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Stunning as always.
My favourite part - the smooth faceplate.
I want all my Grotesque heads to look like that.
ALL OF THEM

 Mechanicum Jon wrote:
Here's the one I'm most pleased with, almost looks like it could go on the back of White Dwarf doesn't it ?

Absolutely! Or the front, or anywhere inside....

Pretty cool bit o' photography there Jon!

Awesome! Nice to see some out of the box miniature photography.

Could definitely hold its own in white dwarf, that's for sure! Wait, was that a hint?

Amazing photo, sort of want to start painting my dark eldar, but i have other plans for those guys

Young Logan

Very nice picture!

Would you mind sharing the army list for this 500p army?
Simply because it looks really cool^^

Gaaaah, why don't I check this thread more often?

Awesome army photo! Good luck with the display!

 Mechanicum Jon wrote:

Love it, really like what you've done with the Rat Ogres.

Been working on some Raider crew but it's slow going. I've realized that I'm much more motivated when I can look forward to a paint job making a visible difference on the tabletop and when I play games with my DE never notice whether a particular flying boat has crew or not! So why am I painting crew? Because the Raiders look much better on display that way and if there's one thing my Dark Eldar enjoy more than a successful raid it's looking pretty on a shelf .

@Ovion: Ask around you local FLGS, my feeling (based on a sample size of 3) is that most people build Talos models instead of Chronos models and should have spare masks lying around.

@Arakasi & Casey's Law: A WD appearance would be fun but unfortunately that post wasn't a hint of any sort!

@Gitsplitta & Squidbot: Thanks !

@Young_Logan: Care to share those other plans?

@IPS: The list is almost exactly WYSIWYG (depending on whether you consider the twin blade arm Grot to be an acceptable Scissorhand) roughly: Haemonculus w/ Venom Blade, Six Grotesques including an Abberation w/Scissorhand, two units of three Wracks, Talos w/ Chain flails, Additional CCW & Twin Linked Haywire Blaster.

@Squigsquasher: I'd recommend a weekly check for better health, wealth and happiness.

Well @Mechanicum Jon i'm going to make an exodite force with haemonculus style corsair allies detachment after i've finished my death guard and wolves using high elf parts (i know its normally DE or WE but i want to try something a little different). Dragons as planes, skiffs and riders as jet bikes etc

Young Logan

That is ridiculous. SOme day soon, I'm going to burn my DE.

I hate you.

INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, don't burn it!
Give it to me, I'll give it a good home.

Good plan on the Talos thing.
Unfortunately I think the one guy locally who had actual Talos models moved to scotland... xD

Progress update on the Raider crews. They win the most boring award because if you paint all the crew for the Raiders and Ravagers in your army, instead of having a couple of new squads fighting on the table you just have them standing on boats. Forever.

Pop quiz for observant readers of this blog:
One of the heads on the models below is recycled from another model I fully painted and then decided to use a different head for (this decision process is all on the blog). What was the original model?
First to respond correctly gets a (virtual) pain token. Note: May not actually give you a 5+ Feel No Pain save .



@Young_Logan: I've also seen Dark Elf Cold One Riders used to good effect as Exodite Beastmasters or Jetbikes.

@Urien_Rakarth: The last time that many Eldar were burned it gave rise to Slannesh. So maybe you'll get a new Chaos Daemons army out of this .

@Ovion: If Ravagers and planes weren't such a necessity I think GW would have sold a lot more Talos models. I hardly ever see any being used over here either.

I don't think I actually have any dedicated Ravagers... xD
I've used them a couple of times, and just stuck warriors with lances on the sides to represent the extra guns

I think if Talos weren't £28 each, and the Covens weren't between roughly £60-100 a unit otherwise, they might be more popular!

But hey, I can always look on a bitz site (or buy my own actual Talos *gasp*) and cast that helmet.

- Also, was it an Archon conversion?

I only just came across this thread a few days ago and have been trying to catch up on all the awesome. Your colour scheme is gorgeous and your painting is awesome.

I wanted to start a DE army before I found this thread, and you aren't helping my willpower to resist.

 Mechanicum Jon wrote:

I really want to see a diorama with these four. The two on the left playing stacked sythesyzer keyboards and the two on the right playing XBox together.

aaaaand done! To me they look like two guys with PS3 controllers and two guys playing Kinect . For the answer to the pop quiz: the recycled head was the one on the far right, from my original Incubi concept.



Now time to think about some objective markers.

@Mechanicum Jon: I knew it! Didn't post fast enough though. Nobody else guessed it though, so pain token for me?

I was rummaging through my bits box thinking about what to use for Dark Eldar objective markers. I found that the problem with a lot of Dark Eldar bits is that they're quite delicate so don't really show up well on a base unless you pile them up. But it didn't seem very in character for Kabalites to leave little piles of equipment lying around like dirty laundry . So I turned to Google image search for inspiration and found that I liked the idea of using the trophy poles that come with DE vehicles. They're tall enough to show up on the table and look great with the addition of a few chains and additional trophies. These could also double as pain tokens if objectives aren't needed.



@Terminado907: Sure, enjoy your (imaginary) 5+ FNP save (HAEMONCULUS GENERAL'S WARNING: Lascannons Cause Instant Death)!

You know that saying "Less is more"?

Well, you've just shown that you know how to use to great effect with these simple and evocative objective markers.

I agree. Elegent... simple. Perfect as is.

They look pretty good to me

Nice, simple, they fit with your army. One suggestion, on my onbjectives i've made them so that you can fit the mysterious objective marker dice into them, I don't know how well it would fit with them but it might be something to do in a future project.

Young Logan

So here's one done! Turned out quite well I think. I decided to rust up the chains to give a bit more color on the spears. Having both silver chains and silver spearheads looked a little samey.



Glad everyone seems to like the "simple but elegant" approach (if that can be said about skulls on a pole)!

@Young_Logan: Good idea, I'm thinking about how to incorporate a dice holder into the rocks of another objective.

Finished painting the second objective marker. The greenish tinge to the severed head was particularly effective, although it was difficult to make it noticeable without being comically green. If I ever paint up some zombies I'll definitely remember this color combination. My color mixture for this greenish skin was a tiny bit of Scorpion Green with Deneb Stone. Any bright green with a light beige would probably work as well (I know my colors are out of date but I stocked up on some essentials before the recent Citadel switch so I haven't really tried the new paints ).

looking good mate

Really like the way those came out Jon. Clean and sharp... very focused. Excellent work.

I think I've commented here before but this is one of my favourite P&M blogs.

It inspired me to start my own Dark Eldar army, but then I realized i didn't have the money for yet another army. So I stole your colour scheme for your bases. They really help tie a force together.

Looking forward to the next post!

I love how the alien head is just a very slightly different colour, the almost purple-cream rather than the brown-cream of human skulls. Lovely details, and a fantastic texture on the top of the skulls as well. How did you do that?