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More Kabalites! yes, got into the warriors this morning for a couple of hours and got a great deal done and can really see the whole direction for colours with this army, they almost look quite Romanesque with the choices but I think it suits them well? the gold/bronze is nice and the redish loin cloths look good, I'm not painting them like flayed skin as i don't like the look of it on them, next up is highlighting the gold with gold/mithril and the armour with fortress grey, then it's onto the eyes! so they're nearly done, maybe another paint session and they'll be there? should i paint the eyes like my sallies? or red to yellow to white in the centre? like the chaplain helmet I worked on ages ago for my Exemplars?

all in all, i'm happy with how they look, another quick tabletop army they should be still able to hold their own looks wise I hope! but without spending years painting them!

enough Nerd rambling, I should get them from the nerd lair and take some Nerd pics and pop them up eh!






that's it at the mo dudes, i'll be trying to bust out some more brush moves soon for yo!


let me know what you think!

Nerdfest09

Very cool man! I'm loving those DE. Great choice of colours. They just work so well together. For the eyes I would suggest using another colour like a blue or green to offset the rest of the scheme. Paint the gems that way too. Maybe try Ice blue.
Really awesome work these DE look great.

Thanks flying Pooo, i think the scheme will look really cool on the vehicles hopefully :-) I'm still not sure about an offset colour but I think being dark eldar i'll keep them quite subdued or at least a more sinister colour? the green could work that you suggested? which parts were you thinking? the eyes? and i think there's only the one 'gem' on their shoulder plate, but again, i'm not sure if i'll pay too much attention to it to keep them quick to paint.

But, you never know :-)

Nerdfest09

Blue or Green would look nice IMHO, but more sinister colours are very Dark Eldarish if you know what I mean. Do what you think looks best though. It would look great both ways.
I thought that those round bumpy thingys on the gun were gems, I was picturing them in a light bright colour blue or green with a type of OSL effect. That would make the minis pop. But i don't know if that is what you want with a Dark Eldar Army.

Very nice nerdfest... what are you going to do with the bases?

Painting those sashes as cloth instead of flayed skin looks really good (and much more hygienic...)

Cheers guys, good feedback! @ Flying Poo, I think the knobbly things on the gun is the power pack so I can see how osl would look good, but i think it would take me too long to do properly on each model and i want to get these bad boys and girls on the table quick so i can destroy Adams Blood Angels! and I think I'll do the eyes red/orange but I'll try and do a set green to compare them then they'll be done and it only took me a day to paint ten of them.... yay
And Gits, thanks mate, I have done the bases now very simply, just glue and then some very fine modeling ballast in a brownish red colour and I just need to paint the rim brown and they'll be done until I get some static grass to look similar to what you do, kinda like a desert mesa? easy!
Hi kvlt Ghost, thanks for dropping by I like the sashes myself too, and you're right it's much more hygienic for them especially as their armour is hooked and screwed into their own flesh so they could well be susceptible to infections?


speaking of armour everyone, I have been looking at them lots (as you do!) and I'm not sure about both the shoulders being gold? should i paint the one on their right sides black to match the armour or does it look o.k? are they 'Dark' Eldar enough? or are they just a tad too blingy? I'll be interested to see what you all think?

thanks everyone hope you're all doing well and getting organised for Christmas? only 21 days to go!


Nerdfest09

Hey Nerd =) Been away from dakka a bit. Great seeing your blog's still going, as i love the schemes you've got going. The dark eldar are awesome. I think the black looks better on them than the space marines, probably because of the details in the armour. Might have to re-read your recipe for black, and adapt it for an Eldar bug i'm getting =p

As for the shoulder pads, i think if you changed 1 to red, it would look wierd, and if you changed both, it wouldnt look as good as the gold. So i say leave them as is.

Keep em coming mate!

They look really good, and very unique. Glad you decided to go this way with them. Are you gunna have some vehicle and whatnots in there too? Maybe a Megaforce?

Cool, they actually look like real "dusk wraights" rather then the typical overcoloured clown dark eldar I see everywhere.

