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The deamon prince is give yourself a pat on the back and i have to say i agree with gitts that the gold is great , any chance of knowing how you did it ?

Gathering Storm wrote:Just read through the whole thread and there is a lot of impressive work here. Very nice Khornate Daemon prince with Zombie Dragon wings and those Rhino's are fantastic. I particularly like the use of beasts heads on their front, and the lighting effects really tie the whole model together.

And I presume the golden marine will be Celestial Lions then.

Many thanks Gathering Storm and yes Celestial Lions is the chapter I'll be basing them on the Space Wolf codex so I can have lions as Fenirisian Wolves. I expect I'll end up doing these and the Dark Wolves at the same time as I'm really itching to start on them.

Gitsplitta wrote:I like the color... and the texture to be honest...

Thanks Gits glad you like it.

neil101 wrote:The deamon prince is give yourself a pat on the back and i have to say i agree with gitts that the gold is great , any chance of knowing how you did it ?

Cheers Neil. For the gold I'll be doing it as follows all vallejo paints

Black undercoat
Charred Brown base coat (on this test I painted over a Khorne dark red pad)
Then its a case of wet blending from the bottom of the pad starting with Tinny Tin > Polished Gold > Silver and finishing with Liquid Gold

I quite like the gold.

Me 3

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:I quite like the gold.

Miss Dee wrote:Me 3

Thanks I'll use that method when I start working on the army.

One word of advice for anyone reading this that is interested in using Liquid Gold & the other alcohol based metallics from Vallejo, make sure you have a dedicated brush for them as the metal pigments do not come out of the brush when washed and will come off when painting later. I already did my home work on this kind of paint so had a oldish brush ready to use.

GiraffeX wrote:One word of advice for anyone reading this that is interested in using Liquid Gold & the other alcohol based metallics from Vallejo, make sure you have a dedicated brush for them as the metal pigments do not come out of the brush when washed and will come off when painting later. I already did my home work on this kind of paint so had a oldish brush ready to use.

Thanks for the advice GiraffeX, as I'm planning to purchase some Vallejo Liquid Gold for use on my fledgling Tzeentch Chaos Daemons army.

I seem to be the grand master of updates this week.

I've shown you the first mini before but I'll show you her again as the time is more relevant now I've started working on the project.

This is my version of Skyrar of the Dark Wolves



This is her Wolf Lord the base is a million miles away from being finished at the moment, I'm currently waiting for some wire to make some plants with. It took a while to get the legs right of the Wolf Lord, I ended up cutting one off so I could reposition it.



There are no wolves on LYCAN96B....

I'm afraid I don't have much to show you this week, I'm working on a fantasy miniature for a painting competition but cant post any shots until its finished and uploaded to their site first.

The other thing I'm currently working on aside from the Dark Wolves who haven't had any love this week is the first of the Emperor's Children termicide unit.

It doesn't look much but she's had four hours of work already to get her this far, most of it was hollowing out the terminator suit to fit a Dark Eldar Wyche torso inside, I can tell you there's no room for a marine in one of these!

You wont have thought of this but I'm going to point it out any way, yes you can see down the front of her armour!

The GS has only just been done and will need tidying up when its dry.



Oh nearly forgot to say next weekend the World Eaters will be off conquering the universe, well running round being shot at lots which is more likely

I'll see if I can get some photos from the event, its not possible for them to be as bad as last time.

If you want to see what I've been painting this week you can see it in my mini project blog http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/367392.page#3585637

Pimping myself what next!

OK, I'm not sure if I missed something or what, but you are giving DE wyches terminator armor? Cool idea. Is there some fluff behind it? Sorry if you covered this before, but I couldn't find reference to it.

RSJake wrote:OK, I'm not sure if I missed something or what, but you are giving DE wyches terminator armor? Cool idea. Is there some fluff behind it? Sorry if you covered this before, but I couldn't find reference to it.

