Eldar Phantom titan

 A friend of mine and me are planning on playing some 2nd edition Epic late this summer. He has a largeish squat force he´s had since 90´s and I´m slowly building an eldar army for the battle. I needed a center piece and what better to serve in that role than a Phantom titan.

White and red themed as all my eldar are.

Painted some vines climbing up the right side of the titan. This side

showing a power fist and a shoulder mounted las cannon.

Left side clear white with red shouder pad and weapon parts. The weapons are a tremor cannon

and a shoulder mounted missile launcher.

Hobby year 2020 in pics

 If I´d have to describe my 2020 paitning year with one word that would have to be Xenos. 2020 started with some space elfs and vent on with building a genestealer cult army. That is still not complete. But hey! When is an old school army complete :D

With that I´ll just dump a whole lot of pics of what got painted last year here. I hope you´ll enjoy them.

Space elfs:

Genestealer cult:

Chaos:

Imperial Guard:

Fantasy stuff:

Last ones before Christmas

 My painting station is located in the corner of our dining room. And my wife thinks it does not fit well with the Christmas decorations. So I´m going to have to clean it up for holidays and take a break from hobbying. Anyway, here are the three space elfs I got completed before this type of "lockdown".

The one in the middle is actually a standard bearer but the stub on his back where

the banner pole is attached to had been filed down by the models previous owner.

As that pole or actually that back bag fit that very early 90´s guardian quite well

I stuck it on his back. Will propably make a paper banner for him later.

I tried to do some thorn decoration on the body armor of that chap on the right.

Not quite happy with the result but did not want to paint it over.

Happy Holidays! See you after Christmas!

A space elf, his lunch box and a big blaster

Got into space elf painting mood again. After that commander it was time to another some heavy support element to my little force of pointy ears.

That´s one heavy duty lunch box there. And the shuriken catapult is a big one too.

Not to mention that las cannon itself.

So the helmet of this space elf is a bit different from most of his kin. It actually looks like as if it has that face mask part and then two other pieces that are connected there in the middle.

I don´t like paiting free hand ´cause I´m no good in that but this time I got

something quite right with those thorns.

Five years of blogging

 I almost forgot that today is the 5th anniversary of this blog. And because of that I haven´t prepared anything special for the occation... Quite pathetic if you ask me.

I was however able to complete something that I haven´t been painting for some time now. A space elf commader in carapace armor and wielding chain sword and a shuriken pistol.

Painted in the same read and white pattern as the rest of my space elves.

Finding Nemo (or Xeno)

Sometimes all you need is a little push in the right direction. For me that push was the facebook discussion in Oldhammer Community after my previous posting. One of the gentlemen there mentioned that he has an eldar dreadnought to paint but was intimidated by the big empty space on the head piece. I had been putting off painting my dreadnought for quite a long time for that same reason. I just had to take the bull by the horns and get painting.

I´m quite pleased with the way this model turned out. When I showed the head piece to one of my friends he immediately named it Nemo.  I can undertand why. It was not intentional but I think it look pretty cool. Might carry that pattern over to the war walker I had there waiting to get paint on itself.

Need to do the base later. I´ll be adding some extra weight to it as the model is pretty front heavy.

Space Elves so far

LM requested a gruop shot of all my painted RT Eldar and today I´m fullfilling that request. These have never been any sort of main project for me but more like a take-a-break-from-something-else-and-paint-a-couple type of thing. The very first were painted late in 2018 and there are now 25 painted models all together.

I have a few space elf models still left, most notably a dreadnought and a war walker. And I´d like to get me a jet bike or two someday.

Space elves come in threes

To be exact this time it´s four models. But only two of them are space elves to be precice. Anyway I have added a trooper, a heavy wepon and it´s operator and a robot to my RT era eldar force. Too big to be called a kill team and too small for an army I think I need to take a group shot of everyone in the near future.

Trooper with las pistol and shuriken catapult, heavy plasma gun on a tripod, heavy weapon operator with "lunch box" and a ghost warrior robot.

A closer look at that robot. Flamer and something that look like a power fist and a chain fist.

Yet another trio of Space Elves

 These three chaps from left to right are Eoan Fireheart, an unnamed Space Elf field artillery crew member and Gaedhil Quickshadow

 Eoan´s sculpt left me confused in the beginning. He´s wearing the same armot type as the heavy weapon troopers but wielding a shuriken catapult and a lasgun. That just didn´t seem right to me. The artillery crew member in the middle must be the most 80´s model in this series - just look at that hair, visor, boots and jacket. Just amazing. Gaedhil is another trooper in what I think is a carapace armor. He´s equiped with laspistol and shuriken pistol/catapult.

So here´s the explanation for that armor and equipment. He´s a major hero wearing powered armor. That weapon list is something: force sword and four hand guns. And a bolt pistol on a Space elf. That´s heresy right there.

 Took this picture mainly to show you that targeting system the artillery operator in the middle is carrying. It reminds me of a optic rangefinder with those set apart "eyes". Because a normal laser range finder just isn´t cool enough...

LM asked for a group photo of all the space elves I´ve completed so far. Guess I´ll fulfill that wish soon...