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Hello dakka! I thought I would share my raider with those of you that haven't already seen it on my P&M blog.

It's the head raider of the scarab prince corsairs, an exiled band of dark eldar, led by a rather insane Archon who claims to hear the true voice of Cegorach.

Most of these pictures are taken at various different times during the painting process and I will note that the raider is finished and I will upload images of it's completed insanity when my I get my camera back.

Enjoy...

Words fail me...

This is art, pure art.

Chowderhead wrote:Words fail me...

This is art, pure art.

Thank you chowderhead haha nice name!

Holy Hell. Thats great! Do the symbols mean anything?

Damn!

Surfboard66 wrote:Holy Hell. Thats great! Do the symbols mean anything?

While I am aware of Egyptian hieroglyphs and their meanings, this is more an eldar adaptation.

The eyes represent the ever seeing eye of Cyrax the scarab prince (the archon). The sun rise represents the embarked squad, the warrior squad "Dawn's Grace", their name and symbol reflects their first line duties.

The line of text on the raider side reads in my own bastardised text of dark eldar runes "Blood shall feed Khaine eternal" and the text on the sail "Seth's Chosen".

Hmm...I guess now I know who I've stolen the idea for my DE color scheme from.

Nice work.

bushido wrote:Hmm...I guess now I know who I've stolen the idea for my DE color scheme from.

Nice work.

You bad, bad, sick person you! (unless of course you are representing the finest of all kabals...)

The work on the hull looks a LOT better than the work on the sail. Probably because white is a pain in the ass to work with.

Either way, came out nice. good job!

Honersstodnt wrote:The work on the hull looks a LOT better than the work on the sail. Probably because white is a pain in the ass to work with.

Either way, came out nice. good job!

I have been reconsidering the sail for some time. In person it looks a lot better but I feel I could probably do a better job here. Thank you for your critique!

I like it and dislike it in equal meausre. The glyphs and freehand is really nice I just think there is a bit too much and is making the model look far too busy. I think you could have left it off the sails or done less on the hull.

The bone coloured hull, I really like.

I'd agree with luke, the bone is excellent but the glyphs are a little overused.

Looks great, awesome idea.. I agree though it does get busy and maybe a plain colored sail would have worked better. Other than that, great job

Nice

i like it, a lot. althought i think that the hull is to messy (the bone bit) for dark eldar

Actually how did you get the bone color? Like what primer, base coat etc? I've been looking for something resembeling sandstone and that looks pretty close

Love the color scheme - bone and blue. Great look. Like the Glyphs but it just seems to busy.

I like it. Very tribal... primal in it's feel. Appropriate for DE I think.

I know it is busy, that was intentional. I think the next one will have one emblem on the sail and glyphs on every second pannel. I was aiming to get across the point that this particular band of dark eldar
enjoy the arts as well as murder. They are often accompanied by the Harlequins of Cegorach and the overall madness is a glorious nightmare. As for the messiness, these guys live off what they steal, they're
in exile and washing a raider before war (no matter how arrogant they may be) doesn't concern them too much.

Thank you all for your kind words and critiques, I'll be sure to take into account all of your suggestions!



As for the bone recipe, it's the same throughout the whole army. Prime with white or black, it doesn't matter, you just add an extra step if you are using black.

1) First undercoat it with black/white, don't be too fussed about how smooth the coat is, there will be a few layers of paint over the top.

2) If you undercoated in black, paint the areas that will be bone with Dheneb Stone from the foundation range. Be sure to cover most of the black.

3) Once that layer has properly dried (not just touch dry, paint on top of wet paint can cause it to crack) paint this area bleached bone.

4) Once the bone has dried, wash thoroughly with Gryphone Sepia wash making sure it seeps into the recesses and creates a gradient along the armour plates.
Note that the raider should be placed on the side you are washing during this process as it will help the wash dry evenly. Stand the raider up and it will create lines where the wash has run.

5) When this has dried apply bleached bone again, this time only to the edges of armour and anywhere the light gleams.

6) Highlight with pure skull white very sparingly to the very edge of the area.

7) Take your gloriously evil raider and use it to kill servants of the emperor.

Wow that is insane paint job man well done love the mask!

Great work, I would love to see a Dark Eldar army done up with bits and pieces from the new Tomb Kings plastics.

Oaka wrote:Great work, I would love to see a Dark Eldar army done up with bits and pieces from the new Tomb Kings plastics.

Yes, my thoughts exactly...

I'm not actually painting a Raider I just need the paint for Egyptian Tau thanks though.

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:I'm not actually painting a Raider I just need the paint for Egyptian Tau thanks though.

I'm sure the step by step will apply to the weakling tau also

Very cool

InventionThirteen wrote:

Surfboard66 wrote:Holy Hell. Thats great! Do the symbols mean anything?

While I am aware of Egyptian hieroglyphs and their meanings, this is more an eldar adaptation.

The eyes represent the ever seeing eye of Cyrax the scarab prince (the archon). The sun rise represents the embarked squad, the warrior squad "Dawn's Grace", their name and symbol reflects their first line duties.

The line of text on the raider side reads in my own bastardised text of dark eldar runes "Blood shall feed Khaine eternal" and the text on the sail "Seth's Chosen".

Jebus! you painted it with SYMBOLISM? and it looks so fething awesome?

Hats off to you, man. Fantastic job, both conceptially and aesthetically.

Potato_God wrote:

InventionThirteen wrote:

Surfboard66 wrote:Holy Hell. Thats great! Do the symbols mean anything?

While I am aware of Egyptian hieroglyphs and their meanings, this is more an eldar adaptation.

The eyes represent the ever seeing eye of Cyrax the scarab prince (the archon). The sun rise represents the embarked squad, the warrior squad "Dawn's Grace", their name and symbol reflects their first line duties.

The line of text on the raider side reads in my own bastardised text of dark eldar runes "Blood shall feed Khaine eternal" and the text on the sail "Seth's Chosen".

Jebus! you painted it with SYMBOLISM? and it looks so fething awesome?

Hats off to you, man. Fantastic job, both conceptially and aesthetically.

What can I say? I'm an art student.

Very very nice job...

but I can't help but think about how fast it will die on the table.

Some parts look like there is too much black, like around the plank, and you could use some different images than just eyes, but I like the effect.

Technically very good but I think a slightly less 'busy' arrangement of icons would look more effective. It's about 1000 times better than any freehand I've ever done though.