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Dark Eldar Harlequins Troops 2
A blast from the past: My 2001 Dark Harlequins. It all started with an idea after the UK 2000 40K GT. I always liked the Harlequins and would really like to play them. Problem as usual: GW did not have a proper Codex ready. During the studio tour the day before, I talked to Gav Thorpe and he told me that GW would not produce an official codex until who knows when. So I decided to use the Dark Eldar rules as a stand in army list. After careful reading of the Dark Eldar army book, I decided that all the Haemunculi, Grotesques, Beast Packs and Talos would not fit in my idea of the Dark Harlequins. I envisioned the Dark Harlequins as a specialised Wychcult that was impressed by a Harlequin performance. The pictures show my 2nd Troop choice - Raider squads as Mimes. Each squad was painted in a different colour scheme. The idea was to give the squad some visual coherency and also create and overall colourful army look. After basically knowing what I wanted the next step was to convert some miniatures. I started with the troops. I decided that the Dark Eldar plastic body, after removing a lot of spikes and adding the head of an old Harlequin mini, would do the job. I even made some sketches to see if it may work. (See my HQ entry on Cool Mini - 107610.) The carrier is made from the main body of a DE raider and an old Harlequin Jetbike canopy. See the whole story at my homepage: http://www.agisn.de/html/dark_harlequins.html The army was featured in UK White Dwarf # 259.
Posted: 9 Dec 2005
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