New Finecast Dark Eldar Releases
August 20, 2011 by beerogre
This month Games Workshop sees the release of two of the popular models for the Dark Eldar Archon's Retinue... the Medusae and the Ur-Ghul.
According to Darrell, all retinues are just extra Wounds for a more powerful model, but I have to say I like that Medusae model... albeit for a bit of Underdark dungeoneering for D&D... but the Ur-Ghul could easily be represented by some Vampire Counts Ghouls.
Don't you think?
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i personally think the ur-ghul is a nasty sculpt and the vampire counts ghouls are alot nicer as ur-ghuls
They do have a simple look to them. Funny that they are cast in finecast yet they don’t take advantage of it.
Ur-Ghul looks good, could almost use him as a Strigoi of some kind or in a Warhammer Army as a demo model perhaps…but I really don’t like Medusae. Doesn’t look Dark Eldar at all.
They don’t look Dark Eldar because they aren’t,
Any Archon with a brain in his head would never rely on another Dark Eldar for protection
These models are on the smaller 25mm bases. £9.50 each, total value for money! Amazing!
It’s not shown in the pic, but in white dwarf you can see the Ur-Ghul has a choice of two heads, the one not shown poking it’s tongue out. I think more could have been done with the pose; this thing is meant to be sniffing out it’s prey:those holes in it’s head ,I think, meant to be multiple nostrils, since this is meant to be blind. In white dwarf they called it an aggressive stance, but I think the stance should have reflected the character of the model and made it look like it prowling and actually sniffing the… Read more »