Dark Eldar Raiding Force

The full Dark Eldar team - I showed the repairs to Urien a couple of days ago and these have also been rebased to suit my current style. I'm very happy with how they look - it's probably quite a nice little skirmish force for kill team-sized game - I could imagine them on a slave raid pitted against the various post-apocalyptic scavengers and survivors that I have!

I only have five of these Kaballites completed so far - the rest of the squad are basecoated and awaiting more work. 

The Wyches - the figures were painted around 5 years ago - I also took the opportunity to move all of the Dark Eldar figures to bases that have weights in the bottom as they were quite prone to falling over, being quite spindly.

Any comments or suggestions? I'm really happy with the way these now look! Seeing them makes me want to work on the others I have left over...some day!

Dark Eldar - Master Haemonculus Urien Rakarth

I had a tidy out of my wargames bits/unbuilt figures collection a few months back and stumbled across a box of mixed items that hadn't been explored since I moved from my last place to my current house - basically the last bunch of figures I painted whilst I lived there - I don't think that any of them ever made it on to the blog.

Sadly, one of them had suffered quite a painful-looking accident whilst in long-term storage.

I don't think that Finecast can really be blamed here after being in a foam-filled cardboard box for just shy of 3 years! 

Well, it was time that the little Dark Eldar force I've collected got rebased anyway - they all had the old yellow flock that I used to have on all of my bases. I had to break the join between Urien and the blood worms he travels along on, then re-pin him to them. I then covered up the join with green stuff. Whilst on with that I also transferred him to a much more suitable 30mm base, befitting an ancient and twisted pain-surgeon of the Dark Kin!

Here he is finished! Suitably blood- and gore-splattered and looking very pleased to have located his next treat! Coming up soon are the rest of the painted Dark Eldar I have, which have now also had their bases upgraded to match this. I also have a squad of metal Harlequins, the last half of a Kaballite squad and finally some Hellions to complete.

Let me know what you think of him in the comments section below!

Necromundan Bestiary: Clawed Lasher (Thrullg)

I loved this miniature when I first saw the pre-release photos - it's a Thrullg from the Privateer Press Hordes range. I knew I'd have to buy it (this impulse seems to happen quite regularly...) and purchased it as soon as I could!

I gave him a standard 40k-style 40mm base as I can see him being used alongside Necromunda figures more than I can see myself playing Hordes. I would use him as a "big bad" in the Necromundan Underhive or even as a Dark Eldar Clawed Fiend. 

Comments? Suggestions? I actually used a rather luminous shade of Vallejp green whilst highlighting the figure, but that seems to have been somewhat washed out by the camera...

Mere Tokens...

Managed to get these few bits of busy-work done in the past few days, inbetween unsuccessful job interviews and listing things on eBay!

Emergence holes/sewer entrances/exits - these are sold by Hasslefree and made by Fenris Games as base-toppers for Warmachine-style lipped bases. I saw them and thought they'd make cool exits/entrances for my zombie and post-apoc games. They're mounted on metal washers with added sand. Two have the word "Salvation" written on them in bright green, which will be the name of a settlement in my post-apoc world.

Pain Tokens - these are for my Dark Eldar - bought some of the basing pieces from eBay as I thought they'd fit the role quite nicely, then saw them being used on the Games Workshop site for the same role! Pretty happy with these! I could have done the Marine helmets from my bits boxes, but I have limited Eldar bits - I liked the wraithbone pendants in this role!

Wound Markers - these were one of the first things I built when back in the hobby. They had been based in the old grey scheme I used, so I ended up removing any flock, adding sand again and removing the skeleton symbols and skulls to make them a bit more plain. Easy job!

Dark Eldar Wyches

Finally settled on a scheme for my Dark Eldar army and completed the first five. Not much more to say other than that!

Un-bloody-employed.

Well, I should be posting up here a tad more frequently - I received a call on Friday morning letting me know I no longer have a job. Bugger.


Oh well - in my (slightly-put-on) depression I've been working on a few different projects...

Space Hulk Genestealers - These have a bit more paint on them since the last time they were shown - namely, the metallic bases blocked out and the basecoat on the fleshy skin. Once I've finished all of these apart from the Broodlord, I'm going to go back and add blood, rust and various other interesting markings to the bases of the lot of them. I've also decided to include at least one other Marine Chapter on the bases - probably Lamenters, given their links with the Blood Angels and their scheme. Just to add another splash of (admittedly rusted to hell, grimy and generally mucky) colour.

Space Marine vehicles - I decided that my Marines were lacking in vehicular support and had the urge to rebuild some in-artfully assembled cheap eBay rescues. I've done a good amount of cleaning up on the Land Speeder, with another two soaking in paint stripper at the moment, whilst the Rhino (that will become either a Whirlwind or a Razorback - I'm leaning towards Razorback) was taking a bit more elbow grease. I'm going to keep the console out of the Rhino chassis and replace it with a slice of plasticard - the piece is too cool to be hidden away inside the tank.  

