Painted reavers and a converted old school broadside

I finally got round to undercoating some of my dark eldar models and carried along by my sudden painting enthusiasm I painted the reavers to completion.

I also found time to rescue some experimentally converted battlesuits Xenos and Proud gave me resulting in an old school broadside and a fireknife.

While I like certain aspects of the new broadside kit, I'm really glad I was able to convert an old style one so the squad maintains a similar aesthetic.

I'm aiming to get some more pictures of my dark eldar up over the next few days including some different angle shots of the reavers.

Tau'va
Ko'vash

Tale of Gamers: The Introduction

I recently attended a fifteen hundred point tournament at the Games Workshop in Aberdeen. It was a good tournament, fairly well run, with an interesting final mission. The big plus though, was that I got to catch up with Xenos and Proud and chat 40k with him for half a weekend. At the end of the tournament, we were both given with a flier for the next one: a 500 point tournament, with similar rules to the fourth edition combat patrol mission, designed to get people starting a new army. We were both taken with this idea (though I'm not sure if I'll actually make it to the tournament) and so set about deciding the armies we wanted to start. This was easy for me, I've always wanted to collect a Dark Eldar force and so this was the perfect opportunity to expand on the modest collection of DE models I already own. For XandP, it's a return to his first 40k love, the Blood Angels. 

 

 

 

In addition to starting these armies, we wanted to compete at Throne of Skulls in August this year. It was an obvious decision to take our new armies so a Tale of Gamers blog series seemed the only proper course of action.

The basic premise of our Tale of Gamers is that each month, starting in May, we will aim to collect five hundred points of our chosen army working our way up to our fifteen hundred point Throne of Skulls lists (the time scale may change depending on free time and disposable income, but this is what we're working towards). Over the course of the month we will paint and convert these forces with a showdown of our slowly growing armies happening at the end of each month. Hopefully, we will be able to provide work in progress shots of the models as well as a bit of insight into why we chose the units.

So onto the lists.

The initial five hundred;

Succubus, venom blade, haywire grenades

7wyches, haywire grenades, raider, enhanced aethersails

10 kabalite warriors, splinter cannon, raider, splinter wracks

Ravager, three disintegrator cannons

The middle thousand

Duke Sliscus

2x 7wyches, haywire grenades, raider

10 kabalite warriors, splinter cannon, raider, splinter wracks

5 kabalite warriors, blaster, venom, extra splinter cannon

6 reaver jetbikes, 2 heatlances

Ravager, three dark lances

The fifteen hundred I'm working towards:

 

Duke Sliscus

Four blood brides, venom, extra splinter cannon

Four incubi, venom, extra splinter cannon

2x 8 wyches, hekatrix, venom blade, hydra gauntlets, haywire grenades, raider

10 kabalite warriors, splinter cannon, raider, splinter racks

5 kabalite warriors, blaster, venom, extra splinter cannon

6 Reaver jetbikes, 2 heatlances

Ravager with dark lances

Razorwing jet fighter

 

These lists are a combination of the models I own and some from the army list and model ranges that I like. I don't expect to win many games, but I'm looking forward to hopefully fighting in the assault phase rather than just jet packing out of the way. 

That'll do for an introduction, I'll see you in May when I start gathering models together. 

Ko'vash

Dark Eldar, work in progress Razorwing

 The colour scheme for my Dark Eldar army is quite simple, being essentially dark blue and boltgun metal. This left me with quite a lot of space to fill on the Razorwing. Then I remembered my Scottish theme and decided it needed a huge saltire flag painted on it. The jet is still a work in progress, the blue needs to be a bit more uniform and various highlights need to go on but overall I'm happy with it so far.
The white was done undercoated with fortress grey (I don't know the names of the current equivalents of the paints I use) then had four layers of watered down skull white painted onto it. The cross was then tidied up with a mix three parts ultramarines blue to one part chaos black.

 

 I've yet to properly use it in a game as my Dark Eldar are waiting on the acquisition of two venoms to make them a battle worthy force, but I'm looking forward to it. Eventually I hope to have a complete attack wing of a Voidraven and two Razorwing escorts but we shall see.
Comments welcome.
Ko'vash

Some actual pointy eared shenanigans

I've been considering a Dark Eldar or Eldar army recently, hoping to take one to the schools league. The Dark Eldar I decided needed a Scottish theme so lots of blue and tartan. Results are as follows:

 As you can see in the above photo, the cloth was painted to resemble tartan. the Tartan took me a few tries to perfect but was actually a lot of fun to paint. It was built up in lots of different layers.

 This photo shows the Saltire flag clearly on the Kabalites shoulder. The highlight on the helmet is actually pale blue.

 

I haven't yet decided if I'll build a full force of Kabalites yet. My craftworlders are crying for some attention, I'll try and get pictures of my counts-as Yriel up over the next few days.

Ko'vash