Hey dakka! I was recently inspired by a few fellow dakkanaughts to dig my remaining Dark Eldar out of storage and create an army out of them.
Dark Eldar are one of my favorite armies in the game, I sorta gave up on my previous DE army last year during a bout of depression and a gaming downspell, most of my models getting sold off or locked in storage.
Well, I dug the remaining out of storage, and fixed them up a bit and voila, Dark Eldar!
I currently have 4 venons, a raider, a ravager, a haemonculus, a few witches, a few scourges and a razorwing jetfighter.
I think I might have an archon and a handful of kabalite at my other house too!
The plan is gonna be a bright bone colour with a secondary colour of bright green, and a spot colour of bright blue. If you couldn't tell I really like bright colours... The fluff involves a mad archon who denies the existance of She Who Thirsts, he is only held in check by his underlings, but his skill in combat is enough to scare them into submission. They are located in the slums of commoragh, constantly annoyed by warring hellion gangs. Because of this, they have developed a prowess to kill hellions on sight, and develop a distaste towards their peers and rival kabals. Betrayal runs rampant through their ranks until they reach battle, but once they do, they attack with swift ferocity, tearing enemies limb from limb as their raiders fly past, with howling warriors laughing as they rain death upon their victims. They favor simplicity, whatever allows them more slaves and torture victims is what they favor, because of this, they often forego decoration as even a decapitated head will slow a raider down.
Sadly, nothing is painted yet, however, probably by the end of the weekend there will be a venom and some test wyches!
Thank you for taking your time to read through my ramblings!
~Mikey
Nice collection you've still got, and I really like the fluff you've got behind them the idea of a mad Archon that denies the existence of She-Who-Thirsts, but is too deadly to depose is a really neat idea
Looking forward to the colour scheme too bright colours on Dark Eldar always look very striking
Gummyofallbears I'm so happy to see this thread made! I can't wait to see your pain scheme here, the description of it sounds awesome. You've got a good sized collection still, a little short on infantry but those are easy ranks to fill since you got all the transports covered for a while. Really excited to see this force come together!
I got the base colours blocked in on a venom this morning before I ran out to the FLGS to get some games in.
I also stopped at my other house and picked up a handful of kabalite and an archon, if you can call it that! They were in pretty crap condition but I replaced all the arms and made them look a bit cooler I think, I also got my archon together, no pics yet but soon! I am a bit short on heads at the moment so I can't start on more than a few kabalite right now...
Without further ado... the first of the Kabal of the Lacerated Caress (not too sure about the name yet, I'd love some feedback lol)
Inevitable_Faith wrote: Looking awesome so far! Really digging that green tinted windshield. Got any plans for some blue spot colouring on this model somewhere?
Thanks man! I got the metals basecoated in and currently they are sitting with a blue glaze and are awaiting a highlight. Currently I don't think I can squeeze some blue onto the model anywhere besides that without it looking tacked on.
~Mikey
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Ynneadwraith wrote: Dude that's a great start looks really cool. Can't wait to see the finished article
How many kabalite heads do you need? I've actually got quite a few left over from my various kabalite kits i've chopped up to make exodites
PM me your address and how many you need and i'll send over what i've got
I got the armour of 2 Kabalite warriors finished today, I got the venom very close to being finished, and I thought I'd share my archon because I am dying to throw some paint on him tonight.
That Archon, despite laying sideways for some strange reason, is looking really cool. I dig the way you built him a lot. Can't wait to see him all painted up. The bone armor on your kabalite looks absolutely amazing. What's your techniques and colours you use to get that look?
I used a black primer (I cannot stand white primer) and I basecoated with Zandri dust, then just painted Ushabti bone all over it, using super thin paints and doing tons of layers. I wash the recesses with Seraphim sepia, first highlight is Screaming Skull and the second is 1:1 Screaming skull and Pallid Wych Flesh.
The highlights are really really subtle, but they make it look nice nonetheless. I completely despise Ushabti bone as a paint, so I'm trying to think of an alternative.
Hey guys, I got a bit of work on the archon done, and I also made a few bloodbrides from a bunch of old sprues I found sitting around
Oh, and thank you guys so much for watching, it really helps me get painting done when I know there are some people enjoying my products, but sappiness over, lets get onto the models.
Your Archon is coming along very nicely. The bone colour suits him well. The basing on your bloodbrides is a real standout feature. Pun totally intended. Looks very dynamic and fun, great job.
The only reason they have those bases is because they are made out of the wyches riding on the venom, so it was kinda necessary, but nonetheless I think it works out nicely then.
I am sorry for the terrible pictures, I am trying to get better but its almost like the camera doesn't want to work, ugh.
Hey dakka! I'm sorry for the lack of updates recently, I've gone through a bit of a painting depression thanks to the election and the infighting in America, but alas, nothing like some mini's to cheer me up!
I am almost finished with the archon, I just need to get the skulls and tiny details done. I got the skin cloak and the agonizer done and I am pretty happy with how they turned out, which is awesome because I was really nervous for those parts. No matter how horrifying the cape is, it does look really cool.
I started some more kabalite warriors, I think that I have finally kinda got the scheme under control.
Additionally, I primed a ravager and I can see myself starting it sometime over the three day weekend. Its pretty big and intimidating to paint, but I think that there are so many awesome options when it comes to freehanding so I can definitely practice some of that on this guy. Also, any ideas for the sail? Blue would be a bit too stark but green might overload the model. All feedback is appreciated!
Thank you so much for the support, it really means a lot!
~Mikey
Looking very nice I go through lulls with painting as well. I find it's better for me to paint stuff in bursts interspersed with more modelling (although that does mean I'll likely never actually finish!).
As I was reading through the top of your thread I was thinking 'I wonder if anyone's done a skin-cloak that's not a uniform colour, like it was built up over different raids on different worlds?'.
Scroll down and lo and great minds think alike! Works very nicely
For the sails, how about a darker shade of brown? Either Ushabti Bone or Balor Brown with a brown wash? Would make it stand out slightly from the rest of the model, but not overshadow the green highlights elsewhere...
I could see the skin cloak going either way. Depends on the criteria of the wearer. He might search the battlefield for people of a particular shade to hunt down and flay, so he matches. Or only choose those with a certain about of bravery/fear/honor/anything else, where the color doesn’t matter. I do like the multi-shade look, and you did a good job on it.
For the sail, is there going to be a lot of green in other places on the model? If so, It might be a little much to also do it in the same accent color. Is there another color you use as a secondary accent? My first thought was either black or white, but I’m not sure how that would work overall. Just my first impression. Might want to break out a color wheel and plot stuff out.
