All the things Elfar

Well it has been a while since my last post, having been kept busy with other commitments. Not too much has been done hobby wise other than cleaning up a few things, but I thought what better to make a post on than the double whammy of having both my beloved High Elves and Eldar updated over May and June. I picked up a portion of both releases, so not to render my wallet to a state of comatose, and have slowly begun to get them together.

Part of the acquisition

                                                                                                                                                           











Other than what's pictured, I picked up the Handmaiden and Lore master characters, and I also caved and got a Wraith Knight and another box of Wraith Guard, so still quite a few new acquisitions but there is still the Sky Cutter, Sisters of Avelorn (Going to build the Shadow Warriors first up) and the Eldar Flyer kit left...which I'm sure I will pick up eventually (i.e in two weeks after the compelling need to have them overcomes and causes me to buy them and then shelve them forever)  

So I guess my aim over the next few weeks is to get these guys all assembled and ready for painting. I am likely to be starting Uni in late July, so having them all fully assembled and set to be painted before then would be ideal, and for me an achievement at the rate I assemble things. Plus I am going to magnetize most of the load outs for the Wraith units, and probably parts of the Phoenix like the rider and wings/head. The characters so far will be mostly disassembled where appropriate and put onto corks for ease of painting, most of the other unit should remain assembled for painting bar a few pieces if I deem it necessary to paint them separately.

Following up from my post regarding Finecast I have gone and opened the finecast products, being the Hand Maiden and Spirit Seer, and have found them to be very nice sculpts, with only minor flash and mould lines needing to be removed and some re-positioning of the staff and spear.

Hand Maiden

Quiver and Spear

Detail is very crisp, so still so far my only real issue that persists with finecast is areas being bendy/flimsy and that there can be quite a bit of excess resin, not exactly flash but chunks of resin that are left on parts of the sculpt, where the model is being held on the frame, which can be easily missed if you don't check over them carefully. Other than that they are very good sculpts, and so far have been relatively easy to get prepped and mounted onto corks

Spirit Seer Front

Spirit Seer Back

Seer parts back

Seer parts front

I am planning to do the inevitable female Farseer conversion that is in the back of every Eldar players mind (dont deny it :3) I have had such a project in the works for a while but haven't been able to properly pull it off thus far due to most Farseer models being quite bulky and not suited for a female figure. However the latest Farseer release is very well suited, being far more slender than the last few and the way it assembles means it will be very easy to convert. I am still going over exactly how I want to go about it, as I have a few different head options, and obviously making the body more feminine which I will cover in my next post.

I also completed my Vampire Lord on Zombie Dragon commission which I had in the works for a while. Was pleased with the end result. I had him in separate parts for painting so it was really nice to see the final result when I put him together. Was a pain to get wrapped and secure for postage however, so much paranoia when waiting for the owner to receive it, but he survived the transit quite nicely :D

So that's it for now. I will try to update as I go as best I can and not jump massively ahead, but I will try to get a post out at least once a week/fortnight to show my progress.