Hi again!
Haven't been updating much last few months. When I started working full time in february hobby time got hit pretty bad. Usually get rather tiered in the evening which is my prime painting time. I've done some small stuff for the armies though so I thought it time to make an update.
My squats have seen a little more work. I've finished the train for them and it looks like this:
The whole train
close up of train engine
I have also almost finished a warrior formation still need to do 2 more warrior stands and finish the lord unit to complete the formation.
front and back
The formation will come with thunderer upgrade, sadly I forgot to take a frontal picture.
Yellow backs
Now to something completely different. I'm bad at finishing my projects always starting new ones and now it's time for another project. Haven't thought about it before but It seems to me that I like to play armies that are little different and not mainstay. I've done Necrons and Tau, which both play different to all other NetEA armies. I also, like you know who followed this paintlog, want to make a tyranid army at some point.
I've had my eyes on Dark Eldar for quite some time, thinking that they look like a lot of fun to play. I do think they will play a lot different compared to most other armies and even to ordinary eldar. I however don't feel like playing such an evil race, but I have come up with a solution. I'm going to start converting an eldar corsair army, but I will be using the Dark Eldar list to represent them.
Fluffaters read on, other can skip ahead to next picture 
Code:
The theme would be a corsiar band led by a corsair prince. The prince was born on a craftworld think I'll go with ulthwe. During his training as a warlock he came to a schism with his tutors over what he perceived as lack of action. Embittered he went away from the craftworld and chose the path of the outcast.
After living as a ranger and corsair he fell pray to ambition and went to the dark city. He was due to his martial prowess able to join a Kabal of commoragh (which would explain how he learned Dark Eldar tactics). Ricing steadily in the ranks during a few hundred years in the city. He eventually saw the folly of personal ambition after losing a son to the intrigues of the Kabal and the fall of the Archon he had chosen to serve.
Tired and sickened of what his race had become in the Dark City after the fall, he pledge to serve his race instead of his own personal gain. He could not return to his craftworld however after his many years in commoragh, they refused him and said he was tainted from his stay in the city.
With a few followers from his time as a corsair and even some from commoragh he chose to start a new corsair force. The intent was to be not mere pirates but to try and restore the glory of the eldar empire wherever they could. Young eldar from many craftworlds not content with the policies of their craftworld leaders, wanting more action against the upstart races that had have claimed so much of what used to be eldar space, soon joined the group as their reputation grew.
After 300 hundred years the band is stronger than ever and have supported several large scale actions of craftworlds against the lesser races of the galaxy. At the present date they are one of the strongest corsair bands, but of course lacking the manpower and resources of a craftworld. This has made the corsair prince employ the tactics used by the dark eldar realizing they need to hit with lightning speed and hit hard as they cannot sustain big losses.
I want the army to
not have a uniform look as they are a corsair band where the members come from many different backgrounds and craftworlds. I have therefore chosen to mix different eldar miniatures. Below are warrior, I have used the guardian models but also added dire avenger and fire dragon miniatures which will explain the somewhat better CC stat and shooting attack compared to guardians.
here are my first two units + a unit of reaveres
I've also started on a Kabal Coterie formation which will have my Corsair prince in it (Archon). They (incubi) will represent his best warriors which after many raids and campaigns have become expert warriors.
For them I've used striking scorpions, dark reapers as the base. I actually wanted to use only converted Dark reaper models, but lacking enough of those I also used the scorpions.
3 incubi with Corsair Prince (dracon/archon) unit in the middle.
That was all for know. Have vacation now and am going away for some time so probably will not update in a while. Am also waiting for more eldar stuff to arrive before I can start to convert raiders, ravagers and more infantry.
cheers
