Web Way

It seemed like every Webway i saw was pretty well patterned from the same old ideas. I wanted to make an Eldar Warp gate that looked artistic, and fluid, and like something that was complicated enough to be worthy of a webway. Below is the base balsa wood design for my gate.



A 3/4 view from behind.




A top down view.




A close up of the platform.


You can just nicely fit a falcon tank in the center and miniatures fit on the walk around railing just right.

I just need to add shading, clean it up a bit, and add the grass ground.
-Mortis-

Well, you certainly have mine beat.

...and the soul stones and other Eldarish stuff.

That is cool. And I mean it. This has to be the best Webway (I believe you meaned Webway instead of Warp.) Gate I've ever seen.

That's a cool gate. Totally lovin the basic design.

While I dig the design, I think there a "flaw" that is often found in Eldar terrain: it is much too regular looking!

I'll explain myself: Eldar buildings are "grown" out of wraithbone and while the different parts would look "somewhat" alike (some parts at least would have to so as to fit the intended use) they would have slight differences (in the shape/place of the holes through the parts, or in the shape of the extremities, etc...)

So my advice would be: give it a more biological feel, less 100% symetrical, and there you'll have a "perfect" Webway Portal

While the Eldar do grow their structures out of wraith bone, I've always thought of them as being artistic with their work. I've also thought of them as growing things to shape and forming them into symmetrical (or not) structures.

Say like this tree
has a very symmetrical and man made look to it even though it was obviously grown that way.

I think your idea would work well too, but it may look a little too much like Tyranid designs which are very organic.

I've always seen the Eldar as thinking they are better than others when it comes to structures like this so they would have the prettiest most interesting design possible.

-Mortis-

Well, while the trunk of the tree you posted is indeed somewhat regular it isn't perfectly so... The diameters of the individual trunks which form the bigger one aren't perfectly equal, the shapes of the individual holes aren't exactly the same and not perfectly spaced, etc... That's what I meant!

Slight differences (an additional "hole" here, an additional "extension" there, holes not shaped exactly alike on 2 otherwise identical parts, etc...) would give your terrain this "organic-yet-manufactured" feel that I often feel lacks on Eldar terrain...

Thats well cool man what els are you
thinking of makeing ???

when this is finished its going to be the terrain piece that everyone will stare at, nice work looking forward to seeing this once its perfected.

read more fluff its psy enhanced building, it could be perfest and would have to be. To make there larger buildings and have their machines withstand firepower, a mistake makes a weak spot and therefore an inadequete construct.

besides the eldar strive for perfection in everything they do to the exclusion of others so they dont fall again.



i love the progress so far

some soul stones and some slight shaping at it will be a great center piece

Now that's the most hilarious comment I've read in a while... I could hardly read more fluff, I've got (almost) everything GW ever published...

No, it doesn't have to be perfect, and in fact every piece of artwork showing eldar buildings (I'm particularly thinking about the Jes Goodwin's ones) show that there is a random/organic aspect to every building made by the Eldar...

A good example of that randomness/organic aspect can be seen on page 12 of the current Eldar Codex for example...

But then, I feel like adding that the comment about adding a bit of randomness wasn't to be taken as criticism, I think Mortis' terrain looks great as it is, but more as a suggestion as to what can be improved. Because it seems some people didn't get that.

[EDIT]And just for the sake of showing "my take" on Eldar architecture here's a pic which summarizes my view of it:

(Thanks to Kage2020 for that pic...)

FYI
I personally didn't take it as criticism. Also, I like the way the terrain is turning out so I'm continuing on that path.

What I enjoyed talking about, is seeing other peoples opinions oh how they think the Eldar would do things. This may seem over obvious, but they are fictional characters and we have no Eldar buildings to go see to compare to. Therefore, it is open to interpretations, and I like hearing other people's view points and ideas.

If i didn't enjoy that, I wouldn't be having these conversations.

One area I'd like to hear comments about are control surfaces. How would an Eldar control council on this thing look like?

-Mortis-

p.s. Oh yeah. It of course will bet spirit stones and some detailing yet. This is just the base structure.

I could very easily see something like this being controlled psycically so there wouldn't be a control panel or anything.

If you want controls though, I think Asgard designs from stargate SG 1 would be very eldarish, if you've seen the show

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A++++++++++++++

Personally that sketch lookes pretty symetricall to me

It is. But only as far as the "broad shapes" are concerned. However the smaller details have a more organic feel to them...

It's the whole point of Eldar terrain IMO: symetrical "in general" but organic in the details...

Just take a look at the 2 page artwork in the new rulebook for another example of this "organic feel in the smaller details"....

Cool.

I was looking up pics of Eldar terrain for ideas for fortification walls since this seems like it will be a big deal in 6th edition and ran across this piece of eldar terrain that I imagine I somehow inspired with my webway design.

http://beakycon.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-t...kycon-2012.html

-Mortis-

Good use for the landing pad fortification. Too bad Eldar don't have that many Deep Striking units. Yet.