torso I can easily get 10 of?

Favoured Plaything

Fluff: Through their actions, some Cultists gain the favour of She-Who-Thirsts. They are blessed with formidable skill and power, although Slaanesh is a fickle patron. One single stumble and they can be devoured whole.

Counts-As: Herald of Slaanesh

Modelling ideas: Not sure as yet beyond the OOP fantasy Champion of Slaanesh helmet that I have. Maybe 4 arms?

Croneweaver

Fluff: The Croneweavers are powerful psykers beneath the Crone Lords. Formally a psyker cult dedicated to Morai-Heg in pre-fall Eldar society, as she was devoured by Slaanesh they were cursed by their patron for their part in her demise. Their once-upright stature and lithe bodies were crippled, resulting in the bitter and twisted creatures they are today.  For beings so dedicated to beauty and perfection as the Eldar, such a curse would be unbearable. Perhaps that is the reason they persist. A perfect vengeance is sweet in itself.

Counts-As: Herald of Tzeentch

Modelling ideas: I've got this vision of a hunched over, cloaked figure that looks like an old hag or crone. I've ordered an AoS Necromancer that I'll cut up and have a play about with :) an AoS Banshee would be a second option.

I've even come up with an idea to represent Daemonic Instability :)

At the Whim of a Fickle God: Being as they are the transitory playthings of She-Who-Thirsts, the lives of the Croneworld Eldar exist only at her pleasure. As such, they can live and die and live again at the fickle whims of their patron. Even as they charge towards their enemies, a step wrong and a light stumble can be enough to invoke the ire of the Prince of Perfection causing them to drop as a lifeless husk upon the battlefield. Conversely, if their actions somehow please their lord they could find themselves, or her whims simply swing the other way, they could find themselves thrust back onto the mortal coil, rising from their resting place to do the dance of battle oncemore.


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Onto the other part of Croneworld Eldar, and the bit that explores their pre-Fall society/technology a little.

During the War in Heaven, the Old Ones created many races to do battle against the dread forces of the C'tan. As the warp was anathema to the C'tan, the Old Ones crafted a race specifically designed to weaponise the considerable power of the warp. That race was the Eldar.

On ancient battlefields long-since forgotten, the early Eldar waged war against the metallic Necrons. Using their formidable psychic might they manifested great warhosts to march alongside their mortal warriors.

In the millenia since the fall, this technology has been lost and forgotten, being suicidal under the gaze of She-Who-Thirsts. The last remaining aspect of this technomancy to remain is the construction of wraithbone, it being energy drawn directly from the warp and solidified. The greatest technomancy of the Eldar, lost. Lost to all but those that remain on the Eldar homeworlds within the Eye of Terror.

These twisted Eldar still raise great hosts of daemonic beings to wage war against their foes, resplendent in the despoiled livery of ages past. The many and varied ancient weapons of the Eldar are known as Aetherconstructs. A few are listed below:

Aetherconstruct 1 (need names for these)

Fluff: These summoned warriors are the basic soldiers of the summoned hosts. Tougher and stronger than any mortal Eldar, and armed with arcane weaponry they are formidable foes.

Counts-As: Noise Marine

Modelling ideas: Sylvaneth Spite Revenants would look really cool painted like daemonic entities. Give them some eldar-ified Noise Marine weaponry and we're away :)

Aetherconstruct 2 (need names for these)

Fluff: Vicious clawed fiends that can fade in and out of reality at whim, these Aetherconstructs warp into the battlefield and immediately set about rending the enemy limb-from-limb, screaming in eldritch voices.

Counts-As: Warp Talon

Modelling ideas: Just a plain Spite Revenant repainted would be perfect :) they've already got 'lightning claws'

Aethercolossus

Fluff: The most mighty of the pre-fall Eldar warp constructs, these towering beings of pure destruction cut great swathes through the battlefield.

Counts-As: Soul Grinder or Daemon Prince, whichever you prefer :)

Modelling ideas: Drycha Hamadreth

What do you reckon?

The idea that led me to these was thinking about Wraithguard in the context of some fluff I'd read about Eldar summoning constructs to do the heavy-lifting in their empire/fight the War in Heaven.

What if these warrior constructs of old were simply wraithbone shells that they summoned a daemon into (back when the warp wasn't the hellscape it is now and they were more compliant). This technology developed into the Wraithguard necromancy when they discovered that Eldar souls could power these constructs as well.[/quote]

The only model I've got made to my satisfaction so far is the Croneweaver. Really pleased with how it's turned out :) exactly as I'd imagined

Croneweaver
Pre-Fall, the Cult of Morai-Heg played a pivotal role in the Fall of the Eldar. During the War in Heaven Lileath received a vision where Khaine was torn apart by the mortal Eldar. In efforts to prevent this, Khaine attempted to wipe out the Eldar and reaped a bloody toll before he was pacified. By the time the Eldar Empire had reached the height of its power no mortal race could match them in battle. However, the Cult of Morai-Heg, as the knowledge-keepers of the pre-Fall empire, still remembered well how close Khaine had come to annihilating their race.

Heeding Lileath's prophecy that the power to defeat Khaine, the last true threat to the Eldar, lay within their grasp they set about engineering his demise in secret. Sensing the growing power within the warp as a product of the pleasure cults, they began to see that this new power was the key to this prophecy. In their eyes, this new Eldar god would banish Khaine forever, bringing an end to warfare forever and heralding a new age of peace, prosperity and pleasure for the Eldar race.

Fearing her interference, the high priestess' deceived the seer-god Morai-Heg about their actions, blinding her to the impending destruction of her fellow god.

For their part in her demise they were cursed by their patron. Their once-upright stature and lithe bodies were crippled, resulting in the bitter and twisted creatures they are today.  For beings so dedicated to beauty and perfection as the Eldar, such a curse would be unbearable. Perhaps that is the reason She-Who-Thirsts permits them to persist. A perfect vengeance is sweet in itself.


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Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on December 23, 2016, 11:10:35 AM
Wow the amount of talent on show here is just staggering as is your level of immersion into your army. I really admire your conversion skills.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on December 23, 2016, 02:29:42 PM
Wow! Where to begin!? This is a fantastic army... very smooth and cohesive approach in every aspect. First off... great color choices. Love the mix of high and low contrast colors and the paint jobs are very, very nice. The modeling is really excellent as well. Super clean, smooth kitbashes and conversions across the board. This is an all out hobby blitzkrieg pulled off with great consistency and great execution.

My favorite units are the Seeker unit, the Cult of Kurnous (fantastic modeling, the poses are fantastic! and paint jobs!) and the mini-Avatar. Fantastic kitbashes here and great paint jobs!

Also the CWE units at the top are fantastic as well, love all the glyphs and designs. Truly top-notch!

As for the Croneworld stuff check out my buddy Ibushi's project log. He's used some ingenious kitbashes to pull of his army. Very nice stuff indeed!

Anyway fantastic work all round Ynnead. Thanks for sharing its truly a sight to behold! Please feel free to share bat-reps, and what ever other projects and other photos you may have taken. I love this stuff its truly unique. Thanks!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on December 23, 2016, 02:37:18 PM
Wowzers! That's a heck of a first project post Ynnead! The volume of work really puts a lot of people (me included) to shame. Impressive commitment to the hobby!

I think that the whole style of the army is really good. It looks like a great, cohesive force, which is really difficult to do when you kit bash a lot of it. As it is, there are common traits throughout the army that make it all reflect and compliment each other.

My personal favourite at the moment are the Ennead Walkers. Those things look absolutely badass. I love that in an army known for it's dextrous movement and agility, you have managed to include a walking unit that fits absolutely perfectly whilst looking incredibly tough. Not an easy feat when using Eldar as a base.

Lovely work, I really look forward to seeing this project as it develops!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on December 23, 2016, 09:16:09 PM
Thanks a bunch guys! It's always nice to get positive feedback :) especially about the painting which I've never been 100% happy with :S

Yeah the Cult of Kurnous and the Cult of Ynnead are some of my favourite creations :) it's not often that you can picture something in your head, stick it together and it somehow works out exactly as you'd imagined :)

I can just see the cult of Kurnous descending out of a petrified forest onto a squad of hapless Guardsmen, and there is definitely something about an Eldar brick sh*thouse unit that's a really pleasing juxtaposition. I can't think of many other Eldar units that would stride steadily up to a Marine and then punch it square in the face ;)

Oh, it also helps that they're tall. A good head above other Eldar units...

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I'll definitely check out Ibushi's thread :) not many Croneworld armies out there :)

No batreps as yet as I'm still getting back into things really, although it's definitely an omission I want to get sorted soon!

I definitely wouldn't worry about the volume of work! It's taken me long enough to get this far :S just all posting it at once makes it seem like it's quick ;)

Oh, I forgot about the fluff for my Exodite world! It all stemmed from a chap over on Dakka who came up with the idea that the wraithbone-replacement limbs seemed like they could be a way to stop one of Nurgle's plagues...

Selestini Exodites
It was high priests of the temple of Isha that originally called for the exodus of Eldar to the maiden world of Selesti. Their new worlds were built in her honour, and all life upon them flourished.

However, the healthy splendour of these worlds was too much for Papa Nurgle to resist, and he unleashed one of his many gifts upon this world. Only by excising the infected tissue and replacing it with wraithbone could the Selestini hold back the inevitable doom of their world.

Their salvation came in the dreams of their seers. Isha, held captive by Nurgle, had heard her children's plight. She whispered the cure to her daughters, and saved their kingdoms. However, the scars of this event are still evident among the Selestini. To this day, any impurity or imperfection in their bodies is replaced with wraithbone, and great forests of petrified trees lie on barren soil. The gifts of the Lord of Decay reap a heavy toll.


FYI 'Selesti' is the name of an Exodite world that's mentioned in passing in the Iyanden supplement as having an Ork Waaagh averted from attacking them by Sylandri Veilwalker, so I thought I'd expand on that little tidbit of info :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Wyldhunt on December 23, 2016, 11:27:37 PM
Loving these, Ynneadwraith! Their mythology was one of the things that really drew me to Eldar when I first got into 40k. :D
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on December 24, 2016, 04:16:18 AM
Wow, what a way to introduce yourself to the forum!!
Absolutely loving some of these kitbashes, the Cult of Kurnous has to be the one that really jumps out on me, the kits mesh so well that it doesn't look like a Kitbash at all, it flows perfectly!
Loving the concept of the Croneworld army as well, you've obviously put a lot of thought and planning into it, can't wait to see what comes from it!
This is a thread that I think I will be visiting very regularly!  8)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on December 24, 2016, 07:54:37 AM
Damn I love that new photo! So statuesque! Love that hooded head where'd you get it? Glade Guard?

Great stuff man, so happy your on these project logs. Keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: dog_of_war on December 24, 2016, 08:20:09 AM
Wow, just wow. Excellent kitbashing and I love that you have not one, but three armies that all work on a central theme. Can't wait to see what you come up with next.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on December 24, 2016, 01:32:00 PM
Wow, what a way to introduce yourself to the forum!!
Absolutely loving some of these kitbashes, the Cult of Kurnous has to be the one that really jumps out on me, the kits mesh so well that it doesn't look like a Kitbash at all, it flows perfectly!
Loving the concept of the Croneworld army as well, you've obviously put a lot of thought and planning into it, can't wait to see what comes from it!
This is a thread that I think I will be visiting very regularly!  8)

Thanks man :) it's odd that the Cult of Kurnous looks so flowing because it was a PITA to get the heads to work! On the Wild Riders the neck is part of the torso, so you have to scavenge a neck from somewhere else to fit it to Kabalite torsos (Scourge necks work well as they're slightly elongated). Would probably be easy with GS but I've never got the hang of working with it TBH so I try and keep everything I do plastic...

I really want to get some of the Croneworld stuff going :) perhaps with any Christmas money I get I'll get a box of Witch Elves, some Harlequins and some Daemonette heads and get cracking ;)

Actually, I'd quite like some input into how to make them look Chaosy, but not full-on mutated. I tried a test model with a pair of Daemonette claws but it didn't really get the look I was after. I'm picturing something along the lines of a dancer band made up of beautiful Pleasure Cultists, with lots of flowing ribbons and suchlike. Sort of like Harlequins gone bad.

If anyone knows of a bare-chested male torso that would fit at least half-decently on Harlequin legs I've be very grateful!

Damn I love that new photo! So statuesque! Love that hooded head where'd you get it? Glade Guard?

Great stuff man, so happy your on these project logs. Keep it up!

Thanks dude :) the hooded head is from the slightly newer Wildwood Rangers set. It's odd for a Fantasy kit in that the head had a little nub for a neck, rather than the neck being part of the body, which means it's nice and easy to fit onto Eldar/Dark Eldar torsos :) If you're fitting it to Guardian torsos it just needs a little bit of shaving at the base of the hood at the back so that it sits level :)

Wow, just wow. Excellent kitbashing and I love that you have not one, but three armies that all work on a central theme. Can't wait to see what you come up with next.

Thanks man! Yeah I have a bit of a problem in that I start projects a lot more frequently than I finish them ;)

Oh, I forgot. I've also got the very beginnings of a Dark Eldar force that's allied with my Craftworlders. Just a set of 5 Kabalites and an Archon at the moment, but they'll definitely be expanded at some point :)

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For my Archon I've never really like the 'just about to be mummified' crossed arms pose, so went for sort of 'drinking in the atmosphere of the battle, reveling in the carnage'.

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Perched upon a spur jutting over the battlefield, he closed his eyes and inhaled deeply. The sharp tang of blood filtered through his jaded olfactory nerves and he drank in the carnage below.

Below him, the belated reinforcements were arriving. Spying the remains of the XIth scattered across the valley, the Commissar bellowed his orders. With a crackle of interference, the cloaked figure tested his pet Haemonculus' latest whimsy.

Booming from the platoon's vox-casters, an alien voice declared in broken Gothic: "I am Khaharkyth the Carrion Lord. Look upon my artworks and despair!"

As the final guttural syllables were echoing in the air, the Archon tipped forwards and dove off the precipice. With a sickening crunch he landed square on the shotgun-brute below, cracking its spine beneath an armoured knee. The Commissar spun around, power sword buzzing into life.

"My soul-trap is hungry, plaything." the vox-casters echoed.

Bracing his sword, the Commissar charged...


Also, I've decided that the little skull attached to his shoulder-pad will be known as 'Wilson' and will be painted as such ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on December 25, 2016, 06:21:24 AM
That Archon looks super sweet bud, great work on that guy. I never was a fan of the crossed arms look...not in an age of dynamic posing. You have done a great job of bringing more animation and life to what was a fairly dull pose.

I'm not particularly familiar with the Dark Eldar sets, but I'm guessing that you didn't do anything to the Cabalites other than build them...and yet they look fantastic. I'm particularly fond of the Squad Leader at the front with the 'Who dares beslubber with me?' pose.

Great work, keep it coming!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on December 25, 2016, 08:39:14 AM
Fantastic stuff yet again. That Archon is glorious!

Also thanks for the tip on the hooded head. Gotta get some! They'd be perfect for Corsair Ghostwalkers.

Anyway keep up the great work buddy, you are rolling!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on December 25, 2016, 04:05:46 PM
Thanks man :)

Glad i could be of assistance! ;) can't wait to see what you come up with for ghostwalkers :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on December 27, 2016, 06:03:05 PM
I'd hoped to have this finished earlier today for some nice light, but washed-out photos will have to do...

..big beastie's done!

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Tried a white background, but no different really. Need better light.

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Had my first go at blood spatter effects as well. Works nicely, although I'd think it'd need a bit more...

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Oh, and took the opportunity for a full army shot (apologies for the potato-cam!). 1402pts!

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Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on December 28, 2016, 07:12:37 AM
Looking fantastic! Great paint jobs and modelling again. Particularly on the big dino-dude. Love the guy hanging on... great modeling there. I actually like the amount of blood spatter you've got on the big beast (what kind of unit is he supposed to represent btw?)

Just a very cool looking force all round. Very cohesive... keep up the great work bud you are killing it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on December 28, 2016, 08:59:01 AM
Thanks a lot man :) I am proud of the hanger-on :)

While I was making it I spent a while conflicted as to whether it should be a Talos or a Wraithknight (it's inbetween the two in size), but settled on it being a Talos.

Mainly a philosophical decision after not having played since 5th (what are Apoc units doing in my skirmish game?!) ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on December 28, 2016, 10:50:36 AM
You've really nailed the Exodite aesthetic with these guys.
I agree with Cav on the blood splatter on the big guy, looks just enough!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on December 28, 2016, 07:24:14 PM
Thanks dude :) I shall leave the blood spatter as is ;)

Latest addition, my 'Boneshaper' counts-as Haemonculus. The fluff is that these are the equivalent of Craftworld Bonesingers, but take a rather more 'active' approach to their art...

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Tried to make him look like a miniature version of the Sylphs (counts-as Grotesques) for a convincing Grotesquerie :)

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Only issue now is that in comparison my Wyrdlord doesn't look quite so 'wyrd'...might have to revisit him (and maybe the War Wyrd too).
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on December 29, 2016, 05:28:28 AM
Superb mini.

If you had told me that he was produced by GW as a kit, I would have believed you. I can't give out higher praise when looking at converted minis. Stunning.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on December 29, 2016, 07:11:52 AM
Wow great model! Perfect counts-as Bonesinger. His scale would make him fit right in with a unit of Wraithguard. Very cool! The paint job looks good too though its a little shadowy so hard to offer to much input on that. But great stuff man really dig the model!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on December 29, 2016, 07:41:05 AM
Thankyou Looshkin! That is high praise indeed :)

Thanks a lot too Cavalier :) yeah very pleased how he compares size-wise to my Tree Revenant Grotesques :) this photo is a bit of a sub-par one, even by my standards! Too much overhead lighting. Really must get a proper soft-light setup somehow (although I fear that will expose my painting for what it really is!)

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Didn't take me long to have another stab at a Wyrdlord and I'm much happier :) definitely weirder ;)

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Love the new Sylvaneth range :) loads of great twisted bits to use :)

Oh, and a couple of little fluff background pieces on these guys:

Cult of Lileath and Morai-Heg
The cult of the maiden and the cult of the crone are two halves of the same equation. Like Farseers their acolytes scry the future, attempting to twist the skeins of fate to avert potential catastrophes befalling their worlds. Each acolyte is part of a matched pair: one a maiden, the other a crone. The younger is the dreamer, who in drug-addled dreams receives visions of potential futures. The older is the hag, who uses their wisdom to interpret these visions.

In times of war, their War Wyrd guardians join the warhosts of the exodites, throwing the formidable psychic might of the eldar at their foes.


War Wyrds
The War Wyrds of the Cult of Morai-Heg double as both the Warlocks and Bonesingers of the exodites. Being masters of melding living tissue with wraithbone, they directly fuse their ghosthelms to their head, providing permanent protection from the winds of the warp.

The eldest of these warrior-psykers are the Wyrdlords, formidable psykers and fearsome warriors whose transformation into wraithbone-skinned ???* is near-complete.


*Help! I need a word here but I can't think of it :S something like 'daemon' or 'fiend' but without the chaos connection, or like 'savage' or 'monster' but without the connotation of being mindless.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on December 30, 2016, 07:38:30 AM
Oh wow... another great model. Ibushi has made fantastic use of these dudes as well. Wow what a pose! Love the use of the Harlie spear too! Fantastic stuff....

Also about lighting I use the natural lighting from my window and a normal overhead... I'll take a photo of the rooms I use soon to illustrate. You just need something coming in laterally if you take my meaning.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on December 30, 2016, 08:38:39 AM
Thanks again dude :) yeah I like the Harlie and Dark Eldar stuff a lot. Being on the whole newer than the Craftworld range they've really got a degree of delicacy that I guess wasn't really possible with older casting techniques.

Can't wait for an updated Guardian or Dire Avenger (or...gasp...plastic Aspect Warrior) kits in this style :)

I love Ibushi's warped Dryad Warp Spiders. Very twisted looking things :)

I've definitely found natural light helps a lot, although it's in short supply at this time of year! I'll try setting up some lamps a bit lower down and see if that does a decent approximation :)

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Well, these two were an absolute joy to paint. Not often I say that, given my usual attitude towards painting, but I'm really chuffed with how these turned out :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--CdZwpjhG--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rvyrnbg1iicbfd6ev90r.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ozgefPvq--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ltt87cfw0da7f9wfgzix.jpg)

I even had a go at blending again on the Wyrdlord's warpflames. I have utmost respect for people who put the effort in to do that on more of their models. I'm happy with the result, but it took me ages!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SfPHlLot--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jp7lqp0tog0osvcaufwj.jpg)

Also, I love the idea of the Wyrdlord having this gnarled and twisted body, and a terrifying inhuman head...but humanoid hands. Something really creepy about that if you picture it in your head :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 1, 2017, 07:46:09 AM
Excellent stuff! Love the mix of low and high contrast colors. Very neat interaction between the color choices. Everything has a sort of ghostly, somewhat morbid look where the colors blend but then there will be a bright splash of color. I love it! Cheers man!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on January 1, 2017, 08:27:05 AM
Yeah, I agree with Cav here. You've used a great, natural colour palette that really suits the models. Terrific work!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 1, 2017, 02:57:48 PM
Thanks guys! I am really proud of how they've turned out, although i'm fairly certain i've just stumbled upon a couple of colours that work and stuck with it! Must be brave and try out something else at some point. Started painting my archon and even he's a variation on the brown and red theme! :S

Saying that, i'm perfectly happy with that being the case :) through the archon i've discovered Warplock Bronze which is quite simply a stunning colour. If i could paint my car with it i would!

Might take a while though...even with a Tank Brush ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 5, 2017, 08:41:03 AM
Well, I started out painting my Archon but soon discovered that my age old pot of Scorched Brown was rock solid! New pot of Rhinox Hide on the way (I think that's a dark brown? All these newfangled colours...), but I needed something to paint.

So, my Craftworlders got a bit of attention. I did a bit of touch-up to my first Autarch (one of my oldest conversions, and still one of my favourite), giving him gold shoulder pads. Not sure I prefer it TBH, but it'll work better with my planned Dire Avengers in craftworld colours.

Oh, and I also did a bit more experimenting with different lighting setups and backgrounds. Not certain what works best...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iQ1X6Ig---/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qtuplct4zc1jlgj4q2cp.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--FAAk-iGY--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/gucqn34r01lnik4al2fh.jpg)

I also painted up my Axe/Banshee Mask/Fusion Gun Autarch. Need to do some more work around the Banshee Mask really so this pic neatly avoids showing that ;) also swapped the head on my Uldanorethi Longrifle Farseer (another old favourite) for the one from the Farseer Jetbike kit and it looks much better :) I love plastic HQs!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SHgZbM7L--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/tqs3paev7nufhsyrd2rd.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--POa6rQuN--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/uzx983n56hbp8kgflt5a.jpg)

This would probably be a good place to shoe-horn in the fluff for my Craftworld :)

Craftworld Angvellaith (contraction of Angau Vehk Agaith, meaning 'Doom of the Split-Faced Ones', referring the mythical victory over one of the ancient enemies of the eldar).

The early days of craftworld Angvellaith were unremarkable. Leaving sometime during the middle of great exodus from the eldar homeworlds, it set off into the void alongside dozens and dozens of other craftworlds. For centuries, while others fell, the keen foresight of its seers and the might of its warhosts protected its citizens from the very worst the galaxy could offer. However, all skiens of fate appeared to converge in tragedy for the Angvai. Despite all their efforts, the rotting plague-ships of the Death Guard descended upon their home. Through valient effort and harrowing sacrifice, they repelled the foetid tide. However, like Iyanden their population was decimated. Listless and broken, they drifted through the void awaiting their death. However, all was not lost. Through the webway, a cry for help echoed out from the exodites of Selestini, who likewise were under assault from the followers of the Plaguefather. Throwing what was left of their warhosts into the fray, they managed to turn the tide against the children of Nurgle. This marked a turning point in the attitude of the Angvai. No longer were they content to fade away into obscurity.

In a great council, their eldest and wisest seers developed a radical plan. Through the susserus of their innumerable dead within the infinity matrix, the unborn god Ynnead had made his presence known, and the eldar of Angvellaith welcomed him. They struck a dark pact with their Commorite cousins, exchanging safe harbour in realspace and the industrial resources of their craftworld for access to the cloning vats of the Haemonculi. Through arcane and eldritch technomancy, they rebuilt their shattered warhosts.

Their Guardian forces are comprised entirely of cloned conscripts, who follow the unique Path of the Warborn. These forces are thrown against their enemies with no heed to their survival. If a Warborn survives their tour of duty, they are gifted a name and inducted into Craftworld society as a true citizen. If they fall in battle, add one more soul to the chorus.


I also tried the new lighting setup with the Khaine's Ravens which worked well I thought!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--PVVDwVr9--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fshnftvpebxkaj6puks0.jpg)

New and improved face on Baroness (now called Yzirienn), using Cavalier's method for painting eyes :) much better!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--IhJ05-T8--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jz6bufmybej9vbvxed5e.jpg)

Also tried to add a little pizazz to the black armour on my Corsairs. It was painted flat black (before I read that it's best to lighten your blacks slightly so you can shade them properly), so I ran a little Administratum Grey on the upward facing edges and hit it with a coat of gloss and I like it much better!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--MdeFcM7e--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/losnp0tzjc7kypwryv0w.jpg)

Here's where the mucking about with lighting comes in. I tried two different places to take photos and I'm torn between which is better. The one above, or this one:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--pVBiBo7c--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/tkmrwgkgiesksovchinz.jpg)

I think I like the lighting of the former, but the background colour and woodwormy floor of the latter.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xIbIOKgC--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/plfki5jzouznnbkmjc3y.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--UUOOSLBi--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/dby6t3r4bfuqthrsji6o.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--3TPbllBc--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vfp8nl4uk8c2ebwzyd33.jpg)

Back-to-back comparisons:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ypzTq7R4--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ke5e4muza65whiuymts3.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SHgZbM7L--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/tqs3paev7nufhsyrd2rd.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GFqz5Isr--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fqcsahhuup9hqappxlgj.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--PMucduPX--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zseaqimycy77str1qhey.jpg)

Which do you think is best?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on January 5, 2017, 10:08:41 AM
I agree with you Ynneadwraith the lighting in the photo with the dark background does look good but the woodwormy photo looks marginally better. All your photo's seem to suffer from a lack of contrast and when enlarged they don't appear to be well focused. Are you using daylight to light your pictures? If you are then this is probably part of the problem as something in your lighting set up is causing shadows which is obliterating some of the detail.

Have you seen The Model Photo How To (https://www.warhammer-community.com/2016/11/13/the-model-photo-how-to-photograph-models-for-display/) on Warhamer Community?

Cavalier takes brilliant photo's so hopefuly he will pop by and offer you some advice.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 5, 2017, 10:51:41 AM
Thanks for the link dude :) that should be very helpful.

I think part of the problem (definitely with the woodwormy photos) is lack of light (or lack of diffused light at least). Because it's always dark at the moment when I get home, very few of them are done in natural sunlight of any sort so they're probably not quite bright enough to pick out the differences in the colour. Perhaps a second (better) lamp low down on the woodwormy photos would bring out the colour a little more. Shall do some testing!

As for focus I expect that'll be my potato-phone camera. I've got a little point-and-shoot which is much better, but it's a little worse for wear. Was hoping for one for Christmas but alas it was not to be...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Irisado on January 5, 2017, 11:15:55 AM
40K Online has its own topic for taking high quality pictures (http://www.40konline.com/index.php?topic=144429.0) too.  It may be of some help.

I really like the colours on those Eldar.  A very regal colour scheme in my opinion, which is very well suited to the arrogance that characterises some elements of Eldar background.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 5, 2017, 11:48:48 AM
Thanks man that's helpful too!

I wonder if some of the focus issues is compression-related. How's this one?

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/qtuplct4zc1jlgj4q2cp.jpg (https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/qtuplct4zc1jlgj4q2cp.jpg)

If that's just as bad I'll just have to shell out for a better camera (although I'll probably have to work on my painting skills accordingly!).

Thanks on the compliments on the scheme :) I wasn't sold on the black part of it when I started but it's definitely grown on me :) personally I see Corsair Princes as the most arrogant of the lot so that fits nicely!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 5, 2017, 01:01:10 PM
Everything is look great Ynneadhwraith! :) Love all the Corsair units and the Scourge unit looks great. The head swaps really work and make them feel unique. Love that my techniques for eyes helped you. Always so stoked when I can help a fellow hobbyist.

About taking the photos I liked the photos on the wooden surface best. I've actually found just a single window with natural light to be sufficient for my photos most of the time. All I use is my iphone so its nothing fancy (well an iphone is pretty fancy but you get my drift). A trick I found is to try using the focus on different colors and it tends to adjust the exposure making it either darker of brighter. For example when I photo my Dark Angels if I focus on the black of their armor the exposure goes through roof and its super washed out and bright. If I focus on the white of my background or a neutral color like brown or grey on my terrain the exposure tends to be just right...

But check out the links provided and I'm sure they'll help.

Anyway bud, keep all the great work its been a treat following you  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on January 5, 2017, 01:02:54 PM
That one is slightly better so you are probably right and that instead of being a focus issue it is more to do with resolution.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on January 5, 2017, 02:13:11 PM
I have a pretty high-end Canon Eos as well as some stupenny shuffley lenses. I use my iPhone for all the photos that I put on here though, as a good miniatures picture is largely down to the lighting that you have available. Follow the advice in the articles that have been linked and you can't go far wrong.

If you don't mind spending a little money, I bought myself a little fold away light box with internal lighting. Only cost about £17 including p+p and I think that it has improved the quality of my miniature photos. It doesn't have to be all singing and dancing, it just has to improve the light and ideally give you a situation in which there are no dark shadows to ruin the shot.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 5, 2017, 08:39:28 PM
Thanks guys! All really helpful pieces of advice :) I thought the woodworm photos give the closest approximation of their colours in real life. The ones on the black background look much more yellow than they actually do. The best colours can from the balck background while shining a blue LED head-torch at a sheet of paper off to one side, but that's far too much faff for me!

I had no idea light boxes were that cheap Loosh! I'll definitely look at getting one :) would definitely have to pick up my painting game though ;)

Speaking of dark shadows ruining shots...

...had a package arrive today which had the little gribblies in that let me finish this!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--hOWYKSdW--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/dfcylrccehe1maehbmbu.jpg)
Thaegr, Huntfather, Flutterkin, Son of Kurnous. Prince of the Selestini of the Godwoods

He's my new counts-as Autarch, with a Power Axe, Fusion Gun (the lance on his back) and a Banshee Mask (the little gribblies swarming around his feet). The fluff for them is similar to my Hounds of Kurnous, where they surround themselves with swarms of psycho-active wraithbone-shelled insects that attack/distract their foes before the Son of Kurnous enters the fray :) as soon as I saw the Flutterfury swarms from the Drycha kit I knew I had to use them for that :)

Speaking of Drycha...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sJxBEvPZ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bywxizbkvq0r7yc9bvaw.jpg)

I've now got a counts-as Cronos! Once that's painted I'll have a Dark Artisan!

The most monstrous creations of the Boneshapers, great twisted wraithbone colossi, the Sylphlords are often mistaken for knight-suits by their ill-fated foes. They are, in fact, enormous constructs grown around the tattered body of a mortally wounded exodite.

Their new bodies play host to swarms of psychoactive wraithbone insects, which billow forth on chitinous wings to devour enemy soldiers and form a protective screen around exodite warriors.


Thought the little swarm of bugs would do quite well explaining the Cronos' Spirit Syphon flamer attack and FnP bubble :)

Two newbies together for scale...

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...and the beginnings of the Dark Artisan :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--CVlw_JHY--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/yxyeighesbea2csdqb5j.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 6, 2017, 07:21:58 AM
Oh damn! That Autarch model is sick! Wow... absolutley love it. Where did you get the bits? That had head/hair is great. Also you gotta give us shot of his back... I want to see that awesome looking fusion gun/spear! It looks great.

Also the big tree man guy looks awesome too. Thats a monstrous sized Dark Artisan formation! It looks great.

Anyway great stuff man you are rolling!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 6, 2017, 09:00:57 AM
Thanks man! Yeah I really like how the Autarch turned out :) I wanted to do something evoking one of my favourite models ever, this kickass Wood Elf Lord:

(https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99060204077_LordwithBowNEW01.jpg)

Think I've done ok at that!

The head (and axe) is from the Sylvaneth Tree Revenant kit. It's got the typical fantasy neck-stub-on-the-body, rather than attached to the head, so I brutalised another Scourge head to get a suitable neck :)

The antlers are actually from a Wood Elf Wild Rider stag, clipped off and glued on :) I've got a pic of his back...but it's on my laptop at home :S I'll post it up as soon as I get back :)

Big fan of how the Dark Artisan's turned out :) as far as I can tell, the purpose of the Dark Artisan is to cause your opponent to cr*p his pants when you webway portal directly next to them. Thought that would work quite well with a sodding great dinosaur and a spiky Sylvaneth gribbly ;)

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Only pic of the rear I've got :) the melta lance is a cut-down Hellion Hellglaive with the tip of a Heat Lance glued on :)

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Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on January 6, 2017, 06:52:33 PM
Awesome Autarch Ynnead. The pose is fantastic and the conversion really well done. Another model to be very proud of, well done!

I know it might be a touch labour intensive, but if you could maybe do a step by step guide for one of your amazing miniatures, I'm sure a lot of people would really appreciate seeing your process.

Great work, keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 6, 2017, 07:58:01 PM
Thanks a bunch dude! That's a great idea too :) wish I'd thought of that before I made this one as he was definitely my most converted dude so far. First time I've done re-positioning of legs!

Next Hunter/Kabalite I do I'll take step-by-step pics :) I'm planning on re-doing my winged Autarch as well so I'll do that too :)

I've got an update too! You can tell when I really like a model as they get painted pronto!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--lgLzn9Cq--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bl0rsf4m36xgx6mbbohj.jpg)

The Catachan platoon hacked its way through the undergrowth, monomolecular machetes carving effortlessly through bough and branch, silently progressing forwards in environs they found most familiar. Death world they called it. Hah! Had they never been to Catachan? Transport a Catachan Devil here and it would clean up the local wildlife in a week!

Even still, the platoon was on guard. One of the Cadian patrols had come this way and were never heard from again. The weapons expert hovered his finger over the hair-trigger on his heavy bolter, and troopers scanned the trees down the barrels of their lasguns. Suddenly, the sarge froze, raising his hand to halt the platoon, his finely honed death-world instincts telling him that something wasn't right.

Suddenly, swarms of chittering insects burst from the trees, engulfing them in a thick fog of tiny wings and bodies. Lasgun shots rang out, but the sarge bellowed that it was no point wasting charges on insects when a flamer would do a much better job. It was at that point that an intense burst of heat exploded the tanks on the back of the flamer. The lasgun fire began in earnest, troopers diligently double-tapping their triggers to eke out every shot possible. However, individually cut off and enveloped by the swarm there was no way to tell which direction they were firing. Muffled grunts rang out as errant shots found the wrong mark.

The methodical thudding of the heavy bolter cleared great swathes of the bugs, its rounds set to detonate after a set distance of travel. It was only when the wretched insects clogged the feed mechanism that the weapons expert saw what their true assailant was. The swarm parted just enough for him to see a great, horned eldar warrior bury its crackling power axe into his sarge's shoulder before the cloud of insects closed in again.

Thaegr sat on a bough, washing the blood from his axe in a babbling stream. Around him, a multitude of buzzing invertebrates were picking the last morsels of flesh from the skeletons of the Mon-Keigh interlopers. 'Death world' they call it. They don't know the meaning of the word.


(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ayq-MEkB--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/w7nluqfaiix6rsdhqeha.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--QriGibd5--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/v4iwlafxosvgp8znauje.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--QAB5gAfE--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ynul3vh6dejuxklpr2nv.jpg)
Just realised there's a mold-line I forgot to clip off there!)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--CfDKTZDN--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/oznjzi7ybm9efymiqyeq.jpg)

Also took the opportunity to take some more pics of the other exodite HQs I like the best :)

Syaeldren, Threadcutter, Strifeweaver, Daughter of Morai-Heg. Wyrdlord of the Selestini of the Godwoods

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8Ov7szx7--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rpk1ttlamyq9cwozjfai.jpg)

Thraoren, Bonebender, Forgebound, Son of Vaul. Boneshaper of the Selestini of the Godwoods

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TOWNwOM7--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/juwjzj7mcwlwrspzgwbl.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iE-nwLYA--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qtlmqpzi6akcurunenek.jpg)

And all 3 together :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sCX4q5E4--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vfusjllurdndfpe0thwk.jpg)

Must admit, I'm having excellent fun with these HQ units :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: dog_of_war on January 6, 2017, 10:57:59 PM
Looking fantastic! I love the dynamic poses you've chosen. And an awesome narrative as well. Keep up the good work.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 7, 2017, 05:10:51 PM
Thanks a lot man :) if there's one thing that I love more than anything it's the amount of dynamism GW has managed to put into their models. Gone are the 'standing face on, knife in one hand gun in the other' Marines. Makes my job very easy!

Speaking of dynamic kits...

Behold! Khaharkyth and his technicolour skin-cloak!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--A56yL2lM--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zpwrid8x2ec7uvzokzwd.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--S5i5bnn9--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/w2itgpcapd7ppoqhqnqg.jpg)

Must try and get a pic of him against the black background to try and do the armour justice. Warplock Bronze is such an utterly stunning colour, but these pics don't quite do it justice...

I am pleased with how Wilson turned out though ;)

Also came up with a little fluff for my Kabal :)

The Kabal of the Whipcrown are a relatively young kabal, formed by the former Wych gladiator Khaharkyth. Although their strength is growing rapidly, they are still small fry in relation to the more established kabals of Commorragh. In order to expand their powerbase, and defend themselves from their more predatory rivals they have entered into a pact with the seers of craftworld Angvellaith. In exchange for safe harbour in realspace, support in military endeavours and the foresight of the craftworld's seers, they have provided access to the cloning and resurrection technologies of the Haemonculi. Although each party is wary and distrustful of the other, they have both profited enormously from the deal.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ibushi on January 8, 2017, 01:05:39 PM
Man Ynnead this thread is absolutely sick, love the use of the new sylvaneth kits combined with 40k pointy ears for creepy, dynamic Exodites!

On the photo side, the ones against a black background are crisper, but I really like the ones on the wooden table, it seems to fit really well and enhances the palette you're using IMO. But I am by no means a photography person, just look at my thread and you'll know, gah. One of those things...

Really really liking your updated Autarch model and the most recent Cronos engine, really cool stuff. Also Khaine's Ravens are my other favourites, really brought things together there. Good job on the fluff side too, am enjoying reading your process behind these dynamic models. Next up, any plans for a list or games in the future? Curious to see how all these models will come together on the tabletop.

Cheers
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 8, 2017, 02:57:52 PM
Thanks dude! Yeah I'm really pleased with how the latest Autarch guys has turned out :) so much so that I think I'll have to re-do my other Autarch HQ chap...

I agree with you on the photos front, the wooden floor seems to blend much better with the colour scheme, making a much better bokeh (lookit, I googled a photography word!). Even if the colours aren't as sharp. I'll try setting up another lamp with a similar bulb in it, perhaps more of the same light would make it crisper but still keep the same warm tones...

Glad you like the Khaine's Ravens :) I've got loads more of them coming, but I have a bit of an odd way of painting things. I tend to get bored doing the same bits in the same colour on 10+ models in a row, so I end up painting all the black sections on the Corsairs...then switching over to the bronze sections on the Kabalites...then all the reds on my Exodites, until I get close enough to finish one of them in one sitting. Means I end up spending a week or so with nothing painted at all, then everything gets finished at once!

Reading all your, Cav's and Looshkin's batreps I definitely need to get doing some myself! I don't really have any mates that are into the game at all, or know of any clubs nearby. I'm sure there are quite a few being in the south East of the UK, I've just got to take the plunge and go to one ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 10, 2017, 11:01:37 AM
Well, I've decided that I want to write a small fluff piece for each of my HQs :) I've got ones above for Thaegr the Huntfather, and Khaharkyth the Carrion Lord.

Just thought of one for Syaeldren the Wyrdlord :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8Ov7szx7--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rpk1ttlamyq9cwozjfai.jpg)

The brutish Mon-Keigh gene-warrior bellowed a challenge over the din of the battle. The servos of its primitive armour whirred into action as it strode towards the slender eldar witch, activating its crackling power sword. Syaeldren stood motionless, spear in hand, eyes fixed on the astartes. With a single psychic whisper she planted a seed in its mind. A seed that spoke 'wither'.

She watched as it put down its roots in his medulla oblongata, and its tendrils reached up towards his primary motor cortex, trailing inert matter behind it. Strong though the indoctrination of this brute was, she could see it begin to fail. Its sword-arm, held aloft, began to sag. Its mighty stride grew shorter with each footfall. A few feet from Syaeldren the iron warrior stumbled, its legs giving way beneath it. The wraithbone-skinned crone circled the fallen warrior as the psychic root-ball strangled the last few impulses that governed its heartbeat.

This mind war was won, but the battle around raged on. Hefting her spear, she stalked off to seek her next quarry.


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First squad of Kabalites done!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--HOSdpArH--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hiirbxulvwvbkx6l0jpc.jpg)

Tried my hand at a bit more blood spatter using Blood for the Blood God (really realistic blood effect that!). Went for a light effect as I reckon it's something that you could quite easily go overboard with :S

They should go quite nicely with my bone coloured Craftworlders and Exodites, being a similar colour palette but darkened considerably with more metallic thrown in there :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--KQV6ir-0--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/u8ksbxlowweieyvqkhu3.jpg)

Little is known of Khaharkyth's early history, only that he started life as a vat-born slave destined for the arenas. He rose out of obscurity leading a coup within the Wych Cult of the Sicklekin, butchering his captors and leaving a trail of blood all the way out of the arenas. Attracting waifs and strays from all over Commorragh, and leveraging his ties with the new rulers of his former Wych Cult, he founded the Kabal of the Whipcrown.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 11, 2017, 06:57:11 AM
Now thats what I'm talking about! LOVE those Kabalites (the Archon is sweet too)!!! That armor is sick. Love the tan flag with the blood glyph too.... aw man. Perfect colors here and the paint job is sweet too. Great work here bud. Love it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 11, 2017, 09:53:55 AM
Thanks man! I am rather pleased with it :) I've just learnt that if you've got a dark enough base metallic, and a weak enough highlight metallic (Runelord Brass over Warplock Bronze) you can be pretty haphazard with your highlighting and it still comes out with a nice added bit of spark to an otherwise flat(ish) colour :) anything that reduces the amount of precision I have to exercise to get a decent finish plays right into my strengths ;)

Oh, and I can thank you for the colour scheme idea :) I remember you pointing out that my previous schemes seem to follow the trend of majority low-contrast colours with a few high-contrast complementary highlights. With that in mind, I thought up the dark brown/bronze with any cloth bits done as different coloured skin to match the Archon :) that knowledge makes it a lot easier for me to come up with colour schemes that I like! Thanks :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 11, 2017, 12:39:28 PM
No wonder I liked it so much. I'm a genius!  ;D ;D ;D lol just kidding. I never would have thought to do it that way. But in all honesty I do love that low contrast look, you took it a completley different direction than I would have imagined, but its brilliant! I really love it. Glad I was of some help man, but this is really original stuff. The low contrast with the really dark ruddy colors is really unique and something I would not have thought of especially given the look of the rest of your army. Great stuff man, truly original stuff :) :) :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 11, 2017, 01:33:33 PM
Thanks again dude :)

Yeah I wanted each of my Eldar factions to look unified as an army on the tabletop, but definitely distinct from one-another, and these guys I think are the first that I've actually managed to achieve that.