Hi guys cheers for the feedback! Pyriel, why thank you, from you that's a pretty big compliment! I didn't want them to be too 'clownish' but have a regal sinister air about them, hence the gold and black, I mean these guys are the most arrogant egotistical beings I know of so i figured they'd be keen on having wealth shown on them as well as being stealthy and blending into the darkness! I hope the whole army blends when i get them done!
@ whalemusic, hey dude, thank you too! and yep, lots of vehicles, I have 2 raiders, 2 Ravagers, 4 venoms to paint as well gonna be fun times in the near future! but i'll be painting the vehicles in units, so i'll try and do the raiders and ravagers as one and then the venoms together too.
@ s'jet, welcome back! I'm glad you like the schemes and my painting at the moment! I think you're right the armour works better as it's more detailed and if you re visit the recipe for your force i'd be happy to help any way i can? I like the way it looks, I tried ading some highlights on the edges with fortress grey and it looks o.k but a few are a tad wonky and once I'd started i had to do each model! pics during the week!

catch you all soon!

Nerdfest09

Damo awsome awsome awsome brother!! Looking great cant wait to see it all completed.

Those look really, really good

Cheers GD1 and Majortom, good to have you guys on board for the ride! i'll try not to torture you too much for your essence of pain!..... too much, just a little though, you understand right?

Glad you like the models, and i'm guessing they should stay as they are? not too garish? I'm looking forward to painting the vehicles in a massive batch very soon! now that will really look cool all together!

any ideas as to what i should have gold/black/red on the flyers? especially the raider/ravagers? i'd love some input


talk soon

Nerdfest09

Black Hull, Red sails, gold flooring and metallics.

Sounds about right! black hull, gold sail arms/floor was considering a star chart on the sail? seems you've got a similar idea in mind as to what i do! i'll do the main body in the next week and then we'll brainstorm some more and see where to go? sounds like fun?.....of course it does! wish i could photoshop though :-(

Dark Eldar awaaaaaay! just a small update on how i'm going with them, I started basing them, but still have a bit to do on them, painting the rims and adding some grasses and whatnot, I also managed to paint the eye lenses on the warriors and assemble my other raider and crew and get them both undercoated and give them the white spritz ready for the black wash next week (maybe)
And I also made my Archon just from bits I had left over, I actually don't mind how he looks, the agoniser really makes him stand out as a special character and if I paint him up nicely he'll stand out well

Well fistly I'll just show you the raiders and crew:



Crew:



Archon (still working out a name for him?)



And here's the warriors, I have also just assembled another 10 of these bad boys/girls. the eyes are better than they look, i'll try and get a better pic soon!




Cool, that's all for the moment everyone, as usual comments welcome! hope you like?



(Damo)
Nerdfest09

Those red eyes work really well with the rest of the scheme (forget my suggestions for any other colours). They look so clean and crisp. Awesome work here.

Thanks Mr Pooo, I tried one in green and one in blue but the red looked the best imo, which was lucky as I feel most confidant painting those colours :-) I have my next squad all ready to go as well, so next week should see a fair bit them finished! the army is moving quite fast (as they should being Dark Eldar!) and after christmas should see all the vehicles seeing some action!

Well now, you have been busy haven't you?
I have to say, I absolutely love the Dark Eldar your doing.
Its a nice color choice rather then the same old black or dark purple usually associated with Dark Eldar.
Keep it up my friend!

Cheers Mr Mal, I should have heaps more to show soon! I might keep it under my hat until the christmas rush is over :-) I'm glad you like the scheme too, I'm going with the theory that these DE are a very arrogant race and while they enjoy the bloodletting and pain, they want their victims to see them as superior to them in looks and martial prowess hence the gilded armour over a shadow black body :-) and what appears to be a loin cloth soaked in the blood of their victims..... nice!

Really like the colour scheme of your DE nerdfest. I actually picked up a DE Megaforce the weekend of their release...impulse buy really though I'm not touching it till I'm done my BA army. Going to be hard resisting seeing the great work you've been doing with yours. Any plans on gettings the HQs or Elites? Some of the models like the Grotesque are amazing.

