Dark Eldar Kabal of Endless Twilight

[LuckyNo.5]

Here's some WIP's from my Dark Eldar kabal.

Drazhar
I really already liked the old sculpt for Drazhar (probably the only good old Dark Eldar Sculpt), so I decided to use him and make a few modifications to make him more current to match the rest of my forthcoming Incubi.

The 2 outdated looking areas IMO were the Demiklaives and the back Incubi spine/blade things. I used and extra set of spine/blade things from the new Incubi set as a replacement and Some Plastic Hellglaive blades left over from the Hellions box to solve this problem.

[LuckyNo.5]

Archon 2
I wanted to create a second Archon for my Kabal that has alternative wargear options from my first Archon. Basically he's all plastic bits from the Warriors box with some extra green stuff hip armor, a Wyche Power Sword and a cool looking Incubi Helmet.

I wanted to make him look more agile and ready for combat than the stoic looking regular Archon metal fig.

[LuckyNo.5]

and some more...

Court of the Archon
I've wanted to build a court for a while, but after extensive research into alternate figs for the Medusae and the Sslyth, I realized that I'd need to scratchbuild / convert most of it. In all the pics the bases are not finished and mold lines have not been fully cleaned yet.

Ur-Ghuls
For my Ur-Ghuls I wanted to elaborate on the fluff a bit and make something unique for my Army, so I came up with the concept that maybe the Ur-Ghuls are the result of Warriors failing or betraying their Archon. After the Warrior is caught in the act, they are turned over to the Haemonculi for a bit of "fun". Slicing them up, lobotomizing them, replacing higher-level brain functions with scent-pits and them sending them back to the Archon for "amusement". I mean what could be more fun for a twisted Archon than to watch those who fail him get turned into groveling senseless ghouls.

I used Vamp Counts Ghouls tops mixed with DE Warrior legs to achieve this effect. I chopped the tops of the heads to resemble the deamons from Constantine and used green stuff to blend the torsos to the legs ss if the Warrior was stripped down to the waist and shipped off to the Haemonculi.

[LuckyNo.5]

Lhamaeans
Nothing too special here. Basically just harder looking Wyches. They were made with a combination of Wyche, Warrior and Hellion parts with left over Torment Grenade Launchers from a Ravager kit mounted on their back to represent Poision vials in stasis.

[LuckyNo.5]

Medusae
Based off the fluff description for the Medusae I realized that I would certainly need to completely sculpt them. I started thinking of Lovecraftian Cthulu ethereal creatures and that got me on the whole idea of floating Space Squid.

I sculpted the arms form green stuff with a metal floral wire center to allow me to bend it like a "natural" tentacle would. The diamond shaped hands were sculpted separately then added on at the end with some green stuff. The floating entrails were done the same way, but more "chunky" in texture rather than the smooth tentacles. The center spinal column was made with thicker black wire and styrene tube. I cut the tube into little ringlets and glued them to the wire spaced out like vertebrae. I then added some green stuff blob organs around it to match the fluff.

I made the head under the assumption that it would be some Dark Eldar artisian making the metal Helmet/Visor that contained their optic blast. I basically reference one of my favorite DE helmet designs (that already looked squid like) and scaled it up larger with a hint of Cylon Visor added.

I'm in the process of sculpting 1 more Medusae so I can have a full unit. Pics will be up in the near future.

[LuckyNo.5]

Sslyth
Now these 3 were some extreme converting. I made them using mostly Warrior parts, some left over Hellion blades, Reaver Heads (for that Cobra Commander Look) and Tyranid Ravener tails.

The Tyranid tails were way to big initialy to use for the conversion, but after I cut off the upper portion, I realized I could green stuff the mid area to match the detail and blend in the Kabalite Armour upper torso with the organic Tyranid lower torso. Thankfully the Tyranid back scales were very similar in shape to the Kabalite Armour and it helped the transition become easier. I then added some extreme utility belts made form a collection of random bits I had left over from the rest of my DE army, mainly hanging weapons belts form the Raider/Ravager kits and hanging skull trophies from the Hellions.

[LuckyNo.5]

Here's a picture of the Court all together.

[alim192]

thats a nice conversion I was thinking in using Drazhar for my incubi with Demiklaives and doing the same as you but maybe changing his head too.

[LuckyNo.5]

Thanks Alim192.
I personally liked his helmet a lot, even more after I saw it in person. It's old school, but in that cool old school way.

[Hadriel Caine]

Oh my god. the court of the Archon is sick mate. I love all the conversions there and may have to steal them! One thing though, I really hope that twilight isn't endless...

