Kabal of the Poison Void - WH+ Vampire Archon conversion

[Dread]

Wow! Great stuff there. Love the design above the intake port on the venom. The blue on the splinter weapons is a great idea.

[WarriorFish]

Good use of colours on it, nice to see you branching out and of course it's good to keep things diverse - variety is the spice of life after all :) Free hand turned out nicely too :tu:

[TrawlingCleaner]

Wow! Great stuff there. Love the design above the intake port on the venom. The blue on the splinter weapons is a great idea.

 

Thanks Dread! The blue is a nice way to have small spice up colours

 

Good use of colours on it, nice to see you branching out and of course it's good to keep things diverse - variety is the spice of life after all Free hand turned out nicely too

 

Thank you Fish! It was nice to paint something else apart from just infantry!

 

Squad 4 is done!

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And the army so far:

 

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[TrawlingCleaner]

I've spent a good few days painting this Archon and I've finally finished him bar the eye on the banner and the base. C&C is very welcome!

 

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[Dread]

Sweet! No c&c from me. Love the darkness of your paint scheme.

[ThePenitentOne]

Love the classic sculpt; great work on the lot.

[TrawlingCleaner]

Love the classic sculpt; great work on the lot.

 

 

Sweet! No c&c from me. Love the darkness of your paint scheme.

 

Thank you both!

 

 

I got 5 Hellions done and I have another 5 to do. I absolutely love the sculpts and I like how they look like they play in the game.

 

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With that it leaves 5 Hellions, a Venom and a Razorwing. I have ordered the Blood of the Phoenix box that my friend is taking the Craftworld from. At 3rd party prices and splitting between us, the price really isn't that bad (a lot better for me then it is for him) That will bump me up to another Venom, another 5 Hellions, 5 Scourge, 5 Incubi and Drahzar.

 

I hope everyone is doing well in these weird times! I have a weirdly high amount of mojo for painting but I'm certainly not complaining!

[WarriorFish]

Nice work yet again, you're really in your stride! Can I have some of your mojo? :P I like Helions as they're a really DE unit, though as my box is a long way off I'm not particularly up on their rules but their mobility is what I think about. Likely some versatility too?

 

The Blood of the Phoenix box is a good one, I split it with a filthy Craftworlder too. The Incubi are great and of course Drahzar too :)

[TrawlingCleaner]

Nice work yet again, you're really in your stride! Can I have some of your mojo? :P I like Helions as they're a really DE unit, though as my box is a long way off I'm not particularly up on their rules but their mobility is what I think about. Likely some versatility too?

 

The Blood of the Phoenix box is a good one, I split it with a filthy Craftworlder too. The Incubi are great and of course Drahzar too :)

I would share if I could! It's been a while since I've been this motivated

Edited April 12, 2020 by TrawlingCleaner

[TrawlingCleaner]

10 Hellions are totally done! Really enjoyed painting these guys!  It's offical, I now hate Spiderman!

 

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[TrawlingCleaner]

Second Venom is done! I need to do squad markings on them for the Kabalite squads but otherwise done:

 

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And the first of 5 Incubi is done, I absolutely love these new sculpts.

 

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C&C is always welcome!

[Dread]

Very nice. I really like the purple on the blades edge.

[TrawlingCleaner]

Very nice. I really like the purple on the blades edge.

Thanks Dread! I thought purple would look pretty cool, plus contrast enough from a grey-green. It makes it clear these guys have some fancy stabbers

 

I've had a small lull in posting but I haven't had a lull in progress. I wasn't too sure how to base these guys to begin with, most of my other armies have a simple astrogranite basing scheme or a a dark desert scheme. With these guys being relatively drab/dull I figured a bright-ish basing scheme made sense but was stuck between a mars-ish/red scheme or a light desert. I tried light desert and it didn't come out how I wanted it to so tried Mars-ish and it came out pretty great.

 

I started off with a 5 man Kabalite squad and a scourge, and was like oh damn this is the one:

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So I got all the fully painted units, and got to work:

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Here's the results:

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With the Archon fully done, I thought it would be a good time to get some decent pictures of the Archon courtesy of a semi-decent day outside and a window sill:

 

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And also my favourite Kabalite that I've painted:

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Not only have I done that but I've also worked through the Incubi unit, I've absolutely loved doing these guys and I think I'll add another 5 at some point later down the line.

