Hey Guys! I'm happy to introduce you all to Honda, a guest blogger to FYN. He will be blogging about his buildup of his Iyanden Eldar Army, a nice counterpoint to all the ramshackle orks you've been reading about! With that said, here is Honda!
I burn witches.
It's what I do, and I have a lot of fun doing it. I built a rather large Black Templar army that's sole reason for existing is to seek out the vile, the weak, and the unforgiven and eradicate them. Especially if they are witches. The Emperor knows that humanity has a tough enough time as it is, without all those screen doors to the warp running around letting in uninvited guests.
Especially guests that don't clean up after they've made a mess.
It's what I do, and I have a lot of fun doing it. I built a rather large Black Templar army that's sole reason for existing is to seek out the vile, the weak, and the unforgiven and eradicate them. Especially if they are witches. The Emperor knows that humanity has a tough enough time as it is, without all those screen doors to the warp running around letting in uninvited guests.
Especially guests that don't clean up after they've made a mess.
So if you start scanning down to the pictures, you'll eventually come back here and wonder what in the world I am doing.
I'm doing something different.
For a long time, I've admired the aesthetics of the Eldar. I like their design, even though I'm not that crazy about their play style. Give me blunt force trauma any day of the week. Still, the things I really liked about them, the flowing lines of their vehicles, a perceived Asian influence to some of the fighting styles and the fact that they are 180 degrees from where I've spent all my 40k gaming history.
So I see them as a challenge and an opportunity to learn a new way to play an army, do some modeling that really wouldn't be applicable to my Templars, and refine some painting techniques using my airbrush.
I'm doing something different.
For a long time, I've admired the aesthetics of the Eldar. I like their design, even though I'm not that crazy about their play style. Give me blunt force trauma any day of the week. Still, the things I really liked about them, the flowing lines of their vehicles, a perceived Asian influence to some of the fighting styles and the fact that they are 180 degrees from where I've spent all my 40k gaming history.
So I see them as a challenge and an opportunity to learn a new way to play an army, do some modeling that really wouldn't be applicable to my Templars, and refine some painting techniques using my airbrush.
I'm going to start off building an Iyanden army because I like the style and ideas behind Wraithguard/Blades, i.e. 12 foot tall dead guys with 7 foot swords and Wraithlords, even bigger dead guys with bigger swords. By now you've probably come to the conclusion that I don't play in tournaments and your assumption would be correct. I just want to build an army that I'll enjoy modeling and painting while I have fun playing games.
Our local group is pretty low key and so we're more of a loose association of social gamers. We have fun, play hard and I'm already preparing myself for all the grief I'll be getting because "witches".
Challenge accepted.
I saw this pose while doing research for the army and I just had to have one.
Our local group is pretty low key and so we're more of a loose association of social gamers. We have fun, play hard and I'm already preparing myself for all the grief I'll be getting because "witches".
Challenge accepted.
I saw this pose while doing research for the army and I just had to have one.
So I got this guy off of eBay.
I converted him to look like this.
This was the first thing I started working on and I ended up completely disassembling him (arms, legs, head, feet) and then putting him back together again (Eh Humpty, what did you say?) to get this pose.
It was a pain in the neck, but I like how it turned out. He'll represent a Wraithseer, but mostly, I'll run him in the HQ slot with a Ghostglaive and see what sort of mayhem he can cause. Initially, I just expect him to look good on the table as I won't have a clue as to what I am doing. That's ok, I've been there before. That's part of the fun for me.
The head is not secured as I want to paint it separately, like I will for the Wraith guard/Blades.
It was a pain in the neck, but I like how it turned out. He'll represent a Wraithseer, but mostly, I'll run him in the HQ slot with a Ghostglaive and see what sort of mayhem he can cause. Initially, I just expect him to look good on the table as I won't have a clue as to what I am doing. That's ok, I've been there before. That's part of the fun for me.
The head is not secured as I want to paint it separately, like I will for the Wraith guard/Blades.
As far as the palette of color for this army, I know it will include a turquoise, but instead of running with the typical GW yellow, I'm going to look at toning that down a bit and running with a lighter sand set of colors. I prefer soft contrasts and muted tones, so I'll primarily be using Vallejo colors.
I think that's it for now. I'd like to thank Greg for allowing me a spot on his awesome blog to chronicle this effort and I'll see you next time.
Cheers,
Honda
I think that's it for now. I'd like to thank Greg for allowing me a spot on his awesome blog to chronicle this effort and I'll see you next time.
Cheers,
Honda
(Thanks Honda! Feel free to leave Honda a comment below if you have any questions, suggestions, or just want to say hi.)
