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The weathering looks really good, it's just the right amount. Can't wait to see them done.

awesome, as is this whole thread. good luck!

Trueborn are almost done, just need to do the rust. The bases are also built but need painting. Hopefully I'll be finished tomorrow and have some time on Friday night to review the latest FAQs.

Had two really good practice games last weekend against Blood Angels and Deathwing. Lost both, although the Deathwing game was close. I'm blaming dice luck for the Blood Angels loss . Shot about 20 darklight weapons at him on the first turn, only managed to shake a Landraider and immobilize a Razorback.

He shot back, exploded 3 Raiders and a Ravager, two of the Warrior squads that dropped out pinned themselves! Still it helped me get into the tournament frame of mind since I made sure not to give up and managed to claw things back to where I had destroyed or disabled over 1/2 of his army.

Love the look and the progress on the kabalite skewers.

Never seen anyone do such amazing painting on the sprue...

Sounds like you had a good time at your tournament. That's the most important part. Tweaking your list and play style will come with time.

Great as usual on the trueborn, and good luck at the tournament!

weathering is beautiful
highlights are very straight and even
nothing not to like about your painting

I was actually a bit surprised at how excited I was to stick the last model to it's base and complete the army for the tournament. I started this army just a couple weeks shy of a year ago and it feels really good to have completed this long term goal ! Really appreciate all the comments and support everyone has been giving!

I'm actually using almost everything I've painted except for the Scourges (who will feature in an Incubi heavy build), a handful of Hellions and a few Reavers. So it seems like my discipline held pretty well. But I'm now really looking forward to painting some other Dark Eldar miniatures without the tournament looming over me!

Those are some really nice Dark elder

Cool, glad you got them done. It is a great feeling having all your stuff finished. Although that feeling usually comes to me at 3am the morning of a tournament. lol

Gotta love a hard deadline for keeping you focused... well done Jon. Best of luck in your tournament.

Good look at the tournament, you've put so much hard work into this you should insta-win!

Awesome stuff bro. I really like the symbols painted on your hulls, I think I'm going to do something similar with my vehicles.

Whats the list that you're taking to this tournament?

I just checked GW, and some of your models are on there (the jet bikes). Congratulations!

Good luck with the tournament
Happy Soul Hunting!

I'm leaving for the Day 1 of the Tournament in 20 minutes! Couldn't wait till after the tournament to get started on some new stuff so I painted up a test Incubus. I wasn't too sure of the horned heads because of the Chaos vibe so I was saving up the plumed Warrior heads for this. Let me know what you think.

Looking good for a test unit. The idea of changing their helms from the horned to the plumed variant is also a great idea.

Looking at the sword though, the blue runes seem to get lost due to the prevalence of that colour throughout the model. Maybe using the same that's in the eyes would help break up the colour a bit. Other than that, the level of pigment on the sword is "just right". Paint them all like this one (with different coloured runes) and you have another winner of a unit on your hands.

P.S.: break a leg during that tournament.

I think it'd still be cool to see your style on a horned Incubi. Think of it more as trophies from the baddest mother they killed, maybe an initiation, and not a mutation.

Day 1 of the tournament is done! I did surprisingly well and am at two wins and a draw right now going into Day 2! But the coolest thing might have been finding out from my opponents and the other players there that my mini's were featured on GW's Facebook page! I was getting congratulated all over the place . Would be really cool to get some comments from DakkaDakka on there !

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.316731285008375.98741.172179092796929&type=3

@whalemusic360: That's actually a neat idea! I might settle on one unit of plumed Incubi and one unit of horny ones.

@Dark_Gear: You're right, I think I'll give green a try. I'm just a bit concerned about them looking too plastic!

Congrats Jon! Good to hear you're doing well man, particularly with such a beautiful army and kind of unconventional list. Fingers crossed for a painting award too man!

I won Best Painted (or Best Servitor as it's known here) and Best General at the tournament!



To be clear though, Best General doesn't mean I won the tournament. It's a somewhat unique award here in Hong Kong for the person who killed the most victory points and gave up the least! So, I guess you could say that I was playing in character and ignored the objectives in favor of causing the most pain ! I was really surprised since usually the Best General is someone who is at least in the Top 3! I almost did manage 3rd place but couldn't roll the 4+ I needed for the game to continue! Still, a very successful tournament overall that was lots of fun!

Congrat's Jon, well deserved!

Best painted? Eh, considering how utterly gorgeous your Dark Eldar are, that's pretty much a given.

Well done on your tourney results though, really excellent. Any hope for batreps, or even brief overview/summaries?

Wow! Excellent result Jon. I imagined Best Painted would nearly be a given (as your army is clearly beautiful), but best general too and ~4th place!
Really well done man, all the hard work has clearly paid off.

What's next on the to-do list? Incubi and...?

Congratulations, and excellent work! I am glad you had a good time at the tournament!

Congrats Jon, fantastic achievement!

How do you do the damage effect on the armour? It looks fantastic. And congratulations on the trophies.

congrats!

First time I've seen this thread - brilliant work - subscribed.

Congrats man
I'll be back home in HK over the Christmas break
might I have the honor of playing against you?