Media thread - 29 July 2022, 13:47

A photo of the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team squad "Corsair Voidscarred", which are basically space elf pirates, and four pots of paint. The art on the front of the box is of one of the Voidscarred who has a turquoise mohawk and a breathing mask on, and is wearing elegant-looking turquoise armour. He's wielding sleek and elegant-looking bone-coloured pistol.

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Posted on 29 July 2022, 13:47

A photo of ten undercoated miniatures. Their armour is all quite elegant-looking as befits space elves, but they've got a lot of little details that make them look more like pirates. Everyone has a cool cloak, and the majority of them have very punk-looking haircuts (undercuts, mohawks, topknot ponytails) and are wearing rebreathers. Their poses are all mid-action.

The cover of the Warhammer 40,000 Second Edition army rulebook for the Eldar. The artwork on the front is classic Games Workshop, an exquisitely-armoured Eldar warrior standing atop a piece of rock, wielding a sword above his head. There's TONS of warriors in the background and all sorts of tanks and guns being shot, though they're all similarly elegant-looking Eldar warriors and tanks.

Got my Kill Team Corsair Voidscarred all assembled and undercoated! They're such great miniatures, and I've always had a soft spot for the Aeldari (previously known as the Eldar until Games Workshop did their Great Renaming a number of years ago). They were my very first Warhammer 40,000 army when I first got into it back in 1995, and I still have the Second Edition Codex: Eldar. All the Aeldari are basically space elves, and the Corsair Voidscarred are pirate space elves which is even more fun. (There's also the cousins of the Aeldari, the Drukhari — previously known as the Dark Eldar — who are BDSM space elves. I painted a Kill Team squad of them back in November last year: https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2205.)

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Posted on 27 February 2023, 21:49

A photo of a partially painted Aeldari miniature (think "space elf"). She's wearing elegant fuchsia-coloured armour with a dark turquoise cape flowing behind her and a bunch of dark leather pouches across her chest, and is holding two bone-coloured alien-looking pistols, one pointing like she's about to shoot and the other one behind her pointing upwards. She's got a cool-looking rebreather on that has an integrated targeting set up over one eye, and she's got a bald head except for a big tall top knot.

Definitely happy with this colour scheme I settled on for my Corsair Voidscarred! Not bad at all for an hour and a half's work so far. She's not finished obviously, and I still need to get some more paints to do the highlights with, but I think I'll be able to get her done this weekend.

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Posted on 1 March 2023, 22:14

A photo of a painted Aeldari miniature (think "space elf"). She's wearing elegant fuchsia-coloured armour with a dark turquoise cape flowing behind her and a bunch of dark leather pouches across her chest, and is holding two bone-coloured alien-looking pistols, one pointing like she's about to shoot and the other one behind her pointing upwards. She's got a cool-looking rebreather on that has an integrated targeting set up over one eye, and she's got a bald head except for a big tall top knot, and her skin is dark brown.

My first Corsair Voidscarred is finished! Now to actually paint the rest of the squad, given I finished my test Genestealer Cults miniature back in January (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2270) and still haven't done any more of those either... 😅

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Posted on 14 March 2023, 22:15

A photo of four mostly-painted miniatures. They're basically space elf pirates, all their armour is elegant and flowing and a rich burgundy colour, and they have cool turquoise capes and three of them have either a full mask or rebreathers on. The first the has a long sword in one hand and has a bird that's just taken flight from his other hand, the second is holding up a big gem in front of her in the same sort of way that movies depict people holding up crosses to ward off vampires, the third has a hood on and is holding two short blades out on either side like she's just finished slicing someone to ribbons, and the last is kneeing while looking down the sights of a sniper rifle. All but the hooded one have very punk-looking hair: bright-coloured with top-knots and half-shaved heads.

Very happy with how my next four Corsair Voidscarred for Kill Team are coming along!

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Posted on 22 March 2023, 22:09

A photo of four miniatures. They're basically space elf pirates, all their armour is elegant and flowing and a rich burgundy colour, and they have cool turquoise capes and three of them have either a full mask or rebreathers on. The first the has a long sword in one hand and has a bird that's just taken flight from his other hand, the second is holding up a big gem in front of her in the same sort of way that movies depict people holding up crosses to ward off vampires, the third has a hood on and is holding two short blades out on either side like she's just finished slicing someone to ribbons, and the last is kneeing while looking down the sights of a sniper rifle. All but the hooded one have very punk-looking hair: bright-coloured with top-knots and half-shaved heads.

Next four Corsair Voidscarred: done. The Aeldari certainly do love their gems, and I've definitely gotten painting them down to a fine art!

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Posted on 26 March 2023, 19:30

A photo of the rear of five partially-painted miniatures. They've all got long flowing cloaks, and two of them have lizard skin cloaks which are a dull green colour on the scales and faded up into a desaturated yellow colour on the knobbly bits that are obviously from the middle of the lizards' backs.

My last five Corsair Voidscarred are coming along nicely. I did the base coating of their capes tonight (no highlights yet) and did wet blending with Contrast paints for the first time for the two with the lizard skin cloaks. Really pleased with how they came out, many thanks to @[email protected] for the inspiration!

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Posted on 3 April 2023, 21:43

A photo of five miniatures. They're basically space elf pirates, all their armour is elegant and flowing and a rich burgundy colour, and they have cool turquoise capes. Two of them have bright coloured mohawks and are holding big alien-looking guns up, one has two large swords and is holding one out in front of him like he's pointing it something, another has a full helmet on and is holding a tall staff with a blue gem at the top, and the last one has a shock of bright red hair and is holding a sword in front of him like he's inspiring the troops, and has a long alien rifle in his other hand.

A photo of the entire squad of all ten Corsair Voidscarred together.

My last five Corsair Voidscarred for Kill Team are done, and that's now the whole squad finished! Very excited to take them for a spin.

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Posted on 7 April 2023, 20:55

A photo of ten rounded nameplates that attach to the front of the base of a Warhammer miniature. There's a big section around the base with the unit's actual name and then a smaller section on top with what type of unit they are. The unit names are sort-of Celtic as befits Aeldari, and the types include cool things like "Shade Runner", "Felarch", "Way Seeker", and "Fate Dealer".

A few weeks ago I came across a post where someone had taken photos of their Warhammer 40,000 Kill Teams squad that had little nameplates on the front. Turns out there's a place in the UK that 3D prints custom nameplates with your own text on them in a variety of styles and fonts (https://www.versatileterrain.co.uk) so I ordered some for my Voidscarred and they arrived today! They're very cleverly attached to the printing bases only at the very back of the plate, so I'm going to leave them as they are for ease of painting and only chop them off right at the end of the process once they're all done and ready to go onto the miniature bases.

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Posted on 23 May 2023, 15:36

A photo of the ten miniatures that are my Corsair Voidscarred squad. They're essentially space elf pirates, all their armour is elegant and flowing and a rich burgundy colour, and they have cool turquoise capes. They're branding various ranged and close-combat weapons, and several of them have brightly-coloured mohawks. They each have a personalised name plate attached to the front of their bases, with a smaller bit of text on top that gives the unit type ("Fate Dealer", "Soul Weaver", "Way Seeker", and other such cool-sounding things), and a larger piece of text along the bottom that gives the unit's actual name, which are all sort-of Celtic feeling.

There we go, the nameplates for my Corsair Voidscarred are done and attached!

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Posted on 29 May 2023, 21:43