Harlequin Carnival - La Danse Macabre

Aaaaaah I am back! My painting mojo has waned recently but had these chaps on the backburner ever since I converted my drazhar. Felt he needed a suitable retinue. Behold the dancing death! My Incubi. C&C welcome

Wow! They go with your drazhar perfectly! Where are the cloaks from? Are they your own?

Can't wait to see paint on these guys and the big man himself!

Thanks they are from victoria miniatures. Wanted something with a little movement to them and slimline, and these fitted the bill perfectly. I think I might just paint them next, depending on how they perform in my first game of 7th ed on friday.

Ahh I love there stuff. Been meaning to put a big order in for my converted guard I'm starting.

I hope they perform well to persuade you to paint them! Good luck in your first 7th game, I have yet to get any of my armies off the ground...

Nice mandrakes, very great ideas.

Would be cool if your incubi were wielding guitars or some kinda instrument with sharp edges

Have you painted Azdragath yet?

Cheers dragontree. They perfomed ok in game but died to slaneeshi ap3 flamers after chopping a 5 man unit into little pieces. Ran drazhar with them who tanked quite a few shots but both him and the incubi are far too expensive in my honest opinion for what they kill. Def be painting them soon but have a few troop units looking at me with accusing eyes while I have been painting all the fun stuff.

Thanks facelessabsolom. Great to have you back slashing guitars would have been cool, reminds me of the old school slaneesh rock guitarist models. Man they were cool.

Not painted him yet but he is on the list Trying to use all the fun stuff as rewards for getting troop units and other such chores painted.

Really liking the use of the new WE parts on your Incubi, they look fantastic, and have fine, fine headwear, and thanks for all the inspiration.

Glad to have inspired great to see some more cool conversions popping up. Looking forward to seeing more on your plog. Yes they are mighty fine pieces of headwear. Only the best for the incubi

Hi all. It has been a while since I have posted on here but been a bit distarcted by Infinity the game. I have played a few games of 7th ed with my dark kin (and it was awesome fun) but had the realisation that while I have some rather nice models painted they were all off the table alot of the game while my unpainted & unconverted vehicles were glaring in their obviousness. I had to get some of these painted but have been putting off the only raider I had managed to convert. I decided to bite the bullet and start work on one vehicle to break my mental block.

Here is the (almost) finished result. I have been working on her for a while but had to post it up to keep myself motivated to finally finish her. The crew are the only things not completed yet but they will come in due time. It has been mega time consuming and frustrating on this one but I am happy with the overall outcome. I did not want to over complicate it too much so tried to keep the decoration to a minimum and just concentrate on blocks of colour instead, with a little embellishment.

The gold looks quite blotchy on the photos but to the eye it has a nice smooth effect. I might gloss it as it still looks a little matt and this might be why it looks blotchy like it does. I ended up removing the flag poles and bunting as, although cool, once primed the string I used for the bunting went all funny and I decided that it would look better without all the poles and such (plus I have nearly stabbed myself in the eye numerous times trying to gauge line of site from the darn thing). Anyway enough chitchat from me, here are the pics. Thoughts and criticism always welcome

very cool raider, damn this army is gonna look so good with more vehicles.

Thanks . Yes I am looking forward now to getting a few more painted up. Now the mental block is broken I feel I can take on the challenge (even though they are quite a time investment and frustrating to paint). I am trying to tie up my half finished units this summer, which include my beast pack, warrior squad & the crew for the raider. Once done I will tackle a venom I think and then poss a ravager (both vehicles must takes in my opinion)

Hey Spell

Haven't checked in for awhile, my DE/E army has taken a backburner as i bring my orks up to new codex stylinz, which is quite a big task and ofc i went a little mad and now have like 4 ork units in the queue ahead of the dar.

Your incubi look sick! the cloaks are awesome, were they pricey? currently all my DE/E have cloaks I made which aren't all that great tbh. The raider as usual fits your aesthetic perfectly loving the little extra details you threw on. the hearts are GS yeh? or just cut out plasticard?

Glad you managed to work your way out of a painting block il have to post you my big mek on bike with shokk gun, its rather crazeh.

I haven't said anything before, but I am in awe!

It makes me want to stamp on all my miniatures and throw them away, because they're rubbish! RUBBISH, I tell you! I won't, though.

Oh come on, please! They cant be as bad as mine!

I haven't painted any lately because I have been decorating the house....

You decorate that house Tengu! Afterwards, I have three hundred models you need to get painted by September!

@ Solar. Ta very much Great to have you back. Dont worry I am distracted by the wolves at the moment, and am frantically converting some blood claws and grey hunters so I can get onto the awesome stuff like santa's sled .

The cloaks were from victoria miniatures, and they were a very reasonable price, with free shipping from Australia! The hearts and butterflies were all plasticard. I was going to paint lots of stipes and patterns ect instead but it just looked too crazy busy so a few simple additions of the hearts ect were enough to jazz it up a bit without overpowering it all.

Yeah would love to see your new mek model. With your converting skills and the great new kits gw has bought out recentyl it should look pretty awesome

@ Barking Agatha, Your stuff is awesome ( mutual pats on the back all round ) thanks for the compliment . I nearly tore my eyes out in frustration painting the darn raider so glad it is not too shabby looking. Still got the crew to go though, which I am dreading.

@ Tengu. Just been painting up my bathroom today. Unfortunately real life takes over painting little plastic people sometimes., especially if the other half had been demanding said paint job for over a year :/

@ Lord Alino. 300 models! Man you is crazy   

Simply place your models at the bottom of the wall and just make sure your a rather aggressive wall painter!
walls and models painted in one!
and if yo realllly crazy, base coat them black for a pokadot effect!

As for my big mek,
imagine; necron bike, the skaven doomwheel, an oldskool fire prism and your on your way there on shift atm but il take a picture later and post

Voila!
Not fully complete, needs a few more bits of GS work and it has a base too It has to have a pretty heavy base to balance out the prism.







EDIT:Realised two pics were the same one changed to the intended 3

I like that Solar. Although why not put it on your own project log?

Lord_Alino wrote:

I like that Solar. Although why not put it on your own project log?

Ah I try and keep a log on dakka probably could have linked it tbh, but yeh I just really enjoy spells stuff and like to share

Alright, that makes sense. How are you planning to do it's base anyways?

well yeh the problem was the weight of the prism, so i decided that i needed to position the prism as close to the centre line as possible and use a reasonably weighted base to hold stop it tipping. So its basically atm just cork board with lots of layers over coins. Same width as a bike base with a little overhang.

Its curved and angled to one side so that the bike looks like its leaning, allowing it to keep the prism central.

Only real issue is the model turned out rather large wont be much cheeky LOS tricks

Why not add like a small cliff side to the side the prism isn't on? Might add for some neat background.

Lord_Alino wrote:

Why not add like a small cliff side to the side the prism isn't on? Might add for some neat background.

its reasonably cliff like atm (just poor explaining on my half), but yeh it definitely needed quite alot of base, as its such a large bike model and I had to use like 5-6 coins to get the weight i needed

One more question. Is that a metal prism cannon?