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Hi,
Like the Genestealer, this one too is a finished piece from the old WIP collage.
He is mostly based on the Inquisitor scale Eldar Ranger/Pirate. The major difference is the head. I didn't like the original head (mostly bald with a ponytail) but I wanted to try my hand at an Eldar face, so I didn't want to do the alternative hooded head either, though it would certainly look cool.
As usual, I will walk you through the images in numerical order , starting with the one in the upper right corner
#1
These shots show the body from 3 different angles.
The peg below the left foot goes into a "standardized" base, as with the Genestealer.
The things hanging from his belt are, from left to right: a small pouch, half hidden beneath the coat, some kind of grenade (I guess) carved from plastic, and some rod (no clue, what it is supposed to do...). The rod's central piece is made from plastic, the ends are putty.
The triangle hanging from his necklace was made from 3 tiny strips of plastic, something I will probably never attempt again, as assembling it very nearly cost me my mind  .
The 4 abruptly ending straps visible on his back connect to his backpack when he's assembled.
#2
The arms from both sides.
I took extra care to get the hands/visible parts of the arms themselves quite thin, to fit in with the overall very slender feel of the minature. It worked, but I had to reglue the left hand several times in the process... 
The right hand (grasping the sword) is made entirely from putty. The left one is mostly made from plastic, except for the thumb and lower palm area. I first cut the shape of the palm and index finger from thin plastic, then cut the remaining fingers and glued them one after the other to the hand, starting with the middle finger and working outwards. This can be best seen on #2c, which shows only the left hand, slightly enlarged.
The sword is made completely from plastic, with the exception of the handle, to which I added some more thickness and length, as well as the knob on the end, with putty. ?for
#3
The backpack with the long rifle. I originally wanted to make the rifle separate and try to cast it for use in further versions of Rangers ( who would hold it in their hands, then).However, attaching it to the backpack afterwards would have made the whole thing look much too thick, I realized (it looks a little too thick even now). Furthermore, the rifle had already broken once while I was working on it (and it had been a real pain to glue it back together, I tell you), and I wanted to stabilize it somewhat by attaching it to the pack.
The basic shape of the rifle was carved from plastic, and then I used putty to add the organic looking shapes and the scope.
#4
Different shots of the head.
I'm both overjoyed and a little dissatisfied with the head.
First of all, I am very satisfied with how the head looks in isolation. Humanoid heads are always a major challenge, but this one (being the second try I did) turned out rather well, I think.
However, the downside is that I feel it is slightly too large for the mini.
I'm not sure whether it's just due to the rather voluminous hair, but it looks a little oversized on the mini. Perhaps I'll try and redo it sometime. (I'm aware that it *does* fit in with the general proportions in epic (and most 40K stuff as well), but I prefer more realistic proportions myself, especially with Eldar...)
You will notice motice that I sculpted the ears overly large. I did this to emphasize their pointed shape, so as to add one more point (no pun intended) to show he is Eldar, not human, since his clothing looks rather generic.
#5
The assembled mini from different sides. I like the center shot best (which is why I put it there...). Now you see what I meant when I said that the head looks a little oversized, in particular on #5b.
I also think that maybe his left hand looks a little too stiff , with the fingers looking too rigidly stretched.
By the way, the gaps you will probably have noticed where arms and head meet the body are due to the mini being only provisionally assembled with some small pieces of putty.
#6 shows a size comparison with a plastic eldar ranger. I think the scale is OK, considering that he stands bolt upright whereas the plastic mini has both its legs bent (and
now imagine him with a slightly smaller head...).
That's it for this time 
Cheers,
Drasannar
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