Actually, purple is a really nice complement/contrast to green. They work really well together.
Maybe you could work in a couple of small purple highlights to your other models to tie everything together something like a gemstone or pipe/tube thing
Oh, and your Kabalite heads are on their way, just coming internationally!
I just looked up a color wheel quick online. Purple actually looks like it’s a decent balancing color for you.
You have an yellow/orange/brownish base, and then a green accent for your primary. That’s two legs of a triad, where the opposite is somewhere in the purple range. I might aim a little on the reddish side of purple, but whatever you have should work.
Your Archon is looking real good, sadly the photos are a bit blurry so it's tough to see the details, especially on the agonizer (of which I was very excited to see your technique for). The multi-coloured cloak idea is really nice and I feel works very well for your Archon.
As for the raider sails I sat on a 95% finished raider for 4 months because I couldn't figure out my sail. There's so many options on how to paint it that it's tough to settle on one. My suggestion for you would be to perhaps come up with a symbol for your force (basing it on a tribal-esque version of some Japanese Kanji works well for DE) and putting that on the sail. You could start with a dark brown sail to blend with your bone colour then do the symbol in either green or purple.
I agree with Nev and Ynnead, purple would be a good compliment to the green, just be careful with which shade of purple you do because you don't want everyone who looks at your models to think of the Joker from Batman. Sadly certain colour combos in our society our so tied together that it almost makes them unusable. When was the last time you saw a green and red model and didn't immediately think of x-mas? The force is coming together nicely though, I'm really enjoying watching the progress on it.
Inevitable_Faith wrote: Your Archon is looking real good, sadly the photos are a bit blurry so it's tough to see the details, especially on the agonizer (of which I was very excited to see your technique for). The multi-coloured cloak idea is really nice and I feel works very well for your Archon.
As for the raider sails I sat on a 95% finished raider for 4 months because I couldn't figure out my sail. There's so many options on how to paint it that it's tough to settle on one. My suggestion for you would be to perhaps come up with a symbol for your force (basing it on a tribal-esque version of some Japanese Kanji works well for DE) and putting that on the sail. You could start with a dark brown sail to blend with your bone colour then do the symbol in either green or purple.
I agree with Nev and Ynnead, purple would be a good compliment to the green, just be careful with which shade of purple you do because you don't want everyone who looks at your models to think of the Joker from Batman. Sadly certain colour combos in our society our so tied together that it almost makes them unusable. When was the last time you saw a green and red model and didn't immediately think of x-mas? The force is coming together nicely though, I'm really enjoying watching the progress on it.
Thanks man! It really means a lot coming from you. For the sail I have kinda decided on just black with a white symbol, I am super excited for some freehand!
Sadly, you're gonna have to wait too see the rest of my Dark Eldar progress for a little bit as I am going to Warhammer World and Nottingham/London over thanksgiving and I am gonna be playing a game with my space wolves. I need to get 10 skyclaws and 4 drop pods painted in about a week, so I'm gonna need to rush to get those finished, but afterwards, the Dark Eldar shall get some more love as they really do deserve it. Once I get those skyclaws painted I think my space wolves will take a bit of a break, there are so many intriguing projects that I would love to work on and they can take a backseat.
I played a proxy game of 30k today at my FLGS with Blood Angel rules and it was super fun, so they might show up in the near future, also, I played some blood bowl and I think it was the most hilariously fun board game I have ever played, so that was also wonderful. So in the next coming months expect a few of those guys too!
For 30k, I am still having trouble deciding the legion I wanna play. If I did it would be a legion definitely inspired by their historical influence (I am considering doing Blood Angels so they would be very reniscance heavy.) I am also considering Sons of Horus, so very ostrogoth/vandal themed. Death Guard would be cool too but I can't see how to fit WWI into a space marine. Or a gladiator themed World Eater army would be cool.. or a Pagan Word Bearers... Im getting side tracked however.
I got a lot on my plate, so wish me luck!
I also bought a box of scourge today, which is pretty exciting. I freaking love the scourge kit, it has so many amazing bits and lots of cool options.
Sadly, i could only build them with two heat lances, and one is just a cut up haywire cannon, but hey, I don't play strictly WYSIWYG so I should be okay.
~Mikey
Hey man we all got multiple projects going on at a time I'm sure. Going to Warhammer world sounds very exciting I expect to hear all about it when you get back. Doing the freehand sail sounds great, I look forward to seeing it whenever you get around to it.
My vote is you do work bearers. I may be a bit biased however because my very first 40k army was word bearers.
Scourges are an amazing kit, I can't wait to get a box for myself.
Looking forward to the freehand on the Raider sails should look really good!
I'm liking the idea of Heresy legions with increased features based on the societies they take inspiration from. Renaissance Blood Angels sound really cool, as does Pagan Word Bearers (as a lover of technobarbarian stuff, that's a bit of a winner for me).
Apparently the original Terran recruits for the Death Guard legion (or rather, the Dusk Raiders as they were before Mortarion) were taken from the kingdom of Albia (Britain).
Could do some cool little touches to make them look WWI British somehow...
It’s OK to shift gears on your blog. I started mine primarily to showcase my re-booted Eldar army, but a bad batch of primer and a new release of marines shelved them for over a year. Should be interesting to see how you do wolves.
If you want a historically connected 30k legion, you really need to go with the Ultramarines. They are roman legionaries in space. Blue is also easy to paint. And studies show that UM players are smarter, more skilled, and better looking then other generals. And while some may say we have an excess of smug hubris, I say we have exactly the right amount!
On another note, if you already have a 40k Space Wolf force, it might be worth getting a 30k side to them. They are a lot less "Wolf Lord McWolfson, armed with wolf claws riding a thunderwolf", and more “angry space vikings” which could also scratch your historical itch.
Nevelon wrote: It’s OK to shift gears on your blog. I started mine primarily to showcase my re-booted Eldar army, but a bad batch of primer and a new release of marines shelved them for over a year. Should be interesting to see how you do wolves.
If you want a historically connected 30k legion, you really need to go with the Ultramarines. They are roman legionaries in space. Blue is also easy to paint. And studies show that UM players are smarter, more skilled, and better looking then other generals. And while some may say we have an excess of smug hubris, I say we have exactly the right amount!
On another note, if you already have a 40k Space Wolf force, it might be worth getting a 30k side to them. They are a lot less "Wolf Lord McWolfson, armed with wolf claws riding a thunderwolf", and more “angry space vikings” which could also scratch your historical itch.
