Bloody Skies

The favorite part of my Dark Eldar army project was the conversion of all my Reaver Jetbikes!!

The sprues came with a variety of left over bits, and that allowed me to do some very fun additions to the bikes, such as extra fins and hull sections.

Here's a quick view of other conversions:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-racing-teams-assemble.html

I was able to make completely unique designs for each bike, which was a blast!!

She's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221956704581?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Golden Girl

This is one of just a few GW Seraphim that I ever had in the army.  I put more gold on this than on the others, which meant that I could pick up on a bit more of the green reflections.

Green and purples are always a good midtone and dark area shades.

One of my 53 Painting Pyramid videos covers the painting of Gold Non Metallic Metals.  Here's a few screen captures from the filming:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2013/08/raging-brunhilde.html

You can find those on USB drives at Kings Hobbies and Games!

http://www.kingshobbiesandgames.com/James-Wappel-s-The-Painting-Pyramid-s/130.htm

She's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/221956130509?

Daemonic Possession

Next from Sukubus Studios, we have a new demonette player.

I could not resist adding a Slaneesh symbol on the cloak!

I have been having a lot of fun playing with all the various shades and intensities of purples.  I really like adding in the very intense magenta colors in areas where I have painted some muted purples highlighted with a blueish grey.  

Using teal as a complimentary color in places like the 'hair" or on the metals has been a blast as well.

Stay tuned for many more! :-)

Fire of the Dragon

More Celtos!  Another character from the Sidhe called Faeron the Fire Wizard.

This is the part that was very fun!  Some fun cloak freehand.  It's something that I had wanted to play around with for a long time, and it made a great practice run for some even larger projects.

The broad cloak on this figure was going to get some kind of freehand design.  Originally that was going to be Celtic Knotwork designs, but the dragon image was just too tempting!

I also wanted to see if it was possible for a design that was more complex to stay cohesive enough over folds and so on.

He's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/221955257915?

Superior Sisters

We have another entry from my Sisters of Battle army a few years ago at Adepticon.  The power Sword is actually an old Grey Knight bit.  Very old, in fact, from the original Grey Knight figures. :-)

While most of the Sister squads from the army were in green robes, I thought I would have some fun and make these in white.

She's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321934597346?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Star Fury

One of my favorite units of my Dark Eldar army was the Incubi unit.  I converted a few regular Kabal Warriors into an Incubi with extra parts from Raging Heroes Blood Vestal kits.

Here's a link to the WIP post:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-converted-klaivex-for-archon.html

She's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/321934059505?

Deadly Music

 

In my last Secret Weapon post, I mentioned that I had done some conversions of the RAV 6 x 6 in order to fill out my Sisters of Battle army.

 

In this case, I constructed an Exorcist tank with some plasticard and other random bits.

 

You can see one of them in this view... a chunk of Rhino control panel, I believe.

 

To create the 'pipe organ' feel, I chopped up a bunch of plasticard pieces to lay out in a keyboard pattern.

 

Another Rhino control panel bit above the keys.

 

I made a sponson for the spotlight out of the cardboard from a blister pack.  Yes, it was a real collection of refuse that I utilized to create that turret!

 

This turret could be removed and placed on any of the chassis.  Most of the time, it was placed in the tank with the armor skirts to give it the heavier armor presence.

 

I don't think that I even got a chance to shoot the pipe organ in any of the tournament games, which was a bummer!  It certainly looked quite dangerous...

 

Still, the project itself was very fun!

 

You will also recognize some of the freehand, which I have used on banners, armor skirts, and even the floor of the Great Basilica!

 

Once again, some Sisters for scale.  I have a huge amount of Raging Heroes Sisters of Battle under way, and I can't wait to have some group shots of those with these fantastic vehicles. 

 

Oh yeah, and I also have two more of these painted up as well.  Stay tuned!