#asuryani

[sympyl]

New warp spiders! Took a while for my preorders to arrive, but now they're here, and. I've painted my first squad of the new stuff!

[barpsy-abaub]

[nictanova]

The red-haired Bonesinger girl by Feletida

[artist-of-unknow-orgin]

Eldar Sub factions(and subraces) in a nutshell

[titanomancy]

I was admittedly flummoxed by the announcement that the forthcoming Eldar update would round out the remaining Aspect Warriors and Phoenix Lords when that seemed like exactly the kind of specialist unit that you'd want to use to sell Kill Team sets, but sure enough that is exactly what Games Workshop is poised to do.

We've already seen the spicy elf so the rest of his boys aren't much of a surprise. All of these kits have been incredibly faithful to the 2nd Edition sculpts and that remains the case with all three of the Aspects revealed today.

Swooping Hawks have probably benefitted the most from their long delay as the production team learned how best to make "in-flight" poses work for miniature that are very much subject to the laws of gravity. I have already heard some early grousing that people don't like the Asuryani ruins they're posed atop, and to those people I say get good at basing – there is literally nothing stopping you from pinning them to the battlefield detritus of your choice.

Warp Spiders are probably the most changed of the lot, if only because the switch to plastic enables the model to more accurately represent what it was trying to depict in the first place. It does a fantastic job of unscrunching the tiny, hunchbacked pewter models that were limited by the realities of centrifugal casting molten lead.

And of course, Phoenix Lords including for the first time Lhykis the Whispering Web, Phoenix Lord of the Warp Spiders. This has been a hole in the Eldar range since the '90s, so hopefully they make her introduction interesting in the codex.

[soylent-crocodile]

Aspect warriors tiered by how much I respect their craft

[soonielo]

So her name is Phasalian (Fara-Phasalian to her family and Phasi to wrong side of the family).

She the oldest garsh darn person u ever meet and shes sooooo tiered by now. Survived The Fall just to be disepointed by every living family memeber from now on. Plus the Mon-keighs are stupid.... it aint easy when its hard

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

I want a story where a farseer shows up to warn humans about something, but instead of being vague and mysterious they speak in overly-simple, clear words, and try to walk them through every step they take to defeat the baddie. Y'know, just treats them like particularly slow children who need their hands held on everything. Eventually a human calls them out for being a condescending asshole and the farseer gets really offended. Humans are the ones who complain that the Eldar aren't clear about anything! They're being extra careful to break things down to a level simple enough for the humans to understand! Can't talk normally, can't talk simply, how are they supposed to talk?!

[wh40kgallery]

Planetstrike

by Paul Dainton

[maddyaddy]

Iyanden Wraithguard of House Charoi

[feletida]

Saimcatra tries netlisting

[sympyl]

Eldar Warlocks.

[barpsy-abaub]

Auric Stormcloud, Farseer of Craftworld Ulthwe ("Farseer" by William King)

re-upload, previous post had, eh, a limb problem

[gwillwrites]

Craftworld leadership

[sunder-the-gold]

Very much a work in progress to represent how a Craftworld space-elf might pursue various skillsets within the Eldar Path system.

Each node represents an Eldar having mastered the skills to perform that particular role, whether it is an actual Path (like Path of the Healer) or the role is only meant to be temporary (like any Guardian position).

(The exception being those nodes that represent the Eldar becoming lost within the Path system, and unable to move on to anywhere else. But those still make sense from the perspective that the lost or undead Eldar has not lost any of the experience from their previous achievements.)

As a work in progress, this chart is like a tabletop model that someone has not finished painting but is still presenting to public review.

Would you look at an unfinished model and comment that half of it is still bare plastic?

Similarly, if the model is being painted by someone who doesn't own a single Eldar book, but who is trying to recreate what they've seen from box-art and screenshots of official artwork, any mistakes might stem from ignorance rather than stupidity or malice.

Finally, "I hate flow-charts" is not a criticism, it is a personal opinion.

[titanomancy]

Duende caliente.