I don't believe its the generals with the Hubris, its definitely the Athenian Ultramarines, the generals are just fine. But I don't think the Space Wolves really do it for me in 30k, simply because I don't like their scheme and I hate the idea of doing two of the same army.
Two votes for Word Bearers, which is interesting. I really like the look of the Gal Vorbrak and I have enough bits to make them look incredibly pagan-ey.
I do really like the idea of a 30k legion that takes heavily from their history so whatever impulse buy I make, it'll for sure be at least sorta cool.
Hey guys, sorry for the bitter lack of updates, I have been working really hard recently on getting my minis based and painted for warhammer world, and the coming up of finals hasn't allowed me much time to really focus much on dakka besides going on during my lunch break but obviously I can't provide many photos then (although I believe I know a way to remedy that so no worries)
I got a ton of deathwatch done, like quite a bit, I got a librarian, a flesh tearer, an Imperial fist, a space wolves pod and I have a WIP cassius and a blackstar.
the blackstar's body looks very bland right now, and I don't really know how to remedy that. I was thinking of painting on some red stripes but I really don't want to do more red on an already very red model. I was also thinking of purple as that is the tertiary colour of my DW, however, I believe the cockpit will be purple so I don't want too much colour in one area.
DW is looking fantastic dude. I agree with EDC, when working with black I feel it's really required to go very extreme with the edge highlight. In this case codex grey or administratum grey would really make those lines jump. It'd also help bring out the lines of armour on your DW infantry. Important to note here is that since the blackstar and DW armor is metal light would hit it and rebound very harshly off the closest edges, so when highlighting things like that it's ok to go with a high contrast edge highlight in a very sharp line. On cloth is where you'd use more gradual and soft highlights that tend to "bleed" over the rest of the area more.
Nice Deathwatch I remember the Little Camera, Big Results thread having some nicely painted deathwatch with strong edge highlighting to give an example of what it can look like.
Something I've found with my highlighting (or relative lack thereof), is that for it to show up nicely on photos it needs to be on the heavier side. Not sure why, but photos seem to flatten out the colour difference compared to real life...
I could be wrong here but I believe it has something to do with our eyes vs. the capabilities of a camera.
In short our eyes are capable of picking up much more variants of colour when we looks at somethings, different shades and values are noticeable to us, in fact some people have "super eyes" that can see more colours than the majority of the population can, kind of like a reverse colour blindness.
A camera on the other hand can only see a set amount of colour variance. As such many photos of models with lots of blending and smooth colour transitions will get flattened out. Cameras have a particularly hard time registering dark things or places (unlike our eyes which adjust to darkness over time) and so black is a particular challenge for a camera to take a photo of and show different values (such as the edge highlighting on a black model).
That wasn't short at all... anyways in person the highlighting may very well pop out a lot more and be much more noticeable but unfortunately photos are showing us something different than what you may be holding in your hand gummy.
I went to Warhammer World today, for almost all day I think and I was completely blown away. The staff was incredibly kind, very patient, the Forgeworld store had some awesome options (get to that later) and I got an awesome game in.
First off- I settled on a legion for 30k, I am definitely gonna go with Word Bearers, and I might have a tiny little start to the army, but I don't think they will receive substantial creation for a bit.
Second- I played an awesome game today, it felt amazing using a completely painted army, and even better to use some DW! All the pictures turned out terrible, but that is alright, nothing super epic happened. My librarian and entire squad of deathwatch got sucked into the warp, which was hilariously disappointing. Everyone preformed well, and I think that my list will get some tweaks but those will come over time.
Additionally, the dioramas were insane! Every single collection of shown models completely blew my mind. Every single mini was very well painted and I spent hours looking at all the tiny little mini stories in all the dioramas.
Finally, my purchases! I grabbed a leviathan Dreadnought, who will get space wolf-ed up once I get back to the states, I also got every exclusive model they sold (I think), which is awesome. The Praetorian and Sorcerer are gonna be my brother's as I forgot to grab them for myself, I also got two sets of the command tanks, only one is going to me, the other will be my brothers. He also grabbed Kharn the bloody and Angron which I'll be painting for a small fee, and I am very excited. I also grabbed up some Forgeworld Space wolf Land Raider and Rhino doors to further glam up the Command Tanks.
I apologize if this post was very long winded and uncoordinated, my tiring day and messed up sleep schedule due to time zone changes have left me a bit goofy.
Thanks man, I don't know when I will be expanding them past a few minis, but I will be purchasing prospero burns after I get all of the tanks and dreads painted, and maybe Bugman and other Sigmar friends.
Sounds like a fun day man. I'm also glad you went with Word Bearers, they're an incredibly fluffy and fun force. Can't wait to see what you do with what you got.
Thanks IF. I will be getting my Leviathan assembled, and painting the Word Bearer soon, I also have all the exclusives from WW, and the entire Blood Bowl set, so painting will be hectic! I can't wait to get back!
I got back to the states today, and immediately when I got home I cracked open my Leviathan and started putting it together.
Needless to say I got it finished, it only took about 5 hours
My first time working with Forgeworld Resin, so I always underestimated the drying times on my super glue and messed stuff up over and over.
Overall however, I am happy with how it came out. I will hopefully play a game with him tomorrow, and also start some paint on him. On the top left of his carapace there will be the jagged triangular pattern that space wolves tend to love (Is what I am saying even making sense? I am incredibly tired so I apologize.)
Word Bearers are gonna happen soon enough, I need some daemons as they will end up constituting lots of my force, simply because I like them a lot, There'll probably be a bit of Khorne, or Slannesh and Tzeentch, whichever I end up buying on a whim . BAC will also be coming up soon(ish), but I have a lot of SW and DW left to paint before I start an entirely new army.
Awesome stuff! Subbed.
Loving the Leviathan, I would buy one if I had the money - sounds like you had a good trip here, luckily I'm only about an hour away from WW so I can pop done whenever I feel Keep up the good work!
I loved putting the Leviathan together, there are so many awesome poses that you can assemble it as, its a very flexible kit. I recommend it if you ever do come across the mini
Sorcerer is gonna get built today while I'm waiting for a game at my FLGS.
Then I think I will get some paint on him, I am debating a darker scheme or a lighter scheme?
Either Khorne Red with mephiston red highlights, or mephiston red with Evil Sunz Scarlet highlights... Any ideas? Also, any ideas of energy colour? I am thinking of a very matte green? He is summong a demon so it's gotta be a cool colour
Hey all! Time for a well deserved update, be thankful I do not come empty handed!
I got a lot done in the past week or so! And have actually planned out and started my next army!
