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Right, these are still work in progress, the blue daemon prince is near on done and the red one needs white washes on his muscles and the orange DP needs washes everywhere, the horrors are the only models painted so far just wanted a few test ones to see how the colour scheme would look, I still have LOTS more to do!. The chariot is also a work in progress and needs a lot more.

I need advice on what to base them with?, little bit of history I have been collecting for 7 months now so my painting isnt that good, I have only had marines before with quite a simple colour scheme (have got another thread in the blogs section), so I wanted to collect daemons for a few reasons, one is a totally different army to marines in terms of play style and painting, another was I love psyhic powers and wanted to do monsterous creature lists, so the daemon codex let me do that (oringal plan was nids). The basing on my marines is a very simple sand colour base so dont want to do something like that again as these are quite bright colours.

My collection of daemons, which will stay roughly as it is is, 3 daemon princes, 60 horrors, 2 heralds, 2 chariots and fateweaver or lord of change (still waiting on either one from FLGS). My plan was to paint each DP a different colour and I though as I was buying 50 horrors anyway to buy another 10 and paint 20 horrors in the same colours as the DP's, so 20 blue horrors, 20 orange 20 red. I will probably add another herald just to have a blue red and orange one!, I am a sucker for having sets of models......

And here are the pics, very quick bodge job of a white background my pictures usually arent that good!, and I cant find my SD card for my DSLR so my phone camera it is for now.....

Blue DP nearly done and blue horror.




Orange DP, needs washes, and orange horror






Red DP needs washes on the body and red horror




Chariot, annoyingly, the screamers are brass scorpion, and the base of the flamer disc thing is hashut copper, but they are very close in colour! darn, still lots to do on this, my idea at silly o'clock last night was to do light red flames with orange and yellow, think it looks ok?





First time really using the GW washes, as I used to use army painter but due to cost of shading 30k points of marines and the smell effort and time etc I am giving up on the idea, I think I may of gone overboard and will look to sort those horrors out so I know what I am doing on the other 57 horrors, I am not going to put the blue on the chariot, it was going to be too difficult to paint everything with them on so I didnt bother, I left most of the chariot in sections, the red and orange flaming base with one screamer, the yelllow flaming base and screamer and the top disc with flamer, still a bit of a PITA to paint some bits but no way could I of painted everything if it was complete.

Any advice from what I have wrote so far?, in regards to the bases I was thinking ash colour stone but then it looks a bit boring in my mind, should I add something else to it or would the overall colours on the models be enough to not bother with doing more colours on the bases?

Thanks for reading all this if you have!.



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Ok, I have done some washes to the Orange and red DP's, and done some details on the chariot and some washes, the horrors were a last minute addition so they need finishing off as well.

Lots of progress on these, decided to go for lava style basing, basically ash/dark black/grey basing with a red basing going through it, probably only the DP's and LoC going to be that detailed as the horror bases are a lot smaller!. Pics to follow

Looks decent so good job in that but I feel somehow the crisp basing is let down sometimes on your models, so the red daemon prince and the chariot look like they have pretty clean lines which is good, but to really make them stand out a bit I think they need something a bit more clever on top so maybe layering the skin I'm the daemon princes or having more blended flames on the chariot. Also the horrors could do with some neater drybrushing.
I do appreciate how hard it is at first to go from marines to daemons but you'll get there.
If you'd like examples of my suggestions k could post some pics


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Looks decent so good job in that but I feel somehow the crisp basing is let down sometimes on your models, so the red daemon prince and the chariot look like they have pretty clean lines which is good, but to really make them stand out a bit I think they need something a bit more clever on top so maybe layering the skin I'm the daemon princes or having more blended flames on the chariot. Also the horrors could do with some neater drybrushing.
I do appreciate how hard it is at first to go from marines to daemons but you'll get there.
If you'd like examples of my suggestions I could post some pics