The captors become the captives...

Here's one of the finished objective markers.

While I am trying to keep the full story of the army a surprise until it is fully written, I do want to say that the world which the Dark Eldar are invading drew their attention not only by the existence of the Hippodrome.

Something else drew them, a suffering which permeated space and time itself.

This world is very much like the Rome of Nero, with witches, mutant and heretics being thrown to the wolves, quite literally, in the Hippodrome.  Mass executions were popular entertainment on this world.

The ruler of this world even begins to have fantasies that he is the Emperor of Man.

In the end, the 'nobelmen' and women of this society, who always owned slaves, will be themselves enslaved by the Dark Eldar.  The oppressors will now be locked in the same cages as those whom they oppressed.

It's gonna be fun!

Almost there...

Here are some images of the Raider in its final stages.  There are still more things that need to be done with this.

I have some weathering powder stuff that I want to do, as well as trying to magnetize the main weapon.

There is one last special thing that I really hope I have time to do.  That will remain a surprise for now!

There was a lot to learn working on this piece.  As you saw in the WIP post, it was painted in separate parts as much as possible.  I have a Reaper that will require some fancy footwork.  That will be an interesting project!

Even more dramatic will be the Tantalus.  So huge!!!

I took a bunch of pictures from above, so I will be posting those later tonight or tomorrow... Stay tuned!

Works well in groups...

Here are the promised group images.  Sooo different from the initial layers of colors. :-)

I remember the initial color for the army was going to be much lighter, so that I could show more dirt aound the feet... paint chips and blood splatters.

That would have been fun as well, but this scheme has really fed into the story line, which continues to expand and develop each day...

Depending on the storms tomorrow, I will be posting bikes and raider images.  Stay tuned!

Leader of the pack

Here we have the leader of the Kabal Warriors.  As with most of the group, this was a combination of old and new kits.  It turned out to be super fun!

I also have another version of this figure with an agonizer.  In fact, I am really looking forward to the post tournament army which will include many more of the Kabal warriors.  They will have a very cool ride in the Tantalus!

I have a few shots of the whole squad that I will post next.

Miniaturized version of the mosaic tiles...

This base is for one of my objective markers.  Most of you are familiar with the Razorwing base that has a much bigger version of this particular mosaic.  This is a 40mm base.

I am enjoying the mosaics!  I will try to get some of these on the army board as well.

The beginning of a duel...

The original plan for this jetbike (as it was for a few others) was to have a space marine either being hacked apart by the bladevanes, or standing on the ground firing up at the jetbike... like the Razorwing.

This is why it was built up on the taller base.  However, I quickly realized that it would be impossible to use in a game as originally conceived, so I pared it down to the shooting marine, which could in turn be removable, just like the Cyberwolf marine can be removed from the Razorwing base.

Hopefully I will get the time to make that space marine figure for this particular base. :-)

In the meantime, here are a few more views of the jetbike by itself.

And here it is with the original color test jetbike...

Much more to come!

More of your friendly neighborhood Kabal...

All right folks, more Kabal Warriors.  It was really hard to choose which of these to use for Adepticon, since I think I had assembled at least 20 of them, possibly more.  Only 10 could fit into the list.

I also had a bunch metal Fantasy Dark Elves which were going to be used as Hecatrix Blood Brides.  I converted them with left over splinter pistols and other Wyche weapons.

In the meantime, more painting on these Kabal Warriors!