My Space Marine Command tanks came the other day, and I built the Rhino Primaris, I still have to build the Land Raider, especially if I want to use it tomorrow, but hey, I'll get to it!
I also painted my first bloodbowl mini, I did red and white inspired by the Tosh.o skit "Kiffins Krimson Korner" as that is basically all the football I have been exposed to, I have started on two others, but they are being neglected for the time being because of!...
Daemons! Specifically of the Slannesh variety. I got 10 daemonettes built last night, and the first test model painted this morning. I'm building an 1850 point list, and you might have seen a few posts on here asking for help planning them out. They will be allies to my Word Bearers, but I want to get them done first as I am very very intimidated to enter HH, and the high entry cost has been putting me off, as I rarely come by enough for BaC, and the singular kits are laughably overpriced.
For whats down the road, Daemonettes are gonna get painted, the bloodbowl human team will too. Afterwards, it is kinda unclear. My local GW is doing a secret santa that I entered, and I put both DE and SW on my list, so whatever I get will probably decide which army gets the attention through the winter, it is quite difficult because my SW love the snow on the ground, but my crazy Archon loves the bipolar weather we have here! I might pick up a daemon kit or two, but they are gonna be a slow grow project. Also, does anyboby have an idea of how to customize 3 different soul grinders? I don't want them all to look the same.
Never seen a SM tank like that before. Command tank? It reminds me a bit of the SoB for some reason. Your blood bowl guy came out great, that white is very crisp and clean. That daemonette looks great, I assume it's mostly washes over a couple base colours? What you gunna do for basing on the blood bowl guy and daemonette?
The command tanks are WH world exclusive, I didn't have enough luggage space so the guys at WW were kind enough to ship it to me free of charge.
The gold on the Daemonette is almost entirely washes, but the skin is just a few coulors layered on each other pretty normally, just warpfiend grey, druchii violet warpfiend grey over it again, then a highlight with Slannesh grey.
No clue about the basing on either. The BB guys probably needs mud and grass, but I don't have the materials for either. Any ideas for the Daemons?
Mud and grass feels like a good call for the BB team. For the daemonettes the sky's the limit. I'd base them in whichever base you do your WB in but if you don't know what you want to do there yet then I'd vote for a snow base. My word bearers are on snow bases and I love the look, the colours compliment each other well.
Wow, I don’t check you thread for a little bit, and you succumb to the worst kind of heresy! Word Bearers, ugh. DIE!
(Sorry, I’m in enough trouble with the Chaplain lately, can’t let stuff like this slide )
Nice looking dread and command rhino builds, looking forward to them getting paint.
Blood Bowl guy looks sharp. That white should show the blood splatters well. Nice work on the demon, Love the color tones on the skin/claw, and the golds turned out well.
Super cool update the Command Tanks look good, as do the human BB guy and the daemonette. As for the soul grinders perhaps some nice slaaneshi greenstuff bits? I mean you can't really go wrong anything sharp, pointy or tentacle like will pass as a CCW or something like that. Perhaps have a look around for some 3rd party bitz?
Nice work!
Hey all! Sorry for the complete lack of updates recently. I have gone through quite the hobby slump. Hopefully this blog hasn't been lost to the warp quite yet.
I have been going through quite a dry phase when it comes to hobbying. I think that has something to do with the armies I am currently painting. I have had very little inspiration to paint any space wolves, simply as after what happened in Warzone Fenris, then having the great company I play completely wiped out in Fall of Cadia kinda made me lose a bit of inspiration to keep going and forge a narrative for them.
I haven't painted any Dark Eldar as I really don't like the scheme I've gone with for them. I find the light bone colour to be very unenjoyable to paint, and have actually been considering schemes that use white as a primary colour (funnily enough, white is by far my favorite colour to paint), maybe purple, then some white accents. Other way around? I am not set on a scheme, so I'd appreciate all input.
And sadly, a severe lack of funds has put the Daemons on backburner, personally, I find doing slow grow armies very very difficult, usually I can't immerse myself in the play which really hurts my excitement for the army.
Thankfully I am playing a good bit with my Dark Eldar (and winning a good bit too
I also had a crazy idea for an archon conversion, I was thinking scourge based, so like scourge legs and some scourge wings with a baller cape and a sword, I have a good idea of how to do the base of the body, but any ideas for the cape? Specifically plastic GW bitz as I don't like 3rd part retailers.
I hear ya man, I just got out of my hobby slump and am getting back into the swing of things now. Most important is that you gotta love what you're painting so if the bone scheme doesn't work for you any more then change it up. Do some test models with colours you're excited to paint, see if that can get you bac into being excited to paint.
Best of luck dude and I hope to see some updates soon.
Inevitable_Faith wrote: I hear ya man, I just got out of my hobby slump and am getting back into the swing of things now. Most important is that you gotta love what you're painting so if the bone scheme doesn't work for you any more then change it up. Do some test models with colours you're excited to paint, see if that can get you bac into being excited to paint.
Best of luck dude and I hope to see some updates soon.
Thanks man I appreciate it.
I have Kharn the Bloody sitting on my desk. My brother is commissioning me to paint him so I'll make a few dollars and I can enter him in battle of brush at my FLGS.
I am not currently at home, actually on vacation for Martin Luther King day, but once I get back expect an update or two on Kharn!
I start with a base of Celestra gray, and an all over few /very/ thin layers of ulthuan grey, pin wash the recesses to taste with nuln oil (you can change this out, for example, washing the recesses with a blue wash, and then putting a tiny bit of black into each one. The intensity of how much wash you put can change too, but I like a very little wash), and an edge highlight of white.
Any other cloak bits? the skin cloak has a bit of movement, but I am looking for more of a flying feel.
I'll have a think about dynamic capes/cloaks. Which Scourge legs are you thinking? There are 4 that look like they're descending and one that's leaping forwards, which would change how the cape would behave...
Just did a full catch-up on this blog, and I love everything i'm seein' here! It's nice to see a DE player, cause I only know one dude with any, they're a rather underrated army. The color scheme is phenomenal too, and excellent contrast! If you're weary of bone and like white, perhaps you should give the white a yellow or tan wash for a slightly tan look, to kinda maintain coherency between your old models and new ones.
But it comes with deep regret that I must say a complete purging of your WB has been asked of me, damn heretics!(For real, cool stuff. Like the sorcerer especially)
Glad I could be of assistance! Was flicking through a Harlequin plog on the Dark City, saw the back of the Death Jester painted in purple and the words 'pimp coat' flashed up
Hey guys, I think I found a scheme for my deldar, Theres still some paints drying on this guy, and I ran out of a few colors (or straight up lost them) so her skin and barbed crown isn't done, but it will be!
