Bioshock-styled Dark Eldar Cronos Parasite Engine (W.I.P.)

At the moment, i´m very busy , painting Commissions for Valdemar. I have no "Deadline" but i want to finish the Minis as fast as possible. (further Pictures will follow within the next Days)
When i´m painting Stuff like this the whole Day i need some different "Brushstrokes" in the Evening.

Well, the following is one of these "different" Things i do actually.....
One Week ago i bought Reinforcements for my Dark Eldar Forces in form of a Talos Pain/ Cronos Parasite Engine. I love this Kit because of it´s weyrd and really disturbing Look. This Engine seems to come out straight of some morbid Nightmares...... That´s the Way i like! ^^

Well..... Bioshock is nearly the same kind of Disturbing Design. Additionally, it "works" with a great Choice of  cold and dark Colours to raise the Effect of Fear.

That´s why i decided to paint my Engine "Bioshock-styled" . Means: i try to use darkgreen and Turquoisetones as Maincolours and further Browns and Orangetones for Corrosion. The whole Look will be rounded up by Brass and Copper for the Metalparts. 

Contrasting to this dark colours i will try to apply some very shiny sourcelights in White/Blue, Green or Orange.

Now, here´s the first Pic. As you can see, i assembled the Arms of the Talos instead the Cronos´s Tentaclearms. I started to apply the first scratches, Chippings and weathered/altered Areas.....

Still a lot of Work but i think i´m not to far away from my conceptional Idea......

Greetz Wiking

Battle Report Eldar vs Dark Eldar - 750 Points (Part 2)

Hello all!
As i promised, now the second Part of the Report:

Turn 2:
Haraels Warwalker Squadron turned arround and fired at the Raider on his right Flank. What should i say? The Result was horrible... too much Scatterlasers and a Rocket are definetely too much for the weak Armour. The Raider was destroyed and the Archon and his Hagashin had to bail out.
The Guards came near to support the Walkers. The Eldar HQ moved to support the Avengers.

On the other Side of the Table the Dire Avenger fired at my Hyemshin, using theyr Ability "Shurikenstorm". 3 of 5 Hyemshin were knocked Out and the remaining 2 failed theyr Moraletest and went away.

Harael ended his Turn, Result so far: 2:1 for the Eldar.

Now i started my Turn. But first i lost my Hyemshin (under half the Unitsize, so they left the Battlefield.. new Result 3:1 for the Eldar)
Now there was not much left to command, so i moved the Ravager closer to the Warwalkers (a fatal failure as you will see) and my Hagashin moved and charged the Guards and the Walkers.

The Combat wasn´t effective, and i was only able to terminate the half Guardsquad. My Kabalitewarriors tryed to run into the Action  but without much success.

Turn 3:
Harael moved his HQ in combatrange to my Ravager and by using theyr Hagun Zars my Ravager turned into ashes.

Haraels Guards tryed to kill my Hagashin but they had to realise how fantastic a 4+ CC saver is! ^^

The Avengers went into the small Tower and the HQ reformated under the Tower.

Result 4:1 for the Eldar

I started my Turn trying to get my Kabalites in the right position to fight Haraels HQ, but these little Bastards were well covered under the Tower. So i continued the close Combat. I splitted the Hagashins and the Archons Attacks so that i were able to fight the Guards with my HQ and the Walkers with the Impulsmines  of the Hagashin. The Archon did well and killed nearly the rest of the Guards (only one single Guard left). The Hagashin were not so effective and so only one Walker was destroyed. so after this, the further Result was still 4:1 

the last Turns and a Surprise will be shown in the last Part of the Report.

But first a little Picture for all the "only Miniatures- Follower" of my Blog! ^^

The first Testpainting of an Cäsar Ork (more Orks will be shown soon... much more orks!! ^^)

Battle Report Eldar vs Dark Eldar - 750 Points (Part 1)

As i promised yesterday..... here is the Report of the Yesterdays Match between Harael and me.
We played a Annihilation Scenario with 750 Points each.
First the "Line Up": (because i dont know every english Word or Translation, the Lists are partially in German Language)
Note that you can click the Pictures to get a larger View!

