The Pirates in Purple

Been a while but not in vain! I have been working on completing my Corsair pirate band and am nearing my goal. Here's my efforts so far:

Hornets with Pulse Lasers
Still trying to glue/pin the weapons onto their thin resin mounts. Tricky.

The last half of the jetpack squad with 2 EMLs.

Void Storms! I used the Guardian bodies for these to give them a more agile look.
They have 2 Flamers for deep-striking and cooking purposes.

A Venom corsair squad with Fusion Blaster, Shuriken Cannon,  Haywire Grenades and a Power Sword.
Everything you need to harass pretty much anything.

The Warlord Prince and his bodyguard, Power Weapons and S4 Rending is pretty nice but not amazing.
I'm thinking of swapping these out for Harlequins which have much more punch.

The two Venoms for the Corsair squads both armed with EMLs.

So, there's still some details to do like the green gems but these pirates are ready for combat! Indeed I had a game against a Nurgle Chaos Marine with Nurgle Demon allies army and managed to pull out a draw against the super tough troops. Love these guys, their speed and their firepower

Here is a run-down of the list I use though I am looking to tweak it now that the models are nearly done, any suggestions?

• Prince with 3 Bladesworn with Power Swords in a Starcannon Venom
• Prince with Jetpack in a 10 man Jetpack Corsair squad with 2 Missle Launchers
• 2 x 5 man Corsair squad in Missile Venoms
• 3 Wasps with 6 Scatter Lasers
• 2 Hornets with 4 Pulse Lasers
• 6 Voidstorms with 2 Flamers

That's 1500 with tons of upgrades so I can easily squeeze another unit in there, what would you suggest?

Hobby Update

Hey everyone,

The last few months have been fairly productive for my hobby with me finishing off my two main armies and making them completely tabletop ready and starting a few new little projects. Here are the main models:

 Finally finished my second Fire Prism.I liked how it turned out with the highlighting working out well, the glass looking much better than I had ever hoped and the metal undersides looking dull but metallic.

Another tank I needed to get done, the Nightspinner has been given a little touch or character. I just couldn't resist attempting the thorns, I may have to add some more....

My new projects, I won the raffle competition over at White Scars and I got two battlesuits as a prize! This bodyguard is the first of my up coming Cadres Fireknife Command team. As you can see I have spent far too much time converting him and will keep doing so for much longer (this picture is about a week old and he has had a lot more work, full updates once I have finished both).

And finally a converted shield drone.

Painted Eldar Tanks

I've been rather busy lately painting all of my Eldar tanks. Here are the results:

Wave Serpent

Preparing for Schools League

 So I've finally decided on what to take to Schools League which is only 3 days away. It getting exciting. For my list, if there was any doubt, I am taking a swarmy tyranid list. So with that decided on Monday I then spent Tuesday night painting these:

Eldar: Fruit of the Snow Day

So after a cold but well spent day here are the fruits of all that work; sooooo much better than school. The Fury of the Eclipsed Star is nearing completion.

Click the pictures for a bigger view.

Helmets and base stalks denote squads.

Blue Team

I also based the flying bases.

My Tyranids

Thought I should post pictures of my armies starting with the fully painted Tyranids.

Devilgaunts
These small buggs pump out an amazing 48 shots!! They slay anything in their way.

Tervigon
This baby is my pride and joy having been converted from a tervigon and left over carnifex bits. If you look close you can see a gaunt being 'birthed'.

Shrikes

These are converted from warriors and gargoyles with upside down scything talons represented boneswords.

Venomthropes
These guys have saved many gaunts and my tervigon from a horrible death by giving them a 5+ cover. Never leave home without them.

Zoanthropes
These are the bane of enemy Land Raiders and Leman Russes with their S10 AP1 Lance!!!! Love them.

Hive Guard
These are converted from warriors with venom cannons representing  the Impaler Cannon and the lower limbs being made from left over monstrous creature scything talons.

And the would be a Hive Tyrant but his metal bonesword has fallen off again.....

I'll show him off another time when he has been fixed but before then I have a battle report in the pipes of a battle between my friends High Elves and Wood Elves.

Don't forget to add a comment. I'd love to hear your views on my painting schemes and skills.

Until next time, Luckless.