Merry Christmas and season’s greetings to you! Hope you enjoy our new design. Well, this is a model I’ve built before I’ve left for christmas. When the Eldar flyer was released, I loathed its look. I would have preferred something along the line of Forge World’s Phoenix, something that resembles the shape of the Falcon more. But we’ve got an Eldar version of the Razorwing with an animal head instead. Well, I’ve grown to accept it, and with some of my modifications I like the model better.
As you can see, I’ve carefully removed the bunny ears. I also replaced the shortened bright lances with proper ones (they’re called bright lances and not bright stubs after all), which help to break up the arrowhead shape. I’ve also thought about removing the canards at the nose, but then I didn’t want to mess up this rather expensive model. All in all the kit was pretty easy to assemble with a good fit. There are however a lot of unsightly seams that need to be filled.
Who changed the look of his (or her) Eldar flyers as well?
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Looks really good! Disappointing to hear about the quantity of seams to be filled, that sort of thing puts me right off a kit, especially one this new.
Your version made the craft look a lot more like our modern jets, almost like a hybrid of SR-71 Blackbird and say… a Mig-35. Really like it this way. With the bunny ears there's coherence with the rear wings also.
It will be cool to see your perfect esge highlights on this beauty!
One question. The way you paint the cockpit glass, any chance of you doing a tutorial on those? Between the first Eldar vehicles and the most recent improved greatly (in my opinion). It would be awesome if you could shed some light on the subject.
Thanks,
Steve
It's funny how different people have different tastes. I find that this is one of the top two flyers in the entire 40K universe, the other being the Hemlock. It's just gorgeous.
I'd really like instructions on how you removed the bunny-ears and how you converted the brightlances, the original model looks cool but this is even better!