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These guys really hit home that there are no “good” guys in WH40K! Great start and good to see a range of skin tones

Those sculpts are very nice. They work well with either a quick and dirty or attention to detail level job. I had a lot of fun painting them.

Liked the effect on the cloak of the Officer of the Fleet! I can imagine it looks aces on the tabletop like you said, as it looks really good in the pics as well.

Nice work on the Callidus assassin! That white suits surprisingly well and it's a color you don't usually see on her.
Glad you got to finally paint her.

Joining the choir with the others: the flagellant sculpts are really cool. And your paint job does justice to them.

Also: What? Drukhari codex as the first xeno army?! Had to google it, and I realized that I must have been living in a box or something for not hearing about it sooner.
I have been postponing my Drukhari army month after month, year after year. They have last seen the tabletop back in 6th or 7th I guess.
I think it's finally time to dig up the spicy boys and gals and properly restart the project once again!

Your assassin looks very snazzy in white.

Thank you so much for all the comments everyone! I posted these quick before ditching town for a few days and it was amazing to come back to read this tonight!

@gobert Oh yes the "no good guys" aspect of 40k is one of the biggest things I feel really sets it apart from other sci-fi or storytelling in general. I'm very excited to try out so many different skin-tones on this army. It'll be fun to get to reach out as a painter and try to make each one look right.

@Nevelon I totally agree dude. I really feel GW knocked the SoB line outta the park where they made almost every model in the range able to look great with even a tabletop standard paintjob but they have so many extra details that should you choose to you can really crank it up to 11 with your paintjob.

@Ezki Thank you so much! The Officer was very much experimental but I'm actually quite excited to try the style out again on different models as I feel I got some new tricks that should help it look smoother while still maintaining that painted look. It's funny after I showed off the Callidus to a local buddy of mine he pointed out my missed opportunity: I should have painted her hair purple instead and called her Motoko Kusanagi! I do like how her blonde hair turned out though and I will be using that formula in the future for other models. You get on the Drukhari bandwagon with me Ezki! Let's get out the spikey lads and ladies to have them prepped for a proper 9th edition debut!

@aku-chan Thank you so much, Snazzy is always top priority in getting models ready for the battlefield!

The "army" look amazing, and getting an itch seeing those Ogryn. SOB are a strange one, I think you are doing a fantastic job as always, I am just at odds with the whole SOB thing. I mean I get it, but don't get the interpretation. You have done solid work on them though.

Thanks for the comment Camkierhi. I've been a huge SoB fan for over a decade now, they are so strange but honestly that's why I love them. They have been back-burnered for me now since Drukhari is the next Codex of interest for me so I went back to that project for the time being. Will hopefully have some updates soon but life has been exceptionally hectic for the past little while.

If anyone here follows me on Instagram you will have seen the WIP pics of this guy getting done with the final update on my first test Incubi today. I decided that since Incubi shrines are often a separate entity from the Raiding Force that employs them it would give me an opportunity to paint a scheme that is quite different from the rest of my force without it seeming too out of place. I've also secretly been jealous of Deathwing armies and, in my opinion, that beautiful cream paint scheme they get to do. I also wanted to try something very different for the blades that strays from my typical metallic scheme for weapons. It's a variation of a stylized highlighting method that was inspired by SpiralingCadaver here on Dakka and an attempt to mimic Elminiasutras OSL technique from instagram (without an airbrush). On both fronts I need more practice, the basis is there I think but my technique and execution could use some tidying up. Still generally happy with it as a first attempt however.

Overall though what do you guys think of my armies first Incubi?

Looking good! The Deathwing Incubi armour looks great, and I like the feathered highlights on the weapon!

I think it's rad. Good to see your work again.

Very cool and clean bone color scheme. Excited to see more of this army!

I really like this theme!
Bone color can be daunting to paint, but you managed very well.

Very Nice!

Thank you very much everyone for your kind words! I'm looking forward to continuing work on these guys. Next up will probably be my first Venom since my new beatsticks will likely need a ride to get them around the battlefield.

Work continued this morning on three more Incubi. Also my first time using a wet palette and I must say I think I'm now a convert. It took only a little bit of setup but smoothed out my process so much by always making sure my paint was at a nice consistency. Didn't have to add water or medium to my paint once all morning and was able to just brush away at the armour non stop. Big fan.

Inevitable_Faith,

Your Incubi will definitely stand out against the rest of your Dark Eldar.

I have never gotten into wet pallets as my painting windows are usually only a few minutes stolen here or there when the opportunity presents itself.

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
Inevitable_Faith,

Your Incubi will definitely stand out against the rest of your Dark Eldar.

I have never gotten into wet pallets as my painting windows are usually only a few minutes stolen here or there when the opportunity presents itself.

CB

That's actually one of the main reasons I love the wet palette CB. The one I have seals up and I just leave it as is overnight. Most of my painting is done in a burst before I go to work so I just sit down, pop the lid off my palette and the same paint I was using yesterday is sitting there ready to go. It's actually cut down on my prep time and wasted paint (as I would have leftover paint on my old palette because I misjudged how much I'd need before going to work). I'd say if you only get a couple minutes here and there the wet palette may actually help you specifically.

Incubi looking really good there Inevitable_Faith!
Gotta get mine started as well.

It's actually quite fun and inspiring to follow another hobbyist working on a same army

And +1 for the wet palette! If I would name one thing that has improved my painting over the last couple of years, it's that godly invention.
No need to worry about thinning the paints all the time and worrying about them drying out. Thin them once, paint all night

Thanks Ezki! I'm amazed it took me this long to get myself a wet palette, they seemed like a great idea for so long but I never pulled the trigger on one. Then one day out of the blue a buddy of mine asks me to drop by his place and grab something, gifted me a brand new Army Painter palette because... it was a saturday? Either way I'm very grateful to him. Next on my hit list is to invest in some higher quality brushes. I keep seeing the brushes in painting tutorial vids with these flawless tips and I look at mine with splayed out bristles everywhere. No amount of maintenance or care seems to keep them nice and tight for me.

Nice job on the bone armour!

Bit more progress on the Incubi today. Two of them have the armour nearly complete, just need highlights. The third is just under half done. Once the highlights are done for all three the major work for these will be done then its just down to details which went pretty quick on my test model.

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!