Klaivex with Demiklaives plus Awesome damage tokens

Here is a Klaivex with Demi klaives I put together from leftover bits.

The body is from the raider hanger-on with the right arm up in the air.  I trimmed off that arm, and replaced it with an arm from a raider sprue.  The blades are from the reaver blade vanes, and handles are from leftover raider spears.  The back vanes come off of the wych sprue.  I like how he came out.  Is he the best use of points?  No, but he is a lot of fun to play.  Last weekend he and a squad of 6 incubi, + Asbrudel had 6 pain tokens by the end of the game.  Lots of fun.  They hit like a hammer.  A hammer with spikes, nails, and razorblades.

Here are some wracks.  I love the finecast resin.  The acothyst had a couple weird bubbles, but I love the conversion potential of the resin.  The Haemo has some magnetized arms.  That will be another post.  You can also see the size of the razorwing on the base.  The guns and missiles are all magnetized.  That'll be a post coming soon too.

 Here are the tokens I made that were AWESOME last battle.  My opponent had 3 leman russes and a baneblade (I didn't know we were playing apocalypse till I got there, but the Dark Eldar held out against the odds for a turn 5 win).  They worked great to mark the stunned, shaken, weapon destroyed etc.  results.  I bought the poker chips at Big Lots for $7 and superglued the printouts from FTW From the Warp counters   site onto them.  I originaly made a batch and glued them onto cardboard, but they weren't that fun to use.  These made some great tokens. I used white for shaken stunned, blue for immobile weapon destroyed, and black for destroyed.  I used plain red for pain tokens, and green for cover save/smoke.  Now just to make up some pics to paste on the red and green tokens.  Would work great for psychic powers/effects too.  They have a nice weight and are sturdy, colorful and fun to use. The Haemo's lower arms are magnetized.  I think I need to magnetized all four.

Dark Eldar Reavers Complete

This one is the closest to the real colors of the squad.  Dang Camera!

 

Here are my finished Dark Eldar Reavers.  I really like how bloodofkittens painted the face helmets on his trueborn.  I kinda tried a variation on what he was doing, and added a stripe to distinguish this guy as the arena champion with heat lance (magnetized) and possibly power weapon or agonizer.

I must have painted the dark eldar graffiti on the front cowlings about 5 times.  In yellow, turquoise, white and yellow again.  It never seemed to fit.  I went with the streak pattern I put on my venom from awhile back.  I also really didn't like the yellow I airbrushed onto these guys a few months ago, and painted over that too.  The cowl on a few of them look rough.  That was the graffiti getting painted over.  I also need to work on my lighting.  Some came out great, others got a little washed out once I did the photoshop lightening on them.

I got the shiny effect on the helmets by finishing the painting, sealing them with a matte varnish, and then painting on a gloss varnish.  It works well to have the model matte, and then only have parts of the model gloss.  It really makes the glossy part stand out.

5-28 Mega Battle

Here are some pictures from our mega battle on the 28th.  It was a lot of fun with everyone bringing 3000 points of painted models.  It took forever, but a lot of stuff blew up, so everyone had a great time.  Here you can see my space wolves moving out behind my son's Angels Sanguine.  He held the line for a long time with his terminators, death company and amazing rolling.  The space wolves aren't 100% done, but they are almost there.

 

Time to take out the Brass Scorpions.

Logan, Arjac, and long fangs drop in behind the throne of skulls.  If only I had more Multi Meltas.  The squad didn't do that much to the throne, was assaulted by two 10 man assault squads, and a squad of chaos terminators with power weapons.  We won the assault the first turn and caused the two assault squads to run off, but Logan was alone the second turn, and was brought down.

 Some Blood Claws go after a brass scorpion.

 Three squads of grey hunters put some hurt on the scratch built Throne of Skulls.

 The other side of the battle.  And yes that is Elvis with a bolter.  He's from Las Vegas, so Elvis does everything there.

New Wracks and Grotesques

 These pics showed up this morning at a bunch of sites.  I really like the Wracks.  I would love to run 20 of these guys with Haemonculus support.  They would have Feel No Pain, and Furious charge from the get go, with only strength 8 or above cancelling out the FNP.  I really like their funky backpacks, but will need some adjustments on their arms and skirt poses.  It looks like they are going to be resin, which will be great for converting.  I bet they are going to be spendy though.

