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[crazyg1zm0]

Originally Posted by Smellyhead

Can anyone recommend a good HQ choice for Dark Eldar?

I've got a £25 voucher to spend on their online store.. and I can't decide what to get.
I was thinking some Scourges (£15.50) so I've £9.50 left, which is enough for a HQ model but not much else.

Haemonculus Is a great choice and fits in most armys happily I would suggest that untill you know fully what type of DE army you are going for.

[Cerberus90]

I think that power sword looks great, its different to the normal lightening down the blade, but still gives the right look to it.

Nearly finished my first Ultramarines tactical squad (about time, ).
Got another one sat on the shelf waiting to be base coated, and my chaplain which I'm keen to get started, as the finecast quality is a damn site better than my Imohtek one (which to be honest I think was a reject, ).

[philheckler]

Thanks guys.. im thinking broken concrete slab with bits of rebar poking out , but i'm going to have to get the figure off the base to do it....

[crazyg1zm0]

That sounds like a great idea phil. you could even have a impact point under his back foot spreading to a big crack with the rebar in or something.

Why not look into some of the resin bases phil? theres quite alot of different ones I put my ork warboss on a stone one i had spare.

if you haven't pinned him yet i usually glue my guys to a base then break them off gently when i am finished the painting so that i can work on the base or transfer to another base

Originally Posted by RedFlames

space hulk style deck plating or something urban [if only for no other reason than so i can see how to do that kind of base myself... grass has no place in 40k imo]

I don't agree here, certain units and certain armies suit different bases, Orks i think can get away with grass and greenery on the bases, space-marines cant they need something more man-made or industrial.

[gilljoy]

from my experiences playing against dark eldar the archon is really good, so are the hameonculus, especially the special character one who makes wracks troops.

Also troop wise, wytches are cool too, they just wipe my space wolves away most times

[philheckler]

couldn't get the figure off the base - curse you wilko super glue gel! so i had to improvise around the feet of the figure , green stuff flag stones / pva sharp sand and fine sand mix to form small rubble mounds... oh and the obligatory skull from my ogres bitz box...

[liratheal]

Looking good, Phil.

Nearly done with the first squad of Scorpions:



And Gilljoy, Khorne Red on paper:

http://i.imgur.com/ObAmY.jpg

[philheckler]

Thats a fine looking squad!

[Cerberus90]

Look great lira.

My, slightly less impressive, tactical squad,



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Still not decided on whether I want to stay with Regal blue armour or full Ultramarine blue. In some lights the regal looks really good, in others it looks very dark. Only one or two very small things left to do on the squad, like scopes and eyes, and a little left on the sergeants head.

I think I need to get a new Blood red too, as mine have lost their brightness.

[Smellyhead]

Some nice looking models Phil and Lira.

Cerberus try just highlighting them with Ultramarine blue and maybe give them a blue or black wash in recesses on the armour, should add some more depth to them. Other than that their coming along nicely.


Was at my local store today picking up a DE battle force as a birthday gift from the girlfriend and the guy talked me into buying an Archon to go with them as I was picking paints/brushes out. So now I need to figure what I can get for £25 again.

[Cerberus90]

Did try highlighting with ultramarines, but I think a. my highlighting skills suck, and b. its a bit of a jump from regal to ultramarine blue.

The one there that is in all ultramarine blue, is highlighted slightly with space wolf grey, which does look nice, but to my eyes, doesn't look 'Ultramarine', it looks too bright and pastel coloured.

[crazyg1zm0]

Originally Posted by Smellyhead

Some nice looking models Phil and Lira.

Cerberus try just highlighting them with Ultramarine blue and maybe give them a blue or black wash in recesses on the armour, should add some more depth to them. Other than that their coming along nicely.


Was at my local store today picking up a DE battle force as a birthday gift from the girlfriend and the guy talked me into buying an Archon to go with them as I was picking paints/brushes out. So now I need to figure what I can get for £25 again.

again get a Hamey :P and a venom would be my suggestions both are very usefully in most if not all DE armys.


Also Do any of you have any or the ORK nob metal jaw plates? im going to be doing some customizations and need about 4 or 5 i think theres 3 diff designs too

[gilljoy]

Originally Posted by Smellyhead

Some nice looking models Phil and Lira.

Cerberus try just highlighting them with Ultramarine blue and maybe give them a blue or black wash in recesses on the armour, should add some more depth to them. Other than that their coming along nicely.


Was at my local store today picking up a DE battle force as a birthday gift from the girlfriend and the guy talked me into buying an Archon to go with them as I was picking paints/brushes out. So now I need to figure what I can get for £25 again.

Raiders and dark eldar troops, those guys with special weapons and raiders rip holes in everything.

[philheckler]

Originally Posted by philheckler

couldn't get the figure off the base - curse you wilko super glue gel! so i had to improvise around the feet of the figure , green stuff flag stones / pva sharp sand and fine sand mix to form small rubble mounds... oh and the obligatory skull from my ogres bitz box...

lick of paint once it all dry'd et voila... (hope you all like it)



(couldn't resist the tuft of grass...)

[RedFlames]

looks good, the grass works done like that...

but in general [to me] 40k = warzone, all foliage is either dead, dying or burnt [or weird things if 'nids are involved] so having 40k stuff stood in what looks like the middle of someone's lawn just doesn't look right...

[Almightyrastus]

Originally Posted by liratheal

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.co.uk/20...and-their.html

Love that skin based blog post.

Excellent, thanks for that. I used to have a great wash recipe that I used all the time but i can't remember what it was. I think it was something along the lines of a purple and brown mixed then heavily watered down as this was from before they had all the nice dedicated washes and stuff.

[crazyg1zm0]

Just trying my hand at gs work making an iron jaw for my warboss

[crazyg1zm0]

did some work tonight Heres the pics

2 Chaplains part of my Death company army.




My warboss on his new base and with his iron jaw still msetting at the moment

[Smellyhead]

They look pretty nice Crazy.

Need tomorrow to come so I can start building my Dark Eldar. Though now I'm stuck on what theme to use for bases, I guess a city themed one would suit them best since I would assume they raid cities etc for their kicks.

[crazyg1zm0]

yea some sorty of city type. if you dive into their history it works, or something alien