Eldar Warp Gate - Daffrid

There is nothing more satisfying than vanquishing your enemies upon the alter of war, unfortunately after a while even the greatest generals amongst us begin to tire of the standard 'line up' and 'duke it out' style of scenario and fortunately GW doth provide with missions like 'Take and Hold' and 'Sabotage' (yes there are others besides Cleanse and Pitched Battle), but to show your genius these require a rather large terrain feature so given my extreme Eldar bias, what better to make than an Eldar Warp Gate.

Using the images in the Eldar codex and the Craftworld Codex for inspiration I made some sketches (I think Jes' jobs safe) of what I wanted the project to finally look like. (I do this for every project, and strangely enough the end result never looks like the initial concept sketch). I used these concept sketches to make templates for the major structures before applying them to my chosen material (ok I'm using wood, but I'd recommend using foam board about 2cm thick, as it's easier to work with).

The blocks were then cut out and the edges and surfaces smoothed over with fine polyfiller, at this point I sketched the 'vein' lines on the blocks and marked out the positions of the gems.

I then created the rounded base for the model (and the area to fight over) using 1/2cm thick MDF, beloved material of the DIY makeover shows which seam to be perpetually on TV these days when there isn't a 'reality' program.

Being as it was a rather plain surface I Eldar'd (tarted) the base up a bit with a cardboard over lay, in a loosely inspired yin-yang symbol come turtle shell effect, which was a nightmare to cut out, but the end effect is well worth it.

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