The Kabal will be called The Stellar Parallax (or Kabal of the Stellar Parallax, but I think the former makes more sense). The name doesn't specifically mean anything related to the Kabal, but it sure does sound cool. (nothing related to cosmic photography traits here )
I wanted to do some freehand on his banner, but I couldn't find anything kinda arabicy, as I like the idea of arabic/muslim pirate theme, and the attempts I had where multiple tries of painting Pain in arabic but that did not work out at all.
Thankfully the scheme is pretty easy to paint, and looks quite striking, It'd look pretty good on vehicles too I assume.
Any CC is greatly appreciated, does it compare to the other scheme. Did I miss the mark entirely? is it terrible?
Thank god for the Iphone7's camera, I quite like these photos.
Wow, I really love painting this scheme. Sorry for the double post, but I painted three Kabalite Warriors, so I thought I'd throw them up to compensate for my pathetic lack of posting recently. They still need the fleshy/boney bits painted, but I'm gonna grab some fresh paint tomorrow so that should be done soon enough.
Hopefully this scheme looks good to you guys, otherwise these poor fools are gonna have to be added to the to-be-simple-green'd pile.
Ynneadwraith wrote: I like it! Very DEldar, and the line-work is really striking plus, if you enjoy painting it then that's a real bonus
Thanks man, its a pretty easy scheme (just 4 highlights on black and some blue), and its quite quick. I think I'm gonna paint the loincloths a white, as I wanna break up the monochromanc-ey
If you want to add a bit of distinction to the black of the undersuit nice and lazily then a Nuln Oil wash gives black a nice subtle satin sheen to it.
Won't really shade it at all, but does make it look like some sort of future-latex stuff which is fitting for BDSM space elves
I tried some ard coat on the black, and I didn't really like it, it made it look a lot more wet as opposed to sheen-ey. I forgot to picture it, but it's not really my style... good suggestion though!
I bought a pot of Rakarth Flesh today, along with astrogranite debris, so I'll get a basing scheme in production sometime, just not tonight as I am exhausted
I painted the skin and finished two additional Kabalite warriors.
After knocking out this many models in a few days, I am really grateful for the liberties I've taken in modeling the kabalite warriors. Normally, it'd feel so monotonous and such a chore to paint all these buggers in such a short period of time after such a long break, but the interesting poses and personalities that the Dark Eldar range allows is absolutely amazing. The warrior with the giant spear that I imagine being plunged into an unfortunate tau on the ground, and that somewhat strange pose required no chopping or clipping, just two parts from the raider sprue and a kabalite warrior body. It gets me very excited for the eventual archon I plan on building (once I get some money).
I also thought up some lore for my Kabal. (spoiled for size)
Spoiler:
The Stellar Parallax
The Stellar Parallax resides in the lower parts of Commoragh, in the slums if you will. Constantly bombarded by hellion raids and territorial disputes with other Kabals.
They have a strong allegiance with the Black Apastron Wych cult (another random cool sounding space word, except this time related to binary star systems ). Succubus Bellatrix has an intimate relationship with Archon Azimuth.
The Stellar Parallax are dictated by a council of three archons.
[/b]Archon Aximuth - he is romantically engaged with Bellatrix, the most powerful archon of the triplets, he is also probably the smartest and most sane. Although arrogant, he makes sure each move he makes, each order is perfectly, and methodically planned out. Not to biggest fan of hand to hand combat, as that puts him at a larger risk of injury, he prefers to survey the battlefield in his own personal craft (He is the archon I will build with a blaster, and use him if I have an archon blaster in my list.)
[b]Archon Cepheid - Probably the maddest of all the archons, he is most often seen on the battlefield, amongst his incubi, ready to induce enough pain to satisfy Commoragh. He is absolutely mad, when the Kabal sees him on the battlefield, they know that their punishment is incredibly harsh if they mess up. As he denies the existence of She Who Thirsts, he is completely willing to execute troops on the spot, and refuse regeneration for them, damming their soul for eternity.
[b]Archon Tektite Zenith /b] - The lowest ranking of the trio, this archon is a very interesting denizen of Commoragh. When he sees battle, he is souring high over even the razorwing jetfighters of the Kabal. His grafted on scourge wings allow him great mobility, and set him apart from his kabal. His Avian features generally terrify the entire battlefield, as the Stellar Parallax make very little use of the Scourge, he is an anomaly. (the archon I will use most often depending on how the conversion turns out, hopefully great!)
They look kickass man love the fluff too, especially about the triplet of Archons. Can't wait to see those converted up
I thought 'Ard Coat might be a little too glossy. Try Nuln Oil (which is great for shading things anyway, so it's got other uses). It's less of a full gloss, much more of a satin
Even without it they look great though nice definition on the skin as well
That's some nice fluff! I may steal the triplets idea for my custom Wych Cult if you don't mind (primarily a cult army with limited Kablite/Coven support)
I like the scheme, but the black is blending into the base. What are your basing plans? I think a light/neutral base would help set off the dark armor nicely.
I’m not normally a basing snob, but your guys really need something besides black disks to stand on to reach their full potential.
War Kitten-
The triple archon idea is taken from the Kabal of the Black Heart and the Cult of Strife, as GW put multiple archons/sucubi so you could use a normal archon/sucubi in place of Vect or Lelith. So feel free to take it!
Nevelon- I do have basing planned, once I get home I will do a test base. The idea is a warm ish urban/asphalt base. So a light grey with some brown tones. I have the two grey basing paints so I'll experiment a bit. I didn't test the bases last evening as I was too exhausted to keep painting
And thanks for keepin up with my blog everyone. It means a lot!
I am planning three different projects/conversions, one is to convert Tektite Zenith, another is to convert up a custon Chronos pain engine for my Dark Artisan, and another is to start a Harlequinns hero's path (no doubt inspired by Ynead's Harlies).
Currently, I have a few dollars (about $40) to spend, but all those conversions are somewhat expensive. The Chronos, would be a culmination of a wraithlord and talos bits, maybe instead of the wraith lords head I can use the top of a reaver combined with mainly Talos and raider bits. However both kits are ~$45 and I would need both in their entirety.
Archon Zenith would be a bit easier. I would need to do some planning, and take a closer look at the deathjester cape (all Archons worth their salt need capes) so if somebody has a photo or information on how that fits with a dark eldar torso (preferably one from the scourge kit) that'd be greatly appreciated.
And then a harlequin heroes path. This is probably the worst idea out of them all. I really love the somewhat mystical and colourful scheme of the harlequins, however that also involves buying a codex and adjusting my list to account for the points cost of that formation.
