Il-Kaithe Starcannon Team

by | Jul 29, 2024

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The starcannon and now both of it's gunners are complete.

According to the fluff, the Guardians of Il-Kaithe have fairly close ties with their Dark Eldar brethren, and are known to use similar squad markings. Well, I don't have any Dark Eldar decals and hand painting unit makings is out of the question for my painting skills. So what other options are there? 

As you can see, Dark Eldar bits were the answer!  

I think the blast shield's banner translates to: Eat at Joe's. 

While not a Dark Eldar decal, this one was still suitably spiky.

I'm rather pleased with how the power core's glow came out.

The Dark Eldar Raider trophy poles work rather well I think. 

Most of the rest of the squad have Dark Eldar bayonets on their shuriken catapults, which like the trophy poles, blend quite well with the Craftworld sculpts. The bits I ordered didn't have enough bayonets for the whole squad which is fine. There always has to be at least a few Eldar on the straight and narrow.

I like that both gunner's have the same type of helmet.


The discarded Guardian helm, half buried on his base is visibly damaged, likely having lead to it's removal.

The gunners likewise don't have any blades on their catapults, though I would imagine that one of them could grab the polearm without the skulls were the situation to become up close and personal!