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A colour test for some reinforcments for my Ynnari host: Not perfect but good enough for what I plan to do with this lad... More in the blog:

Hi folks, As part of my Asuryani force, Ynnari oriented, I had marked on my list the addition of deepstriking units under the form of a Drukhari combat patrol plus other stuff. I've already painted the Incubus as part of the CtA24. Comes the time of the Kabalites. I have hesitated quite a long time before choosing a colour. I finally decided myself for an Akhelian green. It is close to a teal colour that can traditionally be associated to the dark kins. Their alliegence to the Ynnari sect will be only marked by subtle red details 5ribbons for example) or red paultrons. This illustration is a good impression of what I may aim at. But before diving into the painting I made a test model. For this I used the Archon mini. I was initially planning to make a kit bash to get it as an Harlequin Death Jester Proxy, as others overhere have done, especially the model displayed by @The Yncarne a few months ago: But in the end I went to a kit bash based on the bits I had in stock and keeping the boy into the Drukhari band wagon: Incubi stuff. A simple head and weapon swap. The miniature is IMHO improved by these changes, even if it still looks dumb. But not so dumb than the initial crossed arms version... So a margin improvment... The Akhelian green has been applied on a grey base coat, with deeper grey on the legs. This pic is not adapated to see the latter so you will ahve to trust me on that; but it is a nice variation. The full end result can be seen there: Interestingly enough, I cannot say which pic is worse... Generally speaking, I have not been very clever on that model. Some parts are of difficult access once glued, so prepainting would have been required. Foolish me. Anyway, after corrective actions taken to hide coloured spots that ended up where they were not supposed to be, it ended up quite OK. I've just forgotten that the paultrons were planned to be red. Not so important here as the fleshed cape is largely hiding them. But something to be checked on next models. I will stick with this scheme I guess; at least for the next 10 footsloggers. And for the 10 Scourges I enlisted last week too... See you soon.

Hi folks, I completed my mandrakes tiday, putting final snow touch to their base and correcting some clown noses caused by miscontrol of white paint for hairs. My inspiration was this illustration: It is slightly different from the usual paint job of GW; mainly as hexfire is blue and not greenish. I found it more convenient and more adapted to bring a common point in terms of colours with the swirling soul wave of my Yncarne. All these models are close from the proposed patrons from heavy metal teams (if they are still called like that) but more easily achievable with my more limited painting habilities... For the tatoos, if these esoteric marks are tatoos, I painted in "negative mode": I fiilled all the tatoos and grooves with an electric blue and tham I painted the skin around through an almost dry brushing technique. This left most of the tatoos free of Eshin grey paint and avoided trying to fix it with my trembling hand latter on. Rest of the model is quite straight forward even if I tried a variant on the blades: mixing bone parts with the doomed iron of these daemonic figures. Finally flames were done in the exact same way as for the Yncarne model I did earlier this month: Frost earth on a withe base; and then brueches qnd washes with Fenris grey, Ulthuan grey and Drakenhof nightshade. The other variant was for the shade shield of the mandrake that tries to hide itself from the light (before teleporting on a secondary objective). For this one I went a dark grey washed with a black, while top part was brushed with a dark blue and a grey. Et voilà! These 10 Mandrakes will be a nice addition to the Ynari force of mine, giving some nice dirty tricks available to the whole force. Let's them prepqre my vows for October pledge in 12 Month of Hobby! See you soon,

