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I had made a prior attempt at customized Warp Spiders (finding the monopose metal/Finecast ones old and boring, even if they're still pretty good looking for their age), but I made the mistake of assembling them entirely before painting. At the time I was still learning my airbrush, so this made the paintjob terrible and messy. I also didn't like how those heads came out, so when doing these replacements for them, I decided to use some different heads.

The parts are:
-Eldar Guardians
-Dark Eldar Reaver Jetbike heads
-Warp Spider backpack and gun pieces

Feedback and commentary of all types is welcome. Thanks!

The effects you've pulled off on the helms look amazing. Bases look great, too. I really like 'em.

I love the (metal) WS models, but what you've done here is simply superb.

The colour scheme is really ethereal.

Great conversions, great scheme, great set of minis! Love the helmet effect!

Nice, I love those helmets. Apparently a lot of other people do. Were you able to find them affordably on eBay? Last time I looked someone wanted $5 per helmet.

 Cave_Dweller wrote:
Nice, I love those helmets. Apparently a lot of other people do. Were you able to find them affordably on eBay? Last time I looked someone wanted $5 per helmet.

I had recently completed a project using the Dark Eldar jetbikes as a base that used different heads, so I didn't need to buy any of them. That's part of the reason why the squad numbers 8 members, though (the other being that I rarely field more than 8 Spiders in a unit for some reason).

 monders wrote:
I love the (metal) WS models, but what you've done here is simply superb.

The colour scheme is really ethereal.

Agreed. Great conversions, good bases, and a paint scheme thats almost disturbing in subtlety.

I love the helmets most, the visors have a milky / self contained atmosphere feel to them that remind me of Tali from the Mass Effect series. Brilliant models overall but this really takes them to the next level.