New Eldar Announced

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Forge World announces new stuff for Eldar...
  

ELDAR WARP HUNTER:

The Warp Hunter, perhaps the rarest of Eldar tanks, sacrifices the transport capacity of the Falcon chassis to mount the terrifying firepower of a large D-Cannon, a weapon capable of tearing open the very fabric of reality and engulfing its target in the dark energies of the Warp. Complete resin and plastic kit. Model designed by Stuart Williamson.
Rules for the Warp Hunter can be found here.


ELDAR SHADOW SPECTRES ASPECT WARRIORS:

Disguised behind shimmering holo-fields, draped with gossamer-thin robes and wraith-like in appearance, the Shadow Spectres were believed long lost by Eldar Seers. Armed with prism rifles, each a potent anti-tank weapon, and equipped with jet packs, their mobility allows them to hunt down their chosen targets with the implacable patience of the dead, materialising seemingly from the very air to unleash their overwhelming firepower. This kit contains 5 full resin Aspect Warriors including scenic bases. Models designed by Simon Egan. Please note that the wire stand shown in two images is not included in this kit. Some careful conversion work will be required to acheive this effect.

Experimental rules for the Shadow Spectres aspect are available to download here.

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Necron Basics #1 Compulsory Units

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Starting a Necron army? New to 40k? Just got your first unit of Warriors built and painted? I know that some people reading this are new to Necrons, and are looking to know what direction they should go in when starting a Necron army! Just how many Warriors, Destroyers or Monoliths do you need?

One of the key things to remember when starting a new army, is that it is best to start with the units that you will be using often, rather than occasionally. If you buy the core units first, your army will quickly start to build into a solid foundation of units, ready to be expanded on...

In this first video, I will take a look at the core compulsory units needed for a Necron army...

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Tips on painting boring units

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Well maybe not boring units, more like tedious ones! I'm sure you know what I mean!

I recently painted a brood of Ripper Swarms, ten bases with forty five Rippers! That's ninety eyes, and a hell of allot of teeth to paint, especially when I'm doing three colours on each tooth! So the question is, how do you make painting something as tedious as this not so boring?

Up until painting the Rippers, I had been really enjoying putting paint to my bugs, but half way through the Rippers I realised, these little guy's were not going to be easy to paint. I have come across this before with other units and knew exactly how to deal with it...

I immediately went into my case box and picked out something I knew I would really enjoy painting, in this case my Eldar Jetbikes. Not that I was going to abandon the Rippers, these Jetbikes were going to motivate me to finish the Rippers!

With my 'fun' Jetbike unit sitting next to the Rippers, it was time to set myself some rules. Paint one hour of Rippers and get one hour of painting the Jetbikes for free. Having something to look forward too makes getting through the boring stuff easy, and takes away what feels like a massive task ahead of you. One hour at a time will soon get the job done, even if it takes me a bit longer than normal, it's much better than giving up on them totally!

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How to Magnetise a Rhino to Razorback including Las/Plas!

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OK, so time to build my first Space Wolves Razorback/Rhino! And with inspiration from 40k Battle Report, I am going to make one tank that I can have as a Razorback or Rhino, with as many interchangeable part as I can, after all, who knows how GW will be changing things in the future! Just in case you didn't know, never buy a Rhino! Always get yourself the Razorback, as you get all the Rhino bitz in the Razorback box, plus the Razorback turrets.

First up, and just to get this out the way, I am not painting anything Space Wolves at the moment! All my painting time has been allocated to my Eldar and Tyranids, so expect to see plastic and metal models with any of my Space Wolves posts, except for my already painted Fenrisian Wolves.

With that all said, the first thing I knew I would do is not glue my tank together, after all I will be painting the inside of the tank at some point, plus the wheel/track areas seem to need to be painted before gluing as well! No problem, out comes my trusted friend, the Blu-Tack. First of all to put together the tank without the top section and tracks...

With two magnets glued inside the tank at the front and two on the supplied dozer blade, I immediately give myself the option to take the dozer on and off, If you make sure the magnets go on the opposite way, it will also be impossible to magnetise the dozer blade on up side down. I get all of my magnets from the UK supplier Guy's Magnets Ltd, and the magnets I used are 3x0.5mm and 1/8x1/16"

 

Next, I magnetised the top hatches...

And the Storm Bolter and Hunter Killer Missile launcher...

Next is to put a magnet on the small hatch cover on the left of the tank. By not gluing the hatch cover you can use both sides of it depending on the build...

At this point it is worth noting that if you want to have a Multi Razorback/Rhino, do not glue the Rhino top hatch doors in place! Both the Razorback and Rhino top hatches sit perfectly well into place without gluing or magnetising!

So that's the Rhino done with Storm Bolter, Hurricane Launcher and Dozer blade options...

Now onto the Razorback version. Although I knew primarily that I wanted to go for the Las/Plas turret, which is not supplied in the box? Again I wanted to make it as interchangeable as I could. Both the twin Las and Heavy Bolters work fine without gluing or magnetising them onto the gun holders, so that makes life easy. From then on, I just put a few magnets here and there and it's job done for the standard guns...

Next was the Las/Plas. Get two Plasma guns that you have left over from only using Melta guns in your army (or get some from GW or eBay), and glue them together with a few trims here and there...

Make a hole on the base area for a magnet...

This twin Plas will then magnetise nicely on the previously made Bolter holder...

Of course, taking away one Las gun is easy, but it does leave a bit of a gap that doesn't look that great. To fill the gap I used the double oil can accessory that came with the kit and cut it about a bit. With a couple of magnets it fits into the gap nicely...

I also have the added bonus of being able to magnetising the Plasma guns up side down next to the Las to make room for the Storm Bolter and Hunter Killer Missile launcher at the front if needed, and of course, don't forget the dozer blade! OK, that's it pretty much done...

Now all I have to do is battle damage it and make it into a space Wolves tank with some extra icons, side hatches and fur...

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