I thought it would be an interesting project to make my termicide unit as feminine as possible using the DE torsos and heads some will have Daemonette parts as well.

They are going to be the three 's err ladies of Slaanesh, deep striking into the heart of the enemy's line to cause havoc and mayhem in a fury of lust and desire.

That is cool concept! I especially like the bare midriff you got going on there! Looking forward to the rest

Former sisters of battle in TDA cool

That is beautiful.

Oh I thought that was a section you were yet to build up. Explains a lot!

Thanks everyone glad you like her

I've decided to stop on her at this point and build the other two upto the same stage and paint them before doing the arms as I think they will get in the way.

Hopefully I'll have some World Eater action shots either tomorrow night or Sunday when they get their first taste of blood.

Tiny update today from the tourney on the weekend.

I only have one pic to share as I was having too much fun and totally forgot the camera so apologies for that. I didn't walk home with best painted army so must try harder next time. The army which won was an Ork army which I voted for it was very nicely painted and did deserve to walk away with the trophy.

My partner in crime also brought Khorne as well with berzerkers and raptors so the general tactics of the day were drive rhinos across the board and hope they survived till turn three then jump out and charge no matter the enemy.

Game one vs Guard and Blood Angels

The first game we were up against a mobile Guard army with tons of Lascannons. Bring it down was ordered multiple times each round on the daemon prince until he fell after taking out a group of ratlings. We were still learning what are forces could do in this game as neither of us had played them before! We made the mistake of splitting our forces and got ruined.

Game two vs Chaos Space Marines (Emperors Children) and Orks

An interesting game lots of deffkopters and two defilers, being the biggest scariest model on the table the daemon prince took on both units of copters and the defilers at once in combat while giving the opportunity for the Berzerkers to get into the fray. We took out most of the Ork force but didn't have much left to take out the two defilers and they ate us. Our ranged weapons consisted of two Obliterators and when I say long range I mean more than bolt pistol range lol

Game three vs Guard and Space Wolves

This game was a bit of a grindfest lots of guard tanks and blood claws running round. We started off stealing the initiative and the first shot of the game from the Obliterator took down the guard vendetta, we were so happy. The obliteraters continued to rain down fire taking out tanks left and right covering the berzerkers. We met the wolves in the middle and had a good scrum and came out the victor. Our first victory of the day

Game four vs Guard and Space Wolves

First game of day two and we were up against another guard and SW army this time with even more tanks and I have a picture for this game of our rhino strike force charging the gun line. Every game we played this was the general setup of the enemy no matter what army they were playing, sit back as close to the board edge and shoot until you run out of ammo no matter what. We lost too many guys taking on the tanks and got minced by the Space Wolves in this game.



Game 5 vs Eldar and Dark Eldar

This was a fun game spearhead was the mission, we just went for it all the tanks in a big group going straight for them no cover nothing. We lost the DP along the way but it worked out just fine as our tanks arrived on turn three without a scratch in reach of the enemy. The berzerkers ripped off Eldar heads for three turns they were like steam trains crushing all in their way. We came away the victor and I think it was the best game of the weekend it was so fun. At one point in the game both are forces were on the opposite sides of the tale from where they started holding the enemys objective markers.

Game 6 vs Orks and more Orks

Last game of the weekend and we were up against a double Ork force in pure Khorne style we charged straight for the middle and met the Orks there for a massive brawl it was very blood thristy with maimed orks and berzerkers everywhere. In the end we were ground down due to having less troops on the table but it was such a laugh.

The Ork players were trying to bring me round to starting an Ork force as they loved the conversions in my army, I think they have hit a bone and I will be picking up a codex and looking at possibilities for a small Mech force for the doubles event towards the end of next year. I was going to do Necrons but the green skins are tempting me.

Give in to the Green! If I started a new army it would be Orks w/o a doubt. They were my first true love in 40K, just didn't get into them when I came back a couple years ago in 5th Ed. I'm waiting for 6th Ed and to finish up some things I am working on currently, but man I have to say I've been wicked tempted to get back to da Ladz.

