CODEX LOST SOULS CONVERSIONS
[Hellblade Wyches] [Tempest Squad] [Reaper Squad] [Marauder]
[Scourges] [Harvester] [Executioner Squad] [Maelstrom Squad]

HELLBLADE WYCHES
Parts: Eldar Howling Banshee, Dark Eldar splinter pistol.
Notes: A simple conversion, as the Hellblade Wyches were invented solely in order to make use of the Howling Banshee miniatures, which bear quite some resemblance to Dark Eldar as they are. Cut the shuriken pistol from the Banshee and attach a plastic splinter pistol - if suitable parts are available, swap everything from the wrist. I chose to cut away the support holding the Banshee's raised leg, and lower the miniature so it was bent at a more severe angle, to bear similarity to the athletic poses of the standard Wyches - this required a minor bend of the pistol arm in the case of the miniature shown in the link below, to make the pistol point directly ahead. On one other miniature I chose to swap the katana to the right hand and attach a splinter pistol in the left, just to add some extra variety to the squad.
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TEMPEST SQUAD
Parts: Dark Eldar Warriors, Eldar Guardians, old Guardian plastic arms, additional pistols and blades.
Notes: Most of the squad uses a torso from one miniature and legs from the other - in the case of Warrior torsos on Guardian legs it is necessary to add some putty to the waist so that the torso does not appear too small. Some miniatures were further changed with the addition of blades from the Warrior sprue. Some Guardian heads were used, with blades added to their sides, more often Warrior helmets were - those with blades at their sides needed slight modification to fit between the shoulder-mounted air intakes of the Guardian torsos. A number of old Guardian arms were invaluable in completing the miniatures, as they allowed poses not commonly seen with standard Warriors or Guardians, thus differentiating the squad further. Pistols and close combat weapons were taken from various sources, including one miniature using an entire Wych arm (from the male Wych with a separate right arm). Each member of the squad had one antenna-vane glued to their back on the left, regardless of which torso they used, to give a more coherent feel to the miniatures when placed together.
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REAPER SQUAD
Parts: Dark Eldar Warriors, Eldar Guardians, Eldar flamers.
Notes: In fitting with their practical role (from a Dark Eldar point of view) the Reapers are less decorated than their fellow Warriors. Guardian legs and torsos were used, with the helmet-mounted row of spikes from the Warrior sprue added to their backpacks, resembling a common back banner. Warrior helmets were used exclusively to ensure the squad looked suitably Dark Eldar. The razor rifles were built by cutting the accelerator-barrel from the shuriken catapults, attaching the end of a flamer in its place, then augmenting the barrel with Warrior blades. The Sybarite was constructed in a similar way, but instead of the rifle he was given an Eldar power sword, and a splinter pistol holster on his leg. A Guardian grenade dispenser was glued to the top of his left wrist, representing a terrorfex, and the hand was rotated 180 degrees to make it look as if he is firing the weapon. To further distinguish the Sybarite, two extra sets of smaller blades were glued to his backpack in addition to the tall blade set used by the whole squad.
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MARAUDER
Parts: Dark Eldar Reaver jetbike, Eldar Vyper, Dark Eldar Raider dark lance, additional Reaver, Warrior and bits box parts.
Notes: Using left-over parts from the Vypers used in the Harvester conversion, the Reaver jetbike was lengthened with the Vyper's rear engines. The Reaver's blades, missing from their usual position above and below the rider, were cut apart and added behind the gunner's seat. The gunner's seat is the pilot seat of the Vyper, cut to fit behind the Reaver rider, and the gunner uses the Vyper pilot's legs, with a Reaver rider's body and arms, and a Warrior helmet. Two splinter rifle arms were attached to the bottom of the Reaver canopy, in a similar fashion to where my standard Reavers mount their single weapons, maintaining a common look to the vehicles when used together. The disintegrator was created by cutting down the barrel of a Raider's dark lance and adding a flash suppressor made from the base of a Falcon grav-tank antenna left over from the Harvester.
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SCOURGES
Parts: Scourges, Eldar Guardian arms, miscellaneous weapon parts.
