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Vitruvian XVII: Thank you for your compliments! I shall have more pictures up tonight!

Foxtale: Yeah I felt the same, it now has a series of symbols that are the scarab prince's own bastardization of the dark eldar runic system. The runes spell "Shark of Sand".



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Here's an update of what took me around half an hour to do... not a lot, still have to undercoat and paint the metal parts, the crew and apply a small wash to the recesses between armour plates to add depth.
Yeah I said armour plates... AV10 anyone? No? Didn't think so.






The Sand Shark is a raider built at the founding of the corsair party and has served the pirates through many battles. It has had many lives and many resurrections. As the Scarab Prince is too proud to have anything in disrepair, this raider has been salvaged from complete destruction on many occasions, being scavenged from the battlefield and reassembled/built. It's twin "Eye of All" was a raider built at the same time and purchased together with the Sand Shark, the twin was stolen however after a raid went awry on a small imperial outpost. It was taken by human hands and stripped for a better understanding of parts. The Mon-Keigh only realized their fate with the souls of thirteen tormented psychics were released from its hull. The curse of the Prince stripped flesh from bone and soul from body. Some, still alive on the outpost moon have said to have seen the face of the Prince in the reflective surfaces of crater pools, claiming he will return to take back what was his.

Imperials huh, you can tell them a hundred times, don't touch that thing, it will hurt I promise and they never listen.

Guess who just ordered some hellions from the webway? Ten to be exact, a nice round number, perfect for terror tactics.

I 'm looking forward to more updates, your army surely looks nice!

Really like the bone colour on the raider, the blue flags also contrast nice with it.

the free hands stuning. epic work man

Beautiful. You've got some mad skills.

Thank you all for your comments! such positivity goes down well!

I've got the trueborn on the painting table atm and I'm about halfway through. I'm a very slow model painter. Which is kinda weird when I can produce a painting on canvas as tall as I am in one whole day...

MUST get better warhammer habbits!

Your raider looks great. Love all the freehand designs. I think you should do some mandrakes. They would be like sandmen

You know how awesome that idea is? You're a legend...

InventionThirteen wrote:You know how awesome that idea is? You're a legend...

LOL. Thanks. I occasionally have good ideas. Unfortunatly they arent always good. I have had some pretty bad ones...

The Raider is looking really good. The armour plating looks great in those colours. And the banner looks awesome now!

I'm not sold on the rear fin though. The blue contrasts too harshly with the rest of the raider, I think.

Nice freehand, can't wait to see more.

Bone is a surprisingly nice colour for dark eldar
why didnt i think of that haha

@foxtale The "engine" at the back is going to be the same metallic purple as the weapons with exhaust staining. Hopefully this tones down the contrast as I realize what you mean

Nice.

Just nice, I'm working my way towards building my own DE Kabal as well, when I can get the funds together

I considered a light paintjob, (though from what I've got running through my head I don't think it'll fit my fluff ), but it's come together really nice. Don't get lazy and stop posting! This is some quality stuff ^^

Also, from NZ? Good man. It's good to see us kiwis getting recognition such as being on the GW site! Thumbs to you, kind sir.

I will be following. Interesting paint scheme. I like it.

@ExarchCain Yeah man, from west auckland! I will be posting for as long as this army is mine, right through to updated fluff and battle reports. Keep your eyes peeled to this thread.
If you need help coming up with a colour scheme feel free to P.M me some of the fluff, I'm an art student and I'm used to visualizing colours/theme. I felt a light scheme was a better option as while they may be dark and evil in nature I really don't believe they should wear it like a costume. I mean what's more scary than seeing something you think you recognize (perhaps from contact with craftworlders) change before your eyes into a blood-thirsty killing machine? If you're local we should have a game!


@Happygrunt and many many awesome others! Thank you for the positive feedback!

Haha a Westie eh? Brilliant, seen the West's house yet??? D:

Lol anyway, I'm actually from Tauranga

And yeah man I may take you up on that offer, I'm an artist myself, though I'm more into pencil drawing than anything else, and haven't been there for a while. I'll hit you up when I've got some of the fluff made up, but I think in the end I might just go with what I'm looking for myself

And that's understandable, it's come out really nice, also you don't have to show dark colours to portray 'evilness' I mean, bone white? That in itself could learn an enemy to fear you. Armour made from the bone of countless captives, perhaps?

