Dark Eldar Coven Warriors Finished

"How typical that the humans should rely upon crude technology to protect them. How fitting that we, the Dark Eldar should kill them where they feel safest."

-Kraegeth of the Slaughtered Heart

Building More Realistic Terrain - Imperial Fountain

Have you ever gone to a LFGS and seen a bunch of choppy, chunks of foam quickly slap-dashed with paint and called terrain?  Has it ever made you dream of gaming on tables that are as detailed and as cool looking as what you would see in White Dwarf or in a Forge World Imperial Armour book?

Vect's Dais of Destruction / Forge World Tantalus Conversion Part 1

"BEG FOR MERCY!, Not that it will do you any good."

Asdrubael Vect, Supreme Lord of the Kabal of the Black Heart

Creating Complex Styrene / Plasticard Armor in 9 Steps

Multiple times I've been asked how I created the additional armor on the raider above and other models in the past. What I have below is a step by step illustrated tutorial on the process.

Painting OSL Weapons Effects in 5 Easy Steps

Adding an Object Source Lighting (OSL) glow on your armies weapons is an extremely effective way to make your minis stand out on the table. While it seems complicated at first, it's actually not that hard and can be quickly mastered in 5 easy steps.

Painting Realistic Fluid Filled Vials in 4 Easy Steps

The idea of painting a vial to look like it's filled with fluid does seems like a scary thought… but it's just another painting obstacle that can be overcome with a little practice and a firm understanding of the principals that make it work well visually.

Another Engine of Pain!

"There is a secret song at the center of the world...

 and it's sound is like razors through flesh!" 

-Pinhead

Dark Eldar Feathered Nightmares!

"You think that's summer rain falling? Ha! It is the blood of those who crossed the Scourges, boy. You cannot see them, but your foolish kin adorn the spires and crenealltions of High Commorragh like grisly fruit upon the bough. Up there they bleed out their last, moaning and helpless, impaled through and through. No! Do not look upward! Catch a Watcher's eye, and it will be your blood that rains down next..."

— Edric Shiverhand, Slave-Elder of Gomor Sump

2013 in The Eye of Error

With 2012 closing it's doors and 2013 opening them it's time to think about what my Hobby Wants and Hobby Goals for the new year.

2012, what a ride!

The apocalypse didn't happen today when the thirteenth b’ak’tun of the current age came to an end.

Nibiru decided not to impact earth from out of no where and the alien mothership never made contact and enslaved the human race; so now I can remember 2012 fondly without the threat of impeding doom!

Armorcast Cinematic Effects Contest Results

A few months ago I posted that I was entering 3 Dark Eldar Units into Armorcast's Cinematic Effects Contest… And I am very excited to say all 3 units placed in different categories!

Dark Eldar Pain Engines

"Down from the skies it came, buzzing and clicking, a bristling profusion of antennae and a glinting carapace the color of dried blood. We thought we had more pressing concerns, for to repel a Commorrite invasion is to fight a hurricane of blades. Bolters spat fury. Then my brothers began to fall, soundlessly, to the ground. Brother-Captain Alkon was unresponsive. I wrenched off his helmet to find a wizened skull leering back. It was then the xenos attack doubled in its force…"

-Epistolary Thule of the Silver Skulls, Yria Massacre.

Dark Eldar Coven Warriors

I am truly disappointed that the cruel fate has placed us in this position, such that I really have no choice other than to unleash my warriors against your population centers. If only you would lay aside these foolish hopes of protecting your resources and return to your homes and families, much bloodshed and woe could be avoided.

- Comm recording discovered at the Delta 9 massacre

Dark Eldar Archon / Sybarite Conversions

"I will never forget what I saw at Obsidian Station. The bones of five thousand brave men lay scattered about the winding corridors. Their blood was slick upon the walls and floors of the dormitories. Their innards were hung from control panels like grotesque decorations of some insane celebration. But not a single skull was to be found; taken as sick trophies by these despicable attackers."

-Inquisitor Absolvus

Dark Eldar Wracks

"My grounds. Where screams are flowers, and pain their fragrance."

-Haemonculus Gruemenael

Dark Eldar Black Dragon Finished!

Is that a Dragon with freakin Disintegrator Cannons on it?...

Chaos Conversion Contest From Standard Template Construct

Do you think this Heresy is going to spread itself? Do you think this Evil is going to Summon itself? Are you going to wait for approval from the Golden Throne? Didn't you hear that Abbadon Wants you!!! Do you like to pillage and crush loyalist marines? Do you spend your free time collecting skulls for the skull throne? Do you secretly surf the winds of change like they are web sites on the inter webs? Do you spread disease around your office whenever you get sick as pay back? Do you party in a manner that only Slaanesh and Charlie Sheen would approve of?

 If so we have the contest for you!

(Dark) Eldar Harlequins WIP

"I come to dance the Dance of Death."

Dark Eldar Coven Raider & Venoms

"Death? You want death? I'm afraid that would be far too boring."

-Lord Sarnak of the Kabal of the Black Heart

Armorcast Cinematic Effects Contest Entries

Armorcast is having a contest for their Cinematic Effects range again this year. This gets me excited as I often use their cinematic effects in my miniatures, mainly in my Dark Eldar Models. I decided to reshoot a few minis and submit. 

Dark Eldar Grotesque Conversions Finished

They say a picture is worth a thousand words….

Fall fires burning neath black twisted boughs… Sacrifice to above

"Spawned in the darkest pits of the universe, the piratical Eldar are a curse upon all races of the galaxy. For untold thousands of years they have preyed upon us, stealing forth from the shadows and dark places on their raids of terror and violence; massacring or capturing all whose paths they cross. That they are utterly evil and inhuman is without question."

High Lord Khouron - Imperial Commander of Astherax

Dark Eldar Coven Raider Conversion

"Why do we ride atop these elegant craft? The better to hear the screams of our prey as we ride them down, to savour the fear etched on their faces, to taste the tantalising tang of their blood in the air as an appetiser before the feast. But most of all we ride them so that the slaughter may begin as soon as possible."

-Dariaq Bladetongue of the Pierced Eye

Dark Eldar Mandrake Proxies Painted

"Spawned in the darkest pits of the universe, the piratical Eldar are a curse upon all races of the galaxy. For untold thousands of years they have preyed upon us, stealing forth from the shadows and dark places on their raids of terror and violence; massacring or capturing all whose paths they cross. That they are utterly evil and inhuman is without question."

High Lord Khouron - Imperial Commander of Astherax

Something Dark Comes This Way

No I'm not done with Mariner's Blight yet…