Ghosts of Nemirath project log

This will be the log for my Craftworld Eldar collection that I am now slowly building. 6th edition and ally chart with Eldar and Dark Eldar being battle brothers was something that really excited me. For a long time, Eldar were a bit of a mystery for me. I couldn't really get behind their cause, couldn't really understand how they worked. Last year spent with the Dark Kin (and the time spent playing against our only local Eldar player, a truly awesome guy) has really taught me that, and the more I looked at the Eldar range, the more and more I wanted some for myself.

I was thinking about various themes and reasons what would make a craftworld join forces with Dark Eldar. I really liked Iyanden's story and theme, but two things kept me from going with them - one being the colourscheme (I hate painting yellow!), and two being Tyranids as their enemy (as our local game store has no tyranid players whatsoever). So the quite obvious came to mind - Necrons. Truly, what else would serve as such a drive to cast aside the ideological differences and fight back the Ancient Enemy? Would the Craftworlders even care that their dark allies cared little for their plight and simply killed the necrons for their own, or rather, their haemonculus' personal gain?

So I settled upon the name Nemirath and the colourscheme I used in Dawn of War 2 - white, grey and light blue. The eventual idea is to make a somewhat small hit-and-run style ally detachment, with the mandatory Farseer on a jetbike, squad or two of Rangers/Pathfinders, Warp Spiders, perhaps Banshees. Rest of it - wraith units. Wraithlord and a bunch of Wraithguard, to signify the craftworld's eternal duty to keep an eye on reactivating Tomb Worlds and do whatever they can to eliminate their threat both to their craftworld and those of other Eldar.


Anyway, modeling bit. Here's the absolutely mandatory Farseer. As I was going to make up my own craftworld, Eldrad didn't really go for me (he is also being fielded by the local Eldar player, so it'd feel wrong to field Eldrad againt him), I had to go with the next best thing - Farseer on a jetbike.




I am currently pondering on adding a flowing cape from greenstuff, but I'm not quite sure on how to pull it off with the bike seat being in the way.

I am also working on converting a squad of Guardians into Rangers/Pathfinders.



The current idea is to give their shuriken catapults scopes (from various armies, I feel it quite adds to the rag-tag look of rangers that have scoured a thousand worlds), maybe elongen the barrels somehow and give them all greenstuff capes/coats and hoods.

So yeah, that's what I'm working on alongside my DE. Had my first game of 6e today, and gotta say, I'm quite satisfied with how Jetseer works with Reavers, a very tough nut to crack.

Nice. I don't know much about Eldar myself, but I look forward to seeing these painted and how they fit with the rest of your army. The Guardians to Rangers conversion is interesting - all depends how good you are at greenstuffing cloaks I guess...

It's been a while and I've managed to gather up some first units for my Craftworlder force.



Here's a group shot of what I have assembled and primed so far. I'm being very spare with white primer as I've had some bad experiences with it in the past when trying to achieve a full coverage. Some greenstuff is shining through here and there as a result.

Anyway, piece by piece.



Here's my jetseer. The Derpcast spear snapped in half as I feared, but I found an alternative in the form of the Dire Avengers spear from a fellow Eldar player. The bit wasn't in a very good shape, covered in very thick coat of primer, obvious first spray ever, but after some liberal application of hobby knife I got it to a decent shape. The detail might be obscured here or there, but at least it will be much more reliable than the Finecast spear. For my surprise, the DA spear went together surprisingly well with my greenstuff cape - it fit perfectly in a fold I had made at random.




Here's my first five Pathfinders. Dark Eldar bits go incredibly well with Craftworlder stuff. I think I've captured a sense of outcast rangers quite nicely. I tried to make each of them as different from the other as possible, while still retaining a distant Craftworlder feel to them. The only thing I don't like is the hood of the yelling pathfinder, didn't turn out that well. Sadly, these will be all the Pathfinders for now as I ran out of greenstuff.




