The Serpents' Breath - June 29, the first skimmers and bikes for my Harlies

Yup, that's awesome.     

Only just clocked this finished pic of your venom. Very creepy and really fits in well with the coven theme of the whacks & haemonculus. Great stuff

Oh man. Now that is definitely what a venom should look like! Beautiful! How hard was the nose piece to come by? I don't know the kit, so I have no experience of whether or not it's a separate bit.

Thanks Mr. Pink.  The nose piece is from a Razorwing.  I had purchased two bare RW hulls and one bare Venom hull as part of my Void Raven project, and at the end of that I was left with the back half of a Venom and the front half of a RW.  Et voila!

They fit together behind the cockpit very well, and then it was just a matter of blending the fuselage sides and crease line.

Well now, that is just really sweet! Love the look, very menacing.

Yeah, yeah, an update ........ don't all faint at once!  

I am about to start painting the first of my Harlies, finally.  I have collected some 35 troupe members and 3-4 each of the Death Jester and Shadowseer over the past few years, plus a Solitaire earlier this year.  But I am starting with some vehicles for a tournie this coming weekend.

I am not keen on the pregnant-Venom look of the bog-standard Voidweaver gunship, so I opened up the sides of the fuselage and carved them similar to a Venom's.  I like it much better, and it will help differentiate them from the Starweaver transports (plus it's fine for transports to look preggers).

In addition, I added a large masque to the nose to give them the same aesthetic as the Skyweaver jetbikes and separate them from a Venom more.  Not sure if I will do the same with the Starweavers.

I have magnetised all of the weapons and the gunners for the skimmers (haven't done one for the Starweaver yet), and I have magnetised the glaives and bolas for the jetbike riders, and one pilot.

And, I am REALLY liking the new off-white primer from GW - very crisp and clean, and the details are much easier to see than with straight white or black.

Voidweavers and Starweaver - fuselage differences:


- with dorsal gunners and weapons:


Voidweaver and Skyweaver -masques on nose:


Skyweavers - with interchangeable hand weapons:

I love the harlequin models. I feel as if they were made to be more like a supplement. Kind of like the Mercs and Minions in Warmachine and Hordes