Notes: Small conversions only, to add new weapons to the Scourges. The two with dark lances had their weapons removed and replaced with Guardian arms, the left arm cut at the elbow to fit the Scourge body. Both weapons are modifications of the Guardian shuriken catapults, with the barrels removed - the blaster uses the barrel of an old-style marine plasma pistol, the shredder uses a plastic Eldar meltagun barrel with Warrior rifle blades added. Details of the separate Sybarite conversion are available
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HARVESTER
Parts: One Raider, one Ravager, two Eldar Vypers, one Falcon grav-tank, additional parts from bits box.
Notes: The largest conversion I have ever done. Based heavily on Tony Cottrell's Shadow conversion featured in White Dwarf, with instructions in Citadel Journal #33. The two Raider main hulls (one from the Ravager box) were assembled, with the pilot seats cut out, leaving the tail, and with the hand-rails and prows removed. The hulls were glued together base-to-base, with the tails facing sideways like wings. The air intakes from the prow bases were cut off and glued into place to cover the holes in the front of the hulls. One Raider running board piece (the flat panels at the side of the vehicle for Warriors to ride on) was glued upside down protruding from below the front of the hulls. One prow was glued together with its two halves base-to-base, then attached to the front of the upside-down running boards. The scatter laser was glued in the gap between the prow halves to fill space. The main hull of the Falcon, with its forward-swept prow removed, was glued upside-down to the back of the hulls, with its 'lower' half attached on top of it, and two Raider blades attached in front of the heat vents on either side. The lower rear hull of a Vyper was glued upside-down in front of the Falcon hull, covering the space between the Raider hulls. One Dark Eldar crewmember was glued in as pilot with his seat directly in front of the Vyper hull, his control panel attached to a Raider blade glued behind the Harvester's prow, two of the Raider handrails on either side of him. On top of the Falcon hull the bottom half of the Falcon turret was glued, upside down. The two halves of the other Raider prow were glued to the sides of the turret piece, and one of the Raider prow bases was glued in front of it. The 'cockpit' piece from the Falcon was glued into the turret, with a Warrior replacing the Guardian crewman as gunner. The particle cannon was made from the two Falcon probes, the end of one cut off and attached to the other. One of the Raider rams was also attached to the top of the 'barrel' of the weapon. One Raider tail cross-piece was cut in half and attached on either side of the Raider hulls, with the Ravager armour plates above them on either side of the Vyper hull. The other tail was also cut in half, and attached to the sides of the particle cannon gunner's cockpit, with a Raider blade attached behind him pointing up. The two spike-shaped raider rams were attached just behind the prow halves on either side of the gunner, facing backwards directly above the Falcon's main engines. The two Falcon 'prows' cut from the main hull were glued facing backwards, between the Falcon's engines, with the remaining Raider ram between them. The second running board piece from the Raider was cut in half, and attached like a pair of wings just below the Falcon engines, providing two arms to which the Vyper guncradles were attached. Warrior torsos and head were used with Vyper gunner legs and arms, and the splinter cannon barrels were replaced by pulse laser barrels with Raider blades attached. The extra pulse laser was provided by a friend, who had the part left over from a Fire Prism, which uses the Falcon vehicle but not the turret weapons. A final note about this conversion - the vast majority of it is the result of improvisation during construction, so no instructions will really be adequate to explain how it was built. To anyone considering such a massive project, I recommend working in a similar loosely-defined fashion, as such a monstrous vehicle should be unique.
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EXECUTIONER SQUAD
Parts: Dark Eldar Warriors, Eldar lasguns and laspistols.
Notes: Simple conversions, the splinter rifles were replaced from the stock forwards by Eldar lasguns, with a blade glued to the energy pack to give the weapons a Dark Eldar look. The laspistols had their handles cut off and were glued to the rifles as sniper-scopes - alongside rather than atop the barrel to look unfamiliar compared to human weapons. One weapon used a marine scope rather than a laspistol, because I ran out of parts.
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MAELSTROM SQUAD
Parts: Dark Eldar Warriors, Scourge dark lances, Raider disintegrators, Eldar Guardian shoulder-scanners.
Notes: Also simple conversions. In the case of the dark lances Scourge weapons were used, with a Warrior arm being cut at the elbow to provide the missing upper left arm. The disintegrators were similarly easy, merely a matter of attaching the Raider weapon in place of a splinter rifle. The Guardian scanners were attached to represent the Maelstroms' targeters.
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