Eldar:

1 HQ

Runenprophet
-Runenspeer
-Runen derVorhersehung
-Runen der Klarheit
-Runenblick
----------------- 103 Points

3 Runenleser
- 3x Runenspeer
- 1x Flammen der Wut
- 1x Stählerne Entschlossenheit
- 1x Khaines Segen
------------------114 Points

2 Standard

5 Asuryans Jäger
- Exarch
- 2 Jagdkatapulte
- Shurikensturm
------------------92 Points

10 Gardisten
- 1 Laserlanze
+ Serpent
  -Laserlanze
  - Seelenstein
-------------------255 Punkte

1 Unterstützung

3 Kampfläufer
- 1x Raketenwerfer
- 5x Impulslaser

Total Points: 749

Dark Eldar:

1 HQ

Archon
- 1x Staubklinge
- Kampfdrogen
- Schattenfeld
--------------------135 Points

2 Standard

10 Kabalenkrieger
- 1x Schattenkatapult
- 1x Splitterkanone
+ Schattenbarke
  -Schattenlanze
  - Nachtfeld
-------------------185 Points

9 Hagashin
- 1x Hydraklingen
- Impulsminen
+ Schattenbarke
  -Schattenlanze
  - Nachtfeld
--------------------188 Points

1 Sturm

5 Hyemshin
- 1x Hitzelanze
--------------------122 Points

1 Unterstützung

1 Schattenjäger
- 3x Schattenlanze
- Nachtfeld
--------------------115 Points

Total Points: 745 

The Eldar hat the first Turn (i missed to test if i could steal the Initiative.....) So the Battle started...

The Eldar Serpent moved forward in a better Fireposition, but missed the targeted Raider. The Warwalkers unleashed a Storm of Scatterlasers and blasted my first Raider. The Passengers (Kabalitewarrior) now had to walk.... (Note that i changed the two Raiders because a better look on the Photos. On this Picture the Painted Raider is blasted. On later Pictures you will see this Raider again ^^)

The Eldar Guards and the HQ just moved forward. The Guards tried to shoot down the other Raider but missed it.. Harael ended his Turn and the Result so far was 1:0 for the Eldar.

Now it was my Turn. First i moved the Ravager and my Hyemshin to fight the Serpent. The Ravager shot the Tank down and the boarded Avengers had to bail out. They just came into the Line of Fire from my Hyemshin...... but only one Avanger died! 

My second Raider moved fast and straight on the right Side of the Battlefield to get in a better Position to unload the waiting Archon and his Fellows, the Hagashin. Because the Raider boosted forward, the Passengers were not able to come out.

My Kabalite Warriors walked and ran to the next availiable Piece of Cover, unable to do more this Turn.

So i ended my Turn and the further result was 1:1.

To be continued......

Coming up: Battle Report Eldar Vs Dark Eldar

Tomorrow i will share with you the Battle Report of the Warhammer 40K match i´ve played tonight against Harael.
It was a small Match, only about 750 Points, and after 5 Turns it was over.
Now i have to prepare the Report and the Pictures, so you can enjoy the whole Results tomorrow!
Only one Picture as appetizer is all i offer today! ^^

The dark Eldar try hard to get Controll

It was funny and relaxing (as allways when Harael and me meet to clash) and the Result surprised me much! But more tomorrow......

so stay tuned......

Dark Eldar Conversion

Hi all,

Today i present my custom build Dark Eldar Hellion Lord Sathonyx.
Because he´s listed in the actual Codex but there´s no Model availiable, i started to convert one of the Hellions out of the Box to this Charactermodel.

I´ve just added some Blades and Skulls at his Glider to let it look more unique and different from the others. The Grenade Launchers were put onto the Glider instead of assembling them under the Wings. Easy but the Glider looks more nasty now.

