Awesome Artist - Farseer by "33claydog"

Nick speaking,

After receiving my most amazingly painted Mantarch from 33claydog, I felt it was about time the world, or at least, anyone who stumbles across my Blog, sees what else this awesome artist has done. Until recently, the work my good buddy Clayton has masterfully created had only been seen by a few friends and family, but as you can see from his Farseer below, his work needs to be seen by far more people than that! I will be posting some more of Clayton's work here on the Blog soon, so please keep an eye out for that. I would also be grateful if you went over and checked out his YouTube Channel to give him some support and a sub...

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Praying Farseer Painted

Nick speaking,

Here is the Eldar Farseer conversion I did all painted up. This guy started life off as a Reaper Praying Paladin miniature that I got from my YouTube buddies, Courage and Honour. I hope you like what I did with him guys...

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Praying Farseer Conversion

Nick speaking,

Along with the Out House that I received from my YouTube buddies, Courage and Honour, they also very kindly sent me a Reaper Praying Paladin mini. It didn't take me long to come up with the idea of converting it into a Farseer for my Eldar, so I got stuck right in and cut off the minis arms and head ready for converting...

First I prepared the new arms and head with some pins. Then I went to work with green stuff (grey stuff, but it's the same), tidying his arm joints and making some new green stuff shoulder pads. Lastly, I used a Space Marine head and a rock, to cover up the section where I had removed the original helmet by his leg, then I put him on a base ready for painting...

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Seer Council Coversions Done

Nick speaking,

After waiting a while for some Warlocks to come from eBay, I was able to complete the final touches to my Seer Council. With all the Warlocks and 'Jetbike' Anti Grav platforms magnetised, I was able to start work on the next stage...

My aim is to have ten Warlocks in total, five Warlocks with Witch blades and five with Singing spears. This would give me the option to interchange my five 'Jetbike' Warlocks to any combination of weapons I wanted, and have the added bonus of giving me a full unit of ten foot slogging Warlocks to use if needed. After purchasing as many different Warlocks as I could find, (think I have them all, but I could be wrong) I only ended up with three Singing spear models, so a bit of conversion work was needed...

First was to make a Singing spear out of a Dire Avenger power weapon...

With the spear ready I took a duplicate Warlock I had, and cut off the Witch blade arm. I then made a sleeve for the Dire Avenger arm and made both the original Witch blade and the new Spear arm interchangeable with magnets...

One of the figures I got from eBay, was a another duplicate Warlock, that had had the top of it's spear broken. This gave me an excellent opportunity to make my fifth Warlock a bit different to the original one...

First I cut the spear away from the foot so that I could bend the arm a bit to give the spear a different angle. I then made up a new top section from another Dire Avenger power weapon, and added an odd piece I had to the bottom, to get the length of the spear back again. Finally I cut of the antlers to alter his appearance further...

With the Warlocks and Platforms all done, it was time to sort out the foot slogging bases. I found that the magnets on the Warlocks feet were sticking out a bit and you could see them on the bases, fine on the platforms, as In my mind the Warlocks control the platforms with these 'discs', but they looked a bit silly on the 25mm bases.

I thought that if I put some cardboard/plastic discs on the bases the same size as the magnets, i might be able to get the Warlocks to look like they are standing on some sort of council pathway, maybe made out of wraithbone discs or something! I made some carboard discs using a cereal box and a hole punch, which I have to give credit to my wife for coming up with this ideas, after I spent a week unsuccessfully looking around my local hobby shops...

Finally, I made some extra psychic 'smoke' for my Sexy Farseer, and I am all ready for painiting...

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IDIC Seer Council

Nick speaking,

I have been waiting a long time for GW to give me Warlocks on a Jetbike! Of course, it's probably not going to happen until a new Codex comes out, and when will that be? So, I finally took the plunge to make my own Seer Council. I figure that there will be a new jetbike design sometime, and that I will use those new bikes for my Seer Council in the future, making them stand out from my normal Guardian Jetbikes.

For now though, I decided to go down the anti-grav platform route!

First up, my Sexy IDIC Farseer...

And her IDIC Warlocks...

The Warlocks are not quite finished as I have to add a few more shuriken catapults to some of them, but they are all magnetised so that I can have them on foot as well...

Now to get them painted!

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