Lissanne's Eldar- Everybody Walk the Dinosaur (182 pts)

Defense of the Maiden World part 4
(rank and file #4)

Introducing the Dragonfly squadron!  Five exodite knights including a champion!

I had these Tamiya velociraptors sitting around for decades, intending all the time to use them for exodites, and so I pulled a bunch of random old eldar figures at the beginning of this challenge to be their riders.  But I still needed laser lances.When I went to look for laser lances in my horde,  I found I had a lot of Shining Spear riders laying about, which were so perfect for exodite knights I switched the riders.  This cost me a week of painting time, but I think it was well worth it.  At one point in the past, I had been looking for a squad of jet bikes for another challenge and the Shining Spear jetbikes 3 to a box were the best bargain!  I had wanted them for harlequins so the Shining Spears figures were shelved.

 However, they have no butts, like most citadel riders.  I chose not to do saddles, so they needed butts.   Sculpting eldar butts over the years is probably the one thing I have sculpted the most.  I keep posing the seated eldar so they look more active, especially my harlequins, who are often doing stunts on their bikes..  So sculpting 5 more eldar butts was not much of a problem.

The purple knight has an especially fancy butt.

And I wanted a banner for this unit, but I didn't want the banner to have craftworld symbols, so used something resembling a Haraiguchi, a Shinto wand of blessing. which I have done previously for exodite guardian types.  I think they make cool banners.
Here is the banner bearer, the green knight.

Of course, the champion is the pink knight, with fancy armor and a power sword.

And the remaining two knights, the blue knight and the yellow knight.  Shining spears happily had obviously female knights, although I consider all these knights female.  They also had different torsos in each box.  Go figure!  I consider most of my eldar female, anyway,  but it's nice to get some support from the castings.

So:
4 Exodites 36pts each
1 Exodite Champion 38pts
182pts total

Next month is my Leader month!   The leader plus is taking a bath at the moment, so more next time!