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Nice work on the freehand! Can't wait to see it finished, what colour are you planning on making the sail?

Love the freehand. Looks very mysticy. Can't wait to see what you do with the rest of the raider

Thanks for the niceties, guys.

Vanq wrote:Nice work on the freehand! Can't wait to see it finished, what colour are you planning on making the sail?

I'm not sure. I was going to do one of those hexagon patterns that fade from front to back, but I don't know if it will be too busy, what with the freehand. Suggestions?

Taking on MajorTom and Darth Bob's suggestions to darken the wracks. You guys were right. They look a lot darker and more menacing now. I couldn't bring myself to paint his wrist-guards bronze. I'd like at least one thing on them to be painted like my Warriors.

Now to order a box of Flaggelants from Maelstrom and get a full squad of these guys. I'll have three Flaggelant bodies left over. I could maybe use them for Raider passenger conversions, if no one has any better suggestions.

Comparison New and Old below:::

Certainly more evil looking. I like it, but again I liked the other too hahaha

It almost looks like he has a tabbard...maybe you could paint that middle part blue to match your warriors? Or even add another layer of cloth there?

For the sail, hex patterns would look awesome, I remember seeing one similar here. Looks suitably high tech.

I'm personally going to have a crack at making the sail look like its a solar "panel" of sorts.

Flat contrasting colour seems to work well too...depends what the main colour of the raider is going to be

Black looks waaaaaAay better IMO. Much more menacing.

Just ordered a box of Flagellants from Maelstrom, so soon I will have Wracks!

Also, my second Raider and squad of Warriors arrived in the mail. I've already put the Kabalites together (and undercoated) and the Raider is constructed enough to use in games now. For the Kabalites, I decided to go with a slightly different approach to Sybarite, but I'll wait until it's painted to show you all.

Raider is done. For the Raider, I used a mix of freehand that I saw on Gonders' work over on Warseer, and the honeycomb pattern for the sail that is so popular on Warseer at the moment. I thought it would look too cluttered, but I think the effect works well. I converted the hangers-on to look more like my Warriors, with the Sybarite hanging off the front ready to be the first into the fray. I've snipped off the ball-joint stand and replaced it with some heavy magnets. Already I love it more, as it's not constantly tipping over.

Very nice foxtale. The aethersail pattern came out great! All the freehand designs on the armour look great as well. Keep up the good work

very impressive, awesome work

Love the hexpattern on the sail, awesome touch on an overall pretty good mini.

That raider is just awsome, i'm subscribed

Awesome! Love the sail, the pattern is tops. Did you have a template or just did it by eye?

Great selection of colors and amazing scribbles that look freehanded.

I like the theme you have going, what was the inspiration for a crystal mantis?

Vanq wrote:Awesome! Love the sail, the pattern is tops. Did you have a template or just did it by eye?

Yeah, Kamsm8 over on Warseer used the pattern, though I've seen it used before him by someone else. I just did it by eye. Admittedly, I did it at 4am, so it's not done very well. Next raider will be different.

1-i wrote:Great selection of colors and amazing scribbles that look freehanded.

Thanks And thanks for all the comments, everyone else. sum1, I'm glad the freehand worked out. I was worried about that.

I like the theme you have going, what was the inspiration for a crystal mantis?

The idea of a mantis suits the Dark Eldar so well. As an insect species, they hunt by waiting patiently, judging for the perfect moment, planning. Then in a lightning strike they lash out and capture their prey. They then hold their prey fast while their mandibles and sharp jaws omnom them like an old dial-up connection loads an image. Through the whole thing, the victim is alive and helpless, as the mantis feeds on it.

I thought this style of attack suited the Taloi or Chronoi best, but then realised it applies well to a Dark Eldar mindset as well. As for crystal? I wanted a second word, that was a green stone. I was close to calling it the Kabal of the Jade Mantis, but that sounded too Eastern (not quite the DE aesthetic) and Crystal worked alliteration-wise.

Been working on a Haemonculus converted from the Island of Blood mage. The front part of the body works so perfectly for this. I love the model. I want more!!! Anyways, I used chains from the Raider, and razorflails from the wyches (one with a minor hand swap), a head from Wood Elves. Some sculpting necessary, and added a backbone with wire and GS. First time using wire in this way. Hurrah!

