Collins Does Combat Patrol

a somewhat bleached image, sorry! but here is the completed eldar force.

2.5 times (ish) the combat patrol magazine’s worth of them.

I doubled up on these guys and also had an extra farseer model to add into the mix.

this mean for £70 i have 12 jetbikes with one being a farseer. quite expensive but still cheap compared to GW.

I had to production line these guys and i masked off areas to make them interesting with the go faster black stripes. i did this in a way that meant i could bunch them into groups of 3 if i wanted.

9 have the catapults and 3 have cannons as their chosen weapons. the reason i did that was because chatGPT suggested it would be the best way to have minimal long range shooting on them with maximum ability to flank and hit and run or simply score an objective.

this was the bonus issue for the eldar and so we get a £32-40 box for a tenner. These flew off the shelf so quickly I didn’t get a chance to double up on it. very popular and then swiftly seen on ebay for double the price. still a good discount on GW but 100% mark up is an interesting flip.

my review of this kit

easy to build, easy to paint. no idea on ingame performance, still havent played since 5th ed

Now these dudes are cool and were also very cheap. £10 each rather than £40 for one, hence why i got 3 of them.

Building them was again a bit of a faff but not hard really, i just had to hold stuff whilst the glue became tacky enough to hold the weight and the pose. Faffy and annoying but not hard (gigitty).

With regards to the weapons, i thin they can have doubles on things, the WWW said they could so i went with the bright lances to make sure everything big is dead and then the multilaser which in my mind sounds very anti infantry which is also good. Will i ever play a game, no. Do i care, not really!

when it came to painting these boys got a bit of highlighting on the blue as well as the normal yellow and grey highlights, lucky them! I used thousand sons blue and temple guard blue.

Here are two models that are exactly the same.

I did no converting or anything fancy, for one i followed the building instructions and for the other i simply twisted the head a wrist joint as they were.

no cuts, no pinning, no putty.

Im quite pleased that the exact same pose has two very different silhouettes and thus makes two very different models. well done GW, I’m sure you planned that. maybe.

I pumped out a second squad of guardians (got double the magazines!)

No idea what the heavy weapon does but it kinda looked a bit plasma’y so i assume it melted people including those in power armour.

What i didn’t mention before is that i think the kit is an absolute ball ache to build. in fact most of the eldar kits seem to be a ballache to make. I dont plan to make anymore guardians now though so the pain is done.

Community Spotlight: Sad Elves, Weird ‘Nam & Backdrops For Photography!

Thanks for the award! it is nice and does spur me along to continue with this monster project!

Cult Of Games XLBS: What Makes The Best Wargaming Rulebook?

So the paint scheme for these was heavily inspired by grantinvanman’s Craftworld Iyanden commission project.

I used colour forge desert sand spray,

iyandan yellow, talassar blue, blood angels red and black templar contrast paints

averland sunset and light grey to highlight.

Basing is the same as all the others. mix of white and german grey with glass shards and a geek gaming scenics base ready