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Howdy.

My Dark Eldar project log. My intent was to build a dark eldar army that was different from the typical black with extreme highlghts.
Inspired by the movie 'dune" and annoyed by local wasps, I have build a mix scheme desert theme color scheme. Ignore the guy with the blue helmet, that was a test model to see how it looked.



Venoms and Raiders Work in Progress.




Forgive the poor picture quality, most were taken with a cell phone camera.

The base coat looks really good. Will you be individualizing each vehicle?

Oh my... that is allot of vee-hicles... the colour scheme looks ace, too! The highlighting on the right guy catches the eye first, but it's the guy on the left who is the better painted (in my opinion, of course). They're both great paintjobs. Actually, everything's looking good! Keep it up!

@Flinty, yes each vehicle will be individualized.

@ Cosmic. I have 4 raiders, 3 ravagers and 6 venoms.

I plan to get 3 more venoms, and 3 more raiders along with 2 razorwing fighters.

Not all at once, but over the next few months.

This is part of my tournament list for a tournament comin gup.

I will field 3 ravagers, 2 raiders, 6 venoms along with 2 units of wyches, 4 units of warriors, 2 units of trueborn and 2 units of scourges.

More to come!

thanks for the comments.

I really like the guy with the blue helmet though! Awesome start I cant wait for more!

More WIPs.

I did not have time to take really good pictures but you can see some of what I am working on.

Wyches Hekatrix, needs to have her eyes finished and her lips. I need to soften her features more.


On the desk top, my 4th unit of warriors, some shredders and my Scourges




Trueborn, still needs his helmet and the base to be done, but is otherwise complete minus a few unit details and identifiers.


I want to do a lot more details on them, but I have a tournament in a month and I need them all to be painted, so some of those will have to wait till after the tournament.

C&C welcome. Thanks!

Havent seen too many earthy color DE, it looks good.

awesome

I mean seriously - the Standard schemes are nice and balanced and stuff but get sick of them so easy because you see them everywhere! so *thumbs up* go on

...though I feel, you could need a bit more contrast.. maybe some lenses or stuff in that ice blue or try it with the bases or something

Thank you all for the comments. I am glad you like what I have here.

Up for review right now are a couple more warriors. I did not get the exposure right on these and the pictures came out kinda bad. Sorry about that but I was in a rush.

Anyhoo, a squad of warriors. I still need to do all the gems on these, like the shredder has and then they will be waiting on the base to be finished.








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Next I have a unit of true born.

I have to admit my first attempts were epic fails.

First I tried to do the bubble head helmet with a reflective gold tone, but it looked wierd and my son told it was not very good..... DPG -> fail

next I converted a head to have a skull helmet, I used a tomb king skull and cut a DE head to fit. I had to insert a piece of plasticard into the skull so it would be long enough. After conversion and paint I used hobby tack to see how it looked. the neck was too long so I cut down the neck some more so it would rest normally on the neck joint in the torso. it was then I realized the skull was too big and it looked like the figure was wearing a bone colored pumpkin on his shoulders. DPG -> Fail.

So I tried to figure out what was something different for my trueborn. Then it hit me, no one I have seen anywhere uses the bare heads. Well why not, I'm pretty decent at doing faces so I picked out 6 heads and worked on them.

I am very pleased with how they turned out. :cheers: They are exactly what I was looking for.

The males. Sons of U'sil.







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The daughters of U'sil







C&C Welcome!

Damn tasty work! love the scheme, love the paintjob! it's nice to see a DE army where you can actually 'see' them properly as the models are too nice to paint dark all the time, your trueborn are very nicely done and it goes without saying your vehicles look the damn fine too!

Nerdfest09

Hi there,

I love the non-standard colour scheme. How are you painting these? The vehicles look airbrushed and I assume you used the Army Painter Desert Yellow to undercoat.

Cheers!

(p.s. apologies if 1 month is considered thread necro!)

Man, that is a lot of Scourges! Everything looks nice, as is seeing an non-standard color scheme, well done, which is refreshing.

_Tim?

the helmet and the armor really work damn well together, great look.