Small update today.

I received my Ork codex in the post yesterday so I'll be starting another blog at some point for Xeno scum, I'll be going for the Death Skulls clan for maximum converting/looting possibilities.

On the Chaos front for what seems to be an extremely hard project I've now got to the below stage for the first two Slaanesh Terminators, for my sins I've decoded to up the unit count to four to include a Heavy Flamer lass as well.



Left arm is a combi melta and will be added later as it goes across the front of the model.



The right arm for this young lady is a chainfist which i'll add later to make painting easier.

I've also done some more work on the base for the Dark Wolves Wolf Lord by adding some plants but as they are made from white paper they wont come out on a photo so you will have to wait to see them painted.

All three of the above will be getting under coated tonight at their current stages so I can start painting them, I'm having painting withdraws at the moment with all this modelling work!

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Ah I remember this thread now! I missed quite a bit, all of it very cool! Keep those conversions coming!

Well this is interesting, but it doesn't make any sense to me to have terminator armor and leave your stomach exposed... plus... how would they have the black carapace and everything?

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Aye they've not been eating their spuds Miss Dee

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Ah I remember this thread now! I missed quite a bit, all of it very cool! Keep those conversions coming!

Yeah it started with Thousand Sons and has branched out a lot since then, I need to do a few bits for the Sons in the new year mainly transports as I found out they don't like walking .

Iandroid wrote:Well this is interesting, but it doesn't make any sense to me to have terminator armor and leave your stomach exposed... plus... how would they have the black carapace and everything?

They are Daemonettes in Terminator armour (not Wyches). Still makes no sense to have your mid riff open while fighting mid battle, but I wouldn't like to argue with them and their Slaanesh ways. It's the same argument for all those marines who don't wear helmets

No carapace for these girls just leather underneath!

I finished painting my Dark Wolves Wolf Lord base last night.

This will be the standard of the bases for the whole army so I hope you like it.



I've also started painting the first Slaanesh terminator but I'm going to enter her into a painting comp which means I cant show you any WIP shots. She should be finished by the end of next weekend.

That's a fantastic base Gir, how'd you do the leaves?

Gitsplitta wrote:That's a fantastic base Gir, how'd you do the leaves?

Cheers Gits, Its a bit of modelling wire with some paper leaves I cut out, glued on and then painted. I was inspired by one of Terraformers blogs. Its actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. The wire is stuck into GS on this base and the one I'm currently doing I drilled a hole into the base to insert the wire for the stems.

GiraffeX wrote:One word of advice for anyone reading this that is interested in using Liquid Gold & the other alcohol based metallics from Vallejo, make sure you have a dedicated brush for them as the metal pigments do not come out of the brush when washed and will come off when painting later. I already did my home work on this kind of paint so had a oldish brush ready to use.

What about if you use stronger stuff? After each colour I clean my brushes with a dab of Medea airbrush cleaner (non-toxic and no fumes), and after a month or so of painting (or any enamels) I'll get out white spirits and nail varnish remover to get them good as new.

lindsay40k wrote:

GiraffeX wrote:One word of advice for anyone reading this that is interested in using Liquid Gold & the other alcohol based metallics from Vallejo, make sure you have a dedicated brush for them as the metal pigments do not come out of the brush when washed and will come off when painting later. I already did my home work on this kind of paint so had a oldish brush ready to use.

What about if you use stronger stuff? After each colour I clean my brushes with a dab of Medea airbrush cleaner (non-toxic and no fumes), and after a month or so of painting (or any enamels) I'll get out white spirits and nail varnish remover to get them good as new.

Good idea I never really thought about brush cleaner.

re: paint brushes- a matter of personal pref I suppose. I have dedicated brushes for my metallics, and they have their own rinse pot and drying towel as well to be sure to keep those annoying metal flakes out of my other paints.