My Craftworlders and Exodites are a little similar if I'm honest, differentiated only by the more mismatched colours of the cloth/undersuits. I've really grown attached to the colour scheme of my Corsairs, but I can't help but feel that the black isn't really part of the colour palette of the army as a whole. Still, I've done all the black bits on 39 of them so far so it's not changing! Plus, I do rather like it and the red/gold still fits nicely :)

The Dark Eldar however follow exactly the same colours as the rest (browns of varying shades with a dash of red) but manage to look completely different :)

Next up I suppose is the Harlequins that tie all of these disparate factions together! I've got a lightly kitbashed Shadowseer coming together soon so I'll need some more inspiration for the colours on that! ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on January 11, 2017, 04:34:45 PM
One of the big questions about Exodites is how would they protect themselves from Slaanesh? The Dark Eldar hide in the webway and have their soul-vampirism thing, but that's uniquely Dark Eldar. The Craftworlders have their Spirit Stones, but given that those are harvested from the Eye of Terror I doubt Exodites would have the military might to gather them themselves. They also have the Path system to keep them on the straight and narrow, but again that's uniquely Craftworld.

No issues, with building your own flavour to your armies, its part of what makes this hobby so great, but if you are interested, the 2nd edition codex is one of the best places to find fluff on exodites and touches very quickly on world stones, which is the way they avoid she who thirsts, the Lexicanum has a good summary.
Exodite - Lexicanum (http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Exodite)

There is a little bit of info on them in the 4th edition codex as well.

I see you have started to use the Sylvaneth range to build your Exodites, I saw someone use the Wild Riders helms to good effect and another build the revenants as an exodite version of grotesques. I'm still planning out my exodites so I may be have to pinch some of your idea's ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 11, 2017, 07:53:22 PM
The more exodites the merrier! I'd love to see what sort of flavour you come up with :) I've gone down the Wild Rider helms myself for my Cult of Kurnous. The necks from scourges work quite nicely for mating them with eldar torsos in general. Also, if you clip off the face of the bare Scourge head that works quite nicely with the Wild Rider masks too :)

As for tonight's work...

Used up my last stash of Harlequin legs to finally add some Harlies to the army :)

While I love the Death Jester and Shadowseer sculpts, they're both in finecast most of the time which has no place in my army at all. So, I thought I'd try and make some from plastic :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--6O6rxgoz--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mfregdnbzl8tzou8mwft.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--9PruF-CZ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lqv3mzjftqeywedcimsd.jpg)

I've also always hated how the legs for the Troupe Master are posed. It doesn't look like a natural part of a stride or leap to me, even with anti-grav belts. So, did a bit of chopping around and re-posing and came up withe this which is a little better :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iv05siSi--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/gyyuhjvz5padj6sqs9uk.jpg)

And finally the Troupe :) not much conversion work here, aside from a re-angling of one of the arms to make 'Mr Come At Me Bro' in the middle, and a head from the Skyweavers kit which worked beautifully on the dudette on the right :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mBajo8uo--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/dqx5f8hjer6zzqwfpp82.jpg)

And the obligatory fluff piece :)

Masque of the Tone Serpent
The enigmatic harlequins of the Masque of the Tone Serpent travel the twisted webway skeins between the craftworlds, the exodites and the dark city. It was they who guided craftworld Angvellaith towards the exodite world of Selesti, first employed the listening posts of the Khaine's Ravens, and brokered the first meeting between Khaharkyth of the Whipcrown and the seer council of the Angvai. The ultimate purpose for this tripartite Eldar union is unknown to anyone but the servants of the Trickster God.


Oh and almost forgot, I threw together a little test kitbash for some Storm Guardians. Unfortunately I've only got the one Guardian torso left so he's on his own at the moment, but I'll pick up some more as soon as I've got moula again ;) probably just in time for them to release a new Guardian double-box with Defenders and Stormies...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--C-Uf9DCK--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jw4vqzsykwhgodabunne.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 12, 2017, 06:36:10 AM
Absolutley sick modeling Ynnead. Love all of it 100% The Shadowseer and Death Jester are incredible! I had to do a triple take on both of them... love the conversion of the heat lance/dark lance to shuriken cannon. Brilliant!

Also the Storm Guardian looks SOOOOO good with those harlie weapons! I wish they matched the look of my Scorpions a bit more because I would have used those bits... but I wanted armored arms and hands with their aspect armor and whatnot.

Anyway fantastic stuff man. Really top-notch. Boy are you rolling!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on January 12, 2017, 06:42:06 AM
Loving the Kitbashing!

The Harlequins look great, beautifully posed and that Death Jester looks awesome.

Love the Storm Guardian as well, I've got a massive pile of Harlie spares. Might steal that Idea at some point for my Corsairs!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 12, 2017, 09:24:39 AM
Thanks man :) glad you like them

I'm pleased with how the DJ came out too. The Shuriken Cannon made from a Heat Lance and Avenger Shuricat was a bit of a trial run for a squad of Corsair Balestrikes. Once I've got the majority of my Corsairs painted up I'll see if I can make some more :)

Steal away with the Stormie! That's exactly what happened to me too. I've got a ton of Wych legs (just) because they're brilliant) and a load of Harlie swords left over so it's a bit of a no-brainer :)

Question is...what special weapons to give them? Flamer or Fusion...

I'm leaning towards Flamer given that I've got a ton of A/T with Blasters, Heat Lances, and Fusion Guns elsewhere...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on January 14, 2017, 02:12:17 AM
Those Harlequins look great, especially the Death Jester, which I think might be one of the best models on this thread - a difficult task with so much nice work on here.

That Storm Guardian also looks sick. You make all of your minis look full of life with your dynamic posing, and you've managed it again here. Well done.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 15, 2017, 05:10:20 PM
Thanks dude :) I'm glad you like the Death Jester. He's one of my favourites too!

Big fan of my little Stormie too :) I'm really liking the dynamism that the latest GW eldar kits have. Can't wait for them to re-release Guardians (I'm thinking they might soon as a double kit).

That or plastic Aspect Warriors which I would gladly sell bodily organs for ;)

Oh, any ideas for painting a simple scale pattern? I'm thinking that given my Masque is serpent-related, and I wanted to keep the red to a minimum, I'd do one of the legs/boots like scales.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 18, 2017, 05:17:55 AM
"We don't recognise your authority here, Harlequin", the exodite barked, his hand poised over the grip of his splinter pistol, "only a fool trusts a servant of the trickster god". A faint hum kicked in as he flexed the fingers of his blood-red gauntlet.

"I come to speak with Lord Laerimyr of the Selestini, Lightbringer, Son of Asuryan." the alabaster figure entreatied, "War comes to the eldar, the seers of the Angvai have forseen it. The warriors of Selesti must join with our forces lest our kin be slain".

A voice boomed through the tangled vines of the throne-room, psychically amplified within the heads of both visitor and guards. "You dare to demand oaths from us, joker? We remember a time when the laughing one was oathbound to fight. Arrayed by the side of the bloody-handed one, he marched to war. When his time came, he forsook his kin and fled. Where was your god when ours fought and died? Coward God we call him."

"Hear me, Godborn Lord. The cycles of myth are not fixed to repeat, they are broken. Where does it speak of The Great Enemy, child of the Eldar? Where in the cycles does it speak of the ape-kin lording over our domain? This galaxy has staggered off its rightful path. Join with us and help us right this."

The horned lord paused, mulling over the emissary's words. "Your point is well made, Harlequin. Kurnous, our father, fought and died for his kin. When the horns of war are sounded, the hunters of Selesti will stalk by your side".


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(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--x7bzDTRP--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/l8ix3gahsmqsbyydknkr.jpg)

First time painting white. Can you tell? ;)

Can't tell if it looks good or god-awful...

Just thought now that a bit of Blood for the Blood God would look good to give the Caress a bit more of depth to the colour. Also, I do plan on doing some scale-patterns on the right leg when I've figured out how to do them convincingly!

Apart from those little bits, what do you think?

Regardless, finally have a representative of the whole eldar quintet :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--hw7rSujG--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/stuvkb5javq2ugfsdc0h.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 18, 2017, 01:56:13 PM
Looking sick man! No, no, I think the white came out excellent! I really, really like it. The whole palette of the model is fantastic and the paint job is really well executed.

Love the rogues gallery at the bottom too man. Such a fantastic collection of models. This is like the Blanchitsu of Eldar. I love it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on January 18, 2017, 02:02:29 PM
Man I love that group shot!
Some great conversions and paint jobs but despite them being quite different model wise they really work well together and look the part. Good job!  8)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 18, 2017, 07:31:24 PM
Blanchitsu of Eldar? Now there's a compliment I'll treasure! Thanks dude :)

Thanks too A P :) the idea was to try and make a pan-eldar army that looked at least a little unified on the table-top. Glad to hear that it's worked!

Tried out a couple of little tweaks. Tried a rune in red on the knee-pad but didn't like it. Most of the time I like breaking up the blocks of colour slightly, but it didn't seem to work on this one and made it look a little discordant. Shame because I rather liked it in isolation!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--x0RSw8YR--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hy65eagiqtfmn8crtqw3.jpg)

Putting a little colour on select bits of the pistol really helped make it look finished rather than just undercoated which I like better :)

Also tried my hand at some fiddly little scales which I think have done the job of breaking up the block of white while keeping the whole desaturated look intact :) definitely a learnign curve to them though...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 19, 2017, 06:58:33 AM
These guys are looking wicked nice. Love the all white really ghostly... Really a fan of the more stark simplistic look on paint jobs the longer I've been in the hobby. Really nice stuff as always Ynnead. Love it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 19, 2017, 03:16:37 PM
Thanks dude :) i had yours in mind when i was coming up with it. Your corsairs tend to be pretty much entirely red with a few choice details picked out in gold and blue. Thought i'd give that a go ;)

Now. Question about the Death Jester.

Do i invert the colours so he's majority red with white accents...

...or do i paint him in the same troupe ghostly colours, and make two more troupes, one grey on black so i've got a light, dark and twilight aspect to it?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 20, 2017, 06:56:06 AM
I'd actually go with a black theme for the Death Jester. I think it would really help him standout. For the Shadowseer, Death Jester and Solitaire I would do something unique... but thats just me. If I feel it suits the character of the model better I usually break up the paint scheme. Like with my Rangers and counts-as Scorpions... I didn't want my stealthy guys running around in red and gold armor. Its different with the Harlies... they aren't worried about camouflage, but I'd give them colors which would suit their station. Thats just me though.. I'd fascinated to see what direction you go in regardless. Good luck!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 20, 2017, 07:11:04 AM
Yeah I wanted to do something unique for the DJ, but as I'd already painted the Troupe Master in Troupe colours I'd end up with a special DJ (and probably a special Shadowseer) next to an otherwise standard Troupe Master which doesn't seem right to me...

I could change the Troupe Master's coat to red to make him stand out too, but I think I prefer the whited out look.

Hmmm, maybe I should paint up one of my Players in the dark theme and see how I like it. If it's good I'll stick with unified Troupe members. If not, I'll go varied :)

Oh, and I've got a Solitaire planned that's probably way way beyond my painting skills :S if I do a light and dark troupe, I'd want to do a Solitaire starting as dark on his left and then blending through to white on the right. Lord knows how it'll turn out as I've always been terrible at blending!

Oh, and I love your Scorpions and Rangers :) some of my favourite models and paint schemes

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Was rooting through my bitzbox and stumbled upon a last pair of Harlie legs so I made myself the Solitaire I was planning!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iS5bojvJ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wmostaxxxqupjdl3yzph.jpg)

If anyone was thinking of making one themselves the left-handed Kiss was made using one of the right-handed arms with the hand clipped off and replaced by one from the Wrack Venom pilot :) thinking about it the Raider kit has some open left hands too :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on January 21, 2017, 04:34:51 AM
That Solitaire is crazy cool. Nice use of what I'm guessing is Daemonette hair!

You make the conversion work sound so easy. It isn't and you've done it very well.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 21, 2017, 05:48:47 AM
Thanks again dude :) I'd seen the daemonette hair on a Solitaire before and thought that it looked too damn cool for me to pass up! Fits nicely with their fluff too (of which I've got a little piece written, but it's a follow-on from a Corsair bit so I need to paint up some of those first) :)

It's odd with conversion work. Sometimes, stuff just seems to fall into place really nicely (this Solitaire being one of them). It's basically 80% bog-standard Harlequin, with the face clipped off a Daemonette and a Harlequin mask stuck on :)

The little Knight World guy in the other thread was the opposite end of the spectrum. I went through 7 or 8 different arm permutation trying to get one that looked right. Couldn't do it with standard arms so had to take the plunge and start cutting arms in half and hoping I could re-pose them with enough length so they didn't look stubby :S real uphill struggle, but very rewarding when I finally hit the nail on the head :)

The more converting I do, the more things start to fall into the former category rather than the latter. You should see some of my earliest efforts :S there's an exodite Guardian lurking around somewhere that's holding his Shuriken Catapult sideways like some sort of gangsta holding a pistol :S nice to keep things like that around to show you how far you've come :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 22, 2017, 09:06:05 PM
Well, finished my first Croneworld Cultist yesterday :) rather pleased with how she came out, although she definitely fell into the 'uphill struggle' category I mentioned previously...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--i8pNDGCP--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/recinnm4nrjtgljw9hnt.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--teeKkbjl--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/iiojf05glhuor4ffvyrj.jpg)

I've got an idea in my head for her male counterparts, but that will have to wait til I get some more Harlequin legs.

However, that's not even the most exciting thing today! Not sure if everyone's seen yet, but the eldar models for Fall of Cadia have dropped :)

Gathering Storm II – First Look – Warhammer Community (https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/01/22/gathering-storm-ii-first-look/)

While I normally have very little time for named characters in my armies (and the general blinginess of recent 40k character models), these guys have really grown on me. However, the main thing that was racing through my mind is how utterly perfect the Avatar of Ynnead's base body is for my Croneworld unfettered psyker counts-as Lord of Change.

(https://17890-presscdn-0-51-pagely.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/reveal2-391x500.jpg)

Imagine that crossed with this:

(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg0.reactor.cc%2Fpics%2Fpost%2Ffull%2FWarhammer-40000-Wh-%25D0%259F%25D0%25B5%25D1%2581%25D0%25BE%25D1%2587%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8%25D1%2586%25D0%25B0-%25D1%2584%25D1%258D%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B4%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BC%25D1%258B-farseer-1840940.jpeg&hash=97759ee542a7acf95662f90ee1f0a27d2e33ce51)

I can feel myself getting very poor very quickly this month...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 23, 2017, 06:51:39 AM
Sweet looking models as always Ynnead, super dynamic. Yeah I think the new Eldar stuff is gonna fit perfectly in with your army. Mine too! Great stuff Ynnead way to keep pumping em out :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 23, 2017, 07:59:30 AM
Thanks dude you continue to flatter me :)

I can't wait to paint the Avatar of Ynnead in low-contrast bone-white :)

Can't wait to see what you come up with for them either ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on January 23, 2017, 11:13:50 AM
If anyone was thinking of making one themselves the left-handed Kiss was made using one of the right-handed arms with the hand clipped off and replaced by one from the Wrack Venom pilot :) thinking about it the Raider kit has some open left hands too :)

Your Solitaire conversion is bloody marvellous. The hair compliments the pose so well that anyone would think that this was a bought model.

I can't believe you have to cut the faces off some models for your conversions that level of work just blows me away.

Daft question but how come you had to use a right handed arm for a left arm. Could you not have cut the hand off of a left arm and got a similar result?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on January 23, 2017, 11:14:35 AM
Really loving that Solitaire conversion! The posing is great and you've made a really good choice of bits!
Can't wait to see what you do with the new stuff!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 23, 2017, 01:58:56 PM
Thanks guys! Really liked how the Solitaire came out too :) can't take credit for the idea for the hair though as that's something I've shamelessly lifted form someone else (who due to my poor memory will have to remain nameless)

The face-cutting-off thing sounds drastic but it's fairly simple when you're gluing a Harlie mask over the top ;) no need to be particularly finessed about it ;)

Not a daft question at all :) the issue is that in the Harlequin kit all of the special weapons (and swords for that matter) are right-handed. I started off with the idea of cutting off the Kiss from a right arm and gluing it onto a pistol arm that had the pistol clipped off.

However, when I was looking through the Harlie kit for a suitable pistol arm, I stumbled on the Kiss arm that was fully outstretched and thought 'aside from the hand that looks identical to a left arm'.

Also, one of the most helpful things that the guys that make the models do is put little bangles/rings on wrists. That means you can get a nice clean cut, glue another hand on and no-one will be able to see the break where the two disparate bits are stuck together :)

I can't wait to get my hands on the new stuff either! I've had a bit of an idea for 'not-Malys' as well. I'm thinking of hacking away at her skirt so it looks a bit more tattered, and then painting it to be made of flayed skin like the Archon's skin cloak :) might see what I can do to make it look like it's sewn together as well :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ibushi on January 23, 2017, 07:42:11 PM
Cool stuff YW, this thread is getting full of so much character -- I can see those new Ynead models fitting right in and looking BADASS next to your creations, dude it's going to be sick!

The ghostlike Harlequins with creepy red hands are a nice look, definitely the Troupe of the bloody-handed god or something
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 24, 2017, 10:41:02 AM
Thanks man! Yeah I can't wait to get my hands on them :)

Annoyingly, after I'd painted the red hand on the Troupe Master I came up with the idea of doing the red hand not as a glove, but as blood staining from where he's pimp-slapped someone's face in. Sort of like an intense blood-spatter up his arm with it soaking into the palm, and then blood-spatter running down that side of his cloak.

Might see how well that works on the next Harlie actually and if it looks cool I'll do them all like that :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on January 24, 2017, 05:27:11 PM
I don't know how I missed them, but the painted Harlequins are really beautiful. The painting on them seems a cut above (although it may just be because the lighter palette makes them more photogenic).

I personally think that a red glove looks better than a festival of blood. The clean finish is such a nice counterpoint to the rest of your miniatures, I think that you stay the course with those guys. I think the look is perfect.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 24, 2017, 06:45:58 PM
Thanks dude! Means a lot coming from a man of your talents :)

I'm really pleased with how the Harlies have come out paint-wise. Just a smidge above the Kabalites who were the previous favourites :) I think it's the technique for them of laying down a base colour and then doing a couple of really thin/dry layers of colour to build up the white. Lends itself much more readily to the contours. Something I've only just discovered!

Good old Nuln Oil helps too :) magic stuff that ;)

Glad you prefer the red glove :) much easier to pull off than the bloodied hand judging by my rough testing! ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 26, 2017, 07:49:23 PM
Well, I've got a fluff piece waiting in the wings for my Corsairs but for some reason I've been painting anything but!

Apropos to that, have a Death Jester! The camera really doesn't do justice to him unfortunately. I'm beyond chuffed with how he's turned out :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--if86lk2e--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/pl8u4cpoglnbg1wleu8o.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mU7e5Mgg--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/i8uuy4iztlp6rkb7vuxt.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--LMqvKARp--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qawkwb9yiv6zlatjbsbx.jpg)

Tried mucking about with lighting again to no avail, but I did somehow manage to produce this which I cannot stop looking at...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Ax-eqTKM--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/gxvmljccqmclnssvxisw.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on January 27, 2017, 07:18:28 AM
Wow.. Ynnead.. this is SICK! WOW! I love it man... I absolutley love it. You are a painter (and modeler) after my own heart. So stark, yet so ethereal but vibrant... perfect color choices... dude I'm in love with these minis. This is sick! I cant say it enough... I really, really love these guys man. Wow! Keep it up
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 27, 2017, 09:22:19 AM
Thanks a million dude! It's your minis and painting style I use as inspiration ;)

And thanks for all the positive feedback :) it's comments like this from yourself and others that have really driven me on to keep fiddling about with little plastic aliens ;) wouldn't have got anywhere without the encouragement of everyone here :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on January 27, 2017, 09:50:51 AM
I am lost for words really Ynneadwraith. Actually I have lots of words I just don't know how to put them together to do justice to your fantastic modelling and painting skills.

Black that looks black instead of grey is something I have rarely seen and must be really hard to achieve without obscuring any detail.

Sinister, eerie, threatening, magical, special are just a few of the words that spring to mind but I can't put into a coherent sentence.

One last thing - get a better camera.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on January 28, 2017, 05:03:46 AM
As much as I love the trooper - and I really love her, I think she's stunning, I'm just not sure about the Death Jester. You obviously have talent; the finish is really clean and precise and the detailing on the thigh is great, but there's just something that doesn't do it for me.

I think that I like the first Harlequin because, while it is a light model, there are many layers to that light. Subtle changes in tone that bring more life to the model. With the Death Jester, I think it's probably too dark for me. There aren't those contrasts or layers, so I don't feel there's nearly as much depth. It may just be the camera and lightning, but that's what I feel.

At the end of the day though, you like the model, the other guys like the model. I think it's painted well, but it's just not for me. All that said, I really look forward to seeing your work, so keep throwing those updates out there!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 28, 2017, 05:43:16 AM
Thanks Alienscar! You flatter me immensely! I'm continually surprised by how well my mucking about appears to turn out! Thankyou! :)

I've found that glosses and semi-glosses like nuln-oil are your friend when it comes to differentiating blacks. Doesn't quite come across on the camera, but it helps make the same colour look different to the eye :)

Oh, and a new camera is absolutely on the wishlist ;)

Thanks for the feedback Loosh :) always value your input :) i'll have a look to see if there's anything i can do to it. The camera has done a pants job picking up the shading on the black, although it is definitely less varied than the harlie (which i am eldlessly surprised how well it's turned out!)

I'll dig out the spotlight photo i've got of him to see if that gives a bit more detail :) shall have to wait til i'm back from Lisbon though!

Definitely value your input though :) i plan on doing a dark troupe with a ghostly death jester, so if there's anything i can do to improve painting blacks i'd love to hear it :)

Also, slightly amused by you saying i have painting talent ;) never thought i'd see the day!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on January 31, 2017, 01:43:14 PM
Also, slightly amused by you saying i have painting talent ;) never thought i'd see the day!

Well, I don't say it lightly. You've produced some great models to be proud of and it seems like every mini you produce just increases the standard a little bit. Keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on January 31, 2017, 02:24:48 PM
Not just Tiny diamonds.. White tiny diamonds.. stunning :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on January 31, 2017, 07:24:49 PM
Thanks guys!

I've promised a chap over on The Dark City to post up a pic of my first ever model. I think it's useful to keep your first mini just as a reminder of how far you've come :) I'll post him up here too when I find him :) should be good for a laugh ;)

Got a little update too :)

Prince Morrathillian sat at the helm of the listening-ship. The transparent dome surrounding him and his command crew offered an unparalleled view of the star-specked void, ghostly runes dancing across its surface. One in particular piqued his interest. A distant world-rune began to flicker almost imperceptibly and, to him, embarked upon an errant journey across the star-scape. Signalling his sister-ships through the aether, dozens of heavily cloaked vessels leapt through the open webway portal. He couldn't be sure what had occurred, but one of his listening posts had signaled for aid. What would cause one of his operatives to send such a coded message he couldn't fathom, but something was clearly awry. The Khaine's Ravens may be spies first and foremost, but the blood of the war god still flows through their veins. Whoever dared to encroach on their mission would feel the full force of his fleet.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--HHICYrB3--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bhrmbapkqmmvs8psldwy.jpg)

That fluff piece has been written for weeks awaiting a suitable painting milestone to roll it out! Much though I love the paint scheme for the Khaine's Ravens, they're by far the most time consuming of my Eldar to paint...

One of the things I've started on this lot is (steady now) actually highlighting the gold armour. Previously, I've just given it a liberal wash of ancient Flesh Wash and left it be. Not sure whether it comes across at all in these pics, but I've gone back over some of the higher patches with Gehennas Gold which makes for more of a glowing gold colour which I rather liked :) so much so that I've gone over all the rest of the Khaine's Ravens doing the same thing :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 1, 2017, 07:10:04 AM
Looking solid Ynnead! Yeah I like Gehenna Gold too. Super nice color... my favorite golds are Balthasar Gold (ultra good coverage) and the new Retributor Gold... thats the ultimate glowy gold if you are looking for something super easy to work with. The coverage is insane... I'm gonna be using that on vehicles going forward rather than prime them gold.

But these guys look awesome as ever. It is hard to really see the highlights, and I don't higlight my gold myself. I just use a heavy Reikland Flesh wash, then clean it up a bit.

Perhaps give us a close-up on a single guy so we can see. But I think they look really good either way. Keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 1, 2017, 08:43:25 AM
Thanks man :) yeah I've been really impressed by the recent metallics GW has put out. Only one that's a little weak on the coverage I've used is Runelord Brass (but that does make it useful for subtly highlighting golds and bronzes which is useful). I like the sound of Retributor Gold :) shall have to give that a try

TBH if you can't actually see the highlights then I'll count my job as done! I was going for a sort of highlight that you don't really consciously pick up, but just sort of improves the base colour :)

Alas I don't have a decent close-up before and after pic, but I'll pause on my next batch to see if it makes any discernible difference at all! ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: murgel on February 1, 2017, 04:28:33 PM
I just read the whole thread.
The conversions and kit-bashes range from inspiring to awesome. and the painting is brilliant as well. Especially the pale coloured Harlequin troupe.
I shall have to borough this scheme for some of my troupes.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 1, 2017, 07:21:42 PM
Thanks man :) I'm glad you like them!

Borrow away :) I'm flattered that you like them enough to give that scheme a try :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 3, 2017, 07:32:59 AM
Morrathillian strode into the antechamber as only a Corsair Prince could, his guards unsheathing their blades purposefully. "You, Harlequin, how dare you encroa…", he began, but something felt…off. Hand instinctively bolting towards the grip of his pistol his gaze flitted around the room, settling on a figure loitering in the shadows, head cocked slightly, staring lidlessly at him. Something about that particular harlequin engendered a primordial unease within him. Compared to the other inhabitants of the room its mind felt familiar, but somehow disconcerting. A symphony of souls, with one haphazard instrument playing off-key.

"That's a Solitaire, isn't it" Morrathillian stated, meeting the fell creature's gaze. He could sense his guards tense as the words left his mouth.

"Correct, my Prince! You are a sharp one," the lead Harlequin acknowledged jovially, "We have need of your services, Friend-of-Ravens. I trust there's no quarrel between us..."

Morrathillian noted that the Solitaire still hadn't blinked. Mind racing, hand still hovering over his pistol, the Corsair Prince calculated his odds...


(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TvniZTDT--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lv918gilkrousnbejg5l.jpg)

Been waiting to roll out that fluff piece for a while now! Love the idea of Solitaires being thoroughly disconcerting for other eldar to be around :)

As for the model itself I'm not entirely certain I'm satisfied with it. A moment of indecision on hair-colour had me undercoat it red, and then change my mind and have to go over it with a couple of coats of grey to bring it back :S hence the slightly heavier nuln oil wash to disguise the ruddy grey it ended up like :S sort of ruins the whole 'washed out natural' look I tend to go for...

Still, I suppose it works ok for a Solitaire :) I've got a bit of an image for this one that in normal life it's got this lank grey/white hair that hangs down obscuring its face, but in battle it's borne up by fell energies like a banshee in the wind. Fitting that it looks sort-of backlit if that's the case :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 6, 2017, 10:53:02 AM
I've always thought that it's a good idea to keep your first ever 40k model around, just to show to yourself so you can get some perspective on how far you've come.

Well, rooting around in some boxes the other evening I found him!

Behold, the wonder that is my first ever 40k model!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--rEfBr9Kz--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vstwqdcqkdrcyzz1ldh7.jpg)

Turns out, being 12, inexperienced, and high as a kite on the solvents you've used to glue him together is neither conducive to good modelling nor good painting. Literally not a clue what my artistic vision for that was. Going out on a limb I'm going to say Abstract Expressionism...

1. Hunched over pose
2. Shoulder pads on the wrong way up
3. Clutching a Bolt Pistol in 2 hands
4. Arms at different heights
5. Random bolter stuck to his thigh
6. Extra layers of paint confer a 2+ save
7. Wilful determination to paint completely outside the lines

At least I had the good grace to know that beakie helmets are cool ;)

By the time I'd got to my first Eldar model I had inched forwards slightly...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--vlXh8z07--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/oloksqlymkdiohv6wkzq.jpg)

At least I'd learnt to roughly paint between the lines (sort of), and that if you paint the base they look a little better. Still had the standard +1Sv from the sheer thickness of paint on him though...

On the plus side, I did uncover some cool dudes that my catastrophically haphazard younger self hadn't yet got round to ruining. First among which is this kickass R/T era Assassin class Ghost Warrior (and a little chainsaw-wielding buddy as well!).

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ejnzsQ6G--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mxotycvkygysrm2nsj8q.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on February 6, 2017, 12:06:07 PM
Paint aside I find your first Space Marine interesting. It would seem that from a very early age you had a penchant for modelling and weren't content just to glue the bits together as instructed which is what I would have done aged twelve.

Edit: should have said weren't
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on February 6, 2017, 02:44:50 PM
Well the good news is you can strip them back and give it another go :) That's my fall back for when I run out of $$ for new models.

Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on February 6, 2017, 03:33:21 PM
Love those Ghost warriors models!
I've looked at them on ebay a few times but they sell for so much money now!  :'(
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on February 6, 2017, 04:48:00 PM

1. Hunched over pose
2. Shoulder pads on the wrong way up
3. Clutching a Bolt Pistol in 2 hands
4. Arms at different heights
5. Random bolter stuck to his thigh
6. Extra layers of paint confer a 2+ save
7. Wilful determination to paint completely outside the lines

Lol, if I could find my first models, I believe that based on No.6, they would probably have a 2++. With reroll.

Just remember, art is expression; you certainly expressed yourself, so it is certainly art!

Really though, it's cool seeing your first minis. It's always a nice reminder about how much progress you make, even if it feels like you have so very far to travel to even consider being several levels below Golden Daemon entries. It's a heck of a long journey.

I'm just glad that those first models didn't scar you forever...mine did.

Seriously, I was 10 and I painted a Squat and was incredibly happy with it. I showed it to my Dad and brother and they agreed that it looked more like Santa Claus than anything else. That judgement has resulted in me, whenever my Dad visits, wheeling out whichever project I've just finished to show him, desperate for some praise or validation of my efforts.

I'm 38. I'll let that sink in. I have a well paid job that a lot of people would love to do. I have an amazing wife (amazing because she encourages my hobbying) and an awesome 14 month old son, who is just the coolest thing in my life. I've played sport at a fairly high level and still play sports at a good standard. I've travelled extensively and experienced a lot of things that many people won't ever experience. I'm a pretty good cook. I can do DIY. A very limited portion of society thinks I'm funny. An even smaller portion thinks I'm good looking. I'm leading a pretty good life. A life that I'm proud of.

Yet, for validation and praise, I wheel out a Skaven Doomwheel in order to try to overcome the embarrassment and shame that I felt as a 10 year old. Parents are rather unsavoury chap, what-ho old bean?s.

In short, thank beslubber you kept at it and are now producing amazing minis as a result. That's winning.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 6, 2017, 06:36:04 PM
@Alienscar Yeah I never was one for following instructions! Probably means that you don't quite have the backcatalogue of failed plastic grotesques that I do! You're probably looked half-decent from the get go whereas mine's gently cradling an undersize Bolt Pistol! ;)

@magenb I do need to try that out actually. I've got a load of old metal Aspect Warriors that I vastly prefer to Finecast, but they're painted in aspect colours and I want them to fit in slightly better with the rest of my army. I've heard a lot of good products in the States, but few if any are sold over here in the UK...

@Aurics Pride They're neat aren't they :) yeah I can't believe how much some of the OOP stuff is going for these days. I wanted the torso from that kickass old Slaanesh Champion on that big boob-snake thing but they want £60 for them at least!

@Looshkin Well you can count me among the portion of society that finds you funny! Both warming and witty :)

I do the same thing too :) not so much with 40k, but I dabble a little in welding and metalwork and I can't help but show my parents every time I come up with something, and I'm 26! Built a school in India, but still have to know that my mum likes the little metal doohicky I've just made :S

Odd how people work :)

Reminds me of an excellent Philip Larkin poem which begins:

They beslubber you up your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you up with faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.


Of course, he then goes on to suggest not having children which isn't something I'm much in favour for, but it's a neat poem regardless :)

Oh, congrats on the little Looshkinder btw! I can tell you'll both make much better parents than Larkin had in mind ;)

No need to self-censor, the auto censor does that for you - Iris ;).
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on February 7, 2017, 02:41:31 AM
@Looshkin Well you can count me among the portion of society that finds you funny! Both warming and witty :)

If you find me funny, there's a strong chance you're brain damaged. In which case, you may just find me sexy too  ;)

They beslubber you up your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you up with faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.



Never heard that before, but it is incredibly accurate!

Oh, congrats on the little Looshkinder btw! I can tell you'll both make much better parents than Larkin had in mind ;)
Nah. He's screwed.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 7, 2017, 06:51:13 AM
Legendary! lol... oh man that poor Marine! The artificers are screaming out heresy about those shoulder pads! The Guardian actually looks pretty cool though. The paint is super thick but the colors are awesome! Thats where genius took flight!  ;D ;D ;D

I've got my first miniature downstairs somewhere. I'll have to dig him up. You guys will laugh when you see how little my approach has changed.   ;D
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 7, 2017, 05:44:55 PM
Haha! So's everyone Loosh :) first thing I learnt in my psychology degree is just how messed up people are in general ;)

Yeah I should post it up on Bolter & Chainsword just to see their reaction! I think the shoulder pads would cause their Machine Spirits to rupture!

Glad you like Mr 3+Sv Guardian! I certainly did at the time. Perhaps I should do some of my Corsairs for my spaceport in a more grimdark grubby version of that scheme as a sort of throwback thing :)

Hah I'd love to see your first model :) I think they should add a new requirement for Golden Daemon entries to also have to post a picture of their first ever model, just so you can see that they are human after all ;)

Couple of little updates :) I had my copy of Gangs of Commorragh turn up the other day, so immediately got to producing some Reavers :) I must admit jetbikes have never really done anything for me (despite my love of Saim Hann), but these guys alongside the kickass Harlequin Skyweavers have sold me on them. They're so damn cool! I suppose it's easier for me to suspend my disbelief about jetbikes strafing past and cutting your head off than heading straight towards you guns blazing (presenting the easiest of targets to shoot).

Anyway, here they are :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--KFjocv9Z--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/heo16rr7a2uxt5pd8p9f.jpg)


Kickass blank-faced helmets to denote arena champs (my main reason for buying GoC was to get a decent supply of those!). Also, notice 'Mr Untransportable' on the far left with his agoniser extended at the most inconvenient angle. looks cool though!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--h_aDZqJ7--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qfxh3c3307llwrxvu9y7.jpg)

Also thought it would be cool to give one of the champs a trophy rack, them being Wych Cult units after all. That way, if I ever do 6-man blobs with an Arena Champ then I can use that to denote who it is :)

Lastly, with the excess supply of Hellions (bought for the Hellglaives and tattered-clothes torsos which are just made for Exodites), I thought I'd have a stab at making some Modern Synthesist Jetbikes.

Now, if anyone hasn't seen these guys before you're in for a treat! One of the best DEldar conversions I've ever seen, this guy decided that his Haemonculus Coven army should have a twisted techno-biological Haemi version of all the Dark Eldar units in it. For his Reavers, this is what he came up with:

(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-U4F3At4ElCs%2FViqRlk6kgGI%2FAAAAAAAAFBc%2FDHRaTqqAWug%2Fs400%2F2015-10-12%252B05.50.29%252B1.jpg&hash=816d4d6eded506ac9ce7dd7eb951747fc20d217b)
(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-Obomg24vyjw%2FVhnmh46foOI%2FAAAAAAAAE_M%2F67S7Ej29_UA%2Fs400%2FIMG_20151010_205151%25257E2.jpg&hash=d490ec074005d16955fd67490d60916867cf8d13)
(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-eI_zCy7kh8M%2FVhnuC0D7v6I%2FAAAAAAAAE_M%2FhpJHBjmkugA%2Fs400%2FIMG_20151010_205215%25257E2.jpg&hash=f8514439b5da8153afe30f9c3e934dcbe280ea5a)
(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-t3FWSFCu1oM%2FViqRls6xEiI%2FAAAAAAAAFBc%2FS7tuJt7a68A%2Fs400%2F2015-10-12%252B05.38.58%252B1.jpg&hash=d221057e5220921ee134de27987f208a28f0dfc2)

Unbelievable!

So, I thought I'd have a go myself with some leftover bits :) now, mine won't be anywhere near as good at all due to my stubborn refusal to use greenstuff, but I quite like the challenge of making something similar entirely out of plastic :)

Here's where I'm up to so far :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--hJbmskK2--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/e9ryg1keitrj467ngr8z.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--CzPwHwM1--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ayrffsoj5rvyz28bp2tj.jpg)

I also think that if anyone wanted to make some small scale Eldar Void Craft then attaching Hellion Skyboards to the back of various Jetbike canopies would be really really cool!

Oh, and if anyone wanted to see what the Modern Synthesist stuff looks like painted, here's his idea of a Venom!

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lLwXLwVRzQs/WA-R_pqOSvI/AAAAAAAAGrM/LnKWdUfZmEcm6rb9gWwGsUYAXO5olx9VACPcB/s400/IMG_20161017_112237.jpg)

Unbelievable!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: dog_of_war on February 7, 2017, 09:28:02 PM
Wow, that's a simply amazing concept. I can't wait to see how you run with it. That last paint job looks very nurgle meets dark eldar.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 8, 2017, 04:50:15 AM
It really is a phenomenal piece of imagination :) i'd never have though of putting those pieces together, but they fit really nicely :)

Plus, you tend to have a couple of Reaver canopies left over and Hellions aren't exactly the most competitive of units, so it helps you stretch your bits and make a couple more Reavers :)

The paint job is very nurgly :) i think it's actually a codex coven, but with some extra weathering. Coven of the Marred i think :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 8, 2017, 06:44:36 AM
Looking great Ynnead. Reavers are sooooooo good. They are not easy to run, but they are a fantastic unit as DE-Guru Lawrence from TTT has proven time and time again. Very interested to see how you paint them.

Also the Hellion JB's look good too. I think Modern Synthesists stuff is really great. His painting skills are sick too.

Anyway great stuff man can't wait to see how you paint those bikes!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 8, 2017, 08:05:59 AM
Thanks man :) yeah it's reading about Lawrence and Skari's cheeky barsteward tactics using them that's persuaded me to break my jetbike bias :) something about turbo-boosting your Reavers right up to the face of a Rhino so the squad inside physically can't disembark, and then nuking it with Caltrops on your next turn just appeals to the inner sneaky git in me ;)

As for painting them, I'm weighing up either the standard Warplock Bronze for the jetbike itself highlighted with Runelord Brass, or Runelord Brass for all vehicles shaded with Flesh Wash/Warplock.

What do you think?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 8, 2017, 08:15:00 AM
Oooh... cool scheme. I'd go with Warplock Bronze as the base though. Runelord Brass is gonna be pretty bright... I like Warplock because its dark... the metallic effect is subtle and in certain light it'll play as a normal color with just a glint of metal. I that'll give a really sinister and lethal look to the models. Thats just my preference though!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 8, 2017, 08:35:08 AM
Sold! I was leaning towards that anyway for coverage purposes :)

Warplock Bronze with a healthy dose of blood-spatter along the Bladevanes :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 9, 2017, 08:58:16 AM
Well, the story for Fracture of Biel Tan has finally made it out into the public domain! It's a hell of a read I must say, and has assuaged many concerns I'd had about the direction of the fluff and the general tone of the 40k universe :) link's here if you haven't seen it:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/717304.page (https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/717304.page)

That does mean that I get to wheel out my Craftworld's reaction to it all, nicely coinciding with some work I've just done on my decade-old Guardians :)

An account of the final days of the Crone Cycle, as written by Farseer Bellatheral of the Angvai
As word filtered through the webway of the fracture of Biel Tan, great swathes of Angvellaith's population were leaving to join the burgeoning Ynnari death cult. However, the seers did not welcome this with open arms. Since the fall they had learnt bitter lessons regarding strangers bearing gifts. Long had they listened to the heartbeat of the Dead God. Of late, worrying glimpses of its consciousness had crept into their vision.

Despite the growing voice among their populace asking the Craftworld to pledge allegiance wholly to the near-born saviour of the Eldar, they preached caution. Emissaries would be sent with words of friendship and alliance to this new faction, but also agents placed among the throng of converts, reporting back to the high seers of Angvellaith.

Unique among the craftworlds the Angvai could stomach these losses, their dark pact with the Commorrites ensuring they could be replaced given time. However, their latest batch of Warborn was yet to arrive. Knowing well the troublesome nature of their cousins, Fueduin, Autarch of the Angvai, would undertake the perilous journey to the Dark City, tasked with uncovering the source of the delay.


Despite initial skepticism, I'm definitely excited about the plot moving forwards :) so many opportunities for cool narratives :)

As for actual models, I've always had the idea in my head that I would just paint my models as well as I could accomplish quickly at any particular point, and then go back and do some touch-up work as and when my painting had improved. First on the list for improvement is the ancient Guardians I'd painted well over a decade ago!

Before and after:
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Just a quick dab of Reikland Fleshshade in the recesses and to shade underneath some of the bumps in the armour, some embellishment on the bases and a quick wash over the cloth elements. Hope it's done the trick!

Also, one thing I do not miss in the slightest is the tendency for the old Skull White spray paint to occasionally produce a really bumpy surface. New stuff is much better. Good riddance!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 10, 2017, 06:42:24 AM
Looking good Ynnead! Always love seeing Eldar in really pale colors... I love the more ghostly look especially for Craftworld models. Great stuff man...

Right there with you as far as the old Skull White, the new paints are amazing. The longer I do this comission painting thing, the more amazed I am at the quality. The yellows are simply crazy... I can't believe how easy it is to paint white and yellow.

Anyway great stuff man. Love it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 10, 2017, 07:51:44 AM
Thanks dude :) yeah I can't wait to get my hands on the Triumvirate and apply it to them :) I think it'd work quite nicely!

Oh yeah I remember the old yellows. Had to do about 5 or 6 thin coats just to stop the primer showing through! I think that's why I switched to a white primer as well, just because yellows were impossible! Hats off to the GW/Citadel paints team. I've yet to find a paint in the new paint range that isn't excellent :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on February 10, 2017, 09:00:05 AM
Nice, subtle improvements to the guardian Ynnead. I like that you've also moved away from some of the red detailing. While it looked good, I think the 'less is more' approach works better with a pale mini. Lovely work.

Also, I second that with regard to the GW paints. I think there are duff colours in the range still, or at least a bunch of colours that don't respond well to not being used regularly, but by and large they provide tremendous coverage.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on February 10, 2017, 09:37:44 AM
I really like the colour scheme that you've got on that Guardian, there is a real good balance of colours on it and it looks pretty natural!
Keep up the good work!  8)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 10, 2017, 12:30:04 PM
Thanks guys :) yeah less absolutely is more with paler schemes. Makes the few remaining rich colours really stand out :)

He's also from my 'every bump's a gemstone' phase that i'm sure every eldar painter goes through :S managed to tone that down slightly as well :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 16, 2017, 05:09:26 PM
Commorragh Burns, 999.M41
Curious, Khaharkyth mused as he wrenched his sword from the burning corpse of a daemon. He hadn't felt this exhilarated, this invigorated, this
alive in centuries. Not since his early days in the arena. "I think it's the element of risk," the tinny voice of Wilson added from his hindbrain. "When was the last time death had a semblance of permanence to it?". Khaharkyth paused for a second, nodding sagely. The insight was well made.

