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 

David B- Eldar in Limbo (105points)

When I looked for something for Limbo, I had many choices. I am sure all of us have many projects good for this one. I have the above ranger from a past challenge and a Swooping Hawk Exarch, to clue you in on which project I revisited. The Exarch is still in the original colours from the original paint I placed on him and the others from the early 90's. I purchased all my exarchs and a variety of aspect warriors from a sale advert included with white dwarf when they first hit, so these are all first run prints of classic Goodwin molds that elevated the Eldar from being spicy pirates.The turquoise is the same GW Hawk turquoise from that time although that pot has long since dried out...some of those paints are still good though and still in use.

Over the summer, I dunked all of the eldar models in simple green to get them prepped for repaint. Except for the Exarch and a small squad of harlequins as I decided to keep the memories of how far I have advanced in painting.

The swooping hawks took full advantage of the new Army Painter paint line. even the yellow accents are six layers of yellow. It is a very smooth turquoise on them now. 

I used contrast paint purple and a couple army painter purple paints(older line) to tie them in to the colours of my craftworld.

The rangers got some black cloaks to conceal their purple armour. they did have a poorly done woodland camouflage over yellow and purple armour. This time around I have decided to use red gemstones and purple armour with yellow accents. The luxon purple is a nice paint by itself with only some deeper purples and lavender needed to make it pop more. it is almost incandescent in hue so very suitable for the ald Eldar sculpts. The ranger model from Blackstone has joined them now too.

the scouts cloaks got the darker grey hues to highlight.

So I finally got these finished after overtime( I had to work Christmas and New Years)

It took a little longer than I wanted to finish them and did not help that i found more troops to share that turquoise with...note to self: stop adding more to the table before finishing units!

6 rangers at 5 points each for 30 points

11 swooping hawks for 55 points

limbo for 20

for a grand total of 105 points!

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Great to see old models get revitalised and back onto the table David - the colours are lovely too, very apt for this caste of Aspect Warriors! 105 points its is

- Paul

From ScottR December Painting (470 Points)

Well its taken awhile to get thinks started this year.  However, I managed to get my Wild West painting sorted out to run a game from Wargames Foundry called 'Rules with No Name'.  I had painted up some western figures during my year studying in the UK.  I then attended a game at Historicon last year and really enjoyed it.  So for the start of the challenge I figured I would add all the painting work i have been doing for the game.

So here is the Town for the first game.  Most of the buildings here were painted for the game.  The mexican style buildings on the left side have not been finished yet.  

This was the table layout for the second game after the cactus plants and outcrops had been printed and painted.

First off, i managed to pick up a few MDF buildings at Historicon and they sat around until I had the time to get them done.  I spent half a day just building them and working out what they needed to be, Undertaker, Bank etc.  I base coated them in a few different browns and then went on to do the different colour frontages.  After that was some minor detail work like windows, doors and posters.  Here are some photos of the MDF buildings.

The centre building.  The Barber shop even had some NPCs done up to add some character.  This included a barber and a customer in the barber chair.

The barber, customer, chair, wagon, barrels and standing horses are all 3D prints.  The two figures are metals with one from Colonel Bills and the other is from Wargames Foundry I think.

Part of the game is to have factions consisting of three, four or five members.

These are the lawmen, 3D prints.

Comanches', 3D prints.

Comancheros, 3D prints.

Oh and While I dont have a Saloon yet, I do have some of the staff with these Can Can Girls and the Piano and Piano player, also 3D prints.

I needed some specific terrain to give the table the proper look.  The next step was to find some suitable terrain pieces to add to the game table.   I found some individual Cactus's and clusters which printed and painted up nicely.  A wagon, some horses, water troughs and barrels.  I need to find some more items and add some extras later but for now. here is what's been done.

Final casting, getting ready for the undercoat.

  

So here is the game in progress with one of the new buildings and the cactus adding a bit of character to the table.

Ok so now for the second part of the article.  Yes I could have done a completely new article but hey.  

Next up.  A few of us are old 40K players and decided after 10 years to jump back into 10th edition.  For me I started with a Sisters of Battle Force, a few marines on the side and for a second force the Eldar which are now called Aeldari.  I managed to finish off some small units to fit out my 1000 point starting force.

So like all, there is always the preparation.  With Games Workshops new plastic miniatures, I like the build these days.  They are easier to clean and the figures go together really well.  There is a little bit of gap filling to be done but this is fairly easy to do.

Then of course base coating or undercoating and then the real fun begins with the painting.

First up was a unit of Dire Avengers.  This were done with a two layer coat of citadel contrast paint to give it the dark but rich blue that they are best known for.

The next unit off the bench was a unit of wraithguard.  these were fairly easy to do as they have far less attachments and they consist of mainly wraithbone armour and weapon system.

The last unit out and by far one of my favourites was a unit of Howling banshees.  The red hair on these is awesome.  I tried to keep the brightness with a small amount of shade at the base only.

I have included the 3 veteran blade guard marines I did as test figures.  The armour colour was taken from a mix of Imperial Fists and Salamanders.  I have kept the Salamander iconography and written a small amount of lore to support the establishment of a sub chapter of the Salamanders called the Basilisks.

So thats it for this one.  Up next will be some more 40K.  With the Eldaeri done for now, well a few more but not a priority.  No, next up will be some Thousand Sons.  Rubic Marines, Scarab Terminators, Ahriman, chaos spawn and an infernal master.

As to points:

5 Buildings that are 5" x 11" so say 30 points each = 150 points
1 building 4" x 3" 10 points
Scatter cactus terrain 8 pieces 20 points.
2 walkways 6" long by 2"wide each so 12 x 4 maybe 10 points
Carriage vehicle 15 or 20 points
Cactus large pieces x 3 each is about 5-6" round say 15 each for 45 points
24 western 28mm figures 5 each for 120 points
20 40K figures 5 each for 100 points

Total points 470 points roughly, maybe....

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In the flurry of under-the-wire posts last week I regrettably forgot to upload this one from Scott - my most sincere apologies sir!

You may have been holding back but the wait was well worth it. Wow, what a tremendous amount of wonderful work. Your Western town along with its various protagonists and antagonists are excellent, though I must say my favourites have to be your large cactus bases - those outcrops are magnificent. 

With the outriders of Eldar and Space Marines on offer I very much look forward to seeing your upcoming 40K submissions. 

Well done, Scott!

- Curt