I am leaning towards the Chronos conversion, I can totally pick up a wraithlord tomorrow and see if I can get something nice looking with the bits I have (I mainly need the arms of the talos) and if I can just grab another kit (I would like the Chain Flails and liquifier gun).
Any thoughts? I am hesitant to do Zenith Currently, because a Dark Artisan can be slotted in and out of my list very easily (replace my jetflights with the dark artisan and cut a few upgrades here and there, I can do this with a beastpack too), but an archon is something I don't take often (I prefer succubi myself)
I think I will go with the chronos, simply as I have the best idea for it, so its definitely the one I'm most excited for! Can you have multi wound models in Kill Team? Heros path kill team would be awesome!
Anyways, I got a bit done today.
I did a test scheme on a reaver, and dug up some bits. So I think I have enough bitz for the conversion. I'm picking up the wraithlord tomorrow so we'll see how he turns out!
I tried doing up a test base, but really it was a disaster, so tomorrow night I might try again.
I also did a bit of red on this reaver, specifically as a way of subtly showing the difference in origin and the such, but still remaining true to the idea of the Stellar Parallax. HC units will get the same treatment, except with probably a purple as a accent colour. The kabal gets white. Hopefully it should separate units a bit more.
Thanks for all the support everybody, it really means a lot!
I think the larger surface panels on the bikes lend to some nicer corner highlighting with the grey, and just generally more room to work with! It does look quite nice on the bikes however, I must admit.
I have another pain engine!
I am not sure how I feel about the conversion. I like it to an extent, but it is also pretty harsh and haphazard compared to most. I also don't like how static I build his pose to be.
I like it, even if you're not sure looks twisted and sharp, and I love the big reaper scythe/axe thing
I also like the pose as well. I find it's difficult to get just the right amount of dynamism in a model for its character. The typical extreme example is how the running Khorne Berserkers look.
I've always pictured Wraithlords less as dynamic sprinters, but more as lazy slender giants that stride gracefully across the battlefield, utilising they're massive stride-length to keep up a strong pace. Your Talos/Wraithlord/Reaper looks like it's marking out its next victim, pointing towards them with it's horrible gribbly tentacle
If a wraith-construct is pointing, they'd point like the guy on the left:
Spoiler:
I wouldn't get downhearted about it not being how you imagined it to be first off the bat. I went through about 7 or 8 different arm permutations on my little Knight Errant before I got the ones that I liked plus, I don't think it looks harsh I think it looks sharp and pointy, which is exactly what a DEldar Wraithlord-construct would look like (and will lend rather well to your paint scheme).
If I may make a suggestion/question.
Spoiler:
Would you rather have his weapon as a scythe than an axe?
Rather than hefting the axe in its one hand, you could make it into a big long scythe that's resting on the floor as well. If you can find another long bit of rod from something, you can extend the bottom of the haft downwards til it reaches the floor. Then it'll look like he's resting it in place while he's pointing to the poor hapless Guardsmen that's locked in its sights If you want you could clip off and re-position the hand so that it's less hefting the weapon (head of the weapon forward of the centre of gravity) and more resting it (more vertical over the centre of gravity).
No worries if not, but if you're not entirely happy with the pose it's worth just finding something and holding it in place while you look at it and see if you prefer it if you don't, then you know you're happier than you thought you were with the original pose
Automatically Appended Next Post: The more I look at this, the more I like the posing with the axe he's not standing still pointing, he's slowly walking purposefully across the battlefield pointing towards some Marine that's thoroughly testing the limits of the 'And They Shall Know No Fear' rule
There's a feel of inevitability of what's going to happen next
I’ll agree that not everything has to be dancing a/o sprinting across the battlefield. This is a giant construct of terror and pain, and it’s striding with a determined purpose.
Hey everybody, I come with some news and some questions!
I got two more reavers done today, which I am happy about, they are really not enjoyable to paint in my scheme as there are just so man panels to highlight, but very rewarding when I get them done.
I went to my FLGS yesterday and played quite a bit of Kill Team and a normal game against a really nice space wolves player. I lost the large game, but won 2 Kill Team games and drew another one. I was running 6 reavers and 5 kabalite warriors, with a few upgrades here and there.
Anyways, I ordered 12 Harlequins off ebay for a steal ($20 baby!)... it may or may not have been an impulse buy.
I like the idea of harlequins, especially as allies for my current DE.
I also had a really funny idea of basing for the Harlequins, maybe like playing cards, poker chips and dice all put onto the base, not sure how this would look though, anyone know somebody who has done something this crazy recently ?
Yep. Those Reavers look baller really liking them in your scheme.
Congrats on the Kill Team wins, and snagging the bargain Harlies
I like the idea of playing-card bases. Could be done quite simply with plasticard and a paintjob methinks looking forward to seeing what you come up with
If you were just painting them as display pieces, I think card/poker bases could be fun. But if you plan on fielding them in game, I think you should stick with something normal. Specifically, base them the same as the rest of your force. Bases are one of those things that tie an army together. They might have different paint jobs, but as long as you keep some elements the same, and basing consistent, they will look like they belong together.
If you are going to mix up the different Eldar factions, with different aesthetics and schemes, I would base them the same.
I don't have anything to show y'all, mainly due to attending a concert into the late evening of last night so I didn't have any time to paint.
I have three things currently sitting on my desk, three reavers, a venom and some scourge. And thats the order I plan to paint them in. I really want to get the reavers done to have a fully painted Kill Team list, but I also just want to fully complete that aspect of my army.
Additionally, I found some examples of a kinda card/poker chip/dice based harlequin army! Specifically from the Dark Artisan youtube channel (amazing batreps BTW) (all image credit goes to the Dark Artisan facebook page)
After kinda seeing these bases, I really like them but I am not sure if they are what I want for an army. We shall see I assume.
Also I think I have thought of a good scheme for my harlies (they are supposed to get here by friday, but I'm hoping for earlier) the plan is first a small min masque detachment (not hard considering how elite harlies actually are). The plan is probably a black/really really dark grey, with white and red checkers and some green sprinkled in. This way I have an army that completely compliments my Dark Eldar (using the white of the kabalite, the red of the wych cults, and the eventual green of the HC) but should still look good as its own army.
Due to a shipping mixup the harlequins haven't arrived yet (accidentally entered the wrong address on ebay, having moved earlier this year its quite an adjustment, and due to a shaky closing they current owners haven't gotten back to me about the package ugh. Hopefully that's not $30 wasted)
However, I did get some paint thrown down on a few minis, I'll put some photos up soon, once I get home.
