The Dark Eldar Project - Complete!

It's finally over...

So I agreed to fix up and paint this army at least 12 months ago now, and it's been an interesting experience. I would have to say that commission work is not something I could do very often (and certainly not to a time schedule).

The Dark Eldar Project - Part 5

The unbuilt pile is growing smaller and smaller...

 

And the unpainted pile gets bigger and bigger...

 

Anyway heres two of the new Ravager models all built and ready. I actually made a pretty big mistake, attaching the wrong piece to the center part. I used the Raiders piece rather than the Ravagers (which is required to attach the side mounted weapons). After some hacking and regluing I managed to get them fixed up.

 

I'm still kicking my self for building both at the same time, and subsequently making the same mistake on both models.

 

Pew pew pew zaaap.

The Dark Eldar Project - Part 4

Now to give you guys a look at what happens when I try to convert something.

So my friends Dark Eldar were missing a Klaivex for the Incubi squad. Ofcourse we could just run them as a squad of 4 (its so nice not being limited to 5/10 men #SpaceMarineLists)...

Did I really just make a #something joke? oh dear...

Anyway, we have an extra Dark Eldar Lord model lying around. Since we already have the Archon that can 'counts as' whatever my friend needs I decided to do some conversion work on this Lord model.

My my what very large blades you have.

The Dark Eldar Project - Part 3

Taking a change from all the building this time I finally got my first squad of Warriors painted.

My friend didn't have any particular preference for paint scheme so I decided to go with something easy. Mechrite Red armour, Mithril Silver metals, Knarloc Green eyes and poisons, cover the whole thing in Nuln Oil shade, and finish with a few quick highlights using the base colours. Extra colours included Iyanden Darksun for the hair pieces, and Hormaguant Purple for the Blaster weapon.

Looking good boys!

The Dark Eldar Project - Part 2

Once I had the Warrior squads out of the way it was time to start working on the bigger stuff. The unpainted old raider was fun, my friend had glued the platforms on the sides upside down. Not only that, but he had used so much glue that there was no way I could detach it. Sawing and plastic gluing later and it still looks a bit wonky, but hey, at least the troops have somewhere to stand now.

The 'Fleet'. 3 old model Raiders and a lone new model.

The Dark Eldar Project - Part 1

About 8 months ago (might even have been longer) I agreed to built and paint my friends Dark Eldar in exchange for his remaining Tyranids. I had wanted to start a Tyranid army at the time I thought it would be a pretty good trade...

I screwed myself over with this one.

So I had the models soaking in Simple Green for nearly 6 months (and it still didn't get the primer off) so now it's time to start getting this stuff done.

So before I soaked these guys I pulled them into as many pieces as I could, this left me with a huge job trying to clean them all up later. But thankfully, as of writing this, that's all done with. We are now at the stage of building everything and beginning to paint.

So heres a few starting pics to give you an idea:

Dark Eldar Archon... Lord... Evil leader dude.