I also wanted to show you all my WIP of my second Warrior squad. Since every Sybarite has a banner, but I wanted to give this one a phantasm GL, I gave him a 2IC to carry his banner.

Haemy looks fantastic, as do the warriors.

Really great pose on that haemonculus, but not so sure on the arc of the two razorflails above his head. Something's just a bit off there. Perhaps if you bent one of them on a slightly more horizontal plane, so that their arcs didn't match so closely?

Really nice work on the rest of the thread too. The oily paintjob is great!

Thats a load of great looking stuff, the wracks look awesome in black, glad my suggestion was of help to you!

Mother looks amazing. She is by far the coolest Haemonculi conversion I have seen.

Nice work on the Haemonculus. Warriors look good too!

Nice heamoculus! Is he sportin a hex rifle?

These dark eldar have got the funk!

Great stuff. Love the Wracks in particular

i see you are also using the IoB mage as a base for a Hemonoculus. did you get that idea from my Plog, or come up with it independently? (great minds think alike?)

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/346110.page

i like your stuff! i wish there were more DE Plogs - the new range is just so awesome!

Lovin the rifle, looks deadly! Keep up the amazing work!

Savnock wrote:Really great pose on that haemonculus, but not so sure on the arc of the two razorflails above his head. Something's just a bit off there. Perhaps if you bent one of them on a slightly more horizontal plane, so that their arcs didn't match so closely?

I tried that, but the way it is, it frames his head much better. Originally, it was him holding them up there as a halo-ish sort of backspire. It was never really intended to be him swinging them.

MajorTom11 wrote:Thats a load of great looking stuff, the wracks look awesome in black, glad my suggestion was of help to you!

It was indeed. We shall see how the Wracks all look once I get my full squad done.

Rabid Ferret wrote:Mother looks amazing. She is by far the coolest Haemonculi conversion I have seen.

Why thank you.

sum1thtdiesalot wrote:Nice heamoculus! Is he sportin a hex rifle?

That he is. I plan on magnetising the arms so I can switch out a few different weapon options.

catharsix wrote:i see you are also using the IoB mage as a base for a Hemonoculus. did you get that idea from my Plog, or come up with it independently? (great minds think alike?)

I wish there were more Plogs too. I try and keep track of every one of them. (I somehow missed yours.) Yeah, I came up with it independently. Though I love the look of yours. It's such a good base, isn't it? Our two are so varied from one another's, yet they used the same base.

Hoping this doesn't auto-append.

I grabbed my camera and took a few happy snaps after I finished the second warrior squad. (4 hours in total: 12midnight to 4am watching Dexter s4 in the background.)

Quite a few updated pics. First of all, my second Kabalite squad. I now feel comfortable playing games. Though I'll be happier once my Wracks are done. This pushes my points up to around 800 for the army.



As you can see, each Sybarite has his own banner image, all parts from the main banner design.

I experimented with a different blue colouring on the back potions. Which do you guys prefer? The new on the left or old on the right? (Black one still needs varnish added, and other details I was too lazy to do last night.)

I really like the banner carrier. I think it adds a lot to plop this guy on an objective marker and just be able to say, "See this objective? It's mine now."

Now for more pics properly colour-balanced now that I can use photoshop and macro.

Of the chronos


and the wyches


and finally, my entire army in all its evil glory.


(And one last pic of something I'm working on right now...)

I might change those poles holding them up to be a thin rod rather than the thick one that exists as is.

Looks great Foxtale. You mind If I steal that standard bearer idea? I love the way that looks. Razorwing flock is looking pretty sweet as well. Keep up the good work

The army looks nice placed together! Can't wait to see it grow!

Very menacing, love the scratch-Haemonculi.

The banners are fantastic though, love the individual squad runes...I might steal that idea too!

sum1thtdiesalot wrote:Looks great Foxtale. You mind If I steal that standard bearer idea? I love the way that looks. Razorwing flock is looking pretty sweet as well. Keep up the good work

I know! It works so well! (I just used a gun-gripping hand to hold the banner).

Further updates: I've nearly finished off the Wrack squad. All I need is some more pvc tubing to make the hanging poison jars. I'll have that soon enough, I imagine. Anyone know a good place to buy it? The wrack with the dot mask is my favorite.

First grotesque is also at a WIP stage now. Pinning was oh so helpful in his construction. I'm trying to follow the book as much as possible.

(Apologies for photo quality. This was a quick happy snap of the WIP greens.)