The Avatar of Ynnead - The Yncarne

Hey all,

So I've finished this beast of a model! I'm not 100% happy with the hair, but then I do struggle with white. I spent a good chunk of time matching colour palettes to see if other hair colours would work, but I concluded they would either clash or get subsumed in the rest of the models darkness, so white it was. 

Overall though, I'm very happy with how this turned out! I'm looking forward to putting together a small force of metallic black and burnt red styled Eldar. Don't worry however! Whilst the list will inevitably be middling to strong due to the inherent strength of the Eldar codex, you won't see me running wraithguard or scat packs. Wraithblades on the other hand...

Anyway, pictures!

Peace out,

Rob

Building the Yncarne - It Begins

Hey all,

So recently, my lovely girlfriend bought me the Triumverate of Ynnead which has sparked my re-involvement in 40k and the probable development of an Ynnari army... The first step to this is building and painting the centrepiece itself, the Yncarne.

In between painting steps on the Night Lords I have going on, I treated myself to starting the build on this beast. This is the first of 3 major sub-assemblies that will be built and painted before being glued together, though there are several minor pieces that will be painted separately as well. 

As you can see, this thing is incredibly detailed. I won't be following the paint scheme of GW but be going for something altogether darker in tone! I'm planning on getting the rest of the sub-assemblies built and undercoated this weekend with some work on this first section starting late next week should time allow!

Peace out,

Rob

Colour me Red and Purple - The Ynnari Come

Hi Gang,

So the main reason that I dropped out of 40k, other than a general swell in people playing what I would term unfluffy lists (at least in my meta), was that nothing about any of the current factions excited me well enough to persuade me that it was worth my investment of time and money. 

The Imperial Agents codes had me ruminating over lists as I think its a very well made fluffy 'codex' but it didn't make me jump in with both feet... The Gathering Storm on the other hand...

I have always loved the idea of both Cegorach and Ynnead (ee-nee-ad like Yggdrasil) and the birth of the Eldar god of the dead has got me frothing at the mouth to start an army. Oh yes, I will be a dirty Eldar player, though I am definitely hoping that they give you rules to make it Dark Eldar heavy. 

I don't know when I will have the capital to start this army, but I am hoping to have the book fairly soon after release and then have a 1200-1500 points army up and running by October. I am VERY excited by this. 

So back to 40k we go... Lets hope 8th edition is exciting as the rumours seem to hint at!

Peace out,

Rob