"Welcome to Commorragh!" he bellowed jovially, turning to face the yawning chasm above, "I know a very nice place just around the corner. If you can make it there before I hack your legs off you can have one of my playthings."

Dysjunctions are
fun, he thought as Commorragh burned around him. We should have these more often.

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Finished 5 more Kabs :) the picture doesn't show it at all, but if you look closely IRL they're covered in blood spatter.

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Oh, and writing about Khaharkyth is fun :) I imagine him to be a cross between Brick Top from Snatch, Jack Sparrow when he's stuck in Davey Jones' Locker, and Hannibal Lector. Not necessarily all mashed together. More like each personality takes its turn :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on February 16, 2017, 06:06:45 PM
As ever Ynnead, cool poses and sweet paint jobs to match.

How did you do the blood work? Painted on, or toothbrush flicking or something else?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 16, 2017, 06:13:27 PM
Thanks man :)

The blood spatter was done with a laden brush of Blood for the Blood God and then blowing sharply through the empty case of a byro at it :) gives a nice little spray of small blobs with the occasional streak :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 17, 2017, 06:50:49 AM
I love it man. Just love this color scheme to death...It makes the models actually scary. Like all the wicked angles and curves are somewhat hidden by the darkness of the colors. Its that whole what you don't see, scares you most type thing. Its a great artists trick to draw the eye closer... I just love it man.

I've got a ton of Kabalites sitting around someday I may paint a unit like this and be like this is my boy Ynneadwraiths mercenaries rolling with the Lions of Asuryan... lol with your permission of course.

Anyway great stuff man I love it
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 17, 2017, 08:30:49 AM
Thanks man I'm glad you like them! It's a dead simple scheme to do. Because the Warplock Bronze is so dark, and the Runelord Brass highlights have so little coverage that you can be pretty brutal/haphazard with them and it looks good because of it!

Love the idea of a bunch of these guys operating as mercs for the Lions ;) fits very nicely with my image of them being a relatively new Kabal, and a little desperate to gain power so acting as mercenaries is perfect :)

Might have to do the same thing and make an emissary from the Lions and retinue :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on February 17, 2017, 10:59:23 AM
Really loving the colour scheme for those guys! So dark and brooding, the posing is perfect too. Fits the colour scheme lovely!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 17, 2017, 11:47:07 AM
Thanks man! Glad you like them :)

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An account of the final days of the Crone Cycle, as written by Farseer Bellatheral of the Angvai - Part 2
It was the 7th day of the Serpent subcycle when they came. Draped in rags and sporting the blank face of the dead, the prophets of the Dead God filtered through the webway portal. Miracles, they brought with them. Those gifted among them they called 'reborn' walked among the Ghost Halls. Amidst a gathering crowd, they placed a hand upon the psychoplastic bulk of a Wraith before them. The touch of the revenant's palm caused a startling change in the Wraith's demenour. Suddenly it appeared to take a juddering, desperate breath. As if it had just surfaced from icy waters. Where its fellows moved languidly through the arches and boughs of the ghost hall, this awakened Wraith stared intensely at its hands, digits moving as it tested its perception. As the revenant passed on by, the onlookers saw the awareness ebb away. The movements of its fingers that had not seconds ago appeared fundamentally alive slowed as its arms dropped listlessly to its sides. Whatsmore, the eldar could feel the change. The bright spark that had flared into light at the touch of the prophet was fading to a whispering flicker oncemore.

The Angvai seers were cautious of these pilgrims. Manifold are the strands of fate, and only a very few offer any form of salvation. Through the windswept paths of the future they cast their gaze, alien intellects interpreting the actions of a thousand chess pieces on a board that extends for centuries. Methodically, they altered variables and watched them ripple through the weave of fate. Much change this new development had wrought. It would take years to chart these new seas. Years, as many paths suggested, the Angvai might not have.


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Yeah :) Ynnari are awesome. If you think about it, the events of the Fracture of Biel Tan happen in only a small section of the galaxy, meaning that for the majority of Eldar the Ynnari are a pretty mysterious movement.

So, I came up with the idea that they started sending prophets and preachers through the webway to spread the word of the coming of Ynnead, like a religious cult.

As for the model itself, I wanted to try and bring a bit of a ragged look to an Eldar model, which isn't something I've really seen before, Eldar of all sorts usually being pretty clean and elegant. An Eldar Death Cult seemed like the perfect opportunity to try that out :) oh, and I managed to work in quite a few little bits from the AoS Vampire Counts as a little nod to the sort-of-necromancy the Ynnari are doing :) the stave is the base of a Grave Guard Standard, and the ragged cloak is two parts of a Wraith from the Corpse Cart stuck together :)

I've got more ideas to come with the Ynnari :) as soon as bits arrive I'll have a go at some Dire Avengers too :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on February 17, 2017, 07:07:13 PM
Ynnead, your kitbashing really is superb!
I am loving this model, great choice of parts and great posing again!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on February 17, 2017, 11:28:55 PM
That tattered cloak is a genius idea and looks brilliant. You plainly look at bits of a model in  a different way to most people. Any chance of a picture showing the back of the model? I also really like reading your fluff pieces. One thing I am not so fond of is the models feet. For me they some how don't look like Eldar feet. Not quite elegant enough I think.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on February 18, 2017, 03:03:58 AM
At first I thought that this was your styling of an Outcast. I guess he kind of is, in a way.

I'll echo what AP and Alienscar have already said. He's a tremendous mini, with really imaginative use of parts. The cloak is done expertly. Depending on how you paint it up, it could look brilliant as a cloak of souls shifting around him.

The one thing I'm less sure about, the same as Alienscar, are the feet. I get that you have gone for a prophet type of look, but I think the bare feet go a little bit too far. I guess they are Wrack legs, which fit the styling brilliantly, but I'd just prefer to see some Ranger boots of him. Something like that. Although I guess that would up the difficulty quotient massively.

Anyway, tremendous work!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 18, 2017, 05:52:06 AM
Thanks guys :) yeah I'm really pleased with how he turned out, and there's loads of potential for other Ynnari'd units too.

I'm glad you like the fluff pieces Alienscar :) I really enjoy putting them together. It must be brilliant fun coming up with a Codex, and building up a background for a whole race using just these little snippets of info dotted around the book. I've always thought that was a really clever way of doing it :)

As for looking at bits in a different way I have no idea :S I was going to do a bit of a step-by-step on this one, but when the bits arrived I was so excited I didn't remember until I was halfway through :S

What I do is I sort of have a picture in my head of what I want the guy to vaguely look like. Some sort of tattered cloak, a blank helmet (always associated them with both psykers and wraith units), some sort of staff, mix of Craftworld and Dark Eldar bits, and not particularly dynamic (perhaps standing bolt upright like the Archon, or walking forwards).

From there I look for bits and pieces that best fit. I bought a load of little bits of ragged cloaks from the Vampire Counts range with the intention of making a cloak, but one of them ended up being the lower half of an arm so I decided he'd look cool with a ragged cloak draped over his arm. The Wrack legs are pretty much the only option there is for Eldar legs that aren't running or splayed wide, but it's lucky that they fit the idea of a prophet dressed in rags perfectly :)

I also try and keep the torso as an Eldar bit. I've tried branching out into Fantasy Elf stuff, but the whole 'broad shoulder pads, skinny waist and armour 6-pack' is so iconically Eldar that I've personally never liked anything I've come up with that doesn't have one. As it's an HQ (Farseer/Spiritseer), a Dire Avenger torso is a little step up from a Guardian one so that fit nicely. I did find that the shoulder pads looked a bit much, but the Vampire Counts bits had two halves of a hood that matched their curve nicely.

As for arms, I originally wanted him to be walking forwards, staff in hand, with his other hand open wide with its palm facing towards us. Psychologically, showing your palms to someone is a specifically non-threatening gesture (people do it to say hi, to calm someone down who's angry, or to show submission. We think it's a display that shows you have no weapons in your hands so you're not a threat). I used it on my Solitaire to try and make a bit of cognitive dissonance between the non-threatening gesture and the fact that it's a quasi-daemonic Eldar killing machine ;) it's also a pose that's frequently used to depict religious icons, especially Jesus, so I thought it would be fitting for a prophet.

I had the perfect arm for it (the Wrack pilot arm from a Venom), but unfortunately when I clipped the hand off to rotate it, it pinged off into the ether! A little bummed, I sifted through my bits from the Wrack kit for something similar and came across this arm which I thought was better! Pointing a little off to the side is always a kickass pose, especially if it's a little languid, and the hand had a cool skeletal look to it :) so, in that went and done!

Ah, actually, a few little tips that have helped me with posing. I stick the legs onto the base first, and then get the body glued together but don't glue it in place yet. Then I get an array of cool arms that I could use, as well as the head I've chosen, and lay them out around it. Then, I physically enact the pose which the arms/legs are doing, and take note of what angle my body and head is at in relation to my legs. Then, I copy that for the model :) it helps get your poses looking natural. Oh, and the head goes on last :)

Sorry for the wall of text! But thought you might find it useful :)

As for the feet, I do think you're right but it's a bit of a bugger to change now! I don't think it comes across, but I pictured it less as bare feet and more as boots that are designed to look skeletal. They're painted in the same bone colour as the armour plates, rather than the pale skin (probably doesn't show) of the Wrack arm.

Here's some pictures of the cloak :) I didn't include them because they weren't particularly flattering :S the first one's picked out the seam between the two halves of cloak I stuck together which I swear is invisible to the naked eye (was really proud of that fact!), and has some little bubbles from the light Ushabti Bone wash I did which I noticed and subsequently corrected...

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Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 18, 2017, 07:13:12 AM
Absolutely sick! Wow... my vote for you to be best modeler has been rewarded immediateley! Wow sooooo awesome Ynnead. Really, really love this guy. So ethereal and deathly... I love it man.

How do you plan on finishing his paint job? I can't wait to see it finished. Super nice work as always Ynnead... truly next level. Killing it bro
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 18, 2017, 10:02:59 AM
Thanks dude! You flatter me :)

Here was me thinking his paint was finished! ;) tbh i wasn't really certain where else to go with the paint. I wanted it to stay ghostly and ethereal, with very sparse ornamentation. I couldn't actually think what else i could do the wouldn't detract from that.

Perhaps a little XV88 in the folds of the cloak to give it a little more depth...

Any ideas?

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Added one little touch to the prophet dude, a little Harlequin mask clipped to his belt a la Visarch :)

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I've got a little bit of headcanon that Harlequins gift a mask to people deemed to be friends and allies of the harlies :)

It also completes the whole 'melding of all eldar factions' aesthetic that Ynnari have going on :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 20, 2017, 07:30:08 AM
Oh sorry bud! Didn't realize you were done!

I just thought some extra Pallid Wych dry brush highlights on the cloak and perhaps the face plate to finish him up and take the weathered but ethereal effect over the top.

But correct me if I'm wrong... because I'm pouring over the pics now... because the lighting may be washing out the highlights... because in one pic where the sleeve is facing the right (with really good light on it) I see exactly the kind of highlighting I'm suggesting. I know in pics my highlights always get lost  :'( :'( :'(

The most important thing is you've got the model in hand, so dont push the paint job if its gonna take it in a direction that you dont want. I've done that at other people prompting and ruined it. Either way it looks great man, I love the conversion, paint job and paint scheme. Extra drybrushing may wash the model out to much... that was just my thought though. Anyway bud keep it up I love it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 20, 2017, 07:49:26 AM
Haha no worries :) I'm always open to suggestions, so anything you can add is welcome :)

I was thinking Pallid Wych Flesh myself actually, so glad to hear I might be onto something ;)

I'll give it a go on the cloak and the visor and see what it looks like. It's such a simple scheme so it won't be a pain at all to re-do if it doesn't look quite right, and they're both low-detail areas so an extra thin layer of paint or two won't be obscuring any detail :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 20, 2017, 10:49:53 AM
Sweet! Would have felt terrible if I offended in anyway. I've got a picture of a WIP progress Chaos Space Marine painted in the same scheme as you guy with a Pallid Wych drybrush and I think it'll convey my idea better than words. I'll snap a photo later today and show it you, hopefully it'll help!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 20, 2017, 11:17:41 AM
Oh yeah no worries at all :)

If you've got an example that would be really helpful! :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on February 21, 2017, 01:44:44 PM
Here's some pictures of the cloak :) I didn't include them because they weren't particularly flattering

Thanks for the extra pictures they really help me understand how the cloak really looks. I am not one for visualising something so the pictures help me a great deal.

Sorry for the wall of text! But thought you might find it useful :)

Wow thanks for all the information. Not only helpful but insightful as well. Reading about your thought processes is fascinating stuff Ynneadwraith.

I don't think it comes across, but I pictured it less as bare feet and more as boots that are designed to look skeletal.

That does come across Ynneadwraith as when I first saw your conversion I thought you had used the feet from a Legion of the Damned model. I decided that you wouldn't have used an Imperial aesthetic on an Eldar model so therefore they must be bare feet.

Talking of being helpful have you seen THIS (http://www.40konline.com/index.php?topic=230067.0) 
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 21, 2017, 07:52:27 PM
No worries :) glad you found it interesting :)

I hadn't spotted that! Cool :) I'll have a look through and make some nominations. Flattered that my name appears there once or twice! :)

As for this week's distraction I've been making up some Eldar Void Craft from various bits and pieces I've got lying around :) always been a fan of space combat and general space-ship stuff since games like Freespace and Homeworld :)

So, here's the fleet so far :)

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The largest ship is the Angvai Cruiser 'The Stars of Ancient Times Shine on Eldanesh (alt. Ageless Starlight, alt. The Grave Shines Brightest)' with its massive dorsal lance.

The second largest is the Angvai Frigate 'The Oaths of Old Remain Unbroken (alt. Oathkeeper, alt. Bound to Ancient Cycles)'. Smaller dorsal lance, and two secondary lances.

The last two are Khaine's Ravens Cloaked Listening Ships (modified from Dark Eldar Corvettes), 'The Shadows Linger in Twilight (alt. Fading Sunlight, alt. Hides-in-Shade)' and 'The Sword is the Bane of Brothers (alt. Fratricide Eternal, alt. Bonds of Kinship)'.

No relation whatsoever to game rules at all, but fun worldbuilding anyway :) got some cool names for a Corsair capital ship and a Craftworld Dreadnaught as well when I get bits to make them :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on February 22, 2017, 11:21:59 AM
I like the overall svelte look of the cruiser and frigate but they bug me a bit because there doesn't seem to be any room for a pilot.

The Ravens strangely remind me of Battlestar Galactica and I like that they look sinister.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 22, 2017, 03:36:12 PM
Thanks man :) yeah there's no dedicated bridge, but the largest vessel is supposed to be ~8km long so plenty of space in the interior :)

The Raven's ships do look a little Cylon yeah :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 23, 2017, 07:11:11 AM
Very cool! But I screamed out in agony in realizing you cannibalized those precious, precious Harlie jetbikes for Battlefleet Gothic. lol  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Great stuff as always though I think you should do some conversion to hide the seat on the jetbikes. Other than that... I love it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 23, 2017, 09:33:10 AM
Hah yeah I've still got one left over :) this was just a chassis I'd got from a bits site. It's a shame they've stopped selling Death Masque, as eBay was awash with cheap Harlie bits and pieces...

Agreed on the seat front. Really I need to get myself some GS and smooth over the lot :)

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I'm nearly done with the modelling of my Ynnari Dire Avengers :) I've got a little bit of work to do building up the helmets so that the faceless section is a bit more rounded and smooth, probably with Liquid Greenstuff when I get some :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--uls6Y1VI--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/k4zu9kliqmezokqjvszc.jpg)

I tried Grave Guard legs, but the monopose for them is pretty severe. Every single one is in the exact same pose, which looks good in a regiment of undead, but not so much on a squad of round-based dudes. Can't wait until they get round to AoS-ing some of the older Fantasy factions so I can pinch bits from them! Til then, Flagellant legs will have to do :)

Oh, also came up with a little bit of background fluff for my Prophet :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--2kwNxCbI--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bfir9hz7kjwaps8zgjfy.jpg)

Deep in the bowels of Commorragh, a metallic clatter echoed through the depths as one of Malcarta's servile units dropped its workload. Searing white light burned through its neurones as its life flashed before its eyes. Birth and early years on Craftworld Angvellaith, railing against its oppressive atmosphere. Tears of his mother as he left to follow the Outcast Path. First firefight aboard the Corsair Corvette 'The Shadow Lingers in Twilight'. The terrible debt he accrued with the twisted haemonculi. The subtle psychological conditioning worming into his mind as he sold himself to servitude. Dullness of sensation as he carried out his masters wishes decade after decade. Death and resurrection, over and over.

It all burned in blinding clarity as memories reasserted themselves. Feeling flowed through his aching limbs. Psychic potential blossomed in his cerebelli. One face filled his newfound vision: Yvraine. He knew he had felt the kiss of death and the rush of resurrection many times before. Nonetheless he was reborn.


Lastly, what self-respecting protagonist would go without a mortal enemy?

Since they first came out, I've always loved the Oldcron fluff, especially pitching them as an ancient mythic enemy of the Eldar. I was always used to the Eldar being the oldest and wisest of the 40k races, and discovering just how young they truly are was a beautiful shock to the system :) their fluff had the absolute perfect balance of threat, terror and mystery for them to be utterly intriguing.

Whatsmore, models and artwork like this just absolutely captivated me :)
(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fvignette1.wikia.nocookie.net%2Fwarhammer40k%2Fimages%2Fe%2Fea%2FServant_of_the_C_tan_by_MajesticChicken.jpg%2Frevision%2Flatest%3Fcb%3D20110928172314&hash=2ed09fa0a302f5ac6faa9abda59e266be35fcd3b)
(https://1d4chan.org/images/thumb/d/df/Necron_Warrior.jpg/300px-Necron_Warrior.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b3/8e/2e/b38e2ed75e2dae9ba0175683cd144165.jpg)

So, I just had to make some proper Oldcron Yngir adversaries to my Eldar. Not some lame-ass Tomb Kings...in spaaace. Proper alien eldritch terror from the depths of prehistory that even the Eldar don't remember :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sNpSdi0P--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/nfwzstpkfqwhk9pkvgln.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--jvSByENg--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/spkroxgg5ysm9jxqbsuh.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ibushi on February 24, 2017, 01:02:43 AM
Dang man, absolutely loving this recent work of yours -- that Necron is also fabulous, just shows how multi-talented you are hah! All of my work is Craftworld/Croneworld/Corsair, not even DE, but here you have all the races, factions, and now the Ancient Nemesis as well.

Super stoked to see what comes next! Any thoughts on what you would put in an actual army list with the Reborn Warhost?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 24, 2017, 06:02:18 AM
Thanks man you flatter me :)

I definitely wouldn't knock yourself at all, your army's a thing of beauty! I'd blame my branching out on an inability to stick it out with one project until it's done ;) I've still got a bunch of exodites I need to make to actually have a complete army, but I seem incapable of making more than one squad of something! :S

As for an army list I'm not sure as I'm not much of a player :S I've read some interesting sneaky tactics though. Things like sacrificial 10pt Beastmaster units in an allied Dark Eldar Realspace Raiders detachment acting as fodder for Soulbursts, and situational combos with Death Jesters causing non-Fearless units to fall back towards your units, then assaulting them (which auto-wipes the unit on an Ld check), and then Soulburst charging another unit for your standard assault phase :)

Overall, they seem to favour units that like to get up close and personal with the enemy (not Scatbikes basically), so things like Dark Eldar Reavers, D-Scythe Wraithguard (which we might be able to put back in Raiders now!) and Fire Dragons :)

Oh, Deep Strike Scourges could be good for A/T too. They're the cheapest DS Melta-spam squad the eldar have available once you factor in a dedicated transport for Fire Dragons, and their ability to nuke a vehicle in one shooting round, with an 18" range would allow them to threaten additional units the turn they drop, rather than just dying horribly before they get to their next shooting phase :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 24, 2017, 07:01:05 AM
Looking good! Yeah Liquid Green stuff is really nice and easy to work with. I sort of like to work with it in 2 day stages. Paint it on, let it dry because it'll recess a bit... then give it another go the next day and it should be ready to rock.

The Necron looks absolutely awesome... glad I've got a little force of them started to someday I can go back and have an army of them.

I always wished Forge World would do a Pre-Imperial game with Eldar, Orks, Tyranids etc. I think that'd be amazing...

Anyway great stuff bud... love it as always
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 24, 2017, 07:31:25 AM
Thanks man :) glad to hear Liquid GS is what I'm imagining it to be :) shall have to avail myself of some after payday :)

Glad you like the necron dude as well :) it was partly your guys that persuaded me I should get some :) can't decide on a paint scheme yet though. I've got one Lychguard painted up in the standard silver (with a Drakenhof Nightshade wash) and green which looks neat, but not sure if it quite fits the desert basing. While tan and off-white might be completely played out as far as my colour schemes go, I can't help but like the way these guys look:

(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coolminiornot.com%2Fpics%2Fpics16%2Fimg517a7b2238431.jpg&hash=36ecd1413dcb71382e03bf267e7de32c0d07520d)

I'd gladly sell my soul for a pre-Fall FW setting! What a brilliant idea :)

They could play on some of the similar notes that the Visarch model has about pre-Fall Eldar aesthetics (more ostentatious than the austere craftworlders, less spiky and harsh than the Dark Eldar, with a smattering of Harlequin queues). I have absolute faith in the modelling abilities of the FW crew based on the Primarch models they've come up with too :)

They could bring back some of the cosmic horror of the Oldcron fluff, and also really go down the rabbit hole of just how far Ork technology can take them when they're basing their cannibalised parts on Necron and Eldar tech ;)

Ooh, they could even have little cameos from some of the Eldar's ancient enemies that are nothing but a name-drop at present. Things like the Hresh Selain and the Autochtinii :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on February 24, 2017, 04:53:25 PM
I don't know if I'm reading this right...are they your minis or a scheme that you managed to find? I think they look superb and if that's the way you go with your army, I don't think you can really go wrong.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 24, 2017, 06:34:50 PM
Ah no, i wish :) these guys are some that i found on google and blew me away!

Well, if you don't think it's too samey then i'm sold ;) ceramic-coated Necrons it is :)

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Latest bit of kitbashing :) Storm Guardians are up to 5-strong now. Need some more Wych legs and female Guardian torsos. Also, can't decide whether to give them flamers or fusion guns...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--KhKoguVS--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ljnxzkta3nwbsvbbv0af.jpg)

Also, I'd like to introduce you to the first of Khali's Bloodbrides :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1OwM_2Pq--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/pcn0otdhnojzmcfggf2w.jpg)

Thought a neat way of representing the extra attack Bloodbrides have is with some extra arms to make that attack!

I've also got a bit of an idea for a small Wych Cult based on 'enhanced' gladiators :) an idea shamelessly stolen from Eye of Error's fantastic Lelith Hesperax conversion:

(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-cTdmzZsKqEw%2FUUnXwLLjTPI%2FAAAAAAAAHts%2FAaHC5WP1Txg%2Fs1600%2FHesperax_WIP_4.JPG&hash=f52a4c20d2aed9853f210db2be66c3cf0e21fda0)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 25, 2017, 07:17:21 AM
Those poses.... THOSE POSES! Must steal! So inspired man... I want to do a second squad of Storm Guardians and I have to copy some of those poses. Fantastic work Ynnead I really love them.

Also that Bloodbride looks insane! If you could put some kind of jump pack on there I'd say you'd have a counts-as Warp Spider Exarch! lol

Everything else is equally awesome... seriously man great work. You are killing it. Now paint them up! Lol
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Irisado on February 25, 2017, 08:59:46 AM
Those Storm Guardians are so incredibly dynamic.  They already look superb and they haven't even been painted yet.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 26, 2017, 05:39:36 AM
Thanks guys!

I was actually trying to emulate some of the poses on your Stormies Cav! ;) thats where i got the inspiration from :)

Haha i'll paint something soon i promise ;) i've got my Corsair Voidstorms halfway done so they're next :)

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Now, I know I promised to paint something next, but sometimes you get an idea that is just too awesome to let wait...

I've thought for a while that since I made Thaegr the horned Son of Kurnous dude that my winged Autarch was looking a little...I don't know...unadventurou s...

Then, sifting through bits while looking for something else I came across two unused Tree Revenant arms and I had a bit of a lightbulb moment. 2 hours of modelling later and behold!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--yRS-yTjp--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hj87f0zg1ncr7hctwq6z.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--vMrFux7L--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/reewtbrwu0fsum4mroaa.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xnUsAAmA--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/gk4ggsemoxsaaiv9qnmb.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GYv1sd-b--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/uu4mlla2ekwkguul8rny.jpg)

Absolutely chuffed to bits with how this one's turned out! :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 27, 2017, 05:36:01 PM
And done!

Myrdolaith, Hawk-Friend, Stormbringer, Daughter of Faolchu. Prince of the Selestini of the Sandspires
The great hawk pierced the vale between the webway and soared out over alien skies. She felt the rush of thermals rising from the industry below beating at her feathers, and watched from on high as the humans scurried about their business far below. Vermin, she thought, infesting their ancient lands.

She perched on an outcrop, wraithbone talons finding tenuous purchase on the mountainous rock, and stared down intently at the settlement below. She spied the bright heraldic trim of the Knight World the vermin called Salazar's Rest. Their warriors were on guard at this early stage of colonisation, and clustered around a hulking mechanical creature that was belching vast exhaust plumes into the atmosphere.

They would take a great deal of effort to dislodge from this world. She would have to return with many warhawks to drive them back. For now, she would have to content herself with picking off a straggler to bring back to her clan as evidence of the trespass. Selecting a suitable quarry, she let out a keening cry and plummeted from her outcrop, eyes fixed on her unwitting prey.


(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--0PUOPD6Z--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/a20eo4xejcecshnl5jcr.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DJno0cwO--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qruhxut0naga5dimezjn.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ITpRMDAT--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/irgkdmbjbuljy7v5ak5q.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--T8fZaaGD--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/thyrajl2nze7vzlfais5.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ufMySg1z--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mx1xadhgemk1c8ijxisi.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--nIcDRSE0--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/oufawilkkmbmhiojvddc.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on February 27, 2017, 09:40:46 PM
daaaaaaaaaaanng nice job.
I was thinking of the tree rev's for some sort of early version of wraith constructs, never thought about trying to merge parts like that.


The middle storm guardian is a sweet pose too.


Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on February 28, 2017, 02:34:17 AM
Really good job here Ynnead, your natural Palette really suits the model well and the usage of the claws and Dark eldar bits really gives the model a menacing look. Love it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 28, 2017, 05:42:29 AM
Thanks guys!

Yeah Tree Revenants (and Kurnoth Hunters) work really nicely for early Wraith units :) the Hunters in particular are comparable size-wise with Wraithguard. Here's an awesome kitbash/conversion I've seen with WG and Hunters that I really must steal at some point! :)

(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2017/2/1/854279_md-Kurnoth%20Hunter.%20Conversion.jpg)

The middle Storm Guardian's my favourite too ;)

Thanks Auric :) yeah I'm really pleased with just how angry she looks ;) would not want to get on her bad side...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on February 28, 2017, 07:03:50 AM
Wow... killer work as always Ynnead. That winged Autarch is KILLER! Wow... love those feet... the modelling is great and so is the paint job. Love it!

The Wraithguard is look sweet too... it doesn't feel tree-ish so much as it feels like a crazy wild Wraithbone construct. Love it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on February 28, 2017, 07:51:04 AM
That Winged Autarch is mind-bogglingly cool. Everything seems to fit together so seemlessly, there really is a bestial, wild feel to the model. The paint job is really complementary too, with your usual use of Earth tones suiting this model's theme so well.

A really excellent model Ynnead, definitely some of your best work so far!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 28, 2017, 08:18:46 AM
Thanks Cav!

Yeah that Wraithguard is awesome :) slightly gutted I didn't come up with the idea first! ;) it's absolutely something I'll be flagrantly stealing as soon as I get the money to buy 2 boxes of Kurnoth Hunters and a box of Wraithguard (a long time away!).

Reminds me of this little meme I thought was quite fitting:

(https://cdn.meme.am/Instance/Preview?imageID=6484742&text0=Why%20buy%203%20kits...&text1=...When%20you%20can%20buy%205%20and%20turn%20them%20into%203)

Thanks too Loosh! I'm glad you like her :) she's definitely the one I'm most proud of so far.

Thinking about it, one sort of theme I could go down is to make each animalistic character reminiscent of a particular animal. Thaegr the horned dude is very stag-like, and Myrdolaith is bird-like. I wonder if I can find some bits to make something lion-like. Big brawny exodite with a mane of hair or somesuch. I've got a cloak or two from the high Elf White Lions that might work nicely :)

Ooh, and something reptilian if I can find a source for Dark Elf Corsair cloaks!

Oh, and last thing :) it was payday yesterday so I've ordered the Triumvirate*!

*plus a couple of extra bits and pieces because apparently I'm incapable of just leaving a model be...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on February 28, 2017, 03:18:01 PM
Ooh, and something reptilian if I can find a source for Dark Elf Corsair cloaks!

Oh, and last thing :) it was payday yesterday so I've ordered the Triumvirate*!

*plus a couple of extra bits and pieces because apparently I'm incapable of just leaving a model be...

bits and kits is where I found my set of corsair cloaks and looks like it would be fairly local for you too.

Triumvirate is frustrating, the ethereal swirl has very, very thin connections where glue is meant to hold it together, also the from bottom swirl that connects to the wraithbone, doesn't line up correctly.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 28, 2017, 03:47:07 PM
Thanks for the tips dude :) I've checked on my usual bits sites but Corsair cloaks are gold dust.

Luckily I've managed to cannibalise one of my older not so great conversions which had a cloak so it's on the cutting room floor now :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on March 1, 2017, 10:48:56 AM
Wow Ynneadwraith your Myrdolaith conversion has go to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Your imagination and the way you seem to have a knack for choosing the right bits has come together in a model that is pure rage. Bloody brilliant. The little fluff item also helps flesh out the model to make it even more awesome.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 1, 2017, 06:14:53 PM
Thanks a ton dude! Really glad you like her :)

Glad you like the fluff too :) I'm really enjoying coming up with it :) I must admit that's probably the thing that 40k has above all the other fantasy/scifi IPs I've come across: a sense that you yourself are actively encouraged to add to the background and lore, and that what you come up with is specifically stated as being every bit as valid as the stuff that's written in the codices :) that, and you can physically make something that represents the stuff you come up with :) it's a real stroke of genius!

Speaking of fluff, I came up with a little something for Lhorizar my Void Dreamer, inspired slightly by the background to the Aethermancy Corsair psychic discipline, and how it draws its power from the webway rather than the warp.

You see, the Void Dreamer explained, his wings curling round him as he held his meditative position, the webway itself has a pulse and a power all of its own. The Craftworlders don't feel it. They spend far too long gazing into the dreaming future to notice the subtle fluctuations in the fabric of the present. My Commorite kin could likely feel it, if they didn't persecute any throwbacks such as myself who show an ounce of psychic potential.

Urgebelach, the Harlequins call it. The study of how you can change the webway, and how it changes you in return. Its very fabric permeates both the warp and the material universe, and with skill can act as a conduit between them. The webway has changed the fibres of my mind, and I have learnt its heartbeat. I call out to it, and its voice flows through me.


Wheeling that out provided the motivation to go back and fix the slightly dodgy starscape I had on the Void Dreamer's helmet. Much better in just jet black :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GJ9sAiST--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/p4h090jkyzoz8umcbk2b.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Tbg5E0lV--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/c0f6hlxzuw9or0pz9fxl.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on March 2, 2017, 06:12:48 AM
Gotta agree on looking better in gloss black there, all of the ones I've done for my Eldar have been just a plain gloss black, I feel it really helps with a kinda emotionless feeling to it. Something mysterious about it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 2, 2017, 06:41:29 AM
Thanks dude :)

Yeah it's worked really nicely, and fits well with the 'Void Dreamer' name too.

Plus, the gloss means that the highlighting's done for you if you just stick it under a lamp ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on March 2, 2017, 06:51:41 AM
Yeah I love the look of the pure black gloss. It looks cool in white too... but its tricky to keep it looking ultra smooth. Killer work as always bud
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 2, 2017, 07:01:24 AM
Thanks man :) yeah part of the reason I haven't used much white is the pot I have is lumpy as anything :S the Harlies get away with it because they're pretty much entirely drybrushed so it works in my favour ;)

I wonder what gloss over white looks like? I must do a bit of experimenting with gloss coats actually. I've used them for glassy blacks, and to make the red tongues of my dragons look a little wet, but I bet there are more neat uses :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 2, 2017, 09:08:06 AM
That gloss black mask looks helluva cool. Really suits the dark nature of the model.

I only tend to use gloss varnish on things like soul stones and the like. I haven't even thought about using it on a white surface, but it could look like porcelain or highly polished marble. That might work quite well.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 2, 2017, 10:02:25 AM
Thanks dude!

Ooh yeah gloss over a slightly off white with tan-ish marbling effects would look awesome! Now I just need something to test just how ill-equipped I am at painting something like that ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 4, 2017, 10:51:10 AM
Latest bit of stuff that's not painting :S

Was inspired by this frankly awesome Sylandri Veilwalker (with Mask of Secrets!) made from the Silver Tower Mistweaver by a chap called Rollingawaythestone over on Dakka:

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2017/3/2/860990_md-.JPG (http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2017/3/2/860990_md-.JPG)(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2017/3/2/860990_md-.JPG)
He's got some really sweet Harlies called the Ghosts of the Webway here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/702696.page (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/702696.page)

I informed him that I liked it so much I'd be stealing the idea! He was flattered, so here we go:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mSnHDiBR--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wbwsyign35lan7hn9hqz.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1QvPqbk4--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rzsovnvp9xy1hqdtrbyv.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sUKbLFCK--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zshj1jpow9xanqtkuqbo.jpg)

To be perfectly honest I think Rolling's one's better, the lack of hair makes it look a little more alien and his mask is more recognisably Harlequin, but I quite like mine and had to change it up slightly ;)

Edit: Changed the mask for a Harlie one and it's definitely better :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--A9fdMKB1--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/a1wrm9tprvpjt1kizlvz.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 4, 2017, 04:07:21 PM
That's awesome Ynnead! I mean, who cares that you borrowed the idea from elsewhere, I'm sure that plenty of folk will borrow some of your ideas at some stage too, so it evens out!

I love both versions, but yours definitely suits your army a lot better. It's just more...disturbing.

Execution is 10/10 as always. Excellent work.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 4, 2017, 04:28:30 PM
Thanks dude!

Yeah personally I ascribe to the 'Adeptus Mechanicus' interpretation of human creativity. That being that 99% of all things that can be thought of have been thought of, and all that creativity is is mixing up those things you've already seen in a novel enough combination to appear new :)

I just feel like if I've lifted something wholesale I should at least credit the person I've lifted it from!

If anyone does want to use any of my ideas then I'd be nothing but flattered :)

I've actually changed the mask now to something more Harlequin which I do prefer, but maybe I'll have a go at transplanting the tongue-out lower jaw onto a Harlie mask to keep the 'disturbing' feel about it. Definitely like that as a descriptor for my army!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on March 4, 2017, 07:07:35 PM
Edit: Changed the mask for a Harlie one and it's definitely better :)

Another stunning model. It kind of looks like it's taken the mask off, to have a blank face underneath, that's gonna freak some people out :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 4, 2017, 07:37:32 PM
Thanks man!

Yeah I thought that was freaky about it when I saw Rolling's model :)

Came up with the idea that the mask mouths along with whatever the Spiritseer's saying, whether she's wearing it or not :)

Ooh, how about the Mask of Secrets whispers of its own accord, telling you secrets about yourself that are horrifying to know :)

It has to cause Fear somehow after all ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on March 5, 2017, 07:50:19 AM
Wowzers....love this conversion man. Brilliant! I've got a whole mess of those masks in my bits box.... can't wait to use them. I actually prefer the Dark Elf Wych mask... its a little more 3D a little more archaic looking... Killer work as always. Love it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 5, 2017, 04:43:13 PM
Thanks man! Yeah I've got load of the things knocking around too so it's nice to find a use for them!

Yeah the Witch Elf mask in isolation was better looking, but the Harlie mask makes it feel more like a Shadowseer so I'm happier with it :)

Was great fun hanging with you guys in the hangout today :) got loads of painting done all the while shooting the breeze about various 40k bits and pieces :) great fun :)

Who was it that wanted pics of what we were painting? These are how my Voidstorms looked when we finished:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--WrfXkb4a--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lnkjysw4fzjzoei1x65e.jpg)

...and this is how they look now :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s---qi_KVMa--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ef8zizh8mcrpvk8js55p.jpg)

Fluff too!

For a few tense moments Mohruin and the Slaaneshi Marine circled each other, sizing up their opponent. Without warning, the augmented human lunged. Combat knife met venom blade, sparks skittering as Mohruin parried wildly. This mon keigh was fast. He hadn't been expecting that. Blows rained down upon him as the astartes set to work with savage glee. It was all he could do to avoid being torn asunder by the ferocious assault. Disengaging for a split second he keyed the command for his drug dispenser. Hypex flooded his circulatory system, wrenching him into a state of hyper-consciousness. The sound of his accelerated breathing assaulted his senses. The colours of his surroundings stung his unblinking eyes. Nerves searing with the speed of their reaction he set about his counter-attack. Strikes rang out like church bells to his enhanced senses, chunks of ceramite exploding where he outmanouvered his foe. His movements were ragged, twitchy...but fast. Blindingly fast. Subconsciously he found himself subtly manipulating the anti-gravity generators in his jetpack, jerking clear of snarling counter-strikes. Veering away from a vertical strike, he clasped his sword in both shaking hands and violently activated his thrusters to lend momentum to his sideways strike.

He staggered aside as the astartes' torso slid apart. The sound of his rapid heartbeat thundered in his ears, red dots clouded his vision where blood vessels had burst. Fingers twitching erratically, he keyed the drug dispenser to release the anti-venom into his bloodstream. Twitches and tics calming, he paused for a second to recover his breath. "Sweet dreaming Lileath that was exhilarating", he muttered in awe.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on March 5, 2017, 07:44:36 PM
nice colour scheme, the scourge heads set them apart, while the mix or armoured limbs gives them a nice pirate feel as they salvage parts from the fallen :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 5, 2017, 08:12:35 PM
Thanks man :) I hadn't thought of the idea that they looked like they'd been salvaging stuff.

That's an interesting idea to go down the rabbit hole conversion-wise actually. 'Scavengers' isn't normally something you'd associate with Eldar, but would be really fun to make a Corsair army themed around, or a Hellion street gang perhaps :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on March 5, 2017, 10:15:07 PM
I see pirates as just using whatever they get their hands on, like retrofitting heavy weapons from CWE or DE onto jetbikes or the mixing up of rifles and pistols from either. Kind of wish I diversified the colour scheme more now that I think about it.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 6, 2017, 05:17:07 AM
I love those Voidstorms. I agree with magenb that the Scourge heads just look terrific on them. The colour scheme is great (It's kinda the opposite of Cav's scheme, so it was always going to work!), but you've achieved a really nice finish - really clean execution.

Nice work Ynnead, keep it coming!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on March 6, 2017, 06:53:44 AM
They look absolutely awesome Ynnead. The use of bits is just killer and the paint jobs are ultra clean. I really love the blade wings too... they look perfect on these models... the mohawks on the Scourge helmets really jive with them... tying them all together.

I've got about 10 Scourge helmets I've just been waiting to use... this unit is really giving the bug to figure out a use for them.

If you want Brian aka Evil Space Elves is looking to post all the pics on the Splintermind FB page. He made a post of it... and you can just hop on and post in the comments like Josh did. Killer work man... just love this unit. Keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on March 6, 2017, 09:45:58 AM
Wowzers....love this conversion man. Brilliant! I've got a whole mess of those masks in my bits box.... can't wait to use them. I actually prefer the Dark Elf Wych mask... its a little more 3D a little more archaic looking... Killer work as always. Love it!

I agree with Cavalier Ynneadwraith I prefer the Dark Elf mask to the Harlie mask. Not only is the Harlie mask a bit bland but I can't help thinking that the other mask tells more of a story. From the little I have read about Veilwalker I am not sure she can be trusted (can any Harlie?) so for me the Dark Elf mask coupled with the faceless head sums up this duality of character perfectly.

Lovin' your little fluff piece about the drug fuelled fight. Reads very well and I like how you portrayed the effects of the drugs.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 6, 2017, 10:21:30 AM
Thanks guys!

@Magenb I quite like your colour scheme, so don't go changing it too much ;) I wonder if going for a darker shade of blue painted asymetrically every now and again would work nicely. Like one leg and the opposite arm painted darker. Helps give it a bit more a cobbled together look :) worth testing out on a model to see if you like it :)

@Loosh and CavGlad you like the paintwork :) means a lot coming from you two! You are right, it is sort of a mirror of Cav's scheme... I wonder if that was a subconscious choice ;)

I'm really glad I stumbled upon the blade wings :) there's tons of them around as everyone that's ever built a Raider has them lying about, and while I love the look of the FW jet packs I can't help but imagine they'd get wedged in corridors during boarding actions! Unless they fold of course...

If it helps, the models that first grabbed my attention from your army Cav was the (sadly departed I believe) Scourge-headed Banshees. I've also been wondering whether that there is actually an at least mildly competitive tactical place in an Eldar army for them. They've got a ton going for them, I reckon they just don't fit well with how most people run CC squads (which is basically throw them at the enemy's face).

I reckon that they'd make brilliant flank guards on foot. As they can basically ignore cover, have a halfway decent killy exarch (with executioner), and have really solid movement with their +3" run and battle-focus they can project a reasonable threat bubble on a flank somewhere. All the while being relatively low on the target priority list.

A bit like Incubi for DEldar. Don't stack up competitively compared to Grotesques (not by much though), but used in little 3-man squads with a Klaivex in a Venom they can be really excellent counter-charge dudes :)

@Alienscar Interesting. I may have to go back to the Dark Elf mask and try and find another way to hammer home the 'Harlequin' look of her. Perhaps just another normal mask hanging from her belt would do it...

Glad you like the fluff piece! I was thinking about combat drugs before writing it, and how it's the Dark Eldar that are making them. They're not going to be 'smoke this it'll make you see funky colours' drugs. They're going to be so intense that they're downright painful, but so utterly exhilarating that it's worth it. That alongside the distinct feeling that if you're on them for more than a fleeting moment they'll probably kill you ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ibushi on March 7, 2017, 01:02:48 AM
Oh man, absolutely loving these Voidstorm updates -- they look gorgeous! Just the right amount of bits and mixing to hit some great shapes and poses. Great work as always, loving the paintjobs.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 7, 2017, 04:15:49 PM
Thanks dude! Glad you like them :)

Had some bits arrive today that I'd been waiting for for ages it seems! So, without further ado:

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The vat-born gladiator stood in the dank unfamiliar room, her finely honed body still glistening with fluid from the amniotic chamber. Noticing that she was not alone, Khali sprawled out low to the ground, feet spaced wide and steadied by a third hand planted on the ground, head cocked to one side. Her hooked lower arm extended out to the side, and the upper raising a curved knife above her head, evoking primal visions of scorpions in the mind of the Astartes before her.

