Kabal of the Crystal Mantis - Archon #2, Jetfighter, Khymera, and bonus!

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**Foxtale**

Thanks all for the comments.

Unfortunately, my camera is not made for Macro Images, and also it doesn't pick up strong contrast well. As a result, I realise, the intense green highlights can frustratingly not be seen in the pictures and they look a little washed-out. Any suggestions apart from using a different camera to fix that? Maybe Photoshop?

Also, ask and ye shall receive. Sybarite Anthien's banner.

And tried to get a better shot of the Chronos' chest.

**bunnygurl**

Beautiful painting. That Chronos is killer!

**sum1thtdiesalot**

The banner came out really cool. The symbol reminds me of Chronos a bit.

**Foxtale**

sum1thtdiesalot wrote:The banner came out really cool. The symbol reminds me of Chronos a bit.

Yeah, I have a main banner design, which I will be replicating to some part degree on all of the Sybarite banners. Only the raiders will have the design in full.

Progressed quite a bit on my army. I have converted up my Archon, and painted my Wyches. All I have left to do now is a Raider, Urien (got for Chrissy), and my old Talos. Then I could always repaint my old Incubi.

Here's my Archon conversion, from a High Elf Mage kit, with some Druchii spearmen parts, some Wych parts, accessories from the Raider, head from Corsairs, arms from Warriors.

And here are my finished Wyches:

**InventionThirteen**

The wyches have a mean cyber punk feel to them, kicks ass. The archon looks the part. I think he'll look great painted too!

**sum1thtdiesalot**

Great conversion! what did you use to make the sweet backpack?

**Foxtale**

sum1thtdiesalot wrote:Great conversion! what did you use to make the sweet backpack?

Thanks.

I just added the banner from Cold One Knights to a Kabalite Warrior backpack. I can't claim complete credit for that. Rabid Bunny 666 over on Warseer's painting logs had a Klaivex who used this in a similar way as a backpack.

Again, the colours didn't really come out that well. It's a lot more vivid in real life. I need to figure out how to get those colours looking right. Once the Archon and Raider are painted, I might try and use my brother's super awesome camera to get a better picture of everything.

**wolfshadow**

Looking good. Great conversion work on the Archon. Cant wait to see him painted.

**Matt.Kingsley**

Nice Wyches! Archon looks great too

**Foxtale**

Finally had my struggle with Photoshop and managed to colour-balance out the right contrast of my Kabal colours. I've been quite busy on this as well. Working on Wracks, Haemonculi, Archon, Raider, Razorwing. Some parts came in the mail.

And so, I present to you, Archon Rathiel Thaedrus:

In the time before Vect, the pleasure palace of Aguta'tor Emortalis was known throughout the webway as a place where Eldar could go unrestrained through childhood desires, whether they be petty vandalism or operating gigantic magnifying glasses to burn slaves alive. In that time, it was ruled by the Lord Norvalan Istrid, an Eldar who took 'child at heart' too far. Through Coven compacts, his blood always ran fresh, constantly refreshed with captured child-slaves, his heart replaced by four newborn hearts each day. When Vect replaced the aristocracy with a meritocracy of Kabals, Istrid's son and heir reassured his father that they could continue as they once had. His father could relax and focus on his desires. He, Rathiel, would run the Kabal like a militant wing of the Lord's estates.

Over the next thousand years, Rathiel has strengthened his hold on the estates of his father. Lord Istrid still 'runs' everything, but through consumption of childrens' souls and hearts for thousands of years he has slowly gone mad. It is more convenient for Rathiel that his father remain head of the estates, as it halves the number of assassination attempts he must deal with. He still gives fealty to his father, but many say he does so only so long as it is convenient for him. His father rules as figurehead only.

And a few WIP Pics of my Coven portion of my army. Heard on Warseer that Wracks aren't coming out in plastic in March, so I'm making my own from Flaggelants. They stand a tiny bit shorter than Warriors, but their back spires bulk them out a bit. Not quite sure how I'm gonna paint them yet.

And lastly, a WIP of my Razorwing flocks. This is gonna take a LOT of plasticard to make. Not sure whether to model 3 (looks better) or 5 (more rules-proper) per base.

**Vet Sgt Ezekiel**

Nice work!

Very nice Wrack conversions too. Ingenious use of parts.

