Dark Eldar Skimmers

Two of the Dark Eldar skimmers, the Raider and the Ravager (it's all Rrrrrs with the Dark eldar).

I painted them in Tamiya metallic blue outlined with Cote d'armes metallic purple to give what I fondly believe to be a flickerfield shimmer effect. It also makes them look a bit eerie. The only other colours used are shades of red for the plumes and copper for gun barrels, eye visors etc.

And you need to be in a fast skimmer when the three-legged Wabbit Daemon is after you.

Astonishing Generosity

A little while ago I got an email from my friend Devos IV to the effect that he noticed I was building a Dark Elder Army and that he had a few spare models he would send me.

I expected a couple of infantry units so I was astonished when two huge boxes came through the post enclosing half a dozen vehicles, a dozen jetbikes and innumerable infantry and infantry sprues.

There are hundreds of pounds of models here.

It is a salutory lesson in these days of corporate greed and corruption, and slimey lying politicians, that not everyone is on the make. There are still decent people out there.

Thank you, Stewart, and I hope I have not embarrassed you to much.

John

Archon

I am not sure whether it is me or the material but I find these finecast models difficult to paint. The result always looks messy somehow, like there is too much detail.

Or maybe I am just overpainting?

Any thoughts anyone?

Help!

Dark Eldar Close Ups

The sun came out so I snatched a couple of pictures of a couple of the stripped and repainted Dark Eldar miniatures.

Dark Eldar

I have decided to build a new Dark Eldar army and this is as far as I've got.

Being a cheapskate son of a bitch, I am working to a budget. So my only new purchases are the codex and the warlord. Everything else is second hand.

DE were the 'Game Army' in the late 80s so there a great deal of material around. Expect to pick up warriors for about 25p each, many still on the sprue. Metal figures will cost in the region of a Pound.

For a colour sceme I decided to avoid the dark colours in favur of high gloss metallic. I used purple/ dark blue metallic layers to give a discordant menacing look.

Bases are drab to show off the figs are ane painted with Tamiya Pavement Effect paint. This gives a subtle thick matt surface.

I have 20 more warriors,  five more jetbikes  (at £3.25 each) to paint and base and a modern box of kabalite warriors to use as elite trueborn. I will add modern witches as I vastly prefer them to the old models. That should make a nice little raiding force.

Modern stuff new will cost about £65
Old second hand stuff off eBay (most of it) about £40

So a new army for under the ton.