Dark Eldar: Expanding the Kabal

[Ixajin]

I will start at the beginner, as some Warseer members in a different thread took some interest.

Ok, to get things started I have decided to use the Dark Elf Corsairs and the Eldar Guardians to create 20 new Dark Eldar Warriors. These will be split in to two raider squads, both squads will have a Sybrite with splinter pistol and close combat weapon, a warrior with a blaster, one with a splinter cannon and the rest will have splinter rifles. The nice thing is with the exception of the blaster, which I will scratch build, I have all the splinter weapons I need. Here are the two test fit figures.



C&C is welcomed. There will be areas that will require some GS'ing and yes, the weapons will get swapped out. Also, the ones with the guardian heads will get GS'ed to resemble the helmets in the new art work we have seen in WD and the new 5th ed rule book.

[Ixajin]

Got both squads to the point where they have legs and torsos.





Squad One


Squad Two


And the first test for their Splinter Rifles


A shot of both squads

[Ixajin]

Ok, have the first warrior with a splinter cannon mocked up.






C&C welcome as always.

[Ixajin]

Two new pics of Squad One:



Warrior with Blaster from Squad One:



Obviously there is clean up and GS'ing that still needs to be done, but I want to work through some GS tutorials before doing so, as my skills are lacking at the moment.

As always, C&C is welcomed and desired.

[Ixajin]

The second squad.

Warrior with Splinter Cannon from the Squad Two:



Warrior with Blaster from the Squad Two:



Obviously there is clean up and GS'ing that still needs to be done, but I want to work through some GS tutorials before doing so, as my skills are lacking at the moment.

As always, C&C is welcomed and desired.

[Ixajin]

Work on my Stompa goes slow, but is progressing. Nothing outta the box yet, so no pics.

However, I have returned to a project two years in the making. First a little tease.




Ok, more information on this project for my Dark Eldar can be found Here.

And more progress has been made since the above pictures.

Ok, got quite a bit of work done on the vessel of Pain. I can say now that I have gotten this far on this one that I will build two more so that i will have a squadron of three total.

Ok, first pic, standing upright, the figure on the side in the back ground is that of a Rogue Trader a friend of mine was playing for an Inquisitor campaign I was running. Which is ironic, as it was a DE fleet that destroyed his fleet.



The second picture is the vessel sitting flat with a DE reaver jetbike next to it. The rider on the jetbike is a WIP haemonculus, of which there is a second one still in my case that needs completing as well.



As always C&C are welcomed.

[malika]

Wow! I hope you wont forget to put details on that thing. Most large scale project look off because they lack the 28mm scale detail

[Ixajin]

Thank you. I do plan on adding details, just for the very reason you mention. Right now i am just concentrating on the overall structure, then I will go back and start the detail work.

[Hadriel Caine]

these are going to look sweet. I still personally like the Dark Eldar warriors kit and have just done a few head swaps here and there. but the guardian conversions look very cool here!

Adam

[jpwyrm]

Wow, these looks really good! Congrats! I like the mix of different sets, they look to be fitting well together.

I have a suggestion for the blasters to make them look a bit more Dark Eldarish:
Try adding some blades and spikes. Mainly, if you could turn all the round bubble-thingies on it to spike, I think this would make it.

Keep up, your work is awesome!

[OutOfContext]

It's amazing how simple these conversions are, and yet they automatically look better than the current DE models.
Absolutely fantastic stuff and I'm very tempted to try it myself. I would however, try and spice up the plain Eldar helmets a little maybe with something simple like a rune or a gem.
Top notch

[Ixajin]

Thank you all. Once I get comfortable with adding the green stuff to clean up the joints and gaps I will sparingly add some bladed/spikey bits. This will help tie them into my current DE warriors. The next step for them is constructing raiders. I am looking to build something that will incorporate design elements from the old eldar wave serpent and the current raider, though I will wait until after GD Baltimore to see if I can get some raiders to use for the base of the conversions.

[the-skylord]

Loving those cloaks on the Dark Elder! Cloaks are always cool, looking forward for this raider.

[FraustyTheSnowman]

So what exactly is a vessile of pain? This a superheavy I assume?

Great work so far on the warriors. I'm working on a dark eldar army using lots of dark elf bits also, and it's really cool to see someone elses take on things. Here in about two weeks or so I should have pics of what I've got, and if it's cool I'll post a link here so you can check it out.

At first I thought you were going to leave the crossbows as are when I saw your first pic. Glad to hear that wasn't the plan. Your splinter rifles look really good, wish I would have thought of that actually. The blasters are a great idea also. I don't have the bits to do it, but would if I did. Keep up the good work, I look forward to coming back and checking it out.

[Lt.Gregor]

I might need to borrow some of your idea's for my dark eldar army.

[Morthai]

Very promising blog. Some nice conversions (I especially like your splinter rifles and blaster idea). I’m also looking forward for this heavy raider to be completed. Keep it up

[Luthien]

Woo, the Dark Kin live!
I love your take on the DE, not overly complicated (if you don't mind me saying so ) and it looks great. A realy good, modern looking, idea.

[tcraigen]

great work I love the mix of dark elf/eldar bits and the normal eldar ones as well. Oh and that thing is huge.

[Ixajin]

@Frausty: The vessel of pain is a super heavy grav-tank from the Raiders supplement for epic. A vehicle on par with the Scorpion grav-tank fro the Eldar.

Thanks all! With any luck I will have more pics to put up this weekend.

[kiwichild]

Nice combo of dark elves and eldar, the guns are what got me to subscribe. I do have one idea though...........the plain guardian heads could do with a little something to break up their shape. How about sweeping them back more. You could ,glue a piece of plasticard (in a 2/3 'C' shape) to the back and then blend the head into it with green stuff. Then you get that distinctive dark eldar curved blade look with out having to go ober spikey bitz on them.

Cheers