Grotesques Complete

I finished the grotesques.  I like how these came out.  I need to make an agonizer for the aberration, and I need a better photo setup. 

Dark Eldar Aberration with Scissor hand WIP

I decided my aberration needed a new scissor hand, and I need to finish the paint job on this squad once and for all.

I used the end of the raider horizontal sail arm, and a vambrace blade off of the dark eldar warrior sprue.  I bent the end of the blade to hook down.  The hand is from a tyranid warrior, with the thumb cut off. 

 I was really trying to copy the awesome scissor hand on the wrack sprue.

 The squad almost finished.  Still a little work to go.

WIP Dark eldar Grotesque Unit

Here is a pic of my progress on the Grotesque squad.  I've since added some orange, and some Nihilakh wash on the copper.  I hope you like them.

 The abberation is missing his magnetized left arm.  He had a Ichor injector which I was using as a scissorhand.  My corpse thief claw formation stole the Ichor injector.  I need to make a new scissorhand.

 Real fish hooks.  Careful moving him.

How I paint Dark Eldar Grotesques and Wracks.

Here's a quick tutorial on how I paint Grotesques and Wracks.  First start with a good basecoat.  I use black for my dark eldar.

Then I heavy drybrushed the whole thing this Brown color.  Brown is a good base for coppers and golds.

Next, drybrush the model with the copper.  This way it picks out all the little metal details.

I paint the flesh areas with the base Deneb Stone.  And wash with Ogryn flesh.

 Next, I started picking out the armor plates with the foundation, mechrite red.

Dark Eldar Grotesques WIP part two

Here are some shots of how I made the backpacks.

First, I got some cheap nails from Home Depot, cut the heads off for magnetizing something, and use the nail for pinning.

 Here is the Grotesque with a greenstuffed head, and two nails in his back for support of the backpack.  This is so that it doesn't fall off.  I could just see myself building and painting these suckers up, and then one fall off of the table, and the backpack would drop off.  So the nail will stop that.

Next I built up hot glue around the nails.  This will later be covered with green stuff for shaping and painting.

 This guy's backpack is all greenstuff.  I took the hook out of his right hand and gave him another tentacle. I added some parts off of a gargoyle, smaller fish hook with blood angel head, and adjusted his stance to make him more level.

 I traded his sword for an axe made from a raider rudder.  I think it looks a little more brutal, and less sophisticated.

More hooks and chains.

 This guy actually has a sweet shield instead of the spear since I took this picture.

Part one Grotesques WIP 1

I made a vow to myself to not take anymore sloppy pictures.  My new background is a printout from an internet picture of a backdrop.  Now I just need to find where to get a real, cloth backdrop for some good pics.  A tripod really helps too.

Dark Eldar Grotesque Conversions - Work in Progress

I got the original idea from Eye of Terror at this post Grotesques. 
These are a lot of fun to make.  I tried to think about what I would least like to get attacked with, and came up with these weapons.  I got the idea for the first guy from the latest Sherlock Holmes movie.  Great movie.  Hooks = Ouch.

This guy is my least favorite, and will probably get a change. 

Here is the aberation with a scissor-hand.  It is magnetized in case I want to switch out his weapon.  

 I like the way this guy turned out.  He will have a wych braid of hair out the back.

 For the liquifier grotesque, I wanted it to look like he had a great vat of disgusting stuff on his back that he was spraying out of the liquifier.  I may put enemy parts out the top of it, as though he is blending them up and spraying them on his foe.

 

 And a family shot with the half-painted wrack cousins for scale.

 They still need some work.  All of their heads are held on with plasti-tac, and I am debating on making a meat backpack for them.  I kinda like them the way they are, but like what Lucky 5 did over at eye of terror.  Thanks again to lucky for sharing the idea.  He is the mastermind behind these guys.