Adrian's eldars - Iyanden is un-doomed (Wrap-up)

Wrap-up post!

 Another OWAC, another troop removed from the pile of shame.

It was a fun project. From painting to create the scenes and write some stories accompanying the updates. It was less stressful than the orc and goblins except for some odd months. However, this time having a job a constrained schedule felt a lot in the planned "extras". Maybe in a future coming back to Iyanden I can add the terrain from the Tyranid invasion or some scattered details from the craftwold gardens.

Painting yellow may seems a bit tedious sometimes but the experience of years collecting eldars and the mix of models I selected made the task a much easier.

I enjoyed the pirates a lot with the mixture of armour colors, one of my favourite units of this challenge. Also I can finally claim my small achievement, completed the unit of eldar exodites after so long. Some of the eldar scouts and wood elf wardancers were purchased in blisters, and the cold ones were the ones from their very first release!

The Doom of the Eldar has not been my personal doom, I finished another OWAC! It has been so much pleasure to paint it as to show them to you all. Hope I get my hand in some units and can continue this project in a future OWAC.

Oh, remember the last year when I lost a goblin for the last set of pictures and found it after the recap post? I have made the same mistake with my wraithlord bright lance. I had it in my hand the other day!! 

Commanders

1x Grand Farseer (general) Ylshor - 170

1x Phoenix Lord Maugan Ra - 179

 

Elites

1x Dark Reaper Exarch - 90

3x Dark Reapers - 201

1x Fire Dragon Exarch - 75

4x Fire Dragons - 112

1x Howling Banshee Exarch - 69

7x Howling Banshees - 189

 

Battleline

1x Dire Avenger Exarch - 56

9x Dire Avengers - 198

10x Guardians - 110

1x Grav Platform with plasma cannon - 55

1x Veteran Pirate captain - 31

9x Eldar pirates - 135

 

Fast Attack

1x Exiled veteran - 50

4x Exiled Knights - 152

 

Heavy Support

1x Eldar Wraithlord with its (missing) laser cannon - 190

58 miniatures and a grand total of 2062 points of eldars.

Thinking about my next project, I will probably return to fantasy and my (other) main army, the mighty dwarfs!

I cannot finish this post without a special thank to the Team Eldar for their support and their awesome entries (as well as everyone in the OWAC!). And the final gemstone count recap, made by the exarchs of the Aspect of Patience: 1532 gemstones.

 

See you in the next challenge.

Adrian's out.

Adrian's Eldars - Death awaits (640 poins)

Leader month

The last defence lines between the swarm and the webway portals and the entrance to the House of Delgari was assaulted by the vanguard organisms. Endless teeth and claws from the lesser gaunts to the first of the many giant monstrosities to be unleashed against them.

The battered dire exarch came to the farseer one more time.

- Lord Ylshor, the remaining guardians and dire avengers are keeping the tyranids at bay, but the corsairs have had to withdraw... they're gathering with Yriel and the wraithguard, they're going for the queen.

...

Your trap is set, but I think this turn of the events and the lack of reinforcements will cost our lives to annihilite their forces here. This is our last stand.

Ylshor focused its vision to the giant monsters that came after the first waves.

- I've seen this path many times and we have delayed them to this precise moment. Do not hesitate, my friend. We may fall this day... but death. Today the Death battles at our side.

One of the smaller webway portals activated behind them and five figures entered the battlefield. A swift and silent movement, a single shuriken cannon opened fire and a giant tyranid monster just melted before their eyes. 

Chains of missiles followed and the first wave of biomorphs started to explode.

The giant bone armoured warrior stood silent after the carnage.

The Dark Reaper exarch next to him spoke.

-We're the heralds of doom. Today the hive mind will know the meaning of fear.

The last battle for the House Delgari began.

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Seventeen years after painting the phoenix lord, he's here for an update. I've skipped a little bit the rules, if our beloved overlord allow it, but I needed to give him a proper retinue again. This time, with even older dark reapers that the first time.

3x Dark Reapers - 201 points

A slightly blueish black and saturated dark pink. Ready to kill their enemies at range.

1x Dark Reaper Exarch - 90 points

Following my plan with all the exarchs, I inverted the colour scheme. Armed with the coolest, yet weirdest option for a long range specialist temple.

Maugan Ra, the Harverster of Souls - 179 points

 

I changed a little bit his colours to match the first scheme I used with it. The bone is also slightly older to stand out from my other dark reaper models, including the new (oldhammer) ones from this month.

This model is a beast and one of the reasons I started my eldar collection.

But the true protagonist of this month shall be

Ylshor, Great Farseer - 170 points

This little farseer is one of the oldest and most simple of all the farseer range across the ages, yet, I enjoyed painting it a lot and it has become one of my favourite models of the entire collection.

I was right making him, and not the pheonix lord himself, the commander.

 

The last month came with an additional 209 gemstones. That's a grand finale thanks to the million small gems in the legs of the dark reapers.And thanks that i didn't paint the gems in my (not so) small procrastination project that I used in the background.

 

Maybe I need a larger backdrop image for this one.

 

See you in the recap post.

#GoTeamEldar

Adrian's out.

Brendan - Hero Entry (50 points)

Just Like Bonnie Tyler, "I need a hero!"

"I need a hero

I'm holding out for a hero 'till the end of the night

He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast

And he's gotta be fresh from the fight

I need a hero"

I was initially just going to have one warlock be the hero for the competition, but I kind of find those models a bit dull. My friend had a bunch of the old Phoenix Lord models and I asked if I could paint those up for him too, because they are just amazing sculpts. So to get out of the way my compulsory HQ choice, here is my warlock entry for this month:

1 Warlock: 50 points, and totally boring.
Bonus Heroes
First up is a harlequin model. I don't know if he is 2nd edition or later so I'm not counting. plus I was too chicken to try and paint diamonds all over him so he should be disqualified anyways! :) Regardless, he came out looking nice.

I actually owned this Swooping Hawk Phoenix Lord when I was 14. I gave it to a friend who was playing Eldar, who then gave it to my friend whom army I am currently painting, so that is a weird circle of life situation. I just love how he came out:

The next Phoenix Lord is the Dire Avenger one. I thought the dire avengers were a bit dull, but the Phoenix lord one was pretty cool. I tried my best to represent the rainbow on the helmet crest to mixed results.

My absolute favorite has to be the Striking Scorpion Phoenix Lord. He just screams alpha predator to me and I loved painting every minute of him. I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley.

All those models completed and I'll just claim 50 points for the Warlock. But this was an enjoyable month to paint!