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I havent bought or painted a model in five year but As with most GW fence-sitters i was pushed off by the release of the new dark eldar. So i bought supplies and practised my painting...
Heres is the result, a CSM half heartedly stripped and belonging to no particular legion.




Lessons learned,
painting on a grey basecoat, although giving a nice finish, has it's challenges (see grey 'shadows')
Painting Space marines imo is boring and time consuming.
Red is hard to pull off.
Bone is fun to paint and gives a nice effect with minimal effort.
Likewise with gold.

So taking on board these lessons i bought my first box sets.
For those interested 2 Kabalite warriors, 1 wyches, Reavers and an Archon.

Without further ado here is my first, pretty much, finished model (Sans Rider obviously!)





As you can see it sports an unusual colour scheme. I Lovingly christened it ''bone n' cucumber'' (Haha or should that be "double n' Entendre".)
The bone looks better in person but in my opinion the 'cucumber' looks great even in the photo.

Check in soon for the finished reaver squadron as i am making great progress (now that i can start batch painting).

C & C welcome.

Hi Perkustin , original colour scheme you gone for there, , i see lots of advanced painting tecniques , good job mate .much more colour than my blog on your first page.

Yeah, unusual scheme, but it should work perfectly!!!

Maybe a bit too "glossy" for non-Nurgle minis, but stills looks good!

Been a while. Cheers guys, Thanks Neil101, far too complimentary as always haha. Yggdrisal, the gloss comes from the ink i apply to the basecoat, the matte highlight combined with the gloss shadow to me makes it look more organic and 'Boney', hard to explain. Haven't had the internet for a hideously long period, anyway, aside from the slow process of assembly i have made some decent progress with painting.
Here is the finished reaver squad i will admit that while the bikes were a joy to paint i found the riders a bit of a chore hence they don't quite equal the quality of the bikes. All in all they look pretty good in the flesh.




I have also finished my archon he is not at all photogenic, only the helmet looks any good in the photo. If you are wondering what he is holding it is a Hydra Gauntlet and a razor flail, i thought it made a good Agonizer as i am not a fan of the whip. The armour doesn't look great as i was attempting something with gloss medium, it looked great on the test mini but not on the archon. I am into minds as to whetheror not to will strip'im and retry.



The model that i am most proud of is the hekatrix, she is simple and not particularly cleanly painted but shows off the scheme brilliantly IMO.



A final thing of note is my second shardnet conversion. I add this because it is a common dilema among DE army collectors, here is my solution made from flexi- ties and paperclips.

I couldn't be bothered doing a cross weave as i decided it already looked good enough.

I am just finishing my trueborn Dracon and he should be done soon, i have learned from my mistakes on the Archon and he is shaping up nicely. The big conversion project is the transformation of two empire wizards into Haemonculi, more on this soon.

Raider mount looks really cool.

Archon looks really great, and i'd really like to get a closer look at him. Maybe the only comment i'd have is that his weapon look a bit dull compared to the rest of the mini.

Close up picture would be really nice to see

Interesting colour scheme, and the sharp contrasting colours gives the models a unique look.

Cheers mate, need to update the blog but boring non 40k real life is being a pain.

Yeah. The holiday season is ending and new year is coming. Less time for painting once real life gets back on track.

they look class especially the jet bikes and hekatrix.

I've never seen a color scheme like that. It looks awesome.

The edging on the jetbikes looks really good and baroque somehow. Not too fond of the browney scheme personally but I really like the effect.

This is great stuff.

This is gorgeous stuff man. Keep it up

Thanks to everyone for the supportive comments! 8-). Long time no update and i only got a couple of things to show for it. Thought i would do something fun for the photo so here goes.




The annoying thing is that my dad (who's camera it is) is a model railroad engineer (makes model steam trains) and he seems to able to take great pictures without messing with the settings, i however have to take about twenty pictures till i get a semi decent one. The guardsmen were painted a while back but hold up quite well today. More within the week mainly the completed wyches.

