Stalking her quarry through the Mortal realms today is a converted Aelf Realmscout from Technasma.
Hi, nice to be back on Tale of Painters and today I wanted to share one of my favourite miniatures. In the early days of Age of Sigmar I was intrigued to see what they would so with the Aelven faction. I’ve always thought elves were cool and I’ve loved Eldar since I started the hobby. Given the new creative liberty of Age of Sigmar I though I’d try my hand at imagining an Aelf, and drew from my favourite elements of the Warhammer Elves and the Eldar. What I came up with was my Aelf Realmscout.
Despite being from a high fantasy setting, I converted her from mainly Warhammer 40,000 parts. I knew I wanted to use the dynamic pose of the Dark Eldar Succubus as a base and experimented with various combinations of weapons until I got a pose that I liked. I went for a scimitar from an Eldar harlequin and a parrying dagger from a Dark Eldar Wych as these helped accentuate the pose. I can really picture her darting across the battlefield, weapons a blur as she gracefully dispatches those that stand in her way.
In order to make her battlegear more low-tech, I used a palette of leathers, ivory and exotic metallics like bronze and gold. I opted for a vibrant jade green for her cape and trousers with a splash of lilac for the sashes and fletching for the arrows in her quiver. I opted for a cloaked head from the Wood Elf Eternal Guard to identify her as a ranger. I finished it off with some freehand to tie it in to the designs on her armour.
With the release of Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower we’ve seen a glimpse of the direction Games Workshop are taking their Aelves. Looking at the Mistweaver and Tenaebral Shard, I feel like my Realmscout wouldn’t look out of place fighting alongside them!
Let me know what you think in the comments below. I hope to be back on Tale of Painters soon but until then you can catch me on my blog over at Technasma.com or my Instagram and Twitter.
Great conversion and very refreshing to see a fantasy/AoS type model kit-bashed from 40k parts and not the other way around!
Great kitbash, and the paint job strikes the right balance between 'pop' and blending in with the surroundings. I really like it!