Yeah man, the west's house is in Te Atatu about 5mins from where I live!

As for tauranga... its waaaaay too far even to traverse the webway to...

Just put together my brother's ork trukk, vowed never to put together such pure sheet ever again! I must say its the worst kit I've ever had to build. YUCK!

Very nice work

The hellion gang has arrived today, going to take my time and assemble them!

Had the privilege of teaching someone to play warhammer 40k today! Had a really good time, cups of tea and confusion reigned supreme!

The Hellions proved amazing arriving from reserve and helping out the archon and incubi in assault. All in all great day. May have a new member of the warhammer cult!

Just a quick update for those who are following. I have had a week of migraine headaches and haven't got a lot done. But I am working on a ten man hellion squad that can split down into two five man teams, lelith hesperax, a unit of ten wyches and a new model of the scarab prince, this time with a blast pistol and a stun claw agoniser. This is a nod to his connections (having risen from hellion to his place in kabalite society). I will be updating the fluff as a few things have changed as the army has come together.

They now hail from Shaa-dom and were exiled before the realm's demise and have a distinct hatred of vect. Their base of operations is a vast asteroid cluster in the Nhexite Shipmaw and they are currently at war with an ork infestation on the planet "Backdraw", an isolated and desolate, desert wasteland world with nothing much to offer but bloodshed and desperation. The scarab prince took his title as head of the kabal when he murdered his blood brother Ometh and took his place. The kabal has limited resources, this is due to their exile, not wealth. The steady supply of slaves and stolen, black market goods keeps them in the game and they push their product through a vast abandoned imperial outpost that they call "Khafum Mahdum" or more commonly known as "The Shade Halls". This place is run by the kabal's trueborn and the Shade Guard watch over dealings with human mercenaries, thugs and alien bounty hunters and thieves. Cyrax maintains contact with the Duke Sliscus and the corsairs have often served as paid skirmish experts for the Sky Serpents when the need arises. The scarab prince has also purchased the services of his old hellion gang "The Black Locusts" and through their knowledge of Commorragh's aristocracy often plans terrorist raids into the webway city, killing members of the Black Heart and dispersing into real-space before retribution. Recently the great Leltith Hesperax caught talk of the corsairs and has paid, in full, to borrow elements of the Prince's kabal for the capture of ork nobility for her arena shows, as they are familiar with both Backdraw's landscape and ork tactics. This has created a symbiotic relationship between the wych cults and the corsairs.

Good fluff. I like how they hate my kabal. Lol. The only thing I have in criticism is that orks have no tactics, there is only WAAAAAGH!

Haha that is my point

Can't wait to see the Hellions, I haven't seen them in a light colour yet so very curious!

Well although the lelith sculpt is amazing the metal model truely sucks. The arms are small and trying to glue the joints together is a real b****. The dagger arm lost the bottom of the dagger's hilt as the joint is tiny and pathetically weak and on top of that none of the joints match up properly. Come on games workshop, plastic characters are where it should be. The dark eldar range kicks ass. Why can't the materials?

On a side note regarding the metal characters the new Archon model is amazingly awesome...

InventionThirteen wrote:Well although the lelith sculpt is amazing the metal model truely sucks. The arms are small and trying to glue the joints together is a real b****. The dagger arm lost the bottom of the dagger's hilt as the joint is tiny and pathetically weak and on top of that none of the joints match up properly. Come on games workshop, plastic characters are where it should be. The dark eldar range kicks ass. Why can't the materials?

On a side note regarding the metal characters the new Archon model is amazingly awesome...

Yeah the Lilith model is a I have to get a new one as mine is all sorts of messed up. The knife arm for mine did break and the model is impossible to file down well. You have got the right idea with the plastic models. I wouold even settle for resin ones. I like the archon as well. Its so easy to convert. You think the Hellion HQ will be plastic or metal? Or both? Metal person and a standard plastic skyboard?

I hope the baron is plastic. Metal and flying stands don't go well together. I managed to get lelith to co-operate. She's a stroppy one. Thinking of a plastic archon conversion for the scarab prince with different wargear. Perhaps from a wych to show his athletic prowess?