I have been a bit lacking in the paint department, a bit of a depression and a busy schedule has left my paint time wanting.
On another note, I need to do some stripping. A ton of kabalite warriors and a few venoms should be stripped so my army is at least not a bunch of different schemes all mish mashed together. However, I really like the paint job I did on my archon's cloak, does anybody have any experience with painting over a fully painted model? I don't want to strip him as that would ruin the cloaks paint job.
For some reason I haven't been getting updates on this thread for a while, I missed so much! So where to begin...
I love the blue you're using on your DE now, it's a great scheme, keep it up. That Talos is absolutely Badass, seriously killer, can't wait to see him painted. As for the Harlies your idea sounds great, can't wait to see a test model of it.
For your Archon I'd not suggest painting over paint because you'll lose detail but depending on how the cloak attaches you could try removing it from the model before you strip him.
Sadly, the cloak is a bit less forgiving as I used plastic glue to build him.
I am very excited for the Harlequins, I am also excited for my Dark Eldar, not only getting everything painted, but also expanding with a few of the unloved units (IE: Mandrakes and some hellions eventually, we shall see...)
Mandrakes and Hellions are such gorgeous models. I don't care what the rules for them are I just had to have them in my army. I'd love to see what you do with them.
Bummer on the postage front. Hopefully they're decent enough people and will send it on to you
Alas, not much experience with repainting stuff, or stripping stuff for that matter (although I need to have a go at my Daughter of Khaine as I've never really been pleased with the paintjob she's got).
Your Archon's cloak is really beautiful though (which I flagrantly copied for mine!), so it would be a shame to strip it, but if you've done it once you can do it again
Oh, and Mandrakes are actually half-decent now not goign to be spamming them like Scatbikes, but a couple of units of 3 infiltrating up can be an excellent distraction tactic while the rest of your army gets into position
I threw a ton of minis into some simple green, so I am so excited to see the unpainted models I noticed that I actually had two of the old resin archons! So be prepared for some conversions in a few days!
I also tried some basing, and it really really didn't turn out how I like. Maybe you guys will have a different opinion but I am not happy with it. Something just feels off... I can't put my finger on it. Thoughts?
So, here is everything I have painted in the last few days, A venom, a kabalite warrior with a splinter cannon and two scourge.
that Venom looks awesome dude, it's a real standout addition, the blue looks great on it. All the others came out great too especially those blue feathered wings on your scourge. As for the basing I'm curious what the goal is with it. To me it looks like shattered tiles. It doesn't look bad but if you'd like some tips on it I'd like to start with what your goal for the basing is and we can build from there.
Loving the new models dude the canopy on the venom is especially nice
As for the basing, I've always been of the school that bases should be relatively understated compared to the model so your attention is drawn to the little dude rather than the base. Perhaps the brightness of the red draws peoples' eye too much compared to the model above.
How about trying one with a much darker red base, or cut the red entirely as it's a stark contrast to the blue and have them all the white tiles?
Worth a shot to see what you prefer
Ooh! You could do some selective wibbly streaks of light grey across the white to make it look like they're walking across the cracked marble tiles of some old Imperial temple
I went with a blue and purple suit, with a warm red on the streamers. She isn't totally finished yet, but she will be once I get home. I was up incredibly late in the night painting her, and I have been feeling the consequences of this decision all throughout today
Also, considering how I play a few games over the weekend, I was wondering if you guys wanted to see some photos from those matchups? Just a thought if anyone was interested
Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of updates... I've been a bit too excited.
I have half of Death Masque currently built, and I am gonna talk with a guy at my FLGS on Friday about purchasing the half of the set a time or another (its just soooo cheap!!!!)
And, I have some quins' painted too! My discovery of 'The Office' has helped speed up my painting tenfold! And I'm only 3 seasons in!
Those Harlies are looking absolutely stellar dude. Your diamond pattern shows up nicely and the masks look suitably sinister. I daresay that in my opinion this is some of the best brushwork you've done to date, great work, keep it up.
You've managed to make them colourful, but still dark. Not an easy feat! I've seen lots of Harlies that look cartoony, but these are the perfect balance between grimdark and colourful
Oh, and the diamond pattern is fantastic. The highlights isn't something I've seen before, and gives the illusion that they've got depth to them (like ye olde quilted armour).
I’m going to echo everyone else’s “wow”. Very nice work there. The color, tone, and execution are all spot on.
And if you do hit the table, defiantly grab some pics. You don’t need to go full battle report, but a few shots to showcase the army and some highlights of the the game are always fun.
I finished up the Harlie troupe, finishing the Troupe Master and two other quins.
I am trying to get better at the checker patter, and tried some brighter highlights on the Troupe Master, I think they showed up really nicely, and am quite chuffed with them.
I also started on the Skyweaver bikes, so much checkers to paint!
Oh additionally, I got the 12 harlequins in the mail that I ordered forever ago, this is awesome because more minis is almost always awesome, but sucks because now I have 24, and due to the restrictive nature of the harlies detachments, I'll only be running 3 squads. Maybe larger units on foot? Hey, at least I have quins to experiment with!
More amazing work dude, you're improving at a phenomenal rate with these Harlies. The brighter highlights were a very good call. I'm very excited to see these bikes come together.
These look so cool! Must try that highlighting thing myself really neat little trick.
Oh, and i thought that Harlies were one of the few armies where blobs of CC footsloggers could work. Maximises your benefits from a Shadowseer casting Veil of Tears and you can do cheeky things like park yourself the other side of cover from an enemy unit, and then charge through it the next turn with Move Through Cover
The best part is you don't even have Move Through Cover, you just ignore it completely, probably one of the cheekiest things about the harlies.
And I currently have enough harlies for 3 units of 8, I just need two more shadowseers and another unit of Skyweavers and I'll have enough for a fully fleshed out masque! (sorta)
Haha, I understand! It definitely doesn't work for everybody, but unless I have something good to occupy my brain with painting goes slowly and very poorly TBH.
I got a little bit of progress on the skyweaveavers, the checker pattern is done, its not perfect but I am happy with it nonetheless.
I am very happy about my colour scheme choice for Harlequins, mainly because it happened to coincide with the Fracture of Biel Tan, and specifically the new Ynari formation coming out, which I am so excited to play! Hopefully its like Castellans of the Imperium, so I can easily ally in CE without much work.
That checker pattern looks great dude! These bikes are going to be so badass. I'm also super stoked for the Ynnari, it might be a long time before I can get the triumvirate though since money is still tight. I really want to paint Yvraine so much though! Your Harlies are going to be perfect for the Ynnari faction though man, can't wait to see the lists you produce for it.