The grav-shackles released with a clank and the Astartes bolted forwards, snatching a long serrated blade from the chamber floor. The hulking human settled into a well-honed combat stance, the dried blood of its previous adversaries caked into its matted hair. The Astartes lunged forwards, blade searching for purchase on Khali's frame, but she was quick to dodge this first strike. The augmented brute circled around, wrapping a chain around its free hand. Khali leapt out, catching the warrior by surprise and raking her knife across its forearm. She rebounded from the wall behind and landed a double-armed jab on her opponents torso. Barely registering this assault, the Astartes lashed out with a brutal punch, ribs cracking beneath its slab-like fist, throwing Khali across the room. Coughing blood, she staggered to her feet just in time to avoid another strike as the Astartes pressed its advantage. She sunk her knife into its leg, which elicited a grunt of pain but not much else, and the Astartes swung its blade wide nearly cleaving her in twain. Khali blocked another haymaker, gasping in pain as her forearm broke beneath the blow. Rebounding from the blow, she pirhouetted fast. Lashing out, her hook found purchase in the Astartes' throat. Momentum tore through muscles and arteries in a great gout of blood and the formidable soldier slumped to the ground. Staggerring sideways she stumbled to one knee, taking deep shuddering breaths. Bloodied and broken, but alive.

In the shadows behind her, an arachnid-like Haemonculus scrawled into her research notes. 'Subject K-46...shows promise'.


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(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xWa1bjSk--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/u0dmq8z1clezqlaqpdzf.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--zZR1XsNq--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wrodmtbmh0vpizdu2bg9.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--o0lPId0X--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/psqx1kgsumwmvlf46tbp.jpg)

She's based on this brilliant Lelith conversion by Eye of Error:

(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-cTdmzZsKqEw%2FUUnXwLLjTPI%2FAAAAAAAAHts%2FAaHC5WP1Txg%2Fs400%2FHesperax_WIP_4.JPG&hash=74fbb956d1bc8c801eb8e54e6864952973224a15)

I hope I've done it justice!

I also had some Wych legs turn up, so thought I'd do a little step-by-step for my next Bloodbride :) hopefully they're simple enough that it won't put people off from trying, but enough to show people some tips :)

So, to kick it off, the tools of the trade :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--spK8SjAi--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/f9gq9oobgar63ubrnwal.jpg)

Pair of electrical clippers (have a wedged cutting edge rather than a flat one like hobby clippers which is worse! Not sure why I've not bought a pair of proper clippers yet), plastic glue and a very large reasonably sharp knife. I tried a scalpel/hobby knife a while ago and managed to snap the blade. Personally I prefer the hunting knife as it's actually a bit safer. There's more surface area to hold it by, and it's easier to get leverage on without slipping. Probably more importantly, it's what I'm comfortable with. Oh, and there's a dremel too but I don't use that for most conversions :)

Anyway, enough about the wrong tools for the job...

Here's what we start with:

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Wych legs and a couple of Wych kits with most of the bits picked off them (one kit would do, but I don't have a full one left).

Might seem simple, but legs go down first. They're the only fixed part of a multi-pose model, so the whole pose will stem from what the legs look like.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SfoAET0R--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/uew4h7m4e4cqqagcfhif.jpg)

Then bodies go on. I always find that putting a body on at a degree of rotation, even if it's just a slight one, helps with making a pose look both natural and dynamic. Since these guys are running full-tilt, they get quite a big degree of rotation. It's also good to vary up which way they face :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sY956HZS--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/dj9zcjg4dsdood8oj3ow.jpg)

Then, we get to the main bit I wanted to use in the first place. Razorflails!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--z--Ibvoz--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/v9xpgd3yaftfji50vpcy.jpg)

Here's where the trick to 4-armed stuff comes in :) You cut off the rounded bit at the top of the shoulder to make a flat face like so:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--YlVjCiJy--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/djnahqikgzle1jbkcosb.jpg)

...and stick it to the body using that new flat edge. That gap below we'll use to fit the lower arm.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--9tNor_HE--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ndjentpvaothtaxztrzd.jpg)

Now, this frankly godawful picture is where the other Razorflail arm wants to sit, which won't quite work for us. Not only did it not really look in the right position compared to the other arm now (if in doubt about a pose, I find that physically acting it out helps you to get where your various body parts sit naturally), but there's also no space for the lower arm. A bit of holding it up in different places got to where I want it to be:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xGgLCajp--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ylyac54uzhgg3ltgjh40.jpg)

So, clip off the rounded end a bit. I also found that there wasn't much space for the lower arm to wedge in so I shaved the underside of the arm joint to make is slimmer.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--LRpSQM-1--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/duhgdo74scl8mmjywbnj.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_A6BiTKC--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jfxfwh44r6sevytrszi5.jpg)

More holding it in place showed that it still didn't seem high enough, fouling on the leading edge of the shoulder pad so that had to go.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ZDBblg8Y--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/plbwo8goz11twmz7py4q.jpg)

And glued in place :) with a space to wedge the lower arm in again :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--VVzmAh5I--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rwa9hzx8xw0xivwspenk.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--gIJHBsA4--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/sd1vuzgzjlmdryohh4wc.jpg)

Now, if you were just reposing you could fill those gaps in with GS. But for these guys, we'll use these :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--I8GObWaw--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/tgoyzno1kaodjn5ryvsr.jpg)

Took a little bit of sifting through bits to get the right arms. One of the things I wanted to do on these is to have each pair of arms (upper and lower) mirror each other somewhat in pose. I tried just picking out cool arms, and they just look like they were flailing wildly windmilling all over the place. With paired poses, they look much more cohesive :)

So, hold it up in place to see what sort of angle you want to cut...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--knLb53j5--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/i5kmgba4tocjknc4ck4f.jpg)

...cut the end of the arm into a wedge shape...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--RqM6aVUN--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rqjvtyylf3avbbssqolq.jpg)

...realise you've cut it wrong and the arm's much further back in its swing than you planned...

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...look at it from a couple of angles and decide that it looks cool anyway so glue it in place ;)

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(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xp2o-Chy--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/h8kxb1lj8asjx9epzq0i.jpg)

With a bit of work shaping and trialling the wedge you can get it to fit quite snugly which will prevent the need for GS.

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Then, repeat the procedure with the other arm :) hold in place to get the wedge shape. Cut it. Skim it down so it fits snugly and glue it in place :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--48LLHcB7--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fr5dhfdygwoemoywfmad.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--YR9YQBnw--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ceh7y9rsfzq0ushvropx.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--UzEshjD4--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xq5iddutdkdnypl9bqxf.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--RHLKTtg9--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/y1vikfvsgig8fjt47o6o.jpg)

Last thing to go on is the head :) most of the time I'll spend a little while holding the head in different positions to see what looks cool, but this one was obvious. If he's hitting something with his sword then he's going to be looking at what he's hitting.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--dx9u2Bgn--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/gdepvq2wgdufllrxddz9.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--HXTCI2pe--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/m7uhefmy8fuqn8muhwv4.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--MjjLMhhN--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/glbfkjxnac1crhflgkpa.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--CvbDGvZ0--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hvwsk75qb2gylsd4kqy4.jpg)

And done!

Hope that was helpful :)

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(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--KBpPlFsA--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ames4i9nhfkffixq8xw9.jpg)

Also got the bits to finish the Shardnet Bloodbride I'd mostly done :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--uPuWef-i--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/svnanpx0hbui6wcxe1ba.jpg)
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And all three done so far :)

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Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 7, 2017, 06:29:41 PM
That Lelith conversion is amazing. Sublime conversion work and a brilliant paint job to match. It's a really terrific piece (That incidentally fits your Rogue Trader vibe almost better than your Eldar vibe!).

Thank you a million times over for that Step By Step. That's exactly what we need more of in the hobby boards, as it may well inspire others to try their own conversion work. Informative, helpful...and the model at the end is kickass, so there's that too!

Cheers Ynnead, brilliant post.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: vonny on March 7, 2017, 07:12:07 PM
yes, that is quite beautiful. Bravo!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on March 7, 2017, 08:01:26 PM
very nice. I could see some custome warpspiders comming out of that as well.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on March 8, 2017, 07:00:27 AM
Wow! Sick! The finished guy at the top is beyond awesome! So dark, disturbing, brutal and gritty... I really love this. Incredible work Ynnead... killer modelling, love the step-by-step, but the paint job at the end takes it above and beyond. Incredible!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 8, 2017, 08:29:56 AM
Thanks guys! :)

@Looshkin I'm glad you found it helpful :) I've got another one half-written up about a Truescale Marine which I've nearly finished, but that turned out to be a bit of a nightmare! Not because it should have been difficult, but because I never quite had the right bit for what I wanted!

You're right on them fitting the R/T vibe too :) I was thinking actually that I should scrap the idea of having the Rogue Traders operating on a spaceport, and have them operating from another desert world. Base everything the same and I can flit models back and forth as and when I please.

Plus, that way I don't have to get extra basing materials ;)

I'll endeavour to do a little WIP thing with each update, even if just for one of the models I'm making :) anything that helps other people get into modelling a little more. I must admit I did find it fairly intimidating looking at some of the more impressive conversions around (and still do when it comes to sculpting stuff!). Anything that shows it for what it really is (easier than it looks) I'm happy to provide :)

@vonny Thanks man :) I'm liking your Skaven too btw. Skintones look especially nice :)

@Magenb Yeah agreed, especially the dudette with Hydra Gauntlets.

TBH, I'm holding off on converting up some plastic aspect warriors as I've got a (probably vain) hope that they'll release plastic aspect kits at some point. If they do I'll probably have to remortgage the house, but it'll be fun until the bailiffs come round ;)

@Cav Glad you like them :) and glad the step-by-step was useful. It does about double the time it takes to make a model, but to be honest that mainly stops me from trying to stick the arms on before the torso's stuck in place enough so I'm taking it as a positive thing ;)

Glad you like the paintjob too! :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on March 8, 2017, 11:13:21 AM
Wow, you are doing some seriously awesome work Ynnead!
I really love the choice of the Scourge heads, they actually really suit the Guardian torsos!
The Lelith model is pretty amazing as well to be honest, great job on the posing!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on March 8, 2017, 11:33:09 AM
Man I feel really guilty now for banging on about the need to see WIP shots in everyone's blogs. Now that I have seen your WIP the amount of extra work it must have entailed must have really pissed you off.

The Lelith conversion is that good that if you hadn't pointed out that it was made from Lelith I would never have guessed.

...realise you've cut it wrong and the arm's much further back in its swing than you planned...

...look at it from a couple of angles and decide that it looks cool anyway so glue it in place ;)

Ha ha this is the best bit of the WIP. It is nice to see mistakes being made as it gives a better overall feel for the process

With a bit of work shaping and trialling the wedge you can get it to fit quite snugly which will prevent the need for GS.

This bit just blew me away. You must have the patience of a Saint.

Another brilliant fluff piece as well Yneeadwraith. I really like the way you didn't make the Astartes a push over.

Hope that was helpful :)

Way beyond helpful that was truly awesome.

 
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 9, 2017, 07:15:04 AM
Thanks guys :) glad you like them!

I must admit, the posing on the Lelith model was a right PITA! Lots of gluing together, deciding I didn't like it, then sticking it back together again.

@Alienscar don't feel guilty about the WIP stuff :) I'm actually really enjoying doing it. I won't do it for everthing I put together, but it's not a problem :)

Oh I'm forever making mistakes ;) some of them work out, some don't, but you can usually make something work even if it doesn't work out how you'd planned. Plastic's a really forgiving material :)

Really glad you liked the fluff :) I really enjoyed writing that one. When I first started it Khali had a much easier time of things, but TBH I started rooting for the Astartes and that just won't do! The only way I felt I could make someone root for the psychotic faceless biologically engineered 4-limbed alien clone was to give her a really rough time of it!

That seemed to fit much better with the Astartes too :) he's also a biologically engineered killing machine, and he's much bigger and stronger. Not only that, but he's survived through lord knows how many of Khali's predecessors so he's got to be hard as nails ;)

Post Merge: March  9, 2017, 07:16:18 AM
In the future, please use the modify button. Double posting is against the forum rules, and for that reason, the system merged your posts.

I've got updates too! My Triumvirate arrived so rather than do anything I was meant to do last night I did this!

Uneven footsteps echoed out through the ruined and creeper-riddled hall. A clank of armour, and a far heavier thud of a wraithbone replacement, slightly too long to produce an even gait. The ancient High Lord of Selesti stalked through his domain. "I am Lord of this place you tread", he spoke with an authority born of millennia of rulership, his iron voice echoing through the chasms. "Lord since before your kind rose from the depths, and Lord long after they will be consigned to dust."

"Tremble before me, worm-kin. I have watched your upstart Gods rise, and I will watch as they fall. Meet me here, plaguebringer. Meet me here and test your resolve. Your Gods are watching. Do not disappoint."


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Raodruin, Godborn, Allfather, Son of Asuryan. High Lord of Selesti. Ancient almost beyond comprehension, the High Lord of Selesti still remembers the great exodus and the Fall of his empire in the depths of his rheumy memories. Prior to the Fall, he was a member of an ancient, secretive and reviled sect of Eldar culture. Called Carrac Noill (lit. Soul Drinkers), these ancient beings practiced what amounts to vampirism. Murderously, they would prise the soul from another Eldar and encorporate it into their own. Through this, they would achieve a continuity of existence that even reincarnation could not promise. Clouded memories of the legends of his forebears told of how they were some of the earliest rulers of the ancient eldar, not long after Eldanesh himself, and how they were hunted and persecuted after their fall from grace. Whether this was truthful, or merely hubristic justification of their crimes was lost to the hazyness of countless millennia. Still, the vast experience accumulated through his unnaturally extended lifespan had seen his people through the great exodus, and the many trials they had endured in the years since the Fall. Surely that was atonement enough for his crimes. He was growing weary of life, he could feel it. Each night, the susserus of lost souls would get bolder. Each fresh hunt would sustain him that little less. Still, he thought, he must go on. Without his guidance Selesti would surely fall, and its people be swallowed whole by the aether. This is something he would never let come to pass. No matter the cost.

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The minute I saw the Triumvirate box I knew that feathered cloak seems tailor-made for an Exodite lord :)

If anyone was wondering about the fluff (specifically the Soul Drinker part), it's based on one of my favourite little excerpts from one of the old codices:

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There's so much information hinted at here in such a small little picture. The bit that set me thinking was the little rune down at the bottom right. Soul Drinker: Also scavengers, looters, parasites, vermin, dying, diabolical, daemonic and decaying. One of the most hideous rune-concepts in the Eldar language. It's connected to the Dark Eldar rune next to it, but not the same. It's also distinct (although similar) to the rune for Slaanesh.

I've always thought that having the 'Eldar Empire' as this unchanging monolithic structure existing for millions of years was unrealistic. Much more likely that there have been many, many different forms of Eldar civilisation throughout the millennia, much like humanity has gone through the DAoT, Age of Strife, the Great Crusade, and the final slow inexorable slide into ruin that's occurring in the year 40k. All of that history will have either been consigned to myth, or lost to the sands of time. Plus, this being the grimdark universe of 40k at least some of those forms of civilisation are going to be pretty nasty.

So, I came up with the idea that the concept of a 'Soul Drinker' pre-dated both Slaanesh and the Dark Eldar, and that it refers to one of these previous forms of Eldar civilisation, consigned to vague myth. Plus, it being a pretty revolting rune-concept, it probably refers to something that's both a bit nasty and importantly defeated. History is written by the victors, after all.

Drawing a bit on Fantasy Vampire Counts, I thought of the idea that these proto-soul drinkers first discovered that they could ingest another creature's soul just like the Dark Eldar do now, and used this newfound ability to rise to power over the early Eldar civilisation (possibly in the power vacuum caused by the death of Inriam the Young, last of the line of Eldanesh). However, they would have had to be deposed (probably violently) a long time before the Empire came about for their story to be forgotten in all but a single, reviled, rune-concept.

Thinking of what happens to entrenched regimes that get violently deposed, the survivors scatter to the winds and go into hiding. So, we get to the point where these 'soul drinkers' are a secretive subsect of Eldar society who are hunted by the rest of their culture, again drawing on the 'vampires and vampire hunters' trope. Raodruin is one of the descendants of this culture.

However, because 40k thrives on grey-areas, you can't have these kin-slaying murderous vampires be pure evil. The utter destruction of their civilisation would have effected them just as much as the Eldar that hunted them (if any believed they still existed outside of myth at that point). Most, I'd imagine, would be well entrenched in the debauchery that gripped the Empire. Some would likely find a home with the Dark Eldar (although I imagine that in a twist of fate, most of those would have come to a sticky end at the hands of the Haemonculi while they discovered the secrets of their soul-drinking abilities). Others I'd imagine would have the same foresight that others of their kind had, and deduce that if their civilisation died then they would die with it.

Raodruin is one of that latter group, and led the Selestini to their new home. In protecting his people he has found new purpose beyond simply self-preservation. However, this new conscience he has developed racks him with guilt, as in order to maintain the strength to protect his people he needs to hunt them down and consume their souls.

Apologies for the wall of text, but thought you might like to read some of the backstory :)

I've also got a little WIP process for anyone that's interested in the modelling :)

Take 1 standard Visarch kit

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I've got a bit of a thing that HQs should be more physically imposing than the rank and file, and the easiest way to do this with Eldar models is to stick them on some ruins :) the rubble from the High Elf Lord kit should work nicely :)

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Trimmed to size, and I'm sure that little bit left over will come in handy :)

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Next up is the legs.

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This is basically what I was going for. Clip off the Tree Revenant leg, and offer it up to the Visarch legs to see what sort of angle you need. Then, clip off the Visarch leg and discover that you've got the angle wrong again (noticing a trend?). It's always useful to cut off a little further up than you actually need so you've got some extra material to play with when (not if) you get it wrong.

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After a bit of faffing about I got them to mate up neatly enough. So glued in place and onto the base, making sure that the back foot covers up the hole in the High Elf ruins.

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Next up is the body :) here's the plan:

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After some fairly fraught cutting and clipping, I managed to separate the little masks and the cloak intact (it's too cool of a bit to ruin, if I didn't want to keep it it would have been much easier to remove)

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Onto the tabard.

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The Visarch cloak is blowing to the left, but the tabard is blowing to the right. The only way you'd get that happening in real life is if the character is spinning his torso around, which doesn't quite fit with the relatively static pose of the Visarch. So, we cut it apart and repose it.

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Much better!

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Glue it in place, and I must admit I'm not sold. It adds a lot of visual bulk to the lower torso that just doesn't look right (you'll hear me witter on about 'visual bulk' quite a lot with the Triumvirate, although with a little modification they can be very delicate indeed).

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To test out whether it'll still look ok, I started gluing together the rest of the model.

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When I went to test it again, I accidentally pulled apart the tabard and thought it looked much better cut down! Result :)

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Now, right arm (again, Tree Revenant):

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I forgot to get a picture on the glaive arm, but this one should demonstrate. A lot of AoS stuff now has sculpted connection areas for arms, meaning that they naturally fall into a single pose on a sculpted to fit torso. This makes the models themselves a lot friendlier to put together for a novice, and thanks to the sheer variety of bits on AoS models you don't get monopose stuff, which is very impressive :)

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Luckily, it means that there's excess plastic to play with so you can adjust the pose slightly when you cut it flat.

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Now, if you're a clever person you'll spot the little nub on the Visarch torso that helps locate his arm in a monopose and clip it off before you stick everything together. Because on occasion I am categorically not a clever person, I spotted that and thought 'ah well, I'll deal with that later'. Nearly pushed the recently-stuck and still malleable model apart trying to get it flat.

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And stuck!

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It's at this point that the whole pose of the model starts to come to me. He'll be pointing at something with his glaive, looking in that direction too. One of the things I know from my psychology degree regarding body-language is that when people are concentrating on something, their leading foot (or the foot closest) tends to point in that direction too. Otherwise the pose tends to elicit a little 'well that dude looks slightly awkward' thought in the back of people's heads without them realising it. So, the tree revenant foot had to rotate slightly.

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Much better :) luckily you can be pretty rough with the clippers on the tree revenant foot as it's full of odd little ridges anyway. This takes a little more carving to flow if you're doing it on a smooth Eldar leg.

Left arm!

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Cut down to fit into the Visarch socket (which is half an arm bonded to the cloak).

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And done :)

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Then to test the head I'd originally planned him having, which came up a little short.

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So, better idea to reuse the idea from Thaegr the Son of Kurnous. Note how the hair piece I picked is also blowing the same way as the cloak.

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Roughly cut the antlers off longer than you need them to be.

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Taking a sliver off each time you cut, and starting well in advance of where the final cut needs to be, start cutting a little 45 degree angle into the antlers. The reason you're starting so far back is because getting the angles similar enough not to look wonky when you stick the horns on is a little tricky, and too much cutting can result in some short antlers...

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Head in place. It's also a good idea to model with a cup of tea (or a beer or glass of wine ;) ), as you need something to occupy yourself while the glue dries enough to keep the head still when you're posing the antlers.

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First stab at getting the antlers in place.

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Not so good. Looks more like insect mandibles than antlers. Cool, but not what I'm looking for. Because plastic's such a forgiving material to work with, they're easy to repose.

Much better!

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Through this whole thing, I was never quite happy with the tabard. Either too much bulk or not enough. So, I clipped off some of the upper bits and stuck some little greebles from the Wood Elf Wild Rider kit on the bottom.

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Little greebles like that are a godsend when you're converting. Things like Purity Seals for Imperial stuff, and various pouches and grenades can hide a multitude of sins in the 'gaps' department ;)

Lastly, I didn't thing the model needed it particularly, but I'd been dying to use some of the gribblies from the Tree Lord kit, so it got sprinkeld with gribblies :)

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And then, best bit about it, I've got all of these bits left over for other conversion jobs! Plus the masks and tabard too :)

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That one was a bit more involved than the 4-armed Bloodbride, but I HQs give you the opportunity to really go the extra mile as you only have to do one dude and not 10 of them!

Hope that was helpful :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: dog_of_war on March 9, 2017, 08:40:22 AM
Fantastic step by step guide. It's great to see how you deal with 'mistakes' and how you reposition them. It's also wonderful to hear your thought process on which parts you're using and how you're going to position them.

I love the fluff as well. I really see a correlation between your vampiric eldar and dark eldar haemonculus.

Great stuff as always.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 9, 2017, 09:11:37 AM
Thanks man :) I'm actually really enjoying putting together the step-by-steps. Glad they're useful/interesting :)

Glad you like the fluff too :) I was going for something that could be a potential progenitor to both the Haemonculi, Phoenix Lords/Exarchs and Ynnari soul-shenanigans. Some sort of basic soul-transference and containment process that if taken down three different branches of a tech tree could produce each of those different technomancies.

I also quite like the duality that in his day Raodruin's Soul Drinker kin were reviled, yet in these strange and desperate times the Ynnari using basically the same process (stealing someone else's soul and using it for your own gain) are lauded as saviours :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on March 9, 2017, 11:32:28 AM
Not only that, but he's survived through lord knows how many of Khali's predecessors so he's got to be hard as nails ;)

Exactly, this is something that I think some GW writers miss when writing fluff. The DE fluff always makes them out to be bad asses killing everything in their path with barely a glance. It is the same with Space Marines. The problem with this approach is that they are only bad asses when they are the focus of the story. So a Marine is always an unbeatable killing machine in a Marine story and vice versa for the DE. This constant flip flop of bad assery makes for confusing fluff. Your fluff piece is definitely more "realistic".

Some would likely find a home with the Dark Eldar (although I imagine that in a twist of fate, most of those would have come to a sticky end at the hands of the Haemonculi while they discovered the secrets of their soul-drinking abilities).

Rather than come to a sticky end at the hands of the Haemonculi based on your brilliant bit of fluff writing I could very well believe that you have written the origin story of the Haemonucli. There is enough mystery surrounding the Haemies for your story to make perfect sense as to why the Haemies are the way that they are.

Otherwise the pose tends to elicit a little 'well that dude looks slightly awkward' thought in the back of people's heads without them realising it. So, the tree revenant foot had to rotate slightly.

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Hope that was helpful :)


Beyond helpful yet again.

I know nothing about Exodites so please don't take this the wrong way but overall I think this conversion is too much Tree Revenant and not enough Eldar. It is awesome in its own right but it could easily fit into a Sylvaneth army.

On the subject of psychology and how a pose can subliminally effect someones thoughts. I feel that the models slight backwards tilt is at odds with the pointing lance. 
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 9, 2017, 11:45:26 AM
Yeah I always imagine that with all of the variety of different killing machines out there in the galaxy, whenever they meet up on roughly equal terms they're going to knock seven shades out of each other, and whoever's left is going to be bloodied and broken enough that they couldn't take on another. Glad it turned out realistic :)

You're right, it could well be the origins of the Haemis :) I think, like all the best 40k fluff, I'll leave it ambiguous. There's a hint of a possibility, but that's as certain as it gets ;)

Hmmm, I think you might be right with the 'too wood elf' comment. I had been wondering about the balance of bits (and specifically the bulkiness of the lower half). I think the tabard's the key. If I can find a decent cloth bit to replace it, and something Eldar-y on top, then I might swap it over. Perhaps a Wraithblade tabard? Might be too bulky again...

I'll do some tests and see what I prefer :)

As for the leaning back pose and pointing, I feel that lends itself to a sort of languid feel. More 'commanding his forces to attack' than 'pointing at his next victim', or 'urging his forces to charge this way'. Fits a bit better with his fluff as an Eldar Lord that's ancient beyond even his own recollection :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 10, 2017, 04:43:16 PM
Well, I've exhausted my supply of procrastinating on adulting things and finished putting together my Yncarne :)

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What a mission! Took enough brainpower working stuff out that I don't even have a coherent set of pics for a WIP process :S

Some highlights though:

1. Cutting off the right leg just above the knee to rotate it so it looks like she's walking forwards, but forget to hold the lower leg in place so it pings off into the aether. Spend 20 minutes tearing the room apart trying to find a bit it will cost £20 to replace, before realising that in a singular statement of solidarity it had ricocheted and landed in my bits box...
2. Spend 15 minutes reposing the right arm in various different ways because I wanted to make a right-handed scythe, but then decide that the sword looks cool so I'll keep that instead.
3. Spend 10 minutes carving a little half-teardrop (for the blank facemask) out of sprue because I'm a luddite when it comes to GS, and again forget to hold it in place so it pings off into that aether again. Spend 20 minutes tearing the room apart again to try and find this teeny tiny mote of plastic before saying 'sod this' and making another one.
4. Settling down for the long-haul holding this big ol' unbalanced model steady while the tiny little contact point between the foot and the base glues in place.

Not my most stress-free modelling experience! Definitely an exception though (don't want to put anyone off, I was massively ambitious with this...). Hope it was worth it!

Oh, and if anyone was wondering about whether Ynnead is a he or a she, she's definitely female. Model designers have particular...tenden cies...when sculpting female anatomy. No beardy model-designer (going on suspected demographics here) is going to put this much effort into the derriere of a bloke:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--bNO7rDaW--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bmck1nqjnyw6l6rdqqt2.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 11, 2017, 04:53:14 AM
That's a really interesting slant on the Yncarne Ynnead. I like it, that's for sure, I'm just not sure I like it more than the original model. I love the fact that the energies are rushing out of a dead guardian, that part of the model is done extremely well. It also has such a wonderfully dynamic pose, where the original is actually very static, despite the implied movement going on.

I think what makes me a bit hesitant on this model is actually just the base size. It's a little bit massive for what is actually just a big miniature. I think the height of the GW mini makes a big base a necessity, but yours seems to be more base than mini.

I love it, don't get me wrong, I just think that there's just that little thing that is 'off' at the moment. If you could raise the level of the model, or maybe build up the base more, it would suit the big base. As is, it gets swamped; and that's detracting what is an incredibly well thought out and executed piece.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 11, 2017, 05:56:20 AM
Thanks man :) I'm glad you like the bits I put the effort into! Constructive criticism is always welcome too :) the main reason I stuck with the base is the generally moving to a smaller base is a bit of a no-no for games, but considering that I've still yet to play one (and when I do I'm unlikely to use the Yncarne), I'll have a go at moving it to a smaller base :)

If that doesn't go so well (say, the next base size down isn't big enough to fit the base and the guardian on), would you think that adding another dead Guardian to the base, and maybe some more rune-inscribed rocks around would help?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on March 11, 2017, 09:27:09 AM
Each to their own I guess but I have to disagree with Looshkin as I find that the base barely registers itself with me. The rest of the conversion makes a lot sense and though a WIP would have been nice I/we can't expect that level of detail every time you show us a conversion. As it is your little write up is quite helpful.

I actually prefer your pose to GW as it projects less of a high fantasy vibe than the original.

I also prefer how your conversion makes the Yncarne the centre of attention rather than the swirling energy.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 11, 2017, 02:28:29 PM
Thanks man :)

Even though the base isn't a problem for you, do you stil lthink it would be improved with another dead Guardian on the floor?

One of the things I was trying to get with this is a sense of gritty realism that the standard model (much though I like it) is missing slightly. One of the things that feels like is standing in the way of that in my mind is time. Specifically, how long do you think it takes the Yncarne to coalesce from the soulstuff released by a dead Guardian?

At the moment, it looks like it's near-instant. The Guardian's just been shot in the head, and before he hits the ground the Yncarne is there. Thinking about it, it would be more realistic for the Yncarne to have already mostly coalesced from the rest of the hapless Guardian's squad, with his death being the final piece of the puzzle.

Plus, the Yncarne manifests after a unit dies, rather than a model, so it would make sense for there to be other recently deceased dudes scattered around.

As for the Yncarne being the centre of attention I'm really glad that comes across :) one of the things that struck me when putting her together is that the Yncarne herself is a really beautiful model. For something twice the size of a regular Eldar it still manages to look delicate which is really impressive. Plus, there's neat little things you don't get from the picture (mainly because the swirly stuff gets in the way) like the fact that her back is arched backwards and twisted around slightly.

There's a lot of dynamism in the actual pose of the Yncarne herself that just doesn't show because of all the swirly soul gak. Not sure if it shows any better with less of it mind you, but hopefully it does :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 11, 2017, 06:59:33 PM
I don't know that adding another guardian is the answer. What you have is a very powerful, characterful model. I think that the addition of another dead Eldar would detract from the main focus of the mini.

Again, I have to say that I think that the piece is beautiful. I really do like it. Maybe just having the rest of the base based in a  normal way would help tie everything together. Or having a little more rune etched rubble off the periphery of the Yncarne's modelled base. Something to tie the plastic base to the rest.

It's just jarring to see the bare plastic of the base surrounding an epic little diorama!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 11, 2017, 07:27:38 PM
Ah gotcha! So rather than 'more stuff to fill up the space' it needs a bit more of a gradual transition from rubble to base. That I definitely see now :)

I'll have a root through my Harlie sprues to see if there's any little rune-inscribed rubble bits left over (or maybe pinch some from the excess swirly stuff). If I stick that slightly past the edge of the existing rubble, and then when it's based it'll have sand bridging the two and the transition will be faded in slightly :)

Thanks for the ideas dude :)

Only a little update today. Weekends are for car work (or, in this case, block laying) and I've put off one too many things to get away with another evening of 40k :S

This little guy I'd half put together ages ago as a sort of test for another Autarch model. However, there's a little face on the Yncarne swirly stuff that's its own little separate bit you glue into the rest of the swirl. I thought it was a kickass bit, but couldn't think what to do with it at the time.

Then, I read in passing that the reason Altansar Eldar never show their faces is because they all look like exquisitely preserved corpses (it was Ynnead that protected them during their time in the warp, and apparently that has side-effects). Not only is that a kickass bit of fluff, but it also gave me a little lightbulb moment for the kickass floating face :)

So, here he is :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GMN4Y9O8--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jt8kdolkiggg9usd92ln.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--PgbRp0Op--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/sdxyrsyu0ceqwxekmbti.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_AZGOSwX--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/cuprvziqpmkz1d29relu.jpg)

I think I've decided on the name 'Idravain', an Altansari Autarch that acts as a bodyguard for my Ynnari Prophet (who I've decided will be called Khal'Fhirin, which means 'Herald of Truth').

Couple of thoughts on this guy.

First off is the whole prophet/bodyguard thing. Thinking about how the Eldar in general feel about symbolism, it would make sense that once the Ynnari split off into the webway to spread the word of Ynnead (during the final Gathering Storm book apparently), each little cell might gravitate towards a prophet/bodyguard model as a leadership structure. So, this guy's the reckless beatstick to Fhirin's reason :)

Second, I felt slightly like the Eldar got a bit of a free pass with Ynnead bringing them back from the dead. There has to be a catch. This is the 40k universe we're talking about. Don't trust a Death God bearing gifts as the saying goes ;)

So, I thought what about each time you're reborn you come back...changed...sl ightly. A little like the Stormcasts. Each time you come back, you come back as slightly less you. By the look of this guy's face (which being Altansari wasn't exactly easy on the eyes to begin with), you might even come back slightly more daemonic too...

Oh, and now the Ynnari are out in the open, he doesn't feel the need to hid his half-dead daemonic-looking face. In fact, the fact that he looks bl**dy terrifying comes in quite handy as a bodyguard...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on March 12, 2017, 08:49:43 AM
Hey bud all the new stuff is looking great! I really dig the Yncarne model (can we get a few closeups though?) and the Autarch looks really cool too. Looks almost like an old school Harlequin to me!

Like Loosh said, the base may be a bit big... but I still like it. The execution is unbelievable. Fantastic work man. I wouldn't have the guts to try it... thats for sure. Love it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on March 12, 2017, 08:53:03 AM
Thanks man :)

Even though the base isn't a problem for you, do you stil lthink it would be improved with another dead Guardian on the floor?

No I don't think it would be improved by the addition of another body on the base. Less is more as they say. In this instance I agree with Looshkin in that the rubble ends too abruptly and the base would/will look better if it were filled up to its periphery. I actually think maybe some flock and static grass might do the job.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 12, 2017, 08:32:10 PM
@Alienscar Gotcha :) I've added in some more broken rubble cut from the spare swirly stuff so hopefully that's done the trick :) if not then perhaps the sand and grass tufts will help when the painting's done

@Cav Thanks man! I must admit the first cut was pretty nerve-racking. Definitely the priciest conversion to date :S I was cursing myself when her lower leg pinged off into the void!

Glad you like the Altansari dude too :)

@Everyone I swapped over the tabard on Raodruin back to the Visarch one and I think it looks better :) brings the balance of Wood Elf to Eldar to a bit of a better place :) plus, the little face armour plate is more than a little Greene Man-esque so I like that :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--RyfSWs7L--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ydaza1k4yi9ottqdyx4t.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--i9pNd4Dc--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/sre6f0ifjkyvqv6yatse.jpg)

I also took the opportunity to do a bit of a Rogue's Gallery of my exodite HQs :) I must admit I'm chuffed to bits with these guys! They really look to me like some eldar that walked into some mysterious forest just after the Fall and have emerged twisted in ways that would thoroughly disconcert your average craftworlder :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--exxA6Yx6--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hyd6w6cuu905mabtrd0r.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--XaA7EbAc--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lrkp8fkkjlbvtkerigod.jpg)

I've also started work on painting my Yncarne :) most of her actual body is done now. The only bit that's unpainted on the body is the node of energy in her midriff. Close-up for you Cav ;)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--LWunhI9B--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/okbgvxtadbll1qaibcmv.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--p6l5hefI--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kagluuknn5ie6iamojq2.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ZCw2roWf--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lr9mxyi5rstzrrnxfsmi.jpg)

I'm slightly unsure as to how to progress at this point actually. The base and the Guardian are pretty straight forwards, but I really don't know what I want from the swirly soulstuff. I was all set to paint it as a sort of washed-out red (not quite sure how yet), but seeing how ghostly the rest of her has turned out has kind of made me want to do it ghostly as well. Perhaps starting out a bright white where it exits the Guardian's soulstone and then working its way through to opacity the nearer it gets to the Yncarne.

I feel like with the standard model you have to paint the swirly stuff differently as there's so much of it she'll get lost in the middle if she's all the same colour, but mine uses maybe a fifth of the stuff you get in the box, and considering she's physically made of the stuff it would make sense to have her the same shade...

What do you think?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on March 12, 2017, 10:47:10 PM
Wow very nice work. Love how the swirl is connected to the dead guardian, so its transferring into the Avatar.

I also quite like that its head looks more like it is still in the forming process. The model actually looks rather good without the side face armour and horn.

I also like that you've gotten around the neck being the glue point that's meant to hold the rest of the body.



Raodruin looks fantastic!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 13, 2017, 05:53:43 AM
Thanks man :) glad you like it!

Yeah I was in two minds about the horn, but I've decided I actually quite like it. Anything that makes it look more alien and creepy is good by me :) definitely looks good without though.

I have replaced the neck as a support point, but I've manged to replace it with three less suitable ones! It's supported by the tiptoes of the right foot, the swirly stuff coming off the right foot, and the swirly stuff as it touches the soulstone of the Guardian. It's relatively secure because of the triangulation between those points, but I wouldn't want to be too rough with it :S
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 13, 2017, 06:47:54 AM
That's shaping up really nicely Ynnead! I think that you can go for pretty much any colour you like with the swirl on energy. As your spot colour is red throughout the rest of your army, I think that red would work very well in this case and would help tie the whole army together.

As to how to do it, I would think a very rich red starting at the guardian (But try not to make it look like blood!), blending up to the sepia tones that your model employs as you progress towards the Yncarne. I wouldn't go all the way up to sepia though, as otherwise the effect of the energy will wash out and you'll lose definition of both smoke and also the Yncarne. I think going all the way up to a sepia with the tiniest amount of red paint or even red wash added would look great.

The key will be a gradual tranisition of colours. It won't be the easiest effect to achieve, but if you pull it off, it will look really striking.

Great work man, looking forward to seeing where you take it from here.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on March 13, 2017, 07:41:03 AM
Hey Ynnead... looking very cool! Love the skull face... totally awesome!

Yeah as for the energy swirl... I definitely think you could stand to do go with something is NOT red. I always try to have a distinct batch of colors for energy effects on an army, that dont correspond to the principal colors of the army. For example... I wouldn't use red as an energy effect on my Eldar as the armor is already red. So I usually go with blues and occasionally orangey-yellow colors. I like to make a clear distinction purely through color between my armor, my cloths, weapons, and energy. Like my armor is red, my weapons are gold, and my energy effects are blue. I even like to color code my energy/weapon types... blue for lasers, green for poison, orange for plasma etc. I've found it really help the units standout on the tabletop and helps opponents identify non-standard units especially in a heavily kitbashed army.

Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 13, 2017, 09:41:19 AM
Yeah as for the energy swirl... I definitely think you could stand to do go with something is NOT red. I always try to have a distinct batch of colors for energy effects on an army, that dont correspond to the principal colors of the army.

I see where you're going with that Cav. I also had totally forgotten that some of Ynnead's army now has red armour panels, thus taking the colour from a spot colour to a primary colour.

That said, I think the a smoke type effect where red is hinted at, rather than being the dominant colour, could work well. Red towards the Guardian, but working up to a grey or sepia towards the Yncarne. Then add small amounts (really small) of Baal Red wash into the 'recesses' of the vapour. Just enough to hint at red, without it overpowering.

It'll very much be about balance. Any colour can technically work with the smoke, but done with a heavy hand, it will look out of place. Done with finesse, it'll make the miniature pop amazingly.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on March 13, 2017, 02:09:26 PM
@Looshkin- Hmmmm I guess I'd just want something a little more vivid. Ynnead's color scheme is very blended all the colors sort of bleed into each other and I definitely love that. It feels like a John Blanche painting. While I really like that... and while the smoke effect would play well that blended approach... for something as exotic as the Yncarne I'd just want something that sort of breaks from that with a really vivid color that just sort of jumps away from the palette as it stands. Like a really intense dark purple to warlock purple fade or something...

But then again maybe that doesnt suit Ynnead's style...I also have a really sort of old school approach, where I go max contrast with my Eldar... so it maybe its just my old school sensibilities. But that was just my first thought.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 13, 2017, 05:27:57 PM
@Looshkin- Hmmmm I guess I'd just want something a little more vivid. Ynnead's color scheme is very blended all the colors sort of bleed into each other and I definitely love that. It feels like a John Blanche painting. While I really like that... and while the smoke effect would play well that blended approach... for something as exotic as the Yncarne I'd just want something that sort of breaks from that with a really vivid color that just sort of jumps away from the palette as it stands. Like a really intense dark purple to warlock purple fade or something...

But then again maybe that doesnt suit Ynnead's style...I also have a really sort of old school approach, where I go max contrast with my Eldar... so it maybe its just my old school sensibilities. But that was just my first thought.

At the risk of us taking over Ynnead's thread  ;), I definitely get what you're describing. I think a slightly more delicate touch might be needed so that the transition from (Insert Colour) to the soft sepia of the model isn't too jarring.

I like a good painting debate though...it goes to prove that there is no 'right' with art, there are just different tastes!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 13, 2017, 08:40:25 PM
Thanks for all the input guys! I have been reading it I promise ;) just haven't replied as I was concrete-mixing all weekend :S

I must admit I did a slight double-take when you made the suggestion of something that's not red Cav ;) that'd be as if I've got more than 5 different pots of paint...or more than two colours on a single model! ;) great insight into how you plan your colours though, and it absolutely works for your guys :)

I really liked the idea of doing a fade from a bright red at the Guardian down to a sepia the closer it got to the Yncarne. I did about 4 or 5 test runs on various bits of spare swirly stuff and just flat-out could not get it to look how I wanted :S

Still, managed to incorporate some of the ideas you guys had :) specifically the subtle fade and red wash in the recesses.

You guys tried ;) one day I'll paint something that's not sepia and red. I promise...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--I7V-EWZ2--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ygimuan6kzlvkkvekarh.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--hrXGfP0V--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lqihklqga9zpnf1iv778.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s---rCYvQhz--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/gh5qmcdmsmosqgrl2abs.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--tuRQn29O--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/b60wsdp2lgmih0vtsrhz.jpg)

Just thinking about it, what I've actually done is faded from quite a bright white at the Soulstone through to the sepia of the body colour (not sure how well the pics show that, or how well I've done it to be honest!). I suppose I could use that as pre-shading for a really light red wash of some sort. I'll do some test pieces :)

The other option is to continue the dark red wash I've done on the inner holes of the energy (which looks more prominent in real life) all around each contour so it sort of looks like it's backlit in red.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on March 13, 2017, 08:57:00 PM
Looks good having it feed into the colour of the armour.


Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 14, 2017, 06:02:20 AM
Glad you like it :)

As it is now, I'm slightly concerned that it all blends into one so the Yncarne doesn't really stand out much. However, I'm hoping that because all of my basing (and the Guardian) is in relatively rich colours then the Yncarne will contrast with her surroundings by being so washed out.

That's the plan anyway!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on March 14, 2017, 07:38:22 AM
@Looshkin- Lol... yeah I know we are totally hijacking this thread! But I cant resist I find your idea really interesting... A little while after reading your reply I saw this: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1a_IXzeX69g/WMZPyz92eII/AAAAAAABNfg/-HLZUJkEqlM-cc-yPYTybqhQtpqhnTUUwCEw/s1600/20170304_113701.jpg (https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1a_IXzeX69g/WMZPyz92eII/AAAAAAABNfg/-HLZUJkEqlM-cc-yPYTybqhQtpqhnTUUwCEw/s1600/20170304_113701.jpg) And while its definitely NOT the the approach you recommended for the the energy fade, the smoke and fire palette reminded me of what you were talking about... and I was better able to visualize what you were describing. Also if you notice where the energy swirl meets the Yncarne their is this cool smokey fiery effect that really reminded me of what you were talking about. Definitely very cool! I was thinking Neverending Story with the Nothing and that big roiling cloud with thunder and lightening sort of storming inside... Anyway very cool... Hijacking over!

@Ynneadwraith- Definitely love the wraithbone look of the Yncarne... waaaay closer to what I'd imagine the Eldar God of the Dead's color scheme. But I do think a smokey grey for the energy would help differentiate the energy from the body of the Yncarne... in the link I posted above there's a dark fiery red energy swirl with dark smokey effects... if you sort of reversed that where it was a smokey cloud flecked with fire (particularly near the Guardian) I think it would look really good. I'm starting to pick up on what Loosh was describing... hopefully he'll see this and clarify. I hope we aren't making your head swirl with all these ideas! lol Definitely ignore my ramblings if I'm not getting what you (and Loosh) are going after! I dont want to annoy you lol!

Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 14, 2017, 07:54:08 AM
Haha I don't mind the thread hijack :) it's really useful discussion for me!

I've seen that Yncarne before and it looks stunning. Really nice scheme :)

I definitely like the idea of differentiating the energy with a reddy colouration, and having it flecked with fire/bright parks of energy would look awesome but I have literally no idea how to do it and have it look good!

Like, I think I can picture what it should look like, but I've got no idea how to physically translate that into paint :S
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 14, 2017, 09:22:54 AM
I like it Ynnead. I would echo Cav's comment though, that the smoke could do with being made lighter closer to the Yncarne. At the moment they are very samey, lightening the smoke as it closes with the Yncarne would do wonders to break up the model a little whilst still giving it a cohesive look.

I think the addition of the red works really nicely. Closer to the guardian, you could add an incredibly thinned down wash on the surface of the smoke, and then reapply that layer a few times as it gets closer to the guardian.

That mini is shaping up tremendously well and I look forward to seeing it finished!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 14, 2017, 09:42:05 AM
Aha now that I can do! I definitely get that making it as light near the Yncarne as it is near the Guardian would help differentiate from the body, and it's something I'm confident in being able to do well which is really nice on such a pricey (in terms of money and conversion time!) model.

I like the idea of the red wash closer to the Guardian. How would you go about it? I don't have any red washes myself, but I've been having good results mixing up some standard red paint with a good deal of Reikland Fleshshade so I can use that :)

Are you thinking selective red washes in the recesses, or run along the ridges so it sort of bleeds downwards while colouring the brighter edges too?

Thanks for the positive comments too guys! It's definitely motivating knowing I'm doing something right ;)

Edit: something I've just thought of. Would running a little edge-highlight of straight gloss look cool? Add a little bit of extra visual shine to it when it's hit by light, so it'd look even brighter on the edges than absolute white...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on March 14, 2017, 01:57:30 PM
I don't have any red washes myself, but I've been having good results mixing up some standard red paint with a good deal of Reikland Fleshshade so I can use that :)

Buy some damn washes!! You spend a fortune on conversions (which look amazing), now its time to start spending money on paints too! Give yourself the best chance of matching a great paint job to the model.

Are you thinking selective red washes in the recesses, or run along the ridges so it sort of bleeds downwards while colouring the brighter edges too?
Personally, I would do it a little like GW painted their Yncarne. It might not be for everyone, but it definitely adds visual pop. As such, I would take the thinnest wash possible and add it from about a 3rd of the way up the smoke (From the Guardian as the start, 1/3 towards the Yncarne, so that the bulk of it is pale). After that is dry, I'd add another layer from a few mm back. Then again and again, just building the colour each time. I'd also add more to the recesses in that section too. That should build up a nice, rich tone by the time you reach the 'point' of the smoke, where it erupts from the guardian.

That would be what I would do, but it's all personal preference. With what I'm suggesting, you should go from rich red, blending down to Sepia, then blending further into something very light at the Yncarne end. The hints of red that you have done so far look great. I think it's just about making the whole piece have a little more contrast.

But seriously, buy some paints!  ;D
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 14, 2017, 08:05:26 PM
Haha yes sir! ;)

Thanks for the tips :) I'll give that a go on one of my remaining test pieces to see if I can get it right :) breaking new ground with this!

Edit: Right, I've got some Carroburg Crimson on the way, and also took the opportunity to pick up some Wild Rider red so you might even see another highlight or so crop up on my reds from time to time ;)
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Post by: Looshkin on March 15, 2017, 02:13:40 PM
Edit: Right, I've got some Carroburg Crimson on the way, and also took the opportunity to pick up some Wild Rider red so you might even see another highlight or so crop up on my reds from time to time ;)

About beslubbering time Good man. Hopefully the added resources will help take your painting to another level.

;)
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Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 15, 2017, 08:43:59 PM
Well! In the absence of a red wash the Yncarne is done!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--tbJSiEwA--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mlfmjusye8kukk0vrnti.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--EJXcv7Vp--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/gk3zgmt91zqtomvf7jss.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--vOyXrctK--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bmcr8gxd2hqwvqi7esef.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--PnU7MIi5--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mzfsbefptbuyupx5reis.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--MczQLS0Z--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/cvhcpfrgw7zmnh7tih8u.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--UCEHeDKf--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ywtqehri6lmgbkevychi.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--O_xohsJk--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/esymjntkmtmrytx2e396.jpg)

In addition to the basing and such, I've added a lot of light to the swirly stuff. I've also done edge-highlights in gloss which has worked really nicely (but doesn't come across in pictures). Basically it reflects light on the very tips making them appear even brighter than the white :)

The last pic really gets across what I wanted from it actually. Like a ghostly apparition :)
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Post by: Cavalier on March 16, 2017, 06:56:24 AM
Now I get what you were going for. A freaking ghost! Damn am I dense sometimes... I love it Ynnead! Totally inspired man... when I do mine I think I'm gonna have a go at doing it up in bone colors... though I still may rock some high contrast swirly colors for the energy.

Wow! Really, really nice Ynnead. I love the basing too. Overall phenomenal job, I'm really in love with it. Killer!
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Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 16, 2017, 08:12:01 AM
Thanks man! I'm really glad you like her :) I was hoping that the richer colours of the basing would be the final piece in the puzzle to make her look ethereal compared to her surroundings.

After I'd posted this I put her down next to my Visarch and it really looked like I'd hoped compared to the rest of my army :) definitely light enough to stand out while using exactly the same colours ;)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--RyfSWs7L--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ydaza1k4yi9ottqdyx4t.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--tbJSiEwA--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mlfmjusye8kukk0vrnti.jpg)

Can't wait to see what you do with it! Bone coloured with a Cav-style splash of colour might jsut tip me over the edge to actually doing what Loosh suggests with all the washes :)
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Post by: Looshkin on March 16, 2017, 02:57:59 PM
It's great Ynnead. The ethereal aspect of the model shines through. Also, what you have done with the base really compliments the mini and assuages any fears that I had that the base would be too big.

I do still feel that a bit more colour somewhere would help make her pop even more...but I'm a colour junkie that needs something popping on a model to really fall in love with it. I think it's due to all those garish colour schemes that I grew up with in the 80s and 90s!
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Post by: Alienscar on March 16, 2017, 06:03:43 PM
The base and the model look fantastic but I find that I agree with Looshkin in that a bit of colour is needed. I really think it needs more of a separation between Ynnead and the swirly stuff.

Saying that I also wonder what your model would look like if lit a bit more.
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Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 16, 2017, 07:14:35 PM
Thanks guys :)

I'm glad the basing sorted out the size of the base compared to the model, and that it looks ghostly which is what I was going for :)

Aha I see! While I do love a good crisp paintjob with vibrant colours, it's the more gritty washed-out grubby look of INQ28 style stuff that's really captured me painting-wise. I do like the idea of the really subtle red fade towards the Guardian though, but it'll take a lot of testing on spare bits of swirly stuff before I feel confident enough to try it on the Yncarne. Now that I've got it looking how I planned it'll be nerve-racking trying that out!

I do think you're right Alienscar that the distinction between the swirly stuff and the body doesn't look distinct in the pictures (especially on the second picture down as it's actually in the shadow of the arm). To be honest, that was sort of what I was aiming for as in my mind the Yncarne is formed entirely of that energy, so it makes eminent sense that it looks as if it's blending into the body colour.

Saying that, I do think that the photos don't quite capture the difference as it is subtle. To the naked eye, the swirly stuff is distinctly lighter than the body, and the gloss edge-highlight reflects the ambient light as you turn it around in your hand.

Ah, just thinking about it, I wonder if the same technique I used with my Harlequin of shining a spotlight onto the model would work nicely on this model. I'll give it a go, stand by!

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Well, as I'd sort of predicted the additional light I had just whited it out. Still, managed to get this pretty neat shot out of it :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_4DhWwD---/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wmotspbtt43cbqb2j9ja.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 18, 2017, 07:43:00 PM
A while ago I sort of had the idea that it would be a neat idea to do various animalistic-themed things for my exodite HQs. I've got my Stag-like Thaegr and Raodruin, and my avian Myrdolaith.

This guy started off as another Stag-like thing, but evolved into something slightly more Pantherinae.

Meet Sardroath, Beastborn, Sunstalker, Son of Kurnous. Counts-as Jetbike Autarch with Laser Lance.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--oHzg468M--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mh7ailzshlb4gtkzufwi.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ivXNxNDB--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xstyicp1czcqedhs6djx.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mYN6fEo4--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vsw0bzxaxvruwzr9hy4i.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--JDwnUmBa--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bbuyfxflnrzwmpwycbx6.jpg)

The exodite worlds of Selesti are populated by many clans and tribes, all under the gaze of Raodruin the High Lord of Selesti. Many tribes perished when Nurgle reigned over their lands, and those that survived were changed irreparably. Each were afflicted with differing conditions as the whims of the Plaguefather manifested over their lands, and each of these afflictions has had a marked effect on their culture.

The Selestini of the Godwoods were protected from direct manifestation by the gnarled boughs of naturally occurring wraithbone that populate their forest. However, they were continually assaulted by legions of plaguebearers, and launched ambushes from their protected glades in response. Their warriors have long learnt the value of stealth and infiltration, as well as the protective power of the adherants of the Cult of Morai Heg.

The Selestini of the Sandspires fled upwards into the mountainous spires of sandstone that riddle their lands. The Blightlord sent his Plague Drones to harvest them, to which they responded with great flocks of feathered warriors to meet them in aerial combat. Over the years, reverence of these ancient aerial combatants has become more and more ingrained into the Sandspires culture. Avian modifications are widespread in the warriors of the Sandspires.

The Selestini of the Dreaming Wastes felt the fertile plains of their lands turn to corrosive acid beneath their very feet. Those who survived were forced to replace their legs with durable wraithbone in order to wade through the acidic swamps to take the battle to the enemy. Over time, these modifications became more and more extreme as they diverged from standard Eldar physiology. In the present day, warriors of the Dreaming Wastes ritually replace their lower limbs with great 4-legged constructs that afford them phenomenal speed and toughness.


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I've wanted to do a creepy skeletal-like alien exodite centaur for a while now :) finally got the pieces to do it :) it's a mishmash of three Spite Revenants (legs mainly, although the torso flipped on its side formed the basis of the front part of the centaur legs), and some Kurnoth Hunter shoulder pads.

Thinking about the mechanics of how it'd walk is really neat. With such big claws on the front hands it'd have to knuckle-walk like a gorilla at low speeds, but would change at speed to something more feline :) nice and alien and weird

The inspiration for this came from a quote from the ever-excellent IRON SLEET (https://ironsleet.com/) and this utterly spectaculr model:

(https://ironsleet.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/img_4979.jpg?w=1400)

I'm paraphrasing here, but the accompanying fluff stated 'cut off for 10,000 years...just how far from human would a Tech Priest go' which is something that's really stuck in my mind :)

I'd love to take that idea further with Eldar, but for now this dude is my effort so far!
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Post by: magenb on March 18, 2017, 11:05:15 PM
looks great and fits in well wit h the rest of your army :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on March 19, 2017, 08:10:39 AM
Wow! Fantastic conversion. Damn Ynnead you are going super saiyan with these conversions! Truly next level.... damn that lance though! The lance has to be my favorite detail...  Holy crap is this thing awesome. The paint job is great too... love all the budding red leaves. Killer! Keep it up man you are rocking!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 19, 2017, 09:30:45 AM
Thanks guys! I really want to do a couple of squads of Reaver Jetbikes done in this style as sort of an accompanying force to this guy, but it'd be cripplingly expensive if I'm getting whole kits (£60 for a squad of 3!) so I'll have to wait for some to pop up on bits sites...

All your terrain Cav has got me itching to make some of my own. I really want to do a sort of exodite forest with bone-coloured trees and red leaves (with some red/brown tufts of static grass). I've been keeping an eye out on eBay for citadel woods going cheap as they've got the perfect gnarled look I'd want :)
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Post by: Looshkin on March 20, 2017, 04:18:28 AM
That....thing?...is amazing Ynnead! It's absolutely up there with your most disturbing work so far. Just proper beslubbered up. Like it should be in a Guillermo Del Toro film or something. The paint work really suits the model as well. A unit of these guys would look sick!

Good luck finding the Citadel Wood set. I've painted a few of them and they're great. An utter pig to get them to stick together once painted, but a great set nevertheless. They'd suit your exodite theme fantastically.
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Post by: Ynneadwraith on March 20, 2017, 03:51:31 PM
Now that's a compliment! If anything I've done is compared in any way to Guillermo Del Toro's creepy masterpieces I'm flattered! :)

I've actually managed to snag a woods set off eBay :) it's only two of them, but it was only £12 so it's a decent start :)

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Oh, just a quick update of absolutely nothing happening at all! :S

I've got my Carroburg Crimson, but it's actually inbetween a red and a purple in colour. Would work really nicely to shade a red or purple cloak of some sort, but not quite right for my Yncarne. I knew I should have ordered Bloodletter at the same time! :S
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on April 5, 2017, 06:28:25 PM
G'day mate! What an amazing body of work. Your paintings skill, colour choices, free hand and imagination are all on par and a stella army is the result,( stole that word from Dog of War). Your posts are going to make browsing a real treat. I'm sure your inspiring more that just myself to refine their skills. Well done and looking forward to seeing more..... Pointy ears forever!!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 6, 2017, 08:38:54 AM
Thanks man! I'm really glad you like them :) very flattered they've been any sort of inspiration :)

I do have some more coming soon, although not quite at the same pace as during the winter months! :S
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 11, 2017, 09:40:47 AM
Well, as the weather warms my other hobbies will begin to creep up again so the 40k updates might be slightly less prolific. However, there's a monthly painting competition over on DakkaDakka with a new theme each month. April's theme is 'Primal' so how could I resist?

Here's an early peek:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Y96X6PVQ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/albfg340q6n7zdbp3xrv.jpg)

It's a digitigrade exodite Howling Banshee :) one of Myrdolaith's people
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Post by: Cavalier on April 11, 2017, 12:59:57 PM
Looking good bud. Perfect matchup with the bits. Can't wait to see some paint on him. Killer!
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Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 11, 2017, 04:13:03 PM
Thanks man! They'll be painted at least before the end of the month as that's when the competition closes so for once I've got a deadline!
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Post by: magenb on April 11, 2017, 05:09:04 PM
lovin the mashup of sylvaneth parts.
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Post by: Saim-Dann on April 11, 2017, 06:47:29 PM
After viewing your past posts and getting to know your style, I can see the final results already, ynnkadwraith... Niiiiice!
40K should be your top hobby, mate. Let the others lag. 
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Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 12, 2017, 05:07:33 AM
Thanks guys :) don't worry, 40k will definitely still get some love. It's all about balance so you never go without something to do ;)
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Post by: Aurics Pride on April 12, 2017, 02:27:59 PM
Man that model looks pretty damn creepy! Love it!
Love the idea of the monthly painting comp as well, I went on Dakka a few times but I hate the layout and the skin that they use on the forum. Makes my eyes hurt if I look at it too long!
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Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 12, 2017, 07:22:36 PM
Thanks dude! 'Pretty damn creepy' is what I aim for ;)

Yeah dakka's pretty jarring on the old eyes, but they run some really fun stuff like the painting comps :) some really good project logs over there too, makes it worth the temporary blindness from the font colour ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 14, 2017, 07:01:24 PM
The dysjunction sent colossal tremours through the very bedrock of Commorragh. Towers crumbled as ripples cascaded through reality. Gaping tooth-lined chasms opened up beneath the ground, spewing forth great legions of daemons into the stricken city. Even Ynneadlidh, far far beneath the beseiged streets was in danger. Gnawing gnashing eyeless daemons flooded its pitch-black tunnels, skittering out from the cracks in the fabric of the realm. The haemonculi were no strangers to military forays, but never before in their history had they come close to anything approaching mobilisation.

Vast legions of wracks poured forth into the tunnels, their odd sidling gait belying the surgical precision with which they fought. Hulking beasts of foreign flesh rampaged through the myriad winding corridors, but still the daemonic horde pressed onwards. For the first time in milennia, the twisted denizens of low Commorragh felt the prickle of fear on the back of their necks. Half-formed experiments were unleashed, some wildly effective, others disappointingly incapable.

Malkarta hurriedly adjusted the final few synaptic bridges on her latest prototypes, their forms motionless aside from the steady undulation of their breathing. She nodded to the wych-clone beside her, who hesitated slightly before walking forth into the beast's embrace. Heavy muscles clamped tightly around her skull, and sinuous neural needles pierced the back of her neck painfully, worming their way into her motor cortices. Sharply, her senses bloomed across the creature, overlaying its primitive standby consciousness. She tested a brief arm movement and the creature mirrored it, a slight twitchiness marring the otherwise perfect maneuver. "Good enough," Malkarta barked, "hub-bound tunnel 8. Now.". The fearsome creature's anti-grav mechanisms whirred softly into life and the pair stalked out through the subterranean depths.


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(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/dxl6x63larlbvwztdycp.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/te5za9d9zq2kfpd8hicg.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/tt20bfmnxtuqn9lm44jv.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lmbkilvwuwfex53sjc3r.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xsi6syvvgttqx99gawxe.jpg)

I've been wanting to do one of these for aaages :) ever since I saw this utterly stunning conversion that I've shamelessly cribbed ;)

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/22/95/c4/2295c47b8e1825f9a2b5f883b9c7923d.jpg)

If I'm perfectly honest, I prefer the other guy's one but Wraith tails are pretty hard to come by :S still happy though!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on April 15, 2017, 07:04:06 AM
I like yours better, far more menacing :)
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Post by: Cavalier on April 15, 2017, 07:34:07 AM
Hell yeah... I remember seeing this conversion a few years back. I think you did a great job Ynnead. Top-notch modelling as ever. Can't wait to see some paint on there! Killer stuff, keep it up!
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Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 15, 2017, 08:28:04 AM
Thanks! I'm glad i've done it justice :)

Oddly for such a large model i can't wait to paint it :) i think it having quite a basic colour scheme of skintones and a couple of bronze/brass metallics covered in blood spatter makes it simpler than most big gribblies :)

Plus, i can't wait to try out liquid effects for the (soon to be) blood filled vials all over it :)
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Post by: Saim-Dann on April 15, 2017, 09:08:33 AM
Why does blood sound exciting when you mention it with your models?
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Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 16, 2017, 11:44:59 AM
Haha ;) you'd fit right in in Commorragh ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 19, 2017, 05:51:58 PM
So Ynneadwraith, what did you do this evening? Did you paint your new exodite Banshees? Did you paint your new Talos? Did you paint anything at all?

Of course not. Don't be silly...

Morrathillian has become Morrathillienn ;)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xmlztaroi5dakrd6tcnj.jpg)
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Morrathillienn of the House of Ulthanash, Reaper of the Outer Dark, Prince of the Khaine's Ravens.

I've been growing a little dissatisfied with my Corsair Prince model for a little while now. You only get one Corsair Prince, and the whole concept of an Eldar that's managed to forge a minor empire outside of the protection of a Craftworld or Commorragh is just an opportunity to make a really characterful model :)

I'd been content to leave it on the back burner until I saw this stunning model of an INQ28 Shipmaster finally sparked some inspiration :)

(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi296.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fmm178%2FFelwether%2FOonaNew_zpsqmnhbmyp.jpg&hash=0ba94ac35d6b2a93465d0e220711602460234d31)

Looking at that model it struck me just how...Kabalite...Gr eyfax's torso looks. Plus, I finally had something to do with the Yvraine bits I had from the Triumvirate :) add in some Scourge wings, a Wrack pilot arm (nice and psyker-y, and also with enhanced musculature to explain S4) and a whole lot of cutting and reposing and hey presto!

There's a couple of little things I've noticed I need to touch up from these pics. First is the little skull on her collar needs to become a soulstone, and I've been wondering about adding Greyfax's skull pauldron thing...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on April 20, 2017, 06:54:22 AM
Looking good Ynnead! I've been waiting forever to properly convert up my Corsair Prince. I've got the bits... I just need to get another squad of Jetbikes... plus the Farseer bike which I'm gonna modify just a tad for him.

But this dude is looking really cool. Now get to painting!  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Alienscar on April 20, 2017, 11:08:38 AM
Whoa Ynneadraith that is seriously awesome. It is unbelievable considering that you have used Greyfax that there isn't even a hint of the Imperial about the finished model

and a whole lot of cutting and reposing and hey presto!

Looking at the pose you have achieved did you cut and repose Greyfax's legs?

and I've been wondering about adding Greyfax's skull pauldron thing...

Obviously you are better at converting than I am but I wouldn't like to see you add Greyfax's pauldron as I think it looks to big and heavy for the aesthetic of your model. 
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Post by: Saim-Dann on April 20, 2017, 05:44:51 PM
Have no idea what I'm looking at but that is a nice piece. Not knowing any of your Eldar races, Ynneadwraith, it looks store bought. Very professional.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on April 20, 2017, 05:57:42 PM
That Corsair is stunning. I would never have guessed that the torso came from Greyfax! I also applaud your use of that mini...because I pretty much hate the Greyfax model! There's a lot of ingenuity on display here Ynnead and once again you have achieved a result that I would find impossible if I tried.
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Post by: magenb on April 20, 2017, 06:19:47 PM
looks great and nice to see the imperial stuff sales well for Eldar. I've been eyeing of the Vigilator Squad for some heavily armoured exodites.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 20, 2017, 08:07:36 PM
Thanks a million guys!

@Alienscar I was helped by the fact that minus the hat, Inquisition logos and boltgun thing she doesn't look particularly Imperial at all ;) same with Celestine actually, although I have different plans for her when she arrives ;)

Yeah the legs are reposed. Her left leg has a little sliver cut off the top at an angle so it sits pointed a little further forwards. The right leg is cut at the knee, then with a fairly sizeable wedge cut out of her thigh to make it bent at the knee and then stuck precariously just around the edge where it meets the edge of the torso and the tabard. Took quite a bit of holding in place while it stuck that!

I did spot your comment about the pauldron looking a bit bulky before I stuck it on so I've slimmed it down a bit. I do think something needs to go there though. You can't really see it in the pics but her shoulder's a little indented/cut off to make space for the pauldron and it'd look a little iffy when painted, like she's missing half her shoulder. I'll grab a pic and post it up to see what you think :)

@Saim-Dann Thanks that's high praise indeed! I love it when stuff I cobble together ends up looking like it could be a kit :) I thoroughly recommend looking up Forgeworld's Eldar Corsairs. They're a really fun little army so I gather :)

@Looshkin You and me both! It's the hat and crossbow thing that ruins it for me. I get that it's a fun little witch-hunter trope throwback, which is fine enough and neat when it's done, but I just think it looks silly. Still, the rest of the model is really solid. She's a head and a weapon swap away from looking really damn cool :)

Oh, and I find a glass of vino does wonders for the ingenuity thing ;) I read a study in New Scientist that found that people were statistically better at creative problem solving after a small alcoholic drink ;) that's my excuse at least...

@Magenb Yeah those Sisters of Silence models look really really DEldar-like. Just stick pointy ears on them and they'd fit right in :) looking forwards to what you come up with for them :)

@Cavalier Ooh nice :) I've really liked your previous corsair HQs so definitely looking forward to this one :)

Yes sir! Will do ;)

However, sometimes you just get an idea that will burn its way out of your brain one way or another, so it's best to get it out straight away. But, as I've barely picked up a brush recently it got painted straight away so I'm still good ;)

@Everyone I've been slightly dissatisfied with my Ynnari Autarch Idravain. I like the model, but it doesn't quite live up to the creepiness potential for Ynnari. So, I had another go at him...

In his wraithbone palace, the dead god waits dreaming - Khalfhirin, Prophet of Ynnead

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ppc5qbs8cy83cu052cua.jpg)

Idravain thought back on the muddled centuries of his life. Way back when he was first alive, he recalled having been born amidst the terrible 500-year descent as Altansar was inexorably pulled into the depths of the Eye. His early life was a desperate and futile struggle against the colossal psychic gravity well was dragging them under. Mere moments after they were submerged, the assault began. Valiantly they fought, but the craftworld was swiftly reduced to lifelessness. Idravain had died there, among his kin. Aimlessly, the hulk drifted through that warped and twisted realm, and for millennia nothing stirred on the dead craftworld.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jn6xr2hkwf9uj7d6jvfo.jpg)

With bleary eyes, Idravain had woken. Unsteadily, he had pulled himself to his feet. Many of his kin had already risen. Approaching them he finally saw the horror of their visages. They may have been walking confused as living Eldar would, but they looked like revenants. Their mortal wounds had been restitched, but incompletely. Limbs were functional, but bones exposed themselves through torn flesh and pallid skin. It was only through the dreaming of their seers that they discovered what had occurred.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/nzkyucafvzxszt7leae6.jpg)

The nascent God of Death had cast a thinning veil over the craftworld, resurrecting its fallen people. However, as yet unborn her powers were incomplete. The Altansari were resurrected in soul, but not in body. In this risen state, they cowered behind the veil for centuries, or perhaps millennia, it was hard to tell. Time ebbs and flows like tides in the warp. They cowered there until their salvation came. Maugan Ra, son of Altansar, struck deep into the Eye and found his people. Blazing with soulfire, he led them back to the materium.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bcc637hwqv6n3aovkwgr.jpg)

Until the birth of Ynnead, Idravain had cowered still. Like the rest of his kin, he feared greatly how the still-living Eldar would react to their condition. Now though, he wore his condition as a mark of pride. Many times he had fallen as he fought for Yvraine. Each time he had risen again. Each time a little less living. He saw these defects as a blessing from Ynnead, a clear sign of her favour. He bore them with honour, for all to see. He was chosen by Ynnead, and would fight until his purpose, whatever that might be, was complete.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hcalbdsrpmuoyn3bkh2e.jpg)

The Eldar are a people for whom symbolism is not merely important, but an inescapable fact of life. Yvraine, first of her kind, Emissary of Ynnead, was accompanied on her quest at every step by the mighty Visarch. As the Ynnari set out to spread their faith among the stars, many cells found themselves gravitating to a similar model of prophet and guardian.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on April 20, 2017, 09:17:31 PM
Creepy individual. Wow with the freehand. Did you scratch build the banner? Another amazing piece that will go well with the rest of your unique forces.   
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 21, 2017, 07:56:43 AM
Thanks man! The banner's actually part of the kabalite warriors kit :) i must admit scratch-building isn't something i've ventured into much so far...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on April 21, 2017, 08:19:52 AM
... So far is the key, but you knew that with the...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on April 21, 2017, 08:42:42 AM
I'll grab a pic and post it up to see what you think :)

I look forward to seeing it and being proven wrong. I bet it will look brilliant.

In his wraithbone palace, the dead god waits dreaming - Khalfhirin, Prophet of Ynnead

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ppc5qbs8cy83cu052cua.jpg)

What bits have you used for this conversion Ynneadwraith? As usual I don't recognise anything but the overall look is very zombie (revenant) like and its creepy look is helped by your paint work.

On the subject of bits used has the left arm been made from two different arms stuck together? I ask because in the picture the arm looks slightly elongated and I can't decided if it is just the perspective of the photo fooling my eye or if it is actually a bit long.

Valiantly they fought, but the craftworld was swiftly reduced to lifelessness. Idravain had died there, among his kin.


Another bit of excellent fluff writing Ynneadwraith this is quite melancholy compared to the rest of your stuff but good none then less. 
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 21, 2017, 12:57:43 PM
His legs are pretty standard Dire Avenger. His body is from the Tree Revenant kit as they've sort of got chunks out of them already to let them fit into the shell of the tree part so they already look like they're missing bits (plus, they look a little more built than standard Eldar). I added a couple of ribs to the body cut from various branches and that was that. The head is Spite Revenant with one half carved into a skull with a drawing pin :)

The arm that looks a little long is actually a stock Harlequin piece. I suspect it looks too long because the body of the pistol is too similar in colour to the glove. I'll sort that by adding some more ushabti bone to the pistol as it's meant to look bone colour. Thanks for pointing that out :) his right arm is actually pieced together from a Spite Revenant upper arm and the forearm of an Autarch :)

I'm glad you like the fluff :) it is a little more melancholy that the previous stuff, but I feel that sort of fits with Altansar. They've had it pretty rough! Plus, Idravain's still out kicking ass after it all, even if he looks a little worse for wear ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on April 23, 2017, 06:35:34 PM
What bits have you used for this conversion Ynneadwraith?
Its kind of like a Frankenstein pop quiz :)

Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 26, 2017, 11:03:17 AM
I had meant to get some painting done last night, but I had a bit of inspiration for something I've wanted to do for a while :) back in January I made my first Croneworld Eldar pleasure cultist, which I did rather like.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--i8pNDGCP--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/recinnm4nrjtgljw9hnt.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--teeKkbjl--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/iiojf05glhuor4ffvyrj.jpg)

However, in the light of my exodites getting a little...stranger.. .since then, I thought that the warped playthings of Slaanesh should by all rights be just as strange. So, here's my first attempts (counts-as Heralds of Slaanesh with Etherblades).

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wmhm4bgg06wlx0kl30hj.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/gftisrsyv6osisiksesk.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xmk6sak9tzquqyhcnroh.jpg)

Ylris sprinted across the battlefield in great leaps and bounds, ribbons billowing gracefully behind her. Desperately, she fought to keep her death-dance pitch-perfect. Every leap and footfall the very epitome of acrobatic grace. She could feel the eyes of the Prince of Perfection as a great pressure on the back of her soul, scrutinising her every move for a hint of anything out of place. On her next landing, she clipped a stone and stumbled. "No!" she screamed. A scream cut short as her soul was wrenched from her frame and returned to its eternal torment, her lifeless body slumping to the floor. Around her, her kin continued their dance unflinching, utterly absorbed in their own survival. Elsewhere, another fallen warrior rose to its feet, home to another long-dead soul plucked from the aether. Perhaps this plaything would do better, an infintessimal fraction of the vast rumbling thought processes of Slaanesh mused. This was a frightfully entertaining game!

Such is the life of a Croneworld Cultist. Cursed by their forebears, who in their arrogance thought they could birth a God in their image. Little did they know the soul-child of their race had far more sordid ambitions. They live a fraught existence as playthings for She-Who-Thirsts, yet still they endure. These cursed creatures. Desperate to avoid her attentions, and equally desperate to please her, their lives are utterly at the mercy of the most fickle of Gods.


A little refresher on the background :)

I've thought a reasonable amount about Chaos Eldar, coming to the conclusion that the idea of 'Eldar that just decided to worship Chaos' and 'Eldar who were corrupted by Chaos' don't quite cut the mustard fluff-wise to me. However, I'm of the opinion that you can do whatever it is you please with bending 40k fluff so long as you have a good enough reason for it, and twisted chaotic Eldar is too good of an opportunity to pass up.

I quite like the idea of Eldar who dedicated themselves to another Chaos God to try and get their protection from Slaanesh. That's got just the right nuance of desperation to it for me to like it as a piece of fluff. I can just imagine a desperate Corsair or Outcast coming to the end of their life selling their soul to one of the other gods in a desperate (and probably futile) bid to avoid being devoured. Furthermore, I can imagine one of the other Gods flaunting the fact they own an Eldar soul, demonstrating that victory over Slaanesh. It's definitely something I want to explore in the future, but for these guys I had another idea :)

My other idea is that Slaanesh strikes me as the sort of entity that plays with her food. Contained within her, she has billions upon billions of Eldar souls which i expect she could resurrect and toy with as she pleases, in any form she wished, before consuming them again. These Eldar wouldn't truly be alive in the conventional manner, but also wouldn't be like resurrected phantoms. As the Eldar soul retains consciousness after death, they'd not only remember who they were, but they'd also remember the centuries upon centuries of torture within the belly of Slaanesh. I imagine them as somewhat like conscious living Eldar whose souls are bound to the whims of Slaanesh.

I'd imagine the figureheads of the pleasure cults would revel in this existence, and be looked upon favourably (Favoured Playthings I've called them). For the rest of the population caught up in the cataclysm their souls would be stuck in perpetual torture, and being resurrected as a plaything would be a desperate window in the endless torment. Also, with billions of potential souls to choose from you can bet that Slaanesh would pick up on anything that displeases her, no matter how small, and replace you with another potential candidate. So, you'd get a society constructed of Eldar desperate to please Slaanesh in any way possible borne of a desperate self-centred desire to avoid being returned to torment. They're normal Eldar, reduced to committing horrific acts by the trap they find themselves in. One of my favourite types of villain :) plus, there's tons of potential for things like Learned Helplessness and Stockholm Syndrome to make interesting characters with :)

The other thing I'm excited about is the modelling opportunities :)

One of my all-time favourite GW models is this old-school Vampire Lord. It's just a fantastic sculpt:

(https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99800207001_WingedVampireLordNEW01.jpg)

So, I thought I'd have a go myself with my second Favoured Plaything/Herald.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ermggzkxgspcmk69wy1t.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/dlpkzybapj8rgcgvuwuq.jpg)

What do you reckon? I'm dead chuffed if I do say so myself :) here are the two together:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/i2fqlgjjopdhtsejd3u3.jpg)

These two combined have also given me some ideas for some themes to carry through to the rest of my Croneworlders. Judging by the Keeper of Secrets model, Slaanesh seems to have a fondness for extra arms. My DEldar Covens Wych Cult also has a bit of a multiple-arms theme going on, which fits the 'Slaanesh is a reflection of the Eldar consciousness' thing, but means that I need to mix things up a little for the Croneworlders. The vampire lord guy is what gave me the answer with his odd arms. As a rule, people tend to find symmetry pleasing, and asymmetry slightly odd (or downright jarring when it comes to the human form). So, I think one of the themes I'm going to carry through the rest of my Croneworlders is them having 3 arms to hit the warped odd look of Chaos :)

More to come!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on April 26, 2017, 11:51:00 AM
As a fan of both Eldar and the Batman, they look amazing. Again, I don't know from what armies the separate parts are from. So they both look like GW designs to me. Where does the the wing come from? What are the original models supposed to look like? THIS is why your now PoC, Ynneadwraith. Hats off, mate! Hats off! 
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 26, 2017, 01:19:26 PM
Thanks dude! As far as I'm concerned 'they look like GW models' is the highest compliment there is :) thanks!

The female plaything uses a lot of parts from the (massively overpriced) Witch Elf kit which is a great kit but costs an eye-watering £35 from GW :S bits shops are your friend for these guys. Her body, legs and both sets of arms are Witch Elf, although I've used two sets of legs to extend hers and make them digitigrade, and the upper pair of arms are cut up a little to bring them together, and the weapons cut down to nubs to make the handle for the etherblade. The head and the sword blade is from the fantastic Spite Revenant kit (which probably features in about 50% of everything I've ever made!).

The male plaything has Dire Avenger legs, Spite Revenant torso, head and right arm, and the wing is from a Dark Eldar Scourge. Oh, and the rock he's standing on is from the extra set of Witch Elf legs I chopped up for the female plaything :)

Alas I'm blanking on the acronym 'PoC' :S working for the healthcare service all I can think about is 'Package of Care'! ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Irisado on April 26, 2017, 01:25:48 PM
For details of the Eldar Path of Command (PoC), please look here (http://www.40konline.com/index.php?topic=226965.0).
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 26, 2017, 01:36:05 PM
Aha thanks! I'm honoured! :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on April 26, 2017, 01:45:53 PM
Looking awesome as always Ynnead. Truly inspired stuff my man... top notch John Blanche goodness. I love it! Now PAINT THEM!!! lol Just kidding but I can't wait to see them painted!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on April 26, 2017, 01:48:17 PM
Sooooo; not just swapping torso's and legs then. Wow! That's a labour of love for sure. They look amazing, Ynneadwraith. Even more so now that we know what was put into them. Congrats on your addmi-admi-ad... promotion, mate. Well deserved!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on April 26, 2017, 05:05:37 PM
GW needs to give you a job ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on April 27, 2017, 08:08:23 AM
@Cav haha will do ;) if only because i've run out of 25mm bases ;)

Currently on the painting block is the Talos bio-exo-suit thing :) can't wait to get it finished :)

@Dann yeah not quite ;) it's really not as much work as it sounds though :) plastic's a really forgiving material to work with, and so far the only model out of the 100+ i've made that i've messed up beyond repair is Yvraine (and she got cannibalised for my Corsair Prince).

I thoroughly encourage anyone to get stuck in with this sort of thing :)

@Magenb I'd gladly take that if anyone's listening ;) if only to point out how ludicrous it is to have the Eldar and the Black Templars working together. First thing i'd do is have that go down the tubes ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ibushi on April 27, 2017, 02:56:25 PM
Wow dude these models are just getting more and more unreal -- the Sylvaneth stuff just makes it so awesome and dynamic in particular.

Holy crap that Ynnari Autarch is the creepiest model ever.

Really digging the Visarch conversion, but that super simple Ynnari Autarch model really captures the less is more and the creepiness that i think you are going for.

Man, great work, keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 12, 2017, 07:46:52 PM
No idea how I managed to miss your post but thanks a ton man :) I'm really glad you like Idravain. He's definitely one of my all-time favourites as well :) one of the things I really want to do with a number of my dudes is to make them look seriously creepy, but through the fluff writing you sort of end up feeling sympathetic for these creepy SOBs. This guy and Khali the Succubus I feel like I've hit the nail on the head with for that ;)

It's been a while since an update, but I have been busy! Busy with paints to boot ;) finished my 5 multi-limbed Bloodbrides :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/l6au2fp6p4rbhwhdb8bv.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kz8kytpcbmonhxovbopz.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/odcfcfcq5fks7xlngops.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fcl3vjb0to003mhumceu.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bx0ievwrq8mlryojql2a.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qpli9xjce4fk8de4bifq.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lylinikd7wlequd8h8ya.jpg)

What's more Dark Eldar than a thigh-high boot made of someone else' skin? ;)

Not only that, but I've painted my bio-suit Talos too :) I must admit, I'm damn proud of this one...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/yypeusvcicwvrcz7djcx.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ujtheglgeni4mnmb0mx1.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rlw9kv0owqtny1evlckc.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qr7zc1bg1yxsrxwvjkre.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ky8jwfmsscg1vlgvrwzh.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ftzhx5f6v5kele0n15jc.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/pnf2hcuccav63r35swll.jpg)

And the whole gang together :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vxhxjivvoo7wg1p6jvk4.jpg)

Now, I had promised myself no more modelling until I'd got some stuff painted, but what really happened was I made a load of things but didn't post them until I'd finished painting, which worked in some way I suppose ;)

In my defence, the idea I had was 'famine slender-man-style Nurgle-corrupted Eldar' which was just too cool to wait for :)

My thinking was that pretty much all of the Nurgle bloated plague stuff I've seen has been human. What if Chaos corruption has different effects on different life-forms? Here's what I came up with:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bniw1eya7ctdry6sn0dc.jpg)
Malariel, Herald of Nurgle
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vdgddb739ksb3sk0yppb.jpg)

Plague can have many effects. In Eldar, their limbs elongate as their frame becomes more and more emaciated. However, their slight frames belie an unnatural toughness.

The fluff behind Malariel is that he was a Corsair, who in desperation upon his death sold his soul to Nurgle. Normally, such triflings are Slaanesh's concern. More trouble than they're worth. However, the Plaguefather covets the worlds of Selesti, and Malariel is a tool with which to sunder the veil in the sector and reclaim his lordship over these worlds. Plus, given the rivalry between the Chaos Gods it's a bit of a taunt on Nurgle's part.

Malariel himself is convinced that the salvation of the Eldar is through the benevolence of the Blightlord. He himself was saved from eternal torment at the hands of Slaanesh, and has set out to bring this revelation to his fellow Eldar. Never mind the pretender Ynnead. Nurgle is the true God of Rebirth.

Here's the first of his converts :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ta2kh0c7wvwrswekpnlc.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jfbiamrniqppyr0wsw7i.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/x2xtybcbhrz0clc2j5ks.jpg)

I also quite liked the idea of having his congregation be multi-species. There's something very 40k about the only creature calling for racial tolerance being the quasi-daemonic herald of the God of Pestilence ;) so, I had a go at a Blightking-based Astartes :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/tfbysv8lc91o1dlcq52w.jpg)

And finally the beginnings of Malariel's congregation ;)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/f5qbn1oigg3nioaesdp1.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on May 13, 2017, 08:50:24 AM
Wow they came out great Ynnead. The painted Bloodbrides look fantastic and the Talos looks phenomenal! The paint jobs really take them to the next level. Great work bud, congrats on finishing a couple of new units.

The new models look really nice too. All suitably creepy, and expertly kitbashed and converted. Smooth as always my friend. Keep up the great work, glad to see a new update!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 14, 2017, 07:04:16 AM
Both the painted and the freshly modelled pieces are amazing, Ynneadwraith. Is there an opportunity of seeing these boys in action. Either a battle report or just the odd photo of one. They must look incredible on the table.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 14, 2017, 07:25:48 PM
Thanks guys!

I'm dead chuffed with the Talos actually :) really pleased how it's turned out, especially how the little hook looks against the bigger hook in the background. Even if I do say so myself ;)

I would really like to get them on the table, but I don't think I've had a game since I was about 14! None of my mates are really into 40k at all and I always felt a little odd waltzing up to a game store on my own. Guess that's all in my head really. Should definitely make an effort to get them on the table ;)

Edit: oh, I have an update too! Painted Morrathillienn :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ruluxksqn89jqqlfefxz.jpg)

Not sure why the pics are a little whited out. I think the camera focused on the blacks. Must get a better one...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/u8bqwiny4w4zlhpba2ww.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ryem34loipo4zg4n0xa5.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ve3zmofofmqm2ewfribm.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zaxapd7n7j3r9d7ibj3a.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bt6zxt0i8i8xvjnqe4x8.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/e42hhijkck3oodem3kba.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 15, 2017, 03:40:05 AM
She looks magic, Ynneadwraith. Well done! The photos seem fine to me, mate. If you think there's a problem, are you using day globes?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 15, 2017, 07:22:27 AM
Thanks dude :) i think the photos only look washed out when you put them next to the ones for the Bloodbrides. On their own they seem ok :)

I haven't looked at dayglobes but i'll check them out :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on May 15, 2017, 07:45:52 AM
Looking really sharp Ynnead. Damn man, you've got the whole deal- modeling and painting. Super nice stuff bud, your army is gonna look great when organized for games. Right out of an old school White Dwarf but with all the newest models. Killer!

As for getting back into games. I suggest going up to a local club or store and asking how people organize their games. Usually they'll send you over to a Facebook Group where you can post looking for a game.

I was intimidated too, but everybody is dying for new opponents, especially with crazy awesome armies! So don't be intimidated. Just head over to a store, ask how people setup games and go from there. Go for it! It'll totally re-energize you for modelling and painting when you are hungry to get new units into your force to get them into fighting shape. Go forth young man!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on May 15, 2017, 08:03:19 AM
Those painted Bloodbrides look awesome Ynnead; your painting really is improving by leaps and bounds! The Talos is just so...discomforting. It really is unnatural...and therefore brilliant!

But it's nowhere near as unsettling as that Nurgle Eldar. He's my particular stuff of Nightmares. The fact he's up on his toes, almost creeping and shuffling along...but he's dragging his pitted and corroded sword behind...you'd hear the tapping of his staff and the scrap of metal on the ground as he came for you in the night. Just totally beslubbered up! Well done!

Also, I love that Plague Marine. He just looks right.

