Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Adrian's Eldars - The Wild Hunt (202 points)

Wild Card month



The dire avenger exarch watched the holomap with the last line of defense surrounding the webway portal and the entrance to the halls fo the House Delgari.

-We've lost contact with several corsair crews. Hopefully the will be with the other warrios that had withdraw. The line is ready for the last stand...

Suddenly he pointed to the flank

-However, we have reports that several swarms are trying to break through differnt points. The troops are mustering near the portal as you ordered. But we need to counterattack if we want to redirect the swarms to the center point. What shall we do now?

The farseer didn't speak, he simply turned to the webway portal.

In a blast of light, a new reinforcement moved from the webway. A group of warriors in bright clothes riding dragons.

-My name is Calsaar Firebreath, and we're the heirs of Haranshemash. We come to pay our debt in blood and wrath to our allies.

The farseer pointed to the map and commanded.

-The swarm must be herd to our trap there.

The exarch added.

-We could to assist your warriors if needed.

But Calsaar simply checked the equipment of his men and draw the sword.

-You won't have to break formation exarch. We will break the tide and crush those who dare to get to the flanks. The storm rides after us.

The exiled dragon knights charged across the plains between the webway portal and the forests. Farseer Ylshor saw the dragon knights riding towards the swarm and remarked a simple "Indeed" while moving the runes in the air. A psychic storm started to take shape behind the wild riders...

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This unit has seated in pieces waaaay to much. The wild card month was the perfect opportunity for the wildest riders.

It is a shame that the exiled dragons never had miniatures, neither they got love in more recent editions. A running gag in some novels or fluff, but nothing more. They're an interesting part of the eldar lore. First, imagining a society of eldars that had rejected most of the traditions and became something like the space amish...but with a more advanced technology than humans. 

Heck, according to the old Titanicus they even have knights and titans...

And the second reason, because dinosaurs. Who can resist to a Dino-Riders army.

So here we go

4x Exiled knights - 152 points





For this unit I took inspiration from Moebius amazing illustrations, with pastel and bright colours. That would add something interesting and different to the usual wood elves in space vibe that you'll expect from the eldar exodites. That's before watching the amazing pastel exodite riders from Lyssane! Truely amazing and inspiring as always. So I went for the original idea of the pastel colours which I do not usually paint.






The dinosaur skins are also different to the usual lizard-like greens or brown/yellow. The inspiration came from a child book I was working with a friend of mine who made the illustration. While the anatomy was right the editors wanted that the colours where... something more radical. I loved some designs and tried to replicate a particular skin into the dark elf cold ones.

Fun to paint in this kind of colours as I usually work with a more saturated or darker palettes.

1x Exiled knight veteran - 50 points




It was pretty fun to convert and paint, so who knows. Probably I will expand the exiled dragons in the future.

This unit lacks a lot of gemstones in comparison to the previous months but I think that 72 gemstones will please the public. 

#GoTeamEldar

Adrian's out.

12 comments:

  1. Got to say I quite like the dinosuar skin, works well, well done sir

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  2. Wonderful Exodite Knights, a great job and great colors! I love the dinosuars, and we need more Exodites! Go Team Eldar!

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  3. Fantastic. Love the pink and whitish skin, beautiful

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  4. Beautiful colour choices on the mounts and riders, I just wouldn't even think of painting them like that.

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  5. They are fantastic. I especially like the 1st scout and the dinosaurs are so well done.

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  6. Awesome conversions !! I love the skin of the cold ones, great job !

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  7. So much awesome! I love the paint jobs and the conversion's. Please break down what you used for them as they have the feel from the old art.

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  8. As said before, great work on the pink ColdOnes! A bold choice that it payed off

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  9. You know what? Let alien dinosaurs from an alien world be whatever damn colours they like. Maybe they have different visual spectra from boring, pedantic humans. Maybe they're like mantis shrimps, only... lizards. From space. And not shrimps. Or mantids.

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  10. Well, they look great!.love the stripy tails!

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  11. And here I was thinking you were sucking up to the Overlord with pink dinosaurs ;) Must have been an awesome dino book with colour schemes like that - I'm a child of the 80's and dinosaurs in my books back then were nearly always in swamps and were brown, grey or olive drab XD Absolutely love the colouration of the Cold Ones and nice use of the mix of riders. More bonus points for the Moebius reference too - superb work!

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