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Hey,
I'm painting a Daemon army centered around Tzeentch. I want my minis to have the effect that their skin is changing. For example, the arm is blue and transitions to purple on the main body. Any ideas?

Blending is the obvious one, but it will take a lot of time and effort. On the off-chance you have an airbrush (or are willing to invest in one) that could speed the process up a fair bit.

I am not a blend painter i am a layer painter but their are tons of tutorials on Dakka for wet blending. Reaper Master series is your best bet for paint, they have flow aid built into all their paints so you can naturally wet blend without manually adding the flow aid.

Best of luck.

Blending - wet or oils. You can get the effect using multiple layers of inks as well. Blending with acrylics is a bit of effort as you are going against what the paint is designed to do. Oil paints are better suited to it. Inks work well for it as well since they are generally transparent and you are able to get smoother transitions with successive layers of color. With the oils - it just comes naturally...that is what they are made to do.

Airbrushing color fades is much easier if you want to stick with acrylics. The difficulty that a lot of people have is dealing with the scale of things. Even a big arm on a miniature is tiny - but with a little practice and a steady hand - you can transition smoothly in between different colors with subtle or not so subtle gradients.

With it being chaos - you might also consider a halftone style transition. As opposed to a smooth gradient between the two colors, you use a pattern which starts out solid in one color but than switches to the other color using a shape or pattern that gets larger in the second color and smaller in the first color. I did a similar effect on some harlequins where I had the left in red and the right in green. Using small circles of red it shifted to green with the 50/50 point being in the middle of the body.

If you aren't familiar with what a halftone is...just google the term and you should be able to see what I am talking about.

Another option would be to look at interference paints. The color will change as the viewing angle changes across the whole figure.