Byron's Wrap up - Eälindor's Reaver Corps. (1969 pts)

At the end of each OWAC I try to spend the last month painting up an additional batch of stuff. So for this last month I have painted up a Crotalid Squad - Assault elves.

The unit is made up of a series of simple conversions. I used striking scorpions, wyches, and some dual-wielding RT eldar warriors. They have the usual conversions for the army - breathing tubes and helmet tassels. There are a few head swaps in the unit. Most of the close combat weapons were removed and models were given an assortment of eldar pistol weapons. 

In my head I imagine these guys flying around the battle field like Jango Fett  -pew pew pew and maybe stopping to grenade a tank or something

 

Points 
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, laspistols, frag grenade x7 = 101.5 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, hand flamer, grenade, and chain sword = 17 pts

On to the final pics of the whole army

I now have a proper eldar pirate army to match my finished eldar pirate space fleet. 

The final points tally

I apologize for some of the redundancy of my points tally (especially the warriors). I just went through all of my old posts and copied and pasted all of my point value summaries. 

Leaders

Eälindor, Pelagarch - Eldar Major Hero w/ conversion field, mesh armor, power sword, las pistol, level 1 psyker abilities, 3 level 1 abilities, psi level 10 = 170.5 pts

Eledriel Dreamrain, Farseer - Eldar Minor hero w/ conversion field, power weapon, level 4 psyker abilities, 3 lvl 1 abilities, 3 lvl 2 abilities, 2 lvl 3 abilities, 2 lvl 4 abilities, psi level 35 = 260 pts

Garanferth Greyheart, Warlock - Eldar Minor hero w/ conversion field, power weapon, las pistol, level 2 psyker abilities, 3 lvl 1 abilities, 3 lvl 2 abilities, psi level 20 = 102.5 pts

Doldair, Skyraider Lochiarc - Champion w/ refractor field, mesh armor, power sword, las pistol  = 20 pts

Falcon Squad Lochiarch - Eldar Champion w/ mesh armor, refractor field, Chainsword and las pistol = 14.5 pts

Kelvandar Breezekin, Razor Wing Lochiarch - Eldar Champion w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, power sword and las pistol = 22 pts

Aedysseil, Warrior Squad Lochiarch - Eldar Champion w/ mesh armor, refractor field, power axe and las pistol = 19.5 pts

Anaflane StarRain, Warrior Squad Lochiarch - Eldar Champion w/ mesh armor, refractor field, shuriken catapult and las pistol =15.5 pts

Squads

Skyraiders

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, laspistol and flamer  x 1 = 13 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, laspistol and meltagun = 18 pts

Jetbikes x3 = 330 pts

Warrior Squads

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and Las Cannons x 1 = 55.5 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and shuriken catapults x 6 = 75 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and lasguns x 1 = 12 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and lasguns x 2 = 24 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and Las Cannons x 3 = 166.5 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and shuriken catapults x 4 = 50 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and lasguns x 3 = 36 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and autogun x 1 = 12 pts

Falcon Squad

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, hand weapons and las pistols x 4 = 46 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, hand weapons and las pistols x 2 = 23 pts

Razor Wings

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, lasgun x1 = 14 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, jump pack, heavy heavy bolters x 3 =  82.5 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, jump pack, heavy heavy bolters x 1 =  27.5 pts

Crotalid Squad

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, laspistols, frag grenade x7 = 101.5 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, hand flamer, grenade, and chain sword = 17 pts

Support

Wave Serpent (grav attack tank, with increased capacity, swapped weapons for a single las cannon, -2 damage, and only a 6+ save.) = 240 pts 

Total: 1969 pts

Miscellaneous 

Cargo drone

Stevedores x5

Standard Bearers

Musician

A repaired copy of the Book of the Astronomican
A Ghostdragon for my Eldar Space Fleet

Regrets

I still have a handful of Eldar left unpainted:

A warrior squad with another pair of shouldered las cannons

the pickup truck

5 jetbikes

A wave dragon tank (3rd ed Dark Eldar Ravager mixed with an Epic Wave Serpent)

Maybe for another time?