Thanks Eggy, I can't wait until you put my army to shame when you paint your own! :-) they'll be amazing!
I'm doing a cut and paste archon, and using some warmachine cryx models as haemy's I can't recall the name of them but they look suitable and can be painted evilly!
No grotesque's in my list so i won't be painting one ;-( but there is a Talos pain engine under the christmas tree :-) and i'm not talking about my mother!

The Dark Eldar are really looking nice, I think the red colour of the base effect really compliments the colours you chose for the models.

They look fantastic pal, I can't wait to get my next box of warriors to try out your technique!

Really digging the colours that you pull out across all 3 forces that you do, the Sally's & beyond amazing and I truely, truely digging your DE mate

That's a nice bits archon too by the way, have you got any background for him? I find it easier to name my characters once they have some history

nerdfest09 wrote:Thanks Eggy, I can't wait until you put my army to shame when you paint your own! :-) they'll be amazing!
I'm doing a cut and paste archon, and using some warmachine cryx models as haemy's I can't recall the name of them but they look suitable and can be painted evilly!
No grotesque's in my list so i won't be painting one ;-( but there is a Talos pain engine under the christmas tree :-) and i'm not talking about my mother!

LOL, I think the pain engine is a term reserved for the mother in law.
For the cryx models I think I know which ones you're talking about...the Brute Thrall? I used to have that model in my WM collection, never got around to painting it though...was a good looking model though and would make an excellent stand in for the Grotesque.

GiraffeX

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The Dark Eldar are really looking nice, I think the red colour of the base effect really compliments the colours you chose for the models.

Thanks Giraffex, I wanted a base colour that improved the overall colour scheme of the warriors, and i felt a reddish brown desert base would do, I was going to do the ruined city style but it looked too dull and they didn't really pop with the base done like that

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They look fantastic pal, I can't wait to get my next box of warriors to try out your technique!

Really digging the colours that you pull out across all 3 forces that you do, the Sally's & beyond amazing and I truely, truely digging your DE mate

That's a nice bits archon too by the way, have you got any background for him? I find it easier to name my characters once they have some history

Hey Kitch, cheers dude, I can't wait to see what you do with the new box of warriors too! I'm going to try the method with other colours tomorrow like we discussed earlier, and hopefully it'll work I should try and work out some background for my Archon, I kinda like the name earl Va'al of the something something? eh! might need some tweaking

Eggroll

LOL, I think the pain engine is a term reserved for the mother in law.
For the cryx models I think I know which ones you're talking about...the Brute Thrall? I used to have that model in my WM collection, never got around to painting it though...was a good looking model though and would make an excellent stand in for the Grotesque.

Heya Egg, the models i want to use as Haemy's are the Cryx Cephalyx Overlords, they will work pretty well even without modifying them, hmm brute thrall eh! I better look it up it might sway me to have some grotesques in my force!

Great work NF!

I like the dark red's contrast to the bronze/gold. Are you planning on adding anymore colors to the soldiers? I'm not sold on only having one color for the armor although having one pad in bronze kind of works.

Hey Knightley, I'm going for the k.i.s.s method this time so i can get them done quickly, apart from the bases which aren't finished they only took me about 4 hours to get to that stage! :-) so i kinda don't want to clutter them up which i'm scared i'd do adding more colour? and I like how they look as a squad like this, i'll wait until I get some more troops and vehicles done and reassess the army colours then, I'm working on the raiders today so i should hopefully have some pics end of the week for you have a look at and let me know what you think? i'm working on a rough idea for the vehicles that incorporates the armies colours without being too lairy with the gold/bronze (what is it exactly?) :-)

Thanks for your feedback dude!

NF09

Just a thought for coming up with DE character names, you know how they're just a random string of letters? I'm looking at the periodic table and thinking how that can be used... for instance...

Archon Cral-Ar Li'os of the XXXXXXXXX Kabal

Made up the symbols for chromium, aluminium, argon, lithium and osmium.

Just a thought, I always struggle to get random letters together that sound xenos enough, my archon was initially called Dave Jackson, took me months to come up with something else!


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Rin-té Cabahr's another good one