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Looking good? Mind sharing your recipe for the Stealers? (If you haven't already).

Not at all Para. The flesh work is almost entirely rakarth flesh, paint wise. lots n lots of really thing layers to get that pale chalky tone. The shadow sides are done with rakarath and a little tau light ochre mixed in. Lots of washes, firstly seraphim sepia after the base layers, then later agrax into the dark shaded areas and a touch of nuln. the faces dont get that wash but a reikland fleshshade instead. more rakarth and any areas that are realy exposed and subject to the direct light get a little pallid wych mixed in. The claws and carpace are black adn xv88 mixed until it loses its brown adn takes on an olivey green tone. That gets a final wash with camoshade on the carapce and also where the cara meets the flesh. the maws are/will washed with thinned down BFTBG and then blood splatter is painted on undiluted. Tht's basically it....more or less

Final WiPs of these fellas before I (hopefully) get them all finished up tomoro. First guy is the test bug. Rest all into final stages. Just the termie hats, powders, and blood left to do. Really happy how they've come along. Hope yez like em

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And finally onto finishing touches ........the blood!!! My dog's toothbrush loses a few more bristles....

Tell me more about this toothbrush, I realise it is for the dripping pieces, but I've never actually tried

That BroodLord looks absolutely horrifying. In a good way. I always did like the new Space Hulk figures, but everyone went mental for the Terminators. It's great to see some love for the Genestealers!

I keep clipping bristles off it to use as armatures for the drips. Toothbrush bristles are perfectly thin enough but still durable enough to hold paint. Clip a few off, dap of superglue to fix them in the right place and then go back with a cocktail stick and more superglue later to secure them fully. Paint with layers/globs of BFTBG once the glue is totally dry. First tried it on the Solitaire I did a wee while back...and then on the skyweaver bike's harlie's glaive. Worked much better the second time as I didnt lay the paint on so thick



shows up the best in the bottom pic

Those Genesteelers are looking wicked.

Thanks for your tips on the blood, that Harlie bike is a stunning piece.

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Thx fella 'Stealers are finished now and creeping me the hell out!!! Gonna try and get some proper pics of them taken later on. 5 down, 18 to go. Think I'll take a break from the bugs and onto somthing even more....sinister next ('')

Damn, that guy is impressive! I'll definitely be stealing borrowing parts of that look when I start working on my Stealers!

haha - no worries Para. wait'll you see him with all his blood'n'gore on

Oh my god that cultist is win.

 Bash the Bosh wrote:
That BroodLord looks absolutely horrifying. In a good way. I always did like the new Space Hulk figures, but everyone went mental for the Terminators. It's great to see some love for the Genestealers!

Cheers Bash. The termies are pretty tidy too. Lovely detail n all that but the 'stealers are pretty gorgeously done. Poses are aces and having them creaping around, crawling over and bursting through bits of scenery really gives them loads of character

@LeCaty - cultist???


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First batch of 'stealers from the Space Hulk box finally finished and phot'd. Hope ye like them. Did a fair bit of research and such for this wee group. H.R.Giger's work especially and of course rewatching all the Aliens movies! Constantly hitting up google image for 'blood splatter' may have raised a flag or two with some nosey agencies






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Still getting blurry pics when I upload here ><

Eyyyy 1000 posts!



That cultist!

Yikes! Those bugs are scary! Nice work as always, and I'm sure the other 'stealers will be just as cool. 2 questions: Did you use GW's Blood for the Blood God for the blood, and if so, are there any special tricks you recommend for making it look good? I am thinking of using it on some of my Khorne Daemonkin models to make it look like they've done some wet work, so any quick tips or tricks?

@lecacty - ahhhh. He's a standin until I get a space wolf to go in the dio. Painted those cultists a while back. Was happy how that fella turned out

@zergsmasher. Yup it's BFTBG paint. Great stuff. Try applying it in different ways from the brush to get different effects. It does dry quickly enough though so use a wet palette. It also makes a great glaze when watered down. Good background of older blood in the recesses when used that way

With the stealers done for now, time to move into something else! Love this guy - DA haemonculus. Loved the fig for ages and been dying to get him. Really detailed and delicate wee sicko so gonna have to paint him in pieces. How fitting is that! Lol

 Januine wrote:
With the stealers done for now, time to move into something else! Love this guy - DA haemonculus. Loved the fig for ages and been dying to get him. Really detailed and delicate wee sicko so gonna have to paint him in pieces. How fitting is that! Lol

To be honest, there's not a single model in the Dark Eldar range I don't like. Really nice sculpts all round!

Totally. Need to pick up some of those Helions sometime.

Spent the weekend mostly working on the freeblade knight so poor wee haemonculus hasn't seen much progress. Got his innards done and initial steps on his skin though. Half day Wednesday tomoro though so hopefully get his skin cloak well under way at least. Still need to think up and make a wee dio for him too

If you've got the materials, some kind of 'Frankenstein's Laboratory' dio would suit him. Jars of random crap, a blood-stained operating table, scraps of dissected 'subjects' lying around... could be very freaky, and suit the mini perfectly.

I'll agree with the sentiment that these DE post-reboot a few years back have just been stellar; If I were still in the habit of building armies, I'd certainly have done a force by now...

So far, am thinking of some DE~ish stairs with the doctor there at the top looking down on a 'patient'of some sort crawling at the bottom. Some sort of glib but twisted comment will be involved to tie him into this month's comp

Did so much work on the knight Titan this weekend this poor fella got totally ignored. Felt a bout guilty so did a bit of paint on his skin, cloak and spine. Gonna back burn the knight for a few days so can get this guy some proper attention.

Lovely work on a gruesome mini! May have to add that heamy to my 'models I NEED to paint one day' list, as he seems chock-full of nice details and textures to work on.

get him!!! truely lovely fig....well....'lovely' as much as deviant, sick, twisted, fleshsculptor of a creature can be!!! Great fig though. Wanted to get him for ages. Defintely worth the high single fig price. So many little details and bits that bring out the character.

Put the knight on the back shelf for now so can get this guy sorted. Few more bits and bobs to finish up and paint the base too. But he's finally all assembled. Most intricate fiddly fig I've painted thus far. Going from the big paint of the knight to the tiny little fluid pipes of the haemonculus is a nice jump. Hope you like the purples Minus hopefully get him finished tomoro and then it's time to paint up his Halloween 'toy' lol

Lovely work! I really like your work on the cloak. The subtle differences in colour of the patches, and the blood splatter on the inside is spot on. Very realistic.

Thx ckig. It''s a lovely fig to paint if incredibly fiddly. The cloak is fun. I painted it all with glazes to try and keep it looking worn and a bit more subtle. The inside is just heavily thinned down blood for the blood god paint but it came out pretty well. Really happy with it thx again

Found it !

Looks nice. I really like the idea of a dark eldar painted with light tones.
And OF COURSE I like the purple, especially the fade from bone to purple on his tail or whatever it's supposed to be... ^^