What's next?

Next year's challenge is a goblin horde. I've been accumulating a horde of gribbly little goblins. My challenge to myself is to paint enough goblins to cover an entire shelf. We'll see. 

Byron's Pirate Eldar - Doldair's Skyraiders (381)

 

This month I painted Doldair's Skyraiders. I am very excited by this addition to my army. Let's jump into it!

First a pic of the unit together. Let's go through the team one model at a time.

First, is Doldair, the Lochiarch of the Skyraider unit. She is a champion armed with a power sword on a jetbike.

She is a fairly intricate conversion. Her lower legs come from an RT eta jetbike rider. Her torso is a left over from the Banshee that was cannibalized to make my leader model. The arms are plastic, one from a contemporary corsair sprue, I think. And the other from a plastic early jetbike rider. Her helmet is from a 2nd edition dire avenger. And, her sword is from an RT dire avenger exarch. 

The flames for the jetbike were made from a cotton swab. The white paint at the base of the flame comes from a white ink. It's very white but it always shows up as a mid grey on my camera - maybe it's too bright?

The rune on the bike is hand sculpted to look like the Isha rune to match the design on my wave serpent and the army banner.

Hopefully this video works. I took videos of the jet bikes to help capture their swooping pose.

Next we have the biker with the hand flamer. This was a frustrating conversion. He was initially a standing pose with a power fist. The whole right arm had to go and replaced with an early plastic jetbiker arm with added armor over the right bicep. Then the left leg was chopped off and cut in two around the knee and repositioned.

Some of you might be wondering about the purple cyclops hand icon. This is a hand-sculpted interpretation of one of the banner icons found in the Book of the Astronomican. I didn't get the expression quite right, but it is close enough. I painted it purple because I didn't have any yellow in my pallet yet and thought it might grab too much attention.

Another video.

Another face from the Book of the astronomican. I put a lot of effort into sculpting these designs because I have another jetbike with a harlequin face on it and I didn't want that one bike to feel out of place.

This model is a pretty straightforward conversion. Head swap with a plastic jetbiker. Right arm comes from a plastic dark eldar warrior with an eldar bright lance tip put on the end. 

This jetbiker is my favorite. I think he has the best sense of motion - resulting from his swishy top knot and his jet thruster flame curving. 

Swoosh!

Points

Leaders

Lochiarc - Champion w/ refractor field, mesh armor, power sword, las pistol  = 20 pts

Squads

Skyraider unit

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, laspistol and flamer  x 1 = 13 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, laspistol and meltagun = 18 pts

Jetbikes x3 = 330 pts

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Total                                                            381 pts

The jetbike cost was derive from the Book of the astronomican. In the eldar pirate list, serpent squads can be upgraded to skyraider squads for 547 points. That's five bikes for about 110 points each. That seems pricey to me. 

Next, the baggage train

Here is my baggage train to date. I don't want to celebrate this too much since this month it was mostly just basing the baggage train. 

Here's a pic of the cargo drone to show how the cargo token can fit in the back of the drone to be carried around. 

Finally, a pic of everything I completed this month. 

Byron's Pirate Eldar - mulligan post (zero points)

 Ooof. After four complete OWACs I must take my first mulligan without a single complete model to show for it. 

I'll share the progress I made up until we had to start packing and moving to another house around mid-month. You can't do everything.

First is my cargo drone. This is a heavily converted wraithlord. The thighs and upper arms have been swapped to make him shorter and with a longer reach. His left hand has been replaced with a stand from an eldar weapon platform; I thought it looked more mechanical and clamp/forklift adjacent than the hand. His torso is backwards and leaned forward with a plastic spoon glued on as a sort of dump truck/ bed to store things as he moves about. To make the spoon look more eldar I added some jetbike and weapon platform bits to it. The final touches were green stuff tubes between the joints - this works both as an eldar motif (they have these tubes on their guns) but also as a structural stupport. Basically, it's a long external pin to add to the internal pinning between the joints. 