Excellent work all round Ynnead, keep it rolling!!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 15, 2017, 09:37:51 AM
Thanks guys!

@Cav that's a really good idea :) i'll have a look around for clubs near me. I'd love to get into some of the smaller scale stuff like kill team or inq28 as i've definitely got the models for that. Despite having tons of stuff i don't think i've got a functioning army yet!

@Loosh that's a perfect image of the nurgle herald! Really evocative, and you're right. The stuff of nightmares ;)

I also imagined him having a really hoarse voice. You know where each breath has a bit of a wheezing whistle, and his speech is a little high pitched.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 17, 2017, 11:05:36 AM
Help guys, i could do with some opinions :) i've finished painting my first Croneworlder, but i'm conflicted about basing. Here he is:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--QwgIjjgA--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wzpvg5itmezrsq4k6zpv.jpg)

Now i know what would look best for the colours of this model in particular is your usual dark grey stone/datkened metallic ibdustrial sort of thing most 40k models get.

However, one of the main things i've been doing is basing all of my models on the same deserty sandy bases so they all look at home when i come to build scenery. Plus, the narrative they're all in centres around the worlds of Selesti which are all former Eldar Maiden Worlds, ravaged by Nurgle post-Fall so they're all desertified. It's an oddity of the sector that all habitable planets are desert worlds.

What i've done with my Blightdar (sneak peak of thise behind!) is paint them roughly in the same tan colours, but also make it so that where they tread is a little pool of greenish water which helps tie everything together.

I suppose with these guys i could have their presence stain the ground where they tread purple, and the contrast with the tan sand would help the unnatural look, but do you think it would look ok?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on May 18, 2017, 02:25:38 PM
Doing footprints could be really hard. I remember how tough it was to make my molten rock footprints for my Avatar, and having to do that with just paint could be difficult.

I think doing blighted footsteps would be easier with some kind of basing material... like toadstools, fungus something like that....

Just my opinion though
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 18, 2017, 06:58:31 PM
The Blightdar's footprints were actually fairly easy :) the sand definitely helped, and then I just did a couple of layers of gloss coloured with various shades of green so it looks like water's oozing up from the ground around their feet :)

I'm thinking with the Croneworlders something a little different, but similar technique. Perhaps purple wash radiating out in little spikes from their feet, highlighted a little with something like Screamer Pink :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 18, 2017, 07:20:21 PM
G'day Ynneadwraith!
There are these reeeally tiny beads at the arts and crafts store. They make a great bubble affect for your footprints.
I still really like this particular model. You should be proud, mate.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 19, 2017, 07:42:35 PM
Thanks dude, I'll check them out :) probably for another project (soulstone cache maybe?) as I found little slivers of flying stand were perfect for what I had in mind ;)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hhen8yma7lbaavc2knyr.jpg)

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.


(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/st0uqinwhse5asopd3yy.jpg)

"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 not in fact our salvation, but a trap?" - Illythian the Doomsayer, Outcast of Ulthwe

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/at5iojntykdxdx67i5pu.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/a0ro9xjkk7bt6sojno4s.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zk5onhnms5boelrr0veg.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xsxkp9ha7izkpx1y5utg.jpg)

I've also finished modelling my next two Croneworlders :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/igwczzxgaeoiqdify7wt.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mowkfdfw5o23ax2jyezk.jpg)

I've fallen in love a little with how the whole colour scheme looks contrasting the pallid purpley skin with the deep 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?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 19, 2017, 09:57:35 PM
They look fantastic, Ynneadwraith.
Is that your writing, or is it a snippet from a novel? You HAVE to start gaming with these pointy ears, mate. I truly believe some decisions, in games, are made due to visual intimidation. Well painted models give the impression of a superior player. With your modelling/painting skills present on the table, Ynneadwraith, your opponents would be intimidated from the first turn to last.     
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 20, 2017, 05:04:24 AM
Thanks dude! No it's all my own writing :) that's one of the things I enjoy the most about putting these together, writing little snippets of fluff to bring them to life and get the cogs whirring ;)

I shall! Neat idea about intimidation factor ;) I'll see if I can put that into practice ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 20, 2017, 05:09:40 AM
The trick, Ynneadwraith, is to be loud and boastful on the weaker units. then quiet and sneaky on the strong.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on May 20, 2017, 07:05:15 AM
Looking sweet! I love how these guys look like they are ALMOST Daemonettes. Love the modelling as always, particularly the whip woman! I wouldn't change anything on the model. When she's in a squad of more "Eldar" looking models she'll blend right in. I think she looks suitably Eldar anyway.

Love the paint job on the top guy. Nice job with the skin tone, and nice choice of colors too. Keep it up bud, great stuff as always!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 21, 2017, 06:41:49 PM
@Saim Dann Aha, clever ;) shall bear that in mind

@Cavalier Glad i've got the 'almost daemonette' look right ;) that's what i was going for!

@Everybody You know one of the best things about my Croneworlders? Dead quick to paint ;)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/yd5rzcaxwjz0ovl3yghg.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jdfwkvq3swzvhdbfadna.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/aqghfwodf3xcqytqhe2p.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ywytcbn6yneb676z2p6v.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lhmnawfjhn8v7aa1hqzp.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hdapxmnhh3x4zmcgf1pm.jpg)

Also, had a go at a daemonette-clawed croneworlder :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ssghrsjoqy1655wowqdf.jpg)

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 :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 21, 2017, 07:46:20 PM
Yeeeees!
Your colour choices definitely suit the magic of your modelling, Ynneadwraith. You are going to intimidate a lot of opponents when you start rolling the dice.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on May 22, 2017, 06:56:29 AM
Hell yeah! These are looking fantastic. Loving the paint work bud! These would be perfect for that Croneworld mission in Gathering Storm II! Now get to that hobby store and make it happen. While you are at convert up a Croneworld table! Chop chop! lol Just kidding. Great stuff man so happy you are painting up more and more  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 22, 2017, 11:05:54 AM
Thanks guys :) really glad you like them :)

I have had some neat ideas for Croneworld terrain. Mostly arou d sticking little purple/pink LEDs in stuff so it gives everything a sort of pinkish tint to it, lit by an alien sun :)

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In the future, please use the modify button. Double posting is against the forum rules, and for that reason, the system merged your posts.

Static grass finally arrived!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/q9lntavsavzgup2hryhs.jpg)

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."


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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 :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ouv3gfjafo2hlviwqe54.jpg)

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 :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mlkdgvyhlsl6ncgprpyd.jpg)

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?

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zk11hznrowilyrx75tt3.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jez6ohzzlkgdhviywlul.jpg)

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 ;)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xa1wkvp4fx9pebgxshkq.jpg)

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!

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Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on May 24, 2017, 08:01:38 AM
Really nice work Ynnead. The antler guy is absolutley killer. Again Blanche level worthiness my friend. These would be great in an RPG game too! I heard rumors 40k RPG's were inbound... anyway killer work bud.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 24, 2017, 08:39:05 AM
That was a hoot to read, Ynneadwraith!
You have a rich and vast imagination. The weathering looks great and really suits your style. The camera likes the red tentacles up close, mate. How does it look when on the table? Couldn't help but smile with your thoughts on not red armour but dried blood... Niiiiice! 
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 24, 2017, 01:11:28 PM
Thanks guys! Really glad you like them :)

@Cav Ooh a 40k RPG i'd be interested in :) i've actually been brainstorming a sort of add-on for Shadow War to make it more of a toolboxy thing for you to create all kinds of weird fluffy warbands and play skirmish-level gaming with them :) i'll share it here as soon as i've got some of the kinks ironed out. I'd kill for some playtesters ;)

@Saim-dann Glad it's useful for something other than keeping me up at night! ;)

I really like how the tentacles look on isolation, but they realy draw the eye away from anything else near them. Not just on the death guard guy, but when he's next to the Herald. Seeing as i can't think of anything on the herald to brighten up, i'm thinking it might be necessary to tone them down a little...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 24, 2017, 05:05:30 PM
I wouldn't tone him down, Ynneadwraith! Use him as a distraction in gaming. If the bright red is taking your opponents eye away from other units, that's a good thing... For you, not them.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 28, 2017, 09:03:09 PM
@Saim-Dann Not a bad idea ;)

Another update too :) finished two more Croneworlders. The claw daemonette cultist:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jzjd1b5umj6nyohpvrda.jpg)

And the Croneweaver from ages ago :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vjaltpahxmryggnuamu6.jpg)

I've tried to make the Croneweaver's robes look grubby and tattered as the fluff for them is that they were the priests and priestesses of Morai Heg, and are kept alive and forced to serve Slaanesh as a sort of cruel joke. I've got two options for that actually, but not sure which to go for. Which of these two ideas do people think's better?

1. The Priests of Morai-Heg are kept as playthings of Slaanesh as a taunt that for all of her wisdom Morai-Heg couldn't see Slaanesh coming.
2. The Priests of Morai-Heg did see Slaanesh coming, but thought she was going to be their saviour. Eldar God born during their longest period of peace and prosperity, prophesised to kill Khaine who had sparked a war by trying to genocide the Eldar? What's not to like? So, they actively worked to blind their God by feeding her false prophesies, fearful of her interference as she was Khaine's consort. As Slaanesh was born and the true horror of her nature was discovered, the Croneseers tried in vain to undo their work, for which Slaanesh has condemned them to live eternally in her service.

Perhaps both :) why not?

Either way, they've been cursed with hunched and wisened frames, and drab, dirty vestments. An insult for such a proud and vain race as the Eldar.

And here's the pleasure cult as it stands now :) 6 models strong. Slaanesh's sacred number :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/odeujsemi8ajvrsugnsm.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 28, 2017, 09:34:54 PM
G'day Ynneadwraith!
Unfortunately Your images didn't come up. It maybe on my end, I'm not sure. I have about as much IT Knowledge as my left nostril.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: dog_of_war on May 28, 2017, 10:49:45 PM
I can see them on my end and they're looking appropriately disturbing. As for the back story, #2 for sure. A slaanesh plaything would need to be more about excess beauty, vanity, pride, etc. The seer looks old and decrepit, as a crone should.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on May 28, 2017, 11:47:15 PM
awesome work again.

Ever notice your thread is like a decent into chaos, starts with a nice clean custom Autarch and now it swimming in daemon cultists lol.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 29, 2017, 02:28:34 AM
I see them now...
WOW! I'd say they look great, but I don't think that's what your going for. Agree with DoW. #2 for sure.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 29, 2017, 06:56:44 AM
Thanks guys! Number 2 it is ;)

Hah you're right it is like a descent into chaos worship ;) Craftworld->Corsair->Dark Eldar->Chaos Cultists

Those Dark Eldar are a gateway drug i'm sure ;)

Oh, i thought it'd be good to share the piece of artwork that inspired all of these guys :) alas i don't know who did it, but whoever you are thanks!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/tgzhc8xbfpxrkb2g1lcl.jpg)

Hopefully i've done it justice :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on May 29, 2017, 08:15:25 AM
Pointy ears? Blessed hell! That's pointy everything. The creator of this piece will be chuffed when he/she sees what you've done to carry on his/her work, Ynneadwraith.   
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 30, 2017, 08:27:18 AM
Good stuff! I mist try and track down the artist and let them know :)

Oh, one last update from the bank holiday weekend here. Stripped and repainted the Death Guard's tentacles as i just wasn't happy with the red.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/xzgwrszzatetqcg6no5d.jpg)
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Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on May 30, 2017, 08:36:22 AM
Aww man! I liked the red Ynnead! It really reminded me of the color pallet that a lot of the Japanese "creature-core" modelers and sculptors use. Really grimy dirty bone with splashes of gory red thrown in there to get a really revolting clash of colors. Dang! It still looks good but I really liked that!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 30, 2017, 09:10:48 AM
Yeah i did too actually, but i just had the Herald and the Death Guard next to each other and the vibrant red just drew all attention away from not only the rest of the Death Guard but also from the Herald. I tried to think of things on the Herald to give a vibrant splash of red and make it a bit of a theme for the warband but I just couldn't find anything that worked.

It's absolutely a colour-combo i'll be using another time though :) perhaps something Khornate would fit the bill ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Alienscar on May 30, 2017, 11:22:22 AM
I agree with Cavalier I much prefer the look of the model with a splash of red on it. Could you not compromise and leave the tentacle at the back and the hoses on the models left shoulder coloured red?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on May 30, 2017, 12:54:01 PM
Hmmm, I think that would still overpower the rest of the model. Plus, I've kind of done a lot of the red and tan combo ;)

I do get what you mean though. It could do with a little more visual pop, although I do tend to veer quite strongly to the low-contrast side of things. Perhaps something subtle which makes it look a bit more icky. Despite the gloss coats I think they still look a little clean compared to the grubbyness of the rest of the model.

I've got an idea...hold on ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on June 3, 2017, 08:28:14 PM
That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with these strange aeons even death may die. - Khalfhirin, Prophet of Ynnead

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One of the effects Revenant Psykers of the Ynnari have is to rouse the spirits of the dead to a state of near-consciousness in their presence, as opposed to the sort of half-life they normally inhabit inside the Infinity Circuit. Here's a question though. What happens when you bring a soul back to near consciousness that's been interred into the shell of a Wraithguard? The first revelation would be that you discover that you are dead. Prior to this, you absent-mindedly wander through the swirling echoes of soulstuff, unable to differentiate the living from the dead. The second revelation would be that you discover you've been interred into what amounts to a mute sensory deprivation tank and used as a tool in the the most bloody and vicious conflicts your living kin have fought.

Consciousness inside a walking tomb is not a blessing, it's a curse.

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However, such consciousness once gained is not lightly given up. Many Wraithguard abandon their stations upon Craftworlds to follow Ynnari prophets, desperate to avoid slipping back into the fog of their half-life. Such companions are highly prized by the prophets of the Dead God, having a marked impact on those they wish to convert. Many are festooned with charms and scrawled messages, believed to be carried to deceased loved ones by the wakeful Wraith.

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And the Ynnari Cult as it stands at the moment :)

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Next up, some fanatics!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on June 4, 2017, 08:15:42 AM
Looking sweet! Love the pose on the Wraithblade... the paint job really suits it too. Super ghostly and the pose is really somber. I can imagine him walking through the fog of war on an endless battlefield. Love the Lovecraft quote too!

My only suggestion would be to pick out a gem on the axe and the shield. Just that little spark of color would give it that soul-powered vibe. A super pale blue would look really cool. Just a thought though! Killer work!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on June 5, 2017, 09:03:30 AM
Thanks man! Yeah I had the idea that my prophet should speak in mainly Lovecraft quotes, twisted slightly to change the meaning. The original quote was 'and with strange aeons' which i've changed to 'and with these strange aeons' ;)

Adds a little to the suspicion around the Ynnari :) would you trust a servant of the Old Ones? ;)

Good idea on the gemstone on the axe. Each of my Ynnari have a very minimal red highlight somewhere. Flesh on Idravain and roses on Khalfhirin. A little red gemstone on the wraith would do well :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on June 7, 2017, 11:50:42 PM
Imposing as always, Ynneadwraith!
The tentacles on the Wraithguard? Green stuff or from another model.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on June 11, 2017, 04:59:53 AM
Thanks dude!

The little charms? I'm nowhere near as good a sculptor as that ;) they're from the Wood Elf Wild Riders/Sisters of the Thorn kit :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on June 14, 2017, 10:25:10 AM
Sometimes, I find a good way to look for inspiration is to work out what precisely what something isn't, in addition to what it is. Ynnead is the Eldar God of Death and Rebirth. Ynnead is not God of Healing. That's Isha's domain, who still lingers on in Nurgle's company.

Ynnead has power of life and death over the bodies of the Eldar, independent of their condition. We see this in the Altansari, saved from death by the power of Ynnead, but appearing as perfectly preserved corpses. Perhaps in time she will gain power over this, but for now she is weak. A small fish in a pond full of sharks. For now, simple animation will have to suffice. Hence the term 'Revenant Psyker'. What precisely do you think these Eldar should look like?

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Slain by the blinding psychic light of a fell Sorceror, Ynnead has the power to restore life to your limbs. However, Ynnead does not have the power to restore sight to your eyes.

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For Laeril, wraithsight would have to suffice. The alternative, she supposed, would be unimaginably worse.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on June 15, 2017, 07:44:52 AM
Again... Niiiiice!
Your painting is, as always, superb.
Your scripting has always been good, however, now you have the timing between images down pat. Bravo, Ynneadwraith, bravo!!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: dog_of_war on June 19, 2017, 08:10:10 AM
Excellent interpretation of what Ynnead is truly capable of and it fits with the  concept of reanimation of an eldar rather than restoration of one. This really reflects how Papa Nurgle seems to roll and I see more correlation between Ynnead and Nurgle than Isha. Which makes sense, as Nurgle is in direct opposition from Slaanesh.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on June 19, 2017, 12:57:39 PM
Thanks man! And yeah that's partially what i was going for. I don't think the connection between Ynnead and Nurgle is just headcanon either. Notice how pretty much all the Ynnari special rules and psychic powers are in 7s or multiples of? Nurgle's sacred number, and an odd choice given the game's base-6 system.

Ooh, and another neat thing is that it sort of sets up a mirror image of the Chaos pantheon. Khorne/Khaine, Tzeentch/Cegorach, Nurgle/Ynnead and Slaanesh is shared.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on June 23, 2017, 02:55:11 PM
A voice echoed out through the derelict palace, deep and thunderous in its rage. "Abomination, you call me. Perversion of nature. Soul Drinker. Tell me, voidfarer, how does what I do differ from your beloved Phoenix Lords? Their art is not so different to my own. The absorpsion of souls is in our very nature. We are but vessels constructed to contain its energy. Learn to control its flow, and you too can take from those who do not deserve life. You and I are different only in our habits, not in our nature. Despise me if you will, but remember, Selesti stands due to my will alone."

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Not sure if it's actually noticeable in the slightest but I've had a crack at a bit of weathering on him :) dirt on the hems of cloth, a little of the same on his wraithbone limbs, some stippling on his blade and a little extra highlight on his feathered ruff. Probably more noticeable from behind:

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Oh, and realised I'd forgotten to give his eyes whites!

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Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on June 29, 2017, 07:43:36 AM
Wow! Looking really nice Ynnead. Love the brown cloak and the red fur, looks really nice. The weathering looks really good too. Fantastic stuff as always! Keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on June 29, 2017, 08:49:10 PM
G'day Ynneadwraith!
You are an amazing artist, mate. This piece is especially nicely done. You've chosen the right red to go with the other earthy colours. The weathering IS noticeable and done well. Thanks for sharing, mate... Be well.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on June 29, 2017, 10:28:27 PM
man I'd love to see your parts drawn, I bet Yvraine will eventually find another one of Morai-Heg fingers in there lol :)

Great Job mate, digging the naginata.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on June 30, 2017, 06:00:47 AM
Hi Ynneadwraith!
Have just finished watching,"The Eagle". I know it's a bit late, however, nooow I know where you received the inspiration for Soul drinker... Nicly done!   
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 1, 2017, 05:20:23 AM
Thanks guys! Really glad you like the improvements :)

@magenb I do have a moderate compulsion to just collect neat bits :S usually I have an idea for what I want, and then search through bits sites for the stuff that would fit. Then, when I'm there I'll pick up a couple of other bits and pieces that just look cool. Sure adds up quickly!

@saim-dann I haven't actually seen that film! Looks neat though. Not sure where they got Iroquis vs Romans from given that the Picts were iron-age, but hey they look cool ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on July 1, 2017, 05:40:11 AM
Bwahaha!
Sure isn't historically accurate, however, when I saw the horned druid in the cave the first think I thought of was your piece. 
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on July 1, 2017, 12:22:02 PM
Great stuff as always Ynnead; I think the Autumnal palette works perfectly with your minis and you've achieved a really striking finish with them. Keep it up man!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 4, 2017, 06:14:26 AM
Yeah absolutely not historically accurate, but yeah druids just look too cool ;)

Thanks Loosh! Always nice to get positive comments from such an accomplished painter as yourself ;) glad you like them
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 17, 2017, 10:31:47 AM
Well, I've been sitting on this dude for a while as I couldn't quite work out whether I liked the head I'd chosen or not. To the point that I wasn't really doing anything with him so I thought 'sod it, good enough' so here he is :)

Behold! Baharroth, The Cry of the Wind, The Winged Phoenix. Finest of the Asurya. 'Truescaled', so to speak :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/skawiprmpjrjnmzwuhmh.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kwcjndjdhwnpxuubxlqi.jpg)
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Now, the question is. How to paint him? Really, I lean pretty solidly towards Craftworld colours for Aspects, and don't wholly agree with the idea of named characters anyway. However, Phoenix Lords are jsut damn cool, and my favourite model ever when I was younger was Baharroth, so it had to be done :)

Does he look recognisably Baharroth to get away with a Craftworld colout scheme? Or does anyone have any ideas for making Baharroth's scheme a little more gritty?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on July 17, 2017, 11:25:11 AM
Wow, Ynneadwraith!
That's a magic piece of work you've done there, mate. I'm actually recognizing some parts on this one for a change. Am torn as to the painting scheme. Would enjoy seeing this bloke with some color, however, he'd stand out like a sore thumb against the rest of your boys. So he wouldn't last long.

It's all up to you, mate. Your color choices have been spot on so far, so just go hard on it... Be well!   
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on July 17, 2017, 01:59:31 PM
WOW! Phenomenal work as always Ynnead. Just a sick, sick conversion. The gun, helmet, hair and blade are so stand-out but blend so well. Just killer work as always my friend.

As for a paint job... if you can dig up the old 3rd ed codex (or perhaps its in the 7th ed book as well) there was a dark blue + grey scheme with silver metallics and yellow accents (eye lenses etc) that just looked SICK for Swooping Hawks.

You could brush paint it too which is really nice. It was sort of a storm themed look which I loved.

Anyway great stuff bud keep rocking. Love your work!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on July 17, 2017, 06:12:02 PM
Hot diggity, that's incredible!

Did you make the ribbons?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: SeekingOne on July 18, 2017, 03:07:02 AM
Brilliant work indeed!

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Does he look recognisably Baharroth to get away with a Craftworld colout scheme?
I didn't read the text at first, and went straight to the pictures. For the first few seconds I was looking at the gun, and my initial impression was that it is some kind of a corsair prince. However, the very second I noticed the sword, "Baharroth" instantly sprang to my mind. Only after that I went back to the text and got a confirmation that this is indeed Baharroth :) So yeah, I'd say he's nicely recognisable.

To be 100% precise, I'd say that the gun is a bit too clearly recognisable as a heat lance, which can be slightly confusing in the first few moments. If I were you, I'd do a little something with the thin tip of the gun - maybe even just shorten it by half.

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Did you make the ribbons?
I bet that wings and ribbons come from the new Saint Celestine kit :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 18, 2017, 04:56:24 AM
Thanks guys! Really glad you like him :)

@Saim-dann Recognising bits is tye start of the slippery slope my friend ;) i think you're right that he'll stand out, and i can't think of a way to get blues/greys to play nicely with reds/tans. However, i am definitely leaning towards the official scheme purely because he's a named character.

@Cav I'm glad the helmet works :) i wasn't sure about the feather as i quite like my stuff low-key, but it does give hime the extra 'baharroth' look so i went with it.

I'll have a flick through my 7th codex and see if it's there :) i've definitely got a 3rd ed one somewhere too, but lord knows where!

@Magen Not nearly talented enough to make those! They're from those floaty Stormcast dudes with the wings. Luckily the rune script on them actually looks vaguely eldar-like!

@SeekingOne Glad he's recognisible :) i originally had him with the Visarch's sword, but that just didn't look right. Definitely needs a scimitar ;)

I was searching around for a bit to replace the tip of the gun but couldn't find what i wanted. It needs to be like a miniature version of a Brightlance tip, but even in my cavernous bitsbox i couldn't find something suitable! I'm thinking a sensor from a craftworld vehicle of some sort would work, but i don't usually do vehicles...

I did plan on using Celestine's ribbons but they're so thin and delicate i doubt they'd hold him up! They're from those floating stormcast dudes :) I forget the name, but i always think they look a little...chubby...t o be flying. Does mean they need beefy scroll to hold them aloft though :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on July 18, 2017, 08:15:51 AM
I like the gun as is... but if you are looking for a bit, I've used the scope on Dire Avenger catapults to make unique guns. Just an idea!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on July 18, 2017, 05:17:23 PM
He's beautiful Ynnead. I can't fault a dingle thing about him, he's just superb.

Although I do hope those wings aren't stuck in place. As Cav and I will attest, they are an absolute outrageously sexy lycra-clad pixie to paint when stuck to the body!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 19, 2017, 06:01:23 AM
I do so love tge swear filter on this site ;)

Thanks Loosh :) really glad you like him. Hopefully the paint will do him justice!

Alas i have stuck them in place :S i've tried painting in parts before and i can't quite get the knack of it. Just can't picture how the colours will balance across the whole model for some reason.

I know to expect fiddliness and irritation as a consequence though! At least i'm prepared, right? ;)

Thanks Cav, i'll give that a try :) i'll test it out on something for a Ranger longrifle before changing Baharroth.

Actually, speaking of Rangers...

Of all those who travel the skeins of the webway, it is us outcasts, us vagrants, who most frequently plumb its depths. My craftworld kin seek to exploit it like a tool. The Commorites seek to control it like an animal. The Harlequins seek to hide within it like a maze. We, however, seek only to explore. - Ilgaith who Wanders

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As you well know, the rift that bisects our galaxy has breached many gates, allowing She Who Thirsts to seep into our realm. However, that same breach has opened doors long thought sealed. I have braved the predators that stalk these forgotten passageways. Through broken portals, I have glimpsed views not seen since the Fall. There are Eldar there, I am sure of it. What do your runes say, Seer? Even my untrained mind can see these places are heavy with fate.

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Ilgaith who Wanders? Hah! Is that what he's calling himself. We know him as Ilgaith the Deserter. Tell me, why do you trust his word?

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Why did I desert? I'll tell you why. They didn't even give me a name. 'Warborn', is what they called me. One of thousands upon thousands, dragged from the vats of Commorragh, dressed in the uniform of Craftworld life and thrown into the meat-grinder of their pointless wars. I gave myself my name the day I deserted. Do you know what Ilgaith means? No longer faceless...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on July 19, 2017, 06:19:17 AM
Crikey Moses, Ynnead!
He looks Micky Mouse, mate. Having a sword and all we can assume he's not your average scout, but a character?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 19, 2017, 01:31:16 PM
Thanks dude! Well, sort of a character yeah. I've sort of gravitated towards the more INQ28/Inquisimunda thing where everyone's sort of a low-scale character (or, at least is individualised).

The original idea for him was as a lone wanderer, but then i started thinking it would be neat to do a little warband of deserters-turned-explorers. That was influenced somewhat by the little diagram of eldar cultures on the new BRB, where 'Outcasts' are their own separate culture alongside Craftworlders and Corsairs, which makes sense when you think of it as their mode of life is completely different to the Craftworlders. It's only called the Path of the Outcast because the Craftworlders worldview is as set paths reaching towards set destinations.

Then, i thought of the kickass name they gave not-Araloth in AoS: a 'Nomad Prince'.

So, how cool would it be to make an Eldar 'Nomad Prince' as sort of a Beggar-Prince of the outcasts and deserters. Sort of halfway between Rangers and Corsairs. Something to expand the idea of 'Outcast' beyond the narrow idea of Eldar who get bored with the Path and go exploring, into something like a vagrant itinerant culture of wanderlusting Eldar every bit as deep and broad as Craftworld or Commorrite culture.

This guy is hopefully the first of a number of waifs and strays depicting that culture (and the other assorted horrors that lurk within the crumbling realms of the webway).

Because Lord knows i need another new warband to make ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on July 19, 2017, 05:55:43 PM
Bwahaha!
Sure Ynnead, your shelves must have more dust than warbands. Would be interesting to see them all in one pic. A big honk'n field of unique units laid out on display. Not on a brown table though, mate. We won't see a blessed thing... Be well!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 19, 2017, 07:40:53 PM
Haha probably not wrong ;) also, I now sort of get why people don't do camouflaged armies...

Does sandy count?

Oh, and I found that pic from the BRB that I was on about showing 'Outcasts' as a separate culture, and also something tantalisingly Slaaneshi...

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XetD4FsP1Wg/WU4iE-jG2jI/AAAAAAAADi8/2zJSwNxQ5Z8Xgud4oaqkddGzAM_NUrVpwCLcBGAs/s1600/eldar%2Bfamily%2Btree.jpg)

Also, reading this has made me realise just how much I dislike the word 'Aeldari'. So long as you steer clear of Newcrons and inter-species co-operation I try to be upbeat about fluff changes, but honestly it makes me shudder each time I read it :S It's less that we already had a perfectly serviceable word for it: Eldar (although that's part of it), but more that it's just an ungainly and ugly-sounding word in of itself. In addition to it being completely superfluous, it just doesn't sound nice, so I shall hereforth refuse to acknowledge its existence ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: SeekingOne on July 19, 2017, 11:51:37 PM
Of all those who travel the skeins of the webway, it is us outcasts, us vagrants, who most frequently plumb its depths. My craftworld kin seek to exploit it like a tool. The Commorites seek to control it like an animal. The Harlequins seek to hide within it like a maze. We, however, seek only to explore. - Ilgaith who Wanders
(...)
Why did I desert? I'll tell you why. They didn't even give me a name. 'Warborn', is what they called me. One of thousands upon thousands, dragged from the vats of Commorragh, dressed in the uniform of Craftworld life and thrown into the meat-grinder of their pointless wars. I gave myself my name the day I deserted. Do you know what Ilgaith means? No longer faceless...

This is just beatiful! Absolutely love the narrative. If only Black Library had some books about Eldar written in that style...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 20, 2017, 07:06:51 PM
Thanks dude! I'm glad you like it :) writing up little fluff snippets is one of my favourite bits about 40k.

I'd also love to read a BL novel about all the little Eldar bands that fall somewhere between or outside of the main Craftworld and Dark Eldar cultures :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 24, 2017, 07:29:24 PM
Have you ever stopped to wonder why Harlequins travel in packs? In the darkest nights, they remember they are not the apex predator of these twisted pathways... - Ilgaith who Wanders

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Some say that of all the thousands upon thousands of Young Kings sacrificed to awaken the Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God...he is the only one to have been found alive. Perhaps this is true. Perhaps something altogether worse...

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Our people must be strong to face that which is coming. The weak have no place by our side, lest they be the spear that wavers, the shield that drops, the flank that folds. - Message scrawled in blood, discovered atop the Laughing Mount

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Remember the true nature of our Gods, cousin. The craftworlders may have cast him as their God of War, but first and foremost...Khaine is God of Murder.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on July 25, 2017, 01:18:29 AM
Hey, Ynnead!
That's one twisted, nasty looking apex predator you've created there, mate. Really enjoyed the background written for them as well... Pointy ears forever!!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on July 25, 2017, 07:23:54 AM
Wow... sick. I love the dark pallet (similar to your DE which I loved). The gore effects are absolutley killer... perfect accent for the model.

Awesome work as always Ynnead. Keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: SeekingOne on July 25, 2017, 08:58:46 AM
You're a true artist Ynnead :) The way how your pictures work together with the fluff text creates an exquisitely atmospheric experience.

Anyone patient enough can paint a picture full of neat and complex detail - but it takes a true artist to confer a feeling and create a living image with but a few precise strokes. If you know what I mean... )
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: flatworldsedge on July 25, 2017, 06:09:35 PM
Love the wild energy and surging to his pose - and with the fluff shuffled in among the images, it's a wonderful showcase of the character.  Magic stuff.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 25, 2017, 07:31:54 PM
Thanks a millions guys :) you flatter me! Glad you enjoy them as much as I do!

Last one of the dude(tte)s that was just awaiting the final touches for paint :)

What happens when a Warlock wanders the Outcast Path? Wild psykers. Powerful, in their own way. Lacking finesse, but unfettered access to emotion provides them with a turbulent rawness which can often achieve a similar effect.

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(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lvdm04okprwsx1w59wgu.jpg)

Mostly they wander alone. On occasion they find Outcast bands who tolerate their presence, although usually for only a short while. A Hedge-Witch is a valuable resource, but a risky one. Out here, far from the safety of the craftworlds, the gaze of She Who Thirsts rarely falters.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/y29cwqn73lntlv56gkvg.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qcztwooukxhbifkhpkom.jpg)

Maegwen liked this band. Perhaps they hadn't learnt better yet, but even being tolerated for longer than was necessary was more than she usually expected. Perhaps she could make a real difference to these people. Perhaps through this she could atone for what she had done, all those years ago.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wo5vkueiijdkctz4wx7r.jpg)

What did she do? I don't know...but there must be a reason she compulsively paints the bloodied hand of Khaine on her face...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on July 25, 2017, 10:50:14 PM
very nice job on the bloody hand print. I guess it would be seeing the world through the haze of Khaine :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on July 25, 2017, 11:25:03 PM
Creepy Ynnead!
Very blessed creepy, mate... I like it. The bloody hand print is a nice touch.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: SeekingOne on July 26, 2017, 02:38:21 AM
Can't add much to what I already said before, except to say that this is one more cool artwork :)

Are those Glade Guard legs? )
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 26, 2017, 05:20:45 AM
Thaks guys! I'm chuffed to bits with how the hand-print turned out :) it wasn't actually something i'd planned, but i was flicking through TV Tropes that day and read a page on Orks, so had a picture of an Uruk-Hai with the white hand of saruman on his face looking at me when i unlocked my phone and thought 'hey' that would look really cool!'

They are Glad Guard legs yeah, but i've found they stand a little shorter than Eldar, so i clipped off the leg bit leaving just the layered cloth, clipped off some Guardian legs at the knee (ouch!) And stuck the two together which has come out at the perfect height :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on July 27, 2017, 08:27:15 AM
Nice work as always Ynnead. I just love your color scheme. Really takes me back to the old days when Eldar were a bit more ghostly and ethereal... especially in the artwork. Love the blood too... super nice touch. Great stuff Ynnead keep rocking!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on July 28, 2017, 12:08:05 PM
Thanks dude! Yeah some of the older artwork that makes eldar look really alien/ethereal. A lot of the newer stuff does too if you compare their proportions to humans).
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 1, 2017, 07:32:28 PM
I thought I'd share the Corsairs I knocked together a while ago since they're relatively low on the painting list :) these were mainly an exercise in just seeing what bits and pieces I could throw together and to see what looked cool for future endeavours, but there's a couple of ideas I've been thinking based on them.

Basically, these guys are a little more 'low-rent' than the Khaine's Ravens. While the latter are a veritable shadow-empire, these 5 are just a band of vagabonds scratching a living as mercenaries and guns-for-hire.

Felarch:
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kmdbckannfvzjrdybgoq.jpg)

Wrack/Avenger
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bifbnjsnp3479mumytq3.jpg)

War-witch (I'm thinking she's a Wych who showed latent psychic powers, and only just managed to escape Commorragh with her life)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/muhyhmw4xxe9bcjn1zml.jpg)

The Lovers (One thought I had is that when Eldar pair together they develop a deeper and deeper psychic bond, one effect of which is that they begin unconsciously mirroring each other's actions)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/opsnwiebqu6zxylrg7nh.jpg)

The whole gang
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ailapyzoli8hghenkfpb.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on August 2, 2017, 06:37:54 AM
Looking good as always bud. Love the Harlie bits. Gotta get some of those pistols they look awesome. So much less stubby than the Stormy pistols.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on August 2, 2017, 07:50:07 AM
Niiiiice, Ynnead!
I like the lover's touch, a cool fluff behind them. There should be interesting rules that go with these. A twin linked, even in combat style maybe? A blood lust kind of rule if one is killed and the other survives?   
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Grizzlykin on August 2, 2017, 08:40:52 AM
Oh man the amount of work poored into this army is absolutly baffeling (is that even english?). I can't believe it honestly monstruously good : army, project, skills, I don't know, everything!

Igot to say in your latest addition the one I prefer probably are the lovers. I love the Idea of incorporating such à concept in your army. That said. Rather than purely mimiking each other I think à more powerfull connection is created by having two mind knowing what the other does, and incorporating each others movements into the movement of the other. So judjing for your past realisation it is something you can pull of. I think a pair of character wich if far from each other seems to have weird pose, but side by side support each others could be really cool. Side idea I'm'throwing there cause I can't realy do it myself.

Great work dude keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 2, 2017, 07:26:41 PM
Thanks a ton guys!

@Cav Yeah the Harlie bits are really nice. It's so nice to actually have shuriken pistols in plastic that actually look elegant. I must admit that I stock up on them whenever they're in stock on bits sites as they're so useful ;)

@saim-dann Ooh good ideas. There should be a neat little rules interaction between these two. I'm thinking something to do with their shared consciousness. Something like if one of them is affected by Fear or Fearless, or telepathic attack like Mind War, or simply fleeing/rallying then it happens to both of them in tandem even if they're on opposite ends of the board.

@grizzlykin "I'm throwing there cause I can't really do it myself yet"

Fixed that for you ;) if you head back to page 5 I managed to unearth some of my earliest models. They're living proof that all it takes is practice ;)

You've actually hit the nail on the head for exactly how I think this works :) I wrote a bit of a blurb to go with it, but couldn't really explain it properly. You're absolutely right it'd go beyond just passive mirroring of another's actions. The only real way I could think to describe it is that their consciousnesses steadily attune to the point that they're more akin to a single mind/soul split between two bodies.

This being 40k, it can't be all roses though. I wonder what would happen if one falls in battle...

No wonder the Eldar regulate their emotions so strictly.

Oh, and just finished painting a new little gribbly dude :)

All creatures great and small,
The Plague God made them all.

- Ancient Albian Proverb, popular among legionnaires of the XIV

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hzvkin17ueg3ayfkgkmu.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xajahdbu5hvgbqmyfdjh.jpg)

We assume it must have been human once...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/j0d0ktraphiiag2zthce.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/irwb1lwbnfm4iibzpr1p.jpg)

You will find, dearest friend, that all beings have their place in the universe. Naturally, humanity's is below ours. Is not the fact that we do not seek your extermination not proof of our benevolence?

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ics21yijjqtbhg3lp9gb.jpg)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Grizzlykin on August 3, 2017, 03:05:58 AM

This being 40k, it can't be all roses though. I wonder what would happen if one falls in battle...

No wonder the Eldar regulate their emotions so strictly.


Either you take two casuality, either you fail your moral check, either you don't care^^ In the lore ine battle they migh not notice it because of the battle mask, or they might grow crazy and do weird stuff. Eldar are so hard to pinppoint on the psychological side.

OK will check that page 6^^

Twisted color scheme for these one up. Really goes well with the model great job!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on August 3, 2017, 08:46:25 AM
Damn man... love that little creature! One of my favorites of all your models so far. He'd be awesome as a wandering objective (like the relic). Sort of a capture the 40k Gollum (from Lord of the Rings) before the enemy captures him and gets the information. Actually that'd be a fun mission in Shadow War. Anyway sweet stuff as always my friend
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 9, 2017, 08:00:57 AM
Thanks dude :) glad you like him. I remember reading about an Inquisimunda game where each side had to capture an objective that was a drunk planetary governor. Each turn, they'd roll a scatter die and a d6 to find out where he'd move. Oh, amd there was a GM-orchestrated Tyranid attack at the same time. Sounds like a ton of fun!

Made up four more dude(tte)s for my Outcast warband :) the survivors of those who followed Ilgaith into exile.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wgphlfrkna6pf8nvzily.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vycerc7ycoog0bknaxsi.jpg)

You…you have a child? Out here?

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vejxlezeohoej37zgatz.jpg)

Many of us have. We live out here, with all that entails. Quite frankly, what choice did we have?

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xcsayzmmtxabgnmtvk35.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/tfiimmey4ndej7vkq02f.jpg)

Where Ilgaith goes, we follow. It's not as if we could return without something to barter our freedom for anyway. I've heard what the Angvai do to deserters...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qpdnqgz61a29ojgoxrqn.jpg)

One of the things these guys have let me do is scratch an itch that I've been feeling for a while. It's a bit of a trope in war-settings that the worlds are completely devoid of children. Things usually take a step towards the gritty and the realistic if they do include them, which seems right up the INQ28-style street :)

It also gives a valuable little glimpse that the galaxy might not be 'only war'. Interwoven with the warfare and strife are countless billions of families just trying to survive in a wartorn dystopian future.

For these eldar it's especially poignant as eldar children are so few and far between. Discovering you're with child when you're a vat-born clone with a slim chance of survival would be a bedrock-solid reason to desert. Also, it's a little suggestion that there might be more to Outcasts than just eldar deciding they want a gap-year from the Path system. There are eldar living outside the safety of the craftworlds or Commorragh (through choice or necessity), surviving against the odds :)

Also, when i finally get round to playig a game it might make people think twice about shooting at her...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on August 9, 2017, 01:52:21 PM
Very nice work Ynnead. Love that Sniper rifle conversion (did I get that right?) too. Really effective. Seen a lot of people try it, but this has gotta be the best. You totally nailed it.

Also very cool backstory too. Love all the thought that goes into the background of your guys. Mark of a true hobbyist! Killer work my friend. Keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on August 9, 2017, 02:02:13 PM
Those are really cool Ynnead. Outcasts that look the part - totally cast out! Your work has so much character bud, it really is a pleasure seeing these updates. Some people may kit bash...but you create new worlds with your work. Just stunning.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 10, 2017, 04:56:07 AM
Thanks a ton guys!

I'm dead pleased with the sniper rifle :) the only thing I feel it's missing somewhat is a stock, but apart from that I'm happy :)

Oh, a bit of headcanon I thought of to explain everyone's different designs of kitbashed snipers. Outcasts don't exactly have a manufacturing base churning out Range Longrifles. So, each one will be hand-made by the outcast from whatever scavenged and modified bits they can find. Hence all the different varieties :)

Glad you like the fluff :) part of the reason I've gone deeper down the rabbit-hole of more world-buildy stuff is I saw all the awesome work people are doing for INQ28 with expanding the Imperium to show its infinite variety and thought 'logically, the Eldar would be every bit as varied as the Imperium'...so I set out to prove that ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: SeekingOne on August 11, 2017, 07:33:12 AM
...so I set out to prove that ;)

By all means please keep it up Ynnead! If only BL writers writing about Eldar could show your level of creativity and heart-felt approach (if I can put it this way). Your fluff is so amazing it's unbelievable. If you ever decide to write a full-sized book (or even a short story for that matter) I'm your first buyer  :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 11, 2017, 08:18:39 PM
Thanks dude! You flatter me :)

They say that everyone has one novel in them, but I'm fairly certain mine's chopped up into a hundred thousand little fluff snippets ;) luckily that suits 40k quite nicely though :)

There is a little bit of a direction I'm going with all the little snippets, shared with my non-Eldar dudes. Basically there's a crescent-shaped sector of desert-worlds human's call 'Salazar's Scar'. It's highly unlikely that every habitable world in a sector would be a desert world, but it's because Nurgle used to reign there and that's what happens when you drive Nurgle out (Nurgle is a god of life after all). Each of the updates are eventually leading to Nurgle beginning to come back to claim his throne. Just need to get the models done that move that forwards!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 14, 2017, 07:28:44 PM
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vatgarajg3ts3uncfd4t.jpg)

"No," the figure explained patiently, "you misunderstand. I hold no formal title. There is no governance or rulership among us Outcasts. 'The Nomad Prince' is little more than an epithet. Still, I suppose I am as close to a figurehead for my people as we have, if only due to provenance."

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bvazjzpuowxrorz6x5ve.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zahb4dg8upg03gmyzkbu.jpg)

I hear that his house were once exodites, fleeing the Old Empire.

I hear they became lost along the way. Not physically lost, but 'lost' as a state of mind. They have been wandering ever since.