Banshees! I just can't resist to the 3e Howling Banshee sculpts, their image has been set into my head as the only right one ever since first discovering 40k through Dawn of War. So I saw eight on eBay and grabbed them. As it will take a long time for me to get around to paining them (since, sadly, they are quite useless as things are right now), I ran a quick turqoise coat in their manes just to have them pop out a bit. They will see some use in my upcoming minicampaign, at least.




And, last but not least, the Wraithlord. I freaking love the model, it was a complete joy to put together. While it has absolutely no place on the table against other Dark Eldar, it could prove a pretty good distraction against many other armies, such as Necrons. The current battle plan is to send this guy slowly swaggering across the battlefield, launching a missile every turn and burning anything that is silly enough to not get out of the way. Not much of a plan, but as with many units that I incredibly like, I'll find a way to use him.

Wow, those greenstuff cloaks turned out really good (at least, so far as I can see - no pictures of the backs etc). And you're right that the dark eldar bits blend well with the regular eldar bits. I look forward to seeing some painting.

Finished my Farseer at long last.

This took quite a long time (length of two Horus Heresy audiobooks and then some), and me changing my mind about some of the black runes on the nose of the jetbike added even more to that, since it's a complete nightmare to paint over black with white . The small gems on the "wings" of the armour also took a ton of time due to how easy it was to paint past them. Mistakes, fixing them, more mistakes. Still, I am quite satisfied with the outcome.








Craftworld Nemirath were the silent sentinels, scouring the tomb worlds and slaying the Ancient Enemy of the Eldar swiftly and without mercy, employing hit and run attacks on scouting raids, or gathering the entire might of the craftworld's ever growing number of Wraithguards and Wraithlords when the total extermination of a tomb world was necessary. Reclusive and secretive by nature, the denizens of Nemirath see themselves as the only ones that had not forgotten their duty when the other craftworlds were more concerned about their own survival. So committed to the cause of exterminating the Necrons, the denizens of Nemirath are willing to give their own lives if it meant the destruction of their despised foe, often volunteering to be raised back to service in the form of a Wraith construct so they could pursue their duty for all eternity.

It truly means something, then, that Farseer Ilindra has been called single-minded by many seers. Despising the hollow Necrons with all that she is, she often spearheads the raids on their tomb worlds, leading her warhost from the front lines to see their task through. She was one of the loudest protesters against forging an alliance with the Wailing Doom corsairs, for the Dark Kin were a despicable and treacherous, their souls crippled by the atrocities they performed to survive. To her dismay, the Autarchs and many of the Seer council ultimately decided that an alliance was necessary if Nemirath was to fulfill its duty in the future. Though angered with the decision, she eventually put it aside and returned to her duties of destroying their Ancient Enemy.

That is a great looking Farseer Siticus. White can be a pain to use as a primary colour, but yours looks very smooth and even. Some very fine work with the runes and cape.

Nice job!

Thanks, Gobsmakked! Yeah, white is a pain (all those bazillion layers!), but it is also incredibly satisfying once pulled off properly.

WOW, nice Farseer! I am truly jealous.

That is a VERY nice Farseer! Just like you, apparently, I thought that Sybarite helmet bit just screamed "psyker".

Looking forward for more!

An update at last! I've really been lacking painting time lately and I thought I'd never get these guys done, but I finally managed to finish my Pathfinders.

I was trying to enforce the "ghost" theme, so I decided these fellows would utilize various holofield masking technologies that from a distance would reveal nothing but a pale, ghastly glow, delivering death a heartbeat later. I personally really like how the craftworld/kabalite armour mix looks when painted. I'm definitely going to keep mixing my future units up.








