Dark Eldar Modelling Options

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**Phototoxin**

Are you aged between 16-24, do you look good clad in skin tight armour and latex? Most importantly do you love spikes? If so maybe you could model as a Dark Eldar..

Ahem, inspired by *this* here is a thread to discuss the model options for the unmade/un-released Dark Eldar units.

Phototoxin wrote:
Additionally I've quickly come up with a list of 'konvershun' ideas for the other stuff that's not out :

Archon - new mini / old mini/ dark elves

Succubus – Hesperax / Old Hesperax

Grotesques – warhammer ogres, trolls

Wracks – convert from warriors w/ zombie and fantasy chaos bitz

Scourges - Warriors w/ wings – wings from gargoyles, blood angel sanguine guard, or other wing sources.

Warp Beast Pack – Beast masters-> Wyches/Hellions, with whips, chains or proddy sticks.

Kymeria – chaos hounds, lotr Wargs (more streamline than the hounds fitting their shadow nature),

Clawed fiends - chaos spawn, ogretypes, someone mentioned the thing in the woods from mordheim (expensive tho!) Hounds of khorne.

Razorwings – mount 2 gargoyles on a 40 or 50mm base and use claw hands, warhammer undead bat swarms, use Greenstuff and 2x blades to make a ‘spiky bladewing bat’ and mount w/ wire on bases.

Bomber/Fighter – an eldar grav tank w/ turret removed , spikified, with some raider bits (prow underneath?) or reaver jetbike fins and bits like the helmet head for the pilot. Use heavy weapons from warrior or raider sprue. Mines can be represented by funky beads. (magnetise for removal after use) Missiles from round pipe w/spikes.

Kroothawk wrote:
@Phototoxin: More alternatives:
Grotesques: IoB rat ogres, maybe with head swap (e.g. closed Reaver jetbiker helmets).
Wracks: Ghouls
Haemunculi beasts: Rackham Confrontation Dirz beasts (old or new).

**kanelom**

wracks = combine zombie and ghoul sets
beastmasters = just use wych weapons with a hellion model.
Khymera = The Vampire Counts fellwolves for a more rough demonic loooking army

**Ketara**

Swooping hawks wings, or maxmini resin/mechanical wings for scourges.

**Lexx**

I was thinking of using spares from the Kabalite warriors box with a dark elves beast master for my Dark Eldar beastmaster. Then use fleshounds of Khorne for the warp beasts. I do like the idea of fantasy ghouls with servitor bits and mechanical parts added as wracks.

**Trilobite**

Dark elf harpies+ some deldification would make for some cool scourges Imo, or just attach fury wings to your DE model of choice.
I dont get why people dont think the idea of fully biologically powered scourges is super cool, just goes to demonstrate the skill of Haemonculus as well as showing just how much war is a way of life to the DE, to the point where they and the weapon (sort of) are truely one. Lelith literally being a weapon herself is another good example of that.

**MechaEmperor7000**

Vampire Counts Dire Wolves seem like a better alternative for Warp Beasts to me. They have exposed muscle and bones (similar to the sinewy feel of the old warp beasts) and are much cheaper than Fleshhounds.

**Phototoxin**

Have thought of stuff for the Archons court :

Ur-ghuls - codex mentiones haemovorous worm things, should be easy to make out of greenstuff. Alternatively any sort of clawed ghould like thing would work.

Medusae - something with a visor - any humanoid infantry could do as they take over the brain. I'm thinking possessed marines and then have a brain stalk (make a brain from GS by rolling 2 long thin sausages and then rolling them into ovals.) where the head should be

Sslyth - marine torsos, kroot heads, 2 sets of kroot arms, lots of extra ammo etc. Snake body made of GS

Lhameans - the 2 slave minis would do perfectly!

However I am at my wits end for a razorwing flock at the moment! Any ideas?