Next up for my Dark Eldar is a small squad of Trueborn Warriors to ride in my recently painted Venom. As there are no official models for Trueborn Warriors, I had to kitbash. Most conversions I’ve seen so far use the helmets from the Reaver jetbike riders, but I had something different in mind. Actually their creation started already when I built my regular Kabalite Warriors. Back then, I removed some of their armour spikes so that the armour of my Trueborns would be more ornate (and spiky). I even added additional spikes with impaled skulls (which can be found on the Raider sprue). I also saved all the helmets with top plumes for the Trueborn, which add some height to models over regular Warriors. Last but not least, I imagine that Trueborn Warriors are often found where the fight is the thickest, so some have drawn their knives to keep their enemies at bay (the arms are from the Wyches sprue).
Kabalite Warriors are my favourite models from the Dark Eldar range, so painting a pimped up version of them shall be a fun little project for the next couple of weeks.
Support Stahly on Patreon for exclusive tutorials and resources, sneak peeks, extra discounts from our partners, and more.
7 Comments
Leave a Reply
Tale of Painters is the unofficial Warhammer hobby magazine run by hobbyists like you. Support our work by using the affiliate links from our 🇺🇸 / 🇨🇦 partner stores for your next orders so we can continue to bring you fantastic FREE content every day:
Or support us directly:
How did you make such a thin layer of greenstuff on shoulderpads? Is this the "liquid" one?
Yeah I used liquid green stuff to hide the seams at the shoulder guards.
Looking good as always. I've been tempted to start a DE army recently, but as awesome as the Kabalite Warrior models are, that's really the only part I like. Everything else is a little too grotesque for me.
I used dark elf cosairs with scourge shardcarbines, the ones I had spare…They look much different.
But yours look Badass 🙂
I use to put some plasticard under infantry feets, in this way they don't "sink" in the base…
Or just glue them over painted base 🙂
Subtle additions, very nice. Will you adapt the paint scheme to match their rank? Maybe a different colour helmet?
Just some random gold armour plates, different coloured helmets are reserved for Incubi and Scourges.