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Made in au
Sneaky Striking Scorpion






Pavei delicately extended his chain arm, placing lightly the small watch-cog that would make this entire piece run. He gave it a small spin and watched his handiwork come to life. Whirring cogs spun more cogs, dropping weights and swinging pendulums. It was perfectly balanced. Now it would never stop moving, so long as it itself moved. He smiled as the cogs interfaced with the nerves, so that every movement would bring spasms of pain to the hulk of a man 'strapped' into it. To not move would pinch a nerve and so cause a burst of such exquisite agony as to render the subject moving again.

The haemonculus stepped back to admire his handiwork. The man glared at him with a look of pure hatred. That was good. Pavei let the feelings of hate wash over him like a cool Spring shower. He shivered. It was almost too much. He heard a clear clicking noise, signalling that the clockwork signals had reached the man's brain. "Stand," Pavei commanded.

The man said nothing. His vocal tract had been removed early in the process when Pavei had gotten tired of listening to the space marine's litanies. Instead, Pavei smiled as small tuning plates resonated at his vocal frequency, picking up individual phonemes and dropping pins within the spined backplates of the new pain engine. Each pin pierced the victim, even as it translated the words into commands. Signals pulled wires, which tweaked electro-generators within the pilot's brain. The brain directed the engine to stand.

"Now you are perfect, toy. Walk over there and stand with the others," Pavei said, gesturing to a corner of the warehouse filled with other similar engines. "I will come and play with you when I am ready."

He turned to the second marine, held in an energy field to the wall, and drew out a small set of face paints and a brush with two chain arms. "Now tell me, what would you like me to make you?"
Pavei is my first haemonculus, a being of pure childish glee. He is the prime Tinker of his coven, and the one with the privilege of creating new Pain Engines. His spine has been elongated into a spiked tail, and he has implanted both an extra pair of arms, and two pairs of chain-arms which have different attachments depending on his preference (for war, painting, or construction).

He is constructed from a High Elf Island of Blood Mage body, kabalite arms/gun, wood elf head, wych arms and razorflails, chains from the Raider, and knives/potions from the Kroot. On looking at the photos, I realise I still have a little bit of highlighting to do on his potion bottles. I'm not satisfied with his face either. I need to define his mouth more. The arms are removable, so that I can swap them out (I'm planning a shattershard arm made with a real mirror shard, as well as a WWP arm, and a liquifier arm).



Now that I'm done him, I have a choice of what I do next...
- Paint Wracks
- Paint Beastmasters
- Construct and paint Khymerae
- Construct and paint Grotesques

What should I do?

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2011/03/31 23:57:28


   
Made in us
Longtime Dakkanaut






Charleston, SC

Haemonculus looks good. I vote for Grotesques.

   
Made in gb
The Hammer of Witches





cornwall UK

I like the green worly thing he is standing on - and the fluff story floats my sado-masochistic boat

   
Made in au
Daring Dark Eldar Raider Rider






Looks great, nice change from other hammies, still twisted, but not hellraiser twisted

Only gripe would be the head...the hood just looks a little off...is it greenstuff?

   
Made in us
Dakka Veteran





Escanaba Mi

Good use of green on the base and I agree with Vanq the hood is a little off. Maybe some better definition of the face to contrast the hood a bit?
   
Made in au
Sneaky Striking Scorpion






Ahhh still not happy with that Haemie. Perhaps my Talos bits will help me make one I like.

Just got my penultimate Maelstrom order:
- 4 x Scourge Boxes
- Venom
- Wyches
- Talos

From those I have already constructed:
- 10 Scourges
- 5 Trueborn (5 more coming)
- 5 Bloodbrides (5 more coming)
- Talos
- Trueborn Venom

Still on my 'to paint' list is:
- All of the above
- 10 Wracks
- 5 Corsair Incubi
- Corsair Archon
- 5 Beastmasters
- 10 Various Beasts
- Urien Rakarth

Still to construct:
- Talos from scraps
- 4 Grotesques
- Wrack Raider

I'll try and get some more work done on them, but my time is limited at the moment and I don't know how much I'll be able to devote to this for a while.

   
Made in au
Daring Dark Eldar Raider Rider






I wish I had gotten Scourges with my last order now...how well, it wasn't too be (hopefully this means my order is soon to arrive too yay!)

