Cirque de Malys - My Dark Eldar & Eldar (new additions 11/6/13)

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**AdeptSister**

Very Beautiful models. Your paint job is wonderful.

azazel the cat wrote:If you can find some way to turn those perfectly-edged circles in their abdomen into portholes, that would be completely F'd up and awesome.

I was going to say something similar. Can you add something around the circles to make them look rougher or uneven? They stand out and weaken the look of the model.

**hyv3mynd**

First, thanks everyone for the kind words.

worldwarme wrote:Thanks for posting this. I've been looking for Grotesque conversions my self, and had considered using Ogre's from WHFB range, but wasn't sure. Having seen yours, I am pretty sure I'll go with that idea. The other one I considered were the Crypt horrors, which you seem to prefer to uses as Clawed fiends. Question, ;Were the Talos/ Cronos parts as easily workable with the Crypt horrors as they were with the Grotesques, or were there some Major problems that would prevent me from using them together, ( Iam focusing on the Helmet/ facial region) Where I am right now, I don't have a gaming store to inspect them, just Online info and pics. So rather than order a box only to find out they were'nt at all compatable, thought I'd ask you. Second Question: Your Tattoos on the Grotesques is spectacular! I was just awe struck. Do you free hand them or draft them on the body with pencil first? Or do you have a better technique you'd care to share? Thanks again, very inspiring an dI am sure I am going to follow the path you set out on, (As I too wish to avoid Finecast as much as possible).

The clawed fiend is a bit larger than the ogres, check out the vargheist in this pic. I use them for razorwings.

You can probably see the talos helm and weapons would fit, but the amount of modelling and sculpting would be immense in comparison. Go for it if you want to, I bet grotesques made with crypt fiends would be even more epic than mine. The tattoos are freehand. I look at the DE codex when I'm doing them, but there's no sketching or planning. I just mix some black and blue and hope I don't botch it up.

@ AdeptSister ~ Yeah I'm planning on working on that area as a finishing touch, but I want to get the army painted and based first.

**Begel Dverl**

Amazing...

Simply amazing...

**Pnyxpresss**

Very nice color use and blending them all!

**Redfinger**

that is some great airbrush work! Nice choice of colors.

Ashton

**lunarman**

Come on, show us some bases!

These really need bases to finish them off

**Necro**

You Sir can paint.

Truly inspiring work

**azazel the cat**

I don't think it can be overstated just how good your flesh tone & muscle shading it on the ogrotesques.

**thesilverback**

The gray to red on kabalites, I really don't like the scheme but it is painted very nicely, I will give you credit on that. But I love and plan to steal your ogre conversion idea. Thanks alot.

**TH3FALL3N**

They look so good dude!

**mayfist**

Just on a side note, that translates from french to circus of bread... not a very scary DE name

Anyway, love the painting and the models !

**BigD**

Nice :-) Excellent selection of colour and the sort of "muted" look work brilliantly bring your models to life. Like!

**DasFluspferd**

This is excellent.

**ghostmaker**

Great looking conversions ! and paint job.

**Scrazza**

I love your miniatures. They look really cool. They are perfectly painted and the color scheme is very nice. Top Notch.

**LutherMax**

UnCool Villain wrote:Very colorful and unique scheme I must say the Grotesque is my Favorite.

Agreed, the grotesque is truly awesome

**다카다카**

hyv3mynd wrote:Yeah talos helms. Each talos kit comes with 6 heads and plenty of tentacles. It took two boxes of ogres and two talos kits to make 10 grotesques and 2 talos. Ends up being about 40% cheaper than buying 10 finecast grotesques and 2 talos.

That is brilliant! I like your army a lot - the colours are very appropriate for the DE faction and the finish is flawless!

I hope to see more of this fantastic troupe!

**Norn King**

So cool. Great use of the airbrush!

**carlomontoya**

The skin tone on the Grotesque is very realistic. I love it. The paint application is also very smooth and the color transition well done.

**TheAngrySquig**

Any chance we could get a tutorial, because I'm sorry if I missed it but I didn't see it on the website

**Viersche**

Looks nice and......colorful

**Emerett**

Those grotesques are absolutely bitchin.

**hyv3mynd**

Thanks everyone. I have a lot more coming but I do bases last so it'll be a bit longer before I do another batch and "finish" more models.

@ theangrysquig - tutorial on what exactly? I can find one or write one.

**TheAngrySquig**

Oh sorry, on that Vargheist, the blue is stunning beyond belief

**tough n' orky**

purty colours.........

**Capitansolstice**

Very purty...

**Eldar Craft**

Awesome airbrush work. I love all the custom units but mostly the ogre grotesques. The open gut and limb modifications(not to mention the awesome masks) are by far my favorite.

**Red Corsair**

Hey Hyvemynd, loving the army and my only suggestion is maybe to add some harlequins, what kind of circus doesn't have killer clowns?! Ha ha, I realized it after reading your reports, I also think they would make a great unit to drop a webway portal with if you ever decide to portal out the grotesques

**spudkins**

Like the the 40k and fantasy miss.
Keep up the great work.

**porkuslime**

Personally, I would love to fight the "circus of bread" ..

FEAR the Croissant!

OT: Damn.. that is some nice pain'ing.. but I find the nice circular holes in the center of the grotestques to be off putting.. ragged holes, or triangular, etc.. would be a bit better and more "artiste".. but the "porthole" concept is pretty good.