Very cool, how are you getting those tones out of the paint?

Those are definitely eye catching! Nicely done.

high contrast always look great on tabletop. It won't win any award in close up picture like CMoN, but when on the table, they are simply amazing.

Your Achon is great, even if i personally think his helmet should have been painted like the rest of his armor (with high contrast).

Great Job.

Wyches, bar one who escaped my attention, are done. They were initially a chore but once they started shaping up it was a mad creative sprint to finsh 'em.



Image is a bit murky but i was tired of my models looking hideous under flash.

UPDATE: Hmm looking back at it that photo is a bit rubbish, doesn't really show much...

I thought your previous photos were great. I still love your work. I stand by my 'very eye catching' comment. More more!

Thanks bunnygirl
Here's some more. Through flukish chance i got the camera to do good by me. I give you my first trueborn and the first attempt at full armour with my scheme.





The dracon annoyingly has taken on a more yellowish hue in his armour, the troops however have a nice lack of warmth in there armour wgich i think suits the DE. The armless are getting blasters, i primed their arms today along with a raider. I was thinking of adding a red sash perhaps for a bit of 'spot colour' does anyone have an opinion? I was quite pleased with the red on the archon's cloak so would love to give it a shot.

Gosh darnit has been a while. I haven't really been painting that much lately partly due to too much time on dakka/lack of photography skill. I have however slowly been painting my raider one highlight at a time. Here is the near finish result. (It will at some point have crew and superstructure lol)











Heres is a simple haemonculus based on a warhammer wizard. The liquifier is meant to be a stargate style staff weapon but it also looks a bit like somekind of transfusion trolley which i spose is pretty cool.





Thanks for looking , will pll my finger out and give the Haemonculus a lick of paint tomorrow. Peace out (Gads i would never say that in real life, darn you internet! )

Hey Perky , I forgot all about your blog , i hadnt seen it in such a long time ..;-) I hadnt seen all the other pics , your dark eldar are terryfying , i like the pale , skin against your beautifully bizzare , languid colour tones, the jet bike riders look great with the blue hair, i think you really captured a otherworldly qaulity with these guys, btw did you replace an orb with that head on the wizard? if you did your a sick puppy , MORE!!!please I hadnt ralised how cool these new Dark eldar were until now, Cheers mate!

It's a marauder head i assumed the Haemy would be fascinated by the lovely beard, as i guess they would be novel to the body-hairless (I think) eldar. Funny the blue hair is one of my favourites elements as well thats why the wyches got the same treatment.

I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to say...

Cheers bunnygurl! Oh i meant to add in the last post that the colour scheme is inspired by a nightmare i had about a creepy triffid style plant with a dry leathery body and a great eyeless beak. An honourable mention must also go to these as well.





Rediscovered these on my bookshelve about a year ago, thought they were great pictures.

ooh city of thieves and house of hell! , Great idea to work inspired by a nightmare, kinda kreepy. I didnt realise until now Ian Millar illustrated that front cover of house of hell, My favourite are the sorcery series illustrated by john blanche, my big bro still has the originals we bought. He treat books better than i ;-)

I found the two player fighting fantasy series (the warlock's way and the warrior's way) in my room yesterday, they are both illustrated by Blanche. I remember going to charity shops and boot sales looking for the bright green spines, ahhhh memories....

I have those also , their actually quite good as far as i can recall
although my favourite 2 player version were the classci maze orinetated black baron and the white warlord by lone wolf creater Joe Dever , which i also still have, thanks to a litlle brother who kept them in a decent condition after i left home. did you ever play the Assasin series ? but my first one to evr buy was robot commado , i read it over and over , it gave me many years of wild fantasy about been the only person left alive or awake in the world. thanks for reminding me of those halcyon bygone days.

Wow blast from the past! I have loads of these books stored in my parents loft including Robot Commando, I wonder if they are worth anything these days?

those trueborn are awesome