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Hello folks,

I've recently started my third army for 40K and, being an Imperial lapdog my whole life, I felt it was time to branch out into something new. So, Chaos Daemons. These are some pics of my first Bloodletters. I've gone with an extremely simple painting method, both to get them painted fast and to get the look I was going for, which was a kind of unreal, made-out-of-the-warp kind of thing. Hence why their weapons are the same colour as them with tinges of metal. I also painted half of my Bloodletters blue, as it's my intention to try out various unusual colours for the daemons in my army, just for fun.

Anyway, all very dry and dull. Here are the pics.

Bloodletters red, dilly dilly...

...Bloodletters blue.

They are coming, dilly dilly, to stab up you...

So there you have it.

Looking good and bright.

Thanks.

I like the purple/blue models, they also look good interspaced with the red ones.

Perhaps have the hands and feet of the red ones a bit more purple to tie them together a touch more? So it kind of looks like they are phasing through the colours?

Hmm, interesting idea SilverMK2. Might give that a go. I intend to add some more 'letters at a later date, so I might go for something like that, only more pronounced.

I like the blue - how did you do it? It looks like asurman blue on top of white, though I've tried that and got very patchy results - whereas yours are nice and smooth. Any tips?

I really like the blue bloodletters! They are really unusual and it gives them sort of a nice fleshy look.
I'm not sure about the weapons being a color so close to their skintone. I think they are a bit too similiar.

These look really nice. The blue with the wash looks natural and clean. Congrats.

Shady Pigeon wrote:I like the blue - how did you do it? It looks like asurman blue on top of white, though I've tried that and got very patchy results - whereas yours are nice and smooth. Any tips?

It was a really cheaty method, actually. It's just a couple of layers of Blue Wash over a white basecoat.

Hindenburg wrote:I really like the blue bloodletters! They are really unusual and it gives them sort of a nice fleshy look.
I'm not sure about the weapons being a color so close to their skintone. I think they are a bit too similiar.

The similarity is kind of what I was going for, I wanted them to look like part of the 'letters rather than a separate weapon that they picked up on the way out of the warp.

40k Ninja wrote:These look really nice. The blue with the wash looks natural and clean. Congrats.

Thanks.