Friday Post: Craftworld Sarathai Fire Dragons

Hey folks, since the last post I've finished the guardians and started work on the fire dragons. This model is my test model which I think turned out pretty well. Hopefully I'll have the squad finished soon, giving me more pretty pictures and more importantly, completing my current collection of Eldar models.

Tau'va,

Ko'vash

Friday Post: Craftworld Sarathai Guardian Defenders

So first Friday follow up post and only a week late. Managed to get some more Guardians painted since the last post. The squad now sits at seven painted plus a bright lance platform. The other three are on the painting table and rapidly nearing completion. These folks are the citizens of my homebrew craftworld Sarathai. Without further ado, some pictures:

I got these guys second hand and very prepainted. Unfortunately they didn't come with a weapons platform so I had to convert one from a spare jetbike and some wave serpent parts.

Hope to have the rest of the Guardians done by next Friday and possibly some Fire Dragons.

Tau'va,
Ko'vash

Well, its been a while

So... It's been two years since I updated this blog. Not a lot of Warhammer has been going on in that time sadly due to a combination of university, regular opponents moving away and most of my stuff being stored at my dad's house.

However, I'm currently taking a break from university due to ill health which has meant I'm suddenly a lot less busy. Coupled with a discovery of how much of my collection is unfocused and unpainted I've decided to work out what my respective armies need to bring them to 'completion' and get back into the collecting and painting side of things. I've also promised myself not to buy anything new (easy when you're living on a student budget) until the current stuff is painted which leads me into the main point of this post. I'm hoping to use a regular blog deadline (every Friday) as a motivational tool to get models finished. I'm working on a squad of Eldar guardians at the moment which I hope to have pictures of for next Friday's post.

For now, I'll leave you with my current hobby to do list:

Eldar
Finish guardian squad

Dark Eldar
Finish venom crew
Finish 3 reaver jetbikes
Finish 5 wyches
Paint 5 bloodbrides
Assemble and paint a wych raider

Tau
Repaint 10 fire warriors
Rebase 20 kroot
Finish 5 stealthsuits
Repaint 8 pathfinders
Finish 2 shield drones

Sisters
Convert and paint a scheme test model

So there we have it folks, hopefully I'll be back next Friday with a painted squad of guardians and some progress on the Dark Eldar.

Tau'va,
Ko'vash

Finished Gaming Table

Over the summer I found the time and resources to paint my city fight terrain and fix up a base board from an old model railway board. The pavements were made from corrugated cardboard. The table has spaces on it for buildings with the buildings moveable. This means while the layout is the same, quite a number of configurations can be made. For instance, putting tall buildings in the centre creates a dense street by street firefight, while putting craters and low level barricades in the middle gives it a feeling of no man's land or bombardment impacts.

Some craters made from polystyrene and papier mache. The rubble is sliced up bits of sprue.

Looking out across the field of battle.

My Salamanders advance.

 Taking the city, for the Emperor!

Tau'va,
Ko'vash

Painted reavers and a converted old school broadside

I finally got round to undercoating some of my dark eldar models and carried along by my sudden painting enthusiasm I painted the reavers to completion.

I also found time to rescue some experimentally converted battlesuits Xenos and Proud gave me resulting in an old school broadside and a fireknife.

While I like certain aspects of the new broadside kit, I'm really glad I was able to convert an old style one so the squad maintains a similar aesthetic.

I'm aiming to get some more pictures of my dark eldar up over the next few days including some different angle shots of the reavers.

Tau'va
Ko'vash

Dark Eldar, work in progress Razorwing

 The colour scheme for my Dark Eldar army is quite simple, being essentially dark blue and boltgun metal. This left me with quite a lot of space to fill on the Razorwing. Then I remembered my Scottish theme and decided it needed a huge saltire flag painted on it. The jet is still a work in progress, the blue needs to be a bit more uniform and various highlights need to go on but overall I'm happy with it so far.
The white was done undercoated with fortress grey (I don't know the names of the current equivalents of the paints I use) then had four layers of watered down skull white painted onto it. The cross was then tidied up with a mix three parts ultramarines blue to one part chaos black.

 

 I've yet to properly use it in a game as my Dark Eldar are waiting on the acquisition of two venoms to make them a battle worthy force, but I'm looking forward to it. Eventually I hope to have a complete attack wing of a Voidraven and two Razorwing escorts but we shall see.
Comments welcome.
Ko'vash

Some actual pointy eared shenanigans

I've been considering a Dark Eldar or Eldar army recently, hoping to take one to the schools league. The Dark Eldar I decided needed a Scottish theme so lots of blue and tartan. Results are as follows:

 As you can see in the above photo, the cloth was painted to resemble tartan. the Tartan took me a few tries to perfect but was actually a lot of fun to paint. It was built up in lots of different layers.

 This photo shows the Saltire flag clearly on the Kabalites shoulder. The highlight on the helmet is actually pale blue.

 

I haven't yet decided if I'll build a full force of Kabalites yet. My craftworlders are crying for some attention, I'll try and get pictures of my counts-as Yriel up over the next few days.

Ko'vash

More Jolly Toys prep

There's now less than six weeks to go until the tournament (list here) so my paintings been on overdrive lately. My Cadre is still lacking the last hammerhead and two deathrains but they're on the painting table clamouring for my attention.
I completed the final fireknife bodyguard recently, which was a lot of fun to paint:

Preparation for Jolly Toys

I am attending the Jolly Toys tournament this February alongside Luckless Xenos of Xenos and Proud. It's a two thousand point tournament run Nova style, a points level and style of play I'm very unused to. Looking at my Tau list I realised the best thing would be to just run an up scaled version of my fifteen-hundred force. So without further ado:

2x Fireknife shas'els with fireknife bodyguards with targetting arrays (multitracker is hard wired) and one has a hard wired drone controller and two gun drones
3x 3 man Deathrain teams with flamers, a team leader with a hard wired drone controller and 2 gun drones
3x 6 man fire warrior teams, devilfish, disruption pod
3x railhead, burst cannons, disruption pod, multitracker, flechette dischargers
Total = 2000

Salamanders successors: an update

This is an update for how my Salamanders second founding, The Son's of Vulkan, are coming along. Featuring today will be two of my converted Terminators I mentioned on Monday, enjoy...

 From the front

 Back left: I discovered after ordering the thunder hammers and storm shields that they were designed for power armour. This meant I had to sit down and hollow out my crux terminatus shoulder pads but it was worth it.

Painting Progress

Here is an idea of how my Eldar army is progressing. Enjoy.
Fear The Reaper...

Painting the Eldar

Now I don't want the title to be misleading so I'll say it now: this post is my views on painting Eldar not actual Eldar I've painted, they'll come later. Anyway...

An Autarch and some Scorpions

 

Some striking scorpions. I've decided to stuff aspect warrior colour schemes and just paint the entire army the same.

Of Sisters and Salamanders

Having recently found my downloaded (legally from GW.com) Witch Hunters codex I decided a small force would be a nice accompaniment to my space marines. Now that probably sounds crazy as a basic sisters troops choice is £39!