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Awesome start to the army best DE I have seen and I have been prompted to get some Hellions now to go with my Mandrakes and Incubi since they look awesome.
What did you use for the Medusae? Can't wait to see more painted.

That paint scheme is so different and well done. Good Work!

Hey Guys! Yep, I'm not dead, just beem really buys. I'd like to say I've been doing loads of painting, but that would be a lie...

Problem is, until recently, I was losing almost every game with the dark eldar. Made it kinda hard to get energized to play. Once I figured out the basis of a "win-able" dark eldar army (an ungodly number of dark lances), things have started looking up for the pointy eared space boogie-men!

here's some stuff I've been working on.


A raider (WIP)- I really wanted my vehicles to have a different color than the warrior armor, as I've seen how bright browns and yellows make the crew disappear. So, purple seemed a good Choice!







Still very much a work in progress, but I felt I was far enough along to glue in the crew. You'll notice a lot of handpainted scenes on the hull. All that blank space, I just had to use it! The murals are all images from Gustave Dore's Woodcut illustrations of 'Dante's Inferno' by Dante Alighieri. Very poignant for a race out of humanity's worst nightmare yes?





The crew's armor were all painted separately. I was rather pleased with myself in being able to reproduce the test model's armor on the crew, as it had been some time since I painted the tester.



Hopefully the effect I was going for came across. Still lots of little details to do, but its coming together nicely. Now if only GW would release some venoms, I want all those little skimmers zooming around the raiders like feeders around a shark!




Lastly, I've been trying to think of something that I can use for pain tokens. I know this is a bit sacrilegious, but Privateer press makes wonderful 'soul tokens' that look part for the "Power from Pain" tokens.




I promise I'll have more out, no more month long hiatus'!

I love the pain tokens, and the freehand on the vehicle is fantastic.

More please!

You sir should be in art school if you haven't/aren't already. Your colour schemes follow great colour theory and your free hand is stunning.

Incredible! Tour free hand is some of the best I have seen! Need more now!!

Looks amazing :-)

Gads that raider is amazing, no not amazing; the best vehicle i've ever seen! I now hate all my Dark Eldar, congratuations

Just incredible. Exquisite craftsmanship.

These are fantastic - it's so nice to see original ideas AND great modelling/poses AND well chosen colours AND smooth blending AND beautifully executed freehand work all in the same place. I am terribly terribly jealous. The freehand on the Raider is particularly nice.

The artwork on the hull is AMAZING!!

really good job

Are the sails going to stay plain orange, or will they have some artwork on them too??

Beautiful stuff. If I could paint like that, I'd start collecting DE right now.

Beautiful! I love the colour scheme. Keep up the awesome work!

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great painting skills here,i like the mandrake bleeding from the shadows looks awesome.

Damn. Just damn.

Your creativity is a joy to behold. The standard of painting, the free handing, the poses of the models the "outside the box" approach to coming out of a wall. What an interesting army you are going to have when it's done.

I tip my hat to you sir and am quite happy to wait for another month for another update such as this.

Great work on everything model poses paint schemes and paint jobs .

Pure. Utter. Creativity is what we have here, Dakkites! I love the freehand, and the choice of the purpleish gray for the skimmers body looks great with the amber colored Armour of the crew!

_Tim?

Awesome stuff....

Just out of interest Barghesi can play with DE?

Thanks gents for all the kind comments!

invention13- I'm half way through a BFA (bachelor of fine arts) right now, so yeah, I guess I qualify!

Doggles-

Willfrost- I was thinking screaming faces in the cloth, yeah?

Skylifter- practice bro, practice.

Taffiarti- hopefully it doesn't take that long

tim?- cheers. I had just finished a rather bland and tiresome Space wolf army commission (If I never paint another grey marine, I'll die happy), so when I began DE, I really wanted to lavish lots of time and attention on them.

Manoknok- Not rules wise, though I just assume slyth-th...th are same stats wise as a barghesi. The codex does mention them though, as fighting in the wych arenas I think?

Nice, I'm in my last year of a BDVA Check it out if you like, those artworks are from my first and second year... http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/The-Art-Of-Ashley-Grimm/172951672341


It's great hearing that other artists find the time to enjoy this hobby too.

That raider is absolutley awesome. The free hand is just stunnning

Fantastic work... from the painting and artwork to the ingenuity... i love the pain tokens and can't wait to see them painted up and the model coming out of the shadows... amazing. can't wait to see it fully painted.

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Screaming faces sounds cool

Awesome, beautfiul painting, conversion and basing!!

Ok, I've got a little more time now. I just wanted to say what incredible work this is. Those murals on the airship are amazing. How long have you been painting on this scale?

Love all the customisation, modelling and the painting.

Can't wait to see a unit finished painting with the water effects on the bases.

Cheers

I missed the WIP raider update

Very nice as standard with your work. The purple really contrasts nicely with the yellows. Nice use of free hand and a good idea with the subject matter. In the first picture of the raider the sail looks quite crimson, which I think works a little better that the orange. Still excellent stuff and I'm looking forward to seeing it finished...but what I really want to see is how you paint the mandrakes.



Peter

little bit of an update!

built a duke sliscus conversion, and wowee does the duke rock, esp. Against tyranids!



Was really unimpressed with how my archon looked compared to the rest of the hq figs I've done. I wanted the archon to look unique, like he had wargear no-one had seen before.





Also started work on the incubi!



And last but not least, lelith gets to take her place among the dark eldar elite of the deeper well!

whats that brown orange stuff that you use?