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My Eldar Made it on BOLS Wargames Gallery!

August 23rd, 2012 at 09:58 pm (CST) by Jeff

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2012/08/wargames-gallery-8-23-12.html

My eldar(‘s rear armor) made it to the front page of a World-Wide site :)

AWESOME!

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Eldar Versions of Imperial 6th Edition Fortifications.

July 2nd, 2012 at 06:46 pm (CST) by Jeff

Now that the awesomeness that is Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition has arrived, I have the opportunity to create unique Eldar fortification terrain counts-as for the Aegis Defense Line, The Imperial Bastion and others. I’ve got a few ideas running through my head (open air curvy structures with transparent plastic ‘force fields’) and have already started work on an Eldar Skyfire Lascannon/Quad Autocannon equivalent for the Eldar Defense Line.

I’ll probably design the Bastion in either SketchUp or Lightwave (or maybe even use this as an excuse to learn Blender!)

I do know that I want: an open-air feel, along with semitransparent plastic force/holo fields.

Here are some works in progress for my Aegis Defense Line, the big cannon is meant to be a counts-as for either the Quad Auto or the Defense Laser — I don’t plan on ever taking more than 1one and it’s got parts for both representative. There will be a bit more in the back, mainly a platform for an Exarch, Warlock or aspect warrior who’s manning the turret.

The whole conversion is from two of the old style support weapons, 4 metal starcannons and the front vane of a Falcon Grav Tank (I have lots of these ones thanks to my Wave Serpents and Fire Prisms)

The walls of the defense line will have clear-plastic force-fields between them and mounted on thin bases for stability.

So.. is it overboard or awesome?

Rumored 6th Edition Allies

June 20th, 2012 at 12:46 pm (CST) by Jeff

Allies in normal games. This could either the the most awesome thing ever or what breaks the game entirely. I can’t wait to see how this plays out!

What could this mean?

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, eldar and dark eldar living together… mass hysteria!

What this really caters to is those of us with *looks to the right hand menu* many 40k armies and have a different dynamic. As far as GW is concerned it entices newer players to expand out their collections to new armies from the perhaps one they may only have.

 

Autarch WIP (Part 1)

June 19th, 2012 at 12:19 am (CST) by Jeff

After getting home about 9 I finished working on my last 3 Fire Prisms and I’m DONE exept for my “one more thing” mentioned in my last post.

Here’s about an hours work on one of my handful of Autarchs (the cheapest points wise at 75 points !)
Alls left is all the Jewels (blue for him) and cleanup.

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Completion of Eldar Core Warhost for WARGamesCon

June 18th, 2012 at 12:27 pm (CST) by Jeff

Right now all I have left to do is paint the green on the canopies of my 3 Fire Prisms — no more than 30 minutes of work tonight. So I’m counting this as done.

However I started thinking on it and I’ve decided I wanted to paint up an Autarch for the help of reserve rolls. I can’t justify having 6 bare Fire Prisms on the table on an Apocolypse sized game. I’d not be able to use the full “OMG It does WHAT?” 6 combined beam of the SunStorm. If opponents see those 6 tanks hiding the the background, they’ll be primary targets.

Base model count

Remember, I don’t count upgrades other than WYSIWYG weapons (no vehicle upgrades)…except for Mind War on FarSeer as they have to take a required power when I count how much I have. I could push this to 4500 points with wargear & vehicle upgrades quite easily and without wasting points. This count is assuming I finish a 96 point Autarch tonight (Banshee Mask, Power Weapon, Fusion Gun – if that’s the options I use).

HQ: 2 / 4% / 168 pts
Elites: 5 / 17% / 707 pts
Troops: 8 / 20% / 806 pts
Fast Attack: 0 / 0% / 0 pts
Heavy: 12 / 26% / 1050 pts
Transports: 7 / 19% / 770 pts
Special Chars: 1 / 5% / 210 pts
Phoenix Lords: 2 / 10% / 405 pts

Total Points: 4116
Total Models: 114

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Painted Army Stats (or, “How I learned to love the fact that I’m past the 3000 points painted mark”)

June 9th, 2012 at 05:53 pm (CST) by Jeff


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7 Wave Serpents (part 2, very near completion)

June 8th, 2012 at 12:43 pm (CST) by Jeff


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7 Wave Serpents (part 1)

June 6th, 2012 at 12:11 am (CST) by Jeff


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Less than 16 days to WargamesCon…

June 5th, 2012 at 12:47 pm (CST) by Jeff


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Something I forgot: Objective Markers (WargamesCon preperation).

May 31st, 2012 at 12:23 pm (CST) by Jeff


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