 

Here's the 2nd guy

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3rd:

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[TrawlingCleaner]

4th

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And the Klaivex:

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And the whole unit:

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Protecting their charge:

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Having painted these I can honestly say that these have so much movement and character and are honestly some of the best models GW have put out and cement the Dark eldar range as my top favourite model range. A lot of it has to do with the way the odels are put together but the Klaivex for example is sucha cool model in the way it looks so cocky without a smirk , just a silent challenge. Enough of my ramblings, hope everyone is keeping well in this odd time.

 

C&C is always welcome!

[WarriorFish]

Base scheme looks excellent, really works well with the colours top work :tu: The Incubi looks great can't wait to get to my own keep up the good work :)

[Dread]

Excellent choice! As warriorfish stated, perfect blend. Plus that basing will work good on most any table scheme. I mean look how cool it is on top of the words, just saying, cool.

[ThePenitentOne]

Great pics and fantastic models. 

[TrawlingCleaner]

Base scheme looks excellent, really works well with the colours top work The Incubi looks great can't wait to get to my own keep up the good work

 

 

Excellent choice! As warriorfish stated, perfect blend. Plus that basing will work good on most any table scheme. I mean look how cool it is on top of the words, just saying, cool.

 

 

Great pics and fantastic models. 

Thank you very much guys!

 

I've really been enjoying my hobby streak these last few weeks, I don't think I've been this productive before. I've painted 39 Dark eldar modes in 37 days, when I include the Death guard I've painted I've painted 49 models in 47 days, which to me is just crazy! Anyways, here's my progress:

 

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[WarriorFish]

Can't beat army shots, well done on all your progress! What do you think is next on your plate?

[TrawlingCleaner]

Can't beat army shots, well done on all your progress! What do you think is next on your plate?

Thanks Fish! The next thing I'm painting is Drazhar, I'm really looking forward to painting this guy.

 

After that I've got these built and ready to be sprayed and painted:

 

Talos

3 5 man Kabalite squads

Razorwing jetfighter

 

To be built:

 

Venom

5 Scourges

5 more hellions

 

I also have an archon that I've converted and is ready to be painted but I've earmarked it for the Lockdown painting event. After I've done these I think I'll probably get a good few Raiders to transport my troops around and maybe some more Incubi

[WarriorFish]

Excellent, a lot more to look forward to :tu:

[TrawlingCleaner]

So I've been a bit slower on the progress in the last week, I got basing done for my flyers as the bases came in:

 

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I've stil got to do the Talos and finish the Razorwing, the Talos is next up on my list to do.

 

I did however get Drazhar done, I really enjoyed painting this guy and I think he's probably come out as my best painted Dark eldar model:

 

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C&C is always welcome!

[ThePenitentOne]

Your army is awesome. It has been truly inspirational watching you work man- hats off!

 

For myself, I will be finishing the wych cult arena v1 this weekend for sure. 

 

I'm also finally able to order the gear I need to paint minis, so those tiny wych cults ar coming.

 

Speaking of which, do you have any plans to include Wyches or Haemonculai?

[WarriorFish]

Great stuff your productivity is surely hard to rival! Drazhar looks fantastic but fitting that a centre piece model should be your best (so far), excellent stuff here TC as always :tu: Looking forward to seeing more! :)

[TrawlingCleaner]

Your army is awesome. It has been truly inspirational watching you work man- hats off!

 

For myself, I will be finishing the wych cult arena v1 this weekend for sure. 

 

I'm also finally able to order the gear I need to paint minis, so those tiny wych cults ar coming.

 

Speaking of which, do you have any plans to include Wyches or Haemonculai?

 

Thanks Penitent! I'll keep an eye out for your arena, thank god GW is back open I ran low on a lot of paints and washes and didn't want to pay scalpers on eBay

As for Cults and Covens? I've just finished a Talos and am looking at getting a metal Urien Rakarth because I love the model but don't want to deal with Finecast. I'll probably add more covens stuff at some point but they're not my main priority  atm.  I got an old metal Archon which I'm going to use as a Succubus for my Hellion detatchment. I also got my hands on some Reavers and Wyches cheap too

 

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Great stuff your productivity is surely hard to rival! Drazhar looks fantastic but fitting that a centre piece model should be your best (so far), excellent stuff here TC as always Looking forward to seeing more!

 

Thanks Fish! He was a bloody fiddly model but totally worth it

 

Speaking of fiddly models I got the Talos done. It's so fiddly with small details and so many bloody vials! It looks good though now that it's done:

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Next up is to finish the Razorwing!