**wolfshadow**

Indeed... Liking the conversion work on the wracks very much. They look awsome. Can't wait to seem them painted.

**Reanimator**

These are fantastic. The green highlighting looks great and I love the conversion work on your mantis beasty, as well as the wracks.

Must resist urge to buy dark eldar......

**oldone**

Really like your models and the back ground on the army. i must say that the cronos is probly one of the best i've seen.

**Enkiel**

that is one great looking cloak

**InventionThirteen**

Archon looks amazing! Fantastic paint work.

**fett14622**

amazing work

\m/

**Foxtale**

Reanimator wrote:These are fantastic. The green highlighting looks great and I love the conversion work on your mantis beasty, as well as the wracks.

Must resist urge to buy dark eldar......

Doooo it. You know you want to. The models are beautiful. And slinky. And so easy to paint. Come to the dark side!

oldone wrote:Really like your models and the back ground on the army. i must say that the cronos is probly one of the best i've seen.

Much thanks.

It's actually a very simple conversion from Reaver Jetbikes.

**bunnygurl**

NICE Wracks. Talent ahoy! I trust you'll paint them just as fantastically as the rest you have blessed with your time and brush.

**Foxtale**

Thanks, bunnygurl. And everyone else for the nice comments.

Sat down and painted the first of the Wracks. I might darken their clothes. What does everyone think? He's made from:
- Flaggelant Body
- Dryad Head Crest (for the back spine)
- Wych weapon
- Raider Warrior weapon (and the chain from the Raider)
- Dryad arm
- Plasticard tubes for cannisters
- Greenstuff face over a Warrior face

**Vanq**

Looks suitably twisted!! Love the canisters. Can't wait to see a full squad of them with the Haemonculus painted up

**MajorTom11**

I have loved your color choices up until the wracks, not sure about the blue robes... a little too bright for the creature itself to my taste. That being said, apart from that one thing I have greatly enjoyed watching this thread and look forward to more!

**Foxtale**

MajorTom11 wrote:I have loved your color choices up until the wracks, not sure about the blue robes... a little too bright for the creature itself to my taste. That being said, apart from that one thing I have greatly enjoyed watching this thread and look forward to more!

Yeah, I too am considering not highlighting up to that point with the robes. How are the other colours? The skintone is good, I think. But do you think the cannisters are too bright?

**origarmi chicken**

Wow all of theese models are fantastic!

I never thought about turning wyches into harlequins ( might have to steal that idea)
Keep up the good work

**MajorTom11**

To me, I pictured these guys as being almost monochrome grey and black, with a few small clashes of color like brown dried blood and gold/tin metals to them. Almost looking like Cenobytes from Hellraiser if you know what I mean? Dirty, abused until they turned evil and lifeless type vibe. I know you want to keep the theme running in your army color scheme, but I almost feel like making them darker than your relatively bright DE would almost make them 'scarier' since they are the masters. -

'Fek me those things are the stuff of nightmares...'

'But those are just the slaves...'

Now, imagine black robes, and those cannisters and armor in brass... ?

**Darth Bob**

I love the conversions, but I think they're a little bright for Dark Eldar. I would reccomend darkening them up a bit. A slough of Devlan Mud might do the trick

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Edit: Or better yet, make them look like your Wyches.

**Foxtale**

MajorTom11 wrote:Now, imagine black robes, and those cannisters and armor in brass... ?

Edit: Or better yet, make them look like your Wyches.

I don't know about doing the cannisters or armour in brass. I might keep those the same to tie them in with my army. However, the black robes sound good. Scary even. I'll try and paint up a second one with black, and see how it goes. That'll make them look more like the wyches too.

**Foxtale**

Figured I should update a little bit, to keep myself painting. I'm finding my painting fever is dying down a bit for this army.

Been painting up my first Raider. I wasn't sure how I was going to do this one, then spotted some nice freehand runes on Gonders' (over on Warseer) models. They looked so beautiful and it would be better and more original than the generic Tron-esque Raiders, I just had to give it a go. Here are the runes painted...

I've converted the front hanger-on to be a Sybarite, and tried to give every model a helmet. The gunner at the front is just waiting for a helmet coming in my incoming Warriors box.

**InventionThirteen**

I like what you've done with the raider, looks pretty awesome!

**MajorTom11**

Thia is going to be a fantastic army when done, raider looks fantastic!