Sathonyx himself was build from Kabalewarrior parts and a Cloak from my Bitsbox. I choosed the heavy upper Armour because once he WAS a Kabale Warrior till the Day he was exiled. And i think he is proud enough (or still ? ^^) to wear his old Armour. In addition the Armour let him look more like a personality.
Only the arms and legs were taken from the original Kit.

There are only a few Paintings to do till he is finished, but i think in a few hours he will be ready to bring Terror onto the Gamingtable!! Like allways, the Miniature was painted with Vallejo Acrylics and some GW washes.

Hope you like him!

EDIT: Yahoooooo! cracked the "magic" Number of 1000 Hits! ^^

Dark Eldar Raider ,a Humber and a first offer....

Yesterday i finished the first of two Dark Eldar Raiders. I´ve painted the Raider not in my usual high standard, just for gaming purposes.
I used Vallejos "Black" as Basecolour and "Jade Green" for the edges. I used this sheme for the crew too, i added only a few highlights of "Scorpion Green" on the sharpest edges and afterwards the miniatures were washed with either "Asurmen Blue" and "Badab Black"

Soon i will start to build the second Raider but first i want to finish the actual work on my bench:
A Humber Scout Car that i´ve repainted today. Formerly it was painted in a much too bright Green so i had to paint it new with "Russian Uniform" followed by a wash with "Devlan Mud". I refined the Model with Resinparts and some brasswire and as you can see i tested some Pigments at the bottom and on the Tires. I think, tomorrow it will be finished.....

Last but not least, i´ve placed my first Sale Item on the "Sale" Page of my Blog. (You will see this by using the Nav-bar in the upper right corner of my Blog)

Gestern habe ich die erste von 2 Schattenbarken für meine Dark Eldar fertiggestellt. Sie ist entgegen meines sonst üblichen, recht hohen Standards lediglich für Spielzwecke bemalt.
Ich nutzte Vallejos "Black" als Grundfarbe und "Jade Green" für die Kanten. Das selbe Schema benutzte ich auch für die Besatzung. Lediglich etwas "Scorpion Green" wurde auf die rausragendsten Kanten aufgetragen und anschließend wurde die komplette Rüstung jeweils mit "Asurmen Blue" und "Badab Black" getuscht.
Bald werde ich wohl die 2. barke beginnen doch erst habe ich noch Arbeit auf dem Tisch:
Ein Humber Scout Car das ich heute repainted habe. Es war in einem viel zu hellen Grün lackiert und so bekam es einen neuen Anstrich mit "Russian Uniform" gefolgt von "Devlan Mud". Ich verfeinerte das Modell wie gewohnt mit ein paar Resinteilen und ein wenig Kupferdraht. Wie man sieht habe ich mich an der Unterseite und den Reifen mal mit Pigmenten versucht.
Ich denke, morgen wird das Modell wohl fertig werden....

Last but not least habe ich mein erstes Verkaufsangebot auf der "Sale" Seite meines Blogs eingestellt. (einfach den nav-bar oben rechts im Blog benutzen)

Dark Eldar arrived!!!!

Yes!!! Today i received the new Dark Eldar i´ve preordered!
Almost 7 Years all the dark Eldar Players had to wait to get a new Codex and new miniatures. Now they are there!
Finaly they look like what they are: the "evil" version of the Eldar.

 

Can´t wait to unpack these little Devils but i have to wait until tomorrow! Why? The Box is my Birthday Gift from me to myself! ^^ (And my birthday is tomorrow....)

Jawoll! Heute konnte ich meine vorbestellten, neuen Dark Eldar abholen! Ungefähr 7 Jahre lang mussten die Dark Eldar Spieler auf der Welt auf einen neuen Codex und neue Miniaturen warten. Jetzt sind sie endlich da! Endlich sehen sie auch nach dem aus was sie sind: die "Böse " Version der Eldar.

Ich kann es kaum erwarten die kleinen Teufel endlich auszupacken, doch damit muss ich noch bis morgen warten. Wieso? Sie sind mein Geburtstagsgeschenk an mich selbst! Und Geburtstag hab ich nunmal erst morgen! ^^