I followed the color scheme for the rest of the army, except I added a lot of scuffing. This was achieved with a sponging of dark brown and then a stippling of bright silver. It's my first attempt at a battered look and I think it looks pretty good. Maybe I over did it a little. 

Importantly, for the mulligan, his basing is not complete. 

I have yet to use it in a game with my kids. But I am thinking I would start with Wraithlord stats and then downgrade them and remove the swords and guns to reflect his more menial status. 

Next, pics of my stevedores. This pic captures the vibe of most of them, but it was taken before I packed them away for the move. I was able to finish the eldar cargo doodads on their bases too, but just didn't finish the bases. The stevedores are all blood bowl elves. I put doodads in the hands of the catchers/receivers to make it look like they were moving cargo around. 

One of the bloodbowl minis has a whip. This was taken from a 3rd ed Dark Eldar Syberite. I am using him as an Exodite beastmaster - that way I can use my wood elf beasts in Fantasy and 40k. 

Progress on the hover truck has been slow. 

I will aim to finish all of these minis and then some for the next month. 

I am thinking another trash-made tank, a jeb bike gang, or some close combat guys with dual pistols. 

On a less dour note, I attended an Oldhammer convention in Portland in early May and got to use my Pirates in some games.

Byron's Pirate Eldar - Eälindor - Leader Month (675.5 pts)

 

Jumping right into what I painted this month.

Eälindor

Top of the order, is Eälindor the Pelagarch of my Space Elf army. For the etymology nerds in OWAC Pelagarch is a pseudo Greek word to follow the pattern of Exarch and Autarch. Basically it's archipelago backwards Pelagos + Arch. Loosely something like leader of the sea. 

Here are a handful of pics of Eälindor. His shape doesn't appear well in pictures so I included a handful all around to help convey his pose.

Eälindor was a spendy conversion. He is made from Eltharion the Blind and a RT era Howling Banshee. In retrospect, perhaps an early 2000s Banshee would have matched Eltharion better.

Eltharion the blind, now also Eltharion the armless and headless.

This banshee had her arms cut off and her head removed.

arms and head attached. 

Putty to turn his scale thigh armor into plates, mesh chainmail on his legs and arms.

Putty to give him big hair.

Eledriel Dreamrain - Farseer

I've included a few pics of Eledrial to show off his star cloak.

Garanferth Greyheart - warlock

Standard bearer and musician

Freehand Lothern sea guard serpent as another fantasy allusion. Also, purple skin to mix things up.

Isha rune to match the wave serpent.

pic to show off the triple yin yang symbol I sculpted.

Warriors

The new warriors included a few minor conversions. Five of them have head swaps.

I added another 8 warriors to my second warrior unit.

The second warrior unit fully arrayed.

Close up of my las cannon-armed trooper. I figured he warranted a close up.

Going for shoulder mounted heavy weapons to match other heavy weapons from the RT era and the Dark Eldar dark lances.

greyish skin to keep the space elves varied. Mixing up the skin tones has been rewarding and really pushed me to consider doing so one other projects.

Points

Leaders

Pelagarch - Eldar Major Hero w/ conversion field, mesh armor, power sword, las pistol, level 1 psyker abilities, 3 level 1 abilities, psi level 10 = 170.5 pts

Farseer - Eldar Minor hero w/ conversion field, power weapon, level 4 psyker abilities, 3 lvl 1 abilities, 3 lvl 2 abilities, 2 lvl 3 abilities, 2 lvl 4 abilities, psi level 35 = 260 pts

Warlock - Eldar Minor hero w/ conversion field, power weapon, las pistol, level 2 psyker abilities, 3 lvl 1 abilities, 3 lvl 2 abilities, psi level 20 = 102.5 pts

Squads

Warrior Squad

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and Las Cannons x 1 = 55.5 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and shuriken catapults x 6 = 75 pts

Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and lasguns x 1 = 12 pts

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Total                                                            675.5 pts