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Today I played in an OPR doubles tournament. So much fun. A huge variety of opponents I'd never played before, Guard, Space Marines, more Chaos, Mechanicus, even more chaos, and Tau.

My craftworld, Ra Shelwe, formed a tenuous alliance with a faction of Nurgle followers that had some sympathy toward Eldar due to a shared desire to aid the Eldar god, Isha. (Though perhaps we had different ideas of what that aid would really be). The Guardians of Isha embarked to... Something? I'll come up with a lore mission overall sometime.

We won all 3 of our games, "oddest duo" (lore-wise), and even tied for "best painted", as voted by the other participants.

I had an amazing time, this is a dang good game. <3

More images and short battle reports under the cut.

First game, we faced off against some guard and butter marines. A pair of sacrificial zones would attack units inside them, and award points based on toughness taken. My farseer performed some psychic rituals to purify the land (secondary objective VP). Wave serpent tried to shoot down a plane, failed. My wraithlord had its debut game! (I haven't shown off the photos of that one yet). Wraithblades escorting my farseer wiped out 2 whole units in a couple of charges.

We took the win, I don't want to face a great unclean one ever.

Second game saw us fighting for control over 5 points with another chaos faction and the tech-obsessed Mechanicus. My guardians bravely held one of our deployment points. War walker Lorde's over the landscape, picking off medium models here and there. The great old one did not last through the first turn. Knights are scary. I need a wraith knight.

We squeezed out a win, but mostly due to time constraints. If it had gone to the 4th turn, we may have struggled to maintain the lead.

3rd game and an encroaching storm threatened to wipe the surface clean, while only a single point allowed the opportunity to leave the planet. Our enemies, another chaos faction and some sadly misled tau, sought to hinder our escape. The unclean one again showed its menace in taking out the enemy riptide during the first activation of the game. I'm so glad it's on my side. One broadside put up an impressive fight, surviving 2 charges and a gun volley, before finally being taken down by my wraithblade's charge. The storm forced us all in close and fast, and a target rich environment made it difficult for both sides to prioritise targets. But Ra Shelwe was victorious and escaped. I guess a few of the nurgle marines did too.

We took the win, and most of our models survived to escape. So many points. XD Too many points. It was great.

Overall, I had a fantastic time. The size of the games were great, 2k per army, for a total 4k per side, or 8k on the table. Losing a full unit in the first couple activations felt fine, cause you have so many remaining.

There were a bunch of people there I didn't get to play, but being able to play against 6 new people in just 3 games, and form new connections with club members. So good. I don't think I can get away with calling myself a newbie anymore. XD

#one page rules #grimdark #aeldari #miniatures #warhammer 40k #Ra Shelwe #battle report

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I been doing some painting. Nothing new finished yet, but progress!

First up, my wave serpent. Best side first, lots still to do, but it's presentable at least for my upcoming tournament on the weekend.

I don't remember if I've shown this one in it's in-progress state before.

This little guy is entombed inside. I painted him some 3 years ago when I first got the kit, and hadn't yet decided what I was doing with the canopy. After painting that opaque, I thought about magnetising it, till I gave up and glued it down. I never liked the lack of helmet or gauntlets anyway. Too much skin showing. XD

I've made a start on the underside, there won't be a lot here but some metallics, a couple of white panels. But most will be dark and unpainted, as there will be a stand here eventually.

Wraithlord progress. Shaded! That's it. I need to do the head, but I keep forgetting to get the tools I need for the marble effect I'd like to spray.

Finally... New toys :3

I have a super-original-never-before-seen plan to paint them with dark bark and pink cherry blossoms. Taking a quick look into sylvaneth lore, my main colour scheme would be fairly uniform across my "glade", but some units, like the kurnoth hunters, and the treelord if built as a spirit of Durthu, are more like representatives of the nature goddess, and may come from other glades originally? So may or may not match my own glade's colour scheme. An interesting idea, but I'll probably colour them similarly anyway.

I need to get myself a little turntable and light booth for taking nice turnaround gifs when they're done.

#warhammer #40k #aeldari #miniatures #mini painting #sylvaneth #wip #i like cherry blossom #i want to get a tattoo #like one that had a stylised cherry blossom branch winding up my lower leg #with water colour blossoms #itll look so cool #ra shelwe

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Progress!

