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SOme very nice progress!

I'm really loving the look of that first daemon prince and honestly can't wait to see it painted sop I can see the detail~!

biccat wrote:Any chance of getting a closeup of the Daemon Prince? Looks like a different head on the beast.

Here you go biccat

Great looking forces, I love the feathered/winged theme you have going on as-well, really suits Tzeentch and I hope you keep it up on all DP's and GD's.
Really impressive painting and converting ability too IMHO, particularly considering how long you've been out of the hobby. Subscribed.

Wow i really like what you have got going here. i just started building a Tzeentch themed Chaos Daemon army as Tzeentch is my god of choice im very interested in sweet 1k son models and conversions.

GiraffeX wrote:It's update time


I've also got a pic of my Purge Daemon prince as well who is very much still a work in progress

Ok - accepting that this is WIP - this is awesome. The forward stance, the swinging censer/mace (from the Skaven line right?) all imparts a wonderful sense of movement.

Also, I love the raptors - the 1ksons helms really work with the Blood Angels bodies/wings.

Looking foward to your paintjob on the your other DP!

Very interesting Thousand Sons you got there. It will be nice to see how they progress... keep it coming.

I love the use of lego on the purge dp

Nice use of nids bits too.
Your doing an awsome job. Have fun with it.

GiraffeX wrote:

biccat wrote:Any chance of getting a closeup of the Daemon Prince? Looks like a different head on the beast.

Here you go biccat

Very cool.

Thanks for the compliments everyone much appreciated.

prototype_X wrote:I love the use of lego on the purge dp

Yes it is lego took me ages to get hold of two of these, it was going to be a double engine jet pack but they were two big so I went with a single.

I managed to finish my Daemon prince of Tzeentch this weekend, there’s no chance he will be missed on the battlefield.

His colour scheme is based on the Eclectus Parrot, his bone parts aren’t great as it’s not something I’ve painted much before so I might re-visit those parts later. His demon weapon I decided to try out a sort of white kind of bone effect , it doesn’t look so great in the picture as you can’t see the highlights which always seems to be the case in my images but they are there!



I picked an unusual colour rather than the standard blue as I like to be different, when I pick up my Lord of Change I might do him the standard colour or base him on a different parrot. When I used to play 40k chaos were always bright and colourful, GW seem to have lost some of that over the years the latest codex being a very good example, if its chaos paint it black.

I’m not sure what’s up for painting next it’s either a squad of Thousand Sons or a Warmachine figure I picked up cheap on ebay for something different to paint.



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Oh nearly forgot to mention the red shoulder pad is to show he was one of the original Thousand Son's and was granted Daemon hood before their bodys were turned to ash.

Wow he's bright!

Nice clean paint job, he'll definitely be hard to miss!

I really like the sculpt and I get the parrot scheme but it doesn't work for me personnally. I dunno if I saw that in battle I don't think I would be quaking in fear I think it would be better in more traditional Tzeentch colours and it would tie in with thousand sons better too.

I wanna see your chosen painted too. They look cool but It's hard to tell when they are all black.

Keep it up

Personally, I like the the parrot paint scheme you've used on your prince there. I haven't seen it done before, and it definitely makes it stand out from the rest of your 1,000 Sons.

Nice stuff, very striking - although i am tempted to offer him a cracker!

Loving it so far, keep up the good work.

Very striking

I'm glad most of you like him, thanks

Killmaimburnkillmaimburn wrote:I wanna see your chosen painted too. They look cool but It's hard to tell when they are all black.

Thanks I was going to paint them next due to your comment. I started to get them ready for painting last night but have had some news that a club may be strarting very soon in my area so I've had to put them back on hold while I get some of my basic troops painted, otherwise I wont have a playable force. I plan on weathering these using the tips from grey_death's site, I'm going to try and pull off a red look to the damaged area's to make it look like they were the original Thousand Sons who have since painted their armour blue.

darkkt wrote:Nice stuff, very striking - although i am tempted to offer him a cracker!

Thanks that made me laugh



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ninja edit - I've also got some defiler parts in the post today for my defiler/sphinx conversion, just need to pick up a sphinx and hope it all fits as planned.

I really like the DP! It turned out very nice!

The Colour scheme is quite nice and original and with a little more work like you said can really pop!

I like the idea of the original red paint showing under the blue. I haven't noticed anyone try that before, but it's a great idea.

I think your skillz really shine on that parrot DP.. Great Work!

How about some in red and some in red and blue?

Miss Dee wrote:How about some in red and some in red and blue?

That's an interesting idea Miss Dee, hopefully I'll have some time to start on them over the bank holiday weekend.

I feel like the slowest painter in the world at the moment, it’s taken me ages to paint the figures for this post and they are my basic troops!

Well I tried both ways of painting the Thousand sons with damage didn’t look great the idea works fine but not with the way I paint my armour. I also tried painting selected parts in red and they looked too much like Khorne worshipers.

So in the end I painted them up as standard Thousand Sons as below, the sorcerer will follow later as I'm waiting for some new paints to come in the post so I can try a different way of painting gold on him.



I got a few bargains as well off ebay a load more Thousand Sons marines which I chucked in the freezer so I could break them all up again as they weren’t in the best positions.

I also got a Forge World daemon prince of Khorne, he did have a lot of spikes missing so I spent most of yesterday chopping bits off left over parts to make him spiky again and I also gave him a nice Micro Art base as well. Here he is below, he's all sprayed up now ready for some paint at a later date.



More bits this time from Forge World I picked up the special weapon pack for the Missile Launchers and Melta Guns. Here's some Thousand Sons from my bargain buy with their new weapons.

Trying to get these to stick together was a compete nightmare every time I thought I had them sorted, When I picked them up something fell off.



I've also ordered my Necrosphinx so the Thousand Sons Necrodefiler will be happening soon.

Not sure what’s up next on the painting block, we shall see.

NICE!!!!!

Oh very cool! The Deamon Princes colour scheme is original and done very well.

HOw did you do the blue onthe marines? looks very lovely!

I can't wait to see that Sphinx.

I really want a reason to get one.

funksobeefy wrote:Oh very cool! The Deamon Princes colour scheme is original and done very well.

HOw did you do the blue onthe marines? looks very lovely!

Hi the blue is done as below, I'm using Vallejo paints but I've listed the GW version of the same colour as well.

Base coat Army painter spray black
Undercoat Imperial Blue (Regal Blue GW)
Highlight inside areas of Imperial Blue with a mix of about 70% Imperial Blue (Regal Blue GW) 30% Magic Blue (Enchanted Blue GW)
Highlight any areas where light would reflect Magic Blue (Enchanted Blue GW)
Ink Wash Asurmen Blue

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Oh does anyone have any ideas for the colour of the Necrodefiler's rear body, I was thinking of a ruby effect but I don't want it too Khorne like as the main body will be gold of some sort.

Great looking daemon prince! Very original concept that fits in well with the rest of your army!

Loving these models mate i am tempted to start a 1ksons army and you are inspiring me. Great painting too.