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Location: Malta
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Hi all,
spurred on by Tuffskull's email on a potential Tyrannic diary, I not-very-originally decided to embark on my own 'diary' project - the Eldar.
My own choice of army resulted from my conversion of what I call an Eldar Firewing out of an old plastic Falcon from Space Marine days - you can see it here.
So what I'll be working on in the coming weeks is an Eldar army for Epic - more specifically, an army from the Eldar Craftworld Mingel (that's a soft g; means scythe in Maltese). The colours will be similar to those on the firewing: yellow, with red splinters (at least on surfaces on which they are easy to paint:p ); Titans and special stuff will have their own variations.
Tuffskull I'm not, so progress will be slow and erratic at best - I generally operate on one of two gears: hopelessly slow or reverse. ?So don't wait with bated breath - just drop in every other month, by which time I'll have added my xth stand of guardians.... 
My Mingel army composition will mainly include older models, and the odd conversion, such as the Firewind - I'll be using these as Fire Prisms (hence the 'Fire' name). It will win NO awards in army selection, being based simply on two factors: 1 - I want to include a Titan, and al three of my Titans are Warlocks, of which I can have only one...  ? - this one Titan costs 850 points, and as my Titans and flyers can only be 1/3 of the total army (in points), my army will at least have to be 2550 points in total.
2 - my army will be based on my existent models: this means NOT A SINGLE TRANSPORT - tactical and strategic suicide, I guess; but I know what to buy when these come out eventually (NO, I DIDN'T MEAN THE SUPERHEAVY VEHICLES - TRANSPORTS - FALCONS AND WAVESERPENTS). INCIDENTALLY, I should introduce BOLDTYPE, my modelling-gaming conscience who canbe quite forceful; or totally absent.
My army selection will be based on 5 warhosts - to justify the titan, mainly:
One Exarch warhost, and 5 Eldar guardian warhosts. The lack of transport will be felt, but these will come later. with regards to supporting troupes, there will be the free Avatar, a few FireWings (=Frire Prisms) and a troupe of Wraithguard, and at least one troupe of Jetbikes. Other than that, I'll have to see what I can cobble up or buy (FW or GW on release).
So - I'm taking an early start, and a short cut: codels already complete  ?:
1 Firewind
1 stand of Guardians
1 Wraithlord.....
er - not much of a head start that...
Work in progress: 2 more Firewinds....
Oh well, the Italians say 'Da cosa nasce cosa.'
And a lot of other things too.
Very philosophical cheers - currently-Bonesinger Vanvlak
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If you plan to decorate each and every infantry stand like the first one, the project will be long indeed. 
) and random BFG projects...