(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/cs04mkfxnlqlnanqe5iw.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ka1cffxnxrt37tf6aftb.jpg)

The Nomad Prince? Vainglorious navel-gazer. Does little more than tempt away the young and naive with fabulous myths of exploration. There is nought but a lonely death awaiting the Eldar out among the stars. I half expect that come the Rhana Dandra he'd spend his time philosophising rather than pick up his spear to fight.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/thmyya2ngxosqp17ib2x.jpg)
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/p7jmfuwvuj1kuz3r9hc8.jpg)

Have you never stopped to wonder about this place? Why this particular reach of the webway is filled with sand? It's not sand, cousin, it's glass. You stand amid the ruins of Karaehe, the great glittering city. Miles upon miles of transparent towers, wondrous to behold. Shattered and ground to dust by the fell energies of the Fall.

You can still find bones in the sand, if you look.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on August 15, 2017, 03:11:05 AM
Tremendous Ynnead. The paint work is so befitting the style of your models. The influences of John Blanche really shine through on this particular model.

Great work bud!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 15, 2017, 06:08:07 AM
Thanks a ton Loosh! Really glad you like him :) I feel like I'm really getting the hang of weathering now, so wanted to see how far I could take it. It's actually a lot easier than I'd thought, both for the heavy stuff and lighter stuff too. It's sort of a bit like reverse-highlighting, but purposefully rough and slipshod. Orders of magnitude easier than edge-highlighting :)

Oh, and something I forgot to mention. Since the Croneworlder one winged Vampire-Lord guy I've been looking to Fantasy for characters to mirror in the 40k universe, with a suitable grimdark twist. A lot of named characters in Fantasy have been changed into generic up-spec characters in the jump to AoS. This guy is based on the Fantasy Araloth, who in AoS has been turned into a character called a 'Nomad Prince'.

(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-RzUvSAAbDSw%2FU7S12hGzpoI%2FAAAAAAAABUU%2FUYIU8Wc8_Ys%2Fs1600%2FELF2A.jpg&hash=855c6e91a64c664e1183bbd3bac4891748f1e49d)

I've used bits of his kit in my Nomad Prince, and tried to mirror the pose with more Eldar bits as well. He's also called 'Araloth of the hooked Blade', so I thought it would be fitting to replace his eagle with the hooked claw I had spare from the Tenebrael Shard kit (especially as it mimicked the pose).

Lastly, the background for Araloth is that he was a bit of a coward until he came across an elf maiden being assaulted by a Slaaneshi daemon. He slew the daemon, and the maiden revealed herself as Lileath, stating she had a plan for him. Since then, he's been the bravest and most untiring champion of the wood elves.

In the universe of 40k...Lileath is dead. The Nomad Prince never had his pivotal moment. A lifetime of wandering as an outcast has expunged his cowardice by necessity, but he never developed the untiring desire to fight for his people. He simply wanders his own path through the ashes of his civilisation, earning the disdain of the warlike Angvai (who are quoted above).
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on August 15, 2017, 09:05:28 AM
Niiiice. Really dig that model. All the bits are really well blended... You should submit on GW's FLICKR account. I wouldn't be surprised to see of this stuff featured. You may even make WD.

Love the backstory too! I wish the Eldar fluff (and novels) was more bleak... because I dont think they really capture the loss that should be inherent to the Eldar.


Anyway great stuff man. Keep it up  8)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on August 15, 2017, 05:12:08 PM
you need to do an army wide shot, all that's got to look amazing on the battlefield :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 15, 2017, 07:24:53 PM
Thanks Cav :) that's a brilliant idea!

I'm with you on the bleakness front. They went through a similar civilisation-rending event to the Imperium...except the Eldar lost.

It's perfectly reasonable for the Eldar to have carved out their survival, and for some to have thrived even, but it's always worth grounding that with the fact that their entire civilisation is in ruins.

I'll see what I can get on the army-shot front :) someone on dakka asked for a bit of a retrospective of where all the warbands are at which might help scratch that itch slightly ;)

True Kin:
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--hRm48GXY--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ycn288tgqgwm1qo5d2pf.jpg)

Wych Coven:
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vxhxjivvoo7wg1p6jvk4.jpg)

Exodites (of the INQ28 variety):
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--exxA6Yx6--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hyd6w6cuu905mabtrd0r.jpg)

Ynnari:
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ozv1uulkysgpxswxyj5x.jpg)

Croneworlders:
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/odeujsemi8ajvrsugnsm.jpg)

Malari:
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ics21yijjqtbhg3lp9gb.jpg)

Outcasts:
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ylthezu4fl7mygqw1qur.jpg)

Things that Go Bump in the Night:
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/gqlllmrjexn15i7wfml6.jpg)

Of those, none of them are really finished. I want to expand on my Kabal a little (they're basically jumped up street thugs who have just started calling themselves a Kabal, so some sort of Hellion Militia would be cool). I've got at least one more bio-engineered Wych nearly finished as I want to go a little further into the multi-limbed thing. My exodites will be revisited soon hopefully to make some more characterful rank and file dudes (probably using some of my Hunters, and some war beasts). The Ynnari need two more cultists for that warband to be up to strength, and I think I might try another (related) Ynnari Cult with a similar palette but different motivations. The Croneworlders are probably as close to being finished as any of them, although I've been dying to make a daemon prince from a Verminlord). The Malari will be getting quite a few more members, and I've actually weathered them up a little more as it didn't seem right that they looked clean next to my Outcasts. The Outcasts I'm not sure as I think they're up to strength now. Perhaps a pack-mule War Walker at some point?. Lastly, the Webway Predators I've got at least two ideas that I really, really want to make (just because I have a thing about doing villains right).

Oh, and I need some craftworlders too! I've got fluff written and ideas formed, just need to make some models and/or paint them (my Storm Guardians are the first lot). As the models are a little hard to make creepy/grimdark I've sort of gone a bit hard with the fluff to make up for that ;)

I'll grab a pic of my Corsairs as they stand as well. My plans for them I'm not sure actually. I think I want to make a 'listening cell' of 5 or so models to represent what the intelligence-gathering organisation of the Khaine's Ravens is like, while the red-and-gold main army force is representative of the punative military forces of the Ravens that they use if anyone tries to mess with their intelligence operations. The 5 lower-level Corsair mercs will be getting paint as soon as I've worked out what colours they should be...

I do also have some other vague ideas for other groups of Outcasts as it's such a varied thing to explore, and a few neat ideas for something to do with Biel-Tan being fractured (two ways I could go with that: battered and worn refugees and/or vengeful nomad fleet like if the Quarians from Mass Effect were xenocidal warmongerers). Someone also mentioned that it would be a damn sweet idea to try and make some craftworld citizens, but in the usual was of bending them to be slightly more grimdark and alien than you'd expect from your usual interpretation of Eldar.

Oh! Harlequins. Forgot about those. I've got three painted and the rest of a squad modelled, but haven't touched them in a while. I must admit, Harlequins are the ones that I've found hardest to do something weird with. I quite like the idea of them as sort of lone emissaries, trusted by Eldar (potentially in error) and thoroughly manipulative even by Eldar standards. Not quite sure how best to work that into a model though...

Lastly, I really want to try my hand at some Saim Hann dudes. It was the Wild Riders that really got me into Eldar all those years ago, and I still have a soft spot for them. I've just ordered some greenstuff so will be using them as a testbed to work out how to sculpt fur ruffs and things like that :) plus, them being red fits in with the whole group palette nicely :)

tl;dr I feel like I've come quite a way, but there's still veritable fathoms of depth to the Eldar that I haven't yet plumbed, and I'm determined to make them every bit as varied, detailed and nuanced as the Imperium ;) no rest for the wicked!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on August 17, 2017, 08:03:12 AM
Looking awesome Ynnead. Great collection you've got going. Super unique... like I said you should definitley submit this to the GW Flickr, I think they'd love it.

As I've said previously I really like the DE wing of your collection. That color scheme is just sick.

Also if you wanted to do CW Eldar I don't think you'd have to change much in your approach. I'd just keep the bodies and helmets normal, hit them with your ghostly paint scheme and just give them a few odds and ends in terms of bits and you should be good to go. I think you could accomplish a lot with bits alone.

Lastly, about Saim-Hann, doing those fur cloaks is super easy! I've done it on a number of models and I'm really happy with how it came out. I'm sure you'd breeze through it.

Anyway great stuff Ynnead. I'd love to see a mean army arise from this collection one day. Keep at it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: SeekingOne on August 17, 2017, 02:04:19 PM
This is so Yhwh-condemned awesome. Can't really add much to what I already said in this thread - but you know what I mean Ynnead ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 17, 2017, 06:45:55 PM
Thanks guys! Glad you like them SeekingOne :)

I've begun the process of uploading stuff to a freshly created Flickr account :) you can find it here if you're interested in higher res stuff to show off all my paint flaws ;) https://www.flickr.com/photos/150838680@N07/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/150838680@N07/)

Wondering on the best way to put in my little fluff snippets. One per pic? Might need to write some more...

I really like the DEldar colours too :) lovely scheme to paint actually. I must add some more to them actually :) I definitely need to have a crack at making some Hellion militia for them. I envisage the Kabalites pictured as the upper echelons of a large mob of street thugs. Need to start making some!

Army-wise, I was thinking that it would be cool for each of these little warbands to have an army backing them up/pulling their strings (even if it starts off as only 500pts each). Sort of how the real-world West/East fought their Cold War by arming militants in developing countries and using them to fight their wars on their behalf. So, we've got these groups with more powerful factions pushing them along like so:

Outcasts -> Craftworld Angvellaith
TBC Khaine's Ravens Listening Cell -> Khaine's Ravens proper
Ynnari Cult -> TBC Ynnari warlord
Wych -> Kabalites (or the other way around?)
Exodite hunting party -> Exodite army
Croneworlders -> Slaaneshi daemon army
Malari -> Nurgle daemon army

That's the latest rambling thoughts on anything resembling a grand plan at least ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 21, 2017, 05:31:02 AM
Well, I spent this weekend doing a bit of a redux of all my old models :) after the weathering on my Outcasts, everyone else was looking a little...pristine which just won't do. It'll probably be completely unnoticeable in pictures, but they look much improved in the wraithbone, so to speak ;)

Warning, this will probably be a bit image-heavy...

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I also found some time to go and do a little touch-up on my Corsairs. Again, probably not really noticeable but a little weathering on the reds and golds, some deeper washes on the coats and some drybrushing and a heavy nuln oil wash on the feathers.

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My two squads of Reavers are up next for a little weathering then my Malevolents, and there's another two squads, another Baron and 5 Balestrikes awaiting paint. If they don't have rules as of 8th I don't really care. The 7th Corsair codex was a masterpiece, so I'll just keep going on as if it's coming back...

I also had the idea to try the technique for weathering (basically the same as a rough drybrushed edge-highlight, but using a darker colour rather than a lighter one, and working upwards) with Blood for the Blood God on my Dark Eldar. I was originally thinking that it might be too much blood...but then I thought this is the Dark Eldar we're talking about. 'Too much blood' probably doesn't register anywhere near their concerns...

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Last, but by no means least, are my exodites :) again, just a little weathering to make the bone look a little older and the cloth a little dirtier. Reminded me just how damn proud of these I am :) it's also given me a little inspiration of how to move forward with these guys as a warband a little, so expect a couple more updates in future!

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Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: colinsherlow on August 21, 2017, 11:53:15 AM
That lord with the horns is really cool. How did you make that lovely fella?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 21, 2017, 12:05:50 PM
Thanks dude :) i actually did a step-by-step for him back on page 10, but as a synopsis he's mostly Visarch with a leg, arms and head of Sylvaneth Tree Revenants, horns from the Wild Rider stags and a whole host of little gribblies from the Treelord kit :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on August 22, 2017, 08:01:13 AM
Sorry Ynnead, I can't really tell the difference. They look great as ever though, and its awesome to see so many of your models together in a single post. They look phenomenal all the same. Good for you to touch them up, I love doing that myself  ;D
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 22, 2017, 08:52:38 AM
Haha no worries ;) most of them don't really come across in pictures at all, but they look that little more textured when you're holding them in your hand. Still pretty subtle though. The only ones with any big changes are the DEldar.

Oh, and i'm midway through your batrep but keep getting interrupted! Seems like you're kicking backside so far ;)

Last update from the spate of updating so far. Improved Thaegr with the same trick I used on the Hedge-Witch Maegwen of replacing the Glade Guard lower legs with Guardian legs to get him the proper height. It's also had the happy coincidence of fixing his pose slightly. Previously from some angles it looked like he was overbalancing and about to fall backwards, but not any more :)

Sadly, it's also come along with a demotion. He's no longer an Exodite Lord, but a warrior in Raodruin's retinue. However, that's freed me up somewhat to do some more exodite warriors to a similar level as him so expect some soon :)

Thaegr, Hart-Thorn, Son of Kurnous. Hound of the Hunt.

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The great horned xeno looked down upon the emperor's faithful. Its form looked familiar enough to pass for human under the vastly expanded meaning used in the 41st millennium. It was the eyes that gave it away. No human had eyes like that. Staring into them, the guard realised just how alien the Eldar truly were.

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"Long have we tolerated your presence in this place," the merciless creature toned. "Hunting your kind has proved remarkably enjoyable sport through the years. However, yet again your ignorance has provided the conduit for the Plaguefather to access our worlds. Regrettably, our sport must come to an end. Your presence here has outlived its entertainment."

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I've also come up with a little fluff for Raodruin, playing on the idea of him being a Soul Drinker (a forgotten Eldar practice of consuming the souls of murder victims to replenish your vitality and increase your power), and a little of the ideas I've had for what precisely happens when you murder a race's warp-gods.

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With no small amount of difficulty these days, Raodruin called up one of the souls of his victims from the hazy miasma swirling within him. Old, clouded, befuddled thing. One of his earliest hunts. Before the Fall, even. From what his own ruminating thought processes could decipher, the ancient murdered soul had once been somewhat of an expert in the matters of warp-Gods. Not that its word could be trusted. It was older than he was, and had experienced the slow gradual decline into general confusion that afflicted all stored souls of the Eldar.

From what he could understand of the incoherant ramblings, the hooks that bound warp-Gods to their mortals appeared to travel in both directions. Warp-Gods were reflections of the beings which created them, but they also embodied aspects of them. Remove one, and the hooks would leave ragged wounds in the consciousness of a race. They knew. Apparently the Eldar had tried it a few times on some of the vermin-species. It was amusing, in a way. Like breaking a wheel off a clockwork toy so it could only spin in circles.

Raodruin thought he could hazily remember himself, if remember was even the right word. He wasn't sure how many of his memories were his own and how many were the accreted thoughts of his victims bleeding through into his consciousness. The moment his Gods died, so had parts of his soul and the soul of every other Eldar in perpetuity. It had been horrendously painful on a level only a soul could feel. Yet, it was impossible to quantify what had been lost. In what way they were broken. Conspicuous only in its comparative absence. It was as if you were a spider, and some higher being had removed all but three of your legs. You hadn't the capacity to understand what had happened, nor the slightest possibility of regaining what was lost. All you knew is that you were struggling to escape, unstable and skittering desperately away. That's what the Eldar were now. Three-legged spiders scrabbling around among the other insects of the galaxy. There were Eldar for generations who had never even known they were missing something. Never known what might and majesty their collective soul was lacking.

Ynnead, however, proved intriguing. Could it be possible to replace what most could not see was missing? Did Raodruin even want whatever this...dead god...offered to plug the gap? Provided that was even the mechanism by which it functioned. On that matter the poor faded soul was no use whatsoever. Either that or he wasn't able to comprehend what it was saying with his own addled mind.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 25, 2017, 08:05:13 PM
I originally planned to get my Storm Guardians painted, but the exodite bug's bitten me again...

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Nuadhuin, Wrothspear, Son of Kurnous. Hound of the Hunt.

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All Eldar, by dint of their heightened experience of the world, are vulnerable to the harrowing effects of warfare. The warriors of each eldar fragment must deal with this each time they descend into battle. Through meditative training and psychological dissociation, the Craftworld Eldar construct a 'War Mask' that can be donned and shed at will. The Dark Eldar revel in the slaughter, and need no protection. The Exodites, through wild rituals and psychotropic drugs descend into an animalistic state, embodying the feral predators that stalk their worlds. Their battles aren't fought like the careful orchestras of tacticians, or the grinding stalemates of attrition. Theirs is a feral fury, and a cunning borne of intelligent minds put to predatory purposes.

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Once to awaken the wolves of Kurnous
Twice to sharpen the blade
Thrice to hearken the hunt to us
Where bloody murder be made


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I've also come up with a bit of an idea for a 500pt (490pt) army for these (with models doing double-duty as INQ28 warbands and a 40k army). These Hounds of the Hunt will be counts-as Striking Scorpions. Raodruin will be a counts-as Visarch. Then I've got two squads of Hunters/Kabalites with Blasters, a squad of Howling Banshees and two Clawed Fiends (wait 'til you see what I've done for them!).

Might take a while if each model is as heavily converted as these guys, but 500pts isn't a terribly lofty goal so hopefully not too long :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Dread on August 26, 2017, 01:44:08 AM
Holy cow. So much to see. It all looks so great.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 26, 2017, 04:34:08 AM
Thanks dude! Glad you like them :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on August 26, 2017, 08:01:27 AM
Awesome work Ynnead! That Nuadhuin is brilliant. Love it.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on August 26, 2017, 08:29:36 AM
NIIIICE. Love that spear guy! Killer posing there Ynnead. Also YES! Finally a list appears! Thats what I want to hear  ;D ;D ;D Sounds like a great place to start... you could easily bulk out by just picking up a couple of Venoms or Raiders for your dudes too and you'd be real close a 1000pts. Awesome!

I'd also try and hit people up for games of Necromunda (or whatever they renamed it). I'm sure you'd have a blast with that too.

Great stuff Ynnead! Can't wait to see how your collection shapes up into fighting form!  ;D
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 27, 2017, 07:19:46 PM
Thanks Loosh! Glad you like him :)

Yeah about time Cav! Not sure how viable of a list it is really, although at 500pts you're pretty restricted as to what you can take. It's definitely on the choppier side of things. My plan was for the two squads of Kabalites to hang back and/or chase tanks and the rest of them race headlong for the enemy and (hopefully) chop them up into little pieces.

Works for Orks. Why not Eldar? ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on August 30, 2017, 04:20:35 PM
G'day Ynneadwraith!
Had 10 minutes to spare and spent it catching up on your blog... WOW! Seriously, mate... WOW! Haven't the time right now to read all your wonderful writing, just drooling over your pictures. Will spend more time with the details when life backs off a wee bit. Missed your kit bashing, mate... Be well!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on August 30, 2017, 07:07:27 PM
Haha thanks dude! Always appreciate you dropping by :) hope life eases off to a more leisurely pace at some point soon ;)

Also, thanks for suggesting the GW flickr page Cav :) photos have been accepted and are up now! Fingers crossed for a rather farfetched White Dward feature ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on August 31, 2017, 07:33:24 AM
@Ynneadwraith- I saw you on there bud! I'm following you on flickr too! Thats awesome they accepted you... their flickr group is INSANE! Its my favorite source of 40k inspiration bar none. You've got your foot in the door my friend... just saying!

BTW check this dude out! This'll be right up your alley

https://www.flickr.com/photos/torq42/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/torq42/)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 1, 2017, 08:52:08 PM
It really is! There's some truly phenomenal work on there. Just perusing a guy called Lanfeust's Tau which are painted half red and tan (what? me? like red and tan schemes? never!), and half merging into a stealth-fielded jet black and tron-blue lighting. His Tyranids are downright terrifying too...

I checked out that link and that dude is fantastic as well :) the little dioramas he sets up are the most realistic I've ever seen. The one with the Orks emerging from the undergrowth of a primordial forest is particularly brilliant :)

I can see this becoming quite the time-sink...

Enough of the gushing praise ;) I've got an update!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/cnwhblk00sgspy2ky8wn.jpg)

They're Angvai I think, by the look of their banners. Belligerant warmongerers. In collusion with the cloners of the Dark Kin to bolster their forces, which has had a rather marked effect on their outlook. They maintain little of the reverance for Eldar life that other craftworlders hold. Why would you when you can just grow more? Be careful of them, cousin. Dangerous folk to associate with...or be within range of, come to think of it.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/omigmhx9haf1b32nzul1.jpg)

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Deserters? If caught in the act they're shot on sight. Either that or sacrificed to wake the Avatar. Alas, there are enough of us who are…uneasy…with our treatment of our vat-born clones to mean that if we catch them after they've deserted it's a little less straight forwards. Usually, they're sent on suicide missions. Sometimes, if they come to us with something of value, they're pardoned, provided they continue to be useful. Either way, they have to prove that they are worth the life we have given them.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xzk54qsbflcctmd24jwn.jpg)

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Yes, it's despicable, but what precisely would you have us do? Our world teetered on the brink. Unlike Iyanden, we weren't blessed with ranks upon ranks of wraith-shells with which to guard our survivors. Our pact with the Dark Kin has provided us with numbers, but numbers which are ill-suited to craftworld life. They must be forged anew in the crucible of war, taught stricture and discipline. Once they have proven themselves, they are granted citizenship, and all the safety the craftworld provides. The blood of a hundred thousand Eldar stains our hands, but a hundred thousand more survive because of us.

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I suppose on some level they know that they are murderers. Why else would they adorn themselves with the bloody hand of Khaine?

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Now I remember why I moved to painting models on a more individual basis! I'm just not cut out for batch-painting :S although saying that I'm dead proud of these guys :) that little bit of extra weathering really hits a sweet spot of what I was after with making Craftworlders look a little grittier than your usual clean-cut paint schemes (not that there's anything wrong with those mind, just not my style).

In a fit of masochism I've also decided to start naming my dudes on the back of their bases, purely because I really like the idea :) adds a great deal of immediately visible personality to a warband which for now I feel is worth the hand cramp!

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/yab688woiksjliruxgsk.jpg)

It's also given me the opportunity to link in the fluff of my Outcasts with the Craftworld they were cast out from :) remember this bit of fluff?

Why did I desert? I'll tell you why. They didn't even give me a name. 'Warborn', is what they called me. One of thousands upon thousands, dragged from the vats of Commorragh, dressed in the uniform of Craftworld life and thrown into the meat-grinder of their pointless wars. I gave myself my name the day I deserted. Do you know what Ilgaith means? No longer faceless... - Ilgaith who Wanders

Well, I've followed that through ;)

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Next on the painting table is some more exodites which I can't wait to share. Got some rather creepy ideas for what just how grimdark the exodite world of Selesti has become...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on September 2, 2017, 08:24:35 AM
These guys look phenomenal! Totally, totally agree... the extra weathering looks ace! The red spot colors looks fantastic and the harlie guns and swords add so much dynamism. Super nice job Ynnead. Love it!

Also glad you are liking Flickr. Yeah I know EXACTLY the Tau army you are talking about. I thought that was insane! Also glad you liked the diorama guy. He was nice enough to follow me back. That dude is a hobby pro! I loved the Squats and Eldar Rangers battle scenes. Crazy stuff...

Anyway great stuff my friend keep it up!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on September 2, 2017, 08:24:45 AM
man, I can wait to see a battlefield pic, its just going to look amazing on the table.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on September 3, 2017, 06:48:55 AM
G'day Ynneadwraith!
Really enjoy your group shots, mate. The weathered/war torn armour is brilliantly done and I'm a big fan of the detailing around the eye lenses. Also, the rear shot of the units is unique photography. Giving the viewer the perspective of the Eldar player is a good idea. Well done... Pointy ears forever!! 
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 4, 2017, 07:38:12 PM
Thanks guys! Glad you like them :) need to make an Autarch for these guys at some point. I've got some I've done previously, but I've been itching to use the Dark Eldar Corsair Shipmaster head I've got lying around :) the look of disdain on his face just perfectly fits the characterisation for what my Craftworld's like*

On the topic of the diorama guy I really like the little trick of filling up the scene with sand or rubble/shrubs in the foreground to disguise the bases. Great idea :)

I'll get them on the table eventually I promise ;) if only to take some pics and write some fluff about it ;) that way if my pointy ears go running towards their doom I'll at least get something from it...

That idea of taking a picture showing the perspective of the player's a really cool one Saim Dann :) unintentional on my part but it does work! Just thought of a cool army shot too. Farseer on some form of elevation with his warhost spread out before him. Camera down on the Farseer's level giving a sort of 'general's-eye-view' of his warhost :)

*basically, the idea behind them is that they're belligerent and incredibly 'short', both in speech and the way they deal with things (stemming from the fact they've had to go down a very utilitarian route simply to ensure their survival).

Where an Iyandeni diplomat might try to settle a dispute between themselves and another craftworld by careful diplomacy to try and avoid Eldar casualties, an Angvai diplomat is just as likely to get impatient, blow their head off with a Fusion Pistol and justify it by saying that time isn't a resource the Eldar have in abundance.

Even in less confrontative disputes, they're more 'ask forgiveness, not permission' types.

Of course, I don't want them to be a Planet of Hats, so there's vast disparities in opinion among the Angvai about all of this, including something of an underground railroad for Warborn out of the craftworld, but as a broad consensus that's what they're like :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: SeekingOne on September 5, 2017, 04:53:02 AM
Oh my :) Great work there, as usual :)

Quote
I gave myself my name the day I deserted. Do you know what Ilgaith means? No longer faceless... - Ilgaith who Wanders

Well, I've followed that through ;)
And this is avesome!!!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on September 5, 2017, 09:14:51 AM
Wow Ynnead, you've done some serious work whilst I've been away!
You've been smashing it with the kitbashes!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 6, 2017, 11:52:49 AM
Thanks a ton guys! Really glad you like them :)

Oh, just thought i'd share the latest bit of bleakness a chap called Westrider's added to my headcanon. Here's the logic:

The Eldar used to be able to reincarnate. You'd assume that such a mechanism would be accounted for in their lifecycle by their creators, the Old Ones.

The Eldar can't reincarnate anymore, which i reckon is one of the main causes of their birthrate problems (not enough souls to go around, or some byproduct of that).

Already pretty bleak.

The new layer is the realisation that each time an Eldar soul is lost to Slaanesh, that probably reduces their birthrate yet further. Not only is there one less Eldar living now, but each and every generation going forwards will have one less Eldar in it.

No wonder they're so precious about their spirit stones, and will do anything to retrieve them.

My thinking for the Dark Eldar overcoming this by cloning comes from a snippet i read about the Haemonculi taking a sliver of soul in exchange for their resurrection services, which to my mind they use to grow a cloned eldar body around.

So, basically Commorragh is the equivalent of 10 eldar souls split between 1000 eldar bodies (hence the psychic atrophy). Any psykers are either throwbacks which chance into getting a full eldar soul, or shardsouls who have topped up their souls with those of their victims creating a patchwork soul equivalent to a full eldar one :)

Latest ramblings when bored at work ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on September 6, 2017, 06:47:19 PM
yeah its kind of unclear if they "had" to reincarnate or not, but if it was the only way and if it is a 1 to 1 ratio there would be a cap on the number of Eldar.

If its a 1 to 1 ratio of being reborn then the Eldar would be constantly shrinking in population. As either the soul is stuck in a stone or devoured. There is no time line on how long it takes before it can come back, so maybe they are still going through the souls of the dead from before the fall.

If its a 1 to many ratio, then things get even worse, with 1 less soul would mean x less births, so the rate of shrinkage would be increased. Again this is all assuming they have to reincarnate.


From a fluff perspective a number of craftworlds aim's are to reclaim the lost empire, can't really do that without being able to have lots of people, so "having" to reincarnate doesn't seem to fit.


If they "could" reincarnate but didn't "have to", then it could simply mean a lower birth rate or no real effect at all.

From the Dark Eldar side of things, you still have trueborn as well, so probably no soul splitting their, but possible from their vat bred things.

Regarding DE and psykers, from what I gather there is no difference between a trueborn and CWE baby, its just CWE really use their natural ability in every day life, where DE shun it, so its like an unused muscle that just withers. At least that's the way it comes across in the new Jain Zar novel.


Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 6, 2017, 07:29:16 PM
Yeah all of that makes sense. My interpretation/headcanon for it is that while reincarnation isn't the only method by which Eldar can produce new souls for their offspring, it is something that the Old Ones built into their birthrate, so without it they're in the situation we see now. I'd also lean towards the 1-to-many thing. It's basically one less Eldar in each and every generation to come. Hence why they're so precious about their lives when no-one else in the galaxy tends to care about their rank and file.

Just because a number of Craftworlds aim to rebuild their empire doesn't mean they've got a hope in hell of actually doing it ;) they could just be hopelessly delusional. Depends on how bleak you like your outlook for the Eldar to be (personally I lean on the grimdark side of things, but I like to leave it ambiguous as to whether it might be possible).

Dark Eldar Trueborn I suppose would represent the natural non-reincarnation birthrate of eldar (so they would have full souls from the get-go, through whatever means a being normally procures a soul). Makes sense that they would be the same as your average CWE psychic-wise before any use/disuse they have. It's all the vat-born I'm imagining being psychically stunted (although otherwise exactly the same), at least until they've done their psychic-vampirism thing to the point where they have the equivalent of a full soul stitched together from the varied bits and pieces they've stolen from others, at which point they're no different to the Trueborn who have had to stitch in new bits of others' souls where theirs has been gnawed away by Slaanesh...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: SeekingOne on September 7, 2017, 01:46:42 PM
That's an interesting discussion indeed :)

If you dont mind me joining in - here's how I always understood the presumed ability of the pre-Fall Eldar to "reincarnate":
From the scarce mentioning in the background, it seems that an Eldar would normally (as in "by default") be born with a "new" soul. However, after having lived through millennia, and having developed his/her consciousness and mind to some great level, that Eldar, after their soul leaves their physical body, would retain their individual self-consciousness and identity even in the Warp, and consequently would be able to reincarnate by entering another newborn child.

Of course I wouldn't insist that I'm correct, but that seems to be the most logically consistent understanding.

If that is correct, then I'd say the current inability of Eldar souls to reincarnate shouldn't affect their birth rate directly - as, to put it simply, a new baby, once conceived (or cloned for that matter), would be born anyway, either with an "old" or with a "new" soul.

That said, the idea of the clones being "the equivalent of 10 eldar souls split between 1000 eldar bodies" is absolutely fascinating in its grimness  :D
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 7, 2017, 02:34:19 PM
By all means jump in :) i love these fluff discussions.

Yeah that makes a lot of sense. I remember reading that by default eldar souls retain consciousness after death, which is part of the reason being devoured by Slaanesh is so horrifying for them. Basically they're awake the whole time...

However, i can see the ability to willingly reincarnate with all your memories as something a soul develops over time so that could work too.

If is the case that and their birthrate isn't affected there would still be some pretty dire consequences. I'm thinking in terms of collective knowledge.

I like to look at the Eldar as being in precisely the same technological boat as the IoM. Basically they used to be able to do wondrous things, but they've lost all of that capability in the horrendous cataclysms that have befallen their civilisations and are left scrabbling around with repurposed civilian gear and obsolete designs.

For the eldar, you've got civilian gear like Dark Eldar Raiders which are basically repurposed pleasure-yachts, and i've got a bit of headcanon that the Falcon chassis for CWE is basically a mothballed design from millennia ago before the eldar started using their automaton armies so is massively obsolete.

We know how the IoM lost their knowledge (had to tear up their archives to stop the Men of Iron, then tore them up again during the Heresy).

Based on the background...i don't even think the Eldar bothered to write any of their knowledge down. If you're a race with eidetic memories, and the ability to reincarnate with those memories intact, there's no point in recording anything. Why would you if you can just remember it for all eternity.

So, when they lost the ability to reincarnate and most of their population got devoured they also lost pretty much their entire knowledge base.

That idea is also held up by the fact that the eldar don't really have a written history, it's all myths legends and fables. They never developed the technology of recording your knowledge for posterity simply because for them there was absolutely no need to.

Neat!

It would also explain why it's only really the Harlequins who know jack about their history and the Great Enemy. They're the only faction that has a genuine library. Perhaps pre-fall the Black Library was a bit of an eccentric oddball's project. Like someone who still communicates by carrier pidgeon in the present day. Now said eccentric oddball is the only one with any knowledge because the internet's shut off post-apocalypse :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on September 8, 2017, 12:10:48 AM
I probably would not go so far as to say they wouldn't write anything down. Sure you might be reborn with some memory, maybe all of those memories eventually, having all of them from birth would kind of be scary, but you would be looking for a way to pass on the knowledge to the new souls as well. Knowledge would need to be shared and pass on to the new souls.

We also know Eldar have not only a verbal language but written one as well. We know even pre-fall they were an artistic bunch, so it not a great leap to say they would have poetry and other great works of written art and given the sheer number of them, I imagine it would have been an incredible amount. Given their advanced technology, it probably would not have been stored on scrolls or stone tablets, but in some sort of digital medium, that was probably accessible via psychic link some what similar to the infinity circuits, like a psychic internet :)

I would imagine given the birth of she who thirsts was a massive psychic shockwave that would have acted kind of like an EMP blast on our tech, so great libraries of knowledge would have been corrupted or destroyed.

Some of these devices may still be operation but being in the eye of terror, you don't particularly want to connect with any thing psychically, not only from the risk of what your connecting to but, it would be like lighting a flair for the demons to come and get you.

As for their technology rate now. Eldar are not one big unified race as they were before pre-fall. They have fallen into factions and factions within factions, a lot like our pollies in real life lol. So each craftworld is essentially its own country and just like in real life now each countries science and tech guys don't share everything with every other country, which slows down the rate of technological advancements. Its only when something big happens that it gets shared, like wraith constructs.

However unlike the Empire which can turn an entire planet into a factory, Eldar craftworlds are limited by physical space and their creation methods. Given they sing most stuff into existence rather than build it in factories using robots and/or slave labour, so again their population size restricts them.

There would also be some skill level involved, so the 1st year apprentice bonesingers make shuriken catapults, while the 3rd year guys are making the DA versions or something. So "building" new bleeding edge tech stuff would probably require an experienced bonesinger, which there may not be many about since they have to cycle through the paths and a good chunk of them are probably churning out more mechs or working on the craftworld itself. Even their Science and tech guys would be cycled out on the path system. You could even make an argument that their tech advancement is slow because the people doing the R&D need to have been experienced in a number of paths.



EDIT:
I like these discussion, get the ole grey matter working again :)

While the Black library is meant to be a craftworld in the webway used as an Eldar repository (technically a CWE+Harlie with the odd inquisitor allowed who eventually try to steal things from it lol), for all things Chaos, info, relics, etc, there is a reference to a book about the Necrons and C'tan getting together, fighting the old ones and the betrayal. So there is info on other topics and pre-war in the heavens stuff, so maybe the Harlies have collected sacred texts and being lead by a Jester god only allowed to share it out in a dance :)

While on that train of thought, Khaine has an Avatar, Ynnead has an Avatar.. kind of makes you wonder if Cegorach will give himself one too.




Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on September 8, 2017, 03:15:53 AM
G'day all!
What a great conversation. Am far too much of a lazy typist to go into length, so I'll be brief. Conceived Eldar have new souls so they have to start from scratch, like us. Therefore they would enter their military as scouts/Guardians. Cloned Eldar, however, retain their knowledge so RE-enter their military as aspects/autarchs/Warlocks etc. Have I got this right?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 9, 2017, 04:22:46 AM
Yeah you're right Magen, I too doubt that the Eldar have no written information. They've clearly got a written language. What I was thinking is that it would be unlikely they would have written technical and historical information. If you're race is functionally immortal via reincarnation, has an eidetic memory and can share information psychically (which as we know from Astropaths can reach across the stars), and is so arrogant and sure of their position as unconquerable the simply isn't any need for actually writing stuff down in any medium so people can look at it later :)

Technically, there's not a massive difference between that idea and the idea of a sort of 'psychic internet'. It's like a psychic internet, where each individual node connection and information repository is simply another eldar. If you need to know something, you just psychically reach out and ask the eldar who has been an expert on that for millennia.

Recorded media is only useful if the information could otherwise be lost somehow. Which considering they're immune from time (reincarnation with memories intact), immune from forgetting (eidetic memories) and immune from invasion (or so they believed) there's no actual motivation to. Perhaps the only ones who did were the mental (although sadly right) doomsayers wandering around shrieking about how the end is nigh, and eccentrics whose obsession led them that way...

These 'great libraries of knowledge' would simply be other eldar who know this stuff :) people don't tend to invent stuff that solves a problem they don't have (or rather, only businesses do and then try to convince you that the invented problem is real via advertising...).

Absolutely with you on the idea that there are varied technological developments between the eldar factions (including between craftworlds). I like the countries analogy because while it suggests that they might unify against a foreign aggressor, they're still frequently in competition.

For instance, what do you think would happen if Ulthwe seers predict that if Orks win a particular war 10,000 Ulthwe eldar die and if the Imperium wins then 10,000 Saim Hann eldar die. That sort of conflict which could easily blow up into being a martial one given the stakes is a really interesting situation :) I wonder if that sort of thing (perhaps not that direct, or on that scale) happens all the time...

Tons of opportunity for realpolitik there :)

I like the explanation for slow R&D development there :) if it's only really the Bonesingers at the end of their path (or older Eldar who have travelled a number of paths) that do any actual inventive work then their pool of research techs is really rather slim.

Hey, here's an idea. What happens when a Bonesinger gets stuck on their path? Do they just keep bonesinging exactly like they used to...or do they compulsively create one or a few favoured devices over and over and over and over?

If that's the case then there's an even narrower band of research techs sitting inbetween the inexperienced guys and the living factories who obsessively produce nothing but targeting systems for shuriken cannons day-in day-out...

Perhaps it's not as cut and dried as that with bonesinger-exarchs, but if we're taking the idea of an exarch to be someone who is so locked into a singular way of thinking that they cannot escape it and that singular way of thinking is 'make things' then I can see them easily becoming obsessed with making one thing over and over until to them they get it right. Hell, that happens in people...

Does mean they'd still be useful though. If you get a bonesinger get stuck on producing swords, those swords are going to be the best swords in the whole galaxy given that you've got an 800yr old rather intelligent being spending most of his waking hours perfecting how to make them :) would nuke genuine imaginitive research that's not to do with swords from him though...

Haha I like the idea that Harlies have all this information and just choose to share it via interpretive dance because it's funny ;) both grimdark and funny :)

Don't blame you Saim Dann ;) pretty sure I'll give myself carpal tunnel from typing these out, but hey ho it's interesting ;)

I think you've got it mostly right :) conceived Eldar today would be entirely new souls. Pre-Fall, Eldar were able to reincarnate with their memories intact (the fluff suggests through natural birth, but could easily be some technological process that's ill-remembered).

Cloned Eldar I wouldn't imagine would keep their memories, although I do wonder on that actually. If a Haemonculus' cloning tech is based around growing a new eldar around a sliver of another's soul (the payment they take for their services, which I believe is what drives the cloning vats of Commorragh), I wonder if those cloned eldar come into the world with sort of shattered and disjointed memories of their previous owner so to speak...

Also, by and large the craftworlds don't use clones. Either they don't have the technology (it was the Haemonculi who invented it), or they find it so distasteful that they're driven not to use it (would work if it involved chopping someone's soul up and regrowing it as a number of other eldar), or a combination of both such that they know it's possible but don't research it because the methods are just horrible.

Slightly confused by the fact that my Craftworld do use clones ;) that's more me making it 'their thing' though. In their desperation after an Iyanden-style extinction event they went to the Dark Kin and struck a bargain to replenish their forces via the cloning vats.

I've tailored their whole mindset and history based on that pivotal moment. That sort of change would butterfly effect into a whole host of other societal and psychological changes in the population which I've been having great fun in plotting out what they would likely be :)

Hence the reason I've made them warlike and belligerent, and don't really care if their soldiers live or die. If you can simply grow more of them, why bother? Coupled with that is the growing idea among my craftworlders that cloned eldar aren't true eldar yet until they've been through this baptism of fire, and a whole sort of underlying backlash against that similar to the real-life slave trade ;)

Stuff to keep my mind from melting at work at least ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on September 9, 2017, 06:38:21 AM
G'day Ynneadwraith!
While reading your post, I've thought of a character that only you could create and would suit your army. Imagine an Eldar warrior who, like many of his/her kin, has a patchwork soul with slivers of many different memories. However, this particular warrior has retained the death of every one of his/her incarnations... psychopath pointy ears?   
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on September 10, 2017, 03:54:21 AM
@Saim-Dann, As far as I can tell the path system has no linear progression system. Guardians are effectively Eldar who are not currently on An Aspect/Psyker path. If you take Gav Thorpe's idea, an Eldar enters an Aspect path when Khaine's curse becomes too strong to resist and they the teachings involved on the path to get it back under control. Mind you this is just a glimps of the way just one craftworld works, some of the more war driven craftworlds may be different.

@Ynneadwraith. With regards to memory and just reaching out to the expert. As an expert, I would want to be focusing on whatever project I was doing, having potentially millions/billions of people trying to ping me for answers to something would just be infuriating. Its bad enough with the chat system at work as is lol. You would, for your own peace of mind drop at least some of the knowledge into a document. Maybe even teach it for a while so they get bugged first lol.

Basically if you are looking for a need to write things down with an effectively immortal society with a photographic memory, then its to be able to pass on the knowledge on mass.

The whole arrogant side of things I would kind of expect people to post up a document to show off how great they are.

Recorded media, well, there is the book on Necron's in the black library, which has details of events pre-dating the war in heaven. In the Jain Zar novel there is a visit to well another library in the webway which was built prior to the fall as well. So there seems to be some grounds for them having it, kind of depends on where you sit with the 40k novels being cannon or not.

You could also be really picky, in that they "could" reincarnate and take that too mean, it wasn't guaranteed. There could also have been a lag time between coming back, oooo maybe you could only come back if the host body was a close enough matched to the one you left.

How mind blowing would it be to pop out a newborn with full memory of the past life.. Well thanks for that folks, but I've got a project to finish lol.









Regarding clones.. totally grey area, could just be like dolly the sheep lol.


Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 11, 2017, 09:58:31 AM
Oh man that's a neat idea Saim Dann :)

It sort of fits with my idea for my exodite lord being a 'soul drinker' (basically a very pre-fall practice of turning your body into a sort of exarch suit where you murder other eldar and absorb their soul). With him, he's got such a weight of souls within him after 10,000 years that he has difficulty distinguishing which thoughts are his own. He's so old and full of other people's thoughts that he can get befuddled and his thought processes are ancient, almost ent-like.

I can see another instance of a soul-drinker where they're driven insane by the incessant chattering of the souls within them :)

Or another that is occasionally overwhelmed by them and experiences something similar to multiple personality disorder, or hell even winds up becoming more of a gestalt consciousness rather than a single person.

Neat!

All of that could apply to the Dark Eldar too with their patchwork souls :) especially interesting as i doubt the souls they've used to patch theirs up are particularly cooperative...

@Magenb yeah that makes sense. I wouldn't want to be perpetually pestered for info, although you wouldn't necessarily need to go to the one expert. You could go to anyone who's got the information. Basically exactly like the internet, but just using brains instead of servers :)

Agreed that they evidently had some form of written info though, although i'd still wager it would be a little archaic for them. Something for hobbyists rather than a civic service ;)

You know i was just thinking how awful genuine reincarnation would be for the parents. You're looking forward to having your child. Someone whose mind you can shape. Someone all of your own. Then, out pops Bill who's just popped his clogs at the grand old age of 80 and here he is back again, ready to get cracking on that fuddy old writing project he was halfway through. Thanks for all the effort i'll be off now!

Unless it's something fuzzier like the reincarnated has vague memories of their former lives but is very much their own person, in which case the whole memory-archive thing wouldn't work at all!

