The GW version of the Venom transport (bottom pic) required a little pirate-love before being added to my army (top pic). I let the wych models that were provided as crew walk the plank and replaced them with the Kalabite Trueborn mods that I created from the Eldar Scouts. Each model has a small neodymium magnet mounted between its feet that matches up to another magnet on the vehicle. Similarly, I have two movement bases that each have magnets glued on top. This allows me to pull these two models off the vehicle and onto the bases when its time for them to disembark. This serves as a good WYSIWYG reminder and reduces the number of models I'd have to paint. I've also mounted a sail from the Raider transport in place of the original cannon mount. I needed a sail to match the army's theme and thought this new profile made the model looked more balanced (and kind of shark-like :-)
Games Workshop has not produced models for the Elite Dark Eldar warriors (Kabalite Trueborn) yet, but I had a set of models already in mind. The top picture is a squad of modified Eldar scouts that I'll be using for the above mentioned unit. The bottom picture is the unmodified version of the squad from GW's webpage. I picked these models primarily for their ponytails, pointy ears and flowing robes, which I think fit well in the theme of my army. The modifications I made were not significant and pretty easy using the new resin (instead of metal) models. First of all, I substituted Dark Eldar muzzles to ends of all of the guns. Two of these received the splinter cannon parts and the remaining three got the regular splinter rifle. The model that originally came with an eldar helmet was lopped off and replaced with a pony-tailed she-elf head. The model with the cloaked helmet received some re sculpting to better resemble a dark eldar version. I used split, carved, and stained craft sticks on the bases to resemble planks that might be found on a pirate ship 
The above image is the last Castle model for the Confrontation-themed chess set I started ten years ago. The slow assembly is due to the fact that I usually paint one or a group of similar pieces in between the completion of one army and the start of another. This was the rare intra-army chess model. The previous one, the black queen, was completed back in October 2010, when the Eldar army was getting wrapped up. The only models remaining are the white knights. I'll probably won't get to those for a while. The Dark Eldar to-do list is still pretty significant. The below image shows the minotaur model and complementary Castle piece that was painted back in Feb 08. The hardest part about painting models in the same theme so infrequently is the color matching. I often forget what colors I used.
The above image shows two of the six Reaver Jet Bikes I completed recently. I learned my lesson on jet bike squad size from the Eldar and six is near optimum. With fewer, they get destroyed/broken in one round of mediocre shooting and with any more they become too much of a point sink. I will eventually have two squads in the army--each of them with slightly different paint schemes. This squad has the blue on top and purple on the sides. The next squad will reverse those colors. The color of the riders will remain the same.
The first squad of wych models is complete. I limited the black to just their boots and I am pleased that they did not turn out as dark as the previous models. I also think that the excessive contrast I was trying to achieve worked and they have that cartoon look that I like. I love the look of the blue hair and the way it allowed me to nicely place all three colors (green, blue, and purple). Its hard to see but the purple is subtly used as the highlight color on the mostly-black boots.
