Next up in my
Eldar Corsair Prince. As you can see
he is wearing a battlesuit!
I have this conversion in my mind for ages and even had the prototype standing around for some time. Now it was time to make him a reality. You see, I never liked the standard Eldar jetbikes but the rules are rather nice. With 6th edition there came some new boosts to those rules
- the toughness increase becoming a change to the statline wich helps with instant kill. This puts them on par with the Tau battlesuits
- the impact hit helps with close combat even more
come in
Eldar Battlesuit count as Jetbike. What do we have? I use the profile of an Eldar Autarch on Jetbike. His equipment list is insanely long when you are willing to invest 140 points (which I find rather fitting for a corsair prince who picks all the best tools form the armory)
- Eldar Jetbike
- Twin Linked Shuriken Catapults
- Force Shield
- Shuriken Pistol
- Plasma Grenades
- Haywire Grenades
- Mandiblaster
- Laser Lance
- Fusion Gun
When thinkign about parts to use:
- body
- I started with a Tau XV-25 lower body. I filed a bit to get awy the hard corners of Tau style and added some round plates for the Eldar look.
- The upper body is an Wldar Guardian Torso although you can hardly tell now since I put 3 layers of putty over it.
- The head is an old Eldar Scorpion helmet- which I needed for the Mandiblasters.
- equipment
- Force shield is a Dark Eldar head piece and was attached to the left hand
- the jet pack is based on a Warwalker foot with some more Warwalker bits, a fake fingernail (women seem to use those nice bits :)), the eldar torso and putty
- Grenades come from the guardian sprue and also add some shuriken magazines
- weapons
- TL Shuriken catapults were quick and come along very nice and smooth.
- The Fusiongun and Laserlance combiweapon was comverted from the Dark Eldar Dark Lance
- Shuriken Pistol was not added sofar as I see no place to but the holster without overloading the guy totally. I instead added a secon hand weapon as a ritual knife on his right hand.
Currently I am looking for a name and a basing idea- Eldar Jetbikes come with a large skimmer base, but I think I will put him only on a 40mm base. Gives him a big enough foor print anyhow.
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| Eldar Battlesuit WIP |
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| Eldar Battlesuit WIP |
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| Eldar Battlesuit WIP |
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| Eldar Battlesuit modeling done |
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| Eldar Battlesuit modeling done |