Post Merge: September 12, 2017, 06:48:41 AM
In the future, please use the modify button. Double posting is against the forum rules, and for that reason, the system merged your posts.

Selesti was once akin to any other maiden world, a lush and verdant paradise.

No longer.

The gifts of the Plaguefather had reaped their toll, and even after he had been expunged the exodites struggled to recover their shattered ecologies. Their last-ditch ploy to stem the foetid tide had collapsed their webway gates, dashing the hopes of outside aid. Desperate measures were taken to ensure their survival.


(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kmcigog8bfjy1vzzaxak.jpg)

See those insects buzzing yonder? They are not flesh and blood, but little wraithbone constructs, flitting about like clockwork mayflies. Our ancestors sung them into being. Created to balance our stricken biome, to replace those vital functions that were lost, and to forge anew a world adapted to our desertified conditions.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/itxmrlhgzsurtcamxjsw.jpg)

In ancient days we were capable of giving life and intelligence almost an equal to our own. Those days have long since passed. These little clockwork constructs we can produce are little more than children's toys. They are not enough to maintain our world, or our people.

We rediscovered the great life-engines of our ancestors, lying dormant beneath the barren sands. We discovered that channelling our world-spirit through them would imbue them with life oncemore. We crafted new bodies for our departed souls, amalgams of flesh and wraithbone in reverance of our lost fauna. Upon death, we are reborn as the beasts of the wild, our minds shaped to suit.


(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zux1dbwjgprtpxfksgb9.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/oauojxwg7iy3f2uq23v0.jpg)

So it is that we hunt our ancestors through our world. A despicable desecration of our dead, they say. They do not see the honour it brings the Horned God. For is not everything, even eldar, prey to something?

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/oo3h3jxyhzu2ju4undiz.jpg)

But the life-engines are fickle. We discovered their purpose was not to create a haven as we had once believed. Late we learnt that their purpose was to create a jewel to be viewed from afar, splendid in its ferocious beauty. It is not just prey that stalks our skeletal land. Predators lurk deep within its reaches. Rare is the eldar that can reach their minds now, so changed are they by the process.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/b6d4vjmwvafdd0gmt5wv.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zirwekm7j7hgfpjrdvji.jpg)

Thought I'd have a go at a slightly different way of worldbuilding/showing new dudes I've made :) won't do it for everything, but offering little teasers of new models alongside fluff is definitely a fun way of telling a story :) here's the new models in a clearer set of pics

Thraoren, Huntfather, Son of Kurnous. Hound of the Hunt
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/stys0c3kap85v0rrqobq.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bhemosxvt32xhtqqa3mi.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/nlot4hkud1pfs7kdibha.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/brglsddn1cfilzstyxty.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zgpnenuqh1xdbkzdecpl.jpg)

Counts-as Striking Scorpion Exarch in 40k (I gather Biting Blades are in in 8th) or an exodite warrior in Inquisimunda/INQ28.

Exodite Hunters
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/blpobi9iy7sbjwbs2c3b.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rxksxblisktqzrcwfjxp.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rodumgojvgba2udnrkfw.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/acqxxze7ikwjzyilfzec.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wjyda23gcndqqz9t7zee.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wdids5hxiiznwprq88u2.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/s33ma0wqejlj7xnhoyay.jpg)

Counts as Kabalite Warriors in 40k (needs a Blaster and a Sybarite seeing as they're free now), or ganger-equivalents for INQ28/Shadow War (if they ever release non-Wyches).

The Beast that was once Muirnuil
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/b6d4vjmwvafdd0gmt5wv.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zirwekm7j7hgfpjrdvji.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/eghx5gyi7nlv4aeoogvc.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ogfqz4ulebuy2qlb8ngs.jpg)

Counts-as Clawed Fiend in 40k (or Khymaerae/Ur-Ghul/Grotesque depending on how the mood takes me...)

And finally the Exodite Warhost of Selesti so far :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/akyzndeogpnnvkgp5x08.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/t1giyo0wsjvi7rp1mzcn.jpg)

Approaching an army! Just need to finish the squad of Hunters/Kabalite and add another, finish the squad of Hounds of the Hunt/Scorpions, do another Beast/Clawed Fiend and sort a squad of counts-as Howling Banshees :)

Hope you like the fluff too. I really wanted to turn up the grimdark with exodites but I was wondering how I might take it further than I already have. Inspired by the Thorne Moons stuff over on Iron Sleet where there's a whole ecology of twisted techno-biological humans, and the whole 'there are no wolves on Fenris' thing I thought 'what if Selesti is to all intents and purposes a dead world, or at least inches away from death, populated solely by Eldar and the weird clockwork wraithbone techno-biological creatures they've created in a desperate attempt to keep themselves alive?'. Things that blur the line between technological artefacts, biological beings and eldar themselves.

I'm currently weighing up whether there's any non-eldar life on Selesti at all. Whether the few animals left are treated with reverence and a source of status among the Lords of Selesti, or if basically everything is dead apart from the eldar and they've created (unintentionally twisted) techno-biological facsimiles to replace their ecosystem.

Another neat thought is that when they invade another planet they can effectively 'Selesti-form' it by setting up one of their life engines and a rudimentary infinity circuit. Even dead worlds would be fair game :)

Oh, it also means that every single one of them qualifies as a cannibal. Savage indeed...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 15, 2017, 08:03:44 PM
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Why do you keep her blind? We know you have the means to heal her.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/k8fatulcxleywgddl5n5.jpg)

She is our seer. Our Lileathan Dreamer. Child of the Prophet-god. She is blind that she may see what others do not.

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The maiden sighed deeply as the narcotic-laced haze began to take effect, so deep in fact that one might easily mistake it for relief. It was the saccade of her sightless eyes that gave it away as something deeper than a simple numbing stupor. But this time...this time something felt wrong.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hwpj2989iwahxjfpab2a.jpg)

Like a shot she bolted upright, whirling around in a frenetic dance. Her wheeling feet carved out three circles in the sand faster than her attendant crones could react.

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(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/unjucvis7kygxdtwhvdw.jpg)

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The middle-crone howled an ear-splitting shriek, piercing the moment and snapping the dreamer girl from her trance. The Elder's spear swept across the earth, hastily breaking the fell sigil.

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As the gathered crones attended to the collapsed dreamer-girl the Elder leant close, inspecting the broken symbols. In the centre of each pooled greening brackish water. It didn't take her prodigious interpretive skill to decypher what this omen portended. Written clear as day.

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'Find the Godborn Lord,' the Elder croaked, 'the Hunt must be gathered. Tell him the Plaguefather returns to claim his due.'
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on September 15, 2017, 11:26:55 PM
OH-MY-GIDDY-AUNT!!
Looked at the size of your post and had to put the kettle on. Your stories need to be read with the feet up and coffee in hand. You did not disappoint. What a visual feast, Ynneadwraith. 
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on September 16, 2017, 08:11:24 AM
WOW!!! I dont know how I missed these posts. Absolutley LEGENDARY! Those creatuers you made are INSANE.... Hot damn. Seriously fantastic stuff Ynnead, I'm talking real next level! Man I hope you eventually get featured in WD because this stuff is a perfect blend of the old school and the new school. Blantchitsu to the max.... Damn man I LOVE IT. Keep rocking bro I love this stuff. Killer!!!!!!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on September 16, 2017, 09:05:51 AM
The Beast that was once Muirnuil.... daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aang


Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 16, 2017, 07:39:59 PM
Thanks a ton guys! Really glad you like them :) I think I fell foul of the double-post window so it merged posts.

If ever I do get anything picked up in WD I'd pretty much be flattered beyond reason :) just looking at some of the stunning stuff that's been featured in the past. Incredible, incredible stuff :)

Glad you guys like the critter-constructs/reconstituted ancestors :) they're brilliant fun to make. Makes me want to make a bit of a menagerie of them. My thought was that these runaway life-engines basically spit out a steady stream of monsters, no two of which are quite the same.

Someone over on Dakka pointed out that I've got a Drycha model that's ripe for conversion :) what's an exodite world without dragons?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 18, 2017, 08:34:04 AM
Oh, also for a rare WIP-shot, I've had my first stab at doing GS-work beyond just gap filling :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/b0mkc9wokjpya71ucclt.jpg)

Need to have a go at making it a little more unkempt, but for a craftworlder I suppose neatness is fitting.

Next up is to try and do ragged cloth on the guy lurking to the far left. Anyone have any tips?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: dog_of_war on September 18, 2017, 10:00:33 AM
Looking great Ynneadwraith. Great job on your first green stuff fur. If you're feeling really adventurous you could try and put the animal tails on one or both ends. Not too tough to do, just need to add a teardrop shape and add a similar texture as the collar. If you go with one tail you could do the animals head on the other side. Green stuff or even a plastic skull could get the job done. Even without that, it's still a marvelous effect. Just some suggestions if you wanted to take it to the next level.

As for tattered cloth; roll the green stuff thin and cut out your shape with a sharp knife after its hardened for a bit. You can then cut out the jagged edges and any holes. I would recommend a sharp knife as it makes a cleaner edge where a modelling tool tends to round out the edge.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 18, 2017, 10:39:23 AM
Thanks for the tips dude :) i think the 'leave it to dry a bit before cutting it' is where i'd been going wrong with my test-pieces so far. Trying to work with it straight away just means it tends to tear and fall apart rather than fold and stretch like cloth.

Great idea with adding a tail and an animal skull :) i don't think i'll do it on this guy as i've got to balance the level of savageness between him and my exodites (for reference, he'll be a Saim Hann wild rider). However, that does sound perfect for my nomad wasteland tribe :)

Oh, also as a bit of an explanation of what this guy will hopefully be the start of. I've been wanting to have a go at making a set of dudes, one from each major craftworld, that go a bit further on aesthetic differences than just paint schemes. Something a little like this excellent pic of the SM legions, but for Eldar :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ypgrhg64kwusbs1atkqx.jpg)*

Because lord knows i don't have enough projects already ;)

Oh, and i've also decided that my craftworld are basically dicks to everyone. Have a look at how the Spartans spoke to the other Greeks and that should give a good indication :) it's been great fun thinking up insults for my blunt and belligerent Angvai to greet the other craftworlds with :)

*image hosting sorted Irisado :))

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Post Merge: September 19, 2017, 08:21:31 AM
In the future, please use the modify button. Double posting is against the forum rules, and for that reason, the system merged your posts.

I'll probably fall foul of the double-posting rules, and I'd meant to save this guy for after my Biel Tan dude was finished as there's a little fluff piece of them together tying them into everyone else, but apparently I'm not a patient man ;) so here's my latest little experiment :)

Osutharal, Kinsman of the Clans
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/dyemjtmnyua5jbfndios.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qs7wp2kzft6yrtqpvwua.jpg)

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(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/y1fsdjbnsbwkyt4qyn2g.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ccigb7rjbqncfacfw5vp.jpg)

First contact:

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/uven3vsf0te9exabipxq.jpg)

Not sure if the red armour looks a little flat. My usual tactic of making things look grubby by doing a drybrush anti-highlight of Rhinox Hide doesn't seem to work as well on dark reds. Definitely looks better in person, but not as solid of a technique on reds. Basically exactly what Cav was saying in his thread!

Do people think that adding little white chips to the armour might work to liven it up a little?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on September 19, 2017, 10:46:33 PM
Wow, Ynneadwraith!
You sculped that fur? A-maz-ing. The red doesn't look flat at all. It only comes across that way because of the heavy texture of the fur right next to it... Pointy ears forever!!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 20, 2017, 07:06:52 AM
Thanks dude! I had a bit of apprehension about starting modelling with GS but doing fur actually turned out to be really easy :)

Just stick a blob where you want it and take a little screwdriver like you get in crackers and make lots of little diagonal indents.

Then have a cup of tea and marvel at how easy that was :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on September 20, 2017, 08:07:49 AM
Looking good my man. The fur came out excellent and its great to see some bold colors make it into the collection... especially RED  ;) Yeah I would not do the white chipping... I just dont think it'll look right. My technique for red is pretty easy. Khorne Red, super dark wash of Nuln Oil, clean it up with Khorne Red, highlight Mephiston, Evil Sunz Scarlett, then a tiny bit of Wild Rider here and there and then Bloodletter Glaze to knock it down a bit but deepen the reds and shading.

The trick is really the highlighting to make the shading stand out more. But thats just me.

I think this dude looks good to go as is. He came out great! Keep rocking bud. The collection is growing!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 20, 2017, 12:08:00 PM
Haha maybe that's why i was having second thoughts. Altogether too bright for me ;)

Bit late on the chipping front as i've already done it! Hasn't quite had the desired effect, but it has broken up the flatter areas of red anyway which is what i was ultimately after.

Shall share him with my soon-to-be-completed Biel Tan guy :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 21, 2017, 12:10:20 PM
And done!

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And so they come, worming through the webway towards us. The other self-interested, drawn to events like moths to a flame. The Beltane, the Hanni. Curious who it is to see who these ripples of fate will affect.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rgkzbph5yfatb1hdk8vo.jpg)

Endil the Beltane, the Homeless, the Little-more-than-Corsair. Greetings.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vweatyzz0wuv7cj2orsb.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/e5fnhhogqw0ggon4esdn.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/dqb4a8nsz9khdevtlcri.jpg)

Osutharal the Snake, the Wildling. Good that you are here, the more we might understand these savage natives.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/j68b4a1g3eesivzkf5df.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ccigb7rjbqncfacfw5vp.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/y1fsdjbnsbwkyt4qyn2g.jpg)

How may the humble Angvai be of assistance?

These two are part of another idea I had about expanding the aesthetic differences of the 'big 5' craftworlds beyond paintjob and army composition (because why have one project when you can have a dozen at the same time?).

It also gives me an opportunity to flesh out how my homebrew craftworld interacts with others, which boils down to insults, disdain and the shadow of a deep-rooted inferiority complex. Basically I read up on how the Spartans treated everyone they ever met and applied that to my belligerent, bellicose, short-tempered eldar :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on September 21, 2017, 05:40:09 PM
dirty cwe armour.. your making me twitch :)

Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 21, 2017, 05:54:54 PM
Haha it is a little non-standard :) still, if no-one else can remember how to make soap in the 40k universe i don't see why eldar should be the exception ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Orange on September 26, 2017, 04:11:41 AM
I really dig the tree/elf hybrids, it's a level of creepiness that really reminds me of 80s/early 90s chaos. It suits your fluff really well.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on September 26, 2017, 09:06:39 AM
Thanks Orange :) really glad you like them. I'm absolutely stealing your method for painting yellow when i come to make my Iyanden dude(tte) by the way ;)

Oh, also. I need some input I think.

Much though I really like Osutharal, he hasn't quite captured what I was after for a Saim Hann Wild Rider. Perhaps the fur ruff isn't unkempt enough, but he's lacking a bit of the 'wild and barbaric' look that I was hoping for.

So, how do I go about fixing that? Someone on the INQ28 boards mentioned replacing his pointing finger with a hand holding a severed head which sounds like a kickass idea 

I was also thinking of clipping some of the little teeth charms off a Space Wolf torso and dotting them around, and maybe a topknot of some sort...

What do you think? Any other ideas?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: dog_of_war on September 29, 2017, 08:13:47 AM
Depending on your confidence with green stuff, I'd say add a necklace of severed ears, as trophies. You could do a mix of aeldari and human. The severed head look is cool too. There's a non-gw female dark eldar succubus in production that has a similar stance holding a severed head. Just Google Dark Elf Female Kabalite Champion 28mm.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on September 29, 2017, 08:17:37 AM
Personally I think he's good to go Ynnead. He looks totally barbaric enough to me. He's got a tattoo on his face. Thats hardcore! lol  ;D But in all seriousness he looks great. I'd not change a thing
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on October 1, 2017, 08:06:42 PM
Now that's a cool idea dog_of_war. Not sure my GS skills are quite up to that yet but I can give it a test-run off the model. Would certainly up the barbarism to where I want it to be ;) I imagined him as a sort of tribal champion that the chief uses in those honour duels you hear about in the fluff. In the fluff they're made out to be relatively tame affairs when contrasted against the rest of the 40k universe with the vast majority stopping at first blood. A necklace of pointy ears from victorious duels would inject the gritty grimdarkness I'm adding to my eldar quite nicely ;) turns Saim Hann from somewhat tribal-celtic influenced to more tribal-headhunter influenced :)

That 3rd party Kabalite Champion model is sweet-as though!

Glad he looks barbaric as-is Cav! To be honest I really like him as-is too, which is part of the reason I didn't just dive in with changes straight away. A lot of the stuff I was thinking of sort of unbalances him slightly (either size-wise or colours) so I've been skeptical.

Probably part of the reason I haven't touched him yet, but I have still been busy :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ejdxhjdnw9kczjn9jfxg.jpg)

To put it simply, he's no prophet…he's a warlord. He cares not for the salvation of the eldar. In truth I cannot fathom his motives. As far as I can scry his sole aim is to tear his enemies asunder. A blunt instrument by which Ynnead enacts her will.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ooum5nrra6ttzr3lnyxb.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/d05ixjx5n0bb002kze0y.jpg)

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I have travelled there once, to the derelict palace of the Wight King. The flickering hulk of a dead craftworld adrift in the void, shrouded in nebulae. I don't know of its name, nor its true location. Only that the forces he has amassed are terrible indeed. Ranks upon ranks of his barrow-wights. Terrifying and glorious to behold.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/pcbbfyg5p2ijvjtrdojc.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vksaqg15bhrehv8aie3r.jpg)

30 years ago to the day a lone figure staggered through the empty ghost-halls of Iyanden, swatting at the whispers of the dead seeping through the walls around him.

"Hear me Dead God," he howled through the tears. "My life, my
soul in eternal servitude. I am yours to command. This I offer you. With but one condition...you bring her back."

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qhqsgl3uygisudvo4s3t.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/d80fsirucmmbhzyylmi7.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mm8czqr35s4wmcwrfu9c.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/nuoyiyo7sxk8pnvkmvp6.jpg)

I've had the idea for the Wight King for ages but only just got round to making him :) stemmed from the whole porting characters from Fantasy/AoS over to 40k with a twist, and then I saw this kickass model and thought 'I need that' :)

(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.dakkadakka.com%2Fgallery%2F2009%2F11%2F15%2F64414_md-.jpg&hash=a86e9f1f1ae4bc41823d5f7a175dc4b88e8445f9)

Next issue was that I'd run out of plastic robes and suchlike and the GS capes were a little hard to master. However, a very helpful chap over on the INQ28 boards pointed me towards this tutorial for making them out of tissue paper and it worked brilliantly (I did coat them in superglue once they'd dried to give some extra stiffness): Tutorial - Capes made from tissue - Modelling Tutorials - The Bolter and (http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/286080-tutorial-capes-made-from-tissue/)

I've also had the Yvraine model knocking around from my Triumvirate that I'd half-cannibalised and didn't really know what to do with until I saw this drop-dead gorgeous Null-assassin model by a chap called Exanimus:

(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi68.tinypic.com%2F6xrdqf.jpg&hash=a8aa6eed8c7f5bf71ab33dc31be6177d9987aa89)

Finally triggered an idea! My Wight King needs a Corpse Bride :)

That helped tie together a whole host of neat things :) it ties into the idea that Ynnari keep gravitating to a prophet/guardian model in a sort of instinctive symbolism thing after Yvraine and the Visarch. It also gives the Wight King a solid-gold reason to pledge his soul to the eldritch god of the dead :)

Another thing it does is the first step along a bit of a worldbuilding idea I had. Basically each of my little INQ28 warbands that are taking their first fumbling steps into the Scar are backed up by more powerful factions behind them with motives entirely their own (not necessarily supportive of the motives of their compatriots). So, like the beginnings of WW1 the scrapping arguments of little polities rope in their bigger and more powerful friends until tensions fray and war erupts :)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/f89q450bwwkaayhj9rgs.jpg)

The last thing these guys do is finally give me something that shows off just what I was aiming for with the Ynnari paint scheme (shown off best when contrasted with my Dark Eldar):

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/qhae6zb8bv1spz9lrt7w.jpg)

They're the ghosts of living eldar ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on October 1, 2017, 09:57:15 PM
G'day Ynneadwraith!
Am running out of exclamations, mate. Your work keeps getting better and better. Thanks for the heads up on the tissue capes. They look Micky Mouse. Your pace seems to be increasing as well. More and more models seem to be pumped out every week... Pointy ears forever!!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on October 2, 2017, 04:36:05 PM
Those wrack legs just look awesome with the CWE armour. I can just see these guys on the battlefield, where everyone else is ducking for cover or sprinting around, these guy are just walking through, las/tracer fire dancing between them, explosions going off in the back ground, conscripts just being swatted away like flies not even slowing them as they make their way to the warlord..






Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on October 2, 2017, 06:22:28 PM
Thanks guys! I don't know about pace increasing :S i tend to half-finish a half dozen or so dudes and then finish them all on one go ;)

Yeah those capes work really nicely :) they suit Imperial cloaks too with their slightly rough texture.

Glad that's the inpression that comes across @magenb :) that's exactly what i was after! Way back when i made them i was thinking that you see dynamic eldar all the time but it's not often that eldar look implacable :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Orange on October 2, 2017, 10:21:17 PM
Amazing work man, they look brooding, dark and moody which fits perfectly.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on October 4, 2017, 08:24:21 AM
Looking awesome as always. However I have to say I'd love to see you branch out into some color with these guys. You could easily incorporate some super pale ghostly greens or purples to give just the faintest hint of color here and there. Also... the spirit stones! They too are screaming for just a bit of color. I think it'd only enhance how ghostly these guys look.

Either way I think they look great. Totally unique and I just love the aesthetic. Keep rocking bud!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on October 4, 2017, 06:48:52 PM
Glad you like them guys! I've just had some inspiration for the last two cultists for my little prophet cell too so expect something with them soonish too :)

You know me and colour Cav ;) not that I'm resistant to change at all :S

Where were you thinking for some little hints of colour? The soulstones I do actually plan to do in better detail on all my models. I've sort of purposefully been painting them flat-metallic colours on all of my eldar so I can speed up the painting process and get more ideas out. Then, like the weathering thing, I plan on doing a 'great soulstone redux' where I'll go through all my models and really nail painting them :)

I had actually thought of using roses as a bit of a colour-splash motif on Ynnari as there's a couple on my Prophet and I could dot them around (plus, they'd play into the fluff of the Corpse Bride nicely). Need to have a crack at making some from GS...

Someone over on dakka mentioned giving the visors of the helmets one extra highlight to help differentiate them from the rest of the armour which I might have a crack at :) I am slightly concerned of messing up the skull-shadow on the wight King with that though. Took me ages to get it just subtle enough that you can miss it on first glance, but once you spot it that's all you can see :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on October 5, 2017, 08:55:44 AM
The areas where I think you hit the model with some different hues would definitely be the cloaks. I think you could go Rakarth Flesh/Reikland then dry brush/highlight again with Rakarth Flesh and Pallid Wych on there just to give some distinction between the different materials. It gives it just a tad bit of color. I used it on my World Eaters and really loved it.

You could even go with some browns (perhaps not on these latest models) or slaanesh Grey, Ulthuan Grey could work as well as far as establishing a bit of differentiation.

Personally for the spirit stones I think some classic looking spirit stones would look fantastic. Just a single one each model would look great IMO. I think some high constrast colors would really look great. But you could still go ghostly if you wanted. Like genestealer purple to Slaanesh Grey would look cool.

I'm a huge fan of Japanese Creature Core and a lot of their modelers go for a very similar look to your in terms of modelling and paint schemes. They very often favor a monochrome type look but if you look carefully they use some really awesome colors to establish texture.

Here are some examples which I'll delete after you see them :)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4475/37511998411_2ac07d4337_z.jpg)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4497/37253644000_a27b4c4b2a_b.jpg)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4453/37253644070_c895abf492_b.jpg)

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4498/37253643940_1bc0cd5139_b.jpg)

The Predator example is the one that really stands out to me. Because if you look at the Predator (not his mount) he's essentially a pale grey. But if you look carefully he's got the smokey dark red dreads, brown and gold on his belt, silver on his harness.

I know thats a big model but I feel like if you incorporated just a touch of that into your guys it'd take them to a whole new level. Anyway those are just my thoughts. Your guys are legendary as-is but I feel just a bit more "Detailing" would really be huge! Anyway bud not trying to come on too strong, just trying to help. Feel free to disregard because like I said I think your guys look great as they are. Anyway let me know what you think  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on October 5, 2017, 06:31:31 PM
Don't take those pics down man :) I'm not precious about other people's stuff on my thread, and it's really handy to know where stuff is for inspiration :) I absolutely love that predator model. Right up my street!

Don't worry about coming on too strong with constructive criticism :) that's one of the brilliant things forums do over stuff like Instagram (not that I'm on it). You actually get a lot of constructive stuff as to how to improve. Without the comments from you guys I wouldn't have made it even this far!

I like your idea about using fleshtones like Rakarth Flesh to differentiate the cloth from the armour. Had a peek at your World Eaters and it works really nicely :) plus, it'd free up the Balor Brown/Ushabti Bone/Pallid Wych Flesh layering for the armour which should make them look more ghostly if anything :)

The plan was to go a little sparse on the spirit stones with just one per model (aside from the ones where the look suits them being bedecked in charms like Farseers and the like), so glad to hear you think the same :) I'm slightly leery of purples on them due to my whole low-contrast thing, but I can definitely see working some deep reds through to oranges and yellows (must pick up some more of those) :)

I do like how the electric blues on your soulstones look though. I certainly think they'd suit my Corsairs for instance :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on October 6, 2017, 08:19:47 AM
Cool! Glad you weren't put off. I try to hold back criticisms from people who are struggling to paint up stuff consistently, but you my friend are more totally inspired!  ;D

Yeah the purple isn't the best choice. But a smoky red like the eyes on this creature might work.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4489/37530182951_0137e8eaf4_z.jpg)

Anyway glad I could be of some help! Loving the project as always bud  ;D

Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on October 6, 2017, 07:26:30 PM
Always happy to have constructive criticism :) it's one of the main good points of forums over stuff like Instagram and the like. Much more discussion and pushing people forward to try new things :)

I'm a little bit in love with those black/red/milky eyes on that gribbly alien thing. They're stunning :) absolutely perfect for a grimdark interpretation of soulstones. Less brightly shining jewels, more sort of grimy quasi-biological alien devices :)

I think I'm also getting the thing you were saying earlier with models being overall relatively monotone/low contrast, yet actually built up of half a dozen different colours. With that bug thing above it mostly comes across as grey, but if you look closer there's silvers, greys, golds, bronzes and pale purples. It's a stunning piece of work :)

Must get a little more adventurous with highlighting stuff in dissimilar colours. I get the feeling it'll work really well if I can get the hang of it :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on October 9, 2017, 10:41:58 AM
Well, haven't made the improvements yet but I have still been busy ;)

What?! Are you insane?! I've met some truly unhinged eldar in this fair city…but this. This puts them all to shame. Consume the soul of a Bloodthirster? Cure your thirst? Utter insanity. I will have no part in it.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/cxvimsuk5ey5yuymvunm.jpg)

What do you mean it worked...

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xnx3orblqb055k2ceinn.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jibnj12luxwzqznngzam.jpg)

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/vq1noukdmvqvccsbickk.jpg)

Just what the hell are you...

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Had another idea around the whole winged vampire lord model I like so much :) following the whole idea of porting AoS/Fantasy characters/concepts into the 40k universe I was reading up about Abhorash, the progenitor Blood Dragon vampire who slew a dragon, drank its blood and cured his thirst.

With Dark Eldar being basically soul-vampires, I thought 'what if a Dark Eldar was insane enough to try and consume the soul of a daemon and try and cure their thirst'. What if, against all odds, it worked. It would have to be a Khornate daemon given their patron's rivalry. It would have to be a Bloodthirster, otherwise everyone would have tried it (and it's more fitting to the Fantasy legend).

Definitely see it as an example of 'Gone Horribly Right (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoneHorriblyRight)' though. Containing that much volatile, alien and intelligent energy within oneself would be produce some significant and mutable side-effects. Plus, it opens up the door to being influenced by the Blood God. A whisper in the ear, an inexplicable urge. Which thoughts and actions are your own and which are not? Have you actually been possessed, and the daemon is simply allowing you to believe you're maintaining control for its own nefarious purposes?

And so it is that a third Ruinous Power gains an unwitting agent within the Eldar...

My two Blood Dragons side-by-side :) mirrored and opposed.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/m1otyoikxirb2nh7xceo.jpg)

All I need now is a name. Abhorax? Abhoraish?

Oh, and I would also love to hear people's ideas about potential Tzeentchdar. I was thinking it would be neat if each of the Chaos Gods (and each of the extant Eldar ones) each had their own roped-in/unwitting/involuntary agents and pawns that they've brought together to try and influence the events that are unfolding with my exodites rejoining the galaxy at large (sort of similar to how the Greek Gods played games with mortal champions).

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Slaanesh has her Croneworlders, sent to claim what's hers by birthright.

Nurgle has his Blightdar, sent to bring them into the fold (it's the planets he's really after, but he hasn't told the Blightdar that).

Khorne has the Blood Dragon, sent to ensure slaanesh doesn't succeed in the bloodiest manner possible.

Ynnead has the Wight King, hers by infernal bargain, and the Prophet who actually believes in the Dead God.

Khaine has the Young King, sent to save the eldar (but viewed through the mindset of a psychopathic murder-god).

Then there are my Craftworld Eldar (and their Commorrite and Corsair associates), who through hubris and desperation think they as mortals can play at the games of the Gods.

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Need to think of something for Tzeentch though. For some reason he's the one I've been having the most difficulty coming up with motivations for. Slaanesh is obvious, Khorne is there just to stop Slaanesh and Nurgle previously held the region so wants it back.

Without shoehorning in some ancient piece of knowledge that exists solely to gain Tzeentch's attention I'm not sure how to work him in.

Oh, and Harlequins. The Laughing God needs his representatives. Perhaps I should do it so each faction has a Harlequin guiding them along, even if their aims are conflicting. Seems like a good way of suggeating that there's some greater plot afoot and the Harlequins are orchestrating something no-one's cottoned onto yet. Always thought they were slippery bastards...
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Dread on October 9, 2017, 01:21:23 PM
Very cool conversion and concept. This is what the hobby is all about.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on October 9, 2017, 04:29:02 PM
Niiiiice!
Your winged Vamp is one of my favorites as well, Ynnead. Brilliant fluff behind the new guy as well. One day someone will invest in you and yours will be another universe next to 40K/AoS. 
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on October 9, 2017, 06:46:34 PM
Oh, and I would also love to hear people's ideas about potential Tzeentchdar.

hmm Tzeentch do like their robes, flying discs and feathered wings mixed in an Egyptian flavour.. yeah.. umm..

High Elf Archmage might have some robes you can use. Necrons may have some staff's, maybe even head dress. Undead etheral parts might work out as some nice spell effects.
Spite-revenants might work as some sort of horrors.

very curious to see what you come up with :)

Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on October 9, 2017, 07:12:12 PM
Thanks a ton guys! Glad you like him :)

Not sure I'm quite that good but I'm flattered!

For modelling on the Tzeentchdar I was thinking of a conversion a guy called PDH who made this beauty:

(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2017/10/1/906888_sm-Champion%2C%20Chaos%2C%20Inq28%2C%20Inquisitor%2C%20Tzeentch.jpg)

What I love about it is that it may very well be that the daemonic book is the character, and the host is as much of a weapon as the gun he's holding. I love the idea that the unfortunate eldar might actually just be hosts to whatever fell creature is pulling the strings (and suitably warped and mutated to boot).

Wanted to try and find a way to tie them in story-wise without it feeling forced, and perhaps that might influence what the models look like somewhat :) didn't necessarily want to crib from PDH quite so soon as his is only a week or so old!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on October 10, 2017, 08:12:17 AM
Looking really nice Ynnead. Super nice conversion work as always. The bits just merge perfect. Also really love those colors.

Also those colors are in the family of colors I'd look to play around with for your bone Eldar. I actually am gonna pull out all the paints that I think would work for you to experiment with and take a picture of them.

That Slaanesh Grey is is just one of my favorite "white" type colors.

Anyway great stuff bud they look great
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Orange on October 10, 2017, 10:05:42 AM
Really look forward to seeing more pics in this thread, it's always something totally I did not expect but works really well.

The addition of red with the Khorne guys is great. That bit of colour in a muted army makes it pop right out.

As far as Tzeentch goes, have you though about blending plastic horrors and dryads? You could get some pretty creepy combinations out of that.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on October 10, 2017, 08:07:52 PM
Thanks guys! Glad you like them :)

I thought you might be a fan of this one Cav ;) that'd be really helpful! I've definitely been mucking about with different techniques recently, especially with washes and drybrushes :) this guy was a bit of an experiment into building up colours using successive washes (Bloodletter through Carroberg Crimson to Druchii Violet), and a bit of a test of trying to alter texture with streaky drybrushing Pallid Wych Flesh before laying the washes down.

Actually the armour was a bit of a test as well. I've always struggled somewhat to get silvers that I actually like (i.e. not too bright and shiny). Turns out the trick is not to start with a silver. Start with a black, and just drybrush the edges with silver and it looks much better! Going to try that with golds and bronzes next ;)

Funny you mention Slaanesh Grey as that guy was actually a bit of an experiment too. Rather than various different washes like the Blood Dragon the Croneworlder was a test into how to use just the single wash (Druchii Violet) and different base colours to create different colours. There's basically only really three main colours in the whole guy: Administratum Grey, Pallid Wych Flesh and Druchii Violet (plus some spots of pink and silver).

You're bang on the money with little bits of colour in muted armies really popping out Orange. That's actually something I've had to be a bit careful of sometimes. For instance my Ynnari Wraithguard guy originally had some bright red blood streaks on the blade of his axe, but they completely drew the eye to the point that it was a bit tricky to see the model as a whole picture.

Will definitely be using it more going forwards though :) I've got a Farseer model I can't wait to roll out that'll be an opportunity to exercise some richer colours ;)

Oh, and I love the idea of using Horror plastics for the Tzeentchdar. I'm thinking volatile mutations bursting out of the side of the hapless hosts with a really unbalanced/body-horror look to them maybe. Think the liquid metal Terminator from Terminator 2 when he gets shot by the grenade launcher, but with more tentacles ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on October 13, 2017, 03:44:49 AM
Those Vampire Elder look great and I simply love the fluff behind the Khornate guy. I think it's such a cool idea to have all of the gods of the universe fighting for the souls of your army.

For the Tzeentch aspect...could you work in some background so that there is a Warlock coven or something that see the influences of the Chaos Gods on your Elder and want to do something about it...and cross the line by looking at forbidden tomes and the like, thus falling to Tzeentch's trap. I'm sure you could dress it up as something far better, but that's what I would try.

Great stuff as always Ynnead, it's always good to see your updates.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on October 13, 2017, 06:24:33 AM
Thanks Loosh! Always glad when you like my stuff :)

Love the idea about a Warlock Coven that went too far :) brilliant idea. Sort of like a 'look into the void and the void looks back' sort of thing. Definitely using that as the basis for their fluff, thanks!

I've got an update too! Ask for colour and you shall receive Cav (and Loosh too, you've been banging on at me for ages to give it a try too) ;)

Alileath felt for the presence of the seer, reaching out with her psychic senses. From high above the seer appeared as a placid lake, barely a ripple disturbing its cool surfaces. Familiar. The Path of the Seer required utmost concentration. Damnation awaited those who wavered. However, this time curiosity got the better of her. She leant in closer, desiring to look beneath the surface. Instantly she wished he hadn't. Roiling, seething rage howled beneath the placid surface. Loss, anger, desperation. Wailing around and around and around doing nought but gather momentum. Sweet mother Isha. What kind of mind could hammer that into submission. Alileath couldn't decide whether to be reassured or terrified that such a mind was leading the Angvai.

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rnkrzozuac9b7cjcuvhm.jpg)

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'Bellatheral' they call him. 'Warmaker'. Never had a name been more fitting.

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Bellatheral stalked the ruined battlefield. Around him his warriors fought and fell. The might of the mon keigh filth was strong here, but he couldn't stop now. After all they'd been through, after all they'd lost. To give up now would be unthinkable. They must prevail.

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An axe-wielding brute charged towards him, shrieking its litanies and chants. As their gaze met Bellatheral momentarily shunted all of his grief, all of his loss, all of his anger directly into the poor primitive's brain. His moment of catharsis was rather marred by bits of the unfortunate creature striking his armour.

Perhaps some day he'll have transferred the very last drop and the momentary tranquillity would last forever, but as yet that well had proven bottomless.


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Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Saim-Dann on October 13, 2017, 03:39:37 PM
Oh, my!
What a pose. Head down, arms out. Giving his opponents the stink eye as his lads charge at them... Niiiiice! You've done well with the red, Ynnead. It compliments the leather undergarment, which I'm actually more impressed with. Enjoyed reading the fluff as well. "Warmaker". I like that. Very Eldar... Be well!   
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Cavalier on October 14, 2017, 08:27:09 AM
Nice!!! There you go Ynnead. That looks great! It doesn't break up the feel or vibe of the army either. Plus you chose the right color  8)

Love the pose, love the weathering and of course I love the color! A great conversion as always my friend. Truly crazy! I don't know how you keep pumping them out. You are the official Bone Singer of the Forum! Anyway keep rolling my friend you are killing it!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: vonny on October 14, 2017, 12:01:06 PM
Wow, what a pose. That is impressive, and now I want another eldar psyker just to steal the idea. Although it might not fit with my army... hmm

But yea, this looks badass.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on October 17, 2017, 07:19:27 PM
Thanks guys! Really glad you like him :)

Happy the conversion works. Was concerned he looked a little 'standard', but hell I like the Farseer sculpt a lot and not everything can be a mishmash of bits ;)

Glad you like the fluff Saim Dann :) the 'Warmaker' thing was actually a last-minute addition when I looked at his name and made the connection with the latin 'bella' meaning 'war' :)

Absolutely red is the right colour Cav ;) definitely agreed on that. I think I've decided that the warborn clones will be quite plain and unadorned while the full citizens will have a splash more colour. You're right it doesn't detract from the force, but having them relatively few and far between means they stand out nicely from the rabble :)

I'll take the 'Bonesinger' title! Love that :) speaking of which, did you spot they're bringing the Bonesinger model back for a limited time (and loads of other kickass OOP eldar models back to the bug-eyed RT Farseer): Coming Soon: A new codex for the craftworlds – Warhammer Community (https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/10/15/coming-soon-a-new-codex-for-the-craftworlds/)

If the price is right I'll definitely be picking up some!

Oh and steal away Vonny ;) I'm flattered!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: murgel on November 1, 2017, 07:37:23 PM
This Farseer pose is absolutely stunning in its effect. May I try and work with that idea?
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on November 1, 2017, 07:54:07 PM
Thanks man! By all means ;)

The overall idea's quite simple, but to get it to work takes a bit of fiddling. The stock Farseer pose is leaning back away from his outstretched left hand, so to strighten him upright you need to glue the body on at a slight angle, clip or saw off his left sleeve and lower it down (bending the little shoulder pad too). Then clip away little bits of the cloak until you can get it to meet up nicely enough to be hidden by paint/liquid greenstuff :)

A little fiddly, but definitely doable :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: murgel on November 2, 2017, 07:56:52 AM
hm, I don't have any failcast or plastic farseers, but some OVP metal ones (surprise! I have many still OVP. :o ) so it might be a better idea to try and sculpt the model completely or I buy a new plastic one. I'll think about it.  :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Aurics Pride on November 4, 2017, 06:37:02 AM
Love it! For an Eldar model to look so imposing is pretty impressive, it fits with your army so well too.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Irisado on November 4, 2017, 08:11:26 AM
The posing of the Farseer is striking.  It's as though the Farseer is emerging from the smoke or dust having survived being repeatedly shot at and is now preparing a devastating psychic power to strike down the opposition.  It's a very imposing model.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on November 4, 2017, 06:05:44 PM
I thought I had replied to this already, which is why I'm late to the party!

Awesome model Ynnead. The posing is terrific. Imposing and frightening...2 things that I never thought I would say about an Eldar...much less a Farseer!

A really impressive centrepiece-type model that will look great leading your forces.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: SeekingOne on November 8, 2017, 09:17:47 AM
Your work is brilliant as usual Ynnead :) Farseer is fantastic, but other characters are stunning as well.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on November 9, 2017, 06:52:29 PM
Thanks a ton guys! Really glad you all like him :) he's definitely a firm favourite of mine ;)

@murgel Might be trickier with the older Farseer models simply as they're mostly monoblock castings with only a few separate parts. I've got a couple of those myself and have been thinking of what to do with them...

@Auric's Pride Thanks man :) yeah the idea of making an eldar model look imposing was the main aim of this guy. Much though I love the general stereotypes of eldar (it's why I've always been so enamoured by them), I also love trying to shake that up a little ;)

Eldar are usually swift, dexterous, enigmatic, aloof and mystical. General squishy wizard types. While keeping those core ideas, I also want to have a go at showing that eldar can also at times be imposing or psychotic or really rather scary ;) with Dark Eldar it's not so tricky given the whole body-horror Covens stuff, but for Craftworlders it's a neat thing to try and create :)

I've got an idea brewing that I really must make some more progress on (not my original thought, but one I've built on) that stems from what the eldar do for punishment. There's the regular exile, and I've heard of eldar being stripped of their psychic abilities in the fluff. However, for the truly deranged and dangerous there's the idea that they're basically marooned on some backwater planet somewhere with a sealed webway gate so they can never return. Along comes the mon'keigh and their Cicatrix Maledictum, power wracks the webway and long-sealed passageways and gates get blown open. Cue a bunch of eldar serial killers cavorting around the webway...

Yeah, must get round to that one ;)

@Irisado Yeah you're absolutely right! Seems like it's the moment in a movie where he's just about to say "...my turn..." and unleash hell ;)

@Loosh Thanks man ;) and don't worry, I've certainly been guilty of that ;)

I've rambled on at great length already about the whole unexpectedly imposing thing ;) fingers crossed this isn't the only time I manage to pull it off!

@SeekingOne Thanks man! Really glad you like them all :) I've got more coming as soon as I've finished the Sleeter's Invitational ;)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on November 27, 2018, 06:46:26 PM
So! Long time no eldar. However, the new Blackstone Fortress models came out and I just had to get the Ranger model :)

First order of the day was to 'de-pinup' her pose to something grittier and more realistic.

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I try not to post WIPs now (I use posting stuff to motivate me to get stuff painted), but it might be a while before she gets paint.

Hope you like her!
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Dread on November 27, 2018, 10:26:02 PM
OH! MY! GOODNESS! you did EXACTLY what I was talking about. I'm so impressed with what you've done. When, if, I can get her, I'm doing the same. I can't wait to see your paint job.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Myen'Tal on November 27, 2018, 10:54:55 PM
Wonderful conversion work on that Ranger Ynnead. I never really minded the original pose, but I think this one is particularly cool. She's dynamic in her new pose, with some good basing you could make it look like she's trudging through some rough terrain.

I second Dread, cannot wait to see her painted ;D.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Ynneadwraith on February 1, 2019, 12:57:15 PM
Well I haven't painted her yet but thanks guys! Glad you like her :)

She's definitely on the list :)
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: Looshkin on April 3, 2019, 05:44:39 AM
Amazing work with the conversion Ynnead. I rarely like the 'gun pointed in the air' look on models, with a few rare exceptions. I hated it on this Ranger; a model that had the ability to be one of the best figures in the range.

What you've done is astounding though and I bet when she has some paint on her you won't even be able to tell that she was converted. Stunning work.
Title: Re: Eldar, Exodites, Corsairs and Croneworlders!
Post by: magenb on April 3, 2019, 07:50:22 PM
very nice work cant wait to see how you paint her up :)