As Nemirath is a craftworld synonymous with unwavering and selfless devotion to fight the ancient war with the Necrons, it is of no surprise that many of the craftworld's young see it as a wasted effort and as such choose the path of the Outcast. The Outcasts of Nemirath can be found all over the galaxy, working for other craftworlds, Eldar corsair princes or even serve in the fleets of the Dark Kin. Despite their dislike for their craftworld's self-sacrificing ways, they retain their contacts and serve as its eyes and ears, often performing as the backbone of the craftworld's small task forces.

NICE! Are you going to paint the gems blue as you did for your Farseer?

I wasn't a fan of the Eldar jetbikes. But seeing yours has changed my mind!! The white is so smooth and clean. It looks really sweet

Evil Space Elves wrote:

NICE! Are you going to paint the gems blue as you did for your Farseer?

I got really carried away with the glowy gem idea that I completely forgot that soulstones probably don't glow that way. I'm beginning to think that their chest gems definitely should be the same deep blue as those of the Farseer. I'll experiment with one today, if I like the result, all of them will be getting at least one soul stone in regular colour.

So far everything looks great; the way you have painted their armour is really nice and btw reminds me of Anja Wettergren's Unsung Heroes chapter, which was what inspired me to paint one of my WoC sorcerers. I will be following this (it will be interesting to see how the wraith units will look).

SImple colors sheme, but no questions about the painting technique, it's flawless Very nice mix of eldar and DE bitz, I enjoy those as I collect both armies. The white really makes you forget these are DE parts you used, they really pass on as 100% craftworld eldar.

I'm not working on my craftworld eldar at the moment, neither will in anytime in the future until I finish most of my Dark eldar, I know that when i get back to my eldar, i'll mix up bitz gladly.

Wow love the white paint job they look incredible!

One question: what model(s) is the Pathfinder to the left, on the third picture, based on?

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Banshees! I just can't resist to the 3e Howling Banshee sculpts, their image has been set into my head as the only right one ever since first discovering 40k through Dawn of War.

i agree with you on this one, the newer banshee models are beautiful. i disagree with you on painting them though due to them supposedly not being useful, they deserve painting simply because they are banshees. i like your take on the Jetseer, be nice to see what you come up with for Jetlocks. your take on Dark Rangers is also pretty cool as well, and i might have to steal the idea for my own Craftworld.

Saintspirit wrote:

One question: what model(s) is the Pathfinder to the left, on the third picture, based on?

Sorry for being so late to notice this question. The answer is quite boring, really - it's a regular base with grey gravel and modelling snow.

Thanks for all the kind comments, by the way. When I get more spare time in July, there should be quite a few updates to come - after finishing a unit of Trueborn corsairs for my Dark Kin, I have planned to get a squad of Wraithguard, the Wraithlord, Warp Spiders and an Autarch all painted up. Looking through the pictures, I really miss painting white! It is difficult, but so incredibly rewarding.

very nice models! Now surrender to the Dark Eldar or die! (well... I mean die slowly or faster, your choose!)

Siticus the Ancient wrote:

Saintspirit wrote:

One question: what model(s) is the Pathfinder to the left, on the third picture, based on?

Sorry for being so late to notice this question. The answer is quite boring, really - it's a regular base with grey gravel and modelling snow.

No, I didn't mean like that, I rather meant what model you used to build that Pathfinder...

Oh, lol. They are regular Guardians, mixed up with Kabalite Warrior bits - some have their arms, some front of the torso, some legs and heads.

Really? Kinda funny, because I don't recognize his weapon from anywhere, really - well, unless it is very converted, of course.

Saintspirit wrote:

Really? Kinda funny, because I don't recognize his weapon from anywhere, really - well, unless it is very converted, of course.

Oh, that. It's a shuriken catapult with a splinter rifle barrel and a scope from IG, I believe. The barrel snaps off all the time, though, tha''s why I didn't do any more of them/.

How have I not posted on this thread yet? This is a lovely army and I must say that I find that simple conversion on the Farseer is very nice. I really like how you've painted the bikes, too.

The fluff for the Farseer is a very nice addition, too. Keep up the good work.