Rogue Trader Eldar and a Squat!

I rather like that scheme, as @Brother Meredith mentioned throw in a nice bit of orange on the spirt stones or something to provide a little more pop and I think they'll look great.
 
Mars/red/orange bases could be cool. I think you probably want one more colour on the armour however - picking out the stones or something. Still love the base colours.
 
Oh, just a note and brief update to earlier:
original RT403 Eldar Dreadnought (1988) series had 3 types listed:
Banshee: (Support Dreadnought) was 2 Arms each with a Flamer, and a Multi-limb joint to give a shoulder mounted Missile Launcher.

War-Cry: (Assault Dreadnought) was a Arm with Shuriken Catapult ( Right arm) with a Weapon mount on the left which has a Las-Cannon.

War-Demon: (Assault Dreadnought) was 2 arms with Shuriken catapults.

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They then added, in the same year:
War Walker: replace head with one of two Pilots (helmeted or non-helmet), both arms replaced with Shield Mount with a Scatter Laser and Las-cannon (bits taken from the Eldar Artelllery set too)

War Robot: (quickly renamed Spirit Warrior) Smaller different shaped head, Left arm with Shuriken Catapult and Gun Mount with Heavy Plasma (along with 2 Ghost Warrior Drones)

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In 1994, the released the 2nd Edition version, where they stopped doing the pre-made class types
second edition Dreadnaught (1994) they stopped doing the different classes and kinda made a all in one kit. the changes basically were:
Updated Missile Launcher Design (now longer barrel version), Heavy Plasma (Tweaked design), Scatter-Laser (Tweaked design), Las-Cannon (from the War Walker but tweaked/redesigned), and D-Cannon. There are also the Flamer arm pair and Shuriken Catapult pair which I think had minor tweaked design..
that said, some of these parts I'm comparing the designs and seeing no change in either images or in person. Apart from the one new weapon (well, the Las-cannon, Scatter Laser and Heavy Plasma were not in the original range of weapons that come with it, but were probably compatible rule wise). The mean BIG difference was the antenna/Power Plant. It now has a Weapon Mount built in, (clearly a tweak on the original Antenna design) instead of having the multi-limb joint from the Banshee.

That said, when you brought it, it was boxed and you didn't know which arms or weapon you got like alot of the boxed robot vehicles of the time (compared to the blisters where you had a chance of seeing what parts.
 
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Thanks for the suggestions.

I'm going to paint the pouches an orange/brown colour think that will look good.
I went with the grey bodysuit as I didn't want to distract from the armour but maybe a darker grey or even black might work better ?
I like the weapons but I'm unsure if the whole thing bronze works or if I should maybe paint the outer part a different colour maybe to match the armour ?
Have ordered some Wargames Series : Fire Land for the base so will look forward to seeing how that looks.
I'm tempted to change the eyes from yellow to red and then use the yellow as a spot colour on the armour.

ManicMan said:
Ah.. okay.. really need to strip these but.. can see the difference now in the front of the feet.
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Please could you take a photo. I've looked at every picture I can find and feet all look the same ? I have noticed one massive difference that I'd not spotted until today and that's the fact that 2nd edition crew is sat in a seat with legs together whereas the original looks like his in a giant man sized baby carrier !
 
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Quick shots. Left War Walker Leg (on the Left) and Left Dreadnought Leg (on the Right)
there are a few other tweaks like they are more digigraded but not quite, the heel has more of an angled spike. Easy to see when next to each other like this.
 
okay.. that's.. kinda worse.. War Walker didn't have the different legs, they were technically optional for War-Robots/Sprite walkers, Dreadnoughts OR War Walkers.. atleast, how they word things.. but it might just be slightly clumsily wording..
 
“Worse” of “flexible”? Imagine the standard kits came as pictured, but could request differently when ordering directly!

By 2nd Ed the legs are assigned, arms, weapons & mount redesigned plus the walker guardian is in a sitting position!
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minor tweaks and I know what you mean, but surely the leg is more to do with the design and centre of gravity, so allowing the more flexible version is... yeah..

but the term was referring to narrowing down the versions ^_^ though if we want to be that narrowed down, Rogue trader didn't have dreadnaughts.. they were a 1.5 stuff. (and in a very unimportant way, early dreadnoughts were power armour even for the Eldar, where 2nd made them kinda magically animated robots
 
The spirit stones idea is referenced in relation to the Spirit Warriors and Assassins introduced early on in WD#101 and reprinted in the Compendium.
 
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