Dark Eldar - Urien Rakarth - Coven of pain (My Army List)

So after painting Urien it is time to start considering using him in an army.... to be honest ...

a) I do not have much of a clue on Warhammer 40k nor on building an army list
b) I currently only own Urien and another Haemonculus and a squad of scourges and thats it with my Dark Eldars...

So looking forward to some of your input here as well :)

HQ
Urien Rakarth - 190pts

Elites
4 Grotesques - Liquifier Gun, Strength Bonus in Raider w/Night Shield - 240pts

Troops
9 Wracks - Liquifier Gun, Acothyst in Raider w/Night Shield and Disintegrator - 180pts
10 Wracks - 2 Liquifier Guns, Acothyst in Raider w/Night Shield - 200pts
10 Wracks - 2 Liquifier Guns, Acothyst in Raider w/Night Shield - 200pts

Fast Attack
5 Scourges - 2 Haywire Blasters - 130pts
5 Scourges - 2 Haywire Blasters - 130pts

Heavy Support
Ravager - Flicker Field - 115pts
Ravager - Flicker Field - 115pts

Total - 1,500pts

So that's 3 Wrack squads to score objectives, and to take Urien's extra Pain Tokens. Grotesques to guard Urien and benefit from his Strength boost. Ravagers as the much necessary anti-tank, and Scourges to stall vehicles (and possibly destroy). 6 Liquifier Guns combined with almost 30 attacks from each Wrack squad should dispatch of most hordes too.

Urien Rakarth - Dark Eldar - Painting guide

The painting guide I followed was from a fellow blog, even though I altered it a bit to fit to my colourcode in regards to Dark Eldar flesh.

Which Colour did I use:

Boltgun Metal (Vallejo)
Abbadon Black (Games Workshop)
Flatbrown (Vallejo)
Calthan Brown (Games Workshop)
Khaki (Vallejo)
Rose brown (Vallejo)
Agrax EarthShade (Games Workshop)
Nuiln Oil (Games Workshop)
Sky Grey (Vallejo)
Mithril Silver (Games Workshop)
Knarloc Green (Games Workshop)
Warpstone Green (Games Workshop)
Fluo Green (Vallejo)
Mechrite Red (Games Workshop)
Vermillion (Vallejo)
Evil Sunz Scarlet (Games Workshop)
Deep Green (Vallejo)
Intense Blue (Vallejo)
Liche Purple (Games Workshop)
Royal Purple (Vallejo)
Genestalker Purple (Games Workshop)

1. Basecoat the flesh and bone with Rose brown, the weapons with Boltgun Metal and the leather with Abbadon Black. Highlight the leather with Caltan Brown.
2. Apply a heavy wash of Nuiln Oil to the skin. Edge highlight the leather Khaki. Wash the metal Nuiln Oil.
3. Drybrush Sky grey onto the skin. Edge highlight the leather Kommando Khaki and the metal Mithril Silver.
4. Apply a fine highlight of Skull White to the flesh and bone, and wash the leather with Agrax Earthshade.

The gauntlet and further appendages. You can also find green vials and tubes that are present on Urien. The steps being as follows:

1. First block out the glass vial/tubes with Abbadon Black
2. Apply a basecoat of Knarloc Green to the whole area
3. Highlight the upper area of the vial Warpstone Green
4. Apply a highlight of Flue Green. Finally highlight with Skull White and wash with Nuiln Oil.

The steps I followed for the tentacles that support the model were:

1. Basecoat the tentacles in Mechrite Red, with the ends of them (the pincer areas) painted Abbadon Black.
2. Highlight tentacles with Vermillion
3. Wash the tentacles with Nuil Oil followed by Abrax Earthshade.
4. Add Mithril Silver to the pincers on the end of the tentacles and highlight the tentacles with Evil Sunz Scarlet

Starting with the armour, I decided to go along the same route as that of my upcoming Kabalite armour and used the process on both his body/arm armour and the models hair. The tutorial is as follows:

1. Basecoat all required areas with Abbadon Black.
2. An edge highlight (a thin line brushed onto all edges) was applied using a 1:1 mix of Deep Green and Intense Blue.
3. Then build up the edge highlights using a mix from the last step and adding Fluo Green.
4. A final highlight of pure Fluo Green was then applied to the most prominent edges.

