ZeroTwentythree's February Eldar - Rank & File (699pts)

February Eldar:  Bombots, Dreads, War Walker (Rank & File - The Heavies)

The OWAC IV phase of the pirate crew focused heavily on regular troops. This time around I'm still painting rank & file, but focusing on support troops & heavies.

So here we have two Rogue Trader dreadnoughts, a Banshee & a War Cry. I definitely wanted to paint a Banshee as that was the model I had in my original Space Elf force back in the day.

War walker. I decided to go with the same purple as on the support weapon platforms & crew. Speaking of crew, I like the idea of having some dismounted crew figures, so I looked through the infantry bits and got as close as I could to the model on the walker. In hindsight, I should have tried sculpting the hair to match. I added a bit of green on both models to break up all the purple.

As I was prepping for this year's challenge, I saw something in the list that had previously escaped my notice:

Bombots! OK, so there were never any actual figures. I gave it some thought and decided to kitbash some hover-bombots. I got some little plastic craft eggs, carefully cut them up, added some sheet styrene fins, little Eldar gems (Eldar love gems...) with greenstuff, and a bit of wire. I don't think they turned out too bad. I had hoped to convert a bombot "handler" but wasn't able to settle on a conversion, but maybe they will appear in a future month's entry.

I also had one old Epic dread that came in a package with some other Eldar stuff for the OWAC4 project. I thought I would paint it up as yet another (small) spirit warrior; build out to be determined.

Lastly, some bonus material.

Continuing my plan for the Grav-Attack Ranch, I made a quick & sloppy, second model. I need to get some cheap putty to finish the base before priming the new one.

Inspired by the power field walls I did in January, I had a couple of other related ideas for personal or portable power field barriers. One is like a personal power field. A "power mantlet"? The other is like a portable field fortification, inspired by the ability of sappers to build field fortifications in WFB 3rd ed. I'm not sure what the plastic end bits are, or even what kit they come from. Something much newer.

Shown here with (previously painted) Kev, for scale.

So my first two months were the sneaky and the heavy support troops. The next few months will involve some more vanilla troops & weapon platforms, weird aliens, and heroes. I think I'll save the heroes for the end. So that narrows it down a little.

Rank & File

War-Cry Dreadnought        140 pts

Banshee Dreadnought        160 pts

War Walker                         349 pts !!!

5 Bombots                            50 pts

Bonus

T.B.D. Spirit Warrior           0 pts

War Walker Pilot                 0 pts

Terrain                                 0 pts

February Total                  699 pts

OWAC VIII Total          1,311 pts

Jaakko and Forin - Wild card month

A power-board is fundamentally a toy. It is used in the dangerous, but highly popular, sport of sky surfing, in which athletes fly across the skies balanced on flying boards, controlling their flight with body weight and pressure foot throttle. The boards also have a military use, although only amongst unbalanced, maladjusted and battle-crazed troops.

Warhammer 40.000 Rogue Trader

Hello again! I planned to paint a small allied force of Imperial Guard just to justify the addition of a hover tank as my wild card choice but after painting grey uniforms for a few days I changed my mind. Luckily I had some options planned for contingency and which, in hindsight, actually fit the project a lot better.

Let's move into what I managed to paint:

I took it quite easy and wasted some time but managed to finish a squad of five Squats on powerboards who will be used as an alternative Warlord and Hearthguards choice, one Imperial Robot and two Bombots. I also built a terrain feature that I hope to include into the next month.

TROOPS:

Five Squats on powerboards. These models are sculpted by Drew Williams and are available from his Satyr Art Studio. The random equipment tables that Squat heroes use actually have powerboards in them but I'm not randomizing these guys, except probably for the grenades.

 

I actually intended to recreate the powerboard from the Squat with powerboard illustration in the Rogue Trader book. After some research I found out that the board in the picture is made in the likeness of a Santa Cruz Slasher skate board deck. I now have a simplified black and white digital version of the original Santa Cruz art and some printable transfer paper but sadly my printer couldn't handle it and I settled with simple geometric patterns.

 

 

Another Imperial Robot, now with the previously mentioned kill banner. I will make the banner more curly after these photos. I'm still looking for two more robots but will probably have to add them after this challenge is over. 

 

Two Bombots. I was about to convert a few from Daleks before I noticed that Curis from Ninjabread had 3D printed some. The initial plan was to have ten resin prints but as they failed to materialise a friend of mine came to rescue with his PLA printer. They are naturally a bit crude in comparison to resin ones but good enough for the battlefield.

This month in points:

 

 

 

That's it for now. Good luck to the final month!