Wych which scheme? This Wych scheme. Dodgy photo, but I'm sure you'll get the idea - pale pastel purple and mithril/chainmail armour with bone weapons. Very cold, splatters of blood here and there - I'm happy with the way this is going.

Once an Imperial Dreadnought, then converted into a Chaos Dreadnought, this poor guy is once again to be returned to Imperial glory! I'm thinking as an Ironclad...


That's about it really. I am looking for jobs rather diligently, but have quite a bit of time on my hands, hence the hundred different projects running at once. Oh, I also finally picked up my terrain building stuff at home, in the hopes of building some Necromunda-ish platform terrain, themed around Fallout, Borderlands and the kind of waste-worlds and border moons you would find on the Eastern Fringe in the Warhammer 40000 universe. Should be splendid, if I ever get to it!

Approaching things from a slightly different direction...

So, the Wyches have finished in their bath of Fairy Power Spray, they've been re-based and now, re-undercoated in white...

I've also finally picked up a wet palette from eBay. I've been meaning to pick one up for years, but finally went ahead and purchased it to work on the Dark Eldar. Who won't be too dark...

Both the white undercoat and the new palette are an attempt to try something a bit different - I'm wanting a very particular style with the Dark Eldar, rather pastel but with some lovely blood splatters, hopefully these will help towards that.

In entirely unrelated news, I actually finally managed to join a gym! I had my induction yesterday and I plan on going back today for some more cardio. Anything that helps me lose some weight and build up my knees will be brilliant!

What I'm Upto...

So, I've done a little bit of painting...

This is the tester for my Dark Eldar. To say I'm unhappy with it would be an understatement - it's turned out much darker than I planned. If you mind the pun. She looks a bit too Chaotic - I'd wanted to do something a bit different than the dirty, dusty, mucky stuff I normally paint, so this lady has just had a nice bath in Fairy Power Spray alongside the other four Wyches I've been on with. The plan now is to go for a colder scheme, pale purple with silver armoured pieces instead of brass and plenty of blood splatters.

Classic Chaos Warrior - this guy is a hired sword for Mordheim. He's also a tester for my Chaos army - the armour is supposed to be a sort of flesh-tone, they're going to be undivided but vaguely Nurglesque. I do love that he's wearing a beastman skin...

I've decided that I want to do something as a bit of a change, and the Space Hulk box was staring me in the eye - it's probably the wargame that'll get the most usage. Best get these sorted out...

Moving Tuesday

At least, Tuesday is the plan! The let is agreed (I "squeeee-d" with delight when I went on the webpage of the apartment I'm about to move into and I saw the little green "Let Agreed" icon on every photo...amazing!) and it's just a matter of all the paperwork going through as soon as possible - hopefully today (Monday). I'm just on packing up a few more bits and pieces, sorting out what games stuff I'm going to take to begin with.


Visual proof of progress...

DVDs are gone, more books are gone, the wardrobe has been emptied and painted white, the vast majority of my clothes are bagged in the green super-strength garden waste bags.


At the moment I'm planning on taking:

• Space Hulk - I have 5 Termies, 10 'stealers and the playing pieces painted - lots more left to do here.
• The pile of basecoated miniatures - lots of AE Bounty stuff, some post-apoc, some Dark Eldar Wyches. These were all on my desk whilst packing up.
• A big box of Imperial Guard - all in bits, but I recently had a tidy out and stock take. Basically went through all of my horded Guard/generic human bits and sorted them into various bits trays (well, the kind of plastic freezer boxes you get takeaway in) and I now have it all sorted into torsos, legs, left arm, right arm, weapons, heads, extras. That took a while. I love the Guard and have been hording stuff for this project since the year before the new IG codex was released. There is well over a hundred infantry, 3 Russ and 10 Sentinels. Lots of work.
• The latest stuff I bought - the zombapoc stuff and a bag of Quar!

Plus the obvious assorted tools and paints.

Plenty to start with I think! The Space Hulk and zombapoc stuff is likely to be used first, so they'll be the priority, with the AE Bounty stuff next up.

I've also just ordered another 2 Kaiser Rushforth figure cases, taking me upto 3 KR and 1 GW. Should be enough (to keep me going anyway) so I can transport most of my collection over!

Bed time I think!

Random Works In Progress...

Harlequins - first assembled squad for my Dark Eldar. I've wanted to pick up some of these since returning to the hobby a few years ago, my best mate finally bought me a box of them for Christmas! I love these sculpts, although their shuriken pistols were horrible, clunky and not the graceful weapons you'd expect these combat acrobats to be using! I swapped the 4 in the unit with splinter pistols from the Dark Eldar Wyches.

