Back to genestealers

 So it´s another paused project restarted. It was back in november 2020 when I last painted something for my slaanesh aligned genestealer cult. Having finished just a single purestrain genestealer so far I have been wanting to add a few more for some time. Finally I had both the models and motivation to paint them. BTW I working on a cult limo too. Hoping to get it ready in the near future.

Being plastics from Space Hulk and painted mostly with contrasts

these will most certainly not win me any prises. But they fit in quite well

with the rest of the cult.

A couple of support units and a warlock

 These three little (pun intended) additions will take my epic eldar army to 2900 points. And I could finish those vibro cannons in perhaps 30 mins if I wanted to and have a 3000 point strong army ready. But I´m at the same time working on some genestealers so it may take a while. On the other hand I scored some aspects warriors and other stuff I was missing so I´ll eventually take this project to somewhere around 4000-5000 points I think.

A warlock with two guardian bodyguards and a banner. Plus three las cannons.

Same guys from a bit different angle.

Squadron of three warwalker. I like this model a lot more than the newer egg shaped thingie.

Using up one special card and two detechment card slots. But I have three hosts

and having enough special/detachment cards should not be an issue.

Eldar defender warhost

 Eighteen stands of eldar guardian equals a full defender warhost. Worth 450 points in 2nd edition Epic. I gave each detachment a banner with warhost spot color (black) and detachment number on it. With these and black shouder pads one should be able to separate these stands from the eldar warhost guardians I painted earlier.

I´m getting very close to having a 3000 point eldar army completed. With a warlock, war walkers and some support guns I´m working on I should get there sooner than later. If I wanted (and had motivation) I could upgrade these to a eldar warhost by adding nine Falcon grav tanks. Remains to be seen...

A guardian host in making

 Just a quick update. I´m working on an eldar guardian host for epic. Eighteen stands of infantry. It´s quite an easy job but quite dull too. Basing, red base, white helmets, metal guns, black shouders pads  and then highlight with lighter red. As my war host infatry wears all red armor I wanted to add those black shoulder pads to show that these guardian belong to a different unit.

As you can see I´m painting a detachment of war walkers too. The guardian

detachments will have a flag each with a number of detachment on it.

And I painted a 28mm guadian too to show the small scale of epic infantry.

Epic Eldar warhost

 Most of this unit was painted a few months back but I realised that there was not enough infantry stands. So I picked up my brushes and finished the few stands needed. Red, white and gun metal washed with Agrax. Highlight with white and brighter red. Armageddon Dust technical on base.

Complete with 18 eldar guardian stands and 9 Falcon grav-tanks. The guardians are

armed with lasguns or shuriken catapults with 50cm range. They have 10cm movement, 

no saving throw, CAF 0, one attack dice and 5+ roll to hit with no save mod.

A closer look at the grav-tanks. Armed with lascannon that has 75cm range, one attack dice,

4+ roll to hit and save mod. of -2. Movement is 25cm, sacing throw 3+ and CAF +1.

Thay can also carry 2 stands of infantry and are skimmers.

Made up of 18 troop stands and 9 Falcon grav-tank an Eldar warhost is worth 850 points.

If you lose 14 models out of 27 in the host you will need to check for morale.

If broken your opponent will get 9 victory points.

New unit of Boyz

 Here´s another project that was started a few years back and only finished today. Twenty one classic Ruglud´s armored orcs. I remembered having 12 of these painted when I took the bull by the horns and decided now it´s time to complete a unit of 20. When finished I set everyone up for some photos and it turned out that I ended up with 21 tin clad commandos. But that was a happy suprise. They look good in three ranks of seven orcs each.

The whole unit. As I can´t paint much free hand I used transfers for those shields.

And from a different angle.

A close up of one of the troopers. Armor is Typhus corrosion on black base with

Ryza rust and leadbelcher dry brushed on.

Musician, standard bearer and champion.

Sometimes it can take a lot of time - Dark elf war altar

 I think we´ve all been there. You start a new project and for some reason or other you just can´t get it finished. It gets overtaken by something new and more interesting. That´s just what I experienced with this dark elf war altar. Started back in january 2017 it sat in WIP stage for seven years until I finally got around putting the final touches on the model.

The model is made up of five altar guards one of which is carrying a standard and of the altar itself.

The guards in the front are a crew member from a dark elf repeating bolt thrower and

a Marauder miniatures dark elf warrior.

The guards on the back are two witch elfs and the standard bearer another 

crew member of a repeating bolt thrower. All slightly converted for their new roles.

A closer look at the banner itself and it´s bearer.

I wish I could remember what that demon idol was. It used to be part of a larger model that sawed in half to make it fit that wooden platform used to carry it around. It´s large I know but these are religious fanatics and can manage it.

Into the year 2024

 Last year was not as active for hobby activities as I had hoped for. I´ll try my best to do at least a little bit better during 2024. To start off I finished two little minis that I´ve had for a while,

First one is this elf beastmaster war boar. Brown fur with drybrushed higlights.

Black snout, legs and hooves. Bone for tusks and a metal nose ring. Pretty simple.

All six boars I have as a group.

And finally their masters,

The second miniature finished is this Mithril Miniatures M202 Ioreth the healer.

Her face and fingers was almost to small for me to paint.

She will be yet another addition to my ever growing high elf baggage train.

Not sure if just a cup of water will do much good for that fallen elf warrior.