Grotesques look great.  I like the heads, the body, and overall feel of them.  Looks like they need some work to get them looking a little different.  I can see the arms and legs getting repositioned to look more unique. Those hands look like they need a basketball in them.  "hey look guys, I can palm the ball!"  Great models though overall.   Its great to be a Dark Eldar at the moment.  Great looking models, fun codex with a lot of options, lots of toys.  The nice thing about a lot of options in a dex, is that people aren't always exactly sure what to do with all your options.  They have seen thunderwolves, grey hunters, mephiston, hive guard etc.  a million times and have their ways to deal with them.  Grotesques?  scourges?  Wracks?  What do they do?

Clearer Haemonculus picture

This morning, Natfka at natfka.blogspot.com posted this clearer picture of our new resin Haemonculus.  I like it.  Looks a little like a flying squirrel pose, but I like the different weapon options that can be added.  Take that tyranids, we Dark Eldar can have 6 limbs too!  It looks like he has a liquifier, venom blade, mindphase/flesh gaunlet, and a casket of flensing?  Or it could be a super soaker, large dog treat, 'We're number 1 foam finger, and a box of chocolates.  Either way, it looks like they are going to give us the options for all the different wargear so you can have a WYSIWYG HQ.    I want 6.  And 30 resin Wracks, and 6 resin grotesques.  Now where to get 9 dark lances after dropping the ravagers for 3 talos/chronos, and a webway haemonculi army.  Muhuhaahaaahaaaa.  

New Haemonculus Picture

Here is a clearer picture of the same model clearer haemonculus picture
So here is a new picture I found on Warseer.  The poster wrote, "New Dark Eldar resin miniature
from a picture taken by gw-fanworld.net's DeusExMachina of a poster at the GW store in Hamburg"
It looks like it is going to be a great looking model.

So it looks like the Haemonculi are on the way.  None too soon, I say.  I played a team game with 2500 pts per player over the weekend and LOVED my Haemonculi.  I had three regular Haemonculi.  Two with wych squads in raiders, and one in a warrior squad with a dark lance.  All three squads loved the addition of the haemonculi.  The warriors had a drop pod full of vanguard vets drop next to them, and only lost two due to some great feel no pain rolls, and the wychs had to open some rhinos themselves,(ravagers were busy with 2 vindicators) with their haywire grenades and only lost two to rapid fire bolters from the mon-keigh inside, again due to feel no pain.  Then they helped to clean up both squads.  I love the Haemonculi.  I believe wyches really need it, and anyone outside of a transport need it too.  I tried some casket of flensing, and shattershard to mixed results.  Venom blades are great, but I would like an agonizer on each too.  I love Hekatrixs with agonizers.
The reavers did really well.  I ran 2 squads of six with 2 heat lances each.  They are easy to get into the right spot.  My squad of ten scourges with 4 heat lances took down a storm raven, only to get eaten by mephiston inside.  I really hate that guy.  I am wondering if longer range weapons would be better for the scourges, or if they need something else.  They don't like close combat.

I am loving my dark eldar army.  They are so fun to play.

My 3000 points of space wolves are amazingly close to being done.  Play worthy at least.  I have had to put off a LOT of desire to paint/model dark eldar to get these guys done for a mega-battle.  Can't wait to get them done.  Then back to the dark kin.

New Dark Eldar

 

This morning was a bit like Christmas for me.  All the forums said today was the day for the advance order new dark eldar to go up.  They were right.  If you haven't seen them somewhere else, here they are Dark Eldar advance order 

  When I was finally able to see them, I am amazed.  I almost want to sell my Space Wolves or Tyranids to get a load of the new models.  ALMOST.  

I am excited that my previous venoms and scourges will look pretty close to the new models.  I really like the bird wings on the new models, but also love the bat wings as well.  I may buy a couple of boxes and mix them in with my other scourges.  I really like the chronos and talos pain engines too.  They look better than the picture in the codex, which was sweet.  I need a couple of those as well.  Also the jet fighter over at Naftka's site  razorwing-jetfighter-pics look awesome.

Dark Eldar are the coolest models in the game.  Easy.