Star Wars Yuzzem - the first of two Star Wars pre-paints that I received that were drastically larger than I'd expected. I picked up a couple of these from eBay as they were so cheap, so this one will receive a little sculpting work to cover up some moldlines and he'll appear in one of the planned AE Bounty crews. I switched out his piddly little pistol for a decent machine gun from the Void Junkers plastic kit. Quite cool that it looks like a pistol scaled up for his use! He's rebased onto a GW 40mm base.

Star Wars Loader Droid - probably a "VIP" or objective in games. He'd be transporting a crate to a waiting ship or somesuch, and the crews either need to stop or help him.

Star Wars Wookiee Scoundrel - another of the Star Wars pre-paints that has been rebased and received a pistol. The pistol is again from the Junkers sprues, where he's also received a shoulderpad from. He'll also get some sculpting work to cover up some moldlines that have been severely removed (by the manufacturer in this case).

Not sure what kind of alien this guy is, but this is the aforementioned other randomly-large Star Wars pre-paint. He's grown on me since I received him - I like that there's an air of Han Solo to the giant bugger! Another of the pre-paints suffering from crappy-gun-itis. He's got a snazzy metal pistol from Heresy Miniatures, a sword in sheath on his thigh and some extra pouches/rope/grenade from the Space Marine Scout sprue.

Finally, the not-Serenity from Ground Zero Games Full Thrust range. Would eventually be used in some space battle games to go alongside my planned AE Bounty games. I have a box of ships and interesting bits that will be raided for the project, but for now I've decided to just paint this.

In other news, I've also got around 8 other miniatures almost complete. If I decided to stay up a bit later tonight I could have them all based up for an update tomorrow (5 basic scavengers, the scav leader, a corporate fugitive and a not-Machete) but I'm feeling rather shattered and bed is calling... Ah well!

I've also just realised that I actually have 38 blog followers now - this is rather cool to say the least! Hey everyone!

A Sacred Vow...

Must paint these...

Before I get to start these...

Which should have been helped by this...

Largest amount of snow in England since 1965. Sadly, enthusiasm has been lacking - couldn't get in the painting mood! Oh well. Back to work tomorrow (after missing Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, being sent home early because of the snow on Wednesday and Thursday) and today has been mostly taken up with Fallout New Vegas.

Back on the painting horse soon!

Bikers continued...

The last two Astartes of the Bike Squadron...

This guy got one of the new Blood Angel heads in the renovations...

The meltagun upgrade piece from the old bike squadron boxed set - I used the plasma gunner torso in one of the armies Tactical squads.

This Marine Captain is having his shield repainted - the shield hand had come off at some point, so I decided to redo it.

Dark Eldar Pain Tokens - they're made from pieces from the Warhammer 40k basing kits - various Marine and Eldar parts. Thought they'd be rather appropriate! I picked them up off eBay for this purpose, then days later there was an article on the Games Workshop website using the exact same bits for the same purpose! Great minds...

Had some PVA going to waste after the Pain Tokens, so added the sand and gravel to these soldiers for the wasteland/Predator games. I wish Imperial Guard had something equivalent to the Aliens Smart Guns. Man-portable Heavy Stubbers, filling the role of a SAW in Guard Squads. Oh well!

Board Update and Purchases...

So, another week of not-a-massive-amount getting done! I have made a good bit of progress on the gaming board though, which is great, but I've hit a bit of an obstacle - a lack of paint. I meant to get a load yesterday whilst I was out Christmas shopping, but only remembered once I was on the train home. Damnit! I had to basically use the dregs of the large cheap tubes of paint that I had left over. That had been the plan anyway, but it's turned out a bit darker than I'd have liked...

For some reason, the board in the picture looks a lot lighter in the picture than in real life. It's closer to black. I'm aiming for my normal basing basecoat, somewhere near Scorched Brown from the GW line.

As mentioned, I went shopping yesterday, passing a GW... Suddenly, I was exiting the shop with a box of Wyches and the latest edition of White Dwarf. Bugger. To be honest though, I had pre-ordered the Codex, so it wasn't a huge surprise that I found myself buying some. Army-wise I'll be going Hellion-heavy with lots of other cool stuff!

Ordered these misc. items at the start of the week - some 20mm plastic bases for the Ground Zero Games 15mm Aliens I bought a while back so I can base them up for various games, plus a couple of hobby items from Heresy Miniatures - a sculpting tool/clay shaper and some "brown stuff" modelling clay to try out.

Bit of a silly purchase - mostly for nostalgia reasons (I was a massive Jurassic Park fan as a kid - I had a bunch of the toys and loved the movies), but I also like the idea of basing them, taking the moldlines off and using them in some 15mm pulp games. They were rather cheap - £1.99 for the two. Oddly they had a full range of toys (mostly on clearance though). I wonder if there is a new cartoon or something? 

Finally, the other board section, pre-paint. It's also had the basecoat now.

Upon reflection, not such a bad week after all...