So yeh, you've seen my wraithblades before, so that's not new, but I have now painted up all the gun arms for them. 5 wraith cannons and 5 D-scythes. They're a little rushed, and the colours are not exactly what I wamt, but they did turn out well enough I think. Pictured is only one wraithcannon, but I promise the others are all done too xD

But I have also finally started working on my wraithlord, finally, after I bought the start collecting box 3 years ago. Im very slow with these things xD

Also some bonus progress on wave serpent spikes and some extra wraithlord bits. The head needs some fancy air brushing, so it's not attached yet.

Can't wait to show more when I get there. I love that aesthetic of the wraith constructs, so eventually I will have many of them. Hopefully. If I can find some.

#warhammer #40k #aeldari #mini painting #miniatures #Ra Shelwe #i manage a days worth of mainting every few months #energy is hard #wip

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I've been fiddling with some basic custom bases and base inserts for GW bases.

I've been attaching magnets to my bases, but some of my first batch unglued, which was pretty useless. I also really dislike using a bunch of greenstuff just to hold them in place.

SO! I've come up with a couple of 2 part bases in a number of sizes, with included inserts to enclose magnets. As well as some inserts that fit around the 40mm GW base's hole guides.

Anyway, there's a link to them below the cut if you'd like to print for yourself.

These are standard GW 25mm and 40mm (so 38mm really), and the inner part is designed to hold a number of 5x1mm magnets.

Additionally, when printed with the top face down, it makes for a nice smooth finish, perfect for my eldar marble basing, if not great for gluing. On that note, use of plastic glue on these would depend on the material you print with, so that's something to think about too.

You can see the finish after priming on the black test one I made.

Pls share, I assume as I have a link in this, it will be suppressed to some degree?

Feel free to let me know if you'd like some other base sizes, I can set them up easy enough. Though I assume warping will be an issue with some of the larger bases, so best to stick with 25 to 65mm I suppose.

Oh right! Print settings. I was using a makerspace's printers, I think fairly default nozzle and settings for an ultimaker s3? But layer height I use is 0.15mm, and that print in the second picture took about 3 hours, for 3x40mm and 5x25mm pairs. This gave me a nice enough finish on the sides, without it taking far too long.

#Warhammer #miniatures #wargaming #3d printing #stl #ignore the wraithguard #they're 'armless

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Not art, but related. I know I've mentioned briefly I haven't had much chance to play, but I finally got around to going to a nearby wargaming club, and I've now had a few games of.. well not actual Warhammer yet, but close!

Been playing some One-page Rules: Grimdark Future. Just 1000 points (which is near 500 points in 40k) with 3 games over a couple of visits.

First game against some ancient robots. Regeneration is annoying, I didn't have enough AP, made some wonderfully bad tactical decisions, getting my walker with 3' range waaaay too close, so it could be easily attacked and pinned. And those little bugs were so annoying xD I won... But by model kill count, and I'm not sure if that was the best way to decide.

Next two games were against a plague heretic player, and now I'm convinced all other factions have regeneration xD

Unfortunately I set up the second game terrain myself, and didn't favour myself at all. This is the game with the red pipes. I made some better decisions, got some points. But was picked off a lot, and couldn't possibly catch up in points with what remained, and lost horribly.

Third game had the green crystals, much better terrain placement. I could use the terrain more effectively, to avoid getting my powerful units in los of their powerful guns. And it all came down to some careful tactics and tense rolls in the last turn. Very exciting, very fun. I managed to secure the win, and was really proud of some of the tactical decisions made.

All in all, I've had fun. The club has an OPR doubles tournament coming up so I'm keen to give that a go. And I've got some model painting going so I will hopefully have enough for a 1k Warhammer game soon to see how that plays differently.

Good times. That's all :)

#Warhammer #40k #Aeldari #grimdark future #battle report

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Been doing some lore stuff for my custom craftworld. Poking around Aeldari symbols and a bit of language. So allow me to introduce:

Ra Shelwe

"Ra Shelwe" is supposed to mean something along the lines of "Song of Soul/Light" in a kind of lamentation way. Very dramatic. Wiki told me "Shelwe" means "Song of". "Ra" was just pulled from Maugan Ra and Kaelis Ra, referring to "Harvester of Souls" and "Destroyer of Light"; and, without any more info, I assumed it meant light/soul as similar meaning (like a persons "inner light"). Though honestly that could refer to the Destroyer/Harvester pairing instead. Ehh, afaik there isn't any canon on the meaning of many Eldar words, if someone tells me otherwise I can always change my mind xD.

