Thaestalyrdaes Craftworld

Keira's Asuryani force has been growing a lot lately (especially with the push to get a few units completed for the Strange Bedfellows 40K Team tournament) and I've been meaning to get a picture of the complete force so far...



This represents a War Host of the Thaestalyrdaes Craftworld (using Biel-Tan rules)

What she has here is:

HQ
Farseer
Autarch
Jain Zar
Avatar of Khaine

Troops
10 Dire Avengers
10 Rangers
30 Guardian Defenders

Elite
20 Howling Banshees
5 Wraithblades

Fast Attack
6 Swooping Hawks

Heavy Support
1 Wraith Lord

Lord of War
1 Wraithknight

With the exception of the two units of Guardians I recently painted while experimenting with Contrast paints, there were all entirely painted by Keira.

This force could probably be fielded as three detachments - An Auxiliary Super Heavy Detachment (the Wraithknight), a Vanguard Detachment (Jain Zar leading all the Howling Banshees split into three units) and a Battalion Detachment (with all the rest).

Dammit.... I just realized I'm missing a mini from this picture - she has a warlock somewhere that's painted! I guess then it could be fielded as TWO Battalions - the Farseer and Warlock leading one and the Autarch and Avatar of Khaine leading another. One could simply include all the Guardians, the other all the remaining Aspect Warriors.

She has a few other things to paint up, including... Dark Reapers, Striking Scorpions, Warp Spiders, a few more Dire Avengers, a couple more Autachs and Warlocks, a Warlock skyrunner and a couple of regular Eldar on Jet Bikes and a few more Guardians and a couple of Weapons Platforms for the Guardians.

In addition to this Asuryani force, she also has Harlequins and is now starting a Ynnari force which includes the Triumvirate of Ynnead and a squad of Drukhari Wyches...

It will be interesting to see where she goes with this - especially now that she's interested in the Ynnead.

Also, it will be exciting to see the Wraithknight in action sometime - possibly this weekend when I pick up the new Apocalypse rules!


Coming Soon to Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Preparing for the APOCALYPSE (No, not on Necromunda...)

40K Imperial Guard Valhallan Test Figure

A week or so ago I bought a squad (less one) of 40K Imperial Guard Valhallans off ebay. I thought it would be fun to have a small unit of them – for an encounter in some Sci-fi RPG/skirmish scenario (Only War? Rogue Trader!?) – where they are a ridiculously small detachment at a distant outpost at the ass-end of space….

They arrived just in time for the first dusting of snow here in Saskatoon.

I painted up one sample figure to test the camouflage pattern. I had done a couple small samples on a piece of paper. Normally with this sort of camouflage I have at least three different colours in there, but here I kind of felt “less is more”.

I’m pretty happy with the way this chap turned out. I’ll do up the rest shortly - after I finish the squad of Jungle Fighters I’m currently working on, but probably before I finish the last squad of them…

My daughter, who is nine, has also been working on some 40K stuff lately - Eldar! So far she has finished these - a Farseer and an Avatar of Khaine. I was pretty impressed with these so I asked if I could post them here to share with you all. I'll admit I helped a bit with the assembly of them and a little bit with the painting of the Avatar's legs as we were trying to figure out how to get that molten-on-the-inside look, but she took over from there and the rest is all her work. 

I am NOT looking forward to doing battle against the Eldar... 

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Imperial Guard Jungle Fighters…

(not calling them Catachans anymore as mine will be from a different world…more on that soon…) 

Perhaps we'll see The Girl's Howling Banshees and Wraithblades when she finishes them up.