#asurmen

I was admittedly flummoxed by the announcement that the forthcoming Eldar update would round out the remaining Aspect Warriors and Phoenix Lords when that seemed like exactly the kind of specialist unit that you'd want to use to sell Kill Team sets, but sure enough that is exactly what Games Workshop is poised to do.

We've already seen the spicy elf so the rest of his boys aren't much of a surprise. All of these kits have been incredibly faithful to the 2nd Edition sculpts and that remains the case with all three of the Aspects revealed today.

Swooping Hawks have probably benefitted the most from their long delay as the production team learned how best to make "in-flight" poses work for miniature that are very much subject to the laws of gravity. I have already heard some early grousing that people don't like the Asuryani ruins they're posed atop, and to those people I say get good at basing – there is literally nothing stopping you from pinning them to the battlefield detritus of your choice.

Warp Spiders are probably the most changed of the lot, if only because the switch to plastic enables the model to more accurately represent what it was trying to depict in the first place. It does a fantastic job of unscrunching the tiny, hunchbacked pewter models that were limited by the realities of centrifugal casting molten lead.

40k Phoenix Lords x some cafe collab event, that is either:

1) All Phoenix Lords wearing butler suits with their own aesthetic. Jain Zar and Lhykhis are also wearing a Howling Banshee and Warp Spider themed butler suits.

2) All Phoenix Lords are wearing their own themed maid dresses, not just Jain Zar and Lhykhis. Some Phoenix Lords are portrayed as very flustered or embarrassed, while others seem to be completely cool with it. Fuegan's maid dress has those cool flame design on the fabric. Maugan Ra's is skeleton themed. Baharroth's is paradise bird themed and has lots of feathers.

Probably not canon accurate but still I wanted to draw this

Also baby karandras