The final part of this guide will look at the painting of the tabbard that Urien Rakarth is wearing.

1. Basecoat the tabbard with Lichen Purple.
2. Shade the area with a 1:1 mix of Abrax Earthshade and Liche Purple that is thinned down and painted into the recesses.
3. The tabbard was then given an initial highlight using 1:1 Royal Purple with Genestalker Purple.
4. Further highlight layers were applied by using Mechrite Red and Vermillion.

Warhammer 40.000 - Dark Vengeance Dark Angels Librarian

When I recall the post about me getting the Dark Vengeance box and that I actually now found the time to paint up the first model from that box I guess that it will be a lifetime project to get the whole box finished....

Considering that I also painted up Napoleonics 28mm and Flames of War 15mm as well as Napoleonics 6mm and Bolt Action 28mm this is when the first time to actually paint a Sci-Fi Model and the experience was very nice... hope you all like the result.

Any comments ? Give me a shout !

To be honest... this model took 20 different colours with additional 20 different mixtures of white into the different colours... horror !

The Table Project Part 1

My local DIY store had really nice boards and so it was not a problem getting 30cm by 30cm woodboards for my modular table project.

As this was cut I started around with general measurements. That means I painted a half sized version of one piece on a sheet of paper and started filling it with live (trees, houses, hedgerows, etc). Then I compared it to my general plan and took care it fits. Just to make sure my calculations are correct, I set up a second 30 by 30 board (or in irish measurements approx 1 foot by 1 foot) and painted it fixing to the first. Amazing what you can do with a ruler.

The next thing I did was mixing a 50/50 mixture of PVA glue and water. After mixing the stuff I put in some sand which I collected from the beach and mixed the whole thing through. To get it a bit thinner I needed to add some more water to the whole mixture but that was not much of a problem.

With this mixture I started plastering something on the wood board that later on will be a small or narrow rural road (550mm wide). This measurement allows a stand with 40 by 40mm  to fill the street and not exceed its wideness.

Current status is that I let that whole piece dry for two days now and afterwards actually started basecoating the areas that later on might be grass or similar stuff. I know I need to do that twice at least.

What happened:

- Tile (1 by 1 foot , or 30 by 30cm)
- Used watered down PVA glue and real sand
- rural road 5,5 cm wide made of above mentioned PVA and sand
- used a small stick on doing trail marks
- whole tile sprayed in green 2 times as wood soaks in colour
- watered down dark brown acrylic paint to soak again into the Sand, PVA construction
- Drybrushed with a 50-50 Mixture of dark brown and yellow
- highlighted with yellow

Rural road finished :) I am pleased:)

The tile actually took another brighter coat of green which matches more to the flock I currently own.

After another night of drying out I finally put PVA glue on the wood and carefully sprinkled some green flock on it. The result is what I expected it to be. As the coat of flock is not that thick (need to safe money on that) the basecolour shines through a bit. That doesnt matter that much.

Finished by now:
1) Rural road (glued, painted, drybrushed, ready)
2) Rest of the board (2 times basecoated, 1 time coloured, PVA glued and flocked)

For Sale on Ebay

Hi all,

I finally need to get some more space for my ever growing armies. So some of my fantasy miniatures have to leave... you will find them (painted of course) here:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/170969219434?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/170969220045?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/170969220428?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/170969221828?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Happy christmas !

Hi all,

this will be the last post possibly for this year. Reason is that christmas and the days in between and new years eve are aproaching very fast .It is a festive season with lots of joy and meeting friends.

I want to thank you all for reading through this blog in the last couple of months and I will of course continue this in 2013.

At this stage I want to wish all of you a happy and peaceful christmas, lots of joy and a fantastic start into 2013 !

Cheers

HaJo

More sexappeal on the table ?

After taking a look at the new 40k Dark Vengeance Box I consider there is a lack of females on the board.

So its time for some substitutes and additions to the upcoming army. As being male I and well beyong the age of 13 I consider going along to some changes and additions:

I think about replacing the two cultist leaders with these two models: