Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

just read the whole blog

i have this horrible urge to buy a lot of DE and paint them bannana yellow

your Aqua blue is such a happy colour

You guys know the drill. More Warriors on sticks! These are at about 60%. I'll try to take a whole army pic once I've got these guys done.



It's really cool hearing about all of you who are taking the time to read the thread from the beginning! A lot of the good stuff is on Page 1 since I held off so long on starting the blog!

Your blog holds pure awsomness! i look to it for inspiration during painting lulls. Keep up the great work!

I love the golds on the guns! How did you do that?

I don't have anything constructive to say but very good work

The Warrior contingent of my army is ready for action! Finished painting the Blasters today and was real excited to get the squads all lined up. I'll try to get a full army picture taken next weekend. Most of my Kabal is on display down at the local FLGS so I don't have access to it right now! Well, in a pinch you could technically call this picture a whole army shot. That is, three squads of Warriors and a rather under-equipped Archon with four Trueborn!



@joshoftheforest: The "gold" is done by using my standard method of painting weathered copper. 1. Basecoat Calthan Brown. 2. Paint Dwarf Bronze. 3. Wash with diluted Vallejo Turquoise.

Next week's plan is to generate some forward momentum towards getting the beasts converted and painted! I'm still not exactly committed to my "Genestealer" Khymerae scheme. I've been thinking of trying something a bit more "earthly" and feral to fit in with the rest of the army better. The main problem I'm having is trying to integrate the teal better. Time to paint up a test model and see how it's received.

Thanks for reading and goodnight!

Your Dark Eldar are really looking great! I've always assumed that stuff like battle damage wouldn't work on Eldar models, but you've proved me wrong. A great army so far. Looking forward to the next update!

Cheers,
Monsterzonk

They're looking fantastic as ever. Really looking forward to seeing everything laid out together.

As others have said; these are all looking amazing as ever. Great work man. I really can't wait to see the army-shot, individually they've all been great works, so together they should be inspirational.
Keep up the good work!

Awesome job indeed... I can't get enough of them...

Painted up a new color scheme for my Khymerae. Took me several days of trial and error (and buying new colors of paint) to work it out! After looking at the pictures I'll probably give the model another coat of matt varnish to get rid of the glossy look I tried. I'll sleep on it and see how it looks in daylight.





Here's the original color scheme as a comparison:



Although I do like the Genestealer infected look of the original scheme, it just isn't in the same style as the rest of the army. I see my army as having much more of a "noble savage" or "proud mountain tribe" feel which doesn't really mesh with the bio-engineered horror scheme. What do you all think?

I much prefer the muted colors of the original when it comes to the flesh/muscle/bone. It's not the same model though so it's hard to make a direct comparison. The genestealer parts look incongruous to me and the blue on both models doesn't feel right.

Sorry Jon... love your work, but these models just miss the mark for me. Could you perhaps consider using demonic parts rather than genestealer parts?

What about seeing if you can't find displacer beast models from DnD/Chainmail figures



http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/Phase%20Cat/sku-down/02664#detail/IG_1232_2


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Unrelated note:

Grats on making into "Whats New Today"

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=18100003a&utm_source=VoxCaster&utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=new-blog&utm_content=new-blog&utm_campaign=VoxCaster-New-Blog-Posts

Again, congrats on getting on to whats new today, I did a double take when I saw them lol - "What the? COOL!"

For me personally, I preferred the original torso colour, especially how the infection was spreading through the body which you could see by the trail of purple, though I do prefer the shinier muscles and tissue - just a little extra thought, perhaps you could paint some bloody foot prints to show that these creatures are literally melting their entire bodies away with every step and breath they take...?

Alfndrate wrote:
Unrelated note:

Grats on making into "Whats New Today"

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=18100003a&utm_source=VoxCaster&utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=new-blog&utm_content=new-blog&utm_campaign=VoxCaster-New-Blog-Posts

Congrats Jon!

Just how does that happen anyway? Did you submit your stuff to them or do GW spies scan the interwebs for interesting bits??

They look at the interwebs, their flickr pool, and if you or your local store submit the photos.


Edit: I just checked the GW Roma's facebook page... Someone attached the photo with a question wondering on the reds used... >_<

Have to say that this is a real lol Alfndrate it correct, it looks like someone found my models on Google image search or whatever and posted them on GW Italy's website to ask how the reds were painted. There's some comments in the Facebook page in Italian that seem to correctly identify that the models were credited to the wrong person (using Google Translate). Well, I'll just act according to the old adage that all publicity is good publicity and email GW to see if I can get a proper credit!

Defo mate, send em more pictures of the rest of your force too, you'll probably be invited to do a how to blog post!

One thing I love about your work is that in the early stages, it doesn't look all that great lol! Then all of a sudden everything comes together at the end and you tie everything in magnificently.

If anything I think it's a testament to a very effective workflow. The scheme itself is also something I never would have thought would work on paper, but then there you are again pulling it off brilliantly.

Lol I hope the above reads as a big compliment and not an insult!!!

Amazing looking minis, this would make me want to start a Dark Eldar army, keep up the good work

Haha, that would figure that you make the front page, and someone else gets credit I wouldn't be shocked if they did a more full spread if you email them your info.

"I knew him back before he was famous"

whalemusic360 wrote:Haha, that would figure that you make the front page, and someone else gets credit I wouldn't be shocked if they did a more full spread if you email them your info.

"I knew him back before he was famous"

I knew him back when he was Mechanicum Jon, and not just

Just stumbled upon this stunner of a thread thanks to the Dakka front page link and it's making me very thankful for that feature.

Your colour is vibrant and a breath of fresh amongst all the DarkDar mostly black schemes floating around. Most of all though, I'm really happy to have found a use for those Reaver Blaster tips that were piling up in my bitz bin.

Subbed and exalted for the great work. Please keep up the inspirational work.

Argh, too many awesome people on Dakka are on GW's site! This is like the 5th one I've seen this summer!

Could it be that the Dakka community attracts such a high level of hobbiests? Looking at some of the long-standing P&M blogs we have going on here, I think so.

Wow. Definitely have to subscribe to this.

Saw your models on GWs page today. They look fantastic!

Well done, on getting on to GW UK!!
Love your work!

These are amazing I love scheme and the bases are really nice to. It's actually inspiring me to finish my Dark Eldar.

GW answered my email and said that they would definitely be interested in showing some more of my mini’s!

I’m going to arrange to have some higher quality photos of them taken down at the local shop over the weekend. In particular, the whole army shot which I’ve been promising meaning to take since last week.

They also asked for some fluff, tactics and painting text to accompany the photos. Fortunately, I’ve got this whole thread of material available to cull something decent out of. I’ll try to see if I can get DakkaDakka a mention as well.

@Gitsplitta: I appreciate the criticism as well as the complements. Both can give me ideas and help me refine concepts! This time though I’m going to stick with the concept. I’ll admit that it doesn’t look quite as good as my other stuff close up. But I think the scheme and silhouette of the claws will give the beast pack a nice visual pop on the tabletop.

I actually did originally plan on using Daemonette claws for the conversion and ordered a bunch. I had no idea they were so small!

@MajorTom11: I can honestly say that I did take what you said as a complement! I definitely tend to “frontload” a lot of time on projects trying to develop the right color scheme and painting methods. Often, things don’t work out and out comes the paint stripper!

Cool Jon, stick to your guns. Some times you've got to go with your instincts in spite of what others think. I'm sure they'll look fantastic when you're finished!