Farseer

 Back to the Eldar! One of my favourite old metal Eldar models is the farseer. He's a sort of enhanced warlock, who has extremely powerful psychic powers (at least, in the background). As far as I know, only one sculpt of this chap was made back in the blue catalogue days. I think he's a Jes Goodwin model.

Like the warlocks, he's an excellent miniature with a good mixture of flat spaces and detail. He's less of an action sculpt than his minions, and he has a massive helmet that makes him seem rather little. I put my farseer on a slightly bigger, higher base than his warlocks, just to emphasise his importance.

I didn't make any conversions and I painted him to reflect the other Eldar. I tried to incorporate all the various colours I've used, so he has the dark red of the warlocks, and a bit of the blue-green I used on the dreadnoughts. His eyes were painted using the same Turbo Dork paint that I used on the Warp Spiders, to represent the magical energies reflected in the lenses (he's probably seen some sights).

I'd originally intended to paint his outer robe with a very swirly psychedelic pattern, but then I realised that this was beyond me, and so I went for blue with some little dots, like a fancy kimono. The rules on his scabbard were taken from an old Eldar codex: I feel that they could do with a bit "more", but I'm not sure what.

And here he is with his bodyguards.