Towering Destroyer Wraithknight part 1

So, to interrupt one project with another I present to you the beginning of my Iyanden Eldar ghost army. I decided to start up an Eldar army. For many years I had an Eldar army and they are my favorite race in the 40k universe and I love the melancholy sadness of their fall and their striving to rebuild what they have lost. I've always thought the Eldar models are the most beautiful that GW makes. I got rid of my Eldar army right around the time when they became good in the game and some of their best models came out. I feel like its time I got back what I lost and rebuild my Eldar. I have started big with the Wraithknight. He came out of nowhere when a neighbor of mine advertised him for sale/trade. So naturally I traded for him and immediately got to work on him the same day. I decided to integrate the new model into my love of Oldhammer and convert him to reflect a model I'm sure plenty of you are familiar with, if you are familiar with Armorcast. I love the old Epic scale knights and the Eldar knights were really cool. I decided the Towering Destroyer would be a unique looking Wraithknight so that is what I created. First is the original model, just in case you have never seen it.

Here is my conversion. The arms aren't in the same positions but I thought I would make it more dynamic looking to match the Wraithknight model.

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The Carnifex is one of the most brutal of all Tyranid bioforms. But it is also one of the most common sights of any Tyranid invasion. Some of Magos Cath's earliest experiments were with Carnifexes. Because of both their savagery and the ease of obtaining viable DNA samples Carnifexes are one of the most easily produced and most reliable of the larger Tyranid organisms grown by the Magos. Of the various forms of the Carnifex the "Screamer Killer" was both the first and most encountered of all varieties. The Screamer Killer has been known to Imperial records since Tyran and continues to be a common sight on all Battlefields involving the Tyranids. Magos Cath has had great success in testing the Screamer Killer's abilities in battle against many different opponents and even the legendary bravery of the Space Marines has been sorely tested by these terrifying creatures.

I am fairly happy with how this model turned out. The only problem that I have with it is that I feel it looks too glossy. I broke my airbrush today and has to add the clear coat with a brush so I feel it went on a bit too glossy. After I get a new airbrush I plan to do a coat of matte over the entire model to dull down the shine a little. Other than that I am very pleased with it. The army is coming alone quite nicely and after I finish my Hive Tyrant I will do a small group photo.

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Magos Cath has performed extensive testing on synapse creatures as they are the lynchpin of his efforts to create an artificial Hivemind. Without the synapse relays found within these creatures control of the "lesser" Tyranids would not be possible. But these creatures present a special complication as they are especially difficult to shield from the Hivemind. They require full shielding of the synapse nodes within the creatures cortex. Magos Cath's will is channeled through the synapse beasts into the other Tyranids in a synthetic Hivemind. The most powerful relay found within the subjects Cath has studied resides in the Hive Tyrants. Of all synapse creatures the Hive Tyrant has the largest and most complicated of all studied synapse nodes, but all synapse creatures are difficult to produce and control. The growth and implantation process for creating a viable Malanthrope is costly in the extreme so they are rare within the Magos Cath's growing menagerie of living weapons.

Here is my completed Malanthrope. Just like the Hive Tyrant I found the perfect bit to use as his head. This was an easy paint. A lot of drybrushing. I was trying to decide whether I wanted to paint this model in bright colors to contrast the rest of the army and to show its toxicity, but in the end I decided to use biohazard symbols instead. It just felt right for Mechanicus.