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gems seem way better atm... or did you work on them at all?

Well a little, when I fixed the eyes I put gloss on them and the eyes to see if it'd work out. Other than that everything is more or less the same it was before.

The runes, I'm not sure but I suppose I'm up to that part now. I've not played any of the Borderlands series yet though.

Less pictures of the model itself and more planning the runes for this update.

Been messing around with different styles. What it says isn't so important at the moment I guess, just how it looks.

The first is the normal that I've been using, the second is the runes used in Dead Space and the third is apparently Cthulhu based.

hmmm... now that is a toughy... the first looks almost readable... while not so

the second looks very ornamental... and i like the style...

and well... if the last one is chthulluh based... then the choice is obvious...

Well runes were surprising fast to do. These are actually finished I think, but may need to go back for a touch up.

I'd say to use the Cthulu based one. I think part of the appeal of Chaos Daemon writing and spells and whatnot is that it's not something for mortals to understand. Those who do understand go mad or convert to Chaos themselves. (Hands over two cents).

Just a touch too late I suppose. :/
But, I do have one more fiend to paint and I suppose I could make it fancy to show the leader with unholy might.

intersting way/position for the runes... it worked pretty well... and it doesn´t spoil the model too much that way too!

 n0t_u wrote:
the third is apparently Cthulhu based.

Looks norse to me. Only... backwards.

I knew they felt familiar somehow (for some reason we have a bunch of stones with them), but the friend who linked them said they were Cthulhu so went with it. A few of them even match.

Well finally done. First up a more dramatic or whatever shot. Auto adjusted to get the same effect as before.


And the actual image I'm going to submit, not adjusted as it messes with the blending and such on the 360 view on the bottom of it. Sort of gives a nice contrast between the differences of the two.

Finally got a game in and have a battle report in the format for the campaign. It does mean it's a bit less in depth as it focuses on highlights rather than the whole thing. I also found out when I got there that I forgot to bring along Lukuh so I used an armless Dark Eldar stomping on an Ork as a stand in.

Daemons (me) vs Dark Eldar 1500 points

Planet: Hera System: Dagon

Turn 1
Daemons
The secondary wave comes in instead... Flamers deepstrike in aiming for a group of bunched up Raiders, they scatter into them and are delayed. Daemonettes land perfectly on the center objective.

Dark Eldar
Raiders zoom out around a corner and open fire on the Daemonettes. Most shots miss or fail to wound, but two Daemonettes die.

Turn 2
Daemons
Everything else besides the Fiends come in, basically all in the Dark Eldar deployment zone. Two units of Flamers land on target between Raiders and Reavers. One Flamer unit kills a full Reaver unit and one of the other squad of three, gaining first blood. The other shoots through the trio of Raiders, but doesn't destroy them. Horrors miss with bolt, but manage to destroy the back Raider.

Dark Eldar
Charge the Flamers and Daemonettes. Flamers tie combat. Raider zooms off to Chariot and fails to hit it or even scratch it.

Turn 3
Daemons
Iluni walks further towards the combat growing in the center. Daemonettes charge Raider and get 5 explode results and an Imobilise. Chariot charges the Raider and rips it apart.

Dark Eldar
Shoot at Iluni and take her down to a single wound.

Turn 4
Daemons
Iluni joins the combat and challenges them, but not before killing a member of the squad just by charging in. The challenge is accepted and the Hekatrix is ripped apart before they can raise their weapon.

Dark Eldar
Incubi charge Horrors losing one to overwatch, tied combat.

Turn 5
Daemons
The Horrors mostly die out in the Incubi combat. Iluni challenges the second Wych unit in the combat and does the same to their Hekatrix, the Daemonettes finishing off one of the Wych squads.

Dark Eldar
Incubi finish off the Horrors.

Turn 6
Daemons
Iluni cuts down the rest of the Wyches and dives into a ruin. The Chariot smashes into the Incubi, wiping all of them out except the Klaivex who fights but loses to the rider. Fiends burst through the floor of a ruin charging the two remaining Reavers on an objective and quickly tear them apart.

Dark Eldar
Warriors open fire on the horde of Daemonettes massing in the courtyard in front of them, all that remained of the combat with their Wyches.

In the end I won with seven points to their four.

congratz to your win! and congratz to your fine mini...the auto adjusted tho looks better in my view... it really pops out of my monitor for real... almost looks as if able to be touched!

Yeah, it's the part I love of it.

But, with the 360 view at the bottom it pops out and that goes grainy sadly. It's also pretty much exactly how it looks in person, I really need to learn how to take better pics straight off.

Wonder if they'll let me change the submitted picture, I suppose I could take the fixed one and just put it in place.

yeah.... they let you change it... just PM nerdy the new pic... he is gonna be cool about that!

Ah cool, I'll combine them then.

There, all good? Not on Dakka for a change as it's pretty much the same as the other.

surprisingly they look way sharper???? a mystery?

Not quite the cultists I was planning, and still sort of are planning, but my brother got Dark Vengeance and I figured may as well cobble together the ranged cultists and see what I could dig up from the random bits around. Turns out it was an easy 10 more.

These will probably end up in the misc section, some of them are alright but not a fan of most of them.

But, the scouts got picked up on sprue at a yard sale for about $2 and I think we got the guard bits and somewhat a basalisk for free more or less. Most are horribly cobbled together from catachan and marine bits, but I only used what I could salvage for these.

I'm still unsure on them as I had planned to make cultists myself based on the Glade guard. Plenty of lasguns around here for them easily.

Though I could just keep the bows on them, I'm still pretty much just kicking the idea around. I'm not even sure if I'll start them yet.

Have you thought of using Ungor heads and the bodies from the flagellants kit?

Not really, though the flagellants could work. Not too much of a fan of the beastmen.

I brought up the Ungor heads because in the new chaos codex there's a story about Slaanesh cultists with goat heads which sounded kinda cool.

The Flagellants look really great as cultists and you get a ton of bits in the box!

well i am still unsure about the cultists minis... i think the starter kits always lack on posability and diversity... which is a no go for me...

man... how would i love to have yardsales with warhammer stuff to buy from... *green with envy*

the gladeguard could work... tho lots of work to be done with these to get inline with your other chaos forces...

This lot will probably go back to him then with maybe a couple exceptions. May just paint up Macharius properly first, he can at least see play in the SoB possibly. In fact already talked about it with him and he's fine with it (of course), but he's thinking of making his marines Dragon Warriors. So I guess you could think of the cultists here I don't want as sort of a comission.

Got my work cut out a bit, this is what they look like.

The picture sort of sucks, but they're red with black trim. On the red is little scales. I'll do this on the armour panels, but for the average cultist they wouldn't be as fancy.

hmmm... nice scheme... will you paint on marines the scales? i would like to see this!

and yep... that mecharious ...always contemplated a buy on ebay...

Well still had a single Horror to do to finish off the troops so got to work on it. It's still very early on.

looks scarier then the rest...probably due to the ...er...face

Yeah saw the face in the picture and just... I don't know...

lol... we are but men