From TeemuL: Space Aliens with Supersoakers! (50 points)

This is once again a new project from me. Warhammer 40k Eldar, but these are the Ynnari, followers of Yvraine, emissary of Ynnead. I decided to paint the helmets or headgear red to mark them as one of Ynnari. Original idea was to paint these aspect warriors following the GW schemes, but then I decided that would be boring. It all started with the Pathfinders, who have some skin visible, and I started to think what colour their skin would be... Usually Eldar are like pale humans, but I started thinking greenish. And dropped that idea, because Orks are the greenskins in 40k. But that sparked my imagination and I decided to paint these in wild colours. Of course that meant slower painting, when everything needed to be thought out. Colour green stuck to my head and I decided to keep it as a main colour of the force, it works well with red at least.

Those of any knowledge of Warhammer 40k rules will notice, that there are three different warriors and not enough to create legal units. And here is the next trick, these are not meant for Warhammer 40k, I don't think I will be playing any edition of the game with these. Instead a friend of mine has Xenos Rampant rules and he said that the game can be played with any minis, so these are "planned" for Xenos Rampant.

These are the four Fire Dragons, painted green. Green armour and red helmet screamed for blue weapons, so there I went! I decided to paint all the guns blue and they do like supersoakers to me... There are actually three different sculpts here, hard to believe, but trust me.

Gun holster are dark brown and two spheres on the shoulders were painted Mihtril Silver followed by green wash. There are tons of other details I didnt' want pick up to keep my sanity. I have some Harlequins to paint, so the wildest colour combinations will wait for them.

Dark Reapers next, a bit darker green than Fire Dragons, but with big blue guns. The body armour was painted Mithril Silver and followed by green wash gives a quite nice look, something different and eerie.

And finally some Pathfinders with much more colours than the others. The skin colour was determined by "pick up a paint with strange name for skin" and US Field Drab was chosen... Something you wouldn't except from Eldar, I think. Yellow hair looks nice and red details work together. There are some greens again, to tie all these together, but there are more colours here and instead of 1960s LSD colours they are much more earthlike.

The Eldar are superior but dying race, they could just equip their Pathfinders with devices creating invisibility, but they need to save resources, too. Piece of cloth will be enough to fool those letter races. Cloaks are black with grey and brown highlights, the same colours used in the bases - quite clever. Brown boots and grey gloves complete the earthly look.

So my Warhammer 40k minis of Xenos Rampant lore have their first warriors here, 10 minis to start with. That would be another 50 points to my tally and another squirrel "Warhammer 40k Eldar" Surprisingly no skulls this time, even when they are Ynnead Eldar.

Gee Teemu, what an excellent rendition of these old school Eldar! I love how you have used those vibrant and even more old school paint schemes, magnificent work and many thanks to take us back down memory lane! 

Cheers Sander