Battle report, 1500pt Eldar vs Space Marines

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Farseer on bike: the making of

Throughout my involvment in the hobby I have often said to myself “the Eldar are a painter’s army, not a convertist’s”, and indeed many would agree as the majority of our models are too fragile and delicate to mess around with.

But that does’nt mean we can’t still give it a go.

Especially as GW still have’nt provided us with a model for the more than viable HQ choice that is the farseer on jetbike. In such a circumstance, what choice do Eldar player’s have but to turn over to the convertists tools?

This is by no means a “how to guide” on making the farseer on jetbike, rather my own documented attempt at making it myself: the idea and inspiration came from another site, and so all credit should go to the author(s) there (I’ve put the links at the bottom of this post).

I decided to make the bike itself first, as I already had all the necessary bits: unfortunately this included my old gothic shadow cruiser. It had served me well, but with so few people playing gothic these days I decided it better to serve me on the 40k table in this characterful way. All the bits I used are pictured here (the sprue is from the guardian jetbike, though in my case it was left over from the shining spears boxset, which is incidentally exactly the same. The shadow cruiser hull is pictured sawn and filed):

The hardest part was sawing and cutting the cruiser’s hull to the right size; about 20 minutes later with more cursing and swearing than you’d expect to hear necessary from a Mek’s garage, I had the desired result. I filed the flat connecting points as smooth as I could, and everything was pinned on for extra strength. Any gaps were filled with green stuff (and there were lots of gaps). Here is the final result, pictured with and without the nose carapace for the sake of your curiosity:

My next trick was cutting Eldrad Ulthran in half, and believe me this took a lot of time and effort (and I thought cutting the shadow cruiser hull was bad). The spear is taken from the Dire Avenger Exarch sprue and the high elf players among you will recognise the crescent moon sigil from the spearmen’s shield sprue. I had to use a small section of the guardian jetbikers body to keep eldrad in proportion to the legs.

I will of course post pictures of the final painted piece when I get to that stage.

40K

Lots of lovely pictures have been taken and are finally ready to be put up! These shots are of my Eldar 40k army, all models that I use when I play games at my local club. You’ll be lucky enough to get some insight into the tactics I employ when using them.

 

Welcome to Priest of Khaine!

Hello and greetings, welcome to Priestofkhaine.com. Its taken a while but things are now running and I’ll be sharing with you all my elf-related corner of the warhammer world!