Hi Folks. There are as much reasons to choose and play an army than players. Or maybe not that much but a least a serious amount. So I will not pretend listing them all or even pretending covering the main ones. I will instead stick to a selfish and auto-centered exercise on why did I choose to build up an Ynnari force. I am not really an Eldar guy. I liked them and even started gathering an army in 96. I bought and stored some models, essentially after recovering some guardians from a friend on mine that left the hobby at this time and offered them to me a bargain. I have been left with a lot of guardians, falcon chassis and jetbikes. They were left there, waiting for some time. A first attempt for seriously using them was with the release of the Crafworld index. I was VERY tempted to build up a Saim-hann force. I even started building some potential models for kinsmen. But the soufflé went down. Another almost successful resurrection was the issuance of the Black Guardian list in the Eye of Terror campaign book. But the magic did not happen. Back to the pile of shame. CTA23 has been the last memorable event that affected these pointy ears. After 27 years most of the Aeldarii models were at last painted. I guess I have only 10 to 20 guardian bodies left in the waiting room. I kept Saim-hann theme – I never really abandoned it and I secretly hope for a Nuadhu Firehearth model someday… But I still haven´t played a single game: the army needed some legalization and improvements. And this is where the Ynnari trouble starts. A standard move would have been to select a few additional units and increase the army core with the usual suspects: Aspect warriors and so on. But I am not so fond of Aspect warriors in general (except Warp spiders and Dark reapers); although Aspects are the primal form of the Eldar units (I still have my 1st Ed compilation book (the yellow one), I am not that plugged into them. I instead decided to keep on moving on the guardian heavy thematic planning to add walkers and some rangers (inc. shroud-runners). The pile of shame has grown with some of these, but they remain in standby as, after a Paper-hammer* series of small games (in order to simulate and emulate my army construction) the tactical options appeared as being limited. Or better said: they almost paly as my AdMech. It is not what I want. Scouts´ models remain unpainted, even unbuilt. Another option would have been to build up a more fluff-oriented list going back to the roots of a wild rider heavy army. It is however not something that looks playable nowadays. May be for fun, but on the long run?... Paper-hammer stroke once again. It has been another fail So, what is left, except putting Aspect warriors? Ynnari. These have been a third choice, after the 2 previous errantly valuations. Yet they tick some boxes in terms of new tactical tricks. Indeed, getting these Dark-kins gives access to a series of deep striking units that will nicely balance the tactical options. Deep striking transports and skimming tanks. Fast units. Everything is into the speed aspect. I can have something that is still in the mood of that Saim-hann spirit will getting access to relatively cheap troops and units fulfilling a variety of tactical roles without slowing down the historic units of my rooster. To summarize, the decision to go Ynnari has not been a first choice. Rather a third one (And I hope they will not be axed in the next Aeldari codex so that I will not have to repent, again…). Decision has been made based on the play style and tactical options offered by the inclusion of the Dark Eldar units. It opens the rooster to a huge amount of units (probably as much as in a SM army, may it be?) so that variety and surprise effect can be guaranteed (if the collection growth allows it). What is going to include this Ynnari force: The drawbacks of Ynnari is the Yvraine tax. But as it has to be, so let it be. If you go Ynnari, you go Ynnari: so I cannot stop to Yvraine as a signature unit only. Let´s put the Yncarne too. This demonic figure has some tricky tricks to bring to the force. Add some Dark Eldars: a Patrol box for the moment (I touched it at 90 bucks…). I may increase the contingent with some Scourges and a Venom latter. As I “accidentally” get a KY Nightmare box, I also have a unit of 10 mandrakes available Corsairs may increase the rooster, especially as I have enough spare guardian bodies in order to build 2 units out of one box. What is missing from this list are the Venom, the Scourges and the Corsairs – 142 USD before discounts. Everything else is in the Pile of Shame already. In next instalments we will see how I am progressing with the painting of these models, starting with the Yncarne and Incubis. See you next time, *There are variants such as Lego-Hammer or Playmobil-hammer too. I even heard of a Hotwheels-Hammer once, but I guess the guy was talking of Steve Jackson´s Car Wars instead… PS: and I do insist that I am not starting a new army of any kind...

Threw this together via bitz I had: archon, void weaver, and death jester kits. I'll run this model as a character in my corsairs army. Sort of a death jester homage. I hope to get it primed this week but have no idea when I'll get started on the paint phase. Thanks for looking.

Comes both in Standard and Special Editions. Nice to have another dive into Commoraghian politics.

Switching to the vehicles of the three combat patrols I have. I’ll need to compress these images but I wanted to put something in my moribund blog. There's a lot of work here. TBH, I'm not feeling this work, but I aim to finish this one venom / 'weaver if nothing else.

All done except for the sealing coat. This guy is a test model. It uses the same colors as the witches, but it differs from the corsairs and existing kabalites. The latter is teal, not turquoise. Obviously I've been going for quantity over quality lately. I'm shooting for these models to look good from several feet, not a few inches away. Here's the pics. Thanks for looking.

These models count as Tortured Warriors with venom swords in my Grimdark death cult army. In 40k lore this is part of an Ynnari army with an emphasis on pirates and banshees. It has a craft world, a wych cult, and a few kabalite bands joining in for kicks. There's some details to paint in the torture racks, but that will not prevent me from calling these tabletop-ready. Colors used: Vallejo dark turquoise ink gw carrosburg crimson turbo dork shifting sands gw auric gold Vallejo gloomy violet gw gulliman flesh Thanks for looking.

The Drukhari reap and sow a harvest of pain.