From Small Beginnings

So, to work then.

I've settled on doing a Dark Eldar army. To be fair, I'd settled on this before I came out here. Even writing a list to work towards and refining it through Librarium Online.

I was toying with a 120 Days of Sodem themed army, but my girlfriend might start asking questions if I was creating miniatures covered with faeces and child prostitutes. By asking questions, I mean rightly dumping me. It'll be a straight forward DE army. It'll be nice and different from the horde-like, static gun-line Imperial Guard army of before, and a much more intricate and specialised force than the generic Space Marines too. Something different should the lads ever get around to bl'asting again.

To start off, I've opted for five of the new Citadel finecast Wrack models, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I'm definitely going to be including Wracks in my army, they are solid choices for any DE army. Secondly, five models is a good number to start with, rather than buying a battleforce and have a lot of models to go at. And lastly, they have a lot of skin, which is important to get right with a DE model.

The Wrack models are excellent models. Wish I'd taken a picture of them before I sprayed them, it's much easier to see the detail when they're in the grey resin. Some of the old DE models from Games Workshop were dreadful, but I think the new range hit's the right note. Not too kitsch, not to cartoonish, and not in the style of what an 8 year old would come up with as evil. There's enough to make them look twisted and evil, without going overboard.

The resin from GW is different from Forgeworld, but like FW it takes a while to prep the models. There's a lot of flash to remove, and mold lines to file down. There are some parts that need trimming to make the model fit together well (the arm sockets seem to have a build up of excess resin, but that's easily remedied. I prefer them infinitely to metal models though, they hold well, the details is much much sharper and the only actual negative is a bit of blow out, which causes small circular holes to appear. I'll probably invest in some green stuff in future to combat this.

Anyway, here's a prepped and undercoated Wrack.

I've now painted up one model, so in the next post I'll write more about how I feel I've got on, with a few pictures.