Very nicely done !!!!!

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Beautiful!

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SG

Ghost's Paint Blog, where everything goes that isn't something else.

Excellent work all over Borka
keep it up
great conversions

"Ok that finishes the raider tutorial. I'll do one for the Barge of Pleasure and airplanes later."

Any update on the other tutorials?
Thanks

Thanks for the reminder

I'm sad to say though that available time for hobby is at an all time low right now. I want to finnish painting the Kabal coiterie before doing the second formation (and BoP) as well. So this will most likely take a while for the BoP.

The airplanes:
The airplanes were really easy to make though. All you need is an old plastic jetbike. Then buy these parts from the reaver jetbikes from any bits store (the 4 parts on the lower row). http://i.ebayimg.com/t/WARHAMMER-40K-BIN-BITS-DARK-ELDAR-REAVERS-HULLS-and-WINGS-/00/s/OTAwWDkwMA==/$(KGrHqZHJC4E8fW,EPnUBPPh8zUg3g~~60_3.JPG

Cut off the hammerhead looking part that protrudes from the "bridge" between the wings. Cut the jetbike in two behind the back of the rider. Glue the two parts to the "bridge" between the reaver wings, like in this picture.


Add some greenstuff underneeth in the middle to make the two parts of the jetbike and the reaver wings "blend" together.

The cannons seen on the picture are from the old plastic vibro cannon. They're the small support piece that sit under the actual cannon. Cut like the black lines suggests.

That completes the airplanes

cheers

Niftyness! Looking good.

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Nitpicks Knapsack (Scratchbuilding and 3D designing and printing and painting)

Great stuff! Let me know when your next week of night shifts is due. Maybe we could get another game soon. I, too, have been very very very busy lately. Have not even had time to upload the pictures from last game.

My tyranids are ready.

/Fredmans

Well actually I will not have any more night shift weeks because the hospital where I work had to cut down on the number of doctors. I got a new jobb today though at a Vårdcentral in sundbyberg. I will have two weeks off in between my two jobbs and would happily play any of those (1st - 14th october).

Let me know if any day in that time period is good for you.

cheers

Fantastic work!

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Sofa General

Nobody expects the Inquisition!!!
http://theepiclounge.wordpress.com/

wow...all i can say...wow...i wish my brain worked like that

Freaking awesome!

Ok so I have finished my first Eldar formation. Our camera is still broken so photos are from the phone camera again.

It's my Kabal Coterie. It's 4 units of Incubi with upgraded wyches. I started (as per my test piece) with blue as contrasting color to the green. I wasn't overly happy with the result so I've tried purple instead, like you can see on one of the raiders. I think I'll go with purple, it gives a darker feel/theme. The wyches will remain redheads though as I think it fits them to stand out from the rest.




Here's a close up of the dracon/archon unit



Wyches sideways



guys on the left (merde!! like the french would say, seems like the Raider has lost it's gun)



After designing this formation I realized that the first strike of wyches could actually work to my disadvantage. If I get my guys in CC and the wyches kills something then a shrewd opponent would take the kills from some of the units in CC with my incubi, effectively negating 2 x 3+ CC attacks. With that in mind I redesigned the list I'm planning and I will go with the incubi upgrade instead. An alternative is of course to go with warriors instead, which would free up 25pts for a sybarite in my BTS.

Next up is another pair of incubi to complete the Kabal Coterie. Then it'll be turn for the BTS formation, which will be a warrior Kabal with 2 BoP. It will allow me to finish that BoP tutorial.

cheers everyone!

Those look fantastic man well done.

Clever builds, crisp paintjob and the usual top basing!

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Nitpicks Knapsack (Scratchbuilding and 3D designing and printing and painting)

Ok so here comes tutorial number three, The one for the Barge of Pleasure. Ones again I rely heavily on parts from the current reaver model and missiles from the new 40k DE airplane.

Parts that I've used can be seen in this picture.



What you see is:
1 old plastic epic eldar jetbike.
2x old plastic epic eldar vyper jetbikes.
2x old plastic Vibro cannons (mine are somewhat cut up).
2x necrotoxin missile part
2x shatterfield missile part
2x 40k reaver jetbike hull part (4 are shown)
1 piece of plasti-card (not shown)

Like you can see the vibro cannons have their frontal part missing, these are used for
the raiders like you saw earlier

Step 1

Cut off the lower part of the vibro cannon, you can see the piece already cut off in the above picture. Glue it to the back of the reaver hull part. Like this. Do this to both the reaver parts, 1 will form the bottom(/deck) and one will form the top(/roof) of the vehicle.



Step 2

Cut off the driver from the ordinary jetbike and place it in the hole in the reaver hull part you've chosen for to be the top/roof part. Cut out the vyper gunner with gun, seat and all from behind the driver (be sure to save the rest as it can now be used as a regular jetbike). Take two of these and put them in the holes in the reaver hull part. I use these throughout my army to represent Dark lances, which the BoP have two of.



Step 3

Fill the hollow inside of the reaver parts with greenstuff, both top and bottom part.


Note that the above picture is WIP. You will want to fill the green stuff up so that it becomes level with the raised areas, and not just halfway like in the picture.

Step 4

Cut out a piece of plastic card that fits on top of the bottom part. This is going to be your deck. Glue it to the bottom.



Step 5

Now you take the missiles. First cut off the missile wing parts (blue lines). These are rather delicate so you will need to be careful (they're already cut off in the picture see first picture for reference). They will be used for railings.

Cut along the red lines on the two shatterfield missile parts. Take the two pieces you get and flatten their backsides, glue them together. This will be the "stem" of the vehicle, which holds the top and bottom parts together.

Take whats left and cut along the green line. Glue the piece you get to back of the top hull part. This will be the engine exhaust.



It will look like this when all is glued together.



Step 6

Cut one of the vibro cannon, cannon pieces free.

Glue it underneath the deck somewhere that you think is fitting, which I guess depends a bit on which reaver piece you use the bottom. I use it to represent the barrage weapon on the BoP (the name escapes me at the moment).

Step 7

Base the vehicle according to your preferred method.


That completes the tutorial.

cheers