Can't wait to see the pics

   
Made in au
Sneaky Striking Scorpion






Ah! I wish I'd bought another six boxes of Scourges now. They're such an ease to put together, and they look incredible. Easily my favourite model from the new range, and I want to make a 'counts-as Hellions' Baron army now with them.

That said, I have become enamoured with the Razorwing Jetfighter, and have been working on painting it.



I have now constructed everything I need to. I have two Talos, 4 Grotesques and my Wrack Raider is done.

Now for painting the lot of it.

   
Made in au
Daring Dark Eldar Raider Rider






Very interesting pattern! I like it

Freehand or stencil?

I want a Razorwing now :( lol

   
Made in nz
Twisted Trueborn with Blaster





New Zealand

Excellent work with the razorwing, its looking great!

"Don't worry bro, I got this."

Scarab Prince Corsairs: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/328486.page

Protectorate of Menoth: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/617825.page 
   
Made in au
Sneaky Striking Scorpion






Freehand, Vanq. Sketched it out on a bit of paper first, then painted it straight on and touched it up with dark purple to fix mistakes.

Tenebrae, The Solar Baron Returns wrote:
Lady Askiel regained consciousness slowly. The first thing she noticed was that she knelt on a white wraithbone decking, stripped of all clothing, arms behind her in chains. She had been dressed in a white robe with a golden chain about her waist. A shadow strode before her, its silhouette striking against the crackling green nebula through the viewing panel before her. Behind her, an alien entity in brown robes stood, or perhaps hovered, feeding on her psychic energy and silencing her sorceries.

A faint humming from the floor and walls told Askiel she was in transit on an Eldar ship. The only other sounds in the room came from the tapping of the shadow's feet and a white owl roosting near the window, cleaning its feathers of blood. She looked up as the shadow returned. It knelt down and materialised into an Eldar. "You?" She said, surprised.

The pirate returned her greeting with a polite nod. "Lady Askiel. The pleasure quite clearly belongs to me in our meeting. This is not the first time we have met." The voice spoke through an ivory Dire Avenger helmet and Askiel spotted an Avenger symbol hanging about its waist, but the rest of the pirate's armour was anything but. Black-green armour as heavy as a Scorpion Exarch shifted masterfully as the pirate knelt, and a deep purple coat spread around his legs like warpspider-silk. He appraised her. She knew him.

"Tene'n, what is the meaning of this?" The name sounded odd to her lips. She had not spoken it in decades.

The pirate nodded again, reached up and disconnected its helmet. The roguish grin of her once-student and mate framed eyes that looked back at her with recognition and sadness and... something else. Green electricity sparked behind his black pupils. "My lady," he spoke sarcastically.

"But, you died on Asthaith. I saw it happen." She spoke truth. The chaos incursion had almost taken the maiden world when Tene'n led an army to destroy the artifact corrupting it all. She had seen the armour disintegrate from his body, the flesh stripped away from his face as he pushed to reach it. And when the flash of green corruption engulfed his army, they, he, and it had all vanished. Like turning off the sun, the chaos forces had withered and died once their power anchor did. Askiel's grief at his passing had almost destroyed the survivors, so infectious it was.

"Asthaith was just the beginning. The corruption filled me, and I fought it in my soul. When I awoke, I was alone, surrounded by the twisted corpses of the army. Only a few of us survived the battles within our souls, and we were... changed."

She could sense it about him, even without her seer's senses.

He spoke before she could ask her question. "How did we get here?" He gestured around, "That is another matter entirely. But I have learned certain truths. We Eldar are failing and fading. The universe is so much more than we allow ourselves to experience. What use is life without joy, or sadness," he looked at her for a second in a way that he had once before, "or love."

"My corsairs and I have harnessed that corruption. We need no soul stones, we need not feed from others' pain. We have been to glowing novas and fought through burning space hulks, seen maiden worlds and worlds encasing frozen metal races." As he spoke, Askiel felt the energy change in the room. Her body pushed adrenaline through her veins, she quickened her breathing involuntarily. Tene'n spoke up a frenzy, she found herself agreeing wholeheartedly. "My plans are coming to fruition even now, and soon I will free our entire race from the clutches of She Who Thirsts." He moved closer to her as he said this. "And you are instrumental to my plans."

Askiel wasn't even breathing now. She hardly dared to, lest her breath stop his speech. "What can I do?" She asked, with the faintest of exhalations.

"Simply this," he said, moving close and kissing her. Askiel found her mental guards dropping, her emotions running wild for the first time in years. Elation. Elation and pain. The combination built within her until she succumbed to darkness.

