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This guy does look good, the angle of the photo makes him look a bit rubbish.

not rubbish... and no need for humble pie... i think your new avatar is highly justified! looking tremendously good... next time tho i would suggest taking a pic in front of a less busy background^^

as i look again to your mini...one day a step by step would be really cool and helpful...

I'll do some step by step pics with the other four trueborn. The run down is:

Tamiya flat blue and flat green 50/50 is the basecoat for the green. I call it 'Perverse green'

Once the armour is basecoated i ink it with Quink fountain pen blue.

Then i do a first highlight of 75/25 'perverse green'/Space wolves grey (used to do it with white but i really like the cold blue tint of SWG)

A more precise highlight of 40/60 'perverse green'/SWG

Edging final highlight of SWG.

For the bone i start with bestial brown.

Then a wash of 50/50 badab black/delven mud. (Used to use windsor and newton 'chestnut brown' fountain pen ink but i have went off the gloss finish)

First highlight of 50/50 bestial brown/commando khaki.

More precise highlight of commando khaki

Edging final highlight of 50/50 commando khaki/white

how long does this process of painting after this scheme take? i really like your highlightening tehcnique...also it reads very step by step and even might be replicated but i´d be damned if i was good enough fot this...
also like the "perverse green" made me smile^^

and i only know half of the paints you´ve mentioned^^ the rest seems to be a mystery^^ where did you get that chestnut brown you used before? sound like a good thing to have despite the glossy finish...somehow i picture these paints/inks to be a bit more than 12ml in a bottle...

I couldnt say, will batch the last four trueborn and give a more detailed run-down.

Just got all my painted dudes out of the case and arranged them, got me really stoked to finish 'em.

wow The new guy is very good mate, lots of details, and i know how small those guys are . Congrats on finishing them , and keeping your distinctive style .

Can't remember seeing the Raider on the previous page, looks great, and love the pose on the blaster warrior.

Can't wait for you to have a full force, will be a very intimidating sight en-masse I think

if you put them all out on the desk this would be a cool oportunity to astonish us all with a group shot...

nice to see that you are still working on them

Finally got off my butt and bought some scourges. In my opinion they are the finest miniatures in all of christendom and have given me a hobby shot in right into the heart. Naturally i havent even assembled any but i have used a head and blaster arm for a rather tasty conversion. The body is one of the raider dangleberries, with a running wych leg (picked up a handfull on a bits site, been sitting on them for months). The gorget (which i am VERY happy with) is a hellion shoulder pad. The head is obviously a scourge one, now alot of people may say it is a girly helmet but i like my psychotic, hedonist, hyper lethal aliens with a touch of androgyny. The other hand is a raider tillerman bit, got three pairs in a raider spares ebay lot [SMUG FACE]. There is still a lot detail work to go, mainly a c'tan/shadow spectre 'structural loinclothe' to cover up his groin which is currently, forgive the vile pun, messier than a post-op transvestites. And to give him the 'air' he needs off his base. The loinclothe will be a long, bridal, affair as Tendulker thought it rude not to take a trophy from the Dowager empress.




Take this halo reach, your multiplayer cannot redeem a lucklustre story!



The pose is inspired by the statline funnily enough, with ws7, Bs7 and i7 you are gonna have some nifty moves and pull some wicked shapes. The artwork for the Archon bestiary entry also gets a nod as it depicts a dude jumping out a WWP in a suitably dramatic fashion.

I am also working on a, final, five man Trueborn squad to accompany him. The will be called the 'Spiteful tragediens', hopefully some fluff will pour out my think hole after i squeeze the old mind-grapes. They will utilise the running legs and the cool (but inexplicable, erm 4+ save?) bare armed blasters from the scourge kits.

JUST FOR FUN:

lovely models and lovely pose ,( is that Tendulker then ?) so your going to be squeezing the mindgrapes eh . well look forward to the forthcomming mind hole flotsam.
inspiring stuff as always matey.

I must say after i Ms painted the blaster flare and the 'Head dust' it looks pretty rad. May have to do a proper PS job when both models are fully painted.

Cheers neil! Finally bought my sorceress but now i dont know what to do with her? Still enough time for Pimp my Sorceror?

Came up with an idea for the fluff in the interval, as they are 'tragediens' (it was a class in a rubbish videogame, he was like an actor). Perhaps they snuck into a rival archons court dressed as Harlequins and acted out a decidely lethal play?

Fluff sounds promising , like the whole harlequin thing . Pretty sure their is enough time left for you to join in the pimping shenanigans . I am thinking maybe you will do the Dowager empress ?

Just a quikie, the first member of the trueborn squad.



Although Dracite Pho'Mabraxes leads his cadre into battle, he took on only the minor role of the Corsair King in the tragedy of Archon Drusillex. Like the rest of the men involved he prefers his stage title to his nearly forgotten given name.

This is a fairly Vanilla conversion that no doubt you have seen a hundred times before. He represents a good sqaud leader though he will look great leading his sprinting comrades.

Perkustin's modelling tip no.1 When modelling squads always have your sergeant static, even if it is a dynamic squad, it gives a great sense of authority to the Figure.

Perkustin's modelling tip no.2 When modelling pointing models if you want your characer to look authoratative always point the head in the opposite direction, this gives the impression of an order being issued. Pointing the head in the same direction gives the impression of shock, which is why it looks great on cadian HW teams! Try and avoid pointing hands on 'moving' figures, pointing weapons however are ideal!

The rest are named:
Eldanesh: Would love a dire avenger helm for him.
Vaul: Tricky, not sure how to model 'the smith'.
Isha/Ynnead: probababy go for Ynnead and go for some skulls.
Khaine: An Incubi Helm for this guy.

like the new poses on your models, very dynamic! are the guns all from the dark eldars? they would suit my needs for steampunky weaponry quite well...have to stretch my tendrils out for some ^^

cheers, vik

Looking very nice, the various DE kits sure has made options nearly infinite. I don't feel like the blasterborn guy is giving an order though. I think it feels more like he says Oh Yeah Baby!

Just a few odds and ends. Bought these vypers Aaaaaggggesss ago and finally bodged them into something dark eldar-ey.



I was quite chuffed with my ingenuity here. The chain reel thing is from the talos kit. I envision the passenger strapping on and swinging around from the chains as the venom is in full flight.



This one is just a collection of bits stuck to a vyper. Looks pretty good though. The Reaver cowl instead of a windscreen is copied from somewhere/someone, just cant remember where. Trust me when i say it looks cool, makes the Vyper front look like some Giger-esque Goat skull.

Here's another Wip of the Archon. I have been challenging my Sculpting with his loinclothe. It needs smoothing in places, to cover over my 'brushstrokes' (clay shaper gouges if you must) will probably rub in some partially dissolved milliput to do this. The back isnt done and the second smaller pendant that will run down the back isnt done either.

Either way because clay shaper-worked GS is soo shiny it looks ghastly in Photographs. Here are some anyway.

Missed a lot of cool work...interested in seeing how the Archon comes out!

Nice flowy robes , your really getting to grips with green stuff.

Played my first game of 40k with the dark eldar. Got absolutely annhilated by Horde imperial guard. 12 grenade launchers, 9 mortars, 9 autocannons and 2 missile launchers made short work of my dudes. That and the fact i forgot to disembark the wyches for a charge.

Lol I didn't know ricky gervais was trueborn XPPP

Really digging this thread. The paint scheme is absurd (in a good way). Love the free hand detail on the raiders. Looking forward to seeing more.