The Webways are Opening! #12 Phase Two Complete

Nick speaking,

Time to show off all the stuff that I managed to get for Phase Two of my £25.00 Army Challenge. Phase One was a huge success for me as I cobbled together twelve hundred points of Dark Eldar for my twenty five pound. Mainly thanks to some very generous donations and some good eBay buys. The original challenge was to get five hundred points with the first twenty five pound and then another five hundred points for Phase Two. Of course, as I smashed that in Phase One, I set my sights on eight hundred points for Phase Two to take me to a two thousand points for the entire challenge!

The Task was always going to be hard, but once again, thanks to some good eBay purchases and some very generous members of the community, I just managed to top my task and got about nine hundred points of spikey goodness for Phase Two! I feel very humbled by the good nature of my friends and have had a lot of excitement in my bidding on eBay to get the task complete and have a new army to paint and play. I will be posting my final 2k list very soon, but until then, here is a look at all the models I got for Phase Two of this Challenge...

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The Webways are Opening! #11 Cronos and Raider Conversions

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With just £5.06 of my Phase Two Dark Eldar £25.00 Army Challenge left to spend, I went in search of my last purchase. I already have a Haemonculus and a Talos, so I was thinking about running The Dark Artisan formation. To do that I need a Cronos, but the new Cronos models go for a lot of money, and there was no 3rd Edition model to fall back on. Just one option then, buy another old Talos model and convert it up with some green stuff...

Whilst I was doing making that model, I also stripped and converted up the final Raider I got it the last post. Really happy how these two are looking, and that is all my money spent and the challenge complete. I will post again showing you all what I got for phase two, then we will look at my list. Of course. I still have to get it all painted, but more on that to come too!

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The Webways are Opening! #10 Haemonculus and Another Raider

Nick speaking,

With £18.06 of my Phase Two Dark Eldar £25.00 Army Challenge left to spend, I went in search of the next units to buy. Being new to Dark Eldar, I have concluded that you just can't have enough Raiders/Venoms in your army, so that's what I went on the look for...

Both of these skimmers go for a lot of money on eBay, but if you look hard enough, sometimes you will find an incorrectly listed item that doesn't get much attention! That's what happened to me when I saw this Raider list as a Reaver. I managed to win this new styled Raider for just six pounds, plus three pound thirty postage, wow, what a bargain!

With the Raider bagged, I went on the search of a Haemonculus model. I think it will be  a good addition, and it will give me a chance to run the Grotesquerie formation with the Grotesques I was given by Mammoth Painting Studios. Three pound seventy for a Haemonculus and that's that done. Now I have £5.06 left to spend on my final purchase!

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The Webways are Opening! #7 Phase Two Begins!

Nick speaking,

Time to work on Phase Two of my new Dark Eldar army that I am doing for the £25.00 Army Challenge. I managed to get twelve hundred points with the first twenty five pounds, which was pretty impressive, but was only done with the help of some very generous donations. So what can I do with the second £25?

Well, my first purchase was this little lot from eBay and all for a mere £6.94! Sounds good right, but that only leaves me with £18.06, and my aim is to get to 2k points, so the challenge is definitely on! Still, it's a good start...

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The Webways are Opening! #5 Raiders!

Nick speaking,

Continuing on with the Dark Eldar project of making a five hundred point army for £25.00 and I have now spent my last £11.01. My plan was always to get myself a couple of Raiders for the army, but with my small budget that proved to be tough. With a bit of patience and luck though, I managed to pick up these two on eBay for exactly £11.01 including postage, result!

The first job of the day was to strip them and the bitz they came with, which was no problem at all with the wonderful stuff that is Biostrip20..

Now all I need to do is to get all the models out that I obtained for my £25.00 and make an army list with them and see how many point I have, lots more to come, as after that will be phase two of the army!

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