Hey all, just wanted to quickly share a little side project mine, I've got a few elf and eldar parts over the years through winning bitz boxes in conversion competitions or grabbing the odd kit for parts and the like. Recently I've been going through doing a few characters here and there, mostly just to try something different and fun. Its doubtful these pieces will ever go in an army, but I like them and they are always useful for games like necromunda etc...
So here's the Farseer I've thrown together and a couple of design notes on it.
Firstly, I've always done my psykers in a very "casting" type pose, my sorcerers and librarians typically draw deeply from artwork of fantasy Mages and Paladins. And I find this a very good way of turning Space marines into a caster equivalent as they are typically warriors first, casters second.
Farseers however are pretty much the most iconic Psykers in 40k, and given my normal attitude to either subvert or put a new spin of old stereotypes I decided to go for a more aggressive, "combat" oriented design instead, hence the giant High elf axe.
However I wanted to have a non-helmed farseer to help the characterstand out as an individual and I have always liked the look of hooded mages in artwork, hence the hood.
Finally I wanted to make the Farseer different to every other current model and have him standing against the flow of his cloak drawing the eye towards the axe head held behind as opposed to the typical outstretched hand/Sword.
The arms and the right foot had to be reconstruted due to the change in pose and miscasts in the material, the foot was easy but I found that contrary to typical methods that are slightly smoke and mirrors, it was easier to just make greenstuff sleaves out of two pieces instead of a single detailed shape.
So without further ado, here he is.