Non-Metalic Gold WIP

The last three Exodite Dragon Riders are finally getting paint. I finished the first one (pictured on right) way back in December 2010! Excited to see that this herd monsters is finally going to get some wranglers.

Exodite Dragon Herd

Eldar Corsair Prince

Fusion Pistol and Shimmer Shield; only 15pts!

With the use of Allies in 6th edition I think a mix of Corsair and Dark Eldar units will best represent my  alliance of Corsairs and Exodites. A particularly interesting combo I discovered is to attach the Dark Eldar Baron and a Corsair Prince to a unit of Beast Masters.

The Baron gives the unit Stealth, assault and defensive grenades and Hit and Run.
The Corsair Prince has a Shimmer Shield, giving the unit a 5++ save in close combat.
Although the Prince can only move 6" a turn, he can have a jet pack so he will lag behind in the movement phase and then catch up with the 2D6 movement in the assault phase if they don't charge.

Exodite Chieftain WIP

Whipped this guy up today. He will most often be used as the Baron Sathonyx attached to my Beast Master unit (giving them +1 cover save and grenades aint too bad for 105pts). I could also use him as an Eldar Autarch on a bike. The lance works for both characters because both the Baron and Autarch are S6 on the change; isn't not too much of a leap...

Donorian Clawed Fiend Thoughts

Yesterday I played in a team tournament at Dragon's Layer back home in Austin with my long time gaming buddy Minus6. Minus6 played with his IG and I also used his Dark Eldar models coupled with the Exodites I've been slowly painting over the last year to make a Webway Portal list. My army included a very large Beast Master Unit with a very expensive Clawed Fiend. 

The Beast Master unit is interesting because you buy 1-5 Masters (Dark Eldar on skyboards) and then buy different beasts as wargear for them. There are three different types of beasts, Khymera, Razorwing Flock, and Clawed Fiend and you can only buy one type per Master. The Clawed Fiend is by far the most expensive beast coming in at 40pts (the second most is 15pts) and you can only buy one Fiend per Beast Master so in total you spend 52pts.

The Fiend has a pretty good statline; S5 T5 W4 A4, and for every wound he takes he gets an extra attack. His T5 and the incentive to take wounds on him means that he can soak up any Power Fist attacks directed at the unit. Probably the best thing he did in my three games yesterday was get powered up to 7 attacks and killed a Chaplain.

So are the Fiends worth 52 points? The unit as a whole is terrible against vehicles and terrible against Terminators and because they are Beasts; they don't know how to climb stairs. The unit has at best Ld8 and T3, so what's the point of being able to soak wounds if as soon as you lose combat or get shot you run? 

Gone but Not Idle!

It has been about a month since my last post which sucks but I am back to show off a few WIP pics of what I've been up to lately. For about three months leading up to WarGames Con I was very motivated to work on Mantis Warriors for the Narrative Track and Death Guard for the Team Tournament. Once that rapped up I lost all motivation to continue with those projects (even though I fell short with my ultimate goals) and have only played one game in the last month.

For the remainder or the year I plan on putting the majority of my attention towards Dark Eldar and updating my IG with a few new units I've had laying around unpainted.

Onto the pics

Was a Valkyie. Now a Vendeta!

 Rounding out the last few models in my Beast Master unit.

Nurgle basing theme.

Talos Pain Dragon: WIP Part 4

This guy has taken forever but he is almost done. Just have to finished his head and the weapon mount and a few other minor details...

Talos Pain Dragon WIP: part 3

Dragon done, time for the rider and weapon mount.

Talos Pain Dragon WIP: part 2

Got the next layer painted on the skin and scales. I am really looking forward to getting this guy on the table top. Anyone know if Talos are any good? haha

Talos Pain Dragon WIP

Work in progress on my counts as Exodite Talos. Still two more layers for the skin, scales, and bone... before starting on the rider.

Unpainted Progress

It is raining here in central Texas which has unfortunately kept me from priming my Talos Pain Dragon. Instead here are some of the counts as Wracks that will be in my Exodite army. Toughness 4 and FNP might be a stretch for their Dragon Cloaks but the Corsairs at least look the part of Exodite warriors on foot.

Pirates with lasguns will play the part of the Warriors and Witches in my army. I've combined CW Guardian, DE Warrior, DE Witch and High Elf kits to create a non uniform look for the Pirates.

Talos Pain Dragon

My girlfriend surprised me today with a late Christmas present in the mail; a Carnosaur! Well it was a Carnosaur until it got folded into my Exodite army as a counts as Talos. I used the old Metal High Elf Dragon rider legs, a Dark Elf Coldone Knight torso, a couple random Eldar arms and a DE Witch head for the rider. The weapon and mounting are bitz from an Eldar Viper. Still work in progress at the moment with lots of mold lines to putty over. 

It is raining here in Texas so I hope to have it ready to be sprayed by the time it dries up because I'd really like to get this guy painted up ASAP!

Thoughts about the viability of a giant lizard as a Talos would be appreciated...

Razorwing Flock

Normally I do not like mixing non GW models into my army but after scouring the Cittadel miniature range I could not find any suitable swarms that would match my Exodite themed Beastmaster unit. I settled on Reaper: Bat Swarms and painted them to match my other Dragons. 

Bad lighting on the photo but you can see that they are supposed to match.

Exodite Dragon Friends!

Using the Lizardmen painting guide on the GW website I painted up my first three "counts as" Khymeras. Goatboy pointed out that there are cheaper ways of doing it, and that these models are a bit big for what they reprosent, but fielding an army of Exodites is about being cool so I am very happy with the way they tuned out.

Next up are a couple of Razorwing Flocks before going back and painting the remainder of the Beastmasters. Wish me motivation because this single 208 point unit is going to take me all of January to paint...

Exodite Beastmaster

I am very excited to finally have my first Dark Eldar model painted. Well it is an Exodite but it is for my upcoming Dark Eldar army. Since they don't really have models for the beasts I decided it would be fun to use Exodite Dragon Riders as the masters and use various dinosaurs as the beasts. So far I've got Lizaedmen Salamanders and Razordons as my Khymeras and am working over ideas for the other monsters.