Tene'n stood from her corpse, holding a bloodied knife in his left hand and her heart in his right. "Thank you, Askiel," he said to the still-smiling body of the seer. Blood was spreading to puddle on the floor and the white owl flew to it, stepping back to stay out of the wet, but drinking it where he could. Tene'n went to the intercom, composed himself and once more adopted the identity of Tene'brae, The Solar Baron.

* * *

The memory stopped. Tene'brae put a hand to his chest where his once-love's heart beat next to his own. He felt the dual-drumming and glanced out of the viewing window covering one wall. They were approaching the portal that would take them to the City of Nightmares. He turned to his attendant. "Again," he said, "play it again. This time let me dream it from the start."


((Archon counts as, and Incubi counts as.))

   
Made in au
Daring Dark Eldar Raider Rider






Oh, thats just creepy...awesome fluff

Whats the plan!! I must know

   
Made in au
Sneaky Striking Scorpion






The plan? I guess I should write more fluff to expand on it. For now, new painted models! (I've been busy.)

First up, the Archon in question, the Corsair Captain, The Lord Solar Baron, Tene'brae. This guy was as much a result of my love for the Dire Avenger kit as it was of the concept of a Craftworld-Eldar-turned-Corsair. For some, the rigid discipline of the Craftworlds is not. Those who seek to experience the universe in its entirety lead lives as corsairs. Tene'brae's path has brought him to Commoragh, where he occasionally enlists the help of the Kabal of the Crystal Mantis. Every attack he makes seeks a single artefact. To the Kabal he gives all of the spoils, except this one thing. Some say he is piecing together something out of the artefacts. But none have come close enough to him to find out. He still bears the distinctive right shoulder, knee and boot scheme of his original Craftworld, as well as his helmet.

He uses a DA helmet, guardian legs, cold one rider torso, hellion glaive, wych knife arm converted to hold a gun, high elf lord cloak, and an owl from the wood elf kit.



Next is my completed Razorwing Jetfighter! Not too much different from the WIP and the final. Painted the pilot's gem purple, added guns, and painted the base.



Last up on the Dark Eldar side of things, my first Khymera. I still have to convert up another 8 or so, and paint the other 9, but I figured I'd get a test model worked on first. Of course, once I cut out the Spider faces, I wished that I had just used the Spiders as warp beasts, so pretty they are, and more in theme. Oh well, perhaps when I get moneys I will buy another box of Spider Riders.



And for a bonus round, a Grey Knight I was helping a friend paint. He wanted to do a silver colour scheme, with greeny-blue tinges. I began with Boltgun:Hawk Turquoise 50:50, then Boltgun, then Mithril. I tried to make the scheme easy to replicate, as he isn't a confident or experienced painter.



What do you all think? Does it look Grey Knighty enough?

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Made in au
Daring Dark Eldar Raider Rider






Archon is sweet, the hell-glaive is one of my favorite looking weapons in the new range, looks cool here. Helmet looks a little funky though, not sure if that was the effect your were after or just that the white didn't go on smoothly?

Edge work on the Razorwing is great too, love the blue to green effect.

Very gritty Grey Knight too, any chance of a clearer shot of the blade? Looks like an interesting effect I may want to nick...

   
Made in nz
Twisted Trueborn with Blaster





New Zealand

The warp beast looks amazing!!!

"Don't worry bro, I got this."

Scarab Prince Corsairs: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/328486.page

Protectorate of Menoth: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/617825.page 
   
Made in se
Been Around the Block





Goteborg, Sweden

Like your conversions of harlequins, beasts and the wracks as well.
Don't be affraid of using bright colours no matter what others tell you.
This said, I really like the oily effect you are using.

Looking forward to beastmasters and more harlequins.
And more of those freehands!

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2011/07/22 06:52:46


 
   
Made in au
Sneaky Striking Scorpion






speedfreek wrote:
Looking forward to beastmasters and more harlequins.
And more of those freehands!


You'll like this then. I've just finished painting up all the non-special Harlequins.

I still have to finish the cloaks for my Troupe Master, Deathjester and Shadowseer. But the rest are painted. Should I put up pics now, do you think? Or wait for them all to be done and get a group shot?

And Vanq, I'll try and get a better pic of the blade for you.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2011/09/27 05:13:38


   
Made in se
Been Around the Block





Goteborg, Sweden

With pictures there is a general rule...

The more, the merrier!
   
 
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