Sadly I haven't gotten too much painting done yesterday or today... I've been too sidetracked by Ynari or girls
All jokes aside I think I'm gonna pre order the triumvirate Friday, and grab it Saturday, that way I'll have it guaranteed.
My list will definitely include the Yncarne, and honestly probably a warlock conclave, and various aspects and the such to fill holes. Once I get the book (already pre-ordered on Itunes ) I'll throw together a list, its a bit overwhelming when you don't own an eldar codex though
Thanks man! I saw an awesome scheme somewhere for the Ycarne (I can't remember for the life of me) of like a greyscale.. it was on some thread about the release of the triumvirate, it was quite striking
So I am gonna stop by the GW tomorrow, the plan is to pre-order the triumvirate and pick up some craftworld stuff, as its so easy to include. I am not 100% sure yet, but it'll be awesome.. maybe some bikes? Or an aspect... so many choices...
Neat! They look really cool can't wait to see what you do with them.
Also, that list looks pretty decent to me actually. Good amount of MSU, and some strong picks with Scatterbikes, Caltrop Reavers (supported by Skyweavers) and a boat full of clowns
So much awesome on one table... drooling over here. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it all.
That list looks good, it's a scalpel for the more part for sure but hey, that's what Eldar mostly are aren't they? It's definitely worth a few trial runs at least.
Yeah definitely, I can see myself dropping 2 of the triumvirate (whomever preforms the worst) to free up points, probably to replace the lhamian with a farseer on a bike.
The bikes are gonna be in the scheme of the harlequin faces, so purple/white.
I got some stuff painted today, started on the Yncarne... and honestly I have never enjoyed painting a mini less... its horrible, so many swirls and weird transitions, hopefully she'll be done by the end of the month though.
and!
ZOMG Galaxy eldar that's never been done before
But yeah I did a galaxy eldar bike, or at least the paneling, and as often as galaxy eldar are done I still think it looks pretty good and am quite happy with it.
Neat! Love the galaxy jetbike how did you do all of the teeny tiny little stars? I tried that myself on my Void Dreamer's helmet and it went terribly :S
The Yncarne might be a pain to paint, but he's looking good much more 'death eldar' than the official scheme
I actually basically just copied this awesome tutorial I found here on Dakka. Put an 'ardcoat varnish over it. I think I'll phase out the green, but otherwise I'm really happy with how it turned out.
Hopefully I'l have the Yncarne, farseer on bike, and the first bike finished by the end of the month, I'll enter one into my FLGS' battle of the brush.
That galaxy design is looking gorgeous Gummy! I will agree though, the Yncarne is far too "ethereal" for her size. The swirly magic is far too much for her size. Nagash got away with this kinda stuff cause he was three times her size, and I think they're judging her off of that basis.
I am at a bit of a crossroads on how to paint the rider and rest of the Jetbike body.
I think the rest of the bike will be black, maybe with some tinted highlights, but what about the rider?
Would white be too stark? It's not too late to add more galaxy pattern (maybe on the helmet) but the riders body runs the risk of being too stark, or blending in too much to the bike.
This scheme is a tough nut, considering I am planning a flyer for my next purchase, but also want some eldar infantry, but have no idea on how to paint them
For the rider and his armour I'd probably go with a bright colour to contrast with the bike, it's a fine line to cross because you don't want him to blend in and got lost in the bike but you also don't want him to look out of place. For this particular piece perhaps matching tones would be good, look at some of the cool tones and see if they'd compliment the bike.
No Images today, but I did get some work done, I finished the bike and am almost done with the Farseer, I can get some images up when I get back to Colorado.
Also!
Exciting news about a commision! A friend of mine wants me to do up some eldar Dark eldar in a dark red and bone scheme, so that is hopefully gonna be very fun!
Hey everyone! Quick update on my phone. Sorry for the lack of updates, RL Is quite busy rn.
I painted up the visarch pretty quickly, and am happy for the time I spent on him. and the first test model for the commission... he ended up going with purple, which is okay... it means he can distinguish his army from Ynead's
I also have the opportunity to paint up my favorite eldar model of all time! The bonesinger! I'll find a way to incorporate him into this months competition, but the lack of white paint and the delay of February has kept me from starting! Really excited to paint this model, I got it for a measly $5 on Wednesday at my FLGS, so I'm pretty happy there.
I know.. I know, the Farseer on the bike still needs to be finished, and I still gotta throw up pics of the finished bike, I'll get to it eventually!
While I sit outside waiting for my FLGS to open I thought I'd throw up a photo of my next shadow seer... completely inspired by RollAwayThe Stone's awesome conversion.
I still have a ton of work to do on the back of the head but once I get home I will finish that up. Thanks everyone!
It's an invasion of awesome shadow seer conversions! Great work, I love that despite having the same influence you all have done things to make each one your own. Great job.
Nice! I like the Ballroom Mask idea for the mask in her hand. It'd be kind of extra creepy for this looming shadowy Eldar figure to be constantly holding this mask to up her blank expressionless face.
rollawaythestone wrote: Nice! I like the Ballroom Mask idea for the mask in her hand. It'd be kind of extra creepy for this looming shadowy Eldar figure to be constantly holding this mask to up her blank expressionless face.
That's an awesome idea! Extra creepy if when she speaks the mask mouths the words too...
2 wins and one loss! Game 1 was 2000 points of my Aeldari vs armies of the imperium. A real narrative battle, entrenched imperial forces fighting an invading Aeldari army. The imperium had a baneblade, but that was no matter! Yvraine and friends shrugged off a silly amount of baneblade wounds and the death jester forced his inquisitor and guardsmen off the table, getting me slay the warlord + first blood + no prisoners. Needless to say it was a wipe for the eldar. MVP were harlies and scourge, they were the ones that killed the bane blade
Second game was against orks, with the Ynari soulbursting I was able to kite his meganobz around the table, It was a win for eldar since turn 1. MVP was the Yncarne.
3rd was against a cult mech warcon, I lost, terribly, but it was a tournament army and a tournament played.
Also - welcome to the plog Roll Away the Stone!
I finished the Death Jester!
Just finished up the skeleton parts + mask. Pretty happy with him, I think I am gonna put him in my stores Battle of the Brush!
Also got the first unit for my commission, 10 eldar guardians. I will get them started tomorrow, as I am way too tired to start a whole new squad.
the idea of a mad Archon that denies the existence of She-Who-Thirsts, but is too deadly to depose is a really neat idea 
(although I believe I know a way to remedy that so no worries)
