Greetings Terrans, I hope you all had a fabbo Christmas! I’ve managed to nab a bit of painting time & got a shove on for my remaining RT04 Eldar – nothing that I haven’t said on my last post, so this is just a bit of a photo dump.
First up, a duplicate of ‘Irbic Trueshot’:
Next, a pair of ‘Aedui Starborn’:
Next is ‘Commander Inghen Keentongue’:
And finally, ‘Belgae Strongwill’ (Pfnar pfnar 😊):
And that’s all the RT04s that I have! I’m low-key on the hunt for more – it would be nice to complete the set, but these seven will do for now:
Next on the bench – more late 80’s goodness with a handful of RTB06 Harlequins!! 🤡
Greetings Terrans, time for another wee dip of the toe into my latest project – a proper old school Eldar army. Not gonna lie, progress has been very slow since my last post – I have been chipping away at the lead pile and got seven old RT04 models base coated, but they were taking ages so I decided to push 2 through to completion prior to Christmas. Now, a bit of history for you. the RT04 range go all the way back to 1988, and were part of an initial run of 12 of ‘Space Elf’ models designed by Jes Goodwin. They are very much the blueprint for all the amazing Eldar that Jes worked on in the years that followed, but without the clean refinement that quickly came to typify the range. As such, the RT04 minis are a bit… well, wibbly for Eldar… Also, back in those days, (because of the low model count), every mini was named – the guy with the Melta gun is ‘Capt. Aetolia Lightfoot’, while the lasgun dude is ‘Irbic Trueshot’. Here they are:
When these came out, Space Elves were pretty much space pirates known for their funky insectoid armour, exotic weaponry, and alien helmet stripes. I always envisage using the RT04s as Corsairs in my own project, and I wanted them to be true to the period rather than have them look like super-clean Craftworlders. Ultimately, while this army will become a rag-tag group of Craftworlders, Corsairs, Aspect Warriors and Harlequins as it grows, I do want the Corsairs to look at least affiliated with the Craftworld… with that in mind, I tested out a darker purple for the main armour and included the weird striping on the yellow areas. While the blending on the dark purple could’ve been better, I’m actually pretty happy with how they turned out. Here they are with a Craftworlder to show the similarity:
Anyway, that’s it for this post – I’ll be getting some time to paint over the Christmas break, and I’m aiming to get the rest of my Corsairs done & maybe get started on some Aspect Warriors!
Greetings Terrans, I hope you are all well! Just a short update post from me this week – it has been fairly slow going on the hobby front over the last couple of weeks – I am finding these Eldar quite time-consuming to paint! Still, I’ve been chipping away at them, and I managed another 5 elite Guardians:
This guy has a headswap, and blue pads to suggest a former Dire Avenger:
And another former Avenger:
This guy is a former Fire Dragon, and is converted with a snazzy power fist:
And another former Dragon:
And finally, this guy is a bit more melee focused with Shuriken Pistol & Power Sword… The green pads tie him back to a former life as a Striking Scorpion:
And here is the group to date – I think we’re just about up to about warband strength now!
And that’s it for now folks – more to follow, with some original RT04 next on the list.
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