Symbols were referenced from Andrew Hick's collected Eldar stuff. The main insignia for the craftworld is made from a variation of the "soulstone" symbol using some wraithguard fins (? terminology?), and a tear of Isha. 'Cause dramatic eldar. The background symbol is "Salvation". Again, full of drama.

Overall the banner idea and layout was based on some inspiration from some craftworld banners my image search turned up, that apparently came from MirageKnight32 on DA. They're pretty cool, go check them out.

Anyway, lore-wise, Ra Shelwe are a reclusive and don't get involved much in the galaxy (I've only managed to field them in like 5 kill team games, and 1 larger game, in the last 4 years). They made some beeeg unspecified mistakes in the years immediately following the birth of she who thirsts, which has left them few in number, wraith focussed, and FULL of angsty guilt. (If I remember this population make-up is kinda similar to Iyanden? Kinda similar colour scheme too really. Hence why I originally put Iyanden's insignia on my Dire Avenger's flag though.)

Now to hate myself as I try to paint this onto every vehicle and banner. Can't use those standard eldar transfers anymore :D

#warhammer #40k #craftworld eldar #aeldari #lore building #I learned today that links suppress posts :D

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Rarr. Was painting my wraithguard guns finally, got bored, and decided to put the arms on my "Tyranid warrior". It's... I like this one. The other one less so, but still cool I guess xD

When I was grabbing some parts for them, I kinda figured a pair of big arms, and a pair of little arms for each, and for variety, what the big pair was holding was different for both. Hence, big gun on one, and big scythes on the other.

Now gotta work out how I'm going to attach them securely to bases, and then think about painting them. I doubt I'll do more than base coat them any time soon though.

#warhammer #kitbash #40k #tyranids #wip

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I have this character. And I've never actually drawn her myself. So I gotta learn how to draw better so I actually can sometime.

#not a furry #sketch #fennec #how do I draw? #I like them as sketches #sketchy hides the mistakes #if I clean them up they'll be worse #furry #sylvianas

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Minis! As promised, here are most of my Eldar army paint jobs.

A unique custom Craftworld without any lore. But I really like the colour scheme, and I'll come up with some kind of lore eventually.

Wraithguard below are magnetised to swap all weapon options, and I've magnetised the weapon options of the war walker and heavy weapon platform. Many of the bases are magnetised as well, but I'm working on a better 3d printed insert method than just smushing magnets and glue into some greenstuff.

Now I should actually play the game sometime...

#mini painting #miniatures #warhammer #40k #craftworld eldar #aeldari #complete

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Random update of random past time. Dragged myself out to some tabletop gaming club events, and scored some second hand 'nids. So I've been testing out some of the pearlescent paints I have to find a nice combo for the carapace of my new hive fleet. Also grabbed a bunch of random bits to make some Tyranid "Warriors". First time playing with greenstuff to kitbash, so that's exciting.

I'll post some of my Aeldari paint jobs soon maybe.

The top and bottom parts of the warriors really don't match properly, but that's the fun of Tyranid right? They're all over the place cause "rapid evolution". It's a miracle really that the different hive fleets even remotely resemble each other.

#Warhammer #40k #Tyranids #kitbash #someday I'll work out how to make REAL tumblr tags #miniatures #mini painting #wip

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Read some stories to my chat. They were enraptured.

#ffxiv #story time #vtuber #The Boy and the Dragon Gay: A literary Analysis #Youtube

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I made a second Blog! This is the one I will focus on my own content. My other one will be the more "social" one. For instance, I stream sometimes, so maybe clips from that? I do 3D arts sometimes, so maybe some of them? I also take commissions sometimes, so perhaps a few of those I have other arty projects sometimes. Yup, perhaps even them.

I present, STUFF!

Some commission work on Vtuber models for streaming, and my own model.

A couple of further renders of scenes and objects.

And finally some blender tutorials I've followed.

Thanks for taking a look see. With any luck I'll have more posted eventually. Who knows :D

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