Spring cleaning Challenge: Blanchitsu Aeldari

The version of kill team we are playing is the first edition one, but we play it at quite high points so it more like a striped down version of 40k but with odd models rather than units. This seems against how the game was designed but it works for ourselves. So does it really matter. If both players are enjoying it and it works is there an issue?

I may have got distracted with Medieval stuff but this is far from over.

So since I last updated this project I’ve added to the force.

First these fellas, metal wrathguard. They were painted in exactly the same fashion as everything else. Been solid wraithbone though does add to there appearance those.

To lead them I picked up this figure from Mirfield Miniatures

Time is ticking though. I have a game booked in for Friday.  My usual opponents has picked up some more models for his tau and want to play a larger game also using the Elites expansion book. So now I can field Wrathguard and after the last game, my plan is to field 4 wrathguard. So I’ve two more to make up.

So I played my first game with the Eldar. We decided to use the first edition of Kill Team, mainly because it’s a rule set we both had. I wanted to keep with the eldritch raiders feel so I substituted Dire Avenger model for the farseer mainly because I like the models

I enjoyed the game but I had my arse handed to me. I’m not going to write a battle report.. Mainly because I was drinking and didn’t keep enough notes, but my mission was to assassinate his leader and it ended like this.

There were some very enjoyable moments like the guardians rushing to the gun platform which was pointing at the Tau leader but been shot in the street

So where to go from here… I’m not sure.  I’ve really enjoyed this projected but as the nights begin to draw in and the wheel of the year turns, painting eldar seems wrong. Almost as if this Spring Challenge was what it was and the Eldar just feel unseasonal. I am probably writing bollocks but that’s how it feels some how.

What I need to do is get the last models stripped so I can get them finished, and try to get a proper game of 40k organised to see how they do.

So I failed. My great plan to get the eldar finished and in there first game by the end of August never happened.  I just didn’t get organised and never got the models full stripped.

@avernosity. Sorry I never saw your comments about detol. I’ve had quite good success with Poundland nail varnish remover though.

So what have I been doing. Stuff mostly. I’ve been to a Plague Village, stayed in room 13 in whitby and even been to Wembley to watch AEW..

Also for some reason painting some Admec models. I really enjoyed doing these at in almost tempted me to use my voucher on the Starter set, but I’ve decided against it, but I will by a couple more for Mirfield just to finish it as a Kill Team

So where now for the eldar.. Well they have there first game on Friday. They will be playing Kill team which is what they originally were created for, but then aim to get them finished at least by the end of the year.

Somehow this project born out of a dark place has won. I’m don’t really believe it.. I had to rewatch the weekender just to make sure I had heard it correctly.

I would like to thank people like Ben, Jerry and Sundancer for featuring this silly idea on XLBS and the unofficial Hobby Hangout. Your comments made it feel like there was a point to what I was doing.

It has been a hell of a roller-coaster. I was really made up when I won the Golden Button, I thought that was the peak of the project.

But I can’t stop here. It would feel a failure to all of the support I’ve received and with myself. Another half finished army.  So I need to cracks on. It’s the school holidays now so this project will either fly along or slow up, but it will not end.

There is a local 40k in 40 minutes tournament, and I plan to enter it with the eldar. I need 500 points, so the jet bikes, the fire prism and the wraithguard all need finishing.

The first unit has been completed. Not a massive achievement, especially since the bases haven’t been done, but still they are ready to go.

Doing figures with out helmets brought up a challenge that I never originally thought about and that is the issue with hair. The ink ran light mad, so I had to first figure out how the paint would flow down the figure, before doing it. Most people will say this is pretty obvious, but I have never encountered this problem before. I’ve played sisters of battle for the last quarter century but it has never been an issue with them.

The other, unit near completion is the first jet bike squad. The riders are still on the table, and I need bases, especially when squad 2 is finished.

Other development is I have aquired a spiritseer, from Mark at my favorite shop Mirfield Miniatures. Although strictly not my miniature to start with, it is second hand and with need stripping before I can use it… Just need to work out how to strip finecast.

So with the new 40k rules and points out I have a design and a possible end point.

I’ve used the fancy app and created a force using the models I have and like.

A farseer

A spiritseer

Seer coincil

A squad of guardians

A squad of howling banshees

2 squads of jetbikes

A squad of Waithguards

A falcon and a fire prism

I have no idea of this army is any good, but it’s pretty much taken from the models I have, and like and fit to the corsair aesthetic I have been working with.

So I have this box. It’s full of random spruse, and parts of models. Theres unbuild falcon and a few guardians, and since I need units, its time to built more guardians.
I like the idea of the guardians having a wild corsair feel so I wanted them to have most of them without there helmets. Alas the kit is that old it has only one head option. Luckily one of my staff has built aleldar force with the exact opposite vibe so had loads free. So one morning I discovered a stash bag on my desk filled with decapitated elf heads.

So I started work on the guardians. To keep with the wild look I wanted to give them musicians and horn blowers in the unit, so I dug out a couple of dark elf musician arms.

Hopefully I can start painting them tomorrow