[Ender Shadowkin]

Awesome work on the court!

[LuckyNo.5]

Thanks for the compliments!
@Hadriel Caine Twilight the terrible book/movie series will not be Eternal. But my army will!

Here's some more pics from my Dark Eldar Army; a scratch built Haemonculi Coven




Haemonculi Ancient
The core body is a classic Female Dark Eldar Warrior with her Shiva-like arms made from left over knife/pistol arm bitz from both the Kabalite Warrior Box and the Raider Box. The Splinter Pistol has been modified with styrene rod & shapes to represent a Stinger Pistol based off of Jes Goodwin's sketches. The Husk Blade is from the Metal Archon figure attached onto a Kabalite Warrior arm.

The belt/tabbard/corset area was a combination of Classic Warrior Legs, Greenstuff, floral wire for the corset stitching, Kroot knives, Kabalite Warrior Tabard & WFB Chaos Maurader trophy skulls & hooks on chains.

Her head is a a Slaanesh Deamonette head sliced to fit within a Dark Eldar high neck piece. The Collar is a left over piece from a WFB Empire Battle Wizard. The Base is some slate along with 2 resin skulls I bought form a vendor on Ebay.





Haemonculi 2
My second Haemonculi is very similar in design to the Haemonculi Ancient except for it's Male and has some different wargear. The core Body is a classic male warrior with pistol, knife and Agonizer arms coming from primarily the Kabalite Warrior Box. The Liquifier gun is a splice of a classic splinter rifle merged into a Tzeentch Pink Horror Arm. I wanted it to look like an appendage grafted on rather than the main arm like on the classic Haemonculi figures. The Splinter Pistol has been modified with styrene rod & shapes to represent a Stinger Pistol based off of Jes Goodwin's sketches just like the Haemonculi Ancient.

The belt/tabbard/corset area was a combination of Classic Warrior Legs, Greenstuff, floral wire for the corset stitching, Kroot knives, Kabalite Warrior Tabard & WFB Chaos Maurader trophy skulls & hooks on chains. His head is form the new Wyche Box with a top knot form the Kabalite Warrior Box. The base is some slate along with 2 resin skulls I bought form a vendor on Ebay.






Haemonculi 3
Here's my Third and Final Custom Haemonculi. Just like the 2 others, the core body is a classic male warrior with head, pistol & power weapon arms coming from the Kabalite Warrior Box. The Huskblade is from the metal Archon Blister. The Liquifier gun is a splice of a classic splinter rifle merged into a Tzeentch Pink Horror Arm. Splinter Pistol has been modified with styrene rod & shapes to represent a Stinger Pistol just like the the other two with the only addition being the underslung blade. The belt/tabbard/corset area was a combination of Classic Warrior Legs, Greenstuff, Kroot knives/ bags, Kabalite Warrior Tabard & WFB Chaos Maurader trophy skulls & hooks on chains.




I took a few pictures of the entire Coven. I primed the first two Haemonculi gray along with The new Urien Rakarth Figure.

[Hadriel Caine]

Loving the haemonculi! look forward to seeing some paint.

[SpeedFreek]

Your Haemonculi Ancient looks really terrifying and the Ur-Ghul bodies are very "stealable" so I might use a similar solution for wracks or ur-ghul.

Very good work here!

[Oberon]

Excellent work on the court! Sslyths and ur-ghuls are looking absolutely awesome and fitting. No wonder there's not too many people playing court of archons, as they take this much work to convert well.

Your haemonculi look nice too.

I like your idea for the archon. He truly looks more agile and combat ready, and being mostly plastic is of course a bonus.

Maybe next some painting?

[alim192]

your conversion work is superb looking forward to seeing these painted

[LuckyNo.5]

Thanks for the compliments Everyone!

I will be painting the court soon. I plan to make them for The Kabal of the Black Heart though, cause I want them to be Vect's court when they hopefully release a new Vect figure.

However, this will be my only units made for the Black heart, the rest will be for my Kabal of Endless Twilight.

I'm just waiting for Les Bursley to release a New Painting Turtorial for the Black Heart. He said he has one lined up soon.

The Haemonculi will be painted very soon, Just as soon as I finish some other unit in mid-paint now.

[SpeedFreek]

Les Bursley?
Do you have a link?

[LuckyNo.5]

Here's the mainpage: http://awesomepaintjob.blogspot.com/

Here's his 2 Dark Eldar Tutorials so far. 2 More in the works.

http://awesomepaintjob.blogspot.com/...ark-eldar.html

http://awesomepaintjob.blogspot.com/...ial-is-up.html

[Dayspringer]

These guys look stunning!