The Age of the Imperium

Geroak II

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Looking forward to see how it ends up looking should you decide to repaint it whether it's yellow or white.
And since I don't know a damn thing about 40k I'll most definitely quote you on that should need arise. :grin:
 

Eric

Administrator
Well credit where credit is due as they say. The auction house very kindly got in touch with the seller who said it was fine to email them, so I've exchanged a few lovely emails with the seller and painter of "my" (feels weird saying that when I didn't paint them) Eldar.

Anyhow they were painted by a talented chap called Robin Ewbank, who from our emails looks to have had a similar baptism in the fires of Wargaming as many of us had in our youths in that classic 80s/90s bit of GW history, before life got in the way a bit much and he drifted away from the hobby. Anyhow Robin's other claim to fame beyond painting some rather lovely Eldar was having one of his Golden Demon entries featured in White Dwarf (162 if you want to go and rummage). This rather nice Chaos Space Marine

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And a newer photo Robin took for me the other day, since how could you part with a model you'd had featured!

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Lovely work.

It's been really nice chatting with Robin so I shall endeavour to do him proud with my additions to the Eldar I now have in my stewardship! Of course when that might be I can't say ... when I have a sudden urge to paint Eldar I guess! Watch the WIP thread for updates!

Right I promise I'll post something I've painted next! :grin:
 
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Malacassa2

Member
Thank you. Hopefully I'll get onto my Orks soon. The collection is ready at least!

So a while back I saw an auction (proper one, not ebay) for some Eldar. I never had any Eldar growing up and have always quite fancied some. However realistically I've got my Squats to finish up, a load of Orks to do, random Imperial Guard and who knows what else. I am not going to find the time to paint a full Eldar army.

Now this army looked fairly well painted in the pictures which did leave me a choice. I normally buy models and strip them, because a huge huge part of the hobby for me is the painting. That said a little part of me thought - well maybe I could keep these painted, do a few repairs and add a couple of other models and call it done. There was also part of me that slightly wanted to preserve the effort that must have gone into the army. I don't know if the auction was someone just selling off a collection or if it was an estate sale after a death, but I decided I'd be happy to give these a home - as they are. So alas I don't know the name of the original owner and painter :(

You can have a little sneak peak of the entire lot

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So since the camera was out today I've taken some photos of things as they currently are and I'll post those over the coming days. I've about five guardians that needed arms so those are to one side being repaired and a few models need their bases tidying up. I've bought a handful of other Eldar models to round out the army. The challenge will be painting style. These are not my style so do I try to match them or just do my thing or find some middle ground I wonder?

Anyhow lets kick off with some of my favourite minis - the Striking Scorpions! Again I must emphasise this is NOT my painting (but I'm sure you can enjoy it anyway!)

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EDIT: Credit where credit is due, the painter is Robin Ewbank.
Great job